Speaking of comments, I’ve noticed that this site has one thing in common with most other sites that attract regular visitors. Several posters will drop in early to comment directly on the day’s material or to make a new observation. This continues, but the discussion eventually evolves into a running conversation among regulars. This isn’t to imply criticism. That’s just the way it goes, and I’m ok with that. One thing that is different about this site, and I’m not the first one to make this observation, is that repeat posters, as a rule, come to josh and visit, not to argue and insult one another. I appreciate that and hope everyone enjoys the time they spend here, regardless of how much that is.
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272 responses to “Unreal Estate”
@ Jackie re yesterday’s comment on roadrunners. Twice in the past couple of weeks I have seen birds that I am fairly sure were roadrunners. If so it would be the first time I’ve heard of them at my elevation (7500ft). I couldn’t be sure because both birds were in the distance and darting through the scrub but they’re a pretty distinctive animal and I can’t think of anything else that would resemble them.
It is hotter and drier up here than in years/decades past so they may be migrating up the mountains.
Some people have all the bad luck.
http://youtu.be/SAIb7zHgjmI
I’m in and out of this page, depending on time available, but I notice that I haven’t seen anything from Mindy and John lately. Have they dropped out? Died? Gotten tired of it?
Bryan, their foot movements are distinctive too, which is why the cartooning of the Roadrunner impresses me (WHEN THEY SLOW HIM DOWN) I had some customers in Falfurrias, TX who had tamed one and had it out on property as a pet.
The guitar music on the Roadrunner video was fantastic at replicating the gait of the bird.
Love, Jackie Monies
JJ, forgot to mention the family from Pass Christian that was competing on American Ninja Warrior. Two sons & dad. I didn’t write the names down, so of course I’ve forgotten. Unfortunately, none of them made it through the elimination.
Bird watching on the road- in Texas hill country you see a lot of pheasant, quail, roadrunners. We were out around Ballinger, Texas on a lonely country road when suddenly an entire flock of peacocks fly out in front of truck, scaring the pants off us. Turns out some ranch had a bunch that had gone wild and regularly dived at the stray car or truck coming by.
Texas!
Love, Jackie Monies
Today is our (notice I did not say my/) 15th wedding anniversary…..
http://www.songlyrics.com/paul-mccartney/we-got-married-lyrics/
…and it was the first and the last, at 45 🙂
p.s. I always admired their marriage
Jackie – not just Texas. I live in Glendora, CA and we have a small flock of peacocks living
a few blocks north of us. We also have a large flock of green parrots that fly by on a daily
basis. Turns out they escaped from a tourist attraction in Pasadena in the 1930’s.
And a condo is the only way to vacation. Unless you can find a house to rent…even better.
Was just milling about Barnes & Noble website. On a whim, I typed in Arlo and Janis. Our fearless leader’s book is selling for a cool $123.63. Wow!
Anonymous is me. Laptop lost its cookies apparently.
Mindy, clean up tossed cookies. Give laptop pepto. All will be better in morning.
As long as your laptop didn’t toss its cookies, Lady Mindy. And I wonder if anyone has tried to pawn a copy of The Book yet.
I have heard reports of feral emu in southern states, allegedly as the result of failed emu ranching ventures turning their stock loose.
And Debbe! 😉 Congratulations! Fifteen years, eh? That’s like a century in Hollywood years, right?
And be glad you are not working in an emu house. Have you seen the size of those eggs?
Husband with lung cancer keeps losing his, lost 5 more pounds today. This is not good.
You guys are my link to sanity through combined insanity. If that makes sense.
We are all too subdued today. The jungle is too quiet!
Ghost, did you see the photos of Loni Anderson at the WKRP reunion? She has aged well!
Love, Jackie Monies
sandcastler™ stole my joke while I was typing it. Bad sandcastler™!
“I couldn’t be sure because both birds were in the distance and darting through the scrub but they’re a pretty distinctive animal and I can’t think of anything else that would resemble them.
It is hotter and drier up here than in years/decades past so they may be migrating up the mountains.”
Biologists are typically leery of accepting sight records, but birds in general and roadrunners in particular, are often distinctive, and I’d have no trouble recording that as a valid record for them at 7,000′ in your area.
Peacocks and whatnot: In ’50 or so, I saw a peahen in Watkin’s Glen at the south end of L. Seneca [one Finger Lake west of L. Cayuga in western NY] and was informed by Dr. Loren Petry, a favorite botany prof, longtime Cornell faculty member, and amateur birder, that they’d been raised in the area, and escapes were common. I don’t know if there is a breeding population. Coyotes are now common in the Northeast; peafowl may, in a word, be sitting ducks for them. To see exotic fowl in great variety, visit the woods in England. During British Empire times, English gentry brought back and released most of the many pheasants native to India. We have just the one widespread introduced Ring-Necked pheasant, though there may be local populations here of others I don’t know about.
Cavalry private: It’s quite out there, Sarge.
Cavalry sergeant: Yeah, too quiet. I don’t like it.
No, Jackie. I haven’t seen Lonnie lately. But I will make a point to look. She was certainly spectacular in her younger day. And, as I recall, the first movie star (and perhaps the only one) to admit having a breast reduction. (I don’t know why I remembered that.)
Well, they still looked pretty good peeking out of that dress she had on today in the reunion pics.
Darn, I wish I’d learn how to link stuff! People try to teach me over the net. I need someone looking at my hands on the keyboard and saying “Now press that one, not that one dummy!”
Love, Jackie Monies
GR6, don’t feel bad that you were beat out by a pro. I am Google trained first responder.
Good evening, Villagers! Good news! I accompanied The Man In My Life to the opthalmologist today, and he is just a few “lines” off 20/20, so yay. He is going tp have YAG laser surgery in a few weeks and should be perfect. He will have the other cataract done in August
Well, I put the laptop to bed and switched back to my iTouch. It’s a 2nd gen, and every now and then, I can’t post pictures to Facebook. Today’s picture was a doozy. It was a photo of a piece of today’s mail – a gift card from Target … congratulating me on my engagement. Reading the fine print on the back of the gift card, it is ONLY valid with a purchase AND a printout of my Target wedding registry! If I ever find the culprit….(and there many suspects)
sandcastler™ – LOL!
About parrots of which we had a couple that my grandmother and mom finally killed but not intentionally, I grew up around parrots that we brought from Venezuela to various relatives.
I carried some in a hatbox and I know now it was wrong but in the 1950’s no one knew to have a conscious about such things.
When my stepdad died the minister asked if there were any hymns with meaning to Brother McCarty? I was crying and I said “Yes, to sing Jesus Paid It All For Me.” The minister asked why and I said because he sang it with his parrots. The minister didn’t get it clearly as I was still crying and he said “Yes, Sister Buelah did love that song.” I said “No! Not parents, parrots, he sang it with the parrots and Sister Buelah taught it to them!”
So, they sang it and when the hymn opened the entire church burst into laughter. Everyone there had heard those parrots sing that hymn!
It’s been too quiet and somber today. We all need to laugh.
Love, Jackie Monies
Okay, Jackie. This made me laugh:
http://www.gocomics.com/reallifeadventures/#.U5D_lvldWmA
Tom, I have a friend who used to live in Arcadia. He had parrots nesting in his back yard and told me that they’d escaped, years ago, from Santa Anita Race Track. One afternoon, when I visited him, there were four peacocks in his front yard and he told me that they lived at the Arboretum but roamed around the area because they weren’t kept in cages. BTW, for those of you who’ve never seen one close up, they really do have that idiotic expression that you see in cartoons.
Jackie, I’d like to be able to say something that would help lessen the load you bear with your husband’s illness. I don’t know if I can, though. My wife is a hero, dealing with both my chronic kidney failure and my more recent, acute, injury that put me in a wheelchair. Speaking as the person that needs care, the care-giver makes all the difference. Having someone there, to help share the load and the emotional burden that chronic and potentially fatal disease impose makes an unbearable condition at least tolerable. From me, for your husband, thank you.
Mindy, better they are congratulating on the forth coming marriage than the coming birth of a child. This is clearly another example of an algorithm scanning your purchases and assuming. May have been the sexy undies or revealing teddy, then again it could be the his and her booster cable set. Never trust an algorithm to do your shopping.