Scribblings

If you haven’t seen the episode of Cosmos where greenhouse gases are discussed, find it on the Internet or your iPad or iPhone or whatever and watch it. It’s the simplest and clearest explanation I have ever heard of the phenomenon. To say nothing of how frightening the future will be, not for us, but for our children and our children’s children if we don’t act now. How much longer do we think we can keep our head stuck in the ground before the ground gets so hot it cooks what’s left of our brains?

Starting off this Saturday at 6:30 AM to feed all the animals and get out of the house in time for a five mile cancer walk. Then on to Potter’s Marsh to stand next to Kodi, the Cache Crow, for a program for two hours. Then home to feed all the animals again and collapse on my couch while rubbing my feet and wondering why I haven’t learned how to better schedule my time considering how many years I’ve had on this earth to do so.

I sit in the dark in my office with a bug zapper light… sans attractant… lit behind me to fry mosquitoes and pray for the return of the cold, dark snowy winter. 

No matter how many shows she does about Alaska, Sarah Palin doesn’t live here anymore. So stop asking me about her. Check in with Arizona. She’s their problem now.

Orphaned baby birds have started to show up at Bird TLC. Please folks, be aware that this is the time of year when they are emerging and learning to fly and care for themselves. Before you cut a tree down, check for nests. Watch for mommas and chicks crossing the highways. Keep your cats inside so they don’t prey on helpless little ones. Birds bring beauty and light to our state and provide valuable services in maintaining our ecosystem. Let’s be respectful of their need for a little extra care and attention this time of the year.

My sincerest apology to the dear young man at the travel place who spent over an hour with my sister and I on a conference call while we booked an entire trip to Greece only to have us call back fifteen minutes later and cancel the whole thing. I would not blame him if he spent his entire weekend drinking and complaining about the idiots who call him before CAREFULLY reading the itinerary and making sure it’s the trip they want.

Who the hell is still responding to spam e-mails from African princes and mideastern potentates? Who still reads that crap and doesn’t have it go directly to their spam folder? Surely even the older generation that was the prime target of these spams has caught on that no Nigerian prince is offering them money for nothing. So who is swallowing this bait? Who is left in any first or second world country still buying what spammers are selling? Truly a sucker is born every minute.

I gave a friend a bird cage that had been sitting in my garage for years unused. It was not put together. She took it home and realized there were some connectors missing. I started out looking for them in my garage. Then in my junk bag. Then in my junk drawers. Then in my junk closets. Then… then… then I realized that I had way more junk than I’d ever need, when examined closely there was not much of it that I could identify let alone know what use it had and chewing gum that is over seven years