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[kvetch]
Stupid US government, in their infinite wisdom, imported coyote to this area to take care of the rabbit problem. Now we have a growing coyote problem. RABBITS DON'T EAT PETS! Rabbits were fine, they weren't harming anything except maybe a garden or two. Coyote are a menace!
This is not the only time our all-wise, all-knowing government has meddled with an ecosystem they didn't understand. Remember kudzu? Remember the asian "painted lady" beetles? Yeah, we're still having trouble with them too. Remember the asian carp that are threatening to invade the great lakes?
What brings this up? I woke up this morning and my two kittens who never go more than 20 yards from the carport were missing. Came home from work, they were still missing. Walked around, looked in trees, looked under the house, they're just gone. And the coyote have been howling rather much the last couple of weeks.
Stupid idiots meddling with something they will never comprehend, and we have to deal with the results. Thanks a lot. Next ecosystem problem comes up, let us handle it ourselves - that is, if we can spare the time from battling the junk you already dumped on us.
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Stupid US government, in their infinite wisdom, imported coyote to this area to take care of the rabbit problem. Now we have a growing coyote problem. RABBITS DON'T EAT PETS! Rabbits were fine, they weren't harming anything except maybe a garden or two. Coyote are a menace!
This is not the only time our all-wise, all-knowing government has meddled with an ecosystem they didn't understand. Remember kudzu? Remember the asian "painted lady" beetles? Yeah, we're still having trouble with them too. Remember the asian carp that are threatening to invade the great lakes?
What brings this up? I woke up this morning and my two kittens who never go more than 20 yards from the carport were missing. Came home from work, they were still missing. Walked around, looked in trees, looked under the house, they're just gone. And the coyote have been howling rather much the last couple of weeks.
Stupid idiots meddling with something they will never comprehend, and we have to deal with the results. Thanks a lot. Next ecosystem problem comes up, let us handle it ourselves - that is, if we can spare the time from battling the junk you already dumped on us.
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Wow! I'm sorry about your cats. We have Coyotes here too. Not so much where I live but close. We have one that has made her home in a cemetery right smack in the middle of the city. They know it's a her because she was pregnant. She's lived there for a long time now. She lives off the squirrels, rabbits and probably stray cats that frequent the cemetery. I have no idea what happened to her babies or the baby daddy.
So one of the many side jobs I have is as a rehearsal accompanist for a local community choir. I am also accompanying the voice recitals of two of its members. Last week, one such member talked about rehearsing and we made VERY tentative plans about Monday, and he was to message me and I would confirm.
Fast forward to today, where I am dealing with talking to my apt. manager about a leak in my lower bathroom, had a busy day from my "real" job and was looking forward to only teaching a piano lesson to this one adorable kid, doing laundry, and baking a cake for my kinda-sorta-girlfriend, because...
a) she is kind of upset because our job didn't do the cake thing for her when she quit like they do other folks.
b) she likes carrot cake and I accidentally bought an overabundance of carrots when I made soup a few days ago.
anyhoo...
The lesson is at 6:00, and I'm thinking an hour or so earlier that I could whip up the batter, have the cake baking while I am teaching, have the laundry in the dryer during the lesson....when at 5:00, this choir person is knocking at my door. He had emailed me to confirm and I hadn't responded (his story), so naturally, I am thinking that I had dropped the big communication ball somewhere and am quite apologetic, and manage to fit him in for 45 minutes. I'm having to sight-read the stuff and feeling very unprofessional because I wasn't as prepared as I like to be.
It turns out that he had got my email from another, who wrote it down wrong, so I never received his email. After he left and I got to thinking about things, it seems strange that he would come anyway without me confirming. So now the cake is postponed a day, but my other stuff is done...Should I have said, "sorry" dude! and sent him packing? What would have been professional?
Fast forward to today, where I am dealing with talking to my apt. manager about a leak in my lower bathroom, had a busy day from my "real" job and was looking forward to only teaching a piano lesson to this one adorable kid, doing laundry, and baking a cake for my kinda-sorta-girlfriend, because...
a) she is kind of upset because our job didn't do the cake thing for her when she quit like they do other folks.
b) she likes carrot cake and I accidentally bought an overabundance of carrots when I made soup a few days ago.
anyhoo...
The lesson is at 6:00, and I'm thinking an hour or so earlier that I could whip up the batter, have the cake baking while I am teaching, have the laundry in the dryer during the lesson....when at 5:00, this choir person is knocking at my door. He had emailed me to confirm and I hadn't responded (his story), so naturally, I am thinking that I had dropped the big communication ball somewhere and am quite apologetic, and manage to fit him in for 45 minutes. I'm having to sight-read the stuff and feeling very unprofessional because I wasn't as prepared as I like to be.
It turns out that he had got my email from another, who wrote it down wrong, so I never received his email. After he left and I got to thinking about things, it seems strange that he would come anyway without me confirming. So now the cake is postponed a day, but my other stuff is done...Should I have said, "sorry" dude! and sent him packing? What would have been professional?
This one's for you Catherder...
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again, oh, no
[video=youtube;o2YcU24Wsf0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2YcU24Wsf0[/video]
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again, oh, no
[video=youtube;o2YcU24Wsf0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2YcU24Wsf0[/video]
I've never heard the Donna Summer version of this. Like how it breaks into disco! ahh....1978....
M
Speaking of foolish governments, hows this for size: One would hope that at election time we are voting the best possible candidate (or rather the best available) into public office. We place our confidence in their wisdom, integrity and competence as the requisites for any public officer. We expect them to lead and put together those strategic plans that would propel our country to greater heights (In the case of my country it would be to at least allow us to surface).
So I must say it came as a surprise when I read in the paper, one Thursday morning, some years ago that our government had paid some lady, a self proclaimed n'anga or spirit medium a lot of money. She claimed that the ancestors (its a common traditional belief here that our dead ancestors can influence events in our lives- not Biblical but a part of our culture) had empowered her to induce diesel from a certain rock, by pointing a "sacred stick" at it. Apparently some liquid was seen to be oozing from the rock and it was diesel. But it took them a while to realise that she had sent some youngsters to buy diesel and then, through a series of pipes and tubes, conned the Government into believing that her powers were going to save us a fortune in diesel imports. Payments amounting to thousands of USD as well as a farm, were authorized and handed over to her by cabinet ministers and the Governor of the province where the "rock" was.
My question is: Was no one suspicious that the so called "ancestors" - who had died way before the internal combustion engine was invented - suddenly had a refinery somewhere underground? Needless to say the woman ended up in court, but by then a significant portion of the money was spent and never recovered. All this could have been avoided if there was a sprinkling of common sense somewhere in their collective minds. And they call themselves a government! Ha!
So I must say it came as a surprise when I read in the paper, one Thursday morning, some years ago that our government had paid some lady, a self proclaimed n'anga or spirit medium a lot of money. She claimed that the ancestors (its a common traditional belief here that our dead ancestors can influence events in our lives- not Biblical but a part of our culture) had empowered her to induce diesel from a certain rock, by pointing a "sacred stick" at it. Apparently some liquid was seen to be oozing from the rock and it was diesel. But it took them a while to realise that she had sent some youngsters to buy diesel and then, through a series of pipes and tubes, conned the Government into believing that her powers were going to save us a fortune in diesel imports. Payments amounting to thousands of USD as well as a farm, were authorized and handed over to her by cabinet ministers and the Governor of the province where the "rock" was.
My question is: Was no one suspicious that the so called "ancestors" - who had died way before the internal combustion engine was invented - suddenly had a refinery somewhere underground? Needless to say the woman ended up in court, but by then a significant portion of the money was spent and never recovered. All this could have been avoided if there was a sprinkling of common sense somewhere in their collective minds. And they call themselves a government! Ha!
This one's for you Catherder...
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again, oh, no
[video=youtube;o2YcU24Wsf0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2YcU24Wsf0[/video]
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again, oh, no
[video=youtube;o2YcU24Wsf0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2YcU24Wsf0[/video]