Before the Great Eyebrow Reconstruction:
I have no idea why I’m trying to hide my lips. I think it’s something people do when they try to make their eyes big. When applying mascara, for example. (And no, I didn’t get a haircut, my hair shrinks in the humidity.)
And … the big reveal!
Look at that eyebrow!
Quit looking at my eyebrows with lust! Get away from me! I am afraid!
There is one photo you won’t see. In it, I have squirrel cheeks. And you know how I hate squirrels.
The shuttle driver and I were discussing squirrels yesterday, and he said,
“You wanna see something funny, get a pumpkin at Halloween and let it sit out till it rots, then give it to some squirrels. They love pumpkin, but it’s fermented, so they get drunk. They fall down, they’re falling out of trees, and they run halfway up a tree but then they can’t catch hold with their front feet, but the back feet have ahold of the tree so they just fall backwards. Funniest thing. We just sit out in the backyard with a beer and watch the drunk squirrels after Halloween.”
Has anyone else heard of this practice? And why haven’t you told me about it?
15 responses to “Bushy Eyebrows, Bushy Tails”
That happens around here with apples and deer. Drunken deer staggering around the yard.
Very nice eyebrows, by the way. I might use them as templates when I draw mine on.
Fabulous brows! Did you wax, pluck, or have them threaded?
That’s a fine brow.
But the squirrel thing is just mean. Squirrels are so cute! Because you have them, you disparage them as tree rats and laugh to see them hanging upside down by their little claws – but we who have no native mammals recognise their fluffy sweetness. For shame!
Yes, three cheers on the brows! And yes, your Danskos are nice. The others look like I could ever so easily sprain an ankle.
The squirrel thing is mean to do it intentionally.
When I lived in Cali, the birds would eat the fermented pyracantha / fire thorn seeds and flollop all around the yard.
I’ve never personally done that to squirrels, but you should go to youtube, there’s tons of drunk squirrel videos on there and it really is hilarious!
One year for Father’s Day I gave my Dad a mechanical birdfeeder. It had a gyroscope so if anything heavier than a bird (say, oh perhaps, a squirrel?) tried to steal from the feeder it would spin around and fling them off. I will attest that no squirrels were harmed (darn suckers kept coming back for more- I swear they thought it was fun! Also, Dad just about busted a gut laughing- one of his favourite gifts EVER!)
I’ve never heard of that; but I’m not sure that it would work. Rotted and fermented are two different processes (thank you office full of biologists) Also, I really love the new eyebrows; makes me want to brave it myself. Still, I’m afraid they’ll go too far. Did you get them done at a mall or a private salon? Not that I want YOUR eyebrows… just an idea of where to go.
I am thinking of importing squirrels to Hawaii. We don’t have any. They would really like it there, too. (Only kidding, invasive species police!)
Have you seen the pumpkin vines that have taken over our yard? I can provide the means for this experiment, no problem.Was this our regular morning driver, afternoon driver, or one of the subs? I hear the afternoon driver is leaving us for a new client. Hmph.
Ohhh, the poor squirrels! I’ve never seen that, but then, I’ve never put a rotten pumpkin out for them (terrible waste of a pumpkin, if you ask me!)
Silk – I have to print out the brow and tape it to the mirror.Catherine – No threading! Threading is painful! All waxing.Big Dot – You sound like those Japanese tourists who come to our zoo and take photos of the squirrels. They are vermin.Becs – MOm had a berry bush in back, and in the autumn the birds would get loopy from the berries.Faythe – Bwah! Elisabeth – I wanted to get that for Mom, but Gary said it was cruel.Amy_in_StL – A snooty salon, and it cost $25.Hattie – Dont even joke about such a thing!Caroline – are they heart-shaped? The heart shaped vine seens to be the weed of the summer.It was the evening driver (Eric?). Ah, he couldn’t take all the heat.Rachel – What else would you do with a rotten jack-o-latern? (I assumed that’s what he meant.)
No, squirrels are sweet and yes, I have photos of them, wild ones. And it’s possums that are the vermin. Nassssty.
Big Dot – Possums have the prehensile tail, dont they, and carry the babies IN A POUCH. No pouch babies here.
Squirrel tails look like rat tails if you get close enough. That was a disturbing discovery. I had always thought of them as thicker, like cat or dog tails. But no, they’re gross.
Tami – I remember the location of the squirrel on my windowsill when I discovered that.