Category: Miscellaneous Mockery

We’re still waiting on the baby raccoons. The baby fawns haven’t visited us again. Plus now we are on the lookout for the invasive hammerhead worm. Evidently, it’s filled with neurotoxins, and no one wants it around, so the local news wants to be sure we know how to kill the hammerhead worm. That article…

There’s a bear less than 50 miles away, as is their wont in summer. I’m surprised we haven’t had a baby raccoon visitation yet. Deer update: a neighbor reported seeing a lost fawn in his front shrubbery. I will worry about that baby deer for the rest of my life.

Very exciting visitors yesterday. The two fawns below had alread been nursing for a minute before Gary looked up from his book. He was caught unprepared so he was a little rattled. After they left, I walked to the front yard to watch where they were headed and discovered that when deer are rattled they…

Gary’s biology degree (well, near-degree) has some benefits. For example, our shower never has mold. It has “slime mold.” I see now there are even more descriptive names for some specific slime molds. For example, dog vomit slime mold. (It doesn’t grow out of dog vomit. It just looks like dog vomit.) Other Slime molds:…

I had assembled all the documents I needed to submit for this Radiation Compensation Claim, but then I stopped and dragged my feet for a month. I had a plan to scan in one document a day into the online portal, but then I went on a tear and scanned everything from 4:30 to 12:30.…

Here’s where I left off on the pitcher of peonies: … when it was originally this:  Let’s see if I can’t make peony petals look like they aren’t made of bologna.  

First off, it’s very much like a musical: it was nominated for Tony awards. But it’s heavily orchestrated, and large swaths of it are in Italian. Okay, [SPOILERS] below. So, the romantic lead is a woman in her 20s who has had traumatic brain injury. She is touring Italy with her mother who is devoted…

Where we ate: We have wanted to eat for years at Olive and Oak, and this was the night. I had checked the on-line menu earlier and discovered that other than the giant hundred dollar steaks the food was all a) unfamiliar to my stomach or b) seafood in St. Louis or c) spicy or…

I know former smokers turn to food, and (per my late brother) recovering alcoholics turn to Altoids and baby carrots. Now I see from this Huffington Post article that some GLP1 weight-loss shot users turn to smells now that tastes aren’t as gratifying. I personally have not had that experience, but I haven’t tried a…