Tag: peeves
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Unexpected Adventures– a New Windshield
Take a good look at this: It’s kind of interesting looking. Well, except for the fact that it’s my windshield and that the roundish bit is lined up with (roughly) where my right eye would be. Not cool. I was on my way to the zoo on Thursday morning when I heard a sound like…
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Learn a new animal day! Siamang edition.
I’m going to give you a leg up on the average zoo visitor today and teach you about this animal: Thoughts? Well, on a typical day while cleaning/feeding around this animal, I hear the following on a regular basis: “Look at the monkey!” “I love it when that howler monkey yells!” “(Name of small child),…
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Milk Fail
Today I fail at milk. This morning I made tea and put it in my travel mug and drove to the zoo and was gone 8 hours… and when I got home I found the brand new carton of milk that I opened for the tea this morning sitting on the counter. Expanded. And warm.…
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Avatar: not as great as all that
I just saw an ad that they’re re-releasing Avatar with extra scenes. It’s being billed as the “greatest movie of all time!” That is just plain ridiculous. Now don’t get me wrong, Avatar was a beautiful movie, visually. It was fun to watch. However, it was badly written with no plot or character development. People…
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Arguing with the DoD
The housing manager for our community has just come and gone. He took a couple of photos and really was only here about five minutes, but we accomplished something important: I now have documentation that my house is badly insulated. Anyone that has come to visit me knows that the upstairs (especially the guest room)…
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The Wildlife is Winning!
But not for long… I made a nasty discovery today. Well, two of them. The first was that I went to check my plants, as I do every morning, and one of my container gardens now contains a large number of round, bright yellow mushrooms. They’re the kind that seem to grow from a sort…
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The Disenfranchisement of Military Spouses
I’m getting on a soapbox. You have been warned. This has been brewing in the back of my head for a long time, but I wanted to wait until I was calm before writing about it. You see, every so often something happens that makes me really angry at the way military spouses get treated.…
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Invasion of the Maggots!
Today, after leaving my next door neighbors’ house, where I’d been invited for brunch, I found another of my neighbors that I’m not terribly familiar with standing at the bottom of my driveway. I say standing, but she was actually in more of a crouch. And holding an aerosol can. And spraying little spots along…
Joanna Volavka 