The Bosslady and I enjoyed our summer vacation on St. Simons Island so much, we decided to return to the area between Christmas and New Year’s Day. For the first twenty years we were married, the holidays meant both sets of in-laws visiting with all the attendant stress and hassle. Letting someone else do the cooking was a welcome change of pace.
Our first stop was a quick one-nighter on Amelia Island, in the far northeast corner of Florida. This community has its own unique history, but that’s a tale for another time. The weather and lighting cooperated for me to get one memorable shot in, however.
Continuing up the coast on Boxing Day, we arrived at the Sea Island resort again. In our summer visit, we stayed at The Lodge. This time, we decided on The Cloister. Upon arrival, you’re immediately reminded that the resort hosted the G-8 summit back in 2004.
The Cloister is the original hotel of the Sea Island resort complex, and dates to 1928.
The rear of the hotel backs up to the salt marshes. Chartered fishing and wildlife viewing boats call this mini-marina home.
The lobby was decked out for the season.
A short walk from the hotel is the Beach Club, whose own holiday decorations took a decidedly nautical theme.
One of the seasonal activities offered by Sea Island is an introduction to falconry. While guests are welcome to go out and meet and handle some of the resident raptors, at times the birds are brought to the hotel. It’s difficult to articulate the look of astonishment on guests’ faces as they ponder a falcon, hawk, or owl up close. One of our encounters was with a screech owl. As his handler put it, “He’s eight inches tall fully grown, and perpetually grumpy.” I think that The Bosslady has found her spirit animal.
One of the traditions at The Cloister over the years is that when a past or present head of state visits, the hotel has him (with the notable exceptions of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Margaret Thatcher, it’s always been a him) plant a tree. This live oak was planted by Calvin Coolidge at the tail end of his second term. It is not known if Cal had any comments about his contribution.
One of our side trips on our sojourn was to Fort Frederica on the north end of St. Simons. Back in the early 18th century, the area between British Carolina and Spanish Florida was known as “The Debatable Land.” James Oglethorpe attempted to settle the debate when he founded the colony of Georgia in 1733, placing his main seaport in Savannah. A fort was erected on St. Simons to defend the new colony and the nearby sea routes. The one time that the Spanish were feeling saucy, their incursion was repulsed at the Battle of Bloody Marsh in 1742. The Spaniards deciding to stick to their knitting in Florida and points south led to the garrison’s abandonment in 1749, and the village that had grown near the fort was mostly gone by 1755.
To my untrained eye, this is a field. 280 years ago, it was the center of town.
The line of oaks mark one of the main streets. The structure at left in the distance was the garrison’s barracks.
The King’s Battery — once the largest and most expensive fortification in British North America. Only parts of two storerooms remain today.
The real standout of our trip was the weather. Afternoon temperatures were low 70s in gone to the moon degrees, with evening lows in the high 50s. An added bonus was that the camellias were in bloom, with the pollinators doing their thing.
The few times that we could spy a cloud in the sky, it just made for a pretty sunset (as seen from our room’s balcony).
As I wrote in my last post, this place is growing on us. The Bosslady has set a retirement target date of May or June 2026, and there’s a definite possibility that we’ll land in the area, or at least somewhere between Fernandina Beach, Florida and Midway, Georgia. I’ll leave you with the words of one of the few American poets to have a big-ass bridge named after him:
Florida is awesome. Retire in Florida. Great post.
Am I in an alternate reality where I am the only commenter?
Does being the only commenter obligate me to write something about giving birth to a first?
The Great Firster would never choose you to birth anything.
I am here, sitting in front of a stack of bills. So, you need to keep me entertained all by yourself.
I very much enjoy the Panama City Beach area of Florida. That is where I may settle when I retire. Maybe sooner.
I was there as a youth on vacation. We lived in Chattanooga way back when.
I will retire to the house I am sitting in right now.
I don’t think I can. TX property tax will be insane by the time I retire. My house values has more than doubled in fourteen years, and will be even higher in ten when I retire. That ongoing burden will be no bueno.
Iowa is nice a stable. Taxes are not great, but not terrible. Population coasts along at a mild growth rate. Not dying, but not getting crowded either.
Not dying, but not getting crowded either.
What’s that like? I don’t think I’ve ever lived anywhere that wasn’t experiencing explosive growth at all times.
I’d really like to find a place where growth is a few new houses each year, not a dozen subdivisions.
https://www.populationu.com/us/iowa-population
Year / Population / Percent-Growth
2010 / 3,050,767 / baseline
2011 / 3,066,054 / 0.50
2012 / 3,076,097 / 0.33
2013 / 3,093,078 / 0.55
2014 / 3,109,504 / 0.53
2015 / 3,121,460 / 0.38
2016 / 3,131,785 / 0.33
2017 / 3,143,637 / 0.38
2018 / 3,156,145 / 0.40
2019 / 3,169,716 / 0.43
2020 / 3,190,369 / ***
2021* / 3,193,079 / 0.08
2022* / 3,196,911 / 0.12
*projected numbers for 2021 and 2022
I’ve lived in Atlanta and Phoenix when both were growing like crazy. Yeah, there’s lots of cool stuff going on and constant new opportunities. But I fled back to Iowa from both places.
Boring is under-rated.
When you stay in one place for going on 30 years, quiet and stable can be very appealing qualities.
Come visit trashy. We’ll give you a tour of all the corn and soybean fields stretching as far as the eye can see.
Iowans are nice folks, too. I worked in Des Moines
I’ll vouch for the Kinnaths
Iowans are nice folks, too.
From a Minniesodan? What is the world coming to?
Taps screen, “Is this thing on?”
Reason to Fuck Joe biden number 666: “There’s always a renewed national debate every time we nominate…any president nominates a justice, because the Constitution is always evolving slightly, in terms of additional rights or curtailing rights, etc,” Joe biden
Nice travelogue. FL does sound nice in many ways.
Ah, the evolving Constitution.
Why, I never thought of it in that light, I’ve got some catching up to do.
I thought I might set a record for least-commented post of the year. Guess we’ll see.
Welcome to Zoom night.
Ah! That is what is happening. I don’t go much. Too much work, too much after work activities.
I don’t do zoom. I think I’ll have another bacardi and watch Poltergeist.
Tomorrow is The Selling?
Yes. The review sucks because work has been crushing. But the movie is good.
Thursday night movie posts during sports ball nights sympathize with your plight.
All the night posts have dropped off. We used to get hundreds of comments on an ordinary night.
I think most of the glib population is suffering some fatigue.
It’s not just at night. There are a bunch of commentators that don’t show up anymore.
I think they will come and go. A lot of people burned out right as I decided I’d become active and write posts. I have noticed I went from high 200’s to mid 100’s this past two months though.
yup
Yes 🙁
On the other hand, the early morning eastcoasters and insomniacs have been racking up numbers on the late night post before the morning lynx.
It’s because we are mesmerized by the beauty of your awe inspiring pictures. Beautiful, I was especially caught up in the flower with a honey bee. Made me wish for spring. Thanks, Shpip. The rest will have tp play catch up and they will.
I have after-hours work because they’re (still) trying to fix a disk issue on a database server. For whatever reason, they are having dicciculty.
I have some work I could be doing only because it’s easier when developers aren’t doing stuff at this hour but I’m a couple vodka highballs in so meh.
I remember those days, thinking that I would do some work after a drink and dinner. Some how I never seemed to get around to the work.
Sorry, I was reading about screech owls.
Owls are also awesome. I have one that lives around the house. I hear it. It is not the dove family, they sound differently.
Hardscrabble cracker author Harry Crews wrote a terrific little novel called The Hawk is Dying (that got turned into a thoroughly forgettable movie of the same name). He adored raptors, but disdained owls, saying that “an owl is a profoundly stupid bird.”
That said, I rather like Shakespeare, who lives in my neighborhood. I call him that because he’s a barred owl.
No owls in my house. Owls are a symbol of death for Viet people. We do, however, have a number of loon collectibles collected.
Anecdotally, in years gone by, we had loons fly over nearly daily, calling for their mate or just calling. Now I rarely see one fly over and doesn’t seem to be so many on the lakes. Used to be nearly every lake had a pair.
Hear the owls in the summer when we sleep with the windows open. Always pleasant.
My mom was nuts for owls. Not like crazy hoarder lady nuts – she was fastidiously clean (I wish I had inherited that) – but there were a few collectibles in the house.
While deer hunting in AZ I nearly stepped on a Great Horned Owl and when it took flight almost underfoot it scared me silly for a second. Them suckers are b-i-g.
While I was in grad school a big owl starting nesting near the doors of the university library. That started a fight between the indians who wanted it gone because of the association with death and the owl likers and enviros who wanted it to stay because, well frankly it is cool to look through a window into an owl nest. The special fun factor was when the media got involved because the University was being sued over a telescope they were building on Mt Graham which might negatively impact an endangered squirrel and endangered owl species.
The owl and the young eventually left the nest, today the fight between the oppressions would be fun to watch.
“Them suckers are b-i-g”
The sounds of their wings when they are flying through the woods are not forgotten either. No other sound like it.
All the loons moved to DC.
Owls have an often fatal habit of flying head-on into oncoming cars at night. One night I picked up a screech owl laying on the pavement in front of my house, it was knocked koo-koo but was not dead. I put him in a bid bird cage and nursed him back to health feeding him raw meat and liver using a toothpick. Unfortunately the story has a sad ending. One night a week later I put him on a perch on our mantle piece and was feeding him, he saw the outside darkness through a large picture window and tried to fly through it, it was fatal.
Gorgeous.
Heh I knew it would be Lanier. He was a major plot point in the best Piers Anthony novel that I’ve mentioned here a couple times.
Some Florida news. Maybe he was a prune juice enthusiast and he said “de-craptitate?”
https://floridanewsheadlines.com/articles/644854/comments/florida-man-pleads-guilty-to-threats-to-decapitate-members-of-congress
Good stuff Shpip, I liked the sunset and the owl,
A pretty place indeed
An hour in, and I’m a bit surprised that no one brought up the alt-text in all the photos.
I didn’t check.
Very well done!
For any of you who were wondering, the alt-texts are all snippets of this.
By two minutes.
I go to the box and feel much shame.
Yeah, I figured. It’s quoted in the book I mentioned. Though I’m not a poetry person so I didn’t recognize the exact quotes but the tone was familiar.
+1!
For anyone too lazy to check, the poem is the “Marshes of Glynn”.
Nicely done, shpip.
Well done shpip.
Very nice.
I was too caught up in my task to look closely enough at the photos.
I studied a lot of poetry in college, but US poets weren’t my bailiwick. Sadly, as that guy seems pretty good.
We used to take vacations to Amelia Island when I was a kid.
Mostly so dad could golf.
Interesting considering that sublingual or intranasal oxytocin is one of the tricks of the trade for multiple ejaculations.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10468195/Men-sex-addiction-higher-levels-love-hormone-oxytocin.html
Related: Mrs. Q has informed me that she’s doing a boudoir shoot for Valentine’s Day; I’ll see if any will be for public release.
Twist is, they will be pictures of the room.
Lol
I read Oxycontin and was getting ready to refute that statement. My experience with Oxycontin made me want to sleep.
“ublingual or intranasal oxytocin”
Can you buy that?
Which trade?
OT: Has anyone heard of this game?
https://tbcte.fandom.com/wiki/Turnip_Boy_Commits_Tax_Evasion_Wiki
No, but have you seen this: https://www.evolutionofhorror.com/
I marked that, will be listening later!
I love these Shpip!
We started traveling with the kids at Christmas/ New Years many years ago. Pissed the family off at first, but totally worth it. There is something magical about walking the surf on Christmas Eve!
Also I think I need a screech owl.
I have at least one more coming. I promise it won’t be St. Simons (though it will be on the coast).
If my ex was still alive I’d send you her phone number
LOL!
No, just the little one!
Oooh. I ordered a new mattress topper to see if that will help me sleep better. It’s supposed to arrive tomorrow 🙂 . It’s also supposed to rain tomorrow 🙁 . I hope there’s waterproof packaging on that thing. I’d hate to have to wait for it to dry before I can use it.
Good luck
Shirley it will arrive packaged…
https://upscalepics.art/hd/shirley-temple-doll-1973.html
I’m waiting for a package and Amazon says it was “delivered”. To Ardmore, PA – three days ago. Nothing since.
I don’t live in Ardmore, PA nor do I know where that is.
Mainline Philly. Used to get the train there to commute into college. Rich side and poor side of the tracks (where the Help lived).
In Lower Merion School District, one of the top rated in the nation, thanks to lots of (((them))).
My Pillow guy, UCS?
We just got some pillows from Mike Lindell, Mrs F really likes them, I haven’t tried sleeping on one yet.
Yes.
I don’t yet have an opinion due to the timing mentioned above.
They’re ok, except they cause you to yell everything.
lol
I have a couple MyPillow knockoffs and a mattress topper knockoff.
I had some massive back pain last week that is almost entirely gone now so I’m not rushing to buy a new bed just yet like I might have thought might be necessary.
I have had mine for a year now. Main advantage, you can wash them with bleach and they dry quickly (Unlike most pillows that claim this, and then retain ten pounds of wash water). They are lumpy and go crazy flat and separate if you don’t regularly wash and dry them though. They shape well for side sleepers and otherwise seem indestructible.
I’ve never washed mine and they still work great.
So even though the FedGov mandate is on hold they are going to jab my nose every week I come in. The people who brought the lawsuit gave me advice. Fuck em. EEO complaint incoming.
https://thumbs2.redgifs.com/FineGargantuanArawana-mobile.mp4#t=0
NSFW.
https://archive.md/jpJ99/875500ad42587ee0a9861503f3d3e4aff5e6808a.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.md/cQ21D/cec2d2420a8ea3c99e05132a50e501db9cda9873.webp
NSFW.
https://thumbs2.redgifs.com/PiercingJovialMongrel-mobile.mp4#t=0
NSFW.
https://archive.md/aiKFa/06dc2bdaff03c4ca40a65ee84ae0c9b0b303b4ec.webp
NSFW.
Awesome Q! That’s a lot of Boobies!
Wow that’s a nice tease,
If one was to go down to the trucker protest this weekend, what would yous be interested in learning?
I don’t know what I need to learn. But pass along my blessings.
Are the truckers making any progress? Has the Big Spender in Ottawa been thinking/talking of any compromise?
Who can outlast who?
I think it will be telling us a lot if the military is called in and we see what they (the military) will do. It will be pretty much what we would expect when our revolution starts. Revolutions need the support of the people.
Thanks Shpip! Now I want to change my vacation to these islands.
The Golden Isles are lovely. I’ve been trying to get The Bosslady to go here with me, but I fear that it’s a bit… rustic for her.
One word of advice: don’t vacation here in late March through mid-April. At that time, the marshes erupt with swarms of bloodthirsty gnats that make going outside for any length of time rather unpleasant. The rest of the year is quite nice.
That is really beautiful. Looks awesome
Good looking pics Shpip. That owl is cool. How’s the fishing in those parts?
Inshore you’ll find the typical fare of redfish, spotted seatrout, and flounder all year. In July & August, tarpon migrate through, and the area additionally gets an influx of blacktip and spinner sharks (nothing huge, 50-80 lb range) who come to spawn. That’s followed in Sept-Oct by honkin’ big bull redfish who also come to spawn. Georgia, like Florida, has a “slot size” limit on reds, so it’s pretty much all catch and release.
A few miles out are some reefs and wrecks that hold black seabass, snapper, and grouper. You can also go way offshore, but if you’re targeting pelagics, your better bet would be southeast Florida and the Keys, since the run to the Gulf Stream is so much shorter.
https://twitter.com/newsbanger/status/1488752391075905536
This was the right move every day of the week.
Good for him. Never stay in the kill zone.
Fuck yes.
Righteous.
FLORIDA IS FULL. VACATION ELSEWHERE.
Too bad, flight booked for next week.
Cool. Where ya headed?
Naples – friends bought a place last year.
Nice. The Botanical Gardens there should be quite lovely this time of year.
I was shocked to learn that there are wild bears in Florida. Some of them live around Naples.
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE?
So not first?
Closer to last.
*grumble*
Each update the estimated time to completion gets pushed back another 30-45 minutes.
I’ve been sitting around since 7, doing nothing* but waiting.
*okay, I’ve been poking around online, but I could have been doing productive things!
*sigh*
I’ve been on for almost a whole extra workday waiting for the work.
But now there’s an interesting wrinkle. The pay period ended wednesday, am I now working on the next pay period since we ran past midnight, or is this part of the previous workday and thus pay period?
And now they’ve gone and misplaced the DBA.
I say next pay period. Science!
But then I can’t use the time to offset my vacation last week.
Well, why didn’t you say so?
Gimme a minute. I’ll come up with something. It may involve moving the International Date Line.
Previous pay period. Work began on that date. Otherwise it’s a mess for grave shift workers.
Zoomies still on?
I don’t know, but I’m still on this damn webex and they’ve again pushed the ETC back 30 minutes.
I kinda don’t want to go to bed. Local news has been hyping up this week’s storm of the century, and it’s hovering just to the west and north of us. I want to see if it’s going to amount to anything…and if I’m likely to get a “snow day” off work (mostly) tomorrow.
Stay up. Go out and play.
Enjoy!
Well, I would but ‘cept it’s been raining all day, it’s 34 degrees, and the freezing rain (eventually to be the dreaded “wintry mix,” followed by snow) is, according to the local TV news powerhouse station’s weather app, just a few blocks away.
If you want, you can start up the applications when they finally finish working on the disk issue.
I’d be happy to get some sleep. (I had very little last night so I’m starting to run out of steam)
Very cool owl. Did you get to feed him anything?
Unfortunately, no. The resort has several master falconers on staff who do all the handling of the birds at the hotel. You can purchase an experience where you go into the surrounding fields and learn about the raptors, even having one fly to your gloved hand. I thought it would make a great X-mas card photo for The Bosslady and me, but alas, I lollygagged with booking and all the slots were filled.
It’s difficult to articulate the look of astonishment on guests’ faces as they ponder a falcon, hawk, or owl up close.”
“Birds of prey know they’re cool.
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_F7oVbX-PFfw/R5qn2N3L7GI/AAAAAAAAAY4/MLjKWLDquTk/s320/Birds+of+prey+know+they're+cool.jpg
Awesome series Shpipp, makes me want to go to FL.
I have heard owls are kinda dumb. See SandMan’s anecdote above about dumb owl.
So, they’re bird-brained?
In his wonderful little book Florida Frenzy, the aforementioned Harry Crews writes, “Fortunately, most birds of prey — except owls, which are too dumb to do much with — react favorably to patience and calm persistence.”
At Sea Island, true raptors, primarily Harris hawks and peregrine falcons, are used for hunting and the falconry experiences, while the owls (our little guy and a Great Horned Owl) are mostly display animals. Curiously enough, the birds of prey were first brought to the resort as a form of pest control. Flocks of boat-tail grackles had started living at the Beach Club, and had become so brazen that they were stealing french fries from little kids’ hands at lunch. The falcons and hawks moved in, and the grackles promptly moved out.
Crews’ book is a neat little collection of essays and excerpts from some of his novels. If your library has it, or can get it, it’s worth a read.
Harry himself was quite the character, too. For those of us who knew him, it’s hard to believe he’s been gone nearly ten years.
Awesome series Shpipp, makes me want to go to FL.
Plenty of places in Florida to enjoy a cool vacation.
The pics from this article (and last week’s) are on St. Simons Island, Georgia, about halfway between Jacksonville and Savannah.
Speaking of Florida, if you are a seven time Super Bowl winning QB who marries a rich supermodel you can get a pretty nice spread there. 17 million for a tear down, wow. It will be interesting to see what they build there. If I had that kind of money I would want to stay there for a week, but wouldn’t be interested in that property. Although of course they likely have a couple other homes in more rural locations when they want total privacy.
https://nypost.com/2022/02/02/tom-brady-shuns-boston-return-will-retire-at-dream-miami-mansion/
Well, $17M was about six months’ earnings for Giselle back in the day. And retiring to Florida is nothing new — a better quarterback than him did it as well.
He married up for sure, lucky chap. I’m not much into the golf thing, although I can see why people love it, and can also see why the ultra rich want to live in their enclaves. I would definitely go for a more modernist architecture on that kind of property.
Do you go out to target the pelagics much? I have a work acquaintance that is a lovely guy, a Samoan fellow that is as wide as he is tall and always with a smile on his face that was raised in south Florida. He loves to fish and has shown me lots of pics of his fam getting plenty of dorado down there. I’ve never caught a big dorado or a wahoo, those are on the list, tasty creatures they are.
I don’t get out as often as I’d like, since Big College Town is sixty miles from either coast. But back in my college daze, my roommate’s uncle had a place on Lower Matecumbe (Islamorada) and we chased the fish every Spring Break, Summer Break, etc. Dolphin, dorado, mahi-mahi, whatever you want to call them, are thick as ticks from the Keys up the coast. Find some weedlines or a floating pallet, chances are there’s a school of dolphin under it. The secret to loading the boat is that when you hook one, keep him in the water until someone else hooks up. The school will stick around, trying to steal the free meal that the hooked one has in his mouth.
Now the big dolphin usually only travel in twos and threes. That’s a different ballgame.
Getting out over the reefs in a couple hundred feet of water usually means king mackerel and your smallish tuna (blackfin, bigeye, bonito). Deeper still are where the wahoo lurk. Problem is, you don’t know what’s going to be biting most of the time, so tackle that’s appropriate for a 50-lb ‘hoo or a sailfish is way too heavy to be sporting for a 6 pound dolphin.
Now, for a complete boot in the arse, give swordfishing a try. Best season is fall (as long as there’s no hurricane lurking off the coast), and it’s two completely different types of fishing, depending on whether you go in the daytime or at night. One thing’s for certain, once the hooked-up sword sees the boat, something in his brain tells him that he doesn’t want to be there, and then, baby, it’s on! At the end, you’ll be tired and sore, but hopefully have a bucket list fish.
And for the realllly adventurous, there’s fishing for giant yellowfin tuna and marlin on the east side of the Gulf Stream, bunking overnight in the Bahamas. 3-4 days is the usual jaunt. Not cheap, but getting to the giants tends to be that way.
suh’ fam
whats goody
I don’t have
schoolwork today! ?Except I still have to take notes for a Zoom meeting. ? But that’s not until 3:30. Plenty of time for the power – or at least the cable & internet – to go out by then.
Did you have to work last night & drive home in the evilness out there??
I have work. I’m not awake, and feel like I’m going to just pass out, but I have work. Worse it’s the first day of the phased transfer of responsibility as my supervisor moves towards retirement. So, I gotta manage the team. And I forget what else because I’m not awake.
Oh, no! No reprieve at all after having to be up working so late?? ?
Nope.
Does this “phased transfer of responsibility” at least bode well for the gig for which you interviewed? Or does it just mean more work?
Officially it has nothing to do with it, since it’s part of my supervisor’s retirement.
Also officially, the appointment is awaiting approval from one or two upper managers.
Nice pics.
I have an open invite to FL, cuz mom has a place down there. I don’t go. *shrug*
Mornin Glibs.
Tres Sr. is currently ensconced on the gulf coast, as is his annual migration. I never get an invite.
Is your mom hot- my driveway is becoming a skating rink from the ice and FLO-rida sounds nice.
Many years ago, her photo on an exercise bike was prominently displayed in a NJ mall.
She old now. And her cat died yesterday. ?
??
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/02/02/two-luxury-shops-on-walnut-street-reportedly-vandalized-philadelphia/
Philly is a shithole, don’t go there.
https://nypost.com/2022/02/02/david-portnoy-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-three-more-women-vows-to-sue/
I’ve never broken anyone’s ribs. There was an unfortunate incident with a knee connecting to a face during a position change though…
The side-rail on my bed split one night when I brought home ‘2-Ton Tanya’ but I didnt let that stop me.
Its still held together with wood screws and GO-rilla glue.
https://www.rebelnews.com/kiwis_sue_jacinda_ardern_after_being_locked_out_of_nz_for_2_years
Go sheepfuckers!
Charming.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/boom-republican-lawmakers-wisconsin-propose-legislation-make-unconstitutional-accept-private-help-administer-elections/
This shouldn’t even be a thing. Lock Zuck up!
Good Morning:
Well i can still see my tractor, so I don’t know how we got 10.5 inches that my phone says we got?
I hope everyone is well this cold day.
Only bad thing about working from home? I get to work while base shuts down.
Good morning, ‘bodru! We’re getting the dreaded “wintry mix” for longer than originally expected. Won’t turn to snow until this afternoon…if it does so at all,
Its going to stay solid for a while.
Thinking about leaving the birds in the coops. But they need food and water…
Sheep went into the barn on their own.
Ill take a foot or two of snow over 1/4″ of ice. At least you can work with snow and its manageable.
Yeah, check out all the “high fives” at the OTHER site I’m glued to every weekday morning.
Gah! Looks like a good day to call in “sick”.
Oh, I got the robocall that we were closed right after my alarm went off this morning. But I stayed up ’cause I couldn’t bear to miss my morning crew. ?
We appreciate the company.
Aww…
(I do reserve the right to take a nap later if the coffee isn’t sufficient to keep me awake.)
From America’s Mayor to outcast Untouchable.
Or, is there an adult in the room?
On that show? I suspect that would be against network policy. I swear they keep trying to reach Peak Ridiculous in their programming.
TBH I would never connect Rudi and the masked singer ever.
He must be trying to upstage his ex, who starred in “The Vagina Monologues” among other things.
Fire their unprofessional asses.
“Rudy Giuliani was revealed as one of the first contestants to depart in the upcoming Season 7 premiere – prompting two of the show’s judges, Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke, to storm off the stage in protest,”
50/50 according to the article. Petulant child is the correct description for someone who walks off the job because he is “offended”.
Did they protest because he got booted, or because he was there at all?
Good one.
LOL. I might have to watch this one, just to hear Rudy “sing”.
Mornin’, all. Stay home if you are in one of the icy realms. Or don’t, I am not your boss. On the two occasions I had to drive on ice I felt fortunate to arrive intact. Ice sucks.
They’ve revised down the amount of snow expected to hit us.
That’s good. They’ve toned down the ice predictions here as well, but any ice is bad. And I am having a Washing Machine delivered Saturday, so will be having fun clearing a safe path for the workers.
I must really be tired, I was about to shake up a bottle of carbonated beverage as if it were flavored water.
Opening that would sure wake you up in a hurry.
Fortunately, I caught myself and avoided a catastrophe.
WTF are American forces doing in Syria?
https://nypost.com/2022/02/03/us-launched-raid-in-northwest-syria-kills-nine-people/
Another successful operation. Even if those numbers turn out to be bullshit, this is not good.
Messing around in (the?) Ukraine hasn’t provoked Putin enough?
Countering terrorism, duh.