Although it’s sunny outside and I’d like to go Rollerblading by the lake, I’m leaving Friday to give two talks in South Carolina, as well as reading MOAR theology to prepare for an interview. Ergo, I’m working on Ceiling Cat’s Day, and barely have time to keep up with this site.
However, my squirrels are keeping me company. As Baby Squirrel Season approaches, I’ve laid in a stock of peanuts, walnuts, and sunflower seeds to feed up any expectant mothers.
The walnuts are doled out individually to any squirrels brave enough to take them from my hands, for they’re expensive ($3.99 per pound) and I can’t just scatter them on the widowsill like peanuts. Besides, I like to watch the rodents figure out how to gnaw through the hard shell before they discover, to their delight, the delicious and ample treat within. So this is the fun I get to have today:
Wait — Professor Ceiling Cat on rollerblades?
Video or it don’t happen!
b&
All the time, my friend, though not this year so far.
Well, color me impressed. I had a pair many moons ago but could never get the hang of the blasted contraptions.
b&
I used to dollar blade all the time. I had all the gear – knee, elbow and shin pads. I worked in a park so I knew all the typical injuries and protected myself thusly.
Alas, as a younger girl I was constantly harassed by men in the park when I rollar bladed,not the point I got really scared so I stopped doing it and haven’t since. Now I know how a female guppy feels when you put too many male guppies in the tank.
Now that I’m older and on meds to drop my estrogen, I should try again as I will probably be left alone.
LOl Dollar blade. That’s what that rich preacher does.
Hahaha… he ran across my mind today.
LOL! Sorry, but that guppy analogy is priceless! 😀
Ha ha! You appreciate it because you’ve probably had guppies before and realize you have to have a ratio of males and females or the female will be harassed right to death (literally, the males will bother her so much that she will die).
How’d you guess? 😀
The best fed squirrels in Chicago!
The appendage the squirrel is feeding from is rendered Rather Weird by the camera angle though… 🙂
I hope they bring their babies to visit PCC – they surely know they can trust him, and I’d love to see pics. (Of the rollerblading too!)
I thought so too re appendage.
I know. Looks weird, right?
Now…ready for some mind asplosion?
Hold out your arm in front of you. Look at your elbow.
Looks exactly like Jerry’s in the photo, no?
What you’re seeing is the only perspective you’ve ever seen of the elbow you’ve seen the most…and yet it looks weird.
b&
Another weird thing about elbows is that your right hand has never touched your right elbow.
I almost could, that time I crashed my bicycle and wound up with pins and rods for nine weeks. Which is probably what would happen to me if I ever tried rollerblading!
Being a woman’s arm, mine looks a bit different to Jerry’s, if no less weird. The Weird wasn’t a criticism in any case, just a comment on perspective
Yes–the perspective renders the limb reminiscent of a thalidomide victim.
(Christ, I almost put a smiley after that.)
Nope. I’m plenty flexible, yet physically incapable of contorting my arm to produce that perspective. There’s no way the camera was at eye level for this shot.
Also, I’m fairly sure I’ve seen my elbow in a mirror (which also looks a bit weird).
Appendage reminds me of Popeye. Perhaps should cut down on the spinach.
Is that the Eastern Grey? We need to identify when he takes one of your figures….
Fingers?
Yes, Sciurus carolinensis. Scourge of England, I gather. Through no fault of its own.
No wonder walnuts are so expensive, what with the drought in California. It takes 4 gallons of water to grow one walnut, or so I hear. And 1 gallon per almond. I love almonds and walnuts but have given them up because of this.
That figure would be a bit more meaningful with a time period. I presume per growing season?
Yes.
I’m in SC. Where are you giving these talks??
Greenville/Spartanburg area; one at Furman University and another for the Piedmont Humanists.
Very neat! I’m a Clemson student, so may be able to come up to Furman. Thanks for the info.
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Aww, look at that little paw reaching out…such a cute picture!