Good morning, happy Týr’s day. Týr was a god of war and fighting, so perhaps it is apt that today is also the day when French revolutionaries stormed the Bastille in 1789 and in 1798 the Sedition Act was passed and in 1881 Billy the Kid was shot to death and in 1099 Jerusalem was captured in the First Crusade. Humanity doesn’t always cover itself in glory. Which is of course why we have cats.
Hili: I have no illusions.
A: Everybody says that.
In Polish:
Hili: Nie mam złudzeń.
Ja: Każdy tak mówi.
And a word from Leon:
Leon: What about fishing?
What are we now? The Hili & arch nemesis Leon dialogues?!
Watch it Hili, Leon will be after your job as ed.
🙂
Leon is not Hili’s arch enemy, Dominic. That role’s reserved for Fitness, the upstairs denizen. 🙂
Doh! Sorry! Too many cat names to remember – Ceeiling Cat Forgive me!
And in speaking of illusions or no, Ms Koraszewska and Mr Koraszewski, how went this year’s tart cherry – harvest ? !
Blue
Oh, cherries are still on trees. The harvest will take place in a week or two. They are not really ripe yet.
And today was the day, 150 years ago, when the Matterhorn was first climbed: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33512241
Fascinating article!
“…first climbed on 14 July 1865 by English climber Edward Whymper.”
Who hardly went out with a bang.
And as always, there were unsung “natives” guiding the famous climbers.
By the standards of the day, Whymper was strongly acknowledging of the support of his guides.
Here is why cats run households, not d*gs:
“North American carnivores in the past might have followed similar dynamics and much of the competition is found among species of the dog family and from ancient felids and dogs. Interestingly, while felids appeared to have a strongly negative impact on the survival of ancient dogs, the opposite is not true. This suggests that felids must have been more efficient predators than most of the extinct species in the dog family.”
[ Press release from Gothenburg University, Sweden; published in PNAS; http://expertsvar.se/pressmeddelanden/competition-from-the-ancestors-of-cats-drove-the-extinction-of-many-species-of-ancient-dogs/ ; my bold.]
Seems cats (among others) invading North America, the infamous birth place of d*gs, cut down the d*g species diversity to 1/3d.
Psst, Hili, don’t tell Cyrus! Sad d*g days may follow…
Nice impressionist shot of Leon, there…