Thought of the day
I think I speak for a majority of people when I say this: Eat shit, Phil.Would it have hurt you if you missed your shadow this year?
We all could have used a little extra joy this week.
And that is why this blog is officially endorsing French Creek Freddie for all of my rodent weather needs.
Freddie rules, Phil drools!!
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Please get off the phone.
What time should I pick you up?
Where are all of my spoons?
This is not a haiku.
I just got carried away with my alliteration:
I just got carried away with my alliteration:
A serious Shifley spoon shortage started.
Stealthily silverware simply sucks.
Spoons should send smoke signals.
Spoons should send smoke signals.
Which, the last time I checked, is still zero.
I have met a few folks from Australia while blogging, but nobody from the land of Kiwis.
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Well, that's all for this week. I hope you're doing well, and I'll talk to you soon.
Meme dump
I will persevere.
I will keep moving forward.
I will be the stream.
I think I like French Creek Freddie, along with our own Buckeye Chuck!!! Our household kept having a deficit of forks. I assume they were 'accidentally' thrown away and we blame it on family gatherings rather than our own immediate family.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to admit ignorance and say I don't get the Christopher Columbus meme? Unless it has to do with calling Native Americans "Indians?"
You were real close, Bijoux. When Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas, he believed he had reached the Indies (which at the time was a broad term encompassing parts of Asia), and therefore thought he was in India, which is why he called the native people he encountered "Indians
DeleteThank you for the explanation!
DeleteYou are welcome!!
DeleteThe cat and the dog memes made me laugh!
ReplyDeleteWe're currently 82F, but a "cold" front should drop us into the 50s next week. If it's any consolation, it won't be that long before we're in the 90s with 90% humidity.
Me too, Kelly. We are dipping back down to the teens so I am a little jealous of your weather.
DeleteOur Alberta groundhog, Balzac Billy, predicted an early Spring. He has an 83% accuracy rate, apparently. But we all know that Winter here will last another 3 months, no matter what any rodent says.
ReplyDeleteBalzac Billy!! What a great name. An early spring in Alberta means quite the different thing than it does down here in southern Idaho. I had to make the geographic distinction because Northern Idaho can still be thawing out in June.
DeleteSuddenly we have winter over here. Should I blame Phil? The memes are great; I love the book cover one and alphabet soup for doctors. Are chihuahuas known for biting? I don't know much about them since my late husband considered them more of a rat than a dog. He preferred medium to big dogs.
ReplyDeleteI am not a big fan of the little purse dogs either, Margaret.
DeleteThat poor chihuahua; they always get the bad biting rap!
ReplyDeleteSomeone needs to take the heat.
DeleteYoungest Son has a Chihuahua and a Chihuahua mix; they're a little high strung but have hearts of gold :-)
ReplyDeleteThat's good to hear. I have only met mean ones.
DeleteSpoons are such useful implements. I used to find mine outdoors, digging holes. Check the dogs. Your children are a little old.
ReplyDeleteI think they get left in the game room by the children after they finish a snack and then get relocated to who knows where by the dogs.
DeleteMaking mystery books more mysterious. Good one. And you have to remember, French Creek Freddie's from West Virginia.... need I say more?
ReplyDeleteGood point, Dave, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
DeleteI wonder what Phil thinks being handled by dudes in tuxedos? Speaking of groundhogs, I have declared war on the ones in my hayfield.
ReplyDeleteHave you tried the varmint strategy they used in Caddyshack?
DeleteStealing the chihuahua. I know a guy that is at the mercy of one. He ate a pair of glasses, swallowed a hearing aid which required an emergency vet visit, and has crapped on every carpet he owns.
ReplyDeleteWe too have a spoon shortage which may or may not have something to do with a daughter who packed a lunch and had a tendency to let them accumulate and then toss 7 or 8 of them in the trash. With the spoons.
All of the chihuahuas I have known have been the biggest turds so that meme made me LOL.
DeleteI pay no attention to Phil; but maybe he's right because we got our first snow just 2 days ago. I was quite happy with our brown winter.
ReplyDeleteWe got more snow today so Phil might be onto something.
DeleteYou have at least one Kiwi fan, but I haven't commented before. Coincidentally we live near Waitangi.
ReplyDeleteBest news ever, Hermit. Thanks for the comment and thanks for being my biggest Kiwi fan. Hope Waitangi Day was a good time.
DeleteI think maybe the spoons all got freaked out and up and moved to Ireland, Portugal, or anywhere not the United States. Love the memes, by the way.
ReplyDeleteAnother good theory, PFT. I wish they would have told me. Portugal sounds lovely this time of year.
DeleteI'm guessing due to politics/plane crashes, I totally missed Groundhog Day this year. It wasn't even a 30 second clip tacked onto the end of a package at the tail end of the news cast. At one point, I thought I should google to see what the results were and then forgot about doing even that. I guess that goes to show how much faith I put in Phil.
ReplyDeleteTrue story. Once upon a time I had to make a service call to Punxsutawney and programmed it into my GPS. I arrived at the location and it was a residential house. I walked to the corner where there was a gas station and asked the attendant where I might find the business I was looking for that was supposed to be down the street. He told me I wasn't even in Punxsutawney but still 10 miles away. I blamed Phil for that incident too.
I think you are onto something, Ed!! That groundhog has ruined lives and it's time he pays.
DeleteSeriously where do all the spoons get to.
ReplyDeleteIt's an active investigation, Mary.
DeleteIt took me a moment to realize you were talking about literal spoons, not the metaphorical kind. Your theory in reply to Joanne (children and dogs) makes a lot of sense. I had to re-supply my spoons when my kids were growing up. I got mine from the dollar store and they've been the best spoons ever. I love that meme about the covers of mystery books. The shots of the cat are so hilarious. Have a good week, Mr. S. Remember, no matter what the groudhog says, the weather will eventually swing around to spring.
ReplyDeleteAlways wonderful advice, jenny_o. Thank you.
DeleteOMG I forgot about Groundhog day!
ReplyDeleteAnd I thought the kitty being dragged away was HILARIOUS!
XOXO
That is what Phil wants, Sixpence.
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