Smartie's Bar & Grill #74

That is the poor little opossum I thought my heeler killed. I put her up and went to get my husband. He told me the opossum wasn’t dead it was just playing opossum, and sure enough he was right.

 

We can start our’s while still in the house and warm it up before we go. Kind of handy. We have a Honda.

 

We are AMERICA strong. Thank you, that was a very kind response.

 

Extremists have been lording it over America in Washington State, in Oregon, In Michigan, in NY State and even in PA and in GA.

Should we then sit on our hands and do nothing, say nothing?

They are coming for us. Not as a story line, right now.

We see Trump attacked today by Democrats again on Jan 13, 2021

 

My Sons Ram 1500 Hemi is like your car. He has always warmed it up first.

 

I feel the same. I'm exhausted.

We disagree rather vehemently in some areas, but agree in others. Someone I disagree with is not, and never will be, my enemy.

Cheers! Going to make myself a gin & ginger.

 

Well This evening I am having Chinese food delivered and have cold beer ready.
I tried out WOW Bao yesterday for a change and am not recommending it. For what you get and the quality, price is double.

 

Would that be Bombay or Boodles gin?

 

Would you elaborate on those Gins? I have never heard of either.

 

Actually I am not a gin person. I have only heard of those two gins. I think they are suppose to be good quality gin.

 

Boodles. And Canada Dry, for those interested.

 

Mid range gins. Not the cheap stuff, not the ridiculous stuff. Better than Tangueray.

 

Have the birds found the feeders you put out?

 

It was in the mid 1960s that I did drink some mixed drinks with Gin. So
I am very rusty on Gins.

 

NO!

What's up with that? It's a lovely welcome center. Jerks.

 

Gin and Canada Dry huh?

 

Gin n ginger. It's usually a summer drink, but I'm not feeling whiskey nor SoCo this winter. Go figure.

 

Don’t give up, one day you will have them all over your feeders. If you have neighbors that get birds coming in ask them about the food they put out. I have noticed I get more birds when I buy the seeds that have been hulled.

 

They are confused for a few weeks, here. It's south for the winter, but then it gets cold and they go south, and then... it's normal again.

I expect in about six weeks I'll get some action.

 

My across the street neighbor has one of those on his pick up. I know someone whose brother hooked a remote starter up to a straight drive vehicle. He forgot and left it in gear when he parked and started it at work one night just to have it shoot into the highway in front of his work and total itself against a concrete jersey wall. He was lucky it wasn't set to head in the direction of the building I guess or get T-boned by any of the traffic coming down that road as it is usually heavy going 65 in a 50MPH flow through that area

 

I'm glad to see he moved up in Binford. He always struck me as the type that worked hard for someone and then got crapped on for it, but with him, it seemed to work out alright.

They need to remake that show

 

I couldn't have a car like that. I'd probably lock myself in and starve to death.

 

True.

I suppose someone who has never hand fed a starving juvenile skunk that came to them “asking” for help, or had a fawn follow them out of the way of a tractor ridging corn would think this. When you’ve had a broken winged red tail hawk take and eat a dead mouse out of one hand while perching on your other hand an hour after being picked up out of the road, you have a little different perspective.

Not all humans are terrifying to wild animals.

 

I grew up in Colorado where we didn’t have opossum. I had read about possums and their death act and always wanted to see it. So one night when I was walking across campus at college (Nebraska) I came upon the first possum I’d ever met and the biggest possum I’ve seen to this day. Instead of rolling over and playing dead it just stood there looking at me. Finally I decided I wasn’t scary enough so I stamped my foot and hollered at it. I had to succeed, I’d been waiting my whole life to see a possum play possum.

Well, that possum opened its hideous mouth and hissed at me. I was crushed. I retreated and went on about my business. Since, I’ve found quite a few that dogs have had that are acting and a few that would never act again. And it’s nearly impossible to tell the difference, isn’t it? It is truly amazing.

 

Not all humans fear ghosts, some seek them out.

Mind you, neither one, neither ghosts nor an animal's view of humans, really exists. But the viewpoints are what matter.

The way I heard it explained is that wild animals have what we would call a "superstitious dread" of most humans. Most of them see us very seldom and hardly ever in their preferred surroundings, we are powerful and largely invulnerable and often kill them out of hand; that's a ghost to many people. Mind, humans have all sorts of "baggage" in their thinking that animals don't

The thing is that animals who don't flee at our sight respond nearly universally to kindness with forbearance and trust, if people did the same this would be a much better world.