I get up fairly early every day...I get up a few hours before the sun does...so usually I'm in bed shortly after 8 PM at the latest. Last night about 7:45 PM I was yawning heavily so I shut off the TV and stood up to head for the bedroom and BOOM! these two deer were right outside my living room window feeding on bird seed and squirrel corn. Since the sun was still shining through it, I had to stand back from the window as I took these so the deer wouldn't see me and spook,…
Wow...it's hard to believe America is 245 years old. Why, in my opinion, she doesn't look a day over 150. I can still remember when she was just a sweet young thing hardly old enough to be out on the streets of the big bad world all alone. But there she was...struttin' her stuff pretty as you please. and all the other countries were falling all over themselves trying to court her. How things have changed... Now she is loved by few, and vilified by many. Of course, she is an…
So this upgrade to the tips...what it does now is actually show you who tips from their own wallet and what tips came from the system (heart rewards). So now if Johnny-Come-Lately gives you a heart and the system tips you for it, Johnny is not shown as giving you the tip because actually Johnny didn't...Noise did. And in my mind that is as it should be.
Morning Coughee Moment July 05, 2021 Wow, I haven't said anything here since last post-holiday. I'm not sure at what point things really changed, but 20 years ago I loved making things go BOOM! and these days I want to go slap whoever it is setting off the fireworks. I mean really, can't you pack up in the car or truck-bed or whatever and go out in the country somewhere to set that crap off? Go bother the animals and let me go to sleep fer cryin' out loud. I didn't celebrate…
I can't wait to be one of the first to welcome Donald J Trump back when he gets reinstated as President of the U.S.A. on August 13th! Yes, friends and enemies, it is true, Mike the Pillow Guy says so! Never mind that there is no legal precedent to 'reinstate' a President that was declared the loser in a National election. Little things like facts have never stopped Donny before and I'm sure they won't now either. lol And the circus goes on, and ♫ the wheels on the bus go…
Someone asked if I was close to retiring and I said "No, the tires on the truck have several thousand miles left on them." Don't know why they thought I needed to replace them...go figure. People are weird.
MAW!!! THE CICADAS ARE FIGHTIN' THE SQUIRRELS OVER THE CORN AGAIN!!! Well no, not really, but I found a cicada shell on a corn cob out at the Squirrel Tree this morning when I went out to spike a couple of fresh ears on it. (I put two ears out for the squirrels every morning and every afternoon.) Considering I haven't been hearing many cicadas this year it was a bit of a surprise.
OOPS!!! Okay, so 5 hours later after I got up this morning I just now turned my cell phone on. I realize they seem to be a 'necessary' part of life these days but I still think they are noisy intrusive privacy invaders. I quite often - on purpose - leave my phone at home if I go somewhere. Now most of you will think "But that is why they invented portable phones, so people could annoy you with dumb stuff anywhere you are at any time of night or day!" Um....nope. Sorry. Homie…
Everyone is a little bit broken inside. Not everyone is willing to admit to it. Or maybe I am just too jaded these days to consider that maybe some are not broken...yet.
Did Some Great Knowing Entity know I needed this, or was it just life? Probably the latter, although I did need this without knowing I needed it until I got it. Male Goldfinch out front on the finch feeder this afternoon being all finchy and stuff. A spot of brightness on a dull day. I have dozens of them early in spring through about the end of May, and then I'll only see one a few times each week. Male Goldfinch July 9 2021 Olney Richland Co. IL USA
People get mad when they say their favorite berry is a strawberry and you tell them that would be impossible since a strawberry is not really a berry at all. Hey...I don't make the science, it ain't MY fault.
RUMINATIONS FROM A MIND PROBABLY NOT QUITE SANE: Black is not a color because color is reflected light and black is the absence of all light so therefore if someone tells you their favorite color is black they are a liar and you can tell them I said so because I've never been afraid of confrontation because in an alternate universe I am the biggest ass that ever lived and sometimes it leaks over into this universe and that's about as honest as it gets. "What color is your…
Don't know where he came from, but he's been showing up daily for a few weeks to hang around outside and come in and empty out the food bowls. Might have to give him a name eventually.
Cool that Noise.cash are offering to give us $1 for using the QR code to tip but I've been doing that since day one. (And yes, I tipped someone my normal way using the QR code and immediately got $1 for doing so)
"Marijuana has been popular for so long that you can read in the Bible about people getting stoned."
I'm so old I remember when there was only ONE flavor of Cheerios instead of 14...and we ate it and didn't whine about it...y'all spoiled these days lol
Set up a second wallet today for my phone, couldn't tip from it because I have a desktop wallet. Then sent a good chunk of change from the desktop to that one and now I can tip through my phone if I'm not on my computer. (Though I do not tend to use my phone much on the Web.)
Oh noes!!! Officer David Morgan of the Social Security Administration is going to SUSPEND my Social Security Number! Oh. Em. Gee. Whatsoever shall I do??? These guys just don't ever give up do they? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EDOcQ2eGoA
I'm not one to complain...not much anyway, nor about most things...and this is not really a complaint...but if Noise.cash wants only original content, it might behoove them to make that one of the rules. Now, I realize people should understand copy/pasting things for pay that other people wrote is wrong, but if you'd just spell it out maybe it would help? Pretty sure there is room to add that rule...
"Doo doo doo lookin' out my front door" - to paraphrase a song from Creedence Clearwater Revival I stuck my head out the front door around 8 PM last night to call the cats in for the evening and surprised a pair of white-tailed deer feeding out by the Squirrel Tree. I got lucky that they didn't see me and was able to slip back into the house and grab my camera.
Two days running I have seen users on this site copying entire posts/photos from other users and posting it as their own. This seems to be a somewhat 'common' occurrence on every site I have been on. I guess it is an 'honor' of a type to have your 'work' considered good enough to steal...because that is all these people are...they are thieves, plain and simple. It's going to happen on sites like this where you have a few hundred thousand members, it can't be helped. But it…
Old Morse railroad telegraph receiver my grandfather used when he worked for the Illinois Central Railroad in the late 1960's. I don't know what ever happened to the sending key that went along with it. Sad that things like this will end up tossed as trash eventually instead of kept as a demonstration of the history of communication...
16 years before Donald J Trump won the Presidency of the United States, Douglas Adams, in his book 'Mostly Harmless', wrote about The Leader having a dinner for his visitors and serving reheated hamburgers from McDonald's. Did this guy honestly have a line to the future?
"I WILL GET THIS SITE TAKEN DOWN! I will jump on my mighty Podcastmobile and tell the ENTIRE WORLD about how my discussion advertising my podcasts was unfairly deleted even though I still haven't read the FAQ or TOS of the site which clearly state advertising is not allowed. " (This was not here at Noise) Okay, that is not a true quote, but it is a good paraphrase of what I saw some woman post somewhere today. Now, I started laughing right off, but I decided I would go and…
THE PLOT THICKENS... So for over a week this cat has been coming here daily wanting fed and just generally hanging out with my two cats out in the yard. This morning I heard him come in and start on the food bowls, and when I went to pet him 'hello' I saw he is mysteriously wearing a brand-new flea collar. So he either: A - belongs to someone else or B - someone THINKS he belongs to them. My question - why am I the one feeding him then?
I'm so broke that when the bank ran a background check on me it bounced
Obligatory photo of a flower at my house I took because I see lots of flowers here and I was feeling left out so here is a picture of a flower at my house. Common hibiscus or as it is known in America 'Rose of Sharon'. ('Rose of Sharon' appears to refer to different flowers in different countries)
I've been putting on quite a bit of weight lately and I was starting to get a bit concerned about it, so I decided to speak with my doctor. He said he knew a nutritionist he could recommend that has had much success helping people lose weight. That sounded exactly as if it fit my situation, so I got her name and had my first appointment with her yesterday. She talked quite a bit and gave me some papers to look through that would help explain the regimen she was suggesting I…
The Gubermint is NOT tracking anyone with tracking microchips in the COVID vaccines. * If the Gubermint wants to track you they will use your cell phone or the chip in your credit card. lol This is, of course, not to say that you may or may not grow some extra body parts from gene manipulation or some such crap, but no one is looking at a screen to see where you are at based on the location supplied by a tracking chip in any vaccine. If you are convinced they are, just wrap…
I always thought burritos and fajitas were only different on the inside somehow but now I find out that you can buy either burrito wraps OR fajita wraps. And I am sitting here wondering how badly it would screw up Life, The Universe, & Everything if I were to make burritos using fajita wraps and make fajitas using burrito wraps. I'm also wondering if maybe I hit the bong a bit too hard, but still...
Cannabis Sativa flower I always knew them as being called buds back in the day, but they are sold as flower at marijuana dispensaries. This flower was grown by a friend of one of my brothers and is pretty tasty with a nice even 'buzz' to it.
Fuckin' people would rather lie than admit they stole something (in reference to plagiarism). Just warned a guy on a different site about plagiarism and how it would get his account banned there. His reply? He was copy/pasting his own blog. Never mind he is from India and the blog post he copied came from someone that lives in Switzerland. And the photos show there is no likeness at all. (On the left, the blog author, on the right, the guy that says it is his blog.) But I'm…
I'm not sure what type of lily this is, but I love this one. It appears I will get 4 blooms on this plant this year, I've normally only had two on it. Interesting how the red spots are not flush to the petal surface but actually grow out from it.
This is what happens when the weed is good stuff. Your minds trips over one thing and lands on another thing and suddenly you have a new thing. Main photo not mine, but my arrangement and my thought/caption.
Once again looking through 'OWN CONTENT' and see a photo allegedly snapped today by someone, and people are liking it and Noise is tipping it, but I know the photo has been around since at least 2018. https://www.facebook.com/501525473687202/photos/a.501526137020469/508679276305155/
Today on facebook I saw a meme with a famous quote by a dead person. Or perhaps I didn't. It is always possible that dead person never said it, but you can bet yer bottom dollar that people are going to share it without ever checking to see if it was true that person had said it. The wonders of the Illiternet. 6 years ago, through the WondersOfTheInnerWebs™, I communicated to a friend my desires, and after about a week of back-and-forth-ing we came up with this. Of course it…
Dead flies or 'sweat bees' or deer flies or SOME kind of dead flies all over the leaves on my black gum tree. Weird.
"I do read Bible verses from my phone, so I never watch porn from the same phone." You'll see some of the oddest statements on the InterWebs™. I guess I need to give them kudos for keeping their porn phone and their bible phone separate, but really? At least they don't have to worry about not paying attention to what they are doing and sending their pastor a porn video by mistake. lol
Monday morning...hell of a trick for God to pull on us...
...and the end of an age. Just had the land-line telephone exchange disconnected. Dad was paying $90 a month to receive spam calls That was all the phone had received since May 8th. In that entire time, there has been only one legitimate call to the number. The telephone/Internet bill was $135 monthly, I kept the Internet connection and had the account switched over to my name (with no cable I need it for the streaming services).
I get told I am awesome several times daily. If they keep telling me I'm awesome I might start getting a swelled head about it. lol
I have 2½ cats. I have Scar (black), Emoci (tuxedo), and the ½ cat hasn't been named but he's a white & tabby mix. I'm pretty sure the ½ cat thinks he lives here part-time but I think he has another house (or two) he visits also. I sure wish he'd pick a name though.
...and sometimes there you are just walking along and Life taps you on the shoulder and says "Hey, look at that" and you see the brand of coughee you drink on sale reduced closeout $4 each normally $7 each and you ALMOST grab them all but decided to only grab 6 and leave 3 behind because you are not a TOTAL ass. lol
If you are old enough you'll know the referenced photo from a song by the band Stealers Wheel. Here I am...
Wasn't ready for that one...R.I.P. Dusty Hill (ZZ Top bassist/co-vocalist)
It's 7 small blocks away and they have a drive-thru window pick-up. And they said I'd get 20 extra points for using the app to order from my phone, so it was a done deal. Yep, it's Domino's for supper.
Well, I was thoroughly surprised by these Surprise Lilies this morning as this particular plant had not bloomed for the past 6 years and I kept meaning to dig the bulbs up in fall and replant them. So I was not even expecting to see these out front this morning. I still might dig them up and replant them.
I'm usually ambivalent about weekends, but right now I don't care one way or the other...
P.T. & Scar - P.T. (Part Time) hasn't really decided he lives here...but he never misses a meal in the morning, he's almost always RIGHT THERE at the front door ready to come in when I wake up, and if he isn't there, he'll be there shortly...
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