A child of the Southwest and of the 50s -- a woman who knew me well once said, 'Yeah, the 1850s.' Generally culturally conservative and distrustful of new and improved innovative change. Very seldom overtly serious, but many a truth is spoke in jest and all of my truths are. Worked my way through UT when I was up in my 30s. If I'd, by some horrible miscalculation ended up in Bryan, I would've worked my way through that school over there. Have worked all over in printing and publishing. I've held a bunch of jobs and quit all of them but one. I am a journeyman printer and followed the trade and heard its dying gasps as it was throttled by technological change. I had a sponsored blog on a newspaper but quit the job.
That is beyond precious! I just love otters. Course you know me, a sucker for ANY animal (OK, except scorpions....)
I saw one at Landa Park once and was amazed at just how big they really are. Much bigger than I thought. I also read that beavers are quite large as well, although I have never seen one in real life (no this has nothing to do with the play coming to VC....)
Way I figger it, I can't die until I see an eagle soar in the wild, I see a beaver in its natural habitat, and as for the lions, cheetahs, tigers....well, I hope one day to see them too. Not in a zoo, but in their native environment.
Su'g - I used to see beavers swimming along in the Devil's River down on the border, and saw many when I was a kid working up in the mountains in Colorado. They are big, and they are amazing engineers, build wonderful ponds to fish in. You should be able to see bald eagles around here. There used to be some lived near the lake at Coleto, and I saw one near Green Lake once. You usually see them in pairs. I have a friend who reported the eagles on Coleto Creek. He told me once he had just started dating a girl, and they were out driving in the country when a badger crossed the road. You seldom see badgers, and he got all excited; she was indifferent about it. He quickly dropped her, figuring a girl who couldn't get excited about seeing a badger just wasn't for him. True story.
Your friend did the right thing, I suspect. I believe that gal had no soul.
I once got excited seeing a roadrunner darting across the road down here. And again, those things are bigger than you would think. I occasionally hear a woodpecker out here too, and I think even the sound they make is so cool.
Pity those that have no appreciation for the natural world...
You want another true story, totally unrelated, but keeping in the definition of soulless folk?
I once kicked a guy out of my house because, looking at a poster of Janis Joplin I had so proudly hanging in my living room, she with a rifle nearly as tall as her, he said in a VERY derogatory manner, "LOOKS like a Texas woman...". He was smirking while he said it. Oh, did I mention he was from Seattle? Yeah, he just didn't get it, and I knew he wouldn't get ME, so out he went. Never saw him again. Good riddance!
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They are so cute. Squeaky, but cute!
Yeah, sometimes I, too, jump up and down while waiting for dinner.
That is beyond precious! I just love otters. Course you know me, a sucker for ANY animal (OK, except scorpions....)
I saw one at Landa Park once and was amazed at just how big they really are. Much bigger than I thought. I also read that beavers are quite large as well, although I have never seen one in real life (no this has nothing to do with the play coming to VC....)
Way I figger it, I can't die until I see an eagle soar in the wild, I see a beaver in its natural habitat, and as for the lions, cheetahs, tigers....well, I hope one day to see them too. Not in a zoo, but in their native environment.
Su'g - I used to see beavers swimming along in the Devil's River down on the border, and saw many when I was a kid working up in the mountains in Colorado. They are big, and they are amazing engineers, build wonderful ponds to fish in. You should be able to see bald eagles around here. There used to be some lived near the lake at Coleto, and I saw one near Green Lake once. You usually see them in pairs. I have a friend who reported the eagles on Coleto Creek. He told me once he had just started dating a girl, and they were out driving in the country when a badger crossed the road. You seldom see badgers, and he got all excited; she was indifferent about it. He quickly dropped her, figuring a girl who couldn't get excited about seeing a badger just wasn't for him. True story.
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Your friend did the right thing, I suspect. I believe that gal had no soul.
I once got excited seeing a roadrunner darting across the road down here. And again, those things are bigger than you would think. I occasionally hear a woodpecker out here too, and I think even the sound they make is so cool.
Pity those that have no appreciation for the natural world...
You want another true story, totally unrelated, but keeping in the definition of soulless folk?
I once kicked a guy out of my house because, looking at a poster of Janis Joplin I had so proudly hanging in my living room, she with a rifle nearly as tall as her, he said in a VERY derogatory manner, "LOOKS like a Texas woman...". He was smirking while he said it. Oh, did I mention he was from Seattle? Yeah, he just didn't get it, and I knew he wouldn't get ME, so out he went. Never saw him again. Good riddance!
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