The mother has a belly full of fish to bring back to feed her hungry chicks.
That had a happy ending!
April 18, 2025
These Remind Me of Andy
For Andy, when we were foolish enough to have an outside garden up on the land, it was gophers and ground squirrels. We were happy to share, but they wanted everything. One cheeky ground squirrel would chatter at us if we spent too long in his garden. Eventually he would rush in and start eating in a part of the garden away from us. Then there was the day that we were looking at the garden from outside of it and we saw a plant get sucked into the ground before our very eyes. Andy grabbed a stake and rushed into kill that blasted critter doing it.
He didn’t. It was hopeless, and we had to give up the idea of an outside garden. That’s why we have our greenhouse.
April 16, 2025
Posted in Life As a Shared Adventure
32 Comments
This Fellow Changed His Mind…
about crows.
April 13, 2025
Posted in Life As a Shared Adventure
26 Comments
It’s Later Than You Think
This song has been playing in my mind lately.
It makes me happy and puts a bounce in my step.
April 12, 2025
Posted in Life As a Shared Adventure
28 Comments
Duck Tape
If you’ve been rolling your eyes at people who say “duck tape” adhesive, prepare some apologies. The durable cloth-backed tape first appeared during World War II, when Johnson & Johnson developed an olive drab version as a handy way for American soldiers to waterproof their ammo cans. According to the company, soldiers dubbed the product “duck tape” because it forced moisture to flee “like water off a duck’s back.”
Troops realized that the tape was good for more than just keeping their powder dry, and after the war, it caught on as an easy and effective way to seal, among other things, heating ducts. Johnson & Johnson even began offering a silver version of the tape specifically for this purpose, giving rise to “duct tape.”
So which is correct? “Duck tape” has the chronological upper hand, but “duct tape” is a more accurate description of the product’s historical use. To make things even more complicated, though, it’s no longer used to seal ducts! You could always just hedge your bets the way the leading manufacturer does when it bills itself as “Duck brand duct tape.”
—Mental Floss
I always called it duck tape, and Andy used to protest until we started to use the Duck Tape brand. Now it’s hard for him to argue. Why am I thinking of that now? Because I just read a review of the best duct tapes and Duck Tape was the winner. Hurray for Duck Tape! Do you ever use it?
April 10, 2025
Posted in Life As a Shared Adventure
30 Comments
