This is a long-billed curlew with his face stuck all the way down in the sand.
This is a long-billed curlew
This is a long-billed curlew with his face stuck all the way down in the sand. This is a long-billed curlew with his face stuck all the way down in the sand. Least grebes
Cute little diving birds.
That like to have speedboat races.
Like little hydroplane boats.
There is a question that I often hear answered backwards
It’s any question that starts with “Do you mind…” On television, a man asks “Do you mind if I come in?” “Yes” the woman answers, come right in. What just happened? The person answering the question said yes, I mind, then contradicted herself and said come right in. The answer should be “No. I don’t mind. Come right in.” If you haven’t noticed this, listen for it. It’s out there. But it’s wrong. Why do people do this? Do they only do it while I’m watching? Maybe it’s a conspiracy to make some of us think we’re crazy………..
Unsolved mysteries
We sleep cool with the air conditioning on. We get up in the morning and its warm and humid outside. We walk out the door for morning coffee on the deck, with sunglasses on, and our glasses fog up. It’s like we’re a giant glass of iced tea; take it outside on a warm day and the outside of the glass gets dripping wet. But back to the eyeglasses. We can carry a cloth outside with us, wipe the glasses off and they just fog right back up. For a while. As temperatures equalize and the fog starts to lift, my right eyeglass always takes longer to clear than the left one. For a while I dismissed this, figuring maybe my right eye was just breathing harder on the lens than the left eye and fogging it up. But I don’t really think that’s it. I put the glasses on the table beside me and watched them until they cleared up. The left one cleared up first. That’s the unsolved mystery. When I’m wearing fogged glasses, why does the left eye always clear before the right one does? An unsolved mystery; until now. I’ve figured it out. I had surgery on my left eye a few years back; cataract surgery. They took out the old clouded lens and put in a new one; one with correction. Without glasses I see better out of my left eye than I do out my right. There is more correction in the right lens of my glasses than my left. That results in a thicker lens. More mass in a thicker lens means it holds the cold longer; it takes longer to equalize with the outside temperature, so it keep fogging longer. Mystery solved!
USA, USA
The two week celebration has finished. I joke about USA, USA, but it’s just in jest. Every athlete wants their gold. Every country wants their medals. An opportunity to meet and compete. A celebration of diversity and comradery; sportsmanship abounds. We celebrate all the winners and all the participants. We find ourselves as happy about a Brazilian gold medal in soccer, a Kenyan gold in the marathon, or a US gold in swimming, gymnastics or track; all heroic efforts. We’re happy for every athlete or team that won, appreciate every athlete and team that joined in the competition, and wish that the Olympic spirit of competition and cooperation could carry on, or carry over beyond sports, just a little more than it does.