Bloghopping

Bloghopping (where you start at one blog, follow a link to another, and so on) can take you to some funny places. Today I visited:
Line Upon Line: which has very pretty cards with unusual ways of saying things like:

“Congrats on adding to your eternal glory.” (for a baby)
“I voted for you for [...]

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If it looks like a duck…

I know that the NTSB and FAA are simply doing their jobs in their typical thorough manner that I appreciate.  Something about having to send off the organic material for DNA analysis is very amusing.  What are the alternates to bird strike? A hitchhiking mouse family? A woodchuck-chucker?  Pigs in Space?
The National Transportation Safety Board [...]

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Home alone, but a minor

I am:

Not a fan of government involvement in my personal life.
Not a fan of breaking the law without good reasons (think civil disobedience).
Not a fan of being legally responsible for another individual who clearly has a mind of their own.
Not a fan of children throwing things at my vehicle as I operate it within my [...]

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Fish Story

In Happy Feet, a penguin is portrayed as taking matters into his own beak to show humans the impact of the decline of fish stocks on the penguin population.  Apparently, a harbor seal on Cape Cod had the same idea, but with a more personal goal.  I can’t find my way around the Cape as [...]

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Swans on a Plane!

“Two hundred people a year die from mute swans,” Mertz countered. “They box you very hard with their wings.”
So what? A swan isn’t going to drop into my boat from a tree and bite me. It isn’t going to hide under a log waiting for me to step on it. It isn’t going to find [...]

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