And from the land of billytea, I saw a kookaburra, a shingle-back skink [link] (a skink - I love that name), and a stick insect. The skink was cool - it's defense from predators is that its tail is shaped like its head, so it rolls up into a ball with its head (that picture doesn't really show it well) in and tail out to trick its predator into going for its tail, while the skink escapes with it head in tact and grows a new tail.
When I visited the Cape May Zoo in NJ, I was very pleasantly surprised when I heard a kookaburra singing out at the other end of the zoo. Very homey sound.
Ooh, I never actually get puffy, just tingly.
Just a little tingly. Lips puff a bit, throat tingles and maybe puffs a tiny bit. I feel it and take a Bene and all is well.
Why are drupes all so delicious if they want to hurt me?
The most useful site evah.
I use it more than Snopes even. Which is kinda sad.
I have no idea of the murder stats for College Park, but my hometown had a really awful murder when I was 9-- a man and his three daughters were killed by their house painter. The father was a friend of my dad's, and the youngest daughter used to baby-sit for my sisters and me.
The creepiest part, though? The father was a podiatrist, like my dad (it's how they knew each other), and all the newspaper headlines just said "Potomac podiatrist and three daughters killed." So all my parents' friends thought it was *our* family, and for weeks after it happened were calling the house to make sure we were all still alive.
So that's my one scary local crime story. Go team childhood in the 'burbs!
I'm not sure if Memphis has hit 100 murders in 2006 yet (93 was the last statistic I heard), but we seem to be in the midst of a rash of them.
We have a sniper and a serial rapist working our city right now...and it's not...
But I'm not that worried. Tired of watching news anchors play at "self-defense" but not very afraid.(they both work at night, on the other side of town.)
We have been envisioning Local ita-type Kicks Baseline Rapist In "Nads for a couple days, though.
Stuff I read, and "Night of The Dead Living" says that summer is often the worst.
We have a sniper and a serial rapist working our city right now
I saw that and wondered about your reaction, erika.
And then I went off on a tangent. So I forgot to ask.
Hey, Buffistas! I am home from Minneapolis, where I had a week of attending and/or running lots of meetings. It was a good and productive visit--my best yet. I also had my first mojito. I don't usually like any sort of mixed drink, but OMG the yum!
Welcome home, Robin! My brother lives in Minneapolis and loves it there. How did you like it?
Yep! I have a little pill jar in my purse with Benedryl in it. It's temporary Angelina Jolie lips for free, basically.
Mangoes. Love them, but
the inside of my mouth peels away if I eat them.
Whitefonted for ick factor.
mojito. I don't usually like any sort of mixed drink, but OMG the yum!
All this time I had no idea this was a drink. I thought it was something like a taquito. It sounds much more intriguing now.
