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My bots seem to have departed the pattern but I thought I’d share one more old post from when I first started on WordPress.
This one has to do with blogging itself and contains a little River history.
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The blogging life.
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The last rerun.
Tag Archives: humor
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The temperatures are dropping in Maine and our backyard visitors are feeling it.
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They’re also probably feeling like they’re being watched…
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Because they are.
Quite regularly.
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I saw this and thought, damn. Our raccoons are total slackers.
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Seriously, all ours do is eat and poo… and occasionally knock over the bird bath.
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We don’t have kids, so I’d better get to work on our trash pandas.
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Sunrise…
With cat.
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Squirrel, defying gravity.
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Yes, you.
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Our one little opossum, who only shows up at night.
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Squirrel central.
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We’ve had a banner crop of grey squirrels this year.
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I know people hate them because they eat the bird seed, but I love watching their acrobatics.
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And they can shimmy up a pole faster than any stripper.
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Our guys are well fed.
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And don’t even bother burying anything for winter.
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What I’m watching.
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My husband falls asleep during every episode…
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But I never miss a Ken Burns documentary. And while this one is epic in many ways, I have to admit there are a few too many battle sequences and not enough gripping personal stories to keep viewers riveted. His Civil War masterpiece set the bar very high.
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There was so much buzz about this movie I had to watch. Unfortunately that was two hours of my life I’ll never get back.
It was horrible. Hard pass.
And just when I thought that was the worst movie I could find…
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Holy hell.
I read the buzz about this being a treatise on beauty and the fight against aging so I was not expecting the stupidest, most ridiculous, literally laughable turn this one took. Hollywood really has lost its mind.
Thankfully some of my favorite series have returned to save the day.
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The Mayor has his hands full this season with a brother on the wrong side of the bars and a crooked warden running the prison. This show is raw, violent and often times hard to watch… but I’m here for it.
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The Morning Show has been a consistently superior program and this season does not disappoint. Well cast, well acted…. there’s never a dull moment.
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Landman rocks. I never thought I would be the least bit interested in the down and dirty world of oil production but this powerhouse show makes you sit up and pay attention. Season one was amazing, but this year they added Sam Elliot and Andy Garcia.
Need I say more?
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Never having been a Stallone fan, I was surprised how much I liked Tulsa King when it first started. But I have to admit the new season is leaving me a bit cold. I can’t really explain why, it just seems a little off and rapidly approaching campy.
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My husband stumbled on this sweet, feel good movie the other day. Based on a true story, if you’re an animal lover?
You’ll smile… and cry. I guarantee it.
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Random
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If you’re a squirrel on our property, you may feel like you’re being watched.
And if it’s not me with a camera?
It’s His Lordship.
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Who keeps a close eye on the visitors.
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May it rest in peace.
I loved MTV back in the day and spent many happy hours singing along with videos as I ironed my husband’s Marine Corps uniforms.
The end of an era, that.
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I always know when the bird feeders are running low.
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The avian protesters are noisy.
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Yes.
That’s why I do it.
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Husband photographing a sunrise.
Lord Dudley Mountcatten wondering why.
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Damn it.
Now I’m going to have start counting corn.
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News you can’t use.
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Because there’s always room for a little more crazy.
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Well that can’t be good.
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I try not to post poo related headlines, but some of them simply can’t be ignored.
This particular bathroom hack? Blow bubbles while on the throne.
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You heard it here first.
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Lord Dudley Mountcatten feels the same way.
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When AI reaches the singularity, I doubt it will care.
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Sorry Texas.
You had a good run.
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The man had a micro penis.
That explains everything.
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Here a bot, there a bot…
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While I don’t usually pay a lot of attention to my stats, there are some days I have to.
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Because WordPress likes to announce it when they rise .
“Hey loser! Look at you, people have found your miserable little blog. Kudos.”
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And over the past few days things have definitely been looking up.
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So much so, I got suspicious.
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Yes, the majority were from the U.S…. but still, for me the numbers have been crazy.
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Fearing they were bots…I sent a question to the Happiness Engineers.
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Which, irony of ironies…. was answered by a bot.
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Frank.
Yeah, sure.
Not believing I had suddenly become that popular, I went ahead and changed my WordPress password.
And the very next day?
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Things were back to normal.
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He can let go of some things.
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When we moved to this house in 2002, the woodshed was half filled with logs. Since we have a fireplace, we burn a few now and then for ambience… but since we don’t use it as a heat source we never really put a dent in the huge stack.
Over the years (Decades. Damn, I’m getting old!) my husband has cut and split trees on our property and dutifully stacked them in the already full shed.
It’s only recently that he decided enough is enough. We’ll never burn a fraction of the stockpile and there’s literally no room for anything else so…
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He’s letting go of the birch, apple, poplar, maple and pear.
And with the current cost of firewood? He let it go at a very reasonable price.
In no time at all, a couple showed up with their truck and started loading.
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It was an 8 foot bed and they were sure they could fit it all.
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But a second trip was required.
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And when the wife saw we had a tree full of crabapples behind the shed? She asked if she could harvest some for jelly.
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Everyone was happy.
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The local couple could fill their wood stove cheaply.
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And we could finally see the interior walls of our shed.
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Which after 23 unseen and untouched years, are going to need some serious work.
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News you can’t use
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Let’s dive into the absurd, shall we?
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Sounds like someone needs a giant Tums.
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Sure. Let’s piss off the artificial intelligence… no harm can come from that.
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This headline is from Connecticut where the slogan is, “If you can’t beat ‘em, eat ‘em”.
In case you’re wondering, they’re talking about green crabs.
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Thankfully I didn’t get one, because I’m pretty sure I’m still alive.
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As one does.
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That’s a mental picture I may have trouble getting rid of.
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I wouldn’t think this requires an article, but clearly I’m wrong.
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I’m confused.
Is the appropriate response to this I’m sorry… or congratulations?
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Da doo run rerun.
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Another day of strangely high viewing stats means another look back in time and a rerun post about my very least favorite green.
Give me liberty or give me death… but for the love of all that’s holy, don’t give me kale.
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https://riversworld.live/2018/08/18/so-whats-up-with-kale-and-why-does-everyone-want-me-to-eat-it/
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