awesome!!! Thanks so much, Shaky and Carrie, Carol and Cathy!

NO WAY! how incredibly wonderful!
So...you didn't see the antenna -- too far away --
but the location was spot-on as per the transmitter data?

I sure hope Shaky and Carrie got photos!

THANK YOU!

totally...blown...away.
Amazing!!!

Thanks for the photos!

dale

thanks, gayle.
their names are really terrific!

Is this nuts or what??
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100820/ap_on_sc/eu_russia_saving_seeds

The Global Crop Diversity Trust main page
http://www.croptrust.org/main/
their page re: the Russian seed bank issue, including a petition
http://www.change.org/croptrust/petitions/view/tell_the_president_of_russia_to_stop_the_destruction_of_the_future_of_food

Thanks for all the birthday wishes!!!  
I couldn't get into the forum last night, so I'm a bit late thanking you!

I had to teach a LOT yesterday, so it wasn't particularly distinguished as days go (and by the end of it I was utterly EXTINGUISHED), but I got wonderful gifts and cards and managed to meet with friends in the breaks. I am SO very grateful that I have such wonderful friends....

And the weather gave me a HUGE gift....a day and evening of NORMAL lovely summer weather.

Thank you, everyone!

Dale

She wanted to be fried chicken?

Guess it seemed like a good place to crow in.
He was ultimately not fried, but given away to a nice rural home.

"dawn-welcoming fowl language." very nice.

There is a fresh poultry place in my part of town, REAL fresh - you choose the bird from a cage and they take care of the rest. A friend once naively "rescued" a lovely "hen" from there, bought it - took it home as a pet. The next morning "the hen" surprised my friend (and the rest of the apt. building) by crowing like mad at daybreak. "She" also, just for the record, had flown up and was standing IN a (cold) frying pan on the stove while doing so!  That relationship, nevertheless, did not last long.

Speaking of Huge NASA Balloons, how about this video of a cute little kitty cat Lou

What did the cute kitty cat say to the huge crashed NASA balloon?
Knock knock?

And when I contributed, I at least modified the topic somewhat so that anyone following it might not be misled into thinking that we were still talking about a fish. Patti

SOME of us are in fact still talking about a fish. Nonstop.
So this fish goes into a bar, plops himself down on a barstool.
Bartender says, "what can I get you?" No...wait...
Bartender says, "Hey! No fish allowed in this bar!"  No...

So, Lou..'dja hear the one about the sarcastic fringehead and the mink?
A sarcastic fringehead and a mink go into a bar. Mink says to the huge, tattooed male bartender, "Hey, Lucille ...

I just like saying the name of this beast. Lou

I like pretty much everything about him!  great video, lou!!

One tough customer.

Nora,
Here's wishing you all the very, VERY best for the coming year - joy, love, the whole package!!!
Remembering our barn swallow days...
Dale

As I have said before, Zuzu is a looker. Beautiful critter. Thanks!

A catio makes sense. After all, the Rochester peregrines have a 12th floor falcony.

I thought falcony was how it smells in the scrape when a few big eyases are spending all their time there. You know, that prey-fume aroma.