Bambis Are Back

This morning The Old Lady spotted the Bambis in the driveway.  I stepped out to take pictures.  This is early in the year for them to be back.  During the winter they move down the hill towards the lake to where the snow isn't as deep. (We are about 1100ft higher than Lake Superior and get a lot of lake effect snow during the winter.) This looks like it could be the same group that was around last fall (I did a post on the Bambis  last fall), but they seem to have picked up a small straggler. The smallest one wasn't around last fall.

 After I took a couple pictures, they started moving away down the driveway.

 Then they stopped and looked back at me.  We had a Mexican Standoff for several minutes.  The one in front facing me might be a young buck.  It stamped its feet a number of times and may have snorted at me.

After awhile they jumped the snowbank and went up on the hill.  The pictures don't show it well, but the snow is mostly gone around the trees on the hill.

Spring

This shot is the same as the one on the header of the blog (also at the bottom of the blog), just different time of the year.  There is a layer of ground fog in the foreground from the snow because the temp is in the upper 40s-lower50s.  And it wasn't even 10am when I took the picture.

We've had a week of warm weather, 50s, 60s, even pushing 70.  Usually at this time of year they are warning people they have to get their ice shanties off of Lake Superior by Mar. 31.  Last week every time we went to town there were boats out in the bay with people fishing.  Heard a rumor that there had been a couple of brave souls had ventured out on the ice in the bay and done some ice fishing.  The fact that their big balls didn't cause them to break thru the ice amazes me!!

Update: just heard the forecast for today, high 76 to 81, cooler near the lake.

Addendum also:  Today's high was 70 with 1 to 2ft of snow on the ground.  UN-FUCKING-REAL!!

The Walking Brain Dead

This was done for the Michigan primary, but still applies for any and all of the upcoming ones.

Another Rush Cartoon

Labels Disappeared, Now They Are Back

Recently I noticed that the labels below the posts had disappeared.  I don't remember making any changes to my blog settings, but the labels just disappeared.  Nothing I tried worked to restore the labels.  Today I did a google search again and found out I didn't need to feel pregnant (I wasn't the only one with the problem).  Others were experiencing the same thing.  Then when I went to blogger settings/design whatever and clicked on edit posts, there was a thing called labels with a blank box next to it.  I clicked on the box and the labels are back.

The question I have is, "Where was the thing for labels when I tried edit posts before today???"

The frustration with the lack of labels may explain why Fuck and Fucking shows up in the labels for so many recent posts.  If nobody is going to see it, why worry about what the fucking label says??  Besides I think fuck is such a versatile word, probably the most versatile word in the English language!!  It can be a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, or any of those other terms for words.

Doonesbury

State Mandated Rape.  Rape isn't just penetration by a penis.  It's any unwanted penetration of an unwilling person.

I like "If it wants to be the next Rick Perry, I've made up my mind."

The final indignity is the woman has to pay to be raped by the state!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some newspapers didn't run Doonesbury this week because they said kids may see it on the comics page.  Were they afraid kids would see just how FUCKING STUPID the FUCKINGREPUBLICANS are?????????????

Monopoly

Happy St. Patrick's Day

St. Urho's Day

Actual translation is: "Grasshopper, grasshopper go to hell".

St. Urho chased all the grasshoppers out of Finland and saved the grape crop.  Good thing as now they can celebrate St. Urho's day properly!!

Remember to wear purple and green today!!