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So doing what I want to do is considered indolence?

They lied when I was young and told me when I grew up I could do what I wanted.
Now they tell me I can do what I want when I retire.

I spec they’re lying to me again, but my plan is to be indolent in several European countries once that retire thing happens.

Awesome photograph.

I love their feathery pantaloons 🙂

I’m slowly making headway getting my house ready for company. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. And I haven’t decided on a menu or shopped for groceries, much less made Christmas goodies like candy and cookies. Except for a Honeybaked Ham, a gift from Husband’s corporate office—that’s good for several meals and the bone for pot of pinto beans.

Honeybaked Ham. Mmmmmmmmm…

I spent 17 hours in a car yesterday on the drive up to WA to spend Christmas with my daughter. I didn’t drive, but my back is not made for trips like that. I’m sorry today, but at least we’re here safely (the weather was terrible much of the trip).

The hawk is beautiful!

Large raptors are so majestic. What an amazing experience it would be to hold one!

Nina, I hope you brought warm clothing if your daughter lives anywhere other than on the coast. The weather forecast for parts east predicts very nippy temperatures. But, if you’re anywhere near Spokane, you might zip over to Wolf Lodge Bay on Coeur d’ Alene Lake one afternoon to watch a record number of Bald Eagles gathered there to catch kokanee (small landlocked salmon) in its waters, mainly between 2:00 and 3:00 if it’s not snowing. If we didn’t have an erratic freezer and a singing toilet, we’d probably make that trip ourselves. Wishing you many hours of good cheer during your visit, and a safe trip home!

Wow! What is it in our instinctual, inherited memory that makes a bird like this look so beautiful to us?

Compared to, say, one of these?

http://magazine.outdoornebraska.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/EF20080625_095.jpg

…the litterbox still needs emptying and the trash man still comes Wednesdays…

Not to worry, sprinkle it around the edges of your house, the smell keeps the armadillos from burrowing under.

Of course we may need to ship you some armadillos, but it is effective.

Comment from peacelovewoodstock
Time: December 21, 2017, 11:55 am
Wow! What is it in our instinctual, inherited memory that makes a bird like this look so beautiful to us?

http://magazine.outdoornebraska.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/EF20080625_095.jpg
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The head shape, I expect, and the fact that the eagle/hawk/falcon has a head covered decently in feathers. That naked head on the vulture (?) is ugly. Useful to it in scavenging, so it has no head feathers to be clotted with blood and gore when it’s dining on dead cow, but still ugly.

There’s something about the word “vulture,” too. The conservationists all refer to the California “condor,” and make it sound like a noble, free-flying, elegant bird. It’s not; it’s a vulture. If they called it that, they probably wouldn’t get a single donation to help keep its habitat from being turned into condos, or whatever their excuse is.

Part of me is saying “don’t be silly, of COURSE Stoaty has seen that! It’s over two years old, and she has really good sources, not to mention google-fu.” But part of me just hopes to be first with this as a holiday offering. So, forgive me if it is redundant!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJfxs7q8b84

It aint no chicken.

We loved it, Can’t Hark! Spent too much time in my youth cackling at Mr Shelton’s Cartoons.

Merry Christmas!

No, I have NOT seen that video before, Can’t Hark. I just streamed it to our new Chromecast (the old one croaked earlier in the week). Uncle B was a huge Gilbert Shelton fanboi back in the day….

In my defence, who doesn’t think Fat Freddy’s Cat is a masterpiece?

Ah yes, back in the college daze, we absolutely lived by Freewheelin’ Frank’s motto: “Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope.”

So true, so true.