hah!
If it wasn’t, I’d lie and say it was!
The only wildlife we seem to have around here are ravens and squirrels and the occasional skunk. I haven’t *seen *any skunks, but I smell them pass by.
Off to work. I have to open up today.
Happy Birthday, soapy!
I have emerged from paperirk. :: Dries self off :: Now on to other even more fun stuff. Don’t y’all love these fascinatin’ irk posts of mine. 
Happy Burfday Soapy!
The back of my house faces a pretty big open cornfield. It’s a rare summer evening we don’t hear coyotes. Every few weeks I’ll find a mostly torn apart carcass in the yard. Needless to say we don’t have much of a stray cat or dog problem by us, people tend to keep their critters inside. Nighttime features some bats too, but I welcome them, since they eat skeeters.
Ah, wildlife. My parents cats used to bring it in–chipmunks, jays, a foot long rat, a snake…Once a bat turned up indoors. My sister was in the basement and heard my mother say “There’s a (?) in the house!” followed by “You can’t kill it with a broom!” She came upstairs to find a bat on the premises and my father holding a broom–he would have wrecked all the furniture in the house before he got the bat.
Fortunately the bat landed on a towel in the bathroom and my mother put a large salad bowl over it, then made my father go outside and open the bathroom window, whereupon she threw bowl, bat, and towel out. I think we still use the bowl and the towel but the bat hasn’t been seen since.
Next Monday, I’ll tell you about Derringer, the raccoon that learned about the cat door and started helping himself to the kitchen cupboard contents every night.
lieu, that photo screams “dentist” to me. Uncomfortably so. 
Still at work. Busy, but found time to fire off an email to the medical technology department - they have 7 (seven!!) positions posted right now. And although I don’t have an MT degree, some of the positions say they’ll accept a bachelor’s in a related science… maybe I can get my foot in the door while they’re desperate. 
When we lived in Cottonfield County, NC, we would get bears (**N. O. Swampy ** or Chaos) that would raid the trash trailer about once every 2 months. They’d leave a trail of garbage through the yard as they carried the bags off to wherever they hid.
F$@*ing bears.
One night last week the lightning bugs were all up in the trees everywhere, not at ground level. So they really did look like Christmas trees. I tried to take digital photos or video of it but nothing came out.
I’m trying to remember exactly what it was about that AFV shot, something like a little kid that got a firefly in his mouth and you could see his cheeks periodically light up.
Morning! Coffee is kicking in!
I am headed to the depths of Arkansas tomorrow then next week we go to OKC officially. Living in temp accomodation then vacation then fully moving the second week of August. Phew! Busy few weeks ahead.
We have lots of bats round here. Keeps the bugs down!
I have never seen a lightening bug
:smack: I just got the nickname. Between the non-intuitive nicks and the changed usernames we need a canonical list.
Anyway, Happy Birthday Soapy!
Oh and Bob, I almost linked to a picture, but I’m at work and they might disapprove, even if it’s just parts.
Yeah, Ivory Soap. There were others (blanking on them now) but that one stuck.
I need a list of the changed usernames. That’s throwing me for a loop!
**N.O.L.**time post! Munchin’ on a bbq poke sammich and some chips. MMMMMM… leftover bbq poke!
That is all.
Forgot earlier…Happy Birthday Soapy!
mmmmmmmms I live in Arkansas! Drink a beer somewhere for me.
Happy Soapy Day!!!
I left work a little early today and got the official cashier’s check which I then exchanged for my personal check at the title company. So that’s all official.
I also got an “award” from my boss - the plastic “Knight’s Cup” that was designed to be a morale builder. Let me tell you the tale…
One of the items on our command’s crest is the knight from a chess set. After one of the touchy-feely management offsite events, they came up with this brainstorm that involved calling the employees the Knights and as such, when we did good at something, our bosses could reward us with a “chalice” in the form of a plastic cup. They came up with some hokey crap to make it seem like something we would be proud to achieve. But everyone pretty much mocked the idea, especially me. I always said I’d refuse to accept one. Yes, I have one now, and I did accept it in the spirit in which it was offered - pure snark. And because I love my boss. Plus I found out it comes with 59 minutes! 
So, here’s the Front, and here’s the Back. Seriously. These were given out to ADULTS, some of whom had PhDs, many of whom had multiple degrees. Seriously. The back is the best part… <snerk>
As to the OP, living in the boonies, we see all kinds of wildlife - raccoons, possums, snakes, skunks, fox, hawks, too many deer, bunnies, groundhogs, and my favorite - bald eagles. Down at our marina, we also see osprey, ducks, and swans on top of the water, crabs and jellyfish and assorted other fish in the water. And lightning bugs galore these days. And I think I’ve seen bats. And of course, the wild, feral Amish… Nature rocks!!
MOOOOOoooM I am dying here looking at your chalice. The only thing that’d make it better is using the same word for the “K” and “N”, rather than lumping both of them into one word.
Or wait, is it formatted that way cuz that’s how a knight moves? Am I putting too much thought into this?
They had to work hard for that acronym, Moomm!!! How dare you snerk and snark all over the KNIGHTHOOD! Shame on you!
::straight face breaks down::
Bwa-ha-haa!! That is the tackiest thing I’ve ever seen.
c-bear - it’s formatted that way because whoever came up with it was an idiot!
**Rebo **- you are a woman of impeccable taste!
**FCD **just got home. Supper will be Amish corn on the cob and salad. And ice cream for dessert. Very healthy.
Since the OP is about critterage, I thought I’d share this video of aredneck duck hunting school with y’all. It’s quite sophisticated by Cottonfield County standards.