So, I’m out there in the darkest place I can find while still being able to hear the music from the CD player on the back deck, carefully placed between the chicken house and garage to block the “on all the time” lights from the houses next door to witness the meteor shower.
Not too much action, I see a few streaks up in the Northeast sky. But some lights go off next door and by now its really dark. “Country Dark”. Even with my eyes adjusted to the dark, its f-in’ dark! Milky Way is blazin’ up above!
I hear the back door open. I hear “thrump-thrump-thrump-thrump” and “jingle jangle jingle” then … BAM! Like a T-shirt cannon to the chest, I get NAILED by the Slick Black Devil!
Goddamn Mini Doxie. I weighed her afterward, and she is 10lbs of solid muscle. Not a gram of fat on this beast. She runs about Mach 2 and launched herself at me out of the pitch black night and nearly knocked me out of my chair. I was lucky to not spill my beer. She tried to lick me with her filthy 9-inch tongue then she curls up in lap like she’s been there all night!
I have fantasies of adopting a huge Great Dane and a pair of mini-doxies some day.
I would acclimatize the Great Dane to wearing a sling around his middle, and train the mini-doxies to hide in it and leap out and run to me when I say “Fire One! Fire Two!”
Sounds like you took a canine torpedo there yourself.
There was a little pack of doxies at the dog beach the other day (full-sized ones…uh, I guess large? lol) Three of them, to be exact.
Their toy was a red rubber ball, about the size of a soccer ball. Clearly they can’t pick this thing up with their mouths, all they can do to is stand in a triad around the ball and push it with their noses and chests. And bark. They can bark at that red ball like nobody’s business! And if they push it into the water far enough they can bark at it from the shore until someone goes and retrieves it for them.
What is with the “lights on ALL the time” people? Gah. I like to appreciate the night sky once in a while. Even on non-meteor shower evenings. Here’s to the Dark Sky people.
I saw only about 7 on Monday night. And about that many satellites.
Tonight, she literally “Drove her Enemies before her” (Jackrabbits). I took them running at “Dog O’clock” like always, except this time the bigger one didn’t want to run. Hurt foot or some such excuse. Anyway, the Slick Black Devil is set loose in the waist high scrub bushes while I drive alongside on the series of dirt roads out behind the house. (Hafta drive! This creature can maintain a 13mph run for over a mile, and has been clocked at 21 in a dead sprint- strictly unscientific, and while drinking beer) Well, I look over and I see at least 2, maybe 3 Jackrabbits tearing off to the south, parallel to the car, and there is a flash of Black Death every now and then between the bushes.
I had to turn off the radio, because I could swear I heard the lamentations of their women!
:rolleyes:I went a long way for that joke…
No clue. Out where I live, the only thing the lights do is attract moths. The guy to the west doesn’t even live there, so I guess I can just go over and unscrew his lightbulb. But its a long walk.
If you use a yellow light bulb it doesn’t attract the bugs.
We have motion detection lights so we don’t do the light pollution thing. One of our neighbors seems to have aircraft landing lights on all the corners of his house. Maybe he is worried about aliens not finding him? :eek:
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