How about this dive?
…Anybody want to join me for a cold one?
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Don’t let the name of the place scare you…
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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May the 4’s be with you
Froggy Bottom Lounge
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Clean tables and another round for everyone!
I’m watching the last part of Babe, where he’s working the sheep in the Sheepdog trials. It’s such a feel good movie.
I saw that in the theater with CBtE 3 times…it’s a great movie.
I left you a reply regarding Shelby Lynne and Frou Frou.
I think I saw Babe in the Theaters about three times as well.
One of my favorite movies.
Thanks for reminding me I have to go put water in our pond from one of the old scuzzy rain tanks that we don’t use for household water. It’s down to a soupy mud and full of paddymelon prints from last night.
All of the other ponds in the neigborhood, that never dry up, have dried up. Drought, what drought?
It’s gonna be a really bad year for critters. Even two of our orchid species haven’t come back this year and the two that did bloom only lasted a week or so.
Send rainy thoughts our way.
I heard somewhere that the Australian drought was the worst in a century. That’s saying something for Australia.
I’d be happy to share our wet with you. Puget Sound is in the Pacific North Wet you know. LOL I’m sure all our rain at sea level means a ton of snow in the mountains….IF….we ever get to see the mountains again…
That was a good movie. I should have my wife go hunt it up. My son’s kids are apparently over at the house just waiting for me to get home and I don’t know if they’ve ever seen it.
We really like good “kids” animation movies. Our collection includes:
Shrek 2
Lilo & Stictch
The Muppet Movies
Chicken Run
Antz
A Bug’s Life
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
Monsters, Inc.
And those are just the “offical” copies.
We just rented “Over the Hedge” and had to watch it two days back to back. I’m sure that too will be added to the collection once the price comes down.
I really liked Chicken Run.
We’ll pick up Shrek when it makes it to the $9.95 display. DVD’s are very expensive here. About $30AUD for intitial releases down to $10 for things that have been out for a few years. They still want at least $15 for flops, if they were recent.
So we tend to watch the sale tables a lot.
As another example, something like Whedon’s “Firefly” series, which only ran 12 episodes, cost $60 for a four disk set.
Welcome to the non-US market.
But worth every last cent.
Especially since the set contains two or three episodes that were never aired on TV.
We get movies from the library, no cost. But, I would own Shrek.
Heck, when I was in China, the music store tried to sell us American artists for waaaaaay cheap. We saw many knock-off products in China. My husband bought “Nick” socks. They were awful and survived only two washings.
Our Library doesn’t carry many DVDs, and they are usually so scratched they won’t play on our computer (we don’t have a TV).
We have most of those too. The soundtrack to the first Shrek movie is our favorite road trip cd.
I haven’t seen “Garden State,” although I frequently consider it in the video store. Should I?
I liked it. It’s a little weird, but it has the best soundtrack.
Worth renting.
Did you see my response in the old cafe?
yep
I have to go pick up CBtE and his buddies…but I’m coming back. Save my seat?
Hey CabinGirl, do you have any more pics from the PA-08 party? I’m currently writing my entry on it.
I posted the best ones (I added some more Wednesday morning). Feel free to copy them from my diary.
but, I love your new sig. line. I think we need t-shirts that say that.
Thanks. It feels good to be able to finally use it. 🙂
ask and you shall recieve. LOL
Impeachment
I just realized I haven’t even started dinner yet. I’ve got to whip up some fast.
Back in a minute.
Is this the definition of Fast Food FM style?
I say as fast as FM is going to get. 😉
Finally, I can slow down on grading papers as I am just about caught up. I hope I’m not alone here.
I’m here (though only half-awake).
Long week?
Yeah but mostly it seems like I never caught up the no-sleep I got election night.
What’s the subject of this batch of papers?
from NPR. There’s an on-line curriculum, which is just wonderful. The theme for the first 1/4 of the year is “What I believe and why,” so it fits perfectly.
I couldn’t watch all the election results, I was too scared.
I love that segment on NPR. Mostly the essays make me cry – either happy or sad tears, depending. 🙂
My students were really into ready and listening to the ones on line.
I always enjoy those essays — sounds like a great assignment. I hope you’re getting some thoughtful essays from it.
I was too scared not to watch. I’m still sort of stunned at how well it turned out.
The curriculum allows for several different lessons, building up to writing essays. We’re in those beginning stages.
I was stunned at the results. I worked a phone bank on Monday and part of Tuesday, so I felt like I was doing something.
How are the lessons structured?
The lessons are broken up in to 6 or 7 sections and I get to choose how many days I spend on each. My class is American Literature, so I have had Huck Finn to squeeze in, too.
Anyway, each step coaxes the students into exploring his or her own personal beliefs. It’s a good pace for my regular classes. My Honors class moves at a much quicker pace.
It sounds interesting. I hope it turns out well. And if not, well you can just be “mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.”
I’m here for another minute or two.
See the Dog Blog to catch up on discussion.
Meet “Slack Eddie.”
Let’s get Refinish to whip up a T-shirt for us. How about a small colony of wombats napping flat on their backs, belly up and legs akimbo? I still think we need the cubic scat to be a symbol for something.
FM surrounded by a small colony of wombats, all of whom are crashed on sofas.
LOL I will be glad to do a design.
Is he/she your baby?
I took this photo of “Eddie” at Bonorong wildlife park a few years ago. He has doubtlessly been released into the wild by now.
Tasmania is a hilly island, and roads run through lots of densely wooded areas. This, along with the general indifference of the driving public, causes lots of auto-animal collisions. If the “joey” of a female survives (and someone stops and checks), it is often taken to a wildlife park where it is raised, and then, if possible, released. Also, some of the more responsible hunters will hand in vialble joeys if they shoot a mum. Wallabies, a mid-sized kangaroo, are so numerous that their hunting is not regulated in Tasmania and many people shoot them to feed the meat to their dogs (including people I know). Also, “Roo” is commercially sold as dog food.
While we were talking to the guy at the desk in Bonorong yesterday a man walked in with a paddymelon joey in a pillow case.
You know I remember seeing on TV that in Australia rabbits were brought in there and they are now in epidemic proportions. Did this ever happen in Tasminia too?
We have rabbits in Tasmania, and unfortunately as of a couple of month ago, on our place. We’re thinking of getting a rifle to shoot them, cute as they are.
Rabbits were literally a plague species here. To control them the government uses “germ warfare” in the form of Calicivirus and Myxmatosis. This cut back the rabbit populations by about 90%. It’s also why Albert is not allowed out-of-doors, as they are both spread though mosquito bites. We vaccinate him for Calici, but they won’t allow vaccinations for myxo, should the resistance get carried back into the wild populations.
Poor Albert. I didn’t know about the “germ warfare”. It almost sound similar to heart worm down here, with the exceptioin that I do get George a vaccination. I would hate to think with our mosquito problems down here that George couldn’t be protected.
Fortunately, we live in a dry area where mosquitos are few. And from the looks of it, this year they’ll be non-existent.
I always gave my dogs a heartwormer when I lived in the States. Heartworm is rare in Tasmania.
Our other major pests in Tasmania are feral cats. We have currently have two slinking about our place. I’ll live trap them and take them to the cats home. If they were socialized but abandoned they can usually rehab them. If they were born feral, then they just put them down.
The reason cats have become such a problem here is that Tasmania has no natural predators (like coyotes, Red-tailed Hawks, or Great-horned Owls) that would keep them in check. Our one large predator, the Tasmanian Tiger, was wiped out in the thirties by bounty hunters. Tasmanian devils are actually scavengers, and not quick enough to run down prey. Our one eagle species, the Tasmanian Wedge-tail Eagle (the largest eagle in Australia) is down to 70 breeding pairs. The largest hawk is a harrier. On top of that, the weather is mild. So, you can see why this is a haven for introduced species.
I saw something on the Discovery channel about the Tasminian Tiger and how it became extint. It showed a picture of one of the last ones killed. So sad to think I’m part of a species that makes other species extinct.
For some reason I’ve always thought of Tasmania as a wild and wolly place like I think of Borneo. Just talking to you has shown me it’s a lot more settled than I thought.
Large chunks of Tasmania, mostly in the Southwest, are still largely inaccessable (21% of Tasmania is park lands). But those areas are very mountainous and often above the tree-line. Not Tas Tiger country.
Although they got the name from their stripes, Tasmanian Tigers would have been more accurately called “marsupial wolves,” as that is the niche they inhabitated. They used to be on the Australian mainland as well, but died out there about four thousand years age due to competition with the introduced Dingo.
The last known Tassie Tiger died in 1936 in the Hobart zoo. They have film footage of that one, and several stuffed Tassie Tigers, at the Natural History Museum.
Now that you mention it I do remember them mentioning wolf. From the picture I remember it did look like a wolf.
You know I think the Wombat favors me with the big nose and hairy ears.
“Salck Eddie”, every house should have one. 🙂
Here’s another photo of Eddie (who is undoubtably a boy).
One of Imogen’s favorite children’s books is Diary of a Wombat.
The first four pages are viewable here.
Now I’ve got to figure out how to incorporate the picture of “Slack Eddie” into my web page. That is if you don’t mind me borrowing it.
More from Diary of a Wombat.
After “Hav[ing] decided that humans are easily trained and make quite good pets,” she describes her encounter with the welcome mat thus: “Discovered flat, hairy creature invading my territory. Fought major battle with flat, hairy creature. Won battle. Neighbors should be pleased. Demanded a reward.”
It sounds and looks like a wonderful childrens book, so down underish. 🙂
Perfect! Adorable! And so slackerly!
As I said, that’s my boy. 🙂
Speaking of critter, I went to check on something outside and came back to the house to find Luna dancing around a Copperhead snake. Thankfully, she knows what “leave it” means.
After I secured the dog and put on leather gloves and rubber boots I dug it out of it burrow. Which is right under where Luna usually sleeps.
The Copperhead is “[a] dangerously venomous snake with neurotoxic venom, capable of killing an adult human if correct first aid is not applied.”
I’m not ashamed to admit I had to change my knickers after digging it out and catching it.
Thankfully I aquired many years of snake catching practice before moving to an island where all of the snakes are poisonous.
I would have had to change mine after running away as far and fast as I could.
If it had headed off into the bush I would have let it go. But it headed under the ice plant that Luna sleeps in at night. And when I went to see if I could find it under there I discovered it retreating into its burrow. Dogs and snakes do not mix, so one of them had to leave.
Besides, at that point I was armed with a shovel.
Are these Copperheads the same as the ones in the Ozarks?
From me: There must be many tired jokes about Tasmania being where the St. Francis left the snakes when he drove them out of Ireland. If there aren’t, let me start one.
No, they are not related. Just similarly colored.
I haven’t heard any jokes to that effect, so feel free to write them.
We only have three species of snake. It’s just that one is mildly- and two are hugely-poisonous.
I’m with Teach on that one.
I missed the earlier Happy Hour so I thought I’d post these here.
(As soon as I posted the earlier comment about a drought, a heavy thunderstorm kicked up here. It’s the kind of coincidence you could build something out of with some energy and paranoia. I have neither, so I note the event, post my list, and am heading off to bed.)
Lost in the Supermarket, The Clash
The Weight, The Band
Sail Away, Randy Newman
Ring of Fire, Johnny Cash
Badlands, Springsteen
Jungleland, Springsteen
Dear Mister Fantasy, Traffic
Layla, Derek and the Dominos
Woke Up This Morning, A3
Spoonful, Willie Dixon
I need to get my other CDs loaded.
See you later, Night Owls
See ya Teach.
Night everyone, I think sleep has finally hit me.