I meant to post this yesterday, but I got distracted.
Though, they say their friendship can’t last once the tigers start eating meat. I guess they’ll see their former friends as lunch instead?
Wouldn’t you think that if they were raised together, the tigers would view the orangutans as weird-looking tigers rather than snacks?
Well, it’s still really cute for now. Check out the slideshow to see photos of the little guys!
Last month, I wrote about my neighbors suspecting something was living in their attic.
A week or two ago, they discovered it was indeed a raccoon . One morning, they caught him climbing up a very small tree to get onto their roof. I don’t think they’ve found the hole yet, but they had been finding insulation scattered in the yard on a regular basis.
Since the quote from the exterminator was $700, they decided to try to catch it. They rented a humane trap from Animal Control.
On the first night, they caught an opossum. Animal Control came out this morning and released it.
Tonight, the trap was set out on the roof. Unfortunately (for the raccoon), he must have started freaking out once he was trapped, and the cage slid off the roof and onto the ground.
Poor little guy. Now that he’s trapped, I feel bad for him! He’ll be stuck in the cage all night until Animal Control can get him in the morning.
Yet when they’re invading your property, you see them as the bad guy.
We haven’t had any “break-ins” (knock on wood), but they show up in our yard often. Once a raccoon was walking through our yard when we had about six people sitting on the deck — that party quickly moved indoors!
I haven’t seen the caged raccoon, but my husband went over. Not intentionally to see the raccoon — my neighbor called him, and told him he had to show him something!
Not nearly as gruesome, but reminds me of the time my husband asked me if I wanted to see something cute.
As I walked over to the sliding glass door to look outside, he said “Oh, and by cute I mean disgusting.”
Meadow, the stray cat that lives in our yard, had killed a mouse. The mouse was on the step, and the cat was curled up beside it!
So I was at my local running shoe store this afternoon, trying to find a new pair to start breaking in for the marathon. I have plenty of time, but I don’t really like my current pair for longer runs, and I don’t like the new model of my previous shoes, so it might take a couple tries!
While I was lacing a pair up, a woman walked up to the counter with a return.
Not unusual, I had actually just returned two pairs that I bought the previous week. Many runners, especially those prone to problems (like my knee), will try the shoes out on a treadmill for a mile or so before committing.
Most stores won’t take them back if you’ve run in them outdoors. Some will, but I would feel guilty doing that since they probably can’t sell them if they’ve gotten dirty or the soles are a bit worn. So I always take them for a test drive!
Anyway, this women asked the manager if it was OK if she didn’t have the receipt. She explained how she probably had it at home. This store does track your purchases in their computer, so I guess she figured they’d have a record that she did indeed just buy these shoes from them.
The manager opened the box, seeing a pair of Brooks shoes in an Asics box. She told him that she had the box at home, but she wore the new (Brooks) shoes into another store, tried on the Asics and liked them better, and left that store wearing her new Asics. The clerk at the second store put her “old” shoes into the new shoebox.
So …
The manager explained to her that he wouldn’t be able to sell them without the box, but apparently she couldn’t be bothered to go home and get the box.
He did take them back, though. I hope she didn’t get the full amount!
Man claims record for most squat thrusts
New Yorker achieved his goal on the back of an elephant in Thailand
This article caught my eye today. Actually, a different version of the same article caught my eye, because it had a catchier headline (“Man does 40 squat thrusts on elephant”), but that article wanted me to register to read it.
So, 52-year-old Ashrita Furman decided he could beat the previous world record of squat thrusts in a minute, which had been 30. The previous record did not involve an elephant.
“To me the real beauty of this record is that I did it on the back of a live elephant,” he said. “I’ve had this dream of doing a record on the back of an elephant for many, many years but I’ve had no way of really accomplishing it until I came to Thailand.”
Hmm … now, has anybody else been dreaming of setting a record while on the back of an elephant? Or, for that matter, been dreaming anything involving an elephant?
Funny, though, the photo I posted in my previous post was taken while riding an elephant at the circus!
So I recently touched on the subject that I suffered through an awkward stage. I know, not unusual for adolescents.
I blame the majority of my downfall/self-esteem issues for the gigantic, ugly glasses I hid behind for years. Now, I will not be posting the worst of the worst. This is a decent sample photo:
I’m still kind of cute here. This is the summer of 1986, the summer before sixth grade. I was 11.
In sixth grade I decided I needed to cut hideous bangs so I could attempt to feather them. After the bangs came a fully-layered horrible haircut, complete with wings. (I stayed away from layers for a LONG time after growing that out!). I’m not ready to share those with the Internet, yet.
Anyway, back to the glasses. I was inspired to post this photo after viewing a recent post by Zandria, where she sported a pair of very similar glasses!
It got me thinking. Following these glasses, I had several other pairs of equally large frames. I believe I was told I needed large glasses in order to support my coke-bottle thick prescription.
Was it really necessary? Did somebody find it funny to make little, poor-sighted girls balance extremely large specs on their small noses? Was it just the evil style trends of the 80s?
Thank goodness for contact lenses and the thin lenses they can make now! I still don’t love wearing glasses, but at least when I have to, they don’t cover my entire face!