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Photo Forum / Digital Photography / DSLR Cameras / May 2008Rodent
It's not often that a critter sits still and waits for me to go inside to get my camera. http://www.tfrog.com/digitals/daily/daily.htm By comparison, I guess it would be like an alien coming down and sticking a lens 10 feet wide in your face. You'd be terrified, too. dwight : It's not often that a critter sits still and waits for me to go inside to : get my camera. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] : By comparison, I guess it would be like an alien coming down and sticking a : lens 10 feet wide in your face. You'd be terrified, too. He's a field mouse, and he probably alternates between your house and a burrow in your yard, depending on the weather. It's not so much that he's scared of you as that he doesn't want you to see where he goes next. He (she?) probably has other family members that he hopes you won't notice. Bob > : It's not often that a critter sits still and waits for me to go inside > to [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Bob We had a similar critter who somehow got into our ground-level family room. Late at night, when everything was still, I'd see a shadow skirting my peripheral vision. Could never get a bead on him, until one night, when I finally corralled him, trying to herd him toward the open glass sliding door and outside. Little bugger did NOT want to leave. I know that I have a family living in the shed out back, and I always make a BIG clatter when I open the shed and check out the John Deere before firing it up. I know that they're there, because when I had the Deere taken in for service its first off-season, the shop sent back the remains of a mouse nest in a plastic bag with the tractor. I usually wait until I see one, two, three little meeces scurry along the wall and out through a hole, before I move the Deere out of the shed. This is but one problem we weren't aware of, when we moved out into the überburbs for peace, quiet, and natural beauty. dwight > It's not often that a critter sits still and waits for me to go inside to > get my camera. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > dwight How did you get the name "Dwight"? Not many of us around. I was born on the day Eisenhower was inaugurated. On Apr 27, 6:45 am, "dwight" <dwi...@XtfrogX.com> wrote: > > It's not often that a critter sits still and waits for me to go inside > > to [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > How did you get the name "Dwight"? Not many of us around. I was > born on the day Eisenhower was inaugurated. Yep, a year and a half later. I always laugh when someone tries to tag the nickname Ike on me. That had nothing to do with "dwight" and everything to do with "Eisenhower." Like I look like an Ike... dwight > > How did you get the name "Dwight"? Not many of us around. I was > > born on the day Eisenhower was inaugurated. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > nothing to do with "dwight" and everything to do with "Eisenhower." Like I > look like an Ike... Not sure I look like an Ike either. What do they look like? Bald? I'm often told to "take a 'ike". Does that count? I met one poor sucker, born before the election, in October, 1952. His parents hedged their bets and named him Dwight Adlai something-or- other. He's probably a serial killer now because of the psychological harm that caused. : > > How did you get the name "Dwight"? Not many of us around. I was : > > born on the day Eisenhower was inaugurated. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] : other. He's probably a serial killer now because of the psychological : harm that caused. A member of my class at Yale was named "Harvard Yale [his_last_name]". We called him "Yale", of course, but I bet that wouldn't have been true if he'd gone to Harvard! Obviously, his parents decided when he was born that he should be an equal opportunity kid where college admission prospects were concerned. I guess it worked. BTW, that was more than 50 years ago. Bob P.S.: I liked Ike. Others were "Gladly for Adlai". (No, I didn't make that up!!) > A member of my class at Yale was named "Harvard Yale [his_last_name]". We > called him "Yale", of course, but I bet that wouldn't have been true if he'd > gone to Harvard! Obviously, his parents decided when he was born that he > should be an equal opportunity kid where college admission prospects were > concerned. I guess it worked. I attended a college nicknamed "Harvard on the Bayou". Does that count for anything? : > A member of my class at Yale was named "Harvard Yale [his_last_name]". We : > called him "Yale", of course, but I bet that wouldn't have been true if he'd [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] : I attended a college nicknamed "Harvard on the Bayou". Does that : count for anything? I know of only two states where the word "bayou" is universally understood and used in everyday conversation: Mississippi (where I grew up) and Louisiana. So I'm guessing you're referring to Tulane. Am I right? ;^) Bob > : > A member of my class at Yale was named "Harvard Yale [his_last_name]". We > : > called him "Yale", of course, but I bet that wouldn't have been true if he'd [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Bob No, Nicholls State University, in Thibodaux, LA. The use of "Harvard" is a stretch, but Bayou Lafourche runs right in front of the campus. Where in Mississippi? : > : > A member of my class at Yale was named "Harvard Yale [his_last_name]". We : > : > called him "Yale", of course, but I bet that wouldn't have been true if he'd [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] : : Where in Mississippi? Vicksburg. > : No, Nicholls State University, in Thibodaux, LA. The use of "Harvard" > : is a stretch, but Bayou Lafourche runs right in front of the campus. > : > : Where in Mississippi? > > Vicksburg. Well, with me being so far down the bayou, and you being so far up the Mississippi, that sort of makes you a Yankee! ;-) : > : No, Nicholls State University, in Thibodaux, LA. The use of "Harvard" : > : is a stretch, but Bayou Lafourche runs right in front of the campus. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] : Well, with me being so far down the bayou, and you being so far up the : Mississippi, that sort of makes you a Yankee! ;-) I am anyway. I was born in Boston and have lived in the Boston suburbs for the past 37 years. But I went to all 12 years of public school in Vicksburg. Went back for my 50th high school reunion (a year late because of Katrina) in 2006. My brother goes back for his 50th this year. Bob > : > : No, Nicholls State University, in Thibodaux, LA. The use of "Harvard" > : > : is a stretch, but Bayou Lafourche runs right in front of the campus. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Bob Where did y'all pahk the cah? |
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