CRISPINS CRITTERS

[pat-tekker-cat]

Squig,
In your neck of the woods do the Bats suffer from the "brown nose virus"? Here in Vt. the population has disappeared. I hate to see that, they consumed so many mosquitos......Gary

Hi Gary...I think you might be referring to the white nose syndrome. ..it's a deadly fungus, that sadly kills...It has not hit ca yet, but I think it's just a matter of time..sad!

LAWL!, that was just too funny, for me! LOL! As in, I have known a few brown nosers, LOL! I might could call them bats, too!

Not to make light of the bat plight........
GMD, do ya'll have Martin birds up there? They'll wolf down them skeeters for you, too!

 

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[GMD52]

Pat,

the last year or so I have missed the nightly bombardment of winged mammels as they twitter for their nightly meal......gary

 

[worldtalker]

You are most certainly correct, off the top of my aging head I miss spoke....it's ashame to see a really interesting species go down the tube....but some biologists see them turning around soon, seems the virus may have run it's course.....Gary

Gary,

Nature always cleanses things in time.

 

[GMD52]

Mother Nature is the one true ruler of our environment.....the early Native Americans knew it, and worshipped her.....why can't we see that today.....Gary

 

[Crispin]

"The female of the species is more deadly than the male." rudyard kipling

 

[bill from lachine]

Crispin,

I'm not even going to touch that quote.....I'd have Barb and Pat all over me in no time....lol...

Regards + HH

Bill

 

[GMD52]

Ain't that the Gospel truth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gary

 

[squiggy]

As the saying goes..Be afraid, be very afraid! Lol!
From us females! )

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[bill from lachine]

Gary,

It's unfortunate but the weakest of the species get cleaned out every so often....as Pat said if you have purple martins they eat something like 10 times their body weight per day of insects....we have condominiums of them along the parks near the water.

Here's a song to cheer you up.

Jerry Butler - Only the strong survive.

Pat,

the last year or so I have missed the nightly bombardment of winged mammels as they twitter for their nightly meal......gary

 

[GMD52]

Bill,

I have always believed in the premise of the survival of the fittest......it's just that today the most fit are the ones less likely to survive......gary

 

[releventchair]

As the saying goes..Be afraid, be very afraid! Lol!
From us females! )

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[Mackaydon]

Since this has been a not so good week for me, I thought I'd start the weekend one day earlier. Usually, I would start it off with Todd Rundgren's video of this song. That preference has now changed to watching my neighbors having fun with the song (don't I wish !!). Music is a fast mood changer. I hope this gives you a smile as it does me.

Don....

 

[bill from lachine]

RC,

Now that's funny.....I have a story I told about the black widow spider I told to a lady coworker but me thinks
it's better not to share it here.....lol.

Regards + HH

Bill

 

[squiggy]

Oh Bill...your so bad!

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[bill from lachine]

Don,

Thanks for the tune....you've got some hip neighbors there.....I love their enthusiasm it reminds me of my misspent youth and I got tired just watching them....lol...

Regards + HH

Bill

Since this has been a not so good week for me, I thought I'd start the weekend one day earlier. Usually, I would start it off with Todd Rundgren's video of this song. That preference has now changed to watching my neighbors having fun with the song (don't I wish !!). Music is a fast mood changer. I hope this gives you a smile as it does me.

Don....

 

[Crispin]

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

The Female of the Species

WHEN the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man,
He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can.
But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws,
They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws.
'Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Man's timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say,
For the Woman that God gave him isn't his to give away;
But when hunter meets with husbands, each confirms the other's tale—
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Man, a bear in most relations—worm and savage otherwise,—
Man propounds negotiations, Man accepts the compromise.
Very rarely will he squarely push the logic of a fact
To its ultimate conclusion in unmitigated act.

Fear, or foolishness, impels him, ere he lay the wicked low,
To concede some form of trial even to his fiercest foe.
Mirth obscene diverts his anger—Doubt and Pity oft perplex
Him in dealing with an issue—to the scandal of The Sex!

But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame
Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the same;
And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail,
The female of the species must be deadlier than the male.

She who faces Death by torture for each life beneath her breast
May not deal in doubt or pity—must not swerve for fact or jest.
These be purely male diversions—not in these her honour dwells—
She the Other Law we live by, is that Law and nothing else.

She can bring no more to living than the powers that make her great
As the Mother of the Infant and the Mistress of the Mate.
And when Babe and Man are lacking and she strides unclaimed to claim
Her right as femme (and baron), her equipment is the same.

She is wedded to convictions—in default of grosser ties;
Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him who denies!—
He will meet no suave discussion, but the instant, white-hot, wild,
Wakened female of the species warring as for spouse and child.

Unprovoked and awful charges—even so the she-bear fights,
Speech that drips, corrodes, and poisons—even so the cobra bites,
Scientific vivisection of one nerve till it is raw
And the victim writhes in anguish—like the Jesuit with the squaw!

So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer
With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her
Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands
To some God of Abstract Justice—which no woman understands.

And Man knows it! Knows, moreover, that the Woman that God gave him
Must command but may not govern—shall enthral but not enslave him.
And She knows, because She warns him, and Her instincts never fail,
That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male.

 

[Crispin]

Hey everybody! I made it to silver! Any bets on how long it takes for a few threads to get deleted and me to fall back to bronze?

 

[GMD52]

Doc, More likely that you will make Gold first........gary

 

[squiggy]

Baby Winston is growing...crazy man when it comes to retrieving balls!

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[jerseyben]

For the first time ever, someone actually made it on my ignore list. Hopefully he is the only one. Hope all are well and I am glad to see Blaine back!