Am I the only person picturing an octopus dragging itself out above the high tide mark and leaving the little representation of itself on the sand, in an attempt to communicate with us?

I once was sitting in my porch chair when the squirrel took his usual route up the chair to the cross of the fence to the bird feeder. My head was in the way of his usual bounce off the back of the chair, and I discovered that squirrels have check in the mirror to see if I’m bleeding sharp claws

Update: The same road today. Easily passable in 4WD vehicles and even 2WD can get through if driven carefully

The Secret Lives of Squirrels is more appealing that the Real Housewives of anywhere, TBH.

You just *got back*. No playing “suitcase”. (I never got around to unpacking the cold weather clothing that I ended up not needing on vacation or when I got back, and stopped to make dinner before the suitcase was empty.)

I can confirm it is called a provisional ballot in the state of Ohio.

This was the same system whose cancer center branding included the name (J—- Cancer Center) is 2 foot high red letters on the waiting room walls. They eventually redecorated with soothing colors and abstract art. And then got rid of the TVs playing Fox News.

My favorite is when you are on hold for scheduling at the hospital system, the voice announcement is 50% louder than the Muzak, and the topic is HEART ATTACKS IN WOMEN. Has anyone done a study on how screaming HEART ATTACKS every 2 minutes affects blood pressure?

He does look like he wishes there was a privacy curtain…

We still had some blueberries left when we stopped to visit some friends, whose 5 year old was cranky and tired from too much swimming and low blood sugar. I realized that my husband had left a trail of blue berries next to the crying 5 year old, who was eating them and looking around for another…