Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
was once eccentric.
was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell --
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Today's "Sunday Morning" wasn't all people selling something and seeking attention. It was actually pretty good. Think they heard me?
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The following video turned up by chance. I figured it was one of those waste-of-time isn't-my-pet-wonderful things. I watched the first few seconds and couldn't stop. That poor hamster. He just can't get the idea of the wheel. It's hilarious. I rarely laugh out loud at videos, but I did at this one, at about 1:40. (Don't skip ahead to 1:40 - you kind of need the buildup.)
Poor little guy. I know people like that. I think it's at a pet shop, and you just want to pick him up and hug him and tell him "It's ok, I'll take you home and love you anyway even if you are stupid. I'll protect you from the world." (Hmmmm. Maybe he's not so stupid after all. Maybe that's his PLAN!)
[http://youtu.be/1S1VhAF5lao]
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Old folks' memories.
I've been idly looking for moth balls to drop down the chipmunk holes to get them to move out before filling the holes. They aren't easy to find. Looking for them reminded me of something from my childhood.
In my youth, off-season clothes were always stored away in mothballs. Almost every late spring, someone would set up a lawn sprinkler or suggest a trip to the lake, and every late spring, as if we couldn't remember the year before, we'd pester Mom to get our bathing suits out of storage.
How many folks remember putting a bathing suit on straight out of the moth balls? Remember what happened?
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2 comments:
The closets in our house were small and when I was a kid, I shared one with my mother. Our off-season clothes were stored in an Army chest with moth balls. After all, almost everything I owned was made of wool, including my bathing suit.
Yes, I well remember the stink of them.
Try Bed, Bath and Beyond. I think I saw them the last time I was there, in the cleaning/storage section.
If the odor is all you remember, you didn't put a bathing suit on right out of the moth balls. That, or you can withstand torture better than I!
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