It’s much more effective when the lights are out, cos the sleepy human forgot to leave one on upstairs, and thinks she can make it up to her bedroom in the dark.
And it’s not her house, she’s just house-and-dogs(plural)-sitting … so she isn’t as familiar with the stairs as she could be… and doesn’t know that the black(of course) and very excitable dog likes to sleep on them.
I think the San are the ones that used to be called Kalahari Bushmen… I saw a film many years ago about their lives in the harsh desert.
The women stayed at their camp and survived by finding roots to eat, while the men went out as a group to hunt a giraffe, not for hours but for days, even weeks, until they wore it out. They had no weapons that would bring down an active, healthy giraffe.
They stayed well behind it, tracking it by its spoor, until it realized it was being followed, and traveled faster and faster, away from the other giraffes, until it was exhausted enough that the Bushmen could wound and kill it with their spears.
It took all the men to carry it, in parts, back to the women and children… and lasted them for weeks… I don’t know why it didn’t spoil.
My paternal grandmother was around for both… I mean, not there to see them, but remembered hearing the amazing news about the Wright brothers, when she was a teenager, and later watched the moon landing on TV.
I only ever knew one grandfather and two grandmothers, and actually only my maternal grandmother was biologically related to me… not that it mattered in my family.
Only one set of great grandparents, on my dad’s side, made it to America, or lived through the Holocaust… but they, too, died before I was born.
You can often find these throughout the Southwest United States. Often they’re accompanied by signs of a very shortened individual attempting to walk away nonchalantly. They’re sometimes accompanied by roadrunner tracks.
I remember posting a picture of a Smith Brothers box to point out that under their pictures, which are portraits of the actual Smith brothers, it says “Trade” and “Mark”.
They got called by those names for years… a lot of (not too brilliant) people didn’t even get the joke, and thought they really were named Trade Smith and Mark Smith.
Milk: If you taste it and it makes your eyes flutter, it’s “blinky milk”. Slop it to the hogs.
Butter: It was invented long before refrigeration was, it’s probably good. If it tastes too bad, slop it to the hogs.
Cheese: If it gets moldy, it’s probably great. Cut off the mold and serve it as a delicacy to a Frenchman or an Italian.
Cooked meat: Throw it into the pot that’s always simmering on the fire.
Uncooked beef: Throw it into the same pot with the peas porridge.
Produce: Throw it into the same pot, and add a stone. Call it “stone soup”. Or pickle it with salt, sugar and vinegar before it gets old.
Eggs: cook them with your ground beef, pork, and chicken, and add lots of chiles, cumin, oregano and salt. Ain’t nothing gonna live through those things.
Raw fish: Smoke it before it gets old. (Damned hippies will smoke anything)
I’ve found only two 5 pointed stars, and several 6 pointed ones that are more like a Star of David than a snowflake… and that little snow unicorn might be the star of this puzzle.
I realize they probably mean 5 pointed, but I just can’t find a third.
Then again, the bottom is cut off, so maybe more of the picture than just that is missing, including another star.
I know it’s late, but I just got around to this again….
There’s a good reason I couldn’t find the 3rd star, assuming it has to be 5 pointed.
I was right in thinking it was cut off…
Here’s the whole thing. Including star #3.
Don’t feel bad, Nighthawks… when I searched for it, I’d say half the sites had the truncated version you posted. I guess none of them actually tried it.
Beethoven jumped out of our boat once…totally unprepared. I never would have thought he’d do it – he hated water. We barely got the boat slowed down and turned around in time to grab him with the fish net….bassets really don’t swim well: only his nose was visible.
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Cleo’s probably not too enthused over the booties either.
She’s got a skirt and a stiff petticoat on… You can tell by how it doesn’t fall around her hips and knees. An awful lot of fabric with which to tempt fate.
While her bike dies have a chain guard, and I’ve ridden bikes while wearing a skirt, so I know it’s possible… usually you have to wear a skirt shorter than the fashion of that day, and still hike it up somewhat.
She may do that when the camera isn’t watching, but this looks posed. Not still, cos she’s balancing on the bike, which takes movement… But possibly momentary, for a publicity shot.
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Speed bump.
He’s a stairing contest…
Ah, the old stair block maneuver. Every dog practices it.
It’s much more effective when the lights are out, cos the sleepy human forgot to leave one on upstairs, and thinks she can make it up to her bedroom in the dark.
And it’s not her house, she’s just house-and-dogs(plural)-sitting … so she isn’t as familiar with the stairs as she could be… and doesn’t know that the black(of course) and very excitable dog likes to sleep on them.
It’s very effective that way.
I… um… heard it from ..a… friend.
Kinda hurts, doesn’t it?
The morning after one too many.
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This is true. Poor people in the south still hunt rabbits that way.
Oh Bre’r Fox, PLEASE don’ throw me in dat brier patch!
I think the San are the ones that used to be called Kalahari Bushmen… I saw a film many years ago about their lives in the harsh desert.
The women stayed at their camp and survived by finding roots to eat, while the men went out as a group to hunt a giraffe, not for hours but for days, even weeks, until they wore it out. They had no weapons that would bring down an active, healthy giraffe.
They stayed well behind it, tracking it by its spoor, until it realized it was being followed, and traveled faster and faster, away from the other giraffes, until it was exhausted enough that the Bushmen could wound and kill it with their spears.
It took all the men to carry it, in parts, back to the women and children… and lasted them for weeks… I don’t know why it didn’t spoil.
Dry heat?
That works on thin strips, to dry them out… but big chunks just spoil faster.
I think they did dry some of it… maybe they buried bigger pieces?
I probably saw it in the film but it was a very long time ago
Here’s the complete documentary – “The Hunters” (1957):
Incroyable!
My paternal grandmother was around for both… I mean, not there to see them, but remembered hearing the amazing news about the Wright brothers, when she was a teenager, and later watched the moon landing on TV.
Both grands on my mom’s side, my great grandmother and grandfather on my dad’s side.
They were all still around in 1969?
You’re lucky!
I only ever knew one grandfather and two grandmothers, and actually only my maternal grandmother was biologically related to me… not that it mattered in my family.
Only one set of great grandparents, on my dad’s side, made it to America, or lived through the Holocaust… but they, too, died before I was born.
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“Beep, beep…”
Wile E. Coyote? Sideshow Bob?
Sideshow Bob had a tail?
You can often find these throughout the Southwest United States. Often they’re accompanied by signs of a very shortened individual attempting to walk away nonchalantly. They’re sometimes accompanied by roadrunner tracks.
I’d expect to see a heavy weight, with a handle on top and a number on the side, lying nearby.
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As I had just seen this video on Bluesky, I went and got the details from the post:
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“In 1855, the French painter Victor Navlet painted Paris from a hot air balloon with an impressive level of detail. This work can be seen at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France”
Thanks… I’d thought it was a joke, cos the people were looking out a window.
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“One of us is kind of a showoff.”
Fully colorized, and just barely being started. Those old graphics cards were frustratingly slow.
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String of Pearls.
Hey, I think you missed one down at the tip.
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I remember posting a picture of a Smith Brothers box to point out that under their pictures, which are portraits of the actual Smith brothers, it says “Trade” and “Mark”.
They got called by those names for years… a lot of (not too brilliant) people didn’t even get the joke, and thought they really were named Trade Smith and Mark Smith.
Milk: If you taste it and it makes your eyes flutter, it’s “blinky milk”. Slop it to the hogs.
Butter: It was invented long before refrigeration was, it’s probably good. If it tastes too bad, slop it to the hogs.
Cheese: If it gets moldy, it’s probably great. Cut off the mold and serve it as a delicacy to a Frenchman or an Italian.
Cooked meat: Throw it into the pot that’s always simmering on the fire.
Uncooked beef: Throw it into the same pot with the peas porridge.
Produce: Throw it into the same pot, and add a stone. Call it “stone soup”. Or pickle it with salt, sugar and vinegar before it gets old.
Eggs: cook them with your ground beef, pork, and chicken, and add lots of chiles, cumin, oregano and salt. Ain’t nothing gonna live through those things.
Raw fish: Smoke it before it gets old. (Damned hippies will smoke anything)
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Somebody put a little peanut butter on top of his nose?
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Gotta absorb that vitamin D into his coat however he can. Besides, that warmth feels good!
where do you get those dog-shaped sunbeams?
This “Dogs of C Kennel” seemed appropriate.
find 3 stars
Anyone in particular?
I think I see Chilly Willy.
They need to define “star”.
I’ve found only two 5 pointed stars, and several 6 pointed ones that are more like a Star of David than a snowflake… and that little snow unicorn might be the star of this puzzle.
I realize they probably mean 5 pointed, but I just can’t find a third.
Then again, the bottom is cut off, so maybe more of the picture than just that is missing, including another star.
You got one more 5-point star than I got. Poor resolution even when I enlarged it.
Yes, it’s hard to see what’s going on with the white stars and snowflakes….
But the 2nd isn’t hard to see because of that…. It’s hard to see
It’s not a white star in the sky, it’s a blue star in the white area
Got this one thanks to your hint.
Now I’m going to look at the untruncated version you posted just below…
That little penguin is gonna be seeing stars if he lets fly that snowball.
Ok gang…
I know it’s late, but I just got around to this again….
There’s a good reason I couldn’t find the 3rd star, assuming it has to be 5 pointed.
I was right in thinking it was cut off…
Here’s the whole thing. Including star #3.
Don’t feel bad, Nighthawks… when I searched for it, I’d say half the sites had the truncated version you posted. I guess none of them actually tried it.
oops!…proving, of course , that I never attempted to solve it.
Yeah, but also proving that neither did anybody else 🙂
Yeah, but some of us DID come back…
Got the third one!
(finally!!!)
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…it’s a Lab…
“Hey! Can I join your pod?”
At least his owner expected it, and was prepared.
Beethoven jumped out of our boat once…totally unprepared. I never would have thought he’d do it – he hated water. We barely got the boat slowed down and turned around in time to grab him with the fish net….bassets really don’t swim well: only his nose was visible.
Cleo’s probably not too enthused over the booties either.
Don’t think I need to spoiler who these two are.
(Hope she doesn’t get that skirt caught in the chain…)
My same thoughts. Having been a paperboy, I’m familiar with a pantleg getting caught.
Think bell-bottoms…
She’s got a skirt and a stiff petticoat on… You can tell by how it doesn’t fall around her hips and knees. An awful lot of fabric with which to tempt fate.
While her bike dies have a chain guard, and I’ve ridden bikes while wearing a skirt, so I know it’s possible… usually you have to wear a skirt shorter than the fashion of that day, and still hike it up somewhat.
She may do that when the camera isn’t watching, but this looks posed. Not still, cos she’s balancing on the bike, which takes movement… But possibly momentary, for a publicity shot.
Her hair appears to be wind-blown and she’s squinting –an expression publicists would never let get printed
, I vote that it’s an action shot
Could be…. I did say it couldn’t be still, cos she’s balancing, not propped up.
Maybe her skirt is just short enough?
Still looks a bit dangerous!
House Finch.