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Me: "the kitchen of the guest cabin smells like a skunk died under the floor and now I'm seeing what looks like young flies all over the place inside."

Him: [silence]

Me: "when we had the dead squirrel in the den last year, how long did it take from when the smell started to when all those flies showed up?"

Him: "I don't know."

Me: "well! CSI Las Vegas would know!"

Him: "Yes they would."

Watching a Walmart ad about 100% ground beef:
Me: "That pink slime they put in ground beef is still meat, it's just squeezed within an inch of its life."

Him: [nod]

RE: the Memorial Day holiday:

Me: "tomorrow's another free day."

Him: "Sleep in"

Me: "Except you - you have to get up at 5 something to put out the bird feeders at first daylight. How much earlier do you have to set your alarm each day?"

Him: "With this equinox, it is about a minute and a half a day earlier, and gets shorter as we get nearer the solstice...it's about half a minute a day is the way it works out. and the other equinox in September it'll be about a minute and a half the other way."

Him: "The bears don't care if it's dark or light, do they?"

Me: "No, but it makes us feel like we are doing something to put the feeders out when we can see them. The bears haven't figured that out yet."


posted on May 29, 2016 7:19 PM ()

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No wonder I prefer to talk with Buster.
comment by jjoohhnn on May 30, 2016 5:38 PM ()
So do you talk to the bears when you want to talk with someone???
comment by greatmartin on May 30, 2016 9:42 AM ()
Gary gets the prize of laconic, but he is more talkative than Eloise.
comment by elderjane on May 30, 2016 6:01 AM ()
Yes, I forgot to mention that he used up all his self-imposed word quota for the day with that bit about the solstice and the bears.
reply by troutbend on May 30, 2016 8:08 AM ()
I guess I would like to see the bears watching me put out the sugar water for them. Better than knowing they are watching in the dark and not seeing them. How many bears are there anyhow?
comment by boots586 on May 30, 2016 1:57 AM ()
There is a mother bear that remembers breaking into the garage last fall because she did it again, and at least one cub: we have cub-size smears on the dining room window: two small (for a bear) front paws and a nose mark in between, and a bigger paw smear about 6 feet up on the same window. It must have been cute to see that cub peering into the house with his paws up on the window. There were two cubs last year, so maybe they are still with that mother. We haven't seen them in person this spring, and don't know whose house they are bothering now.
reply by troutbend on May 30, 2016 8:21 AM ()
Ah the monosyllables of conversation in a marriage.
comment by tealstar on May 29, 2016 8:22 PM ()
Makes the world go 'round, this world at least.
reply by troutbend on May 30, 2016 8:21 AM ()

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