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30.3.21

Helping Migratory Birds

 Some migratory birds fly as much as 90,000 km every year; they definitely merit a little kindness and consideration, and safe places to nest.



27.3.21

Waking up Can be Hard to Do

It can be hard to remember what you are, or what your various appendages do, when you wake up too early in the morning. 



26.3.21

Baseball Bats

 Take me out to the ballgame,

Take me out to the crowd

Buy me some peanuts and crackerjack,

I don't care if I never get back....

--Jack Norworth, Albert von Tilzer



23.3.21

Robots Just Want to Have Fun

 You just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.

--Isaac Asimov



22.3.21

Giraffe Stroller

 The average height of a baby giraffe at birth is about 1.8 metres (6 feet).

--GiraffeConservation.org



21.3.21

Sunday Afternoon

 There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

--Homer



18.3.21

Spaghetti

 Commander Vimes always says that when life hands you a mess of spaghetti, you just keep pulling until you find a meatball.

--Terry Pratchett



16.3.21

Wee Beasties

 Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,

O, what a panic's in thy breastie!

--Robert Burns



14.3.21

Gamers

There may be more beautiful times, but this is ours.

--Jean-Paul Sartre.  (...peut-ȇtre en est-il de plus beaux [temps] mais c'est le nôtre.)



12.3.21

Chocolate is an Intergalactic Treasure

 One hundred grams of milk chocolate is an excellent source of riboflavin, vitamin B12, and the dietary minerals manganese, phosphorous, and zinc. Chocolate is a good source of calcium, magnesium and iron. 

--from Wikipedia. 



6.3.21

Things to Do on the Weekend

 Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.

--Paul Terry



Sweet Dreams!

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

--Anthony Burgess 



5.3.21

A Vision of Summer

 Crush winter, see it driven before you, hear the lamentation of the snowmen!



2.3.21

The Hat

 One of the first pictorial depictions of a hat appears in a tomb painting from Thebes, Egypt, which shows a man wearing a conical straw hat, dated to around 3200 B.C. 

--Wikipedia



1.3.21

Beware the Art!

 Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

--Duke Ellington