When Dearie arrives, I’d like to know what the manatee sounded like. High pitched, low pitch?

FITZ!

And how are you tonight Tut?

Where are my manners.

fizzle. Hi Tuez and CT.

Not quite, Loo Hoo…! ;-)

Aloha, Loo Hoo and tuez…! *g*

Hi Loo

*heh* Waiting for the man to rendition my Peacenik okole, tuez…! ;-)

Granted this comes from the discussion downstairs, but is it true that when a snowy owl landed in Honolulu this year it was shot, because it was at the airport? I read that awhile back and it made me sick.

Hello it’s me…

The manatee sounded soulful…. had a range of sounds. I’m telling you, it was an inter-species love fest. It was not squeaky or growly…just these lovely notes in response to my daughter’s beautiful voice. I think the whale sound lady is named Patricia Sun….if you ever hear of her coming to your area, go hear her. She filled a huge church with tones that just resonate into one’s soul. The manatee was like that.

why was it shot?

I think you are safe for the time being, as long as you stay home.

Wow, hadn’t heard about it, but, it wouldn’t surprise me, Hickam AFB shares the same tarmac and they do shoot the fowl…! 8-(

So it sounded like a whale or dolphin?

Oh wow! That is lovely! Heh CT!

Oh, and HI CT. What’s cookin’ in Paradise?

Aloha, Dearie…! I did post a pic on my FB wall…! ;-)

It was at the airport and large birds can cause massive, expensive damage if they get sucked into an engine. Think of the Hudson flight with the geese. I’ve seen first hand what an eagle does to a jet engine.

But something as rare as a snowy owl in Hawaii, it’s just sickening. They could have captured and released.

Aloha, Christine…! Glad ya liked it…! How’s Ohio tonite…?

What’s on my mind: accelerating the goodness in life, decelerating the badness, and dumping any preconception that might have ever existed in my mind that American society and the socioeconomic establishment ever might have represented or been a beacon of hope for the working man. It’s an odd place we live in, fine people in a sub-cellar buried beneath a pit of snakes. Leary must have been right, finally.

I think dolphins are chirpy…. the manatee was more of a “lowing”sound. And maybe this was because it was in a zoo. I see some clips on google, but I haven’t listened to them. The whale sounds are low……from the whale lady.

Here’s a good one, CT.

Sad.

Aloha, sixgill…! Couldn’t agree more that entire sentiment…!

Hey CT, I’m off to bed. Nighters!

Forever changed…

Oh, cutie pie is enjoying his food. I made little Easter baskets for my local grandsons. Filled with stickers and baby carrots and grapes and fish crackers and a few malt-ball eggs. They were thrilled with the carrots and the grapes and ate those first. I have the best twin-grandboys in the whole world!

Love Gloria, Loo Hoo…! ;-)

I wonder if I’ve heard them and didn’t know what I was listening to. When they blow, it takes me by surprise, even when I know they are there. But manatees have a much more forceful blow than a dolphin, which has never caused me to just about fall off a seawall.

The Better Half stocked his basket with gerber’s bananas and pears, a rubber duckie, an awesome new sippie cup, baby oragel(nite and day versions) etc…! ;-)

I’m telling you, get out there and sing some low, soulful tones and see what happens.

Sweet dreams, CE…!

Fun. I didn’t get to see my babyboys do an egg hunt, but apparently they had fun at relatives house. My kids loved the egg chase into their teens.

Okay, I know where a pod hangs out, I’ll try to get there this weekend.

Oh, do report back! The only manatee I’ve ever seen was that one at the zoo.

I used to hide two dozen or so, every Easter for the kids, this was actually my first Easter that I’ve not colored any Easter eggs, I did boil me some eggs and made some deviled eggs, tho…! ;-)

It wasn’t me…

Next year you will be doing eggs again and little munchkin will laugh when he finds each one!

This is where I go to find my pod of manatees. I’ve seen them other places, but there is a marina here they seem to like.

http://www.fws.gov/merrittisland/

I’m digging all those clips of Lou and John’s tribute concert for Andy Warhol…! ;-)

*sigh* I did enjoy it while it lasted…! ;-)

‘Evening folks! Are you able to get to Lisa’s evening front page post when you click on it?

Lovely.

For some strange reason, I dye eggs every year and I don’t even have kids. I was most disappointed this year when the spousal unit didn’t partake in the festivities, once again.

However, he sure liked that creamed eggs recipe Ruth posted.

Aloha, mzchief…! Long time no see on a lln post…! ;-)

Lisa’s post did just load for me…!

One can see more wildlife there in an hour, truly au natural, then one can find in any zoo. Every time we go, we run into people from all over the world. In my mind, it’s the greatest thing NASA ever discovered, okay aside from the internet.

You always make me smile! What about Tang?

Pretty tasty recipe then…? I’m not a big fan of creamed beef or other creamed ilk…!

Where have you been hiding? Hope you have a job.

I can only get to Lisa’s 1 am post from April 9.

Is Tang even made anymore? Imagine, a whole generation growing up without Tang. What’s the world coming to?

Ya know tho, I’d be more worried about all those pythons that were released when they grew too large, than the gators and other indigenous critters…! 8-(

Tang, you mention Tang, in the middle of orange groves? What a sacrilege.

Come visit. I’ll show you “old” Florida. Not the racist old Florida but the wildlife in your backyard old Florida.

Sweet Jane…

From what I’ve read, it seems when the extra large pythons meet the extra large gators, it’s a draw. Neither lives to tell about it.

Sounds wonderful.

Hey CTuttle! I really like the spunk of the Maldives President. What a guy!

I tried again to see Lisa’s post and this time the link referral resolved correctly. Thanks FDL Tech!

He really does sound like a wonderful person. Short tenure though. I wonder what he will do next.

*heh* A real Walk on the Wild Side…! ;-)

We won’t discuss the number of Xanax I put back before learning to deal with the gator in the backyard.

I miss livin’ on the lake but not that.

Thanks FDL Tech!

Gotta luv ‘em…! *g*

when I was growing up in California it was rattlers; when I was growing up later in Texas it was cottonmouths. At least you can see gators (well, most of the time.)

I like the fact that only wild boars pose any sort of menace here in the Isles…! Most particularly the fact that there’s no snakes here…! I really hate snakes…! ;-)

We’ve got rattlers, cotton mouths, and gators. Gators do have a very distinctive call/bark/growl so at least you know they are around, even if you can’t see them.

I was always telling my husband, I’m from Jersey, what the hell do I know about gators?

When we first moved here, he didn’t believe me when I told him I’d heard a gator. I was like “it wasn’t the fuckin’ neighbor’s dog barking”, until he finally heard one. He grew up here and thought I was nuts. Until he heard one. Can’t miss it. They also always barked when the space shuttle came in. That double sonic boom must have gotten them excited.

Oh we have boars too.

You are so sheltered.

I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Rattlers, Copperheads, Cottonmouths, Sidewinders, and, others, upfront and personal, during my various jaunts…!

Do you mean that your computer’s video subsystem can’t handle the webpage display?

Wild. I went to Fripp Island maybe 25 years ago….actually quite a quiet place then. Gators all over the place, just basking in the sun. Had to remind the kids not to get their fingers or toes bitten off by the blue crabs… and not to get eaten alive by the gators. Quite an adventure.

*heh* So you think…! 8-P

Sounds like there should be an international humanitarian mission to evacuate and resettle (not just make them stateless persons) these people as an emergency fallback. I haven’t looked into it at the proper level of detail to know the answer to that question at the moment.

Well, yeah, it does sound like your paradise is pretty tame. I’ve got the goshdarned “Run! Tsunami Zone!” sign up at the end of my street. No snakes though, so I guess I’m in a wussy zone.

Perfect Day…

evening, firegods – how’s everyone tonight?

*heh* I’m at the water’s edge myself too…! And a long way to run for some higher ground…! ;-)

Aloha, PPD…! How’s your slice of Cali tonite…?

But where would they go? They were a British Protectorate until 1965…. and now? Hey, they are kind of on their own, I guess.

I don’t know. If I go to the top of this page and click the La Figa link that is what I get.

This

http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/

Or if that renders differently this

http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2012/04/09/un-dorsement-alert-rick-warren-mitt-romney-mormons-not-christians/

Used to be that we could run over the sand dunes to our east, but some freak put up chain link fencing (selfish owner!) and now we can’t get out of the zone without cars (or a bike. Note to self: Buy a bike. Now.) Cars will, of course, stack up like cord wood. How many ways can a person be fuct?

Oh yeah bet you have BIG respect for the snake people. I thought this new science discovery should KO cold any talk about the Earth only 6,000 years old and engender a wee more respect for Mother Nature:

How Titanoboa, the 40-Foot-Long Snake, Was Found
In Colombia, the fossil of a gargantuan snake has stunned scientists, forcing them to rethink the nature of prehistoric life

By Guy Gugliotta
Illustration by Paul Mirocha
Smithsonian magazine, April 2012

When I saw the article I had a flashback to the scene in the film, “Emerald Forest,” when the tribes folks are having “story time” about the Great Anaconda.

If you’re tired of weak, passive liberals who are afraid to take the fight to trhe ‘pukes, read this.

This guy is FUN and isn’t afraid to get mean.

Let’s not lose sight of the fact that Global Climate Change is also eradicating the nation with the inevitable sea level rise…! 8-(

It would work like in other situations: different countries would adopt the people until everyone’s taken care of and, yes, that means they are extended full citizen rights.

Gators like to bask in the sun. Once in a while though, they get adventurous. Scared the shit out of me. And their vocalizations travel, so you have no idea if they are 1 foot from you, in the dark, or 100 yards.

We’re a “cut above” southern cal — nothing new tonight.

Aloha, TG…! The Rudester always rawks…! ;-)

They put up a fence to keep the riff raff out, or make it impossible to park, but want the taxpayers to “fix” things after a storm. If the taxpayers can’t access the beaches the 1% can clean up after storms.

The first is La Figa’s master HTML page which is a reverse chronology of the above-the-fold part of published articles. The second is a sublink to the current article. As long as any page displays complete with images, text, etc. you should be fine.

Yes, he does. Better than every writer and diary keeper on Dkos put together.

…that means they are extended full citizen rights.

Tell that to a certain Jewish Democracy…! 8-(

Well, see, in this case WE are on the beach side…. which means the fence blocks our ability to go over the dunes to avoid a tsunami. We and our houses will be slammed up against their chain link fence. Not a pretty picture.

Yeah, how’s that working out for the Palestinians?

I admit I was just answering your first inquiry. I suffer from too much to read, too little time, and don’t read much of Lisa’s stuff.

*heh* Not a very high bar to clear there, TG…! ;-)

Just posted a new pic of the munchkin and I…! ;-)

I love The Rude One. Great writer. And, while I am a lady of delicate sensibilities (Ha!), I do enjoy his snark and profane truth. A must read. I also read Charlie Pierce, and I much admire that Charlie likes our own TBogg, who apparently offends quite a few of the more delicate readers at FDL. I am easily amused.

Agreed and GAH! Did you see these?

Oops: Unemployment in Israel ‘leaps’ by 20% overnight
Sunday, April 1 2012 | Dimi Reider

Dear Israel, This Is Why I Left
by Emily L. Hauser Apr 6, 2012 11:14 AM EDT

So the people with the beach houses are blocked from the mainland? That’s a strange take on things. It must be a west coast thing. Here we do the opposite.

I don’t think either is right.

The Huggable Buddha Boy!

What a cutey!!!!

I see some very excellent reads and try to make a point to go get it. Yes, too many good reads, too little time.

A cutie. He he!

<—- psst. I think it's the dog lovers versus the cat lovers.

Wowsers, I actually missed those articles, did you see this…

Israel Told US ‘No Attack until Early Fall’

Netanyahu refused to commit to Obama not to attack Iran before US elections.

No….we have a quarter mile of sand and then higher dunes and then 3/4 miles of wonderful strawberry fields on 24 ft of topsoil…the Oxnard Plain. I’m on the west side…the flat sands that lead to the ocean. At the end of the flat sand there’s a main road and then the fence and then the dunes and then the fields. What the heck….I think the next earthquake will liquify us first anyway! Meanwhile I can get fresh produce every day at the stands and can walk on the beach. I ain’t a’skeered.

Congrats, mzchief, on the venerable 99…! ;-)

I was making him crumple by whispering and blowing on the back of his neck…! I’m so evil…! ;-)

It’s my intention to corner my mercenary acquaintance, who has been hanging out in Bahrain recently, and just showed up here this weekend, to find out his take on what’s going down over there. He’s retired UK military.

Hmmm. I am wondering if this is the 1%ers’ coordinated disinformation program to try to keep the 99% guessing.

You have topsoil that close to the beach. That doesn’t even compute. I need to visit CA.

Bwahaha! Kids keep it real. :-)

That they do, mzchief…! ;-)

Satellite of Love…

Hey all,an Mr Tut. Aint got no snakes in these parts(the ones that aint elected)But we got moving brick walls they call moose which stand in front of your truck when your comin around a corner. Ya gotta love them cute moose.

We do have topsoil that close to the ocean. Google “Oxnard Plain”…. it’s really quite something. I didn’t believe the amount of topsoil until I saw the construction of a new harbor area. They dug and dug and dug. Fortunately, they actually took the topsoil and deposited it on other growing fields.

Thumbs up Lou Reed!

Aloha, homeroid…! Gangly buggers tho…! ;-)

–hangs head in shame–

haven’t seen real topsoil, outside of a bag or dump truck, in over 30 years.

Run roh. I heard once about some silly people putting their homes on a known polar bear migration path. Sure enough, the migration showed up at the appointed time and rumbled right through the houses eating what was in the refrigerators on the way (fortunately the humans frantically bailed out and none were eaten as polar bears are the superior hunter). Critters 1, Humans 0.

Well, come on out and you can dig in the dirt!

I’m Irish. I have most excellent digging skills.

You know, digging potatoes.

My most memorable critter up north was the wolverine, a particularly nasty varmint…! Bears are predictable in their patterns, wolverines are not…!

Wolverines!!!!!

Maybe that’s why I’ve never considered moving west, a whole different set of natives to consider.

*heh* Long live Swayze…! ;-)

I’ve never actually comprehended the “Wolverines!!!” shout-out that shows up on these toobz now and then. Just couldn’t resist.

CT, you run a great salon. I was up early to go do a new legal act that I’d never done before. I think I’ve finally come down. (I won, by the way.)

Happy, interesting and colorful dreams to all.

Niters everyone.

Is that like those who build a house on a bluff that has been eroding since time unknown and then expect the city to fix it. And i don’t ever hunt bears. We get along just fine.

Sweet dreams, Dearie…! Glad ya enjoy ‘em, Suz sets a high bar…! *g*

Sweet dreams, tuez…!

I did get to watch a wolverine once from a distance and that was a most memorable experience. But yes i trust bears,and their reactions, much more.

And i don’t ever hunt bears. We get along just fine.

*heh* Funny how that works, eh…? ;-)

Sounds like you have down the respect factor. ;-)

‘Niters good people!

Some Velvet Underground… Pale Blue Eyes…

Sweet dreams, mzchief…! It was great to see ya at lln…! *g*

Trying to catch up on days of missed reading. Sorry i am slow but nite all and keep smiling it’s about all we have left.

Well, I shall bid ya’ll another fond adieu for the evening…! Mahalo for the great conversation tonite, folks…! Btw, I did post another new ME diary earlier… Know Thy Enemy…

Aloha Oe…! *g*

It can be daunting, homeroid, and, we have no choice but to ‘grin and bear it’ these daze…! 8-(

*poof*