Budgie Smugglers #2

Yesterday I posted about the budgie smugglers who have increased our local population of budgerigars. I was taken to task because I did not specify just how budgies are smuggled here in Australia. This gives a clue. Here is a budgie being smuggled! And here are another couple of budgies being smuggled. This explanation has [...]

Juke Box 1960

Go on, click on the juke box. You know you want to.

Thought For The Day

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. ~ George Aiken

Budgie Smuggler

Yesterday I had only three budgerigars. This morning someone smuggled in several hundred more because they all came for a pre-breakfast drink at our little pool behind our house. The red earth was swamped in green. Budgies are flighty critters who never stay in one place for very long. They arrive on the surrounding branches, [...]

Four of Clubs

The Clown

A clown moved into an apartment building for circus performers. He was quite happy with the apartment. But he had one complaint: There was no ironing board. The clown called the building superintendent to ask for an ironing board. The superintendent refused to provide one. “But, the acrobats and the lion tamers all have ironing [...]

Three Little Budgerigahs

Sitting on a wire. One flew away and then there were two.

Tuesday Tune

Whoo hoo – I’ve finally been able to get the Tuesday Tune back on Tuesday!

What is Your Seduction Style?

Your Seduction Style: The Charmer You’re a master at intimate conversation and verbal enticement. You seduce with words, by getting people to open up to you. By establishing this deep connection quickly, people fall under your power. And then you’ve got them exactly where you want them! What Is Your Seduction Style?

Pigeon Post

Latoya Jackson

Sick Indian

An Indian consulted his medicine man about a pain in his stomach that had persisted for three months. “For something as long as that,” said the Medicine Man, “I have a more drastic remedy than the herbs I normally prescribe. Chew on this leather thong every day. It is 31 inches long: chew one inch [...]

Grandma’s Life #15

From Good Housekeeping, July 1947. Burgled from Vintage Scans

God and Religious Belief

Photo Hunt; Free Week

So I can choose any photo I like from my collection. I decided to use this one as a warning to visitors that the desert is a dangerous place. Especially if you are walking on the sand. The Desert Shark is not publicised for obvious reasons but we do lose a number of careless tourists [...]