Comments on: One dead beetle, hold the cheese http://www.almostgotit.com/2009/05/25/one-dead-beetle-hold-the-cheese/ So, kids are mostly raised & I've just gone back to work... Tue, 03 May 2011 14:46:12 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Almostgotit.com | Almost Perfect Strawberry Shortcake http://www.almostgotit.com/2009/05/25/one-dead-beetle-hold-the-cheese/comment-page-1/#comment-2923 Almostgotit.com | Almost Perfect Strawberry Shortcake Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:35:47 +0000 http://www.almostgotit.com/2009/05/25/one-dead-beetle-hold-the-cheese/#comment-2923 [...] weeks ago when she got out her Food that Really Schmecks Mennonite cookbook and made it for me.  Remember Plato?  She’s the one who can see bluebirds when I can only see dead beetles. But *I* have this [...] [...] weeks ago when she got out her Food that Really Schmecks Mennonite cookbook and made it for me.  Remember Plato?  She’s the one who can see bluebirds when I can only see dead beetles. But *I* have this [...]

]]> By: Almostgotit.com | Clearing the record http://www.almostgotit.com/2009/05/25/one-dead-beetle-hold-the-cheese/comment-page-1/#comment-2875 Almostgotit.com | Clearing the record Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:09:39 +0000 http://www.almostgotit.com/2009/05/25/one-dead-beetle-hold-the-cheese/#comment-2875 [...] does it help that Dante, one of my weird medievalist friends, has been spreading heinous rumors about me:  namely, that I stole a fossil from a certain [...] [...] does it help that Dante, one of my weird medievalist friends, has been spreading heinous rumors about me:  namely, that I stole a fossil from a certain [...]

]]> By: Waterjay http://www.almostgotit.com/2009/05/25/one-dead-beetle-hold-the-cheese/comment-page-1/#comment-2849 Waterjay Fri, 29 May 2009 01:10:07 +0000 http://www.almostgotit.com/2009/05/25/one-dead-beetle-hold-the-cheese/#comment-2849 One of my other blogfriends has just posted two photos she took of bluebirds in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia. Go here for a peek at them: http://huckleberrydays.blogspot.com/2009/05/bluebird-fest-in-fields-of-okanagan.html . She doesn't mention whether they eat ticks. One of my other blogfriends has just posted two photos she took of bluebirds in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia. Go here for a peek at them: http://huckleberrydays.blogspot.com/2009/05/bluebird-fest-in-fields-of-okanagan.html . She doesn’t mention whether they eat ticks.

]]> By: Bill Collins http://www.almostgotit.com/2009/05/25/one-dead-beetle-hold-the-cheese/comment-page-1/#comment-2846 Bill Collins Thu, 28 May 2009 20:42:03 +0000 http://www.almostgotit.com/2009/05/25/one-dead-beetle-hold-the-cheese/#comment-2846 Get over it, I've seen lots of bluebirds; seen two this year. They're not rare, they're reclusive, shy, maybe even sensitive. They eat ticks for breakfast lunch and dinner. Inidigo Buntings are rare. Get over it, I’ve seen lots of bluebirds; seen two this year. They’re not rare, they’re reclusive, shy, maybe even sensitive. They eat ticks for breakfast lunch and dinner.

Inidigo Buntings are rare.

]]> By: Almostgotit'sdaughter http://www.almostgotit.com/2009/05/25/one-dead-beetle-hold-the-cheese/comment-page-1/#comment-2845 Almostgotit'sdaughter Thu, 28 May 2009 17:34:55 +0000 http://www.almostgotit.com/2009/05/25/one-dead-beetle-hold-the-cheese/#comment-2845 Hey, now. You just got mad if us kids tried to complain. We aren't medievalists either, you know. Hey, now. You just got mad if us kids tried to complain. We aren’t medievalists either, you know.

]]> By: almostgotit http://www.almostgotit.com/2009/05/25/one-dead-beetle-hold-the-cheese/comment-page-1/#comment-2831 almostgotit Wed, 27 May 2009 13:37:39 +0000 http://www.almostgotit.com/2009/05/25/one-dead-beetle-hold-the-cheese/#comment-2831 <em>Plato has just informed me that she came home with two ticks, also. No comment, however, on the vision of the bluebird. </em> Plato has just informed me that she came home with two ticks, also. No comment, however, on the vision of the bluebird.

]]> By: Dennis the Vizsla http://www.almostgotit.com/2009/05/25/one-dead-beetle-hold-the-cheese/comment-page-1/#comment-2829 Dennis the Vizsla Wed, 27 May 2009 00:50:16 +0000 http://www.almostgotit.com/2009/05/25/one-dead-beetle-hold-the-cheese/#comment-2829 Perhaps Plato only saw the form of a bluebird. You know, like, a shadow on the wall of a cave. Perhaps Plato only saw the form of a bluebird. You know, like, a shadow on the wall of a cave.

]]> By: almostgotit http://www.almostgotit.com/2009/05/25/one-dead-beetle-hold-the-cheese/comment-page-1/#comment-2828 almostgotit Tue, 26 May 2009 17:21:50 +0000 http://www.almostgotit.com/2009/05/25/one-dead-beetle-hold-the-cheese/#comment-2828 <em>@Waterjay: I've seen millions of blue jays, but can't remember if I've seen K-pax. ERGO: maybe only people with photographic memories who also read Latin can see bluebirds? @S. Le: **sigh** That's it, exactly: two ticks and no sweets. What's a poor, cheese-less girl to do??</em> @Waterjay: I’ve seen millions of blue jays, but can’t remember if I’ve seen K-pax. ERGO: maybe only people with photographic memories who also read Latin can see bluebirds?

@S. Le: **sigh** That’s it, exactly: two ticks and no sweets. What’s a poor, cheese-less girl to do??

]]> By: S. Le http://www.almostgotit.com/2009/05/25/one-dead-beetle-hold-the-cheese/comment-page-1/#comment-2826 S. Le Tue, 26 May 2009 13:32:16 +0000 http://www.almostgotit.com/2009/05/25/one-dead-beetle-hold-the-cheese/#comment-2826 What? Ticks and no sweets! You'd think there would at least have been cheese! The nerve! What a crap Abbey! lol What? Ticks and no sweets! You’d think there would at least have been cheese! The nerve! What a crap Abbey! lol

]]> By: Waterjay http://www.almostgotit.com/2009/05/25/one-dead-beetle-hold-the-cheese/comment-page-1/#comment-2824 Waterjay Tue, 26 May 2009 11:11:07 +0000 http://www.almostgotit.com/2009/05/25/one-dead-beetle-hold-the-cheese/#comment-2824 Have you ever seen the movie <i>K-Pax</i>? Everyone in the mental institution gets deleriously happy at the sight of a bluebird in the quad -- even though, as the doctor points out, it's actually a Blue <i>Jay</i>. Nolite te aves carborundorum. Have you ever seen the movie K-Pax? Everyone in the mental institution gets deleriously happy at the sight of a bluebird in the quad — even though, as the doctor points out, it’s actually a Blue Jay. Nolite te aves carborundorum.

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