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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Odds and Ends

Just some random thoughts for the morning.

  • Humans are uniquely capable of compassion towards other species. You never see a cat rescue a lizard from another cat. As intelligent as they are, you never see a dolphin rescue a sea urchin from an otter.

  • The best kind of home improvement project is one where you have to buy a tool you didn't already own in order to complete it. My recent exercise in hanging staghorn ferns required me to buy a bolt cutter. Yay! Now I have a bolt cutter!

  • You can give a cat access to the outside, but you cannot make her exercise. Our Maximum Leader has a cat door into the side and back yards and frequently has the Catican's main door open to the front yard. She still prefers to snooze inside.

  • Housecats don't understand about coyotes. Our Maximum Leader really wants to be in the front yard at night, the one place she's not allowed to go for her own safety. I can't seem to explain it to her.
There. Any random thoughts from you?

11 comments:

  1. Here's a question: You bought a bolt cutter to cut chains. I have a bolt cutter, which I mostly use to cut chains. I've seen lots of other people cut chains with bolt cutters.

    I have never seen anybody actually cut a *bolt* with bolt cutters. And, in fact, in most of the cases where you want to cut a bolt, a bolt cutter really can't get at the bolt anyway, and you're better off cutting the bolt with a cold chisel.

    So, why aren't they called "chain cutters"?

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  2. Jedi Knight Ivyan7:52 AM

    I was watching some of the space shuttle prep last night.

    Sealing the crew hatch looks a lot like a safe cracker working in reverse.

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  3. Anonymous8:07 AM

    It's not a project unless it requires two trips to Home Despot.

    (ducksher)

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  4. A chain cutter sounds like a logging tool.

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  5. Anon - this project took three trips. Jackpot!

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  6. Jedi - Awesome comment. I'd never looked at it that way.

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  7. A random thought....from ME? Pshaw.
    Ok.....one popped up.

    The difference between the San Diego Zoo and the White House?

    One has an African Lion...

    And vice-versa.

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  8. Well, I guess it's OK to be catty here at The Scratching Post.

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  9. Ain't no makin' some folks happy-- Suburban Banshee has a big post up basically saying that folks complain because "all" the girls in the Olympics wear tight cloths, get topless shots, generally act like hoochy-mammas... now that there's a tomboy, they're complaining she's not a woman.....

    Reminds me of high school: you were either a known slut, or an accused lesbian.

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  10. My parents used to live in Yellowknife, NT in Northern Canada. They had this huge cat who once scared a pack of wolves away from my parents' trailer. In a fight, he would have gotten is rear handed to him, but I guess he could his and growl well enough to convince the wolves it wasn't worth it.

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  11. Buying our first house was even better than a single project. We got to buy ALL KINDS of things at the hardware store. Having no yard, and landlords to fix everything kinda makes a person not need many tools. Now we've acquired a lawnmower, caulking gun, garden hose, just to get started!

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