- 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.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Odds and Ends
Just some random thoughts for the morning.
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.
ReplyDeleteI 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"?
I was watching some of the space shuttle prep last night.
ReplyDeleteSealing the crew hatch looks a lot like a safe cracker working in reverse.
It's not a project unless it requires two trips to Home Despot.
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A chain cutter sounds like a logging tool.
ReplyDeleteAnon - this project took three trips. Jackpot!
ReplyDeleteJedi - Awesome comment. I'd never looked at it that way.
ReplyDeleteA random thought....from ME? Pshaw.
ReplyDeleteOk.....one popped up.
The difference between the San Diego Zoo and the White House?
One has an African Lion...
And vice-versa.
Well, I guess it's OK to be catty here at The Scratching Post.
ReplyDeleteAin'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.....
ReplyDeleteReminds me of high school: you were either a known slut, or an accused lesbian.
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.
ReplyDeleteBuying 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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