Excellent digressions! I've so been enjoying reading all this.
Hi MaryCat -- good luck with that poor fish. I think sideways is not good. Fishes are beautiful, but usually not long-lived pets around here (though I did have fancy goldfish that lived for years... and still live... I finally gave them away to the friend with room for a giant tank).
Can I say, now that it has gone long by, that the stories of you, Deb, in your apron, dancing all night long, and poor Fred the dead and tethered fish will long stand as pinnacles to the life stories that are always so much better than fiction.
I'm also liking the awful play on where a bee sucks... why didn't Pueo like it???
Oh, really? Pueo means Owl? Well, Thanks for telling me... I've been drifting away in an innocent sea of not-knowing, thinking... well, deep thoughts, but I did not know that Pueo meant Owl!
Thanks Marycat!
marycat, You left out one very important adjective, "wise>" c.i.
waiting for someone to add a** to that. anyway for your reading pleasure i give you the following:
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/GradStud/pang/pueo.htm
http://www.owlpages.com/articles/pueo.html
Now I understand why we've had a three owl sculpture hanging on our family room wall for over thirty years. Thanks, pueo. c.i.
the second link was written by an aussie, a former trade commisioner.
you think so. frankly i thought the captured the wrong side and the lighting was bad, never working with that photographer again.
Nice stories! Cool name, Pueo. Did you read the story of the Menominee Indians of North America? The rabbit featured very prominently and generously!
Good morning digressors - for 'tis technically morning here, too.
How are you all this fine Sunday am - well, 'tis Monday here, but let it pass.....
I am still on hols for a few more days, then 'tis back to face the new year.
I seem to be blathering.... someone digress fast!
So.... does the rest of the modern world take off a whole week or 2 for xmas? Are you within an education facility that has off for a large chunk of time? Is it only americans that work through the holidays? And if that's true, do the non-working countries just stop over the holidays? Is everything closed?
No - where I work is open, 'k - but, since this is the summer holidays for us, things are at a crawl. The schools and unis are closed for the long break, people take their holidays. The building industry pretty much closes for a month - the courts are quiet - people take a mental break, if not a physical one.
In my job, most people with kids who can do it are away - so demand is at a minimum. Sometimes the crisis stuff is wild at this time, sometimes it is very quiet - no way to tell.
We have a minimum number who must be there - 2 therapists at all times, and one clerical person (though they often disappear) - so we sort of take it in turns to have a break. I worked last year - so 'tis my turn!
I just asked Brian if we can move to Oz and have summer vacation but he said no
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Hey, I'm back! There was an emergency Turkey Dinner to be made, all sudden like yesterday... guests, etc.
The Rabbit, dlowan... In Pueo's 2nd link about Owls as symbols for various native groups. The Menominee (this spelling may be off) had a story that the rabbit and the owl had a fight over who got the day and the night. The rabbit won, took the day, but MOST GENEROUSLY GAVE the night to owl. I thought you'd like it. Pueo probably owes you, big time!
