Firefly's Lounge Is Now Open

I think that is not always. I've a an architect pal married to scientist pal in Capistrano, but haven't checked lately. In our years of talking, that isn't a subject we've covered.

On one-eye, you are on your own.

Just like the sun.

A much bigger deal has always been made of when the swallows return to Capistrano, in March, than when they leave in October to head South. But those numbers do seem to have diminished in recent years.
http://patch.com/california/sanjuancapistrano/where-have-all-the-swallows-gone

I have no idea whether those swallows actually took off for Argentina today.

I wouldn't mind heading South for the Winter. Last Winter was so brutally cold, and I'm afraid we're headed for another one like that.

I read, at some point, about their variances. No link.

I've been there many times but we never got into all that. I even remember going there as a dullard teen.

Birds are amazing. The migrations they undertake are remarkable. I love watching/or hoping to see the birds while they are here in Annapolis. We planted new flowers this year and managed to attract a few humming birds (haven't sen one in 10 years). And a bevy of butterflies. Also, a ton of bees, and although I like a little distance from the bees, they do such good work.

Yes, yes, but I don't buy the swallows have always been there in droves precisely on the 19th.

The only birds I generally get to see in large numbers are geese. The formations they fly in are amazing to watch, and quite noisy, and when they congregate on the ground, they can take up most of a schoolyard.

NATIONAL FOOD DAY – October 24

NATIONAL FOOD DAY

It was in the year 2011 when the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) initiated a new project, National Food Day, which is a nationwide celebration of healthy, affordable and sustain-ably produced food and a grassroots campaign for better food policies. This project builds throughout the year and culminates on October 24 of each year.

One of the targets that Food Day aims to help people is to “Eat Real”, which is defined by them as “cutting back on sugar drinks, overly salted packaged foods and fatty, factory-farmed meats in favor of vegetables, fruits, whole grains and sustain-ably raised protein. National Food Day involves some of the country’s most prominent food activists, united by a vision of food that is healthy, affordable and produced with care for the environment, farm animals and the people who grow, harvest and serve it.

In 2012, there were 3,200 events that took place from community festival to a national conference in Washington, D.C. to thousands of school activities.

HAPPY NATIONAL FOOD DAY!

For more information, see: http://www.foodday.org/

It's ironic that today is also NATIONAL BOLOGNA DAY – October 24.

That's right because protons, neutrons, quarks and what have you, all sit round, chewing the fat, shooting the breeze, and talking about the cute little electron that's just moved in a few doors down.



I say you're probably still a virgin, and likely to remain that way for the forseeable future.

Subatomic particles don't have "human" qualities.

But then again, "human" qualities are based on "subatomic" qualities. It's simply advanced, expanded and serving a greater animated purpose.

Did you know that a group of people break away exactly like gas molecules?

I'm just going to say that you didn't - you don't seem like someone who sits down and researches the depths of human interaction like I do.

Halloween's fast approaching ...

That all looks good.

Shall we party together in costumes?

Hmmm...I'll have to give this some thought. I'm not sure what costume I might want to wear.

I just glanced at a few costume ideas - strewth, there are so many! Witches and pumpkins - mummies and monsters - fairies and wicked witches - and the Spice Girls complete with green make-up. I think I'll have to go away and sleep on it

There are the tacky ...



and the scary ...



and some a little more elegant ...



Sigh - must try harder ...

I opt out of Halloween.
The halloween grinch prefers to pay attention to fall colors, fall weather, fall clothes, fall food, as it happens in the northern hemisphere.
Am interested in southern hemisphere spring..

Start of the season of chestnuts and potatoes roasted on bonfires - wonderful colours of leaves on trees - the scents of autumn - lots to like.

I'm building a bonfire, Halloween is just a preamble for the real event.

Interesting thought inasmuch as Sanhain, the Celtic event from which our Halloween derives, was, in fact, a new year's celebration.

The day that is not a day, the day left over from 52 weeks. Bonfires were part of such celebrations, heating up the dying sun to keep it going for Spring. It was quite easy to turn it into an anti Catholic celebration of a failed terrorist plot. In Lewes they still sometimes burn an effigy of the pope, not the current one mind you, Pope Paul V.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewes_Bonfire

And then, of course, there's Guy Fawkes . . .

The aforementioned failed terrorist.