soz, Positively love that video. Thanks for posting it.
dj, A fellow editor. How nice. Shoulda known. She's got that "You make a mistake; I'll fix it" look in her eye. Glad the German shepherd got home. What a sweetie.
I feel like posting this again, as it really gets me, the gestures..
The child, yes,
and the dog's stance... the dog's stance is a melt.
tsar, Thanks for the tuxedo boid. What's a nip among friends?
osso, Love that pic. Happy to see it again.
Nightingale, singing its little heart out:
@Roberta,
That nightingale needs to get a new battery for his watch. Singing during the daytime? Just doesn't seem right!
@tsarstepan,
tsarstepan wrote:
That nightingale needs to get a new battery for his watch. Singing during the daytime? Just doesn't seem right!
Ease off, buster. That boid will sing whenever he damned wants to. You wanna make something of it?
Bill Staines "A Place in the Choir"
Cho: All God's critters got a place in the choir
Some sing low, some sing higher
Some sing out loud on the telephone wire
Some just clap their hands, or paws
Or anything they got now.
Listen to the bass, it's the one on the bottom
Where the bullfrog croaks and the hippopotamus
Moans and groans with a big to do
And the old cow just goes moo.
The dogs and the cats they take up the middle
While the honeybee hums and the cricket fiddles.
The donkey brays and the pony neighs
And the old coyote howls.
Cho.
Listen to the top where the little birds sing
On the melodies with the high notes ringing.
The hoot owl hollers over everything
And the jaybird disagrees.
Singing in the night time, singing in the day
The little duck quacks, then heÕs on his way.
The 'possum ain't got much to say
And the porcupine talks to himself.
Cho.
It's a simple song of living sung everywhere
By the ox and the fox and the grizzly bear,
The grumpy alligator and the hawk above,
The sly raccoon and the turtle dove.
Cho.
@MontereyJack,
Bravo! Thanks for posting that.
if we're going to have a sing along, we've all heard this hymn
1. All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.
2. Each little flower that opens,
Each little bird that sings,
He made their glowing colours,
He made their tiny wings.
but do we know the Monty Python parody
All things dull and ugly,
All creatures short and squat,
Al things rude and nasty,
The Lord God mad the lot.
Each little snake that poisons,
Each little wasp that stings,
He made thier brutish venom,
He made their horrid wings.
All things sick and cancerous,
All evil great and small,
All things foul and dangerous,
The lord God made them all.
Each nasty little hornet,
Each beastly little squid,
Who made the spikey urchin?
Who made the sharks? He did.
All things scabbed and ulcerous,
All pox both great and small,
Putrid foul and gangernous,
The Lord God made them all.
AMEN.
thus endeth the lesson
Request time. Please. No more singing. I can't sing (no voice). Feeling forlorn and left out.
Letty, As in Ode to a ... That Poicy Shelley could write a poem.
tsar, They gotta wait for the giraffe to stand up. Then they'll know if it's a boy or a girl. Brilliant gharal photo. What a honey. One letter added, and you have a whole different ball a wax. Gharial:
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Tree swallow:
Hey, I have something for you!
@Roberta,
Roberta wrote:
Letty, As in Ode to a ... That Poicy Shelley could write a poem.
tsar, They gotta wait for the giraffe to stand up. Then they'll know if it's a boy or a girl. Brilliant gharal photo. What a honey. One letter added, and you have a whole different ball a wax. Gharial:
]
Tree swallow:
Oops made two mistakes in this post. The gharal is in fact a bharal.
This means that you don't change one letter to get to gharial. You change two.
Sorry.
Francis. Wonderful picture. It made me smile. Dem giraffes have very long tongues.
@Francis,
It's impressive indeed, Boida:
There's impressive, and then there's IMPRESSIVE. Look at this guy:
@Roberta,
Hee, hee. Francis, of course, was referring to "speaking in tongues"
Should the US Postal service go under, we may have to return to this bird.
