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13 Thursday Hot Stuff

1. I wonder if my goldfinches are jealous that I’ve moved onto to photographing butterflies.

2. As if playing musical chairs, the butterflies periodically jump from flower to flower and sometimes land on a flower that’s already been taken and someone gets pushed off.

3. Overheard at a porch cookout at my friend Katherine’s house, where someone was making smores. Amy: I prefer all marshmallow that’s burned. Colleen: Burned marshmallow is good like the skin on chicken.

4. Check out my two-year old grandson Bryce hopped up on cotton candy and bluegrass music on the 4th of July HERE.

5. I went out on our porch while my husband was watching the World Cup the other day to get away from the incessant horn blowing buzz but the buzzing of bees around my house gave me no peace.

6. Bird droppings on my porch from baby birds practicing flying look like cigarette ashes after they’ve dried.

7. I had a dream that a pop-up message inadvertently came up on my laptop that ended up ordering two books that were that delivered on the spot from the computer’s innards, making me wonder whether I was dreaming a science fiction premise or the future.

8. I also dreamt I kissed a cute guy whose mouth was full of snuff.

9. According to a post at Kenju’s, a group of rhinos is called a crash, a group of frogs is an army, and a group of kangaroos is called a mob. It’s also correct to say a charm of hummingbirds, a smack of jellyfish, parliament of owls, a murder or crows, which makes me think the people who make up these labels are more comedian than scientist.

10. A group of butterflies is a rabble, which feeds right into my suspicion that flowers are like bar stools they perch on while getting drunk on nectar.

11. My husband Joe was out of town and I was home alone at night when I got scared about a series of curious noises. It turned out to be my own stomach rumbling.

12. I just saw the words “Joseph’s Dreamcoat” on a poster in Joe’s office and thought it said “Joseph’s Democrat.”

13. You can set off your fireworks HERE.

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July 7th, 2010 colleen Posted in Thirteen Thursdays

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