13: More Than a Dozen
1. We scored a lot of grandparent points with our grandsons this weekend when they came for an overnight and discovered our new chicken coop-full of hens.
2. The fresh blueberries ready for pickin’ in the garden also didn’t hurt.
3. Four-year-old Bryce has an ear for rhyme. He picked out our one speckled hen, claimed it as his own and named it Speckled Freckles.
4. We also scored points when a neighbor visited with his son (also 4) and he and Bryce could talk shop: super heroes.
5. I just finished watching (for the first time) an episode of ALF, the old sitcom that went off the air in 1990 about a space creature living with a family in suburbia. I’ve never had any interest in the show and the only reason I watched it now was because I learned at the Blue Ridge Muse that my friend, actor Rob Neukirch was in the episode, playing an intervention counselor.
6. I also learned that a movie, House of Good and Evil, is scheduled to be filmed in Floyd in the fall that will employ the acting talents of Rob.
7. Never a dull moment in Floyd. Over the weekend we captured a swarm of honeybees in our driveway with the help of our neighbor, I photographed a trio of rainbow colored stilt walkers at a children’s circus and visited some artisan studios on the Floyd Artisan Trail tour.
8. The stilt walkers didn’t have a name for their troupe, and so, as a writer I couldn’t help coming up with some, like A Tall Order, Looms Large, Somewhere OVER the Rainbow, High Heaven, Daddy Long Legs, Walk Your Talk or Jack and the Beanstalk Walk.
9. ALF stands for Alien Life Form
10. According to Wikipedia, Mork may mean: a character on the American sitcom Mork & Mindy, a god of the Orks in the fictional Warhammer universe, a computer file format previously used by Mozilla-based browsers, a village near St. Briavels in Gloucestershire, England.
11. Since the popularity of the computer the term “I’m just browsing” has taken on a whole new meaning.
12. Church sign seen on Facebook: Do not judge others just because the sin different than you
13. And HERE is story in Tractor Supply about Floyd Countian Gunther Hauk of Spikenard Farm. Hauk is a beekeeper who writes and lectures about Colony Collapse Disorder, a phenomenon in which an entire colony of bees abruptly disappears from its hive. A sign of these times.
June 28th, 2012 10:03 am
I never really liked ALF either. It was very Big when it was out. I would of liked it better, if it wasn’t a puppet???
Good TT and you came up with some good names for the stilt people, I hope they use them.
June 28th, 2012 11:53 am
My sisters and I used to watch both ALF and Mork & Mindy. Do you know what movie is being filmed in your area? Enjoy the blueberries!
June 28th, 2012 4:09 pm
I’m a huge fan of fresh blueberries, so I’d absolutely love to visit too. I have vague memories of Elf.
June 29th, 2012 1:34 am
we just got our first 10 strawberries. blueberries are a long way from ready.
bryce has a lot of granny colleen in him!
June 29th, 2012 8:46 am
those are excellent.
#1, 4 – super cute.
I think one episode of ALF was all I got to. Lots of Mork tho.
12 good motto.
June 29th, 2012 9:38 am
“ALF” wasn’t the best job I ever had but it was a job…one major benefit being a signed 8×10 from “Alf” that I sent to my LA landlord’s Dad back in Tenn. who loved the show. Scored big points. The husband/wife team who created and produced the show turned out to be not nearly so warm and fuzzy as Alf himself, puppet or not…
June 29th, 2012 10:14 am
Na-Nu Na-Nu 🙂
Seriously, tho, scary thing about the bees…
June 29th, 2012 2:49 pm
Nice one with the Speckled Freckles… I love the blueberries too, and the pictures are very nice! I like that kind of activity..
June 30th, 2012 3:14 am
Love the Chickens…!
Never watched ALF—it just never interested me, at all…I think it would take a lot for me to watch it now…lol!
I read something about Bees and Pesticides this week—some connection with the continuing disappearance of Bees…It is truly catastrophic!
January 4th, 2013 12:07 pm
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