More LOCAL Police Reports!...

Oh, yes...

Time again

for

MORE

LOCAL POLICE REPORTS.....

I thought I lost some of my old ones when my computer crashed, but they found some on the computer's memory and saved them!

Although they look a little discolored, you can still read them.

So here is one for you today.

Look at the FIRST entry (and the second one) and then MY COMMENTS below the article!:

First Entry:

1. At least they were doggy fashioneestas. I mean, if you are going to be "at large" (by the way, how "at large" can a Polmerian BE?), you might as well be wearing your sweater from Paris, right?

2. At least those little snipping barkers will be WARM while they are running all over town...because there is nothing more pitiful than those tiny, skin and bones yippers shivering uncontrollably with their little bugging eyes, IS there?

3. If they know the location and they know they are two dogs wearing sweaters running about there, it won't be too hard to find them, now will it?

4. Why couldn't the person calling this into the police just put a Whopper burger in front of them and pick them up and put them in their back pocket and call the Humane Society? Good Lord, they couldn't have been bigger than a fistful!

5. When you first read it, did the image of these two sweater-wearing tiny dogs crack you up? At least make you smile? (Because I giggled immediately!)

Second Entry:

1. Good Grief....cars swerving not to hit the children??? Let's HOPE SO!

2. Again, why didn't the person who called the police about this scene go outside immediately and get the kids out of harm's way instead of doing nothing but call the police???

3. What were they playing? Speed bump?

4. Where on earth were their parent(s)?

5. Maybe the scene was this:
Mom: You kids should go outside for a while instead of playing all day on those stupid video games!
Kids: Awwww, MOM..we don't want to!
Mom: I SAID, go and get your snowsuits and go OUTSIDE and PLAY!
Kids: There is nothing to do outside....what will we play?
Mom: I don't care WHAT you play, just go outside! Play in the traffic for all I care..just get your behinds out there.....

6. Moms should be careful what they say to their kids. Kids take things literally.......................

7. Also remember if you are a mom not to tell your kids to "go jump in the lake"..............because if you do, I just may be posting another police report about some kids cutting a hole in frozen Lake Superior and doing exactly what their mom TOLD them to do............................

More This and That from the Woods....Part ONE

I know a lot of you have had a ton of snow this year and may be sick of seeing more.

But here, we get that much snow EVERY year...and I still think it is gorgeous.

We don't see much open water and snow together in the middle of the woods.

Usually, all the water is frozen over.

But I found a spot!:

Snow scenes are especially fun in black and white!:

And then we found a little "hallway" in the wood's road that had rocks....

and better yet?

Ice

hanging from the rocks!:

It was a gorgeous day out there...

full of blue sky....:

And snowy woods with shadows from the sun!:

And a snowy cabin tucked in amongst the pines:

Loved the pines hanging with snow everywhere!:






And those moss filled rocks with

frozen hanging icicles?



Heaven!:







Ice crystals on crystal clear icicles!:

Frozen ponds and blue skies!:

As usual, I took several more photos

so

I will be posting PART TWO of this series in a few days for you....

More Weird News...(Otherwise titled: I'll take a nose and a left ear please, no sauce!"):

Time again for MORE Weird News for you , along with MY COMMENTS!

Restaurants around the world have singularly quirky themes and signature dishes, such as the one in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, that seats all diners on toilets and the Beijing restaurant whose cuisine features animal penises.

Last year, a group of doctors in Riga, Latvia, opened Hospitalis, a medical-themed restaurant whose dining room resembles an OR, with "nurse" waitresses bringing food on gurneys, accessorized
with syringes and forceps in addition to knives and forks and with drinks served in beakers and test tubes.

Hospitalis's signature dish is a cake with edible toppings that resemble fingers, noses, and tongues. [The Baltic Times, 9- 10-08; News.com.au (Sydney), 3-16-09]

****************************************************************************************** 1. Alrighty, then! Let's see...what would be my FAVORITE dish? Maybe a succulent leg or an uvula (look it up, it really isn't dirty!).

2. We could add some sprinkles of dandruff, light.

3. I'd like it broiled or braised. No fried anything, because we all know that makes it tough and too high in fat (unless you order abdomen cellulite and buttocks fat, then go for it).

4. Did they name their restaurant chain: "Carnivors are us"? or "Cannibals are us"?



5. Do they add ketchup to these, or would that be an insult? How about steak sauce?




6. Wonder how many people faint when they bring out the tomato juice that looks like blood?


7. Not to mention the CHOCOLATE tootsie rolls....(nope, I didn't want to go there, really I didn't!).......

Wanna take the plunge???

Remember those azure blue Lake Superior waters I showed you last July?

Well....

THIS

is

the

same

lake

taken yesterday:

And we do have people who take the polar plunge into these icy waters, just for the fun of it.

NOT. ME.

And, no, I don't have pictures of the Polar Plunge for you today either.

I just happened to drive by yesterday as we were touring some friends around Presque Isle and we saw the lovely ice on the walkway out to the lighthouse, and I HAD to take pictures for you.


Look at the treacherous ice on the walkway out to the lighthouse NOW!:

Let's look CLOSER, shall we?

How would you like to try and make it out to the lighthouse NOW on this walkway?:

I wouldn't even make it past the first hump of ice and would have fallen in the icy waters!:


But isn't it gorgeous???:

Even the logs and rocks on the sandy beach, covered with snow was pretty:

Oooooo, and that LIGHTHOUSE on ice? Awesome~!:








I just couldn't stop taking shots of it!:

I was mesmerized by the icey slush waves hitting the sides of the cement walkway sides too!:

I wondered how the lighthouse keeper, (back in the day) got to shore to get his supplies, too!:

I mean, would YOU want to get in a rowboat at the lighthouse and

cross

this lake

to get to shore?:

Nope.

Me neither.

I hope he had a half of a cow in there and maybe a bushel of rice:





More of the rocky, snowy shoreline:

And stupendous icicles!:

All of a sudden I am craving a slushy.

How about you?:

And maybe my Snuggie:

And some hot tea:

Now where the heck DID I put those pamphlets

about the Mexican cruises?????......

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!!!

I wish all of you the best Valentine's Day EVER!!!

May you have love in your life, and in your heart.

More Useless Tidbits

Time for more Useless Tidbits, folks !!! (Along with MY COMMENTS in bold italics).

1. Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.
I probably don't want to know how they tested this one. Please tell me they didn't cut the tongue off a blue whale and place it on a scale to test this theory.
Besides, who knew that blue whales even HAD a tongue?
I mean I guess if I really thought about it, they must have a tongue, but I don't sit around and think about whales' tongues....but I will NOW. And so will YOU, now won't you? WON'T YOU?????
That's it.
Try NOT to think of a blue whale's tongue....
Besides...that is a helluva lot of tongue if it weighs MORE than an elephant.
Think of the size of the sucker you'd have to make to satisfy a whale. Or ice cream cone.
Do two blue whales french kiss? Wow, now there's a visual!




2. Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
I bet everything tastes like dirt
or dust then, to a butterfly.
Husband butterfly: honey, did you taste that rose?
Wife butterfly: Yes, yes I did.
Husband butterfly: It kinda tasted like my mother's roses did. No roses taste now like my mother's roses used to.
Wife butterfly: How can you tell? They all taste like dirt. Besides, are you saying that MY roses don't taste as good as your mother's did? Because let me tell you mister...if you washed your hind feet a little more you'd be able to tell that MY roses are better than your mother's ever did, and besides did your mother work outside the home AND raise your children from hell AND have to put up with a husband that doesn't wash his hind feet? Because let me tell you, if she did......
Husband butterfly: (Sigh).





3. Only female mosquitoes bite.
Of course, it is the PMS. Our blood tastes like chocolate to them.






4. Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as
to any other color.
And they say animals are colorblinded! Who knew that mosquitoes could see color?
So if you go into the woods, wear your black jeans, not your blue ones. They must know that our blood is really blue (until oxygen hits it, then it turns red). Smart little buggers, aren't they?





5. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
All right. Don't go in the desert wandering around looking for scorpions to do this to just for jollies. That is cruel.
Wait, I'm talking about scorpions here....never mind....go ahead! (I'll wait here, hiding under my couch).





6. Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles
(jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep.

Heck, I call that foreplay where I come from.
Unless I feel like spooning. Then there is less dangling.



7. Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human
manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
I know, what is with all the BUG useless tidbits today?
I don't know, I am on a roll.
So back to the ants.
I want to know who had a hidden camera to catch ants exactly when they wake up to know this?
And how can you TELL they just woke up? Their little eyelids flutter? Do ants even HAVE eyelids?
And yawn? With those creepy mandible fangy things they have? YIKES!
I am going to have nightmares tonight about HUGE blue whale tongues, being bitten by FEMALE mosquitos (they like blue remember?) beside a squirming, drunken scorpion and a stretching, yawning ant who is bored with it all.



8. Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2
larger ones in front.
I bet Mom bees really DO see everything their little brat bee kids are doing behind
their back.
Mom Bee: Junior, stop pinching your sister!
Junior: I wasn't pinching her, MOM.
Mom Bee: Don't lie to me, you little buzzer! I can SEE you, you know..every which way, top or front....so just knock it off!
Junior: I'm allowed to knock her off? Suzie....come heeeeerrrrrr........
Mom Bee: (Sigh).



9. The outdoor temperature can be estimated to within several degrees by timing the chirps of a cricket. It is done this way: count the number of chirps in a 15-second period, and add 37 to the total. The result will be very close to the actual Fahrenheit temperature. This formula, however, only works in warm weather.
OMG. I am TOTALLY going to try this.
But the question is, WHO even NOTICED this phenomenon? Who started counting the chirps of a cricket and then realized they needed to add 37 (not 38, and not 39 and not even 36...but 37) to it and it would tell you the fahrenheit temperature????
Someone VERRRRRY bored???? I can see it now...laying in bed...can't sleep.....hmmmm...think I will count sheep. Nope, I'm up to 12,345 sheep now...not working.....Wait!...what is that sound outside?....oh..crickets! Will they EVER shut up?.... Oh well, I will count the chirps they make.....hmmmm...they are all chirping 40 times.....then 40 times again....then 40 times again. Crap...now I can't sleep because of the damn crickets....won't just ONE of the little buggers chirp 21 times or 19 times.....nope...damn..... another one chirped 40 times...I cannot take this!!!...I'll get up and make coffee....and check the temperature outside...hmmm..it is 77 degrees...............................
(ten years pass)......
(another sleepless night occurs).....
damn, MORE crickets chirping again....shit!!!...I have that big meeting tomorrow.....wait a minute!!...remember when that night happened where I couldn't sleep...and I counted the crickets chirping?:....and they all chirped exactly 40 times???.....and it was 77 degrees out?...hmmm...I wonder if every chirp plus, oh...I don't know...37...would add up to the temp. outside?.....let's see...this time they are chirping 38 times.....and that plus 37 equals 75...I'll get up and check the thermometer.........GOOD GRIEF>>I am RIGHT...it is 75 degrees out!!!! Shit! Who can I call and tell about this????
(yawns)
....maybe tomorrow...all of a sudden I feel verrrry sleeeeeepy............



10. In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
And a helluva lot more to lose the weight CAUSED by those very same potato chips. Not to mention the cost of all of those Doctor visits to take care of the high cholesterol they caused......

Isn't life grand?

Mayo Clinic Art: Part TWO: Featuring Dale Chihuly glass art

You may or may not like blown glass art.

But I guarantee you, if you saw what I did at the Mayo Clinic,

you would definitely fall in love with it.

Throughout the clinic, the artist Dale Chihuly's art was featured.

It absolutely blew me away!!!

If you have a few moments, read about this magnificent artist HERE.

And now, take a tour of what I saw with me, shall we?

First, some closeups of the miracle of blown glass!

LOOK at this!!:

And, in a minute, I will show you a larger picture of what this is from...

but just LOOK at the swirls and colors in this piece:

Which was part of THIS art piece!:

Go back up and look again at it.

See how there are pieces of glass blown INSIDE other parts of glass?...like the dark blue "horn" coming out of that little glass hole inside the "wing" of the blue glass?

Amazing, isn't it????



Then, look at this closeup of the little horn....the swirling of the glass, trimmed in red glass....

See the little hole the horn is sticking through in the larger glass art object? Simple awesome!:





Sooooo beautiful!:





And this round sphere smack in the middle of it, too!:




How intricate at every angle!:

Sorry for the glare, of course it was in a glass case beside the grand piano in the lobby for protection!:

But, as GORGEOUS as that was....

I had no idea

that

what I was going to see next

was

going

to

blow me

completely away!!!!

Dale Chihuly was commissioned by a grateful Mayo Clinic family

to make handblown chandeliers for the facility.

Not just ANY chandeliers...

but

THESE!!!:

Aren't they magnificient!!?????

The first thing I thought of was Medusa.

The goddess with all the snakes in her hair....




Just LOOK at each and every piece of handblown glass in each of the chandeliers!

Swirls, designs, colors, twists....

Be. Still. My. Heart.:

Oooooooo....glass splendor!!:

Just LOOK

at

the twists,

the turns,

the swirls,

the detail that went into each one!:

Of course, after being speechless

and

just looking

at

all

the details in each one...

I thought:

Man, wonder how they hung them up?

Then, I thought:

Man, I wonder how they DUST them?...

Then, I was grateful that dusting them was not MY job.

My job

was

to just stare at them in wonder....

and say WOW.

Which I did.

Several times!:

Here is some info about the chandeliers taken from article they had by the display:

Oh yes!

They DID make me feel good!!

How about YOU?: