What are you doing today?

[anewbie]

Tonight’s trail run
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The only problem with running that trail is that it is too easy to trip and pointing sticks sticking up.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

The only problem with running that trail is that it is too easy to trip and pointing sticks sticking up.

A trail run should be fraught with peril. It makes one feel alive.

 

[GaryE]

I'm going to do a perilous trail walk this morning, where I might conk my head on an overhanging pine bough, or stub my toe on green limestone.
Every morning the sunrise is a different colour, which would be interesting if it weren't from wildfires. We aren't getting the smoke at the moment, but it shifts in and out with the ever changing winds. We had one small rainy period of a few hours since mid July, and there's nothing major predicted. Showers later in the week. So the fires are contained for now, and just consuming the forests across the Bay.
I've seen photos from the Amazon region where the sky was the colour I'm looking at now.
We had a large cruise ship trapped in port, taking shelter from Hurricane Erin for a couple of days. So people unintentionally end up in a region of great natural beauty when everything is tied down because of outrageously flammable conditions and they couldn't really go anywhere. You can explore this little city in a few hours, maximum, and then what? With no forest trails, national or provincial parks.... not even fishroom visits!
I'm sure a lot of members from arid places would think nothing of crunchy grass. I didn't worry about it in my largely treeless region where i grew up. Millions of crunchy pine trees are another story. It's one seriously interesting world.

 

[gwand]

We left South Dakota where we had a great time. Mount Rushmore and the Badlands were stunning. Now we are in North Dakota. Theodore Roosevelt National Park is our next stop.

 

[GaryE]

I've watched a bit of baseball these last few evenings, and there has been this advertisement that perplexes me. I hope it's only on Canadian TV, but.

For a quick moment, you see a brightly lit, cheesily decorated aquarium when suddenly a man steps out from behind it wearing only pee catching underwear. He then proceeds to try to sell said diaper/underwear. Fair enough - some people need these things.

But the aquarium? Does it suggest he has a 50 gallon planted bladder? Is it to symbolize the fear of leaks? Does his aquarium ownership show that even extremely cool and attractive people have bladder leaks? Are his problems caused by bladder snails?

There are things in this world I don't understand.

 

[MattW]

Caught all of these today! I have looked at the rings that were suggested, but another Idea popped into my head today. Water beetles. I have seen some sites sell them, and I'm considering them. They are a natural predator for larvae.