Hobo Jungle

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Just got home from work at midnight to an ebony sky, ....But for being totally silent, it looks like the most completely raucous Chinese New Year celebration you could ever see. Wished there was some way to get that on film.
Reminds me that I gotta get my OGCMA green wooden bench fixed. That very spot is where it used to sit.
Tramp, wherever you are tonight, I thought of you!
I took a sunset pic the other day.



My arms might be too short to box with God, but maybe I could give him a foot race!

When you are able, give Him a pat-on-the-back.
Murph

[Tramp]

This is an odd but true story. Life can be very strange sometimes.

http://waldo.villagesoup.com/opinion/st ... yID=164795

Pete, great bit about the fireflies (lightning bugs—I never know which word I prefer). We got to get over to your land one summer before it's too late. If we're allowed (invited).

[webenda]

Twenty five years later someone (Irene) shows up to tell you the rest of the story. That is kind of eerie.

I wonder if Bobby Brown ever learned to play pool?

http://www.azbilliards.com/2000storya.php?id=961

[webenda]

In the USA today, 6,171 people died.

[Del Mar]

I remember the saga of Bobby Brown and the $20 kid from 2005 in the Jungle (went and searched to confirm I wasn't delusional). Good to see it get published in Waldo County Opinions. Now if we can hear the story of Irene...

If only we had fireflies here on the left coast. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2872/why-arent-there-any-fireflies-in-california

San

[rogruth]

Tramp,

I thought that story and those characters were fiction.I read some stories written by some guy from Maine about very similar incidents.I enjoyed that writing and enjoyed this also.

[webenda]

Harold Carstens, president of Carstens Publishing Co., died Tuesday morning, June 23.

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8466&hilit=Carstens

[The Dirt]

re: the fireflies...
It must be a function of it having been so incredibly wet all Spring, that the fireflies have had not only an abundance of forage, but plenty of place to roost/hide. There are places when I wade out into my fields that it's fully chest-high. My poor Super-A, it's going to be the devil to get it mown. I'm going to have to make half-passes, and only mow on the downhill. I've been mowing around the periphery, and there's been places where it wanted to bog.
But those fireflies! I've never remotely seen them like this. You guys are going to think I'm sh*tting you, but they are absolutely non-stop over the breadth of the field and up both length of trees on either side. Nothing short of stunning. I'm enjoying it while it lasts, because I don't expect I'll ever see it like this again.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

re: the fireflies...
....they are absolutely non-stop over the breadth of the field and up both length of trees on either side. Nothing short of stunning. I'm enjoying it while it lasts, because I don't expect I'll ever see it like this again.

Dirt, A man who takes the time to enjoy the gifts around him, and can enjoy them, has won.

[Tramp]

Pete, I need a photo of those fireflies. I'd love to show my mom. I know it might not come out, but please, if you have the time, give it a try.

[rogruth]

Fireflies/lightningbugs.One of the few things I miss about the North.

[Daisy]

You've got glow worms down there though, don't you Roger? And lunar moths?

[rogruth]

Glow worms I have never seen.

Saw Luna moths up North regularly.Seldom in this area.

[Daisy]

Oh, I've seen both the moths and the glow worms in North Carolina, maybe that's "up north"!

[GP]

Fireflies/lightningbugs.One of the few things I miss about the North.

Roger,

Never thought of lightning bugs as a northern thing. Here in the Atlanta area I have been seeing them in my backyard every evening lately. Also when I lived down in Jacksonville, FL we had them all the time during the summer months.

GP