Hobo Jungle

[webenda]

You certainly are one alert, academic gentleman! I can't even imagine the odds of your having a camera at-the-ready on the happenstance that such a critter would land for an egg laying session, and on your hat, no less! Do you usually have a traditional camera ready , or do you have an iPhone in-pocket?

So that seemingly 2-pronged contraption at its bottom are the ovipositor?

No and no, it is an Android phone, Samsung Galaxy S7 edge.

Yes, the egg comes out between them and they work like tweezers to place the egg into position.

[rex desilets]

I have an earlier Galaxy. When a phone was offered for signing up to two years I had a choice of it or an iPhone. My wife's iPhone took dismal photos. My Galaxy takes terrific photos; its white balance adjustment is a marvel. My digital SLR mostly stays home these days.

[Tramp]

Murph, if you just google ("Eric Green" art), I think you will find out a lot including an interview with Jan Nelson that will answer most of your questions. If not, I will try.

Cheers!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

OK, I'll check it out. Thanx.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Chuck Mosley gone after only 57 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG_k5CSYKhg

You want it all but you can't have it
It's in your face but you can't grab it

[HONDO74]

Chuck Mosley gone after only 57 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG_k5CSYKhg

You want it all but you can't have it
It's in your face but you can't grab it

"After a long period of sobriety, Charles Henry Mosley III lost his life, on November 9th, 2017, due to the disease of addiction,"

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Chuck Mosley gone after only 57 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG_k5CSYKhg

You want it all but you can't have it
It's in your face but you can't grab it

"After a long period of sobriety, Charles Henry Mosley III lost his life, on November 9th, 2017, due to the disease of addiction,"

....and he was younger than me.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I used to occasionally say that I just could not understand addiction to drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol, but just ask me to enter a bakery (by ther front door), look around, and back out without anything in my hands. The same goes for ice cream stores. And both are distructive to ones health.

So, since my 31" waist is long-gone, I just shut up (yes, it is possible) and try to be understanding and supportive.

P.S. I am making special and specific excursion tomorrow, for a little drive, to pickup pie and ice cream for Thanksgiving Day's eating shenanigans, a day on which we celebrate FOOD. Good harvests. Farming. And eating animals. Did I get that right?

[robert.]

Sorry Murph. You forgot the true reason For Thanksgiving day. It's a rest up time for that early extra, extended,special, limited to loyal customers only. Pre black Friday shopping time. These special 3 hours from 5-8pm give youtube filmers all the video footage they need for a whole year. Check it out Shoppers Gone Wild 2017

[Rufus T. Firefly]

P.S. I am making special and specific excursion tomorrow, for a little drive, to pickup pie and ice cream for Thanksgiving Day's eating shenanigans, a day on which we celebrate FOOD. Good harvests. Farming. And eating animals. Did I get that right?

No. The origins of Thanksgiving, A Day of Thanksgiving, officially dates to 1863 and a proclamation by Lincoln during the Civil War while it had been unofficially and sporadically celebrated in one form or another as days of prayer, humiliation, and thanksgiving for many decades.

Sadly, Thanksgiving has become a day of gluttony and excess, endless professional sports followed up by:

a rest up time for that early extra, extended,special, limited to loyal customers only. Pre black Friday shopping time. These special 3 hours from 5-8pm give youtube filmers all the video footage they need for a whole year. Check it out Shoppers Gone Wild 2017

and then the insanity of shop to you drop for Christmas......another holiday that very, very few still remember the meaning of......if they ever did know.

[up148]

Most major holidays have been ruined by excessive commercialism, which has also redefined what the original intention was. Sad state of affairs. My wife did her normal Thanksgiving Day food shopping yesterday and couldn't find certain TD type decorations and nik-naks for the table, because they were pulled and Christmas was out instead.

BH

[Roy]

Don't worry, it all ends with the damned Super Bowl. That's in May now, isn't it?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Don't worry, it all ends with the damned Super Bowl.

No, it doesn't. It's merely replaced with the NBA and college basketball, March Madness, and then baseball starts while hockey playoffs that last for months begin while overlapping NBA playoffs that seem endless during a baseball season that is months too long but lasts long enough for the NFL to start up again......and this year we get the Winter Olympics and World Cup, too!

It never ends...........

That's in May now, isn't it?

Might as well be, but at least that season is not as long and meaningless as hockey and baseball.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Most major holidays have been ruined by excessive commercialism, which has also redefined what the original intention was.

Just strike the word "excessive", and make it "All holidays have been ruined by commercialism."

Stop there.

Of course, Presidents Washington and Lincoln do know how to sell mattresses.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Thank you, all. I knew I had left something out.
BTW, do Native Americans, including those in Alaska, celebrate Thanksgiving Day?