Then we'd lie beneath the shady tree

[austin_dern]

Enjoyed a bunch of silly things on my humor blog, as one might hope, this past week, including progress on that Arthur Scott Bailey MiSTing. If you haven't been reading you've missed these things, all of which I think are treats worth the reading:

• MiSTed: The Tale of Grumpy Weasel, Chapter 10
• Anyway I’ve Never Had Reason to Seriously Think I Might Not Be Neurotypical
• Statistics Saturday: Some Things US States Actually Do Look Like
• Okay, I Guess Maybe There Are Reasons To Stick Around
• Of Course if He Were a Deer We Could Still Call the Show _Bob Newhart_
• What’s Going On In Dick Tracy? Since when is Mumbles a furry? October 2022 – January 2023
• We Have Information About Whether the Guy Who Draws Beetle Bailey Has Ever Seen a Raccoon
• MiSTed: The Tale of Grumpy Weasel, Chapter 11

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Let's enjoy an interlude of Sunshine pictures. Your hearts are going to melt.

Sunshine always likes being underneath the coffee table but she really loves being underneath in the early winter when we have seasonal tablecloths on it.

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And here's a look up front as she sprawls out. She's only interested enough to give me the one ear.

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Here's the side view of her, head sinking deep into her dewlap.

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And a side view, giving you a glimpse of her fluffy white belly.

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Here, she peeks out from under the coffee table to examine ... I'm not sure exactly what this fabric interloper is. Maybe a slipper?

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Now the other thing she loves in December and early January is that we have a tree that she can hide under.

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Also that she can snag a quick drink from because she has always preferred to drink her water from a dish, even if it's tree-flavored water.

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Sunshine is a thirsty bunny!

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And having had her fill, she settles back down for more being-underneath-stuff.

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Trivia: In 1902 there were only four companies underwriting automobile insurance. In the absence of actuarial data about automobile risks and liabilities and accident rates they simply quadrupled the standard $25 rate for horse-drawn vehicles to $100, and wrote policies covering car damage ``only when they are standing unused in the barn''. Source: Wondrous Contrivances: Technology at the Threshold, Merritt Ierley.

Currently Reading: A History of The World's Airlines, R E G Davies. Oh, he's finally got onto the Comet disaster, reasonably pointing out that despite the tragedies it didn't much change the course of the airline industry. Davies starts out making a great comparison worth more examination, matching the Comet with the Hindenburg but not going much deeper than that the Hindenburg marked the last gasp of a dying industry while the Comet the growing pains of an ascending one. Which, all right, but there wasn't much insight into why airships were doomed and commercial jets weren't at their respective points. Worth some more thinking.

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*melts*