What's on my humor blog? Other than talking about Funky Winkerbean? The usual stuff, plus Popeye stuff. I mean other Popeye stuff than, you know, cartoon reviews. Here's what you might have missed:
- MiSTed: The Tale of Grumpy Weasel, Chapter 5
- Bit of a Chill Out There
- Statistics Saturday: Some Unconventional Christmas Presents
- Why is everyone mad at _Funky Winkerbean_ this week? (December 25, 2022)
- Statistics 2022: Top Months Of 2022, As Persons’s Names
- What’s Going On In Olive and Popeye? Also, what is Olive and Popeye? September – December 2022
- Statistics 2022: Top Fads Of 2022
- MiSTed: The Tale of Grumpy Weasel, Chapter 6
Before I get into the next big event how about a little one: autumn setting in? Here's a couple photos of things going on around us.
One of our heist goldfish, brought in from the pond for winter quarters in the basement. We were worried we'd never see him again, between the dark black body and this breed being particularly vulnerable; those bulged-out eyes in front are also very fragile. But he's inside and looking good, not to mention looking complicated.
And here's Magnum, our largest and oldest fish, last of the original thirteen that we got back a decade ago. That's a five-gallon bucket he's resting in, by the way, so you can see goldfish can live a good while and get pretty large given the chance.
Our jack-o-lanterns resting on the front porch. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger's is the cute one.
Our autumn decorations include that pumpkin flag that always makes the light inside the house weird for a couple days before we adjust to it. Also that we worry is going to get blown off or stolen from our front.
The house by night, with jack-o-lanterns lit up on the front porch, artificial ones in the second floor and the attic, and a couple lights in our bushes and window box.
Here's what our jack-o-lanterns look like in the dark, too.
Honey? The autumn leaves are here. A storm stirred many, many leaves up. Most of them were blown off our lawn, but for some reason a tide pool of leaves converged on our side door.
Trivia: The Mallarino-Bidlack Treaty, signed 1846, assured Colombia would be sovereign of the Isthmus of Panama, and that the United States was obliged to guarantee that sovereignty. The United States was also to guarantee uninterrupted traffic on the Panama Railway. Source: The Path Between The Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal: 1870 - 1914, David McCullough. The treaty got a bit inconvenient for the United States around about 1903.
Currently Reading: The Rise And Fall of the DC-10, John Godson.
