Friday, September 19, 2025

Activity Log

 

So, I was telling my friend about my neighbor.  He has French speaking squirrels in his yard.  Instead of peanuts, he feeds them Brie and a little saucer of red wine.   I have only complained to him once, and that was when the breeze was blowing their foreign cigarette smoke my way.  It smelled terrible.

Two weeks ago, Thursday, a hot-air balloon made an emergency landing on our street.  Here’s the thing… the pilot and his one paying passenger were not in the basket.  They had jumped out two streets over and had been chasing it on foot.  Each one thought the other was tying it down and neither did, so it lifted off again.

Not sure why it came down here, but I snapped a few pictures.  Then the local paper wanted me to give them one of the pictures for an article they were going to print, but the pilot gave me $20.00 for the pics, so he’s the one who ended up with them.  He said, it would be bad advertising for his business to show such an embarrassing event.  I had to agree, and without the pictures, the paper lost interest in running the article.

The following day, I took the 20 bucks to the new sandwich shop in town.  I bought a reuben and a cranberry salad.  They were boasting about their great sandwich.  As it turns out, it was just more hot air.  It was not good at all.  I doubt I’ll go back there.

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ZC

 

 

 



 

 

1 comment:

Pauline said...

Yesterday Bill and I watched a cat across the street that was just sitting and watching 2 squirrels run around right in front of him. He didn't chase them, and they looked like young squirrels just searching for peanuts that our neighbor puts out for them. It was amazing that he just sat still, swishing his tail from side to side. Perhaps they were speaking French??