Horse to the rescue, raccoons to the library, cats to the Finnish, and the first boop of Nosevember.
No horse left behind!
Horse Runs Into Danger to Save Other Horses as Wildfire Erupts
People, via Andrew Y.
We heard you had bookworms. Are they fresh?
Multiple raccoons take over the library at Arkansas State
Arkansas Online, via Andrew Y.
I say, old sport, might you share some peanuts?
New Emperor Tamarins On Exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo
National Zoo, via Sylvia C.
And finally: It’s Nosevember!
https://gfycat.com/wastefulslipperykitfox-seal
Nothing like the first boop of Nosevember, Andrew Y.
That is an epic boop.
Aye love me some aye-ayes… we always call them “Swiss-Army lemurs”
Sort of looks like “Doby”.Maybe they are where House Elves come from?
I own an aye-aye stuffie named Ting. John Cleese’s epic description–“If you put a cat in a microwave”–is so true.
Awwww . . . my grandparents had a Siamese named Ting when I was a kid. (Short for Tingaling.)
Ack! The seal kilt me ded!😵
Me too. The first boop of Nosevember is always the best.
Bebbeh seal is just too much! And I could not love that horse video more – simply amazing. I pray that no animal lives are lost in those awful, awful fires but I’m sure that’s too much to hope for. 😢
I’m ready for my (extreme) close-up Mr. DeMille. And amazing horse, started singing the theme to Might Mouse in my brain – Here he comes to save the day!!!
Clearly some planetary maintenance issues up there in Finland too! Gravity seems to be on the fritz.
Boop MIGHT compensate for last night.
I hate Hallowe’en.
I don’t like interacting with children or being sober on holidays, so I put out a bowl full of candy and a sign that says “Take a couple! But leave some for others. Please don’t steal my bowl.” Someone stole my bowl. :C
I think most kids are done in my complex by the time I’d normally get home from work, anyway, but two of my neighbors usually put up “sorry, no candy” signs**, and since they’re more visible from the ground than my door is, I think people just don’t bother to come up the stairs. Which is fine with me. (There are four units, the middle two doors face front and the end two are at right angles to the front and face each other. I’m on the end right at the top of the stairs so you can’t really see if there is anything on my door from there.)
Most years I try to get home slightly late, by running an errand or wandering the bookstore or something, but something was going on near work that held up traffic and made a stretch that should have taken less than a minute take about 20 so I got home late, anyway, and it was almost dark by then. So I have all the Peppermint Patties to myself. Mwahaha.
My mom sent a few pictures from their house. They had (among other things) a very cute skunk, a tiny gnome, and a dog (Boxer) dressed as a dragon (his people had their baby girl dressed as Tinkerbell in a red wagon-turned-pirate ship). Gnome and Tinkerbell both too young to appreciate the day but they were adorable. (Gnome might have been asleep…)
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**Back when the association used to distribute paper newsletters, the October edition included an orange sheet with a smiling jack o’lantern on one side and frowning jack o’lantern on the other, and you could put it up to indicate whether or not you wanted trick or treaters to ring your bell. Now they just email whenever they have something to tell us so that’s not a thing anymore, but people still put up signs.
Well all you lost was a bowl. Somehow someone walked off with one of our skeletons and I think it happened this morning. Early shopping for next year?? As usual, it was bedlam in my neighborhood with the kids running amuk. We had our haunted back yard again and the neighbors loved it, especially our greeters, the Scare Sisters. Some of the people weren’t sure if they were real people, statues or animatronics.
Had some really cute costumes this year and a lot of creative home made ones. One kid came as a garbage can! I think they took a real small metal garbage can, cut out the bottom and decorated with trash. Even was wearing the lid as a hat. One teenage came up carrying what I thought was a stuffed cow. No, it was her brother/nephew dressed in a little cow costume. Beyond adorable. And then there was the whole family done up in an Alice in Wonderland theme – dad was the Mad Hatter, Mom the White Rabbit, Grandma Queen of Hearts, one little girl was the Cheshire Cat, and finally the baby was Alice. Me, I went as Mare Leveau, the voodoo queen of New Orleans and hubby was a witch doctor. Too much fun!
An excellent start to Nosevember.
The cats in Finland had me howling and exclaiming over their flooooooof. Magnificent photos!
Even as babies, aye-ayes are not photogenic.
I want to make that hero horse a blanket of roses. that’s a true champion. And a pickup bed full of carrots and apples.