Baby bird rescued with warm tortilla, stuck sea turtle rescued, greyhound loves stuffed bunny, and meet a sharp-dressed cat.
This is the most Texas story that ever Texased.
Baby bird rescued in Texas Panhandle wrapped in a warm tortilla
KHOU, via AJ
Poor girl was (wait for it) at loggerheads!
Loggerhead turtle rescued by Martin County first responders
WPTV, via Karen F.
And finally: Smooth as Silk
DC Cindy shares a sharp-dressed cat.
Taquito IS such a Texas thing! Quick thinking on mom’s part👍🏼
Walter the Catt videos are a guilty pleasure!
I saw the owl yesterday!
Started my day with the smoke alarm in my bedroom going off just as I was getting ready to get in the shower, for no reason whatsoever. And the only way to make it shut up is apparently to destroy it (fire guy literally threw it halfway down the stairs and smashed it on the front walkway). Happy Tuesday.
Well if a firefighter has to destroy the darned thing, I feel less guilty for just unplugging mine on past occasions.
Owl? What owl? I was away for a week, what’d I miss?
It’s one of those with a 10-year battery that you can’t open. I don’t know why they can’t be reset, though. It was replaced less than two years ago for the same reason.
I meant the baby bird in the tortilla. What I saw yesterday said they thought it was an owl and I hadn’t read the story yet when I posted.
(Correction, not an owl; just read the story. What I saw yesterday just said the people thought it was an owl.)
All the alarms in my house go off for a couple seconds once or twice a year, usually in the middle of the night. I cannot put into words how awake this leaves me.
They tested the fire alarm system in our building yesterday. I knew it was happening, though I didn’t know what time it would go off. Nearly had a heart attack.
Last time it happened late, when I was just falling asleep. I think it was around one in the morning.
At least I wasn’t in the shower yet. A few minutes later and I would have been dripping wet.
I got a brand new fire alarm last year and within two weeks it went off in the middle of the night. Only a couple seconds but that’s enough to wake you up and worry you.
Talked to the person who installed it and said that it had a 10-year battery in it. He also said that if something interrupts the connection (infrared? light? can’t remember) that will make it beep. Something like insects or ants. We have ants in my building now, so I think they get into the device and block the connection.
Hasn’t happened for a few weeks, but I’m sure it will happen again sometime. Preferably during the day!
Mine are wired in, and if one goes off they all do. Presumably they send a signal through the wires to trigger that. I’ve read that power stations coming on/offline can cause pulses through the grid that can trigger some makes/models of wired detector. Nooooo idea how true that is, but it’s truthy enough I’ve accepted it.
He said it could be a spider or dust or something interrupting the beam (honestly, dust is not unlikely). What I don’t get is why there seems to be no way to reset them or turn them off. Seems like such a waste to have to throw it out, besides the inconvenience. He did point out that if there actually was smoke the one in the hallway would be going off, too (this has only happened in the bedroom so I wonder if there’s some reason…maybe the fan moving the air is causing more dust to get in it?)
When I was in college the alarm at the other end of my dorm floor was too close to the bathroom, and if the showers were running and someone opened the door all the steam came out at once and set off the alarm. We had more than one “fire drill” each year because of that. They would prop the door open a few inches when people were getting ready in the morning to prevent it (so the steam wouldn’t come out in one big cloud) but every so often I guess someone would forget.
Must be a Susquehanna valley issue.
Happened at my college too. Often at 11pm at night.
Gaaahhhhh Taquito! What a cutie! Also a great rescue story, along with the loggerhead turtle.
Love Walter in his silk tie.
Walter is such a dapper gentleman in his tie. The owl/bird & tortilla had me howling last night. I first saw it on Facebook and was skeptical (as we all know what a authentic news source that can be). But I looked it up and it actually happened! What a quick thinking mom! Poppy is such a sweetheart and so glad she is enjoying her retirement.
“At loggerheads.”
Headline build in.
👍🏼😁
Bunnies, stuffed or real, can solve all of your problems. They’re just like that!💙