Red Mosquito

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Got a new office chair last week and put it together. Just leaned back on it this morning and heard something fall off and hit the ground. Wish me luck.

BurtReynolds wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Got a new office chair last week and put it together. Just leaned back on it this morning and heard something fall off and hit the ground. Wish me luck.

What kind is it?

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Got a new office chair last week and put it together. Just leaned back on it this morning and heard something fall off and hit the ground. Wish me luck.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Got a new office chair last week and put it together. Just leaned back on it this morning and heard something fall off and hit the ground. Wish me luck.

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Got a new office chair last week and put it together. Just leaned back on it this morning and heard something fall off and hit the ground. Wish me luck.

What kind is it?

I don't know the brand. Told my employer I needed a new one, what features I wanted, and they had one shipped to me from Amazon. It's comfortable but now I'm worried.

doug rr wrote:going grocery shopping, might hit some balls on the way home..do some weed whacking and read a book on the patio

spike wrote:

doug rr wrote:going grocery shopping, might hit some balls on the way home..do some weed whacking and read a book on the patio

Wouldn’t it make more sense to hit balls on the way there, so things don’t go bad?

BurtReynolds wrote:Hot and humid here for the foreseeable future. Welcome to August.

spike wrote:

doug rr wrote:going grocery shopping, might hit some balls on the way home..do some weed whacking and read a book on the patio

Wouldn’t it make more sense to hit balls on the way there, so things don’t go bad?

doug rr wrote:

spike wrote:

doug rr wrote:going grocery shopping, might hit some balls on the way home..do some weed whacking and read a book on the patio

Wouldn’t it make more sense to hit balls on the way there, so things don’t go bad?

I passed on hitting balls..might try to squeeze in 20 minutes of workout time downstairs this afternoon