The Thread for People who Just Want to Say Something Nice

[Frances]

Was in a pissy mood leaving work when a roadrunner unexpectedly crossed my path in the parking lot.
Oh hai there fella...
All better.




This is a stand-in. He was adorable.

[Frances]

Happy 4th of July.

I expect my neighbors to be in rare form this year.
May they keep all their digits.

[left]

[Frances]

You’re not wrong, but people here like to blow things up. They also like to shoot straight up in the air with their party guns.

The bar from Top Gun sure looks like they were fixing to parcel out some Coronavirus on the 4th. USA, USA...
This picture is from the 3rd.

I’ve never seen that movie but believe they feel the need, the need for speed...

And Val Kilmer is a Goose.
Shit, he’s an Iceman.

[DzM]

Uncle Sam: "Pull my finger, son."

[Frances]

Olympia Lightning Bolt.
Sounds good to me.

[Frances]

Uncle Sam: "Pull my finger, son."

I wanna know what the sign in front of it says, but I was too busy eating strawberry cheesecake in the wind to go look.

It probably says: We will shoot you in the fucking face if you fuck with....
Something along those lines.

[Low D]

For the first time in 80 years, salmon are running up some urban creeks in Burnaby/Vancouver, including Still Creek - which 20 years ago was one of the most polluted waterway in the province. Years of creek rehabilitation have not been in vain.

I just took the kids to go look at the huge salmon working their way up tiny Buckingham Creek at Deer Lake Park, right next to the parking lot and playground - in fact, the creek runs under the parking lot!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c ... rnaby.html

A few years ago i posted on this thread about the return of the salmon run to some of our urban waterways here
http://pogues.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=10131&p=207566&hilit=still+creek+burnaby#p207566

So i thought i should share this too, because ADORABLE, and because it shows how rebuilding an ecosystem spreads across species:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bobcat-goes-fishing-in-burnaby-1.3837812

And four years later, right on schedule, a third run of Chum salmon have returned to the wee waterways of Burnaby & East Vancouver.

https://www.burnabynow.com/news/these-a ... 1.24224732

[DzM]

For the first time in 80 years, salmon are running up some urban creeks in Burnaby/Vancouver, including Still Creek - which 20 years ago was one of the most polluted waterway in the province. Years of creek rehabilitation have not been in vain.

I just took the kids to go look at the huge salmon working their way up tiny Buckingham Creek at Deer Lake Park, right next to the parking lot and playground - in fact, the creek runs under the parking lot!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c ... rnaby.html

A few years ago i posted on this thread about the return of the salmon run to some of our urban waterways here
http://pogues.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=10131&p=207566&hilit=still+creek+burnaby#p207566

So i thought i should share this too, because ADORABLE, and because it shows how rebuilding an ecosystem spreads across species:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bobcat-goes-fishing-in-burnaby-1.3837812

And four years later, right on schedule, a third run of Chum salmon have returned to the wee waterways of Burnaby & East Vancouver.

https://www.burnabynow.com/news/these-a ... 1.24224732

That's awesome. It's great to see nature start to recover, and to do it in such a visible way.

[Low D]

For the first time in 80 years, salmon are running up some urban creeks in Burnaby/Vancouver, including Still Creek - which 20 years ago was one of the most polluted waterway in the province. Years of creek rehabilitation have not been in vain.

I just took the kids to go look at the huge salmon working their way up tiny Buckingham Creek at Deer Lake Park, right next to the parking lot and playground - in fact, the creek runs under the parking lot!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c ... rnaby.html

A few years ago i posted on this thread about the return of the salmon run to some of our urban waterways here
http://pogues.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=10131&p=207566&hilit=still+creek+burnaby#p207566

So i thought i should share this too, because ADORABLE, and because it shows how rebuilding an ecosystem spreads across species:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bobcat-goes-fishing-in-burnaby-1.3837812

And four years later, right on schedule, a third run of Chum salmon have returned to the wee waterways of Burnaby & East Vancouver.

https://www.burnabynow.com/news/these-a ... 1.24224732

That's awesome. It's great to see nature start to recover, and to do it in such a visible way.

Walking distance from your crappy hotel!

[Frances]

Quails are so stinking cute.
One just crossed my path and I'm all... look at you!

[Low D]

Quails are so stinking cute.
One just crossed my path and I'm all... look at you!

They're so funny, like you could just grab 'em and wring their neck and eat 'em, they don't seem too concerned about people at all.

[Low D]

In good news, my daughter (not the one DzM met) got married last weekend, and I got through the whole day without anybody asking me to grant them a boon on that, the day of my daughter's wedding.

[Frances]

They're so funny, like you could just grab 'em and wring their neck and eat 'em, they don't seem too concerned about people at all.

This was an Idaho one that weirdly was casual. The ones in NV are high strung and hide right away. There's a tree on the corner chock full of them. I have a sibling who gets the best quail sitting on a fence, etc. pics, which is weird because they walk their dog. An iPhone helps, I suppose.

Death to anyone that would harm such a silly thing. It's like harming a penguin. I was reading about some psycho in California breaking the wings of brown pelicans, over 30 of them, I believe. If they find the monster they should have their anus blown up with dynamite and let the pelicans jump on their bones.

Pelicans are amazing.

[Frances]

In good news, my daughter (not the one DzM met) got married last weekend, and I got through the whole day without anybody asking me to grant them a boon on that, the day of my daughter's wedding.

I'm a little tired, but does that mean what I think it means?