Looking for Bigfoot

As is my habit on occasion I take a few notes but usually just sit down in the morning and write. You read a current, fresh, and hopefully entertaining entry every afternoon. In looking for topics this morning I came upon several I initially thought may be of interest. 

Foods That Should Always Be Refrigerated.

You're an adult and if you want to keep your butter out to turn rancid it's up to you. It may be you aren't aware ketchup and maple syrup are best kept cold but if you don't know eggs and mayo should be stored in the fridge by now I don't need to waste time telling you.

Strange Dog Behaviors Explained.

Why does your dog chase its tail? Fleas, OCD or impacted anal glades can all be reasons. I suggest you check for fleas yourself and leave the anal glands to the experts. As for OCD, Throw the Ball, Throw the Ball, Throw the Ball.

Organic Food: Better or Baloney?

Wanda and I go to a Farmers Market every Saturday and buy organic strawberries. I use a vinegar and water wash on my produce. There is no such thing as organic baloney.

Best and Worst Fast Food in America.

I don't care.

Then I thought I hit the jackpot. The main entry for the daily blog: 30 Things to Learn Online for Free.

Instructions for how to make a marble slide, paper dolls, balloon animals and twenty-seven other cool projects can be found on the Design Mom's Blog. 

Mom had sixty-seven comments on this single day. This blog hasn't had sixty-seven comments in three years. I tell myself its all relative. Summer is upon us and the kids are home from school. Keeping them busy just may save your sanity. Having projects to educate and entertain them is beneficial to their growth. Or you could have them check the dogs anal glands and throw the ball, throw the ball, throw the ball.

Two of her more interesting kids projects are paint your toast using edible food die and plant cultivation. Ironically both of these are practiced at the New Beginnings Retirement Community. The seniors use jam and jelly to paint their toast and rather than plant plants they simply watch them grow.

Here's what's trending now.

Jewel Kilcher, Jonny McDaid, Lindsey Lohan and Helen Hunt Rockin' a Bikini at 51. 

I don't care. 

I don't care about people that have the world by the ass and don't know enough to take advantage of it. I don't care about people that convey unrealistic expectations to us mortals. Show me someone that works a regular job every day of their life and can rock, wow and stun in a bikini and I'll be impressed, unless it's a guy, which would just be weird.

The gift that keeps on giving, for several hours.

A Utah woman was arrested after she attempted to purchase methamphetamine from an off-duty police officer.

During the attempt, Heather Rodriguez pulled a glass pipe that was coated with meth residue from her brassiere. "It is not mine," she told the officers. "I'm holding it for a friend."

When officers who were on the clock arrived, the 46-year-old told police that she was trying to buy meth for her sister for her birthday because she requested the illegal substance as a gift.

Rodriguez was booked on suspicion of possession of drug paraphernalia in a drug-free zone (think there are drug zones) and attempted possession of meth for distribution.

Rodriguez said, "I was planning on getting her an Olive Garden Gift Card but she really wanted some crank. And honestly, it was not my pipe." I never carry in my bra, burned my boobs a few too many time I have."

And in another meth related incident in Washington State;

Washington police officers found a man crammed into a giant box of stuffed animals when they responded to a burglary alarm at a Tacoma thrift store.

Officers responded to the St. Vincent De Paul thrift store and found 29-year-old Michael Howell hiding inside a box of stuffed animals in the yard outside the store.

He reportedly told officers that he had smoked meth and then jumped in the box after he got spooked by the burglar alarm.

"I came here for clothes and food, bro," Howell told police. He was charged with burglary, possession of a controlled substance and unlawful cuddling with a koala bear.

"It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities." Albus Dumbledore.

"It's not the education but what you do with it that counts." Alan M. Frieze.

"This is why your mother and I put you through college?" Reginald V. Sykes.

Oxford geneticist Bryan Sykes teamed up with a number of other researches to analyze more than 30 hair samples "attributed to yeti, bigfoot and other anomalous primates."

The results, published in an issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Academy B, concluded the hair samples came from animals like bears, wolves, cows, raccoons and horses. One sample was matched to a human and another was matched to a goat-like animal called a serow.

"I don't think this finishes the Bigfoot myth at all. What it does do is show that there is a way for Bigfoot enthusiasts to go back out into the forest and get the real thing."

The researchers tested 36 hair samples from Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Russia and the United States.

The geneticist and his team were applauded for bringing a scientific approach to what many might regard as an unscientific subject.

"Science is not biased against the identification of cryptid species," said Norman MacLeod, a paleontologist at London's Natural History Museum. "It simply suspends judgment until unambiguous positive evidence is produced."

Sykes wasn't disappointed by the results of the analysis and he's even organizing an expedition to the Himalayas next year to look for a Yeti. "That's the next logical step," he said. "We need a live 'Yeti.'"...and we'll keep going out there until we find one. 

May I suggest checking out the 2001 Pixar film Monsters Inc. Everyone knows the Yeti was banished years and years ago.

An afternoon coffee meeting, dinner, a movie and time to get to know each other makes for a nice relationship. And always remember, no means no.

A Florida 56-year-old woman was arrested after her 25-year-old friend told sheriffs officers that she chased him around with a knife and cane after he rejected her sexual advances.

The man was hanging out with Beth Hightly at her home and drinking wine when she started to put the moves on him. According to the man, when he rejected her proposition, she "got angry and lost control."

A deputy who was at a nearby convenience store saw Hightly run by "with a knife in one hand and what appeared to be a broken walking cane in the other." She dropped the weapons and she was taken into custody. She is now facing a felony aggravated assault charge.


Nothing ruins the mood faster than a knife wielding cane thrashing angry drunk.