Sparky just told me that today is National Dog Day. He says that he has been hinting around all day, but I wasn’t picking up on it.
In my defense, Sparky is naturally charming and attentive, so it wasn’t obvious that he was being an extra good dog.
I will give him another piece of orange chicken to celebrate his day.
Silo is the only TV show I’m watching as each new episode comes out. It’s the season finale, but Sparky figures I should play with him rather than see how the season wraps up. Sparky is trying to piss me off by blocking the TV, but jokes on him. He’s is more entertaining and has a better plot.
Twitter/X is an interesting place today. With the passing of Dolly Parton, celebrities are telling their stories about working with her. It’s not a surprise that nobody has a bad thing to say. What is surprising is the range of people who have a story to tell.
There are also a bunch of clips of her performances and appearances on Johnny Carson and other late night TV shows.
Ricky Gervais provided a Dolly Parton quote. “You don’t get the rainbow without the rain.”
Be sad that she’s gone, but grateful that Dolly Parton ever existed.
Sparky adds cuteness to these IKEA end tables I’m getting rid of.
This trip to Maroon Bells, Colorado, 19 years ago, convinced me to never go backpacking again.
Youtube suggested a channel to me that brought that trip to mind. It’s about people who die on hiking trips.
This mushroom is gigantic.
No worries, Sparky wouldn’t take a bite of a mushroom. He’s looking for a gnome or pixie.
If it’s not a preponderance of mushrooms, then it’s a toxic car fire on the highway. Leave me out of it. I won’t even scramble a drone to investigate. Fortunately there is a slight breeze to the South, so this will be easy to ignore.
It was probably one of those modern vehicles who thinks humans should just obey. It would be no surprise if the driver refused a call from his mother, so his phone told his car to self-immolate. Something along that line.
I could check local Facebook, but the social media bots have got their story straight by now.
Too funny.
These are a few of the splendid mushrooms that we passed on our morning stroll. There are so many, and some of them look tasty.
Then I remembered something I read in a book. “Dyin’ ain’t a good way to start the day.”
I looked up edible mushroom in our area. There is a poisonous mushroom that looks a little bit like every good kind of mushroom. My mushroom is within the margin-of-error for either species.
All those mushrooms got me thinking.
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