Weather:Rain and 70 again.
Last Monday I was flying down to pack Mom up. This morning she is headed to Ironwood to buy groceries, WOW what a week. It was a lot of work but her new house is really starting to shape up. Gonna be time to kick back and smell the roses pretty soon now.
I can’t tell you what has been going on in the UP, but today it is back to the grind. I gotta get back to work, I’m broke LOL.
Tom Miller sent me a cool video, cool ass pictures with American Pie from Don McLean Click here
In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in
Kenya after graduating from Northwestern
University . On a hike through the bush, he
came across a young bull elephant standing
with one leg raised in the air. The elephant
seemed distressed, so Peter approached it
very carefully.
He got down on one
knee, inspected the elephants foot,
and found a large piece of wood
deeply embedded in it. As carefully
and as gently as he could, Peter
worked the wood out with his knife,
after which the elephant gingerly
put down its foot. The elephant
turned to face the man, and with a
rather curious look on its face,
stared at him for several tense
moments. Peter stood frozen,
thinking of nothing else but being
trampled. Eventually the elephant
trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked
away. Peter never forgot that
elephant or the events of that
day.
Twenty years later, Peter was
walking through the Chicago Zoo with his
teenaged son. As they approached the
elephant enclosure, one of the creatures
turned and walked over to near where Peter
and his son Cameron were standing. The large
bull elephant stared at Peter, lifted its
front foot off the ground, then put it down.
The elephant did that several times then
trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at
the man.
Remembering the encounter in 1986,
Peter could not help wondering if this was the same
elephant. Peter summoned up his courage, climbed
over the railing, and made his way into the
enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and
stared back in wonder. The elephant trumpeted again,
wrapped its trunk around one of Peter legs and
slammed him against the railing, killing him
instantly.
Probably wasn’t
the same fucking elephant.
This is for everyone who
sends those heart-warming bullshit
stories.
