I already know 2011 is going to be great year, or at least a prosperous one. In just the last couple of weeks, I have received over a dozen emails from all over the world informing me of impending wealth. I was most touched by the woman from Liberia, smuggled to Italy and “lulled into […]
Silly stuff and bluster
During the boring period on a plane when “anything with an on/off switch” must be turned off, Kingfisher and I like to browse through the SkyMall catalog in the seat pocket. Recently, we contemplated an item called “The Slanket.” As have, apparently, so many before us. The Slanket comes in several different models and many […]
After four years of blogging, I tend not to look at my stats quite as much as I used to. After taking a look at some recent search strings that landed people here, I can see why. Laura Erickson massage…
If you farm coffee in this unnamed country, you have permission to slack off and take a few short cuts with your mulching.
Like some other bloggers, I was provided with a Wingscapes BirdCam to futz around with. While I’ve been waiting for something spectacular to show up (my heart has been set on a Harris’s Sparrow or Evening Grosbeak), everybody else has…
Once again, oddball search strings that landed people here at Bootstrap: da da da song in commercial with green couch elderly farting cure birds with 2 heads ear candling in Israel circus cannibalism consequences of eating rabbit poop dunk stool…
Many of you may have read the recent coverage of the effort to save amphibians from a fungal infection by creating safe captive populations. This is a topic I’ve covered previously, and you can read an update here at Mongabay….
Two laugh-out-loud portions for only $2.89 each.
When I receive a holiday letter, I sometimes don’t know whether to laugh or cry. It seems few people have mastered the art of a lively overview of interesting and relevant information and instead get bogged down in trivial or…
Well, I haven’t done this in awhile, so here is another installment in the Idiotic Google Searches series. More actual search strings that brought people to bootstrap… robot chicken farmers natural human popping sounds elder bug secrets news background scratching…