Waiting
After a month and half of rain.
That much talked about Ford F-650
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Take Comfort Where You Can
Not for nothing
are we given at least as much
sense as God gave a goose,
which we have no access to, sensewise.
We don’t speak goose
nor recognize what body language
there may be in a body
which is mostly neck and dollop.
But down, now there is something
to build dreams on.
We have recourse
and in the morning the feathered snow
will have come and closed the roads.
Linger. Leave off.
Michael Chitwood
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It’s a skinny ol’ limb, obviously too small for the likes of me, but I’ll sidle out onto it nonetheless … I confess I cannot determine hoax or not in the Attenborough piece.
The F650 makes a Pathfinder seem like an electric spare tire car but seems real enough (and is, alas, all too plausible), and the rain-swollen floodplain is more than plausible. But a bird making those sounds … ? I know enough not to believe all I see, but it looks mighty … real. And given what parrots can do …
If real, both sad and amazing. If hoax, ditto …
Comment by el Kib — June 13, 2006 @ 7:29 am
Where are these pictures from? And who would possibly need a truck that big?
Comment by pesky godson — June 13, 2006 @ 8:04 am
Here’s Proof?
Some bridge on a back road in Concord or Sudbury which Adam is familiar with, and the truck was in our own local shopping plaza. As to your last question – who needs a Hummer? At least this guy uses the truck for work.
Comment by michael — June 13, 2006 @ 1:15 pm
Pesky, tell us your summer itinerary. Diane and I are doing lots of vicarious traveling. Tonight we go to Sweden.
Comment by michael — June 13, 2006 @ 1:16 pm
I had heard that birds copy sounds like cell phone rings, etc., but that was very cool — to hear and see. The truck: I don’t get why it would be useful to appear to be a normal pickup, just at a different (ridiculous) scale.
Any word from Matt and Debra? Couldn’t you have said “no” to no contact for the first 48 hours? Is this “no news is good news”? Have they met the president yet?
And is the Michael Chitwood supposed to say “in s a body” (7th line down) or is that a typo?
Comment by Jennifer — June 13, 2006 @ 8:13 pm
We haven’t heard a thing. How long was it before Hil and Matt contacted us from Nica? But this suspense is the best part. It makes for great sleeping, and darned if in the morning I find I don’t even need coffee to wake up. Meanwhile Diane plays that silly video over and over.
Comment by michael — June 13, 2006 @ 8:37 pm
The suspense is the best part? For whom? Remind your son he’ll have a son someday. Or worse, a daughter… 🙂
Comment by La Rad — June 13, 2006 @ 10:13 pm
Sharon and Barry bought some interntional cell phone calling package for Debbie so that she could call home regularly. Have we asked them yet if it was worth the money?
Comment by FierceBaby — June 14, 2006 @ 11:53 am
Hi there… We got an email from Debbie today saying that the international calling didn’t work on her cell phone. Don’t you love technology? Anyway, they are doing well. She said Matt would get an email to his dad today and it would be posted. Hope so!
Deb: Thanks for writing — sounds like you are having a great time.
Love you!
Comment by Barry — June 14, 2006 @ 12:13 pm
Phew!
Comment by FierceBaby — June 14, 2006 @ 12:47 pm
I see that no one bothered with my really IMPORTANT question, just that trivial stuff about are the offspring ok. Sheez.
Comment by Jennifer — June 14, 2006 @ 6:42 pm
I thought I answered all of them.
Comment by michael — June 14, 2006 @ 7:26 pm