hummingwolf | Morning notes

This is how my brain works: Last night in chat, DC mentioned something about Pork Riblets. After asking if "Riblets" was a brand name, I babbled on about the word making me think of ribs and ribbits (frog sounds) at the same time, which got me trying to remember if frogs have ribs (forgive me, this was late at night and my memory was halfway to sleep). So after trying to remember something about the 10th-grade frog dissection other than the fact that our group's frog's brains were insufficiently scrambled and it kept trying to crawl out of the bag it was stored in, I grabbed the Franco to Goethals volume of the encyclopedia off the shelf and found myself looking at drawings of froggie vertebrae until I spied the label for the frog's Achilles tendon, which set me off thinking about what an amphibian Trojan war would be like. What ruse would Greek frogs use to get inside the city? Frogs tend not to ride horses into battle, you know. DC was a bit nonplussed when I told him he had to come up with an answer before I could go to bed or I'd be lying awake all night wondering about different wooden devices to be hidden in. Finally he came up with wooden lilypads (too flat), wooden flies, and wooden toadstools. Anybody else have other ideas?

In other news: Walked over three miles two days in a row. Amazingly still feeling capable of walking this morning, in spite of getting too little sleep. Hooray!

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froggy went a-courtin' he did ride, mmm-mmm, mmm-mmm

so why not a tiny little wooden horse? a pony? hmmm-mmm?

After reacquainting myself with the lyrics, I'm now seeing Helen of Troy as a mouse.

what a story! what a slant on things! wowie. i had never seen all those lyrics before. cast o' thousands, i tell ya. ;)

:-( It had such a sad ending. I was actually rooting for the couple.

Would the the little mousepoles have led an amphibious life?

Hmmm... it's hard to say how these odd hybrids might turn out. As a half-hummingbird half-wolf creature, let me just say that a mixed species life isn't always easy.

Still lookin' for a pack to help hunt down the nectar? :-)

I think I can relate.

This is your revenge for "Vicki, row the boat ashore," isn't it?

[giggling in evil manner] OH yeah. :D

off to the library. hope you get out into the sunshine again!

Alligator, the obvious choice.

Or a turtle.

Love the tangential thinking.

Glad you are feeling better.

Ooh, a Trojan Turtle! Not only a cute mental picture, but it's got alliteration.

I'm also glad I'm feeling better, though I'm not sure I'll get much done today what with having had about 5 hours' sleep last night. We'll see.

You can do it.

Heck, I got less sleep than you did and just look at all the emailing, posting and Lj I got done.

I even tossed some raw meat at Lil Un and gave the cats some oatmeal.

Wait.

Un

Methinks you have more energy to begin with than I have, so you can get away with sleep-deprivation better than I can. I'm fading fast and wondering if I'll manage to eat something before passing out or after.

Hey, could you toss some raw meat my way?

Sure I have more energy.

I also have an energy sucking vortex that requires constant attention, feeding, walking and prying the remote of her hands.

And Lil Un keeps me busy too.

I would never toss meat in your general direction.

Let me know what you like and I will cook it for you in Gatlinburg.

Unwilly

Perhaps you've got me overthinking... but I'm imagining frogs from one pond invading another pond... Trojan Duck. The duck goes into the pond. Ducks are often found in ponds, though a large wooden duck is wondersome and hte frogs might even be tempted to see if it would float on their pond, unsuspecting that the duck is large enough to house many rival anurans.

Of course you're overthinking it! Isn't that also a large part of your charm? :-)

Trojan duck sounds adorable! Though I'm partial to the idea a Trojan turtle--turtles are also found in ponds, plus they're something I could see frogs riding into battle like humans ride horses. Heck, I'd certainly be scared if I saw enemy troops coming at me on snapping turtles.

I was actually a bit envious of the turtle idea. I forced myself to come up with an idea of my own before looking at the current suggestions. But the turtle definitely has the benefit of making sense both outside the pond (city) and within.

I used to imagine a little Pondworld when I was little. My frog alter ego would have had more adventures in it if I could have figured out what was happening in that world. :-) I couldn't think of anything.

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