Let's see those boids, buddies!

It is also (good timing on this one) Let's Laugh Day



Laughter may be the common language of the world, but it's also good medicine. Laughing reduces stress, strengthens your heart, is good for your lungs and improves your immune system - it also makes your face look nice.



If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.

Wishing you sunshine and angels!

oops...we missed one (march 15th)

http://www.cnn.com/EARTH/9803/15/buzzards/

In his book Capistrano Nights, Fr. St. John O’Sullivan, Pastor of Mission San Juan Capistrano 1910-33, relates how the swallows first came to call the Mission home. One day, while walking through town, O’Sullivan saw a shopkeeper, broomstick in hand, knocking down the conically-shaped mud swallow nests which were under the eaves of his shop. The birds were darting back and forth through the air squealing over the destruction of their homes.

“What in the world are you doing?” O’Sullivan asked.

“Why, these dirty birds are a nuisance and I am getting rid of them!” the shopkeeper responded.

“But where can they go?”

“I don’t know and I don’t care,” he replied, slashing away with his pole. “But they’ve no business here, destroying my property.”

O’Sullivan then said, “Come on swallows, I’ll give you shelter. Come to the Mission. There’s room enough there for all.”

The very next morning, the padre discovered the swallows busy building their nests outside the newly restored sacristy of Father Serra’s Church.

Pretty funny!

Well, hey, it could be worse-like in Austin, Texas, where every March, about 1.5 million pregnant bats migrate from Mexico and hang out under the Congress Avenue Bridge.

TODAY'S TRIVIA:

1628 - Massachusetts colony founded by Englishmen
1702 - Anne Stuart becomes queen of England

1822 - Boston, Mass incorporated as a city (Margarita - got a gif for this? Hmmm?)

1831 - 1st US bank robbery (City Bank, NY/$245,000)
1928 - "Amos & Andy" debuts on radio

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS:

1848 - Wyatt Earp, sheriff (OK Corral)
1933 - Philip Roth, novelist (Portnoy's Complaint)
1936 - Ursula Andress, actress (She)
1947 - Glenn Close, actress (Fatal Attraction)
1955 - Bruce Willis, actor (Die Hard)

Morning Rusty. I woke up really late this morning, it was nearly lunchtime before I came round to the life of the living. LOL

Where is everyone on Bon today, no signs of life there as yet. Have they all been abducted in the night. Annie B.

Annie - it *is* so maybe they are busy. LOL

If Life Was Like Computers

If you mess up your life, you press "Ctrl, Alt, Delete" and start over!

To get your daily exercise, you just click "run"!

To "add/remove" someone in your life, you click settings and control panel.

To improve your appearance, you adjust the display settings.

When life gets too noisy, you turn off the speakers.

When you lose your car keys, you click "find".

"Help" with the chores is just a click away.

When you click "send", the kids go to bed immediately.

To feel like a new person, you click "refresh".

If you don't like cleaning house, you click "delete".

What's your Favorite Funny Movie? What do you watch when you need a break from life's serious concerns?

I thought of this because we watched the first two Austin Powers movies a couple nights ago and I laughed myself delirious. I haven't laughed that hard since I gave up drugs. (Kidding!)

We also cracked up at Little Nicky. (Man, this is embarrassing!) Mr. Beefy, the talking dog, is just too funny for words.

Ace Ventura and Cheech & Chong always manage to provoke gales of laughter, too. If you aren't in the mood to laugh, you will be after Cheech throws his dirty clothes in the toilet and pees in the clothes hamper!

LOVE Austin Powers! Haven't seen "Goldmember" yet, but the first two are in my video library. What a hoot! Every time I see Austin in his Union Jack undies dancing to the DiVinyls, I am on the floor in hysterics!

Good Morning, Talkers!

, thought you'd never ask....

What's with Boston and the beans anyway?

When we watched the second Austin Powers - I waited all the way thru the movie for the credits so I could see who Fat B*st*rd was. It NEVER entered my mind that it was Mike Meyers. How often does a movie really fool you?

We also like Innerspace and Galaxy Quest. What a Star Trek spoof! Tim Allen as Kirk and Alan Rickman as Spock are priceless! Mystery Men is pretty funny, too. Super cast!

Oh boy, you got me now. I don't watch that kind of comedy unless I really have to. I saw a funny film the other day called Saving Grace, starring Brenda Blethyn. It is about a widow who's husband left her with nothing but debt, and she took to growing pot to earn money.

Jenni and Sarah should know the film I mean, you may not have heard of it though.

My very very favorite film is Erin Brockovich with Julia Roberts. I like the humour.

There is life on Bon. The boat has turned up.



Hi Sally HiMargarite

Margarita - funny how something so childish can make ya laff!

My space gif didn't work. Waaaagh!!

Annie - usually I go more for the smart-alek, dry humor like Best of Show and The Big Chill - but once in a blue moon we go in for a bunch of STOOPID movies and now is a good time. I'm already having war nightmares like I had when I was a kid in the 60s. So the sillier the better just before bedtime.

We also ROFLed over Zoolander. Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson are two of the dumbest supermodels on the planet.

We'll have to ask John Lidington about the beans and Boston - he's down in that neck of the woods.

Thank goodness the wind is blowing from the WEST today. Whew.

Oh what a beautiful morning:

Chocolate Caramel Day

Poultry day

Did you say POULTRY DAY?

chicken dance ChickenDanceAA.mid (14.9 k)

Forgot to post my catch of the day here:

A happy family at the gate:

ROTFLMHO. That's got me jiggin' about.

http://cardfountain.com/fun/liftingmeupp01/index.php

mornin' buddies...hey, i live right next to san juan capistrano...and today is a BIG day! they even have a swallow parade...

swallow day parade

a little history...
swallow history

gotta get ready for work

It looks like a lot of fun! Have you got a nice sunny day for it?

rusty, yes, very sunny! poor barry and sherry are now stuck here until colorado thaws out! i will go down to sjc at lunch and see what pics i can snap of the festival will be a nice distraction from the news:-(

It looks like the parade will be held on the 22nd - wonder if the birds sit outside of town until the parade begins?



Sunny here, too but a little chilly - I'm still going to wear my clogs and skip the socks. Brave, huh? I am always pushing the season with my bare feet!

Gotta go - Lunch with Dadz Day!

Why didn't anyone mention the three funniest movies of all time, Airplane, Blazing Saddles and Animal House followed closely by Caddy Shack, Young Frankenstin and MP and the Holy Grail. In the more obscure category but very funny, Being There, Top Secret and Donna Flor and her Two Husbands.

in the obscure category: "200 Cigarettes"

it's a hoot;)

no mention of peter sellars as the pink panther? or what about "i love you alice b. toklas?"

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schedule of events...guess i will run down there at lunch and snap some pics

All Swallows Day Celebration

Sure is lonesome around here. I found a penguin on the reef cam, or maybe it's a banded butterfly.



A couple of lucky visitors to the Small Wall:



And this is The Attack of the Killer Worms or something...

Hiya, Just thought I would show my face again. Done the laundry, cleaned the kitchen, cooked dinner fell asleep. Ok so what's new.....Annie B.

A little gate action.

I think the kids came to the door and asked, "Can Jake come out and play?"

Hiya

Just got in from work.

Pretty sunset

Hands across the water... hands across the sea!

It's is beautiful tonite! The sun sets here behind our tall spruce windbreak so I don't see it happen. Sunrise can be beautiful right straight out our front door though. One of these days I should get up for it. LOL No archive here.

I think Linda told them NO!



Hi JENNI

Looks like we may have some night divers here.

It's Jake suppertime and he can't go out until he finishes his vegetables.



The worm has (re)turned! He only ran once above:

hi gang, great sunsets! hope someone is still around...went to the san juan mission at lunch and the swallows festival, got some pics

this is a store right across from the mission...i went in, but didn't hear or see any free story!


full costume!


this is a swallows nest in the roof of the mission


and of course, my favorite, the wogga cellar!

Just like the sun going down on me....



About time for me to head out - settle in with a good book and fall asleep early - while BB plays pinochle online with his family.

Cynde, here's a big hug for you. I was hoping you'd make it in here before I had to go. You are the best! I love the swallow nests. Amazing that those pretty little birds manage to build themselves, what look to be, mud jars! The Aztec dancer is beautiful! Will you go over there on Saturday for the parade?

Hiya Rusty, and Bye Rusty

a dark one for ya....



And Hi Annie, and Hi Cynde

This is all very interesting - swallows and the mission, and aztecs, and all. Very interesting!

Nice pictures girlie. The nests under the eves remind me of our holidays in greece. We would sit on the veranda in the evenings with the wogga, and watch the adult swallows feeding the babies. Neat. Annie B.



Night night Rusty. I won't be far behind ya.

And I won't be far behind you, Annie. :-)

Blimey, went on a 'tour' of MTVLive and couldn;t get it off the monitor. Still there. I'd better close down and get rid of it.

Night Night BT Buddies and Friends

See you all tomorrow

rusty, glad you stuck around (although you are probably gone by now with your book)...annie, i like the idea of drinking wogga in greece! hi jenni! here is one more pic...oh, rusty, i don't think we will make the parade...michael gets back in town late friday night, and i think we will be catchin' up on things!

would that be an example of the arithematic commutative principle:

14(X) = 1(x) + 1(X) + 1(X) ...

actually that example might be the distributive property...

hmmmm....

;)

Rusty. Night night. Enjoy your book.

Jenni. Hope you get rid of that stupid MTV. Night night.

Cynde. I won't pass any comment about Friday.

bob, what are you on, and what are you talking about???

ok, just read my post...that isn't exaclty what i meant...but oh well!

Late here. Guess it is time to travel up them o' apple and pears. LOL. See you all tomorrow. Annie B.

Nice sunsets and pictures. Where are the Swallows? Maybe they got caught on the 405.

sorry cynde,

switching over from canadian to mexican beer...acclamating(sp?) my system...8 more days;)

that might actually have been the associative property...

;)

Way past my bedtime. Night night everybody. See you all tomorrow. Annie B.

cecil...i saw lots of hummingbirds and little sparrows, but no swallows!

bob, i think you have already left for vacation

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quote:

time to travel up them o' apple and pears

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Annie - what in the world?? does that mean? LOL

Cynde Lee - lovely wisteria - looks like it's draped with bouganvillea. That's called the gilding the lily. I forwarded the pix to Dadz and BB - they gave them two thumbs up!

rusty, i knew you would know what it was! i have a bigger pic i will forward when i get to work. this one was big, so i had to keep shrinking it, and it really doesn't do it justice. the gardens at the mission were probably one of the best things (seen one mission in so ca, pretty much seen em all!)

Cynde - it is stunning in the larger shot. Thank you! BB and I planted some wisteria ten years ago at the rear of the grape arbor - North side and got a couple flowers the second year and nothing but leaves ever since. That vine must have smelled wonderful!