SUMMER IS COMING

Soon it'll be time to take the kids on an educational vacation.

Key Quote: Nudists could pop up anywhere, he said. "I am concerned we don't know where they are going to strike."

(Thanks to Mark Buckley)

Comments

[Kathybear]

First to say- "VERMONT????" Who knew?

[Annie Where-but-here]

Spring has sprung, the grass has riz
I wonder where the nudists is.

[PM]

"Nudists could pop up anywhere"

Chortle.

How about changing the name to Brothel-burrow?

[ScottMGS]

Resident Theresa Toney...said. "This is indecent exposure where it doesn't belong."

I wonder where indecent exposure does belong?

[Annie Where-but-here]

Scott - right here.

[JD]

Is it really indecent if not accompanied by lewd behaviour? Sometimes, nudity even leads to highly praised art. Oh well. I guess all those people who were born fully clothed have a right to complain. Oh, wait...

[ScottMGS]

Hah, I can be taught! (Thank you, Siouxie!) Hover before clicking!

[Annie Where-but-here]

Scott - it's not who you think it is.

[ScottMGS]

:-) Annie, I did click, after all that. I imagine he's thinking, "I gotcher "indecent exposure" right here."

[Siouxie]

Scott, I've found out that my friend Annie's not always evil a jokester. I've fallen for that one a few times and NOW I recognize the photo. VERY nice indeed!

[ScottMGS]

Yeah, and I look just like that!

*crosses fingers behind back*

[ScottMGS]

Oopsy.

[Siouxie]

*sweep*

[Annie Where-but-here]

Anything to mess with your minds. :)

[Siouxie]

About this article. I envision wholesome families walking around enjoying their day and old fugly nekkid people popping up outta nowhere and assuming a ninja pose. The HORROR!

[ScottMGS]

*squints eyes at Siouxie*
So, you're letting her lull you into a sense of false security? I guess it's all trade-offs; eye candy vs. eye bleach.

[ScottMGS]

*snork* @ ninja pose.

Where do they hide their shuriken?

[Annie Where-but-here]

Siouxie - kinda like a life-size version version of Whack-a-mole?

[Avon]

I say, Go Brattleboro!

Yes, it's Vermont, where the last of the lakes just got cleared of their ice recently. But Brattleboro is at the south end of the state and has a lot of old hippies and boutiques. Last summer it was the local teenagers (probably with beer) who just lounged around nude, male and female, in open downtown spaces all summer. And, interviewed by Reuters, they were pretty feisty about insisting on their rights - and insisting that it wasn't sexual, let alone lewd.

The link was on this blog:
Posted by Dave on August 27, 2006 at 10:10 AM

... but it's dead now, so all you can see are your own numerous leering comments, guys!

[Siouxie]

Scott, see my x-ray photo on the previous thread. THERE!

Annie, YES! those little kiddies will be scarred for LIFE! Let's send Paris there!!!!

[ScottMGS]

*snork* @ ninja pose.

Where do they hide their shuriken?

[Annie Where-but-here]

New Hampshire has (had?) the Old Man of the Mountain.
Vermont can have the Old Man of the Oh-My-G0D!

just don't put him on a quarter.

[ScottMGS]

Shirley you aren't telling me that's your x-ray photo. If so, Punkin's got nuthin' on you!

[ScottMGS]

*snork*

Yep, goodly chunks of Old Man of the Mountain are gone.

[ScottMGS]

*cringes at the whack-a-mole comment*

[Siouxie]

GOOD HEAVENS NO, Scott! that's a Sprite™ ;-P

[CJrun]

Ayep.

And Annie's ambiguously labeled link should have banana-daiquiri swapped for pina-colada....

[ScottMGS]

Ha! ... Hmmm...

[Siouxie]

Well I'm off to feed my lazy kids perform my motherly duties. Then, American Idiot!!! Captcha's later!

[ScottMGS]

Captchas! Nooooooooo!

[WriterDude]

These people are not nudists, they're exhibitionists. Nudists stick to their camps, resorts and beaches, and guard against outsiders with the wrong attitude about social nudity. They absolutely do not go invading public areas and upsetting folks.

This stuff really honks me off, because some of my best friends are nudists, and we even gave it a try. So I'd like to think my opinion counts for something when I declare these people to be exhibitionists. I also declare them to be morons.

/unfunny rant

[Annie Where-but-here]

Hey, look, everybody - a nudist just 'popped up' on the blog!
(funny, he doesn't LOOK newish)

[Annie Where-but-here]

sheesh...or 'nudish.'

((WD))
Whoa, take that cell phone outta your pocket. Wait, you don't have any pockets.

[WriterDude]

Thanks for the laugh, Annie. And this time you guessed correctly. ;-)

Although for the record, I say we gave it a try.
Our credentials stop there.

[insomniac]

"while strolling through the park one day
in the merry, merry month of may
i was taken by surprise
by some naked aging thighs
in a moment all my appetites went away!"

[Dr. Rickenstein]

there is one thing everyone has missed so far. Someone is compiling and logging the complaints. That person's name? Audrey. See, wherever trouble is brewing, that name is always present. Just sayin'......

[Wyo Cowboy]

is this affected by "global warming?"

Off Topic Alert!!!!

Has anyone else noticed a lack of honey bees where you are this year??

kinda spooky here. almost no bees. at all.

[Wyo Cowboy]

remaining off topic (which shouldn't matter, as I seem to have the place to myself)

I don't like What I'm Reading...

[CJrun]

OT/

Wyo, you have been out of touch! At first I thought you were joshing, nut, yeah. This goes back for years. I tried to get a nice hive moved last year to save it, knowing about the shortage, but you can't move them anymore, in my State, because we also have the Africanized (NTTIAWWT) problem.

End OT/

I don't think there would have been a problem in Brattleboro if the nudists had been more Africanized.

[Wyo Cowboy]

hey there, CJ, miss you. (IANBWOC) {In a Non-Brokeback Way, of course}

The bee problem I'm referring to only goes back to last fall, and is more acute. This seems to sum it up.

[Wyo Cowboy]

Hello... hello... hello...

Hmmmmmmmm.

never seen the blog so empty.

[casey]

Wyo. Good to see ya. I've seen one honey bee this year. From what I've read, it seems to be some type of viral or bacterial infection wiping them out. From what I understand, it's not really some type of global climate thingamajigger, but simply a cyclical thing they go thru ever several years. I luvs me some honey bees, one of the most fascinating and complex animal structures ever known.

[Wyo Cowboy]

nice to "see" you, casey. been a while!

and just for the record, I'm not at all worried about global warming. Those of us in the northern states (well above sea level) kinda think it's a good idea.

[CJrun]

The word is acute. Yes, in the last year it has been acute, but it was set up by a decline for years that made the populations more vulnerable. Just in the past year, a fellow in Central Florida moved a massive hive from the walls of a house, by walking the Queen something like 30 miles away. It was worth it to do that because there has also been a chronic decline, as well.

Today, it's not legal to even move them to areas where they are needed. Not something to go off half-cocked on (although important). It has a 'story of the week' aspect, as with shark attacks; important, but not new. The long-term population decline makes recent events predictable, as isolated populations become more vulnerable to diseases and fluctuations. "Everyone" knew this was coming, which made it hard on the local Ag people to deny me a permit to have an (apparently) healthy hive moved back in January.

No briefer way to say it... it's been coming for years and it will take years to solve it, long after it's not a news story. I tend to be optimistic for the long-term, though I wish I had been allowed to move the hive.

[Punkin Poo]

Howdy, y'all! (That's my Southern Maine drawl...)

How is everybody this fine evening?

[Wyo Cowboy]

How are things in North Carolina? still got dress codes there? or are you considering a move to Battleboro?

[Punkin Poo]

*hello??*

*crickets*

*sigh* All undressed up and no where to go...

[Wyo Cowboy]

Puuuuuuuuunkinnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!

missed you too!

[nora]

I would have thought Vermont would be too cold to be nude in public. Can't see how it would help the menfolk pick up women.

[Wyo Cowboy]

CJ, hope you're right. bee-keepers around here are baffled, and it is strange to stand by Lilac and crab-apple trees, and not see a single bee. kinda eerie.

[Wyo Cowboy]

nora, in Wyoming (and probably in VT), women are used to the effects of cold on men. everything's relative. (that doesn't mean cousins, IYKWIM!)

[Resident Blonde]

Nudists keep bees? Isn't that dangerous?

Oh, and Woyyyyyyy!!

[Wyo Cowboy]

you can't disguise yourself from me, Annie.

;)

[Punkin Poo]

Wyooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Nice to be missed!

Okay, now I'm off to bed. But first I have to go outside and catch some bees to power my vibrator....all of us nude women in Northern climes are doing it these days... Night!

[Annie Where-but-here]

whut?

tee-hee!

[Wyo Cowboy]

OK, Punkin just ruined my night. I'll be up all night wondering how...

never mind.

[Annie Where-but-here]

me, too. I thought she used type 'C' batteries, not 'B.'

[nora]

Wow! Sunny So. Fla. seems so boring now....

[Annie Where-but-here]

Patience, nora. It's almost hurricane season.

[Wyo Cowboy]

perhaps, nora, you need to take a trip.

just sayin'...

[diverdowndoc]

snork at 'B' batteries

I think we left them on the roadtrip thread.

WWYYOOOOOOO!

Sorry- didn't mean to yell in your ear.

[Wyo Cowboy]

'tsok, 3d, I'm deaf anyhow.

btw, dive on any wrecks lately? just curious.

[Annie Where-but-here]

Wyooooo!!!
Yankees up 2-0. Yes, I'm two-timing you, watching the game on mlb.com.

[Annie Where-but-here]

'dive on any wrecks?' That's a rather personal question.

[diverdowndoc]

My last (best!) dive was at Epcot 2 months ago in the big fish tank. I've got a picture on my blog and will be posting more soon. Last wreck was probably in the Fla Keys. Why? Got a wreck that needs diving?

[Annie Where-but-here]

ddd - TMI! Yeesh!

[diverdowndoc]

Is it just me, or is Paula Poundstone looking more and more like a clown these days? Bill Maher is on HBO.

[Wyo Cowboy]

Annie, while I did consider the misinterpreting of such a question, I relied upon the honest interest of 3d.

I did, however, forget to consider certain (shall we suggest "underserved") bloggers might twist my purely platonic meaning.

and Annie, I find it impossible to believe that such an attractive woman as you could truly be classified as "underserved."

just sayin'.

[diverdowndoc]

So Mr. ddd just told me it was my bedtime- gotta work early.

Nighty-nite!

[Wyo Cowboy]

3d, no wrecks in Wyoming, as there is no water here. which makes what you do so interesting to me.

(quiet, Annie. ;) )

[CJrun]

(Not a matter of hope, just optimism)

Punkin', we were talkin 'bout honey bees, not bumblebees! And that's shrinkage!

[Eleanor]

Last week I was finding about 10 dead bees on my patio every day. I never saw any flying around, just dead ones lying there.
The pest control guy came by and I asked him about it, and, in a nice way, he said the equivalent of DUH! Don't you read the paper!

[Annie Where-but-here]

something about my personality, Wyo...looks aren't everything, as you know.

[blurk]

Hey, Wyo. Good to see ya!!!

Of course, all the other bloggers, also.

[Wyo Cowboy]

blurk, you just made my day.

great to "see" you.

branded calves yet?

[Annie Where-but-here]

blurkieee! Thank goodness. Wyo's picking on me.

[Wyo Cowboy]

Annie, I ain't pickin' on you, I was hittin' on ya!

Though, admittedly, nothing will come of it.

[blurk]

We branded about 2 months ago, but we don't brand calves, we do yearlings.

I've helped a couple of other ranchers with calves, though. Yearlings are easier, calves are more work but a lot more fun. Well, for us ropers anyway. Brandsmen and bulldoggers...notsomuch.

[blurk]

Annie, whatever Wyo's doing you've earned tenfold.

Wait a minute...he said he's flirtin'.

[Wyo Cowboy]

Everybody's brandin' early this year as the grass is so good, don't want the calves to get to big to manhandle.

calf ropin' is easier than team ropin'. (good healers are hard to find, you know.)

[Wyo Cowboy]

I happen to think that Annie's way flirtable.

(who cares if it's not a word)

[blurk]

One of the owner's twins...14 years old, mind you...could rope the two hind legs of a grasshopper.

Oh, did I mention he's the junior state champ? The kid is amazing.

You're right about the grass, though. We've had several cycles of rain and warm weather and you can almost see the pastures smilin'.

[blurk]

And you're right Annie's flirtable but please don't tell her I said that. She might move to Vermont.

Hey...wait a minute...

[DeskDiva]

Evenin' boys - I'm still tryin' to get caught up here.... How's things out west?

[Annie Where-but-here]

When I roped, I was always afraid of dallying my thumb. (on this blog, that sounds dirty, but I guess everything does)

[the cow]

owww *rubbing her BEEhind*

that hurts!

[DeskDiva]

Oops! Pardon me, Ms Annie - didn't see you there at first. :-)

Mind if I join in the flirtin', or does Annie have a lock on that tonight?

[blurk]

Diva, are you kiddin'? This is a free flirt zone.

[DeskDiva]

Well, then! Nice of you to say so. ;-)

And nice to see you for once this week! I keep checkin' in after you've checked out.

[Annie Where-but-here]

sorry, I'm back. I had to go look 'flirting' in the dictionary. It's been a while.

[blurk]

Which, unfortunately, I'm about to do. I was up at O-dark thirty this mornin' and tomorrow promises more of the same.

[Annie Where-but-here]

blurkie - Vermont's way too cold for me. Butt we have Black's Beach down here.
*waits for blurk to 'research' Black's Beach*

[DeskDiva]

Oh, dear, Annie. You lie.... You flirt like a pro around here!

[DeskDiva]

*sigh*

I'm always late to the game, Cutie. :-(

Well, it was nice while it lasted! :-)

[blurk]

...right after I research Black's Beach.

[Wyo Cowboy]

I lost a thumb to a table saw, though people often assume it was a ropin' accident. I simply remain quiet, and let them assume the more "romantic" version.

actually, to say I "lost" it is incorrect, as I still have it preserved in a jar.

ok, that's a little weird, but it's hard to say goodbye to part of yourself.

Annie, if you lived in Wyoming, you'd be flirted with every day. Women here are scarce. (and sheep are nervous, so they say)

[DeskDiva]

Here ya go, blurkie!!

[DeskDiva]

Hmmmm.... THAT is intriguing, Wyo - ya got a spare apartment to rent?

[Moving to Wyoming]

sooooooooooooooo women vs. sheep, huh??

[Annie Where-but-here]

diva - whut? *blink, blink*

Wyo - owie - I'd assume the same if I were them. As you may remember, I live amongst computer programmers in suburbia. No men, no singles....zzzz.

Gotta go walk the dog and hose down the children...