yogis have better sex

is it bad that jezebel.com is becoming one of my favorite news sources? i love that site! today it led me to this msnbc.com story about the sexual health benefits of regular yoga practice. according to this study, women are more aroused and have better orgasms. men don't ejaculate too soon. win win.

parsnip porn and obama unicorn

found this on jezebel.com today



also this:



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possible HBC

hbc, in veterinary shorthand, means hit by car. i learned this last night when i took kingsley to the emergency clinic because of a possible hbc.

i let him out into the back yard to pee, which he did and then he wandered back to the alley in a routine search for discarded fast food treats. i was inside washing dishes. he'd been outside maybe 5 minutes before he wandered back in and headed for the living room. i didn't notice that anything was wrong until he limped back into the kitchen about 20 minutes later holding his front paw off the ground. then i saw the road rash on his hind leg. he could barely walk.

i freaked out gradually over the next couple of hours. and even though i'd checked for obvious breaks or tenderness and didn't find anything, i was full of worst case scenarios. i finally picked him up and carried his enormous 70 pounds out to the car. the vet seemed fairly confident that he is just sprained and very confident that there are no internal injuries. so, for $100 i got relative peace of mind and kingsley got one (yes, ONE) painkiller.

it's now been nearly 24 hours since the accident and he's walking with just a slight limp and putting weight on his fore leg again. he even ran around a bit in the back yard.

i am soooooo lucky. and i guess its time to get a fence.

another bobcat

i walked into the shop this morning and saw a bobcat sleeping on the ground. then i saw the blood and realized it wasn't sleeping. my coworker hit this one on the way to work this morning. :( it's so beautiful. looks like the population in nebraska may be making a recovery.

life

so the LIFE photo archive has been made available through google's image search. jezebel.com is taking advantage of this to blog photo montages of women through the decades. this one is from the 40's blog.



and here's a stunning photo of yma sumac taken in 1950.

Girls: Get Lost Love Back - ExBoyfriendGuru.net

- Dirty Tricks to Win Him Back Fast. Get Him Back in 7 ½ Days (really).

this was the banner ad on my gmail account when i signed in this morning! seven and a half days, huh? what's up with the half day? perhaps this is this how exboyfriendguru gets an edge on the competition... the other leading gurus promise you love in eight days, but who can wait that extra twelve hours? we'll get him back for you in 7.5.

sounds like a bargain.

oh, and is there an exgirlfriend guru as well?

she was my idol

what happened to tina? yipes!

thanksgiving

delicious food!

artichoke dip
turkey breast
pork loin
chicken brats
mashed potatoes
corn casserole
sweet potatoes with brown sugar and oats
stuffing
pureed squash
asparagus
green bean casserole
cranberry and walnut salad
and snow on the mountain for dessert

but most important, family!
especially grandma and niece

i'm back !

now that catty girls has come to a close, i'll be blogging here again. and i'll start with some photos of kingsley in his puppy days...

testing the waters

check out this world herald article to find out more about what i do at work! (these illustrations are not entirely accurate, nor is the info in the article, but they get the point across.

i haven't been here forever.

photos of some sandhills friends.

marathon days

i was reminiscing about the lincoln marathon by looking at some old posts while i should have been working. and i noticed something very funny. check out the shorts on this guy.

the garden spider

a conversation tonight with my brother revealed that my truck spider is in fact a writing spider, or a black and yellow garden spider, and the zig zag pattern in the web is a stabilimentum, the purpose of which is debated. My theory that the zigzag attracts prey is one of the arguments, but an even more convincing argument is that bold white lines make the web visible to birds (and fisheries biologists alike) so they will avoid flying into and wreaking havoc on a hard days work.

off like a prom dress

janna convinced katie and i to run a 5K mud run (which wasn't really a 5K, turns out it was only 2.5 miles) in prom dresses, which is not surprising cause everyone knows how much janna loves to dress up. we had a blast running through grapevines, diving face first into a massive mud pit (where i lost my sunglasses and janna and katie forged ahead unaware of the tragedy), eating pulled pork and sampling nebraska wines. oh, and we saw elvis fly.

fishing at merritt with a bucket of blood

a birthday party that included:

sangria
better than sex cake
peach cobbler
velveeta cheese dip
two coolers of beer
jagermeister
burgers
bratwurst
big cookies
little cookies
lentils
deviled eggs
20 somethings
30 somethings
50 somethings
29 pull ups for 29 years (good job cara!)
many more pull ups and pull up attempts
bicycles
cuddling with a mop
'toe to toe' with a bottle of tequila

a dog date

kingsley, chai, and their favorite neighbor layla in my backyard this weekend.

just another spider

i opened up the back of my pickup this morning to find this spider had made its home on my nets. i couldn't bring myself to destroy it cause that's about the coolest web ever, so we worked around it. an hour or so later i opened up the truck again and there was a katydid caught in the web and three grasshoppers approaching it. there must be something mesmerizing in that zigzag pattern.

massacre canyon

today i was at swanson reservoir, west of mccook and right next to massacre canyon. of course, i had to find out why massacre canyon got that name and this is what i learned.

This narrow canyon feeding into the Republican River valley was the location of the final inter-tribal battle in Nebraska and includes, as well, the remains of an important prehistoric archeological site. On the annual summer bison hunt to the Republican valley in early August 1873, the Pawnee established a camp near present-day Trenton. On August 5 the Pawnee broke camp, traveled down river several miles, and then turned north up Massacre Canyon. During the bison hunt the Pawnee were attacked by over 1,000 Brule and Oglala Sioux warriors. Between 70 and 100 Pawnee were killed or wounded compared to only six Sioux casualties. The Massacre Canyon incident was the final communal bison hunt for the Pawnee, and within three years the entire tribe moved to a permanent reservation in Oklahoma.

The archeological site is a notable example of the Woodland Tradition, which flourished along the Republican and its tributaries from approximately A.D. 500- 1000. The site appears to be the remains of a small village containing hearths, storage or refuse pits, and a burial area.

lost and found

haha! i just got a lost and found email from the secretary at the school of natural resources. the items: a women's pair of work boots, a skull and 'some sort of hip bone'. i love my school.

it's a good thing we rode slow this morning

last night at the crazy eights's show in omaha, i was reminded that my friend linda was having her annual birthday ride this morning. she and john have started a tradition of riding her age in miles every year for her birthday and then celebrating with a big brunch afterwards on their patio. and even though i didn't have my bike, clothes, shoes or a helmet (and only slept for three hours) i made it out for the ride. happy birthday linda! and thanks for loaning me your bike! (i've always loved my bike, but riding 60 miles on an upright commuter with a lazy boy saddle made me realize just how much i looove my bike)

jorge & olif

michael rode his commuter on this morning's birthday ride. it's a dutch import and probably the coolest commuter i've ever seen. i'm sure he's quite a sight riding this to work in the morning wearing a suit and tie. like something you'd see on the sartorialist.