Curmudgeons Under Down

[Milt]

I see you point.

 

[Gertabelle]

Do they attract bats?

Bats cause too much collateral damage.

It’s kind of trendy in some areas of Denver to have bat houses – we love that they eat insects like mosquitoes and moths.

We get miller moths in these parts. Some years the swarms are so abundant, they are just everywhere!

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No, that’s not snow. Those are miller moths trying to get close to the light.

 

[Gertabelle]

Do any of you get the hummingbird moth where you live? These critters are amazing – they make a humming sound as they fly about, just like humming birds. I think they even move their wings in a similar pattern (figure eight).

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[StephieNorthCo]

Gives a new meaning to the term “It’s Miller Time”.

 

[Milt]

I’ve seen a couple of those moths. The Robins seem to like them.

 

[Muzhik]

I’ve seen a couple of those moths. The Robins seem to like them.

Do they like them plain, or with ketchup?

 

[christofirst]

This moth was outside on the wall here the other day. About 3 inches long it was, one of the larger ones.
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[Greenfields]

Moths are pretty amazing .My brother managed to get one in his ear one Summer when he was 12 or something.Stealth aircraft remind me of moths somehow.

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[christofirst]

Looks like the one in my picture is a White-lined Sphinx Moth, which is a cool name. When I worked in the high-rise office buildings downtown, sometimes I would see enormous moths clinging to the outside of the windows 50 floors off the ground.

 

[Greenfields]

That’s crazy high I wonder if they were just taking a break or egg laying

 

[christofirst]

Hopefully not egg laying. Nothing for a caterpillar to eat up there on the sterile outside of a tall building! The wind probably blew it up there. Lots of up and downdrafts between the skyscrapers. Happily, I never worked on one of the very tall ones when it was just open steel girders and beams. That would have scared me. We always went in to install the electrical after the exterior was finished and the windows were installed. Then the height never bothered me, and the views were often amazing, especially after a storm.

 

[Greenfields]

Of course,silly of me to think catapillers eat metal
You were blessed not to be affected by such heights Christofirst.
Did you ever feel disorientated with the heights while on a job?

 

[christofirst]

Just being high in the air never bothered me. I often worked on the roofs of tall buildings, but if I was near the edge I wore a safety harness. What I did not like was being high off the ground, like on top of a 20 ft. ladder, with nothing to hold on to. When I first got in the trade, the safety rules were laxly enforced, and so I might be expected to stand on top of a very tall ladder and splice live wires! This changed completely by the time I retired, with the safety rules so stringently enforced it was sometimes hard to get anything done .

The one time I worked on an open steel building still under construction, the fearless manly iron workers calmly walked across the narrow I-beams, whereas I nervously scooted across on my behind, gripping the sides of the I-beam with my hands and legs

 

[Gertabelle]

Just hearing you talk about those high places makes me shaky. Yikes, I hate high places.

 

[christofirst]

Well, those days are long behind me. Nowadays, I just sit in my rocker on the mudgie porch and call out to random passersby with my old work stories

 

[Greenfields]

At least you don’t hit them with your walking stick

 

[Gertabelle]

At least you don’t hit them with your walking stick

He probably doesn’t have the eyesight or arm strength for that sort of activity. That’s why true curmudgeons use a water hose and just randomly spray the sidewalk.

 

[katy]

Speaking of eyesight, I’ve been in the eye doctor’s office more than an hour, still haven’t seen him and am now going to be late for work. I made this early appointment so I’d be one of the first and be out of here.

 

[Greenfields]

Hope you’re still not waiting .Woke with a scratchy throat…but I never get sick !

 

[katy]

Hope you’re still not waiting .Woke with a scratchy throat…but I never get sick !

Yes, finally. I realize some appointments take longer than others, but when they send out the appointment card, I with there could be an estimate of how much time to allow. I had cataract surgery last year and didn’t realize the next year’s exam would involve checking on absolutely everything. Then there’ s the wait time…
Sore throat: gargle with warm salt water.
There are evidently a whole tribe of moles that need to get off, er, out from under my lawn!