September 10, 2003

Wanted: Professional Cloud Seeder

We finally got rain yesterday. Not much. More of a taunt from Mother Nature, really. Like trying to quench your thirst with an eye dropper. What we need is a good old downpour with flash flood warnings.

Time to start the sacrifices.

Hmmm...maybe I better call PETA first. See if there are any varmints on their B list. Ones they wouldn't get too overly upset about seeing vivisected on an altar at midnight. Like mice. You don't really hear PETA getting too worked up about mouse traps or poisons. I could be wrong. Perhaps this could be the target of PETA's next ad campain:

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I hope not, because every fall when the weather turns chilly, we always have a few stray mice that I'm not willing to live-trap and release back out into the wild.

Posted by Cathy at September 10, 2003 09:06 AM
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Why don't you save the autumnal mice for the Samhain sacrifices? ;-)

BTW, I wouldn't bother with PETA - I suspect that they'd side with any critter before they would a mere human.

Posted by: aelfheld at September 11, 2003 10:32 AM

See. See! You go and pat my head and tell me I'm not "thought-challenged" and then make me have to admit that I don't know what the Samhain sacrifices are!

And I liked the elephant joke.

Posted by: Cathy at September 11, 2003 02:46 PM

Samhain (pronounced 'sow-een' or 'sow-in' among other Gaelic variants), is one of the two Celtic festivals that divide the year. It's celebrated on October 31st/November 1st (http://www.celticspirit.org/samhain.htm).

Beltaine, celebrated May 1st, is its apposite (http://www.celticspirit.org/beltaine.htm).

You know about both of these celebrations, you just didn't know the names and origins.

Glad you liked the joke. ;-)

Posted by: aelfheld at September 13, 2003 11:29 AM

:) Your very kind, Aelfheld. I still feel ignorant, but thank you.

Where did you go to school? I may have to send my boys there.

Posted by: Cathy at September 14, 2003 09:02 PM

Benjamin Franklin Sr. High in New Orleans, LA; Centenary College in Shreveport, LA; Weatherford College in Weatherford, TX.

My collection of trivia has been accumulated through mostly extra-curricular reading, and a memory notable for retaining useless facts.

Posted by: aelfheld at September 14, 2003 10:15 PM