2023.06.27 07:00 - Counting Snakes

The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways.

Riddle Sideways: Good Morning Adams ㋡
Adams Dubrovna: Good morning Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: hope the heat that other parts of the country are ok for you
Adams Dubrovna: we are getting lots of rain and thinderstorms
Adams Dubrovna: is a little warmer than it was and is very humid but could be much worse
Adams Dubrovna: how is your weather?
Riddle Sideways: and we just right
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Adams Dubrovna: we had a nice cool Spring for the most part
Adams Dubrovna: was getting a little dry but now more wet than we need
Adams Dubrovna: nice to come here to some sunshine :)

Riddle Sideways: a PaB friend of ours said hi a couple days ago
Riddle Sideways: had the longest conversation with Obsererm that have ever had
Riddle Sideways: remember that avi?
Adams Dubrovna: yes, never said anything
Riddle Sideways: right.
Riddle Sideways: and hid in the bushes
Riddle Sideways: just in hearing distance

Adams Dubrovna is waiting to hear all about Observam
Riddle Sideways: for some reason SL showed him I was online, but mine did not show him
Riddle Sideways: oh well
Riddle Sideways: reported that he had been out of SL for a long time
Riddle Sideways: and just coming back to explore
Riddle Sideways: told him about some of the nicer places around

Riddle Sideways: he asked how to make an invisible avatar
Riddle Sideways: have not seen, but he did create an invisible body wearing cloths
Riddle Sideways: there use to be an old TV show "The Invisible Man"
Adams Dubrovna: yep

Riddle Sideways: told Observ about Tuesday mornings here
Riddle Sideways: and Maybe will show
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Riddle Sideways: Read your blog yesterday
Adams Dubrovna: dream
Riddle Sideways: yes.
Adams Dubrovna: created a new narrative using sundry facts
Adams Dubrovna: and ended with what was concerning me
Riddle Sideways: was thinking about how sometimes daily life is the stuff of dreams
Riddle Sideways: non-linear
Adams Dubrovna: a fifteen minute electrical repair and a ten hour preparing and cleaning up :)
Riddle Sideways: home repair and projects are like that
Adams Dubrovna: when a heavy breakfront with fragile things inside and also underbuilt gets placed in front of a switch
Riddle Sideways: and (sometimes) other people don't understand what took so long
Adams Dubrovna: all had to be dsmantled, the glasswear washed and reassembled
Adams Dubrovna: so dream reflected some of my anxieties
Riddle Sideways: that was one of the easier things to see in dreams
Adams Dubrovna: I am a bit embrassed that is had so much ME in the first post in a month and a half
Riddle Sideways: many times the dream seems to be assembled from distance collections of random factoids
Riddle Sideways: no, was ok
Adams Dubrovna: wanted to record the experience

Riddle Sideways: couple of nights ago, a dream contained a short white snake. Probably from a posting by somebody showing difference of a rattlesnake vs. Gopher snake
Riddle Sideways: combined with the Old myth that snakes can jump (from childhood)
Adams Dubrovna: :)

Adams Dubrovna: in my case I was perplexed about why Virginia should be the State with the most snakes
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Riddle Sideways: would seem that other states would be more likely
Adams Dubrovna: yes
Riddle Sideways: and wondering Who counts and compares the numbers
Riddle Sideways: Given that there are so many different Experts and fields of study, But are there 50 snake experts counting the snakes in each state?
Adams Dubrovna: :)
Adams Dubrovna: it was a silly list
Adams Dubrovna: in any case, i was hitting lots of snakes digging the trench
Adams Dubrovna: they must be hiding underground
Riddle Sideways: or you hit upon the mother lode of underground snake
Riddle Sideways: a conferrence
Riddle Sideways: just your luck
Adams Dubrovna: they were angry when I cut them in half
Adams Dubrovna: I guess I would be too
Adams Dubrovna: in all fairness
Riddle Sideways: it might have ruined the rest of their day

Adams Dubrovna: let the log show a large gap while we contemplated their day ruined
Adams Dubrovna: well 2 minutes
Riddle Sideways: it was a long 2 minutes

Adams Dubrovna: in other news did you notice they fixed the I95 bridge in 12 days in Eaglesland
Riddle Sideways: did you, in waking life, research Virginia having the most snakes?
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Adams Dubrovna: www says we can't count snake populations
Adams Dubrovna: Texas has most species and Arizona has most poisoness snakes
Adams Dubrovna: I think someone made up this list :)
Riddle Sideways: a quick browse said that
Riddle Sideways: and another said Florida has the most
Riddle Sideways: yep
Adams Dubrovna: Virgina has one the the fewest number of species although Alaksa has None
Adams Dubrovna: Florida may now have the biggest snakes since boa constrictors have moved in
Riddle Sideways: besides saying we can't count snake populations, it also says of the priorities of important census projects, counting snakes is about the lowest
Adams Dubrovna: :)

Riddle Sideways: AND to think; that somebody cared enough to register, write and post a website www.usasnakes.com

Adams Dubrovna: the best way is to count snakes crossing the roads
Adams Dubrovna: why did the snake cross the road?
Adams Dubrovna: Answer: to be counted
Adams Dubrovna: Answer 2: to chase the chicken
Riddle Sideways: one answer: the chicken carried it
Adams Dubrovna: ahhh, answer 3
Riddle Sideways: 3. to see why the chicken went
Riddle Sideways: 4. to be part of the joke
Adams Dubrovna: to play chicken
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Adams Dubrovna: it appears that we would not be good candidates to count snakes--not taking the project seriously
Adams Dubrovna: lots of good snake infomation on the www
Riddle Sideways: well it is good to have a least one project we will Never get done on the list
Adams Dubrovna: :)
Adams Dubrovna: I wonder if this is the first PaB session to discuss snake populations in the United Stets
Adams Dubrovna: Arizona has 13 species of rattlesnakes and it is believed that 1/3 of all rattlesnakes live in Arizona

Riddle Sideways: a wandering mind just went from chicken jokes to Super Chicken cartoon and had to browse for the Super Chicken theme song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKss2pBYQ6Y
Adams Dubrovna: hmmm

Adams Dubrovna: well thank you for hosting this morning
Adams Dubrovna: I hope you have a wonderful weekAdams Dubrovna: take good care
Riddle Sideways: thanks for Being here
Riddle Sideways: by All
Adams Dubrovna: thank you too
   --BELL--
Adams Dubrovna: bye for now