The Warragamba Dam catchment has received rain

Water flowing into Warragamba Dam, Sydney's main water supply dam, has raised the water level by more than one metre, or five percent.

Pollies are asking questions about paying for a desal plant.

The pictures shown on the late news on Nine were great, the Blue Mountains are awash.

South-East Queensland's not exactly dried out, either, although there's been a price paid.

The (RSPCA) estimates around 100 cattle and a large number of horses drowned in the Coomera River after the northern end of the Gold Coast received more than 360mm of rain in 24 hours over the weekend - the most intense day-long deluge in a century.

and

More rain on the way

Weather bureau senior forecaster Ben Annells said an unstable northeasterly air flow had brought heavy rain to the southeast coastal region.

"A lot of places in southeast Queensland have had the majority of their average monthly rainfall in 24 hours," he said. "Places like Southport and Logan have exceeded their monthly average already."

Mr Annells said other parts of the state could now look forward to rain.

And I've had a bit of rain here, too. An inch. But added to the four inches the other week it's been wet - and the grass is getting really, really long! People have been trying to mow between the showers over the weekend and today.

Yes, but do they run on emissions?*

Turbine-lit highways!

They certainly look good.

*Nah. Wind, not emissions...

(oops! Thanks Mini!)

Tomorrow's the day!

Yeah. It's Cardiologist day.

Cardiac ablation. Or trans-septal puncture if the ablation through the femoral artery doesn't work. (It's in an awkward spot.)

Thisafternoon at about 5:20 I got a call from the hospital, I'm scheduled late, late morning or early afternoon. So, if I like I can have a light breakfast of tea and toast at 6am.

Oh goodie. Get up earlier so I can eat. I still have to be there at 8am...

I'll pass on that. Hopefully there's a cancellation and I'll be done early. The later they do me the less chance there is I'll be coming home tomorrow night. Last time they kidnapped me overnight and I didn't get fed, oh, except for some sandwiches, half of which I couldn't eat - I hate pickles and mustard they make me gag, so I just can't eat sandwiches with those condiments on them. The cuppa was good, though.

Okay, I'll finish off this post I started to write the other day and stick it up (or maybe not).

I'll put up a post or a comment when I get home. I'll email MDFD a link to this, she'll know what's going on and can comment here if she gets news while she's at work.

I'm expecting everything to go well, as it did last time. Apart from being very uncomfortable afterwards (can't move for 4 hours, at all, and you're pumped full of fluid... imagine the bladder after eight hours!). This time I'll be under general anaesthetic so not drinking so should be okay.

Update:
And golly-gee, I'm so looking forward to later in the week, when I get back from hospital, I have another job application to complete. Due on 12 Feb.
Arrgh!

Hey! It's Valentine's Day soon... nah, who am I kidding.

Update 2:
Nearly forgot. Got a card from the vet today. The local vet where I took Bundy to be euthenased.
I started crying again. I thought I was OK.
Well, I still cry about the other dogs, and my Dad, and my Nanna.
I'm a sook.
Nil by mouth after midnight, so I'll be going to bed soon.

Climate "mistakes" and lies

Links from Wand.

Dr. Richard North, who does investigative journalism at the EU referendum blog,
has a comprehensive analysis and backgrounder on the latest in a series of
blunders by the IPCC that have been uncovered. It complements the just released
story by Jonathan Leake of The Sunday Times that highlights a leading British
scientist calling for IPPC to “tackle the blunders or lose all credibility“

Here is Dr. North’s introduction to the issue.

and

Following an investigation by this blog (and with the story also told in The Sunday Times), another major "mistake" in the IPCC's benchmark Fourth Assessment Report has emerged. (Link: "Africagate".)

Insiders 7/2/10

Don't forget. I'll try not to.

Andrew Bolt is on so maybe they'll let him speak - I suspect it will be a retrospective of the Victorian fires last year.

Wonder if they'll mention climate change?

Wonder if they'll mention the non-performance of KRudd?

Okay, they covered that.

Now it's:

Taylor - Clive Palmer and his squillion dollar coal deal with China, and Anna Blight was seen crawlingup his....

Mischa - oh! Kevin caught out in another lie about Belinda Neal's anger management... Bolt - gee! What a surprise, Kevin lied!

Bolt - Malcontent Turncoat says he will still cross the floor! Bolt said "AGW has gone down the toilet, they need to stop pushing the AGW/ETS/CARP.

Rudd - interview about the possibility of losing the next election - I heardd the interview on AM. Arrgh! (Can't find the link, he's soooo boring they don't have any special links to what he burbles.)

Tony Abbott. Reducing CO2, we must. IPCC under a cloud. Respect their decision but not take it as gospel truth.
Pensions - you might have to wait longer.
Private health insurance - it's important to have strong health insurance.
Christmas Is - totally committed to offshore policy. Opposed to people taking to the sea in boats.
Will adopt detention for all illegal arrivals.
Election - ALP keeps changing their mind about the election. Tony suggests Sept/October for the election.
ETS - people will be worse off on the ALP's ETS, $500 - $600, on 80k & 120k.

Your Shout in a bar - oooh, I think they like Abbott more than Turnbull. But they seem to like Rudd.... hmm.

Mischa - Government business in Parliament, Intergenerational Report, Spending in schools,

Bolt - Abbott's first policy out in parliament and the conversation changed. It's about money.

Taylor - Abbott not aiming for the green/light green vote, he's arguing for something he's not sure he believes in. They are losing the argument on the money.

Bolt - Abbott doesn't need to say that AGW is crap, Rudd et al are saying for him.

Bumper sticker - We have to save Australia again from Rudd's Great Big New Tax.

Bolt - that's what it is!

Taylor - Well, ALP should talk about Abbott's great big hole in the budget.

None of them really said that we're warming all to hell... perhaps it's a sign.

Bolt - Abbott's contradiction, he's spending all this money on something he doesn't believe in, perhaps he should have an inquiry.

Taylor - agrees that there should be an inquiry... Barry agrees.

Rudd's bumper sticker - Mister Abbott in his own words says that Climate Change is Crap.

(Thanks for the comment on the Wongbot post, Wand, I'll look later.)

Taylor - Copenhagen... Bolt - five aren't doing anything... Taylor - they are taking action!

Bolt - We'll be shipping jobs overseas. The science is now less sure than a year ago. Cautious policy, buy time, see where the science is.

Taylor's dense.

The photo of Monckton...
Barry - Lord Monckton is an extremist - Bolt disagrees. Taylor agrees that there's plenty to attack Monckton on other than his eyes.
Bolt - personal abuse is not acceptable. Monckton exposed the paper about supplying the UN with money for redistribution to other nations. This IS governmnet.
Taylor - oh but, but, but....
Barry - But Abbott met with Monckton after he announced his policy...
Bolt - it's time to give the sceptics a go, there needs to be balance.
Taylor - Rudd hasn't explained.
Bolt - Rudd's based on spin and when he realises that people aren't convinced, he spins more.

Barnaby Joyce at the press club. Oops.

Lindsay Tanner - Meet the Press interview.

Talking Pictures - Warren Brown - oh dear. Budgie smugglers. Great photo of Abbott staring at Rudd in parliament.

Obama, visiting in march. Taylor - a photo opp for Rudd.

Rudd is on Q&A Monday night.

Bolt protests being on the couch and not on the far right chair. Taylor says she's comfortable there.

Drugs, I need drugs. I have a headache. It's raining and dull outside.

Mountain death may have been averted

SYDNEY school student Nicholas Delaney died only hours before a two-day police search located him and his five companions in rugged bushland, but if the group had been carrying a personal locator beacon they could have been found much sooner.

I only heard about this tragic accident today. When I heard the story I got goosebumps.

Perhaps they could have been found sooner had they carried the EPIRB, but they didn't, and it was in the Blue Mountains - and their location should have been reasonably easy to pinpoint as they had let people know where they were.

However, EPIRB disregarded, I'm sure that they would have been found sooner if the volunteer members of the state rescue associations had been asked to assist in the search. These volunteers are available at any time for activities like these. They happily assist in searches of every kind. As a resource they should have been used. The group was missing for more than two days before the volunteer searchers were called out.

I'm sure the NSW Coroner will get to the bottom of this... I'll be interested to read the report.

More reports here.

Wongbot short circuits....

Tony Jones, attack bantam, asks. Then away she goes, or not.

Read it here...

And I just think I need to fix this:

PENNY WONG: Well, we've put out an enormous amount of modelling; in fact, I think Mr Abbott criticised us the other day in the Parliament for putting out too many pieces of paper. But can I just say, make this point, Tony - and Mr Howard himself said that it was unrealistic for people to say there wouldn't be an impact on costs if we were going to do the things that were needed. You can't fix climate change without costs. The question answer is: how do you best pay for that?!

Interesting about these "working families" and others who will get compensation. Where exactly do these people, who think that this Extra Tax System is such a fantastic idea, think that the compensation will come from? Where do they think that the producers of every product we need, and some we don't, who use energy, and those who transport these goods, who do they think will be paying for these taxes imposed for energy?

Hint: manufacturers, transporters and general businesses which will all pay increased costs will not be absorbing these increases.

Update:
You know, you could replace the "PENNY WONG" with "KEVIN RUDD" and noone would know the difference! Is she some sort of clone? Listening to so many in the ALP ranks of the rank they do all sound the same!

Ya wouldn't read about it II

Well, that was an adventure.
Left home at the crack of 6:15am. I was at the hospital at about 7:25-ish.
The office opened at 8am. I waited. I was done in there in two hours. There was a bit of waiting, but I had to have an ECG, that took, oh, less than ten minutes.

Then I was walked down to the pre-admissions section to see the pharmacist and the anaesthetist. Which took three hours.

Luckily the anaesthetist was gor-juss (if I was 20 years younger, and 30kg lighter, he'd be in danger... oh, and if he wasn't married). The most amazing green eyes, tall, dark, handsome. Lovely hands. Hmmmmm. (He won't be MY anaesthetist. *sigh*. I'll get someone else, of course.)

Nevermind. After that I went to the local shopping centre. Had a kebab (yum), for lunch. Admired the wind chimes, checked out the clothes on spesh at Target, bought a drink. Bought a top and a house dress for much less than half price.

Oh, and did I mention that I got a call in the pre-admission section about an interview tomorrow morning at 9:45.

EEK! I have nothing to wear. (I've been slack and worn all my good stuff to work and not washed it yet... well, that was a load I did when I got home at 5pm... arrgh, I hope it dries on time. And I still don't know what to wear.)

Please keep everything crossed for me. Oh, okay. Not everything. Mostthing. Mmmkay?

Thanks.

Riff? What lifted riff?

Downunder supposedly has a flute riff lifted from the Kookaburra song I used to sing in primary school.





I can't hear it. Must have a tin-ear.

Here's the news item.

Monckton in Canberra - guest post

From MarkL in Canberra

Attended the Monckton/Plimer public lecture at the National Press Club today. A quick reprise.

The hall was packed, 370 people +/-5%, with a handful standing. Prof. Plimer gave a rollicking 4 minute intro covering 3 billion years to set the geological scene, Monckton spoke to 85 minutes covering 150 years since. Peter Spencer was present and got a rousing round of applause. He and 30,000 other farmers have had their farms essentially expropriated as ‘carbon sinks’ by a dirty deal between the Rudd Government and the State governments. That expropriation deal is in direct breach of the Constitution.

The trip was funded by a retired couple from Noosa, from their superannuation. They are being paid back by the $20 ‘donation’ to attend. If I had known that I’d have paid more.

Monckton’s presentation was brilliant; erudite, witty, crammed with facts and with small insights just not seen anywhere. For example, the IPCC said there was no discernable human impact on climate until 1995, when some bureaucrat realised saying this might affect his job. So they got one man (yes, just one, over at Benson-Livermore Labs) to rewrite what the scientists said and this appeared in 1995. By 2001 they still had not been caught, so ICC was waffling about a 66% chance, up to 90% chance in 2007. They were caught then, 90% is an unusual statistical marker. On investigation, that figure had been chosen by a show of hands by the political reps of the governments funding IPCC!

That is the warmies ‘scientific consensus’.

He ran through the bad human outcomes of ‘science groupthink’, pointing out that before DDT was banned, 50,000 people a year died from malaria. After the ban, 1,000,000 a year died of it, mostly third world children. The ban lasted 40 years, so lefties, greenies and the scientific groupthink they created caused a policy outcome of 40,000,000 dead, mostly kids. Places the left in their real light: as feel-good mass-killers.

Demostrarted how the IPCC uses bogus methods to ‘prove’ warming since 1970 by taking exactly the same data and the same method to ‘prove’ global coldening since 1970.

Ran through the real costs of Climate change policy and pointed out the sheer fatuous idiocy behind it, then dived into the cesspool of scientific fraud, lies, chicanery and deceit being the AGW ringleaders. The flow of examples was astounding. He even covered the way they have deliberately corrupted individual station temperature records at places like Darwin.

Points to take away:

The Warmies have to lie to make any case, so minimise the damage of their lies and let the truth come out.
Point out that the UN itself says that shutting down the global economy to a Stone-Age level for 40 years will ‘prevent’ ONE DEGREE of warming. So why destroy the economy for nothing, when we can adapt to any climate change an less than 1% of the cost of the failed Kyoto Agreement?
Science will be saved by stopping taxpayer funding, which has created a ‘welfare culture’ of dependency among scientists.

Excellent afternoon, and I now have a copy of Plimer’s book ‘Heaven and Earth’ with both his and Monckton’s signature in it.

I'm jealous!

Ya wouldn't read about it

Okay.
I was home crook on Monday. I must have had a migraine in the night and woke up with the after affects. I slept most of the day, but dragged myself out of bed to complete a job application which was due in on Monday afternoon.

Tomorrow is my pre-op appointment with inpatients at the Hospital. At the crack of 8am! Arrgh.

Next Tuesday is my procedure - cardiac ablation. I hope they let me out afterwards, last time they kept me in overnight. I was pretty crook with asthma from the medication given to switch off the SVT.

Anyhoo, today I get a call. I've got an interview. Guess what day. No, really! Yes! Tuesday. They'll try to get me interviewed this Friday or Monday next.

Ya wouldn't read about it!

I am soooooo chuffed!

The Political Rooster

Butch the Rooster

John the farmer was in the fertilised egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called "pullets".... and eight or ten roosters, whose job was to fertilise the eggs.

The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn't perform went into the soup pot and was replaced. That took an awful lot of his time, so Farmer John bought a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone, so that John could tell, from a distance, which rooster was performing. Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report, simply by listening to the bells. The farmer's favourite rooster was old Butch, and a very fine specimen he was, too. But on this particular morning, John noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all!

John went to investigate. The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing. The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover. But to Farmer John's amazement, Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one. John was so proud of Butch, he entered him in the Boone County Fair and Butch became an overnight sensation among the judges.

The result.... The judges not only awarded old Butch "The No Bell Piece Prize," but they also presented him "The Pulletsurprise," as well. Clearly Butch was a politician in the making: Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet, by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them, when they weren't paying attention?

Thanks to Wand.

What language is this?

It's hard to understand...

LYNDAL CURTIS: While we are talking about people coming to Australia - 181 asylum seekers arrived off Christmas Island last night. Does their arrival mean the detention centre in Christmas Island is full?

KEVIN RUDD: My advice from officials is that there is still capacity there.

LYNDAL CURTIS: But there wouldn't be much, would there?

KEVIN RUDD: Well, my advice from officials is there is still capacity there. As the Immigration Minister has said on many previous occasions, there are always contingency plans in terms of the use of the purpose built facility in Darwin but at present capacity still remains on Christmas.

LYNDAL CURTIS: Do you have any advice on when Darwin might have to be used?

KEVIN RUDD: No, I don't and at present our advice is that Christmas remains the best place to accommodate people and there is still capacity there. Remember boats have been coming to this country for 25 out of the last 33 years. Let's just be frank about that and each of these challenges you just meet in a very practical way.

He uses a lot of words, and a lot of the same words, but what does he say?

Click on the link to read, and click on the link at the link to listen to the prissy one. If you can stand it.

Why do Aussies sound like that?

This is an interesting program which I've seen before on ABC. The Aussie accent is very hard to reproduce, listening to people try to speak with an Aussie accent when they are American or British is quite amusing because they just can't get it.

Watch the program here.

Hospital

Well, I'm off to PA on Thursday for the pre-op assessment. They phoned me today to tell me that they'd have to reschedule - I have to be there earlier in the AM, or I could go early on Friday, or the same time on Tuesday. I'm already taking off the Thursday which has been arranged for a while so I decided to stick with that...

I would have cried if I had been bumped off the list again. I've been a bit poorly and I think it's just the side effects of the drugs. I've had enough.

There was almost two inches of rain here last Thursday - Saturday. Then it rained yesterday, last night, and today and checking the rain gauge there was another 2 inches!

Another job app, not sleeeping, splitting headache...

Here's some stuff to read...

The death of the "stolen generations" .

The IPCC's latest source: Greenpeace.

Monckton takes Brisbane.

I have to do a job application this weekend, due Monday. I didn't sleep well last night. I've woken with a splitting headache. There's been almost 2 inches of rain since Thursday, the grass is greening up and needs mowing. The ground is still wet and slippery. It's going to rain more over the weekend.

I have to meet a friend at a suburb near me to loan her a table, and give her some stuff I have bought for her which I keep forgetting to take with me when I meet her. And I promised to meet a friend at her home for a cuppa (she lives near the shops), she just phoned out of the blue thismorning - her daughter has gone away governessing in western Queensland, and it's the first time that the daugher's been away for any length of time, she'll be away for a year!

I have to go, catch you later...

Oh, here's something from Skeeter - about where the entrepreneurial, "bottom-line" thinking these days will go.... Outsourcing the POTUS.

Separated at birth?

There are good laws and foolish laws

the thing to remember that the law is to protect the lowest common denominator, the young and the stupid.

Seatbelt laws save lives and prevent brain inuries - which saves us a lot of taxpayer money. Laws proscribing dangerous behaviour in motor vehicles (riding in the tray of a ute, riding in the back of a panel van, hanging out of the car/bus/train), are there to protect the foolish. Admittedly, there is the minority for whom law means nought. They're the ones who don't care if their drivers' license is taken away from them, it won't prevent them from driving.

They've banned the use of glasses in many pubs because of the increased incidence of glassings (the glass is shoved into someone's face). A good idea when the patrons of an establishment are out of control and the chances are that someone glassed will just be some bystander having a night out.

Well, here's a bit more foolishness... the ashtrays I can agree with (though WTF they're using ashtrays for I'll never fathom, in most pubs it's now illegal to smoke!), however the rest of this takes the cake! Check it out:

SHANE MCLEOD: Queensland is often referred to as the Sunshine State. The former premier Peter Beattie tried to change that to the "smart state"; but now many Queenslanders believe they're living in what's fast becoming Australia's "nanny state".

Last year, the Government banned glasses from some pubs and clubs to stop so-called "glassing" attacks.

Now the state's ambulance officers want licensed venues to stop using pool cues and glass ashtrays to reduce their risk of being assaulted.

In Brisbane, Nicole Butler reports.

Read it all here.

And the name of the general manager of the Chalk Hotel in inner Brisbane is a real ti, er, takes the cake!

Update:
Oh, and Shane, it's not "so-called" glassing. It is generally called glassing. It's well known as glassing, and someone who has it done to them has been glassed. It's not "so-called", okay?

Dr Ben needs to practice his bull-twaddle

I don't think that Dr Ben McNeil was armed for his battle with Lord Christopher Monckton.

McNeil is not very good at expressing himself and stating facts and figures.

And someone should shove a gag in Koch's gob.

I'm seeing the obvious bias from Channel 7 on the site with these gems put up as the "Latest climate change facts"

• The Bureau of meteorology says last year (2009) was Australia’s second warmest year on record* And 2009 ends Australia’s warmest decade on record
• BOM says each decade in Australia since the 1940s has been warmer than the preceding decade
• 2009 was also the globe’s fifth warmest year on record. And 2009 ended the world’s warmest decade on record
• BOM says the increase in global temperatures are consistent with other independent indicators of climate change like reductions in sea-ice and snow cover, and record high global sea levels

Flies! Help?

I have a problem with flies in the house at the moment. The only place they can be getting in is a small tear in the dining room window flyscreen. It's only about 1.5inches by .5 of an inch, but I think they're telling all their buddies about it!

I tore it last year when I opened the window on a really hot day after not having it open for almost a year and I didn't realise that there was some rolled up fencing wire which had fallen against the screen and the glass.

After I tore it I asked a friend if they could send me some fishing line to repair it. My friend has forgotten. Has anyone out there with my snail mail address got a piece of fishing line they can send me? It needs to be about two feet long, just in case! And fairly fine... The screen is perfect except for this rotten L shaped tear. (It is the same screen wire which came with the house 16 years ago!)

Thanks everyone.

Bloody flies!

Update:
Genius! In the mean time, while I sort out some fishing line (ever tried to source stainless steel screws/bolts inland? That's another story, but a similar dilemma.), I just swapped the screen with the store room window's which is the same size... yeehar!

iPhone

I got a deal from Telecom with an iPhone.

If I can only get the sim tray out of it, I might be able to use it.

I've looked at the instructions and they're a bit, um, without detail.

Poke the tray removal tool into the hole in the sim tray and push firmly until the tray comes out.

That's it.

Update:
Okay. I asked MDFD. The instructions are not very clear. They don't tell you that the tiny hole you have to poke is in the TOP of the phone and that when the sim card tray is in the phone you cannot tell that it is there, it's like something from a SF movie, it just vanishes seamlessly into the top of the phone. I was messing around with the bottom of the phone. Arrgh!

I've got it going now, and it's pretty good.

WTF 2

It was an accident!

WTF?

(Defence lawyer) Mr Langslow said Mr Azizi admitted killing his wife, but the issue was whether he'd meant to.

Taxi bashing not racist

Here's the link.

But looking at the two louts arrested for the bashing they look, um... well, one with no hair, the other with no hair and a pitiful short, very narrow, spikey Mohawk... they probably had boots on, too.

What do you reckon? The word "skinhead" pops into my mind.

Plan D - updated II

Plan A (Photos)

Plan B

Plan C

Straight to Plan D.

Okay, Plan D was the plan I didn't want to adopt. It's D for 'Do It Yourself'.

I put the sprinkler on the ground inside an upside-down large plant pot and ran it for 5 hours last night. This morning, I dug a little out of the hole, about 10 inches or so. Filled that up with water twice and let it sink in. The day was hot and humid, but overcast most of the day, so I could do some digging.

The top layer is dark garden soil, the earth under is sandstone and sandy soil fill from when the house was built, we had an extra large pad out the back because we knew we'd want to do things with it like build a shed and a pergola and it would be way too dear to do after the house was built. I could sit the crow bar on the bottom of the hole and just push it down with the palm of my hand, mind you, the undisturbed ground is like a rock, no matter how much you soak it, so I'm pretty lucky.

Bundy's right beside his sister, Katie (Katey I've been spellin erratically lately), and close by 48.

I asked my neighbour across the street to check out the grave and see if it was big enough. He was most impressed! He said to just straighten out the sides and make it a bit wider and that would be deep enough. (He couldn't help me, he's got back problems, and he's in his mid 70s.)

When I'd done that (mind you, it takes a while when you're melting and your shoulders are screaming!), I dragged the black bag into the two-wheel wheel barrow and trundled it around the back. By this stage it was twice as big as it was when I brought it home, and it was beginning to emit a rather strong pong. I wanted to let Bundy out of the black bag before I buried him, so I needed a knife to slash the black bag.

I scrounged around the Ladies' Tool Chest (bottom kitchen drawer), and found the stanley knife. I then pondered... I'd need help with this, I'd be hercing from the aroma. Who to get to help? The young fellow next door (about 30), had just got home with his boat, so I walked over there and asked for his help. He brought his two adorable little girls with him, they were all home alone, and he put Bundy in the hole for me. Then he helped me to fill it in. He was most impressed with the hole I'd dug, too. It only took ten minutes to finish up. I'll have to rake the dirt tomorrow because there's some we missed. That's if I can move tomorrow. The temperatures for all thie next week are supposed to be between 36C and 38C max and not under 20C min. Yuk.

I can feel a trip to the physio coming on. I hope I can get in tomorrow.

Update:

I forgot to mention these little bastards, which were in the hole and walking around where I was standing to dig. They got in my shoe and stung me, twice today. They have a nasty sting which can burn and sting for hours. An ice pack, or ice, will ease the pain.

Anyway, Floyd thought these visits from people were for him and was most put out when they left... he's a funny boy. So here's some pix of him for your enjoyment.

Still adorable.

Still way too smart!

Update II

Someone was a bit freaked out about the photos at the top of this post. I just wanted them there because I really didn't think I could do that, dig that deep. I had to and so I did. It has amazed me that I could dig that deep, though I did think that I was going to die somehow and just fall into the hole and that's where they'd find me after they noticed Bundy at the front door....