The perfect thing for our back yard! A blue dolphin with a thermometer in its mouth, and a carrot arch! It even says “joy” on the side! Of course I ordered it!
And I saved money! And think how much I can save by eating Burger King® glop every day!
Oh darn!
Yesterday, using my franquicia, an up to USD 200 3x per year tax-free import, I placed an order with Walmart. Not that I like Walmart, but I didn’t want to order everything from Amazon, because Amazon. Alas, within six minutes of placing the order , Walmart cancelled it.
No appeal, no explanation.
Rather than get upset with Walmart, I decided I should try again today.
Alas again, no luck with a stuffed unicorn. What’s a fella to do?
From a few days ago.
When we replaced the rotting roof of the cochera (carport) I ended up with lots of scrap wood. Instead of the expense and hassle of getting proper windows installed―after all, all I wanted is to keep rain out―I slapped together a frame with some sheet plastic (“nylon” in the local parlance).
Well, Uruguay is nothing if not windy, and they quickly succumbed. So: Plan B, sheet plastic with plastic netting on either side. I’m only doing one, as a test, for some reason.
Total weight 3.7 kg – 8 lbs 2 oz.
No, dumpster is not a word in Spanish. But if it were, a lot of them would be dumpsteres.
And suddenly there are a lot of them in a field near the “Yacht” Club Club in Atlántida.
It’s fun to extrapolate: what might other aspects of this person’s life look like? Yard? Kitchen drawers? Closets? Note that there are no apparent dents in the vehicle, so that’s something.
I’ll say no more.
Teros are common here: raucous, aggressive when they feel threatened, and apparently loving to park themselves in the middle of things. Not all that long ago, they appeared to be thinking about building a nest where I was standing. Not only in the middle of the path, but in the sitting area. Happily they changed their mind. I was thinking I’d need to make “detour” (desvío) signs to steer pedestrians away from the nest.
For the past two or three years, a tero couple (same ones?) have had chicks in the spring, two out of three of which survived to adulthood.
The blue tape on our glass sliding door is at human eye level. The lower tape is at dog eye level. We did have a human walk into the door and break it years ago, and the dogs tend to go crazy when they see birds in the backyard and I don’t want them slamming into the glass (plate glass BTW; outlawed for this use in the USA 50 years ago).
Unfortunately, the pigeon paid no attention to either. RIP.
