Year 3 Day 186 – “Living the Dream”. Saturday, 11/4/2023. Clifty Hill 2 – Slowly the house is getting closed in.
While they work on the house, my brain is filled with holiday planning. Have you guys started that hectic mind thought process. What do I cook, how do I decorate, what do I need to purchase, holiday cookies, holiday decorations, holiday cheer, and on and on and on. Till my brain is in full out mind blown!! Okay back to today. I learned a lot today about what the names of different groups of animals and birds are called. I never knew before that: a group of Apes is called a shrewdness, a group of Butterflies is called a kaleidoscope, a group of Jellyfish is a smack, a group of Donkeys is a drove, a group of Elephants is a parade, a group of lions is a pride, a group of Pandas are called an embarrassment, a group of Crabs are called a cast, a group of Hippos are called a bloat, a flock of hummingbirds are referred to as a bouquet, a group of Iguanas are called a mess, a group of Vultures are called a kettle. Need I go on. I could do this thought process all day. This started with eating lunch at the new house with Justin and Steve. We were looking at the crows in the farmers’ fields and Justin says aren’t a group of Crows called a murder. Well, that changed my whole thought process. I no longer have the holiday planning brain going on. The afternoons are so windy that they had to stop putting the shingle underlayment down. It was blowing around so much.
Of course, there was another run for nails.
Today’s pondering thoughts.
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