The Shepherdsville Times: Freezer Mites
Ever noticed how ice cream seems to shrink while its in the freezer? Could the freezer mites have been at it? Jerry Selby brings us another happy helping of life in Shepherdsville.
Did you ever notice how freezer mites work on things stored in the freezer? Sometimes at night when it’s real quiet you can hear them rustling around in there when you walk past the fridge, or maybe when you are making a snack.
If you leave a nice full tray of ice cubes in there for more than a week or so, they shrink, ever notice that?
Same thing happens with ice cream or sherbet. Especially some really good kind. But the freezer mites work much faster than on ice cubes. Seems like the better the ice cream the faster it shrinks. Ever notice that at your house?
An Important Day
Thursday morning, 10:26 AM, March 26, 2004. That’s when Mr. Green hauled all my tobacco and smoking paraphernalia away. That’s the last time I have smoked, chewed, eaten, or otherwise used tobacco.
But not the last time I’ve craved it. My whole body is asking for tobacco tonight. Happens only rarely now though. But I’m still an addicted smoker.
Parfum de polecat
About nine in the evening the ladies and I smelled a distinct fragrance trail of one of our little black and white friends. Not strong enough to make your eyes water. Just enough to let you know the small person had passed by, or was maybe still lingering in the shadows. My doggie associates wanted to track it down, but I prevailed on them to do what we came for and go straight back home.
I don’t think we have enough pizza sauce on hand to neutralize the three of us.
Robin threesomes
Robins most always are in threes this time of year. I can’t tell he’s from she’s. Doubt any backyard birder can. Don’t need to. But the troika always consists of two birds jumping into the air, almost belly to belly, like a pair of old roosters, claws extended. And the third member of the group stands well back, and equidistant showing no favoritism.
Nuthatch swain
We saw a nuthatch put on a courting display. He was perched on the center pole of a shepherd’s crook bird feeder. He fanned his tail as wide as it would go, opened his wings halfway, with elbows still bent, then spun like a small feathered pinwheel, for several revolutions. Nuthatches are always regulars, year round, but we’ve never seen that before. Most impressive!
