Just Me and My Cheerios

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Just Me and My Cheerios (Note: The link to the national park tour was faulty at first, but the new link has been installed below for your use.) Today, Good Friends here on the MyLot place, I will work on my "fables" production all by myself, trying my hardest to come up with little stories worthy of your reading. (Actually, I ran out of time for fable writing and editing today - either that or I am just plain lazy.) Instead I will keyboard some stuff that looked to be interesting to me as I went about swallowing the day's worth of vitamin pills and a giant bowl of Cheerios and sliced bananas. That, I suppose is one of the really saving graces of the computer age. You can have your Cheerios while, at the same time, the computer can grind away, showcasing for you the latest stuff being dumped onto our unsuspecting world. One of the first things to come out of this watching-while-breakfasting deal was a little report that dogs, hound dogs, toy dogs, guard dogs, shaggy dogs, and other dogs, have been shown to understand human speech. The importance of this, at least to the human females who happen to be married to human males, is that they can safely dump their men and get a low-cost-low-maintenance dog at the animal shelter with which to converse. "At last," some women might say, "a critter in the house who will understand what I tell it." Then came the report that the brain remembers the feelings and responses from departed (amputated) limbs. Maybe that is why we often miss the money that was removed from our wallets and from our bank accounts - the money that felt so good when it was in there. Another news item began with a question. "Where do animals move with climate change?" I gave that news item short reading. The answers, two of them anyway, are obvious. Animals move rapidly when the climate gets colder. They do so in order to get warmed up. Animals move slowly when the heat hits. Sweating is no fun. So, that taken care of, let's get on to the next piece of information. This bit of news concerned the attempts underway toward finding clues for the causes of geriatric insanity. Well, this report was a waste of my time and was not allowed to slow down the ingestion of the Cheerios then on-going. Everyone knows that the cause of geriatric insanity is the whole idea of getting old, It is enough to rattle anyone's brain. As the late Marvin Zindler used to say, "Old age is hell." Now that the bowl that held the Cheerios and sliced bananas is empty and the brain is filled with the latest and greatest news of the day, there is one thing on the screen that may be worth a look-see. this year, the US Park Service is into its 100th anniversary year. With Google's help, they are hosting some video tours of several of the more picturesque US national parks. I did not have time to take any of the tours, but I copied the URL link to the video tours for you to use if you care to do so. Have fun. * * * * * * * * * * Image source: Listening - Pixabay.com * * * * * * * * * *