fishducky, finally!: 04/23/15

Thursday, April 23, 2015

FROM ARMADILLOS TO ZEDONKS--MY A TO Z CHALLENGE IN ONE DAY

I don't feel like planning my life or my posts 27 days in advance so here is my A TO Z Challenge in one post. The subject is animals I have seen, not seen or am!!

A IS FOR ARMADILLO

When Nameless 2 was learning her letters we were looking around the house for things that started with a, b, c, etc. I asked her what started with r &
she said armadillo. She is very logical!!

This is our armadillo.

It is made of papier mache & lives in our living room.

B IS FOR BEAR

He, too, lives with us.

He is a 30" bear made of concrete that we bought years ago in Sedona.

The artist made many animals, all with human-type facial expressions.

You could look at a squirrel, for instance,

& think your Uncle Joe smiled just like that.

When our neighbor saw our bear, his comment was,

"My God--that looks like someone who just farted in an elevator!"

I agree.
Do you?

C IS FOR CAT

Cats love to keep busy.

D IS FOR DOG

Dogs help humans in many ways.

E IS FOR ELEPHANT

Elephants are notoriously poor at sports.

F IS FOR FISHDUCKY

Fishduckies are almost extinct.

It is believed there is only one remaining & she is very old.

This is her & a stuffed animal she thinks is her child.

G IS FOR GOAT

Some goats do not play well with others.

H IS FOR HUMPBACK WHALE

This whale keeps showing up unexpectedly at both my home & my daughter's.

It was formerly known as "What Shark?"

I IS FOR IGUANA

You knew iguanas love the ocean but did you know they are great singers?

Click here to listen.

J IS FOR JAGUAR

Jaguars make excellent hood ornaments.

Apparently, they also play basketball.

K IS FOR KANGAROO

Kangaroos keep their young with them as long as possible.

L IS FOR LEOPARD

Here is a story about

HOW THE LEOPARD GOT ITS SPOTS (AND THE BABOON, ITS RED BUTT)

Many years ago the leopard was a solid creamy white, with no spots. The baboon’s butt was the same color as the rest of its body. Not so, today. They were also very close companions. Now, a leopard will try to eat any baboon he sees. Let me tell you why, so this doesn’t happen between you and your friends. (It is very bad manners to eat your friends!)

Lenny Leopard received a gift from across the sea for his birthday. His aunt Lola in Wichita had FedExed him a set of oil paints. He invited his best friend, Bobby Baboon, to come and paint with him and his brothers and cousins. His brothers were Leon, Lionel, Lloyd and Lance. His cousins were Luke, Larry, Leroy, Lester and Lyle, who you might remember was married for a short time to Julia Roberts, a jaguar. (There are many laws of the jungle. One of them is that an animal’s first name must start with the same first letter as its breed. I have no idea why.)

None of them had ever seen oil paints—or paints of any kind before. They were excited and couldn’t wait to play with them. Aunt Lola, being senile, had neglected to send paper or empty canvases to paint on, so they started to paint each other, as boys of any breed tend to do. Actually, Bobby started it by flicking paint all over the cubs, until they were covered with multicolored spots. During the inevitable fight that followed, Bobby Baboon was pushed or fell (nobody will admit what really happened) into the bright red paint, landing on his seat

The cubs knew their moms would be very angry at them, but they had to go home and try to get the paint off. After their mothers had finished roaring at them, they tried to wash off the spots. This was oil paint and it had dried, and no matter how rough their mother’s tongues were, or how many Brillo Pads they used, they could not get it all off. They were left with brown spots where the painted spots were. One cub, who had always been a renegade, was completely covered in black paint and yet refused to let his mother try to clean him. He eventually left his family and went off to the United States to form a new club called “The Black Panthers”. Bobby’s butt stayed bright red because no one, not even his mother, would try to lick it off.

Mother Nature must have thought that either this was very funny, or that they looked better that way, because when they got older, all their children, their children’s children and even their children’s children’s children were born with brown spots. What about Bobby Baboon’s descendants, you ask? They all have bright red butts, but it turns out the lady baboons like them that way; the brighter, the better. They think it’s sexy, which really makes the leopards angry!!

M IS FOR MONKEY

Monkeys are among the most musical of animals.

This drummer has started his own rock band.