It’s a fur feeder. Fill it with Fido’s and Fluffy’s cast-off coats and give it to the birds to line their nests with. [Found here.]
Category: Cool
Ghost Apples
KENT COUNTY, Mich. (WOOD) — The freezing rain created an unusual phenomenon in the Fruit Ridge area of Kent County: “ghost apples.”Andrew Sietsema sent in photos of the hollow ice apples to ReportIt late Wednesday night. He said he came across the interesting formations while pruning apple trees earlier that day.
Sietsema said the freezing rain coated rotting apples, creating a solid icy shell around them. When he pruned the trees, they would shake, causing many of the frozen apples to fall off, ice and all. However with a few of them, the mush slipped out of the bottom of the ice casing, leading to a “ghost apple.”
Sietsema says the temperature provided the perfect recipe: it was cold enough for the ice to remain, but warm enough for the apples to turn to complete mush, since apples have a lower freezing point than water.
Sietsema said Jonagolds are one of his favorite apple varieties, “but we’ll call these Jonaghosts.”
“Ghost Apple” photos were posted on Facebook by Andrew Sietsema on 06 February 2019. The following day the story (w/ photos) appeared on the website of WOODTV Channel 8, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
[h/t Pam M. via FB]
Fly People
[Found here.]
Adynatonal Hot Links
Go! Go! Go!, The Coconut Monkeyrocket (2010) Uptempo electrokitsch surf rock /cartoon funk. Gotta slip it into the Christmas mix.
Pineapples. [h/t Bunkerville]
Kwang Toong! With oyster sauce! [h/t Memo of the Air]
[Top image: Gillian Anderson found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 755 – Basketball Jones, Pass the Puff & Hold the Foam
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
All previously posted elsewhere. Bottom image: Inverted color version of storm clouds photographed by Sol R. Land who is living somewhere in the bush with his dog.
2022 & 2021 Grumpkins
The missus butchered this year’s Grumpkin in record time, and not a single tricker treater showed up last night. On the plus side, we have about month’s worth of Reese’s and I know where they’re hidden.
For some reason, our last year’s Grumpkin butchery was never posted, so here it is:
Previous years’ Strutts Grumpkins here.
¡Feliz Día de Los Muertos!
Pillco Canto Ritual (Bolivia), Los Folkloristas (2014)
[Source images here and here. More in the Día de Los Muertos Archive.]
Happy Halloween!
Nictitating Hot Links
Jungle, The Nite Cats (1962) No information about this group, but the song is suitable for Halloween ambient neighborhood music. The Nite Cats recorded this wonder on the CPM (Consolidated Music Publishing) Records label, and it appears in several “jungle rock” compilations. The flip side of the 45rpm is Skip School Flu.
Do the monster mask.
[h/t Mme. Jujujive]
Halloween Safety (1977).
Throat singer on the intercom.
“A day in the life of a Twitter employee” is NOT a parody.
[h/t Bunkerville]
[Top image: No idea what that’s all about but I like it. Might be a still shot from a Netflix series that I haven’t watched. Found here. h/t Charlene.]
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Tacky Raccoons 