Price Matching Mayhem and Other Shopping Tales

[Pagan]

I haz rain I haz rain I haz rain.

*Dances in the rain*

*Is drenched*

.....I'm WET! I don't like being wet! MOMMY! THE SKY PEED ON ME!

Great, now I'm gonna smell like wet dog. Just what I needed. Someone pass a towel.

The sky was peeing here about midnight. Took me a little bit to figure out what that noise was.

Would you like a....sparkly towel?

Actually, so long as they're not raging across 30 square miles of forest, that's the not a bad way to deal with them. Fire is a natural part of a forest's life cycle - in fact, some trees (certain breeds of pine, IIRC) need fire to open up the cones so the seeds can escape. The fire clears room so that the seedlings get enough sun to survive. Smothering every spark that appears can end up being more of a hindrance than a help to a forest's ecosystem.

They forest service does do that with lightning started fires. Not the Cerro Grande though, that was a not very controlled burn.

In fact, most of our fires this year have been human started. >.<

[Magpie]

Actually, so long as they're not raging across 30 square miles of forest, that's the not a bad way to deal with them. Fire is a natural part of a forest's life cycle - in fact, some trees (certain breeds of pine, IIRC) need fire to open up the cones so the seeds can escape. The fire clears room so that the seedlings get enough sun to survive. Smothering every spark that appears can end up being more of a hindrance than a help to a forest's ecosystem.

Around here they tend to let portions of a forest burn, never just let it burn uncontrolled. Granted, my best knowledge of fire control is from provincial parks, and there isn't really such a thing as a safe direction in semi-Southern Ontario. They used to try to extinguish every fire, as soon as it started back in the fifties and sixties. It only took a couple of firestorms to convince them to do otherwise. (Note that these are in logged areas, where until fairly recently they used to square the logs in the bush).

[Chromatix]

Actually, so long as they're not raging across 30 square miles of forest...

That's the problem, the Russian fires are HUGE.

[Whiskey]

That's the problem, the Russian fires are HUGE.

I saw an article about this in the local (US) paper. The way the heading phrased it made it sound like Russians were just wanton killing people.

[RetailWorkhorse]

The sky was peeing here about midnight. Took me a little bit to figure out what that noise was.

Would you like a....sparkly towel?

...how the hell did you manage to put glitter on a towel?

....is it a pink glittery towel or a green one? Because I'm all pruny and really need to dry off (had a downpour while at work today, the parking lot flooded).

[Magpie]

....is it a pink glittery towel or a green one? Because I'm all pruny and really need to dry off (had a downpour while at work today, the parking lot flooded).

Here's one with silver and gold glitter.

[Pagan]

...how the hell did you manage to put glitter on a towel?

I have my ways....

....is it a pink glittery towel or a green one? Because I'm all pruny and really need to dry off (had a downpour while at work today, the parking lot flooded).

It rained down there yesterday? We didn't even have anything here that looked promising.

Lessee. I gots pink (he he)....ah, here we go. Yeah, I have a green one. I've got purple, too, but that's mine.