Unfortunately neither my spouse or I have accurate/complete memories of
the tale, but the sailor was missing an eye, an arm and a leg for
looking when he shouldn't have. So now we are haunted by joke we cannot
recall. Thanks a lot Tom.
On 8/14/2022 12:56 PM,
jstewart at olympus.net wrote:
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I suppose it has something to do with poop; but, what is the answer?
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Wings,
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Jan
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Jan Stewart
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922 E Spruce Street
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Sequim, WA 98382-3518
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jstewart at olympus.net
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*From:* Tweeters <tweeters-bounces at mailman11.u.washington.edu> *On
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Behalf Of *Alan Roedell
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*Sent:* Sunday, August 14, 2022 11:38 AM
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*To:* creinsch <creinsch at comcast.net>
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*Cc:* tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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*Subject:* Re: [Tweeters] early Rufous Hummingbirds, Tom Lamb, Dixie,
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No, why shouldn't a sailor look up at the sky?
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Alan, Seattle
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On Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 5:07 PM creinsch <creinsch at comcast.net> wrote:
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For the last 22 years we have had only occasional Rufous in the yard:
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one or two in late March, and maybe three or four in August. None
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stayed for more than a day.
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This year has been very different, and we are unsure why. There were
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several immature Rufous in June, and then on August 1st three arrived
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and stayed for a little over four days. The fighting with the
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Anna's was
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ferocious, and the Anna's eventually went into hiding. Since then at
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least one Rufous appears every couple of days, and the fighting
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(bickering) resumes.
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Are the weather/climate and fires up North accelerating the
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migration?
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I have wondered for sometime if some Rufous are completing their
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Northern migration here, and the immature are actually fledging here.
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Is there any evidence of that?
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And I have a question for anyone who remembers Tom Lamb of Dixie
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(NE of
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Walla Walla): Tom had house low in the foothills, where over the
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years
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he had assembled something like 65 hummingbird feeders around his
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property. During Spring and Fall migrations the place was crazy with
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Rufous, Black Chinned, and Calliope, with lots of noise from the
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quarreling birds and visitors having close-up encounters. Tom passed
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away in 2014.
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The question: Does anyone here remember Tom's joke about why a sailor
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should not look up (toward the sky)?
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Chuck Reinsch
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Magnolia, Seattle
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