Thank you for sharing, I’m enjoying reading it.

You have peanut butter named Jif? That’s weird, where I come from Jif is an abrasive cleaner.

…Is your peanut butter gritty?

It would have had a better chance of making the coalition if they didn’t keep leaving it off the map.

Dolphin paintings are for sale here:

https://www.georgiaaquarium.org/booking/dolphin-paintings/

https://marineland.net/custom-dolphin-paintings/

Wikipedia says that they “lack short wavelength sensitive visual pigments in their cone cells”, so they don’t see blue as well as we do… Which isn’t surprising really.

They could stack rocks to create a mosaic.

Groke - An old Scots word that refers to someone who stares at you while you eat, in the hope that you’ll share your meal with them.

https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/scottish-word-of-the-week-groke-1531300

I’ve discovered that I’m good at herding flies.

I start by turning off lights sources including the TV, and closing all the doors and curtains except for one open window which is now the brightest, and therefore most attractive destination for the fly.

Then I just stand so that the fly is between me and the window. I wave my arms out sideways, kind of like semaphore, and it discourages the fly from flying towards my body and my hands, and can only avoid me by flying in the direction of the window.

It doesn’t work at night since turning the lights off means I can’t see the fly, and with the light on, it just flies to the light, lol.

They also don’t like wind, so if there is a breeze outside, I make a stronger breeze inside by swinging a towel like a helicopter blade, and it makes the entire room very undesirable for the fly.

When I was a kid I would just wait until the fly was bouncing itself against the window, and just catch it in my hand, then throw it out and open window.

It also helps if you keep your house free of stale or rotting food smells.

This skill has dramatically reduced the number of flies I’ve killed by swatting.

Just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947.

Thank you for sharing.