Featured Strange Sights For Strange Times--what Weirdness Have You Seen Lately?

I saw this young gent practicing his fishing casting techniques--on a grassy knoll outside an apartment complex. He was gracious enough to let me snap a pic. This is definitely not a typical sight in the desert in the summer with no water in sight! You see the darnedest things on morning walks through the 'hood during a pandemic.

 

There's definitely something interesting and/or a bit strange that I observe as I'm out walking each day. Today we saw a young roadrunner who was quite interested in Mr. Sandi, Annie, and me. It jumped from the ground up onto a recycling bin and looked at us for some time. From there it jumped onto a block wall and still hung around awhile longer.

Another interesting and rather clever thing we saw was a horse with a fly mask on. ---Mask alert, mask alert-"-some on this forum may need to avert their eyes. The pattern on the fly mask was that of a zebra! I thought that was rather funny though I suspect the horse is none the wiser.

 

That is truly interesting and I had no idea, @Vulpes! I great up with horses but hadn't heard about zebra patterns keeping flies at bay. I have a good friend who has a horse. I'll have to ask her if she knows because if she doesn't I'm sure she'll find that tip very helpful. And her horse will be happier, too!

 

Cool! What is this sphere thingy called, Vulpes? I may check it out on Amazon. We're having a fly issue around here lately as there are several barns just down the path. I just watched Mr. Sandi throw a post-it note pad at a fly in our office for the last 15 minutes. Until I finally went and got a fly swatter for him.

 

Does it come in a two pack, JtC? I like to swat flies double fisted!

 

Thanks, Vulpes! I did find it on Amazon and it looks amazing. But at that price I think I'll continue to listen to Mr. Sandi fling magazines and office products at flies. Or just bring him the fly swatter. It looks like a very cool product, though. Those flies in the ad are pretty nasty looking. Fortunately I think the flies that are managing to make it into our house are the plain ol' housefly type and are more annoying that biting. Having grown up in Minnesota, I know full well how bad those "big daddy" horse flies are and if we had those I'd probably be happy to part with $329.99.

 

Ha! I'm ambidextrous (nice spelling!) only for gross motor movements, JtC. I can't tell you how many times I've thanked my lucky stars that I broke the elbow on my non-dominant side because I am VERY right-handed for pretty much everything except things like carrying a bucket, polishing a bike/car, pulling in a clutch, drinking a beer or...swatting flies.