The Spiritual Evolution of Animals (Page 4 of 5)

lyra,

ROTFLMAO!  Why does the term bitch-slap make us laugh so hard!  Too funny Sister!

Yeah, Flint was a cool dude!  Silly I know, but I still kinda miss him... am I strange or what?

About that "nasty black fly bug thing", unh-uh, not seen one of those, I don't even remember seeing one when I lived down in Hollywood by where you're at. Sounds like some kind of mutant bug agent. LOL!  At first I was wondering if you were talking about those toxic Deer Flies, which will raise a welt on me for at least a week (have to take Benydryl, or go insane for the itching and pain), but they look nothing like you've described.

Have you ever had a Palmetto crawl across your face while you're asleep?  Creepy, creepy, creepy. This happened to me within the first week I moved to FL, I wondered about the wisdom of my move. We don't see too many Palmetto bugs my way.  For those that don't know what a Palmetto bug is, they're like cockroaches... except they can fly too, and they're bigger.

I'm of the mind that FL was created for bugs, and that humans just don't belong here.  Of course much of FL has been cleared for human habitation which takes away the bugs' homes, it's no wonder we get bit up around here... whose to say were the only species that knows to retaliate? 

I love the spiders too... haven't killed one for years, but I did get bit by a Brown Recluse once and ended up in the ER.  Wouldn't care to repeat that experience, made me pretty sick.  If I saw one I would surely run in the opposite direction howling for help like I'd come across a monster. Pathetic, huh?  Some warrior I am. LOL!

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance.
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If you spin around on your chair really fast, things around here will make a lot more sense.

Oh my dear Green Goddess on a Ritz Cracker... I've just laughed my arse off!

Dude! You're sooo funny!  "Blood sucking turds", too, too funny. They sound the same like the Deer Flies.

I can't go to parks in the summer here in FL.  I can be with a group of people and I'm the one running down the road waving my hands around my head like a lunatic, screaming bloody murder cause the no-seeums, the little black knats you talk about, are all over me like white on rice... I must smell yummy!  They tell me it's like a cloud of the little buggers swarming around me... and they don't bother anyone else.. just me... lucky me. I've come home before with as many as 30-50 no-seeum bites on my exposed flesh, and on my scalp.  And itch miserably?  KWAP!

On the Brown Recluse... I was at a friends house and my son and I spent the night.  My friend had gotten me a sleeping bag out of the closet to sleep in.  Well, I wasn't the only one sleeping in there, and I wasn't welcomed.  When I went to the ER the Doc asked me what bit me, said I didn't know, and he said it looked like a BR bite.  I talked to my friend a few days later who told me when she shook out the sleeping bag a BR came flying out.  No doubt the spider felt threatened, and that's why I got bit.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance.
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If you spin around on your chair really fast, things around here will make a lot more sense.

do you think that maybe 3d souls (us) will shift up into a 4d earth, while 2d souls (animals) will shift up into a 3d earth ? and theoritically, we could be living on the same planet but not able to see each other's realities or dimensions ?

just a wierd thought.

Here is a link to a cool little online book that I found that relates to zonabi's question. The writing style reminds me of Monroe's, although it could have used a little editing in places. Still, interesting reading:

http://www.newgaia.com/tshaman/book/book.html

I am missing the Florida climate right about now, let me tell you.  This morning I had to warm up my car and scrape ice off my windshield in order to go to work.      I couldn't get the windshield totally clean and had to pull my car over twice because I just couldn't see.     I'm picturing Fort Lauderdale the last time I saw it, hot and sunny, the gleaming downtown office buildings against a piercing blue cloudless sky, bright green palm trees.  (and lines at the gas stations out into the street because of the approaching hurricane....but never mind that!!!)   And it was HOT.  The hottest place I've ever lived.  I don't want that much heat ......but a little bit of heat would be nice!!  A palm frond or two!   sigh.  But that is the image of Fort Lauderdale that sticks out in my mind, it was the day we left and I was running around getting stuff done before we hit the road with the evacuees. 

Anyway, I digress.  Sorry.  I read your thing about the weather in Florida and I started to miss it and have a flashback.  I'm okay now..........hehe

I do wonder though what was up with the hawk swooping your truck??   You know over on the Goro forum somebody mentioned the strange proliferation of certain animals and odd animal behavior in general, and hawks were mentioned, at the top of the list.  I thought that was interesting and remembered it as I read your account.

Sounds like fun!   Wish I could be there!  I will live vicariously through your account.    Say hi to the Oak for me on Tuesday and when you're there on the beach, give a little thought to us refugees who had to leave Florida but wish we could be there on the beach too.   (God, I swear, I almost got in my car a couple of days ago and hit the road for Florida, for a short visit.  It's going to take some adjusting for me to get used to winter again after not having any for so long....)

Hi ya lyra and everybody!

Boy-oh-boy! This has been a busy week!

So we went to the beach Mon., Honeymoon Island, and flew kites... it was a great windy day! It never fails to amaze me that every single time we have kites up someone is taking pictures of them. I think every single person should have their own kite!

There were some way wicked HUGE, flattish, dark roiling clouds that were moving overhead but dropped no rain, they were teardrop shaped... they looked like the underneath of them was "boiling" with smaller black and gray clouds. Weird... they were spaced apart and came in lines and looked as such that one could even say it was an "army" of clouds "marching" into the gulf waters. It made me think of the song For Whom The Bell Tolls... time marches on... on... on.... .

And the Rainbow River? On a Tuesday? We were almost the only ones on the river... except for that water cop that pulled us over! :x

There we were at the headsprings, kayak parked next to a grass bed, I was taking pictures of an Egret in a thicket of pink flowers (very pretty) and this cop comes motoring up in his boat and calls us over. We didn't have life-vests on board and were informed that could get us a $50 ticket... Thank our lucky stars we had our whistle or that would be another $50! It's a freaking class one river, DOH!, life-vests? I couldn't drown in that river if I tried.

He shared some of his vests with us in leiu of ticketing us... well that was nice!  Yeah, but still, we got Big Brother on the river too folks... what's this world comin' to?

So my poem came true, the birds stirred when I whispered, the 'gator didn't eat me (he even let me get close enough to take pictures! ... about a 5 footer it was!), and the moon and the sun we in the sky together. Pretty darn close together actually, it was cool looking.

But the best thing of all? Get a load of this! I had been looking for hawks, but hadn't seen any until we were heading back down river and I happened to turn around in the boat and look behind me, and sure enough there was hawk perched on a limb right behind us! I never would've known if I hadn't of turned around... lucky, huh?

We were able to pull the boat in much closer without fretting the hawk, and we all sat there for quite awhile. This hawk and me were eye to eye for quite a spell! We were soooo close I could've touched this hawk with my oar if I'd been an idiot. My man-critter says he thought it was a Harris Hawk, I just thought it was beautiful. It's face had a softer look to it than other hawks, it didn't look as intense as hawks can look. And talons? Woo-hoo! It's a good thing I'm not a mouse! Eeekk!

Eventually we went back to the oak tree down river, hung out for awhile, found out it was only 2 PM and decided to paddle back up river. I'll be darned if that hawk wasn't still there! Again, we sat there for awhile, looking at each other, and then we pushed off to leave. After we'd paddled for a minute the hawk came swooping over the top of the water past us and then zoom-zoomed, and I mean went zooming, into the the forest BANKING off of trees like in a really tight maze (Edit--or more to the point a pinball in a machine)! I saw it bank, with such amazing precision, off three different trees and then disappear. My mate and I both said "WHOA!!!" at the same time!

Because there were hardly any people on the river it was the best day I've ever had there.

As well, there certainly were signs of the hurricanes have taken their tolls. There was one big waterside oak that had been blown over, it's root ball must've been 15 X 10 ft.... it was huge! As well, the water level was up by 6 ft.! There's much more river there now!

You come visit anytime... me and the river are still here .

FL weather? Heeheehee... I'm feelin' so naughty

... it was 82 degrees today, no humidity, soft breeze... it has been simply marvelous even for Nov., it's usually not as perfect as it has been.... and lyra, we'll talk next August and see who's whining about weather then... while my roof may be blowin' away!

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance.
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If you spin around on your chair really fast, things around here will make a lot more sense.

Thanks for the links, Kaybal.  I had never actually read the "Eat Right For Your Type" book, I'd just come across references to blood type diets on the 'net.   For me, I have my own personal proof that I do need meat in my diet, so it's not based on that book.  I can't say for certain if it's because I'm O+ blood or not, but if I don't even meat I get weak, lethargic and can't think straight.  And I get the HUGE cravings for meat.  And if I go too long without protein I begin to intensly crave beef.  Medium rare hamburgers mostly.  There's something in beef /red meat that's not in poultry or fish which my body craves when my protein reserves dip too low. 

At any rate, I've found that adding black beans and brown (basmati) rice as a diet staple has helped alleviate my need for animal protein.  I can go weeks without meat in my diet and not get the cravings or the lethargy as long as I'm eating the beans and rice.   I didn't expect that actually when I first started eating it.  But I was pleasantly surprised to find this to be the case, which is why I highly recommend going that route to anybody here who is seriously looking to cut back or completely eliminate meat from their diets. 

As far as soy goes......I try to stay away from it.  That stuff scares me.