Pop Culture Frenzy, Round 79

Welcome once again to Pop Culture Frenzy.  We have more news from Florida  A certain creature has become quite plentiful and is now considered an invasive species busily decimating neighborhoods and spreading scary things like salmonella.  Authorities encourage people to kill this scourge if it comes on their property.

What is this dastardly varmint?
Bryan?

Illegal aliens?

You are such a hater.

I don't hate anybody.  Though I'm not

 crazy about the humorless.

Hostmaster:  Molly?

Squirrels?

Hosmaster: incorrect.
Fluffy?

Sandhill Cranes?

Hostmaster:  incorrect.
Cyndi?

Conservatives?

Why do you lash out?

It's all she has left.  Poor Cyndi.  She quit Antifa 

because the mask smeared her make-up.  

Hostmaster:  Molly?

Alligators?

Hostmaster:  close.  I'll give you a hint.  Alligator boots are nice but the skin of this critter is softer.
Bryan?

Deer?

Hostmaster:  incorrect.
Fluffy?

Iguana?

Hostmaster:  correct.

Are they really destroying neighborhoods?

Hostmaster: even more than squirrels.  Squirrels bite power lines sometimes but apparently Iguanas trash entire transformers.

Hoodlums. 

This round is over. 

Read about the hoodlums here.

Round 79
Fluffy/Molly  39
Bryan/Cyndi   37

Summer is Here

After a cool wet spring, we have catapulted into summer.  Yesterday it was in the high eighties.  Predictions are that today will be in the nineties.

Thus it is time for our annual It's Hot Enough for Malcom to be Outside picture.

Lilacs and Whatnot

The fragrance of Lilacs is unmistakable.

Their beauty is undeniable.

Clover has no official opinion on either.

Being a Sighthound however, she finds butterflies of interest.

It's a Bit Nippy for June

Things are green here at the homestead.  It's been a particularly rainy spring. 

The frog population has exploded.  They've  even wandered into the inner perimeter.

They'll have plenty to eat.  The mosquito population has exploded too.  A certain ranch hand, always popular with the blood suckers, has been mercilessly tapped.

There's been some night time temperatures in the forties.  Had to cover the tomato plants!

Wild violets don't mind a nip in the air.

Neither do Great Pyrenees.

Alas, neither do mosquitoes.

Pop Culture Frenzy, Round 78

Welcome once again to Pop Culture Frenzy.  Last week, a Florida man suffered an injury while using the bathroom in his apartment.

What happened?
Fluffy?

Toilet paper cut?

Hostmaster:  incorrect.
Cyndi?

Erectile Dysfunction?

Viagra claims another victim!

Hostmaster:  darn those four hour erections!
Bryan?

He was struck by lightening? 

 You know, water draws lightening.

A low flow toilet saved his life!

Hostmaster: incorrect.
Molly?

An alligator came up the drain and bit him?  

Hostmaster: close.
Cyndi?

A snake?

Hostmaster:  correct.  The guy was in his bathroom doing his business when a Ball Python appeared under his, er, business.

You can't make this stuff up.

Read about it here.

Round 78
Fluffy/Molly   38
Bryan/Cyndi   37

Memorial Day

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.  -John 15:13

On this Memorial Day, we pray for those who courageously laid down their lives for the cause of freedom. May the examples of their sacrifice inspire in us the selfless love of Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Bless the families of our fallen troops, and fill their homes and their lives with Your strength and peace.

More Memorial Day prayers here.

Now that Tree is Cherry

A couple years ago, a big wind blew down a tree.

It landed, in part, on a nearby cherry tree.  The cherry tree suffered some damage.  Not only that.  For months, the cherry tree suffered the indignity of having a fallen tree lying on it.

 Eventually a ranch hand removed the tree debris.

Some ranch hands are easily distracted.

In spite of all that dillydallying, the cherry tree rebounded.

With gusto.

Matthias

Today is Saint Matthias day.  He was the one chosen by the apostles to replace Judas.  Peter and the others understood the importance of maintaining the office of the twelve witnesses to Jesus. Thus, they asked the Holy Spirit to tell them which guy He wanted to fill the opening.  (Acts 1:15-26)

We don't know a lot about Matthias.  We're told in Acts that he was a disciple from the time of John the Baptist through the ascension of Jesus.  In other words, he was on the bench all along ready for the call to join the twelve.  He was eventually martyred while giving witness to The Word.

As we move through the Easter season let us remember what Jesus said to the apostles on the night Judas betrayed Him.  I give you a new command.  Love one another as I have loved you.   
(John 13:34)