Late Spring days are very nice, around here. Allowing for a nice relaxing read, sitting on my favorite chair on my porch with a tall cup of ice-cold lemonade. The cold liquid caressed the back of my parched throat like water on a crusty, cracked river bed. My book - On Basalisk Station by David Weber - allowed me to free myself from the mundanity of real life and become immersed in another universe, flooding my imagination with adventure and excitement. In fact, I got so caught up in the story that I didn’t realize what was going on in real life right above my very own head; my own little bit of reality giving way to surrealistic experiences that I never thought would ever actually happen.
My wife just happened to be checking the mail when all of this took place, and happened to also have the camera on hand. She does this a lot; taking the camera with her to the mailbox just in case something adventurous happens. It turns out today was the day having the camera with her was a very good idea, indeed.
Shortly after she snapped the photo below, a ladder extended from the bottom of the spacecraft to my roof. A couple of small, snot-nosed aliens hopped down the little extension and one of them spoke into a little device which I assume was a microphone. He said the following:
ATTENTION PEOPLE OF EARTH! WE ARE STILL HOLDING KIETH RICHARDS’ BRAIN HOSTAGE ON PLANET ARCOS. DO WE NEED TO REMIND YOU THAT WE HAVE HAD HIS BRAIN SINCE 1973?!
My wife and I looked at each other. We were so stunned by the revelation of what the message implied that we forgot to snap a photo of the cute, snot-nosed little aliens. Apparently, nobody had ever noticed that Keith Richards was walking around without a brain for the last 33 years!
Now that I think about it, it sure does explain a lot.
Happy HNT, everyone. The blue graphic in the sidebar has all the details. And please, take a moment to read my wabbit tale below. Thanks.
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1 Wenchy // Jun 1, 2006 at 1:15 am
Please beam me up?
2 Suze // Jun 1, 2006 at 3:11 am
OMG, watch out. If anyone gets probed I want to be first.
Happy HNT sweetie
3 Crimson // Jun 1, 2006 at 5:19 am
How funny
HHNT!
4 lime // Jun 1, 2006 at 5:34 am
LOL, i love it. happy HNT
5 Moosekahl // Jun 1, 2006 at 6:37 am
No grass? That’s why I don’t miss the Southwest. And of course, I got sick of the aliens too. Happy HNT
6 Sharon // Jun 1, 2006 at 6:55 am
6 yrs in our home and we haven’t done anything with that yard! We ‘re working on it this summer though and we just might have a little patch of grass…
7 xdell // Jun 1, 2006 at 7:25 am
This is priceless. I hope the disc didn’t cause too much damage to the roof.
8 bks // Jun 1, 2006 at 7:34 am
As long as the aliens take the necessary steps to become citizens I have no proble…..what?….oops sorry wrong aliens.
HHNT
BKS
9 Becca // Jun 1, 2006 at 7:54 am
The line to be probed forms to the left…
LOL.
CREATIVE!
HHNT!
10 Susie // Jun 1, 2006 at 9:19 am
Ack! Run, there’s a spaceship on your house!
Noticed (on another blog) you said you had been to Bodega Bay when you came to Northern California….this is my home! Yay!
HHNT
11 Melissa // Jun 1, 2006 at 11:02 am
hahahaaa… this pic should have been a scene in Dude where’s my car
Alien Nordic Dude #1: Could you please tell us where we may find the continuum ***?
Chinese Foooood Lady: And then?
Alien Nordic Dude #1: And then we may go and get it?
Chinese Foooood Lady: And then?
[pause]
Alien Nordic Dude #2: Can I get an order of shrimp fried rice?
~*~*~*~
thanks for stoppin by my place! Happy HNT!
12 Bellarosa // Jun 1, 2006 at 8:28 pm
I’m standing behind Becca … ready for my probing!
13 anne // Jun 2, 2006 at 8:49 pm
Time for my standard HNT comment - here it comes…
Your pictures are always my favorite.
14 Shelli // Jun 2, 2006 at 9:49 pm
You make me laugh. Thanks. No HNT for me this week. Too much going on.
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