Normally this isn’t an issue, but with all the rain and the floods the ants have come out.  Their homes are flooded, so they want to visit yours.  If you leave a cereal bowl out on an open window sill for an hour the ants will find it. 

Today’s header is from a store front we saw on Saturday.

The world’s most famous Elizabeth didn’t show, but about 400 others did.

The northern Illinois community of Elizabeth tried Saturday to set a world record for the largest Gathering of Elizabeths. Women with Elizabeth in any part of their name were allowed in; one participant has Elizabeth as a last name.  The event drew women from more than 20 states. Those participating had to show a copy of a birth certificate or driver’s license.  The community plans to submit an application to Guinness World Records.

The event was designed to celebrate the community and honor famous Elizabeths, including one of the women for whom the community of about 700 people was named.  In 1832, Elizabeth Armstrong, one of at least three Elizabeths living in the Apple River Fort settlement, played a prominent role in defending the community during an attack in the Black Hawk War.

Frog-EE has been trying to clean up the landfill lo these many years.  That is his prime directive.  He packages up waste and feeds it to Garbage Woman, who launches it off the Planet.  When he started doing this job there were many other Frog-EEs in the swamp.  Now he is the last one left.  By and large, this is how Frog-EE has existed lo these many years.

One day, Buoy 22 lands on the Planet in fire and smoke.  Poor Frog-EE is terrified and hides his head in the sand.  Out pops this sleek looking, iPOD gal, Doll-EE, and Frog-EE is smitten.  Doll-EE’s prime directive is to look for night life on the Planet.  Frog-EE tries taking her to his place, but it doesn’t work.  Eventually he begins to see this, so he springs some coin and takes her to the Pig.  She finds night life!  Her prime directive is accomplished.  She also knows that there is no way she is going to spend eternity in the landfill, with Frog-EE.  So she calls a cab and leaves.

Buoy 22 takes her call and picks her up.  Frog-EE crashes the cab and they blast off the Planet.  They head north, back to the mother-ship.  Landing there they meet the Luv Guru, Kermit, the bicycling frog.  he teaches both Frog-EE and Doll-EE that true happiness can only be found on a bike.  They both take this lesson to heart and live happily ever after.

Any connection to any Disney/Pixar movie ending in an E is purely coincidental.

… and how to get there, thanks to Google Street View.

Thanks, Beadznwire!