Your Super Power

It's time for the good old poll results again! This time you were asked the question, "Which super power do you want?" A thrilling thought, if you ask me. Most of us want to be super, don't we? You were given six answers to choose from. Let's see which one you picked!

#6 X-Ray Vision - 2 votes (5%) :  Only two of you chose this one. I can't judge why anyone else would want this one, but there used to be ads in the back of comic books where they used to sell glasses that granted this very power.What they advertised was that you could see through many things, including clothing. They didn't work, of course. But what teenage boy wouldn't want that power, even knowing the risks of the glasses being fake? Well this power is not fake. There's one catch though. You can see through everything! That's right, now everyone you see loos like a walking skeleton, and you're stuck like that forever!

#5 None - 3 votes (7%) :  There were five other reasonable choices here! You played this game, but still chose none! You ruined the entire game, so you get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir! (Willy Wonka)

#4 Great Strength - 3 votes (7%) :  Steroids. That's what you need. Just give yourself a shot right in the behind with that stuff, and you'll end up looking like the most muscular professional wrestlers (or baseball players). You'll enjoy fame for a few short years before the side effects of this drug come into play. Then your bones will begin to deteriorate as you have one injury after another. You'll end up having to retire early as your strength goes away and you find that you now have to live out the rest of your life in a wheel chair.

#3 Super Speed - 5 votes (13%) :  Super speed would be a fantastic choice... if you could slow down! You are now moving so fast that all other living things seem to be stopped! You can't talk to them. You can't get them to notice you other than your now irritating voice that is going at such a high rate of speed that it sounds like the buzzing of an insect.

#2 Flight - 11 votes (28%) :  There was once a story about a man named Henry Heinrich. Henry met a strange man in a forest who granted him one wish. Henry decided that he wanted the power of flight,  just like you. Today Henry is living out his life being able to fly wherever and whenever he wants. The strange man turned out to have a bit of a cruel sense of humor because Henry is now living out his life as a goose, just like you.

#1 Invisibility - 14 votes (36%) :  Now for the winner! Most of you chose this one, and you won't leave disappointed! Let's see, how could somebody become invisible? I know of a way! You could become a ghost. A walking spirit stuck on this plane of existence forever. You will see everyone else as the years pass by, but nobody else will ever see you. Oh sure, they might be able to hear your tired and helpless moans of loneliness when there is nobody else around, but they'll never see you. Your only human contact will be when you eavesdrop on random conversations whenever a group of people come anywhere near. That's kind of like when you read a blog without commenting! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!


Oh, how I love happy endings...

I guess this is what happens with my post when I consult the same strange guy that Henry Heinrich talked to. I asked him for good answers for these choices, but this is the crazy stuff he gave me. I would never give out evil wishes such as these. So you see, it's all his fault. Yup, all his fault.

How I Met Flynn

Today it's time for a prequel. There are some very good movie series that have them. The Star Wars series had prequels. The Exorcist had a couple of them. The Lord Of The Rings will have one in a few years too. I'm sure there are plenty of other movies too, so I think Flynn the famous fox squirrel should also get one. How I Met Flynn.

I happened to be on a routine hike, not expecting to find much of anything. The area I was walking was a good place for squirrels because of all the acorns laying around. The problem was that I was having no luck finding any squirrels yet. That's when I heard a little noise off to my right!

I looked over at a big tree and just saw a little face that was spying on me from the side pull back behind the tree and disappear. I had experience with this behavior so I waited quietly right where I was. After a few false starts the face poppped back out to reveal my new acquaintance.

When Flynn finally understood that I wasn't going to leap over at him and gobble him up he decided to come out from behind the tree to see why I was there. He examined me for quite a few seconds before he finally made another move. Being so much smaller than the other creature isn't an easy thing at all, but he soon got over it.

Here is something I was talking about yesterday. Flynn the fox squirrel had been hanging around on the side of this tree for about a minute when he finally decided to move down to the ground. Just before he did his quick little squirrel turn he squinted his eyes like that.

I don't know if this is what every squirrel does before it makes a move, but he did it every time. I think this is something I'm going to watch for from now on. This was probably the first time I was ever able to watch a squirrel this closely to see something like this. I hope it's not the last.

The picture is a little blurry because he was right in the middle of turning his head. Compare it with the top picture.

This picture above is the very next picture. As soon as he gave that little squint he darted onto the ground. This obviously isn't the best of the pictures of him but I wanted to demonstrate what I was talking about with his squinty eyes.

When he got down onto the forest floor he ran in a wide turn behind the tree again only to emerge on the other side. It was there that he began to search for acorns. After finding that first one, he started performing for the camera just as I showed you for the past several days.

He wanted me to keep taking pictures, but I was the one who finally decided to stop. I had to move onto other adventures so off I went.I walked down the trail and around a turn. As I walked back around the other side of that tree and down towards the lake I looked back up the hill to where he was when I left him.

There he was right where I left him! My zoom lense is the only thing that let me get this clear picture of him. I actually took a total of ten more pictures of him sitting in that exact same pose before I moved on again. He never moved once. He must have been very tired from that long photo shoot.

This is the very last picture I took of Flynn the fox squirrel, and the last time I saw him. I wonder what he's doing now.