Ullr and Skadi hear us, we are your people

Ullr help us. Skadi help us.
We are lost and beg your favor.
Return us to our days of joy, bring the big snows,
and may powder be with us always.
We will lavish you with libations, and keep your faith forever.

lal_truckee wrote:

Ullr help us. Skadi help us.
We are lost and beg your favor.
Return us to our days of joy, bring the big snows,
and may powder be with us always.
We will lavish you with libations, and keep your faith forever.

Do you remember what sort of animal sacrifices they favor? I killed a
couple of petunia-eating caterpillars this morning, but I don't think
that counts. Maybe a gopher?

--
Cheers,
Bev
================================================== ==============
"Everything sucks; reverse the wires and everything will blow."
-- Desert Ed

"The Real Bev" wrote in message
...
lal_truckee wrote:

Ullr help us. Skadi help us.
We are lost and beg your favor.
Return us to our days of joy, bring the big snows,
and may powder be with us always.
We will lavish you with libations, and keep your faith forever.

Do you remember what sort of animal sacrifices they favor? I killed a
couple of petunia-eating caterpillars this morning, but I don't think
that counts. Maybe a gopher?

I stuffed some poison in a gopher run this morning after I found a fresh
mound in the back yard. The first one in months. My theory is that the
rats that invaded after the fire were keeping the gophers down, then we got
a dog a couple of months ago that killed some rats. Isn't the cycle of
nature grand?

Richard Henry wrote:

"The Real Bev" wrote:
lal_truckee wrote:

Ullr help us. Skadi help us.
We are lost and beg your favor.
Return us to our days of joy, bring the big snows,
and may powder be with us always.
We will lavish you with libations, and keep your faith forever.

Do you remember what sort of animal sacrifices they favor? I killed a
couple of petunia-eating caterpillars this morning, but I don't think
that counts. Maybe a gopher?

I stuffed some poison in a gopher run this morning after I found a fresh
mound in the back yard. The first one in months. My theory is that the
rats that invaded after the fire were keeping the gophers down, then we got
a dog a couple of months ago that killed some rats. Isn't the cycle of
nature grand?

Last gopher experience (before the new one) was decades ago. Stupid
gopher came up out of his hole and was actually looking around. The
kids fed it a few oxalis flowers. Then they went in the house and I put
poison in the hole.

It's not nice to annoy Mother Nature.

--
Cheers,
Bev
================================================== ==============
"Everything sucks; reverse the wires and everything will blow."
-- Desert Ed

"The Real Bev" wrote in message
...
lal_truckee wrote:

Ullr help us. Skadi help us.
We are lost and beg your favor.
Return us to our days of joy, bring the big snows,
and may powder be with us always.
We will lavish you with libations, and keep your faith forever.

Do you remember what sort of animal sacrifices they favor? I killed a
couple of petunia-eating caterpillars this morning, but I don't think
that counts. Maybe a gopher?

Cats. When in doubt, sacrifice a cat.

ant

ant wrote:

"The Real Bev" wrote in message

lal_truckee wrote:

Ullr help us. Skadi help us.
We are lost and beg your favor.
Return us to our days of joy, bring the big snows,
and may powder be with us always.
We will lavish you with libations, and keep your faith forever.

Do you remember what sort of animal sacrifices they favor? I killed a
couple of petunia-eating caterpillars this morning, but I don't think
that counts. Maybe a gopher?

Cats. When in doubt, sacrifice a cat.

Don't have any, and the strays are too fast. Maybe I could bag one with
a bow and arrow if it was close enough and stupid enough, but I don't
have a bow and arrow. I don't think that would count -- not enough
ritual.

Steinbeck explained God's turning away from Cain's sacrifice of grain:
"Maybe he didn't like vegetables." Maybe the Norse deities don't like
meat and would regard broccoli as a rare exotic treat.

--
Cheers,
Bev
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"The way England treats herut tsoners, she doesn't
deserve to have any." --Oscar Wilde

The Real Bev wrote:
ant wrote:
"The Real Bev" wrote in message

Do you remember what sort of animal sacrifices they favor? I killed a
couple of petunia-eating caterpillars this morning, but I don't think
that counts. Maybe a gopher?

Cats. When in doubt, sacrifice a cat.

Don't have any, and the strays are too fast.

Oh, c'mon. Don't tell me there aren't any "free kittens" ads in the
newspaper.


--
//-Walt
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On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:45:13 -0400, Walt
wrote:

The Real Bev wrote:
ant wrote:
"The Real Bev" wrote in message

Do you remember what sort of animal sacrifices they favor? I killed a
couple of petunia-eating caterpillars this morning, but I don't think
that counts. Maybe a gopher?

Cats. When in doubt, sacrifice a cat.

Don't have any, and the strays are too fast.

Oh, c'mon. Don't tell me there aren't any "free kittens" ads in the
newspaper.

My long lost x-girlfriend is still trying to give me back 'our' cat.
She gets tired of all the scars from the ankle bites, and tired of
petting an animal that insists on being stroked right up until sinking
its teeth into her hand. For five years she has been trying to give
me this thing. The really mean cats live forever.

I suppose I could accept under the condition that she not mind what I
do with it...

nate

uglymoney wrote:

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:45:13 -0400, Walt
wrote:

The Real Bev wrote:
ant wrote:
"The Real Bev" wrote in message

Do you remember what sort of animal sacrifices they favor? I killed a
couple of petunia-eating caterpillars this morning, but I don't think
that counts. Maybe a gopher?

Cats. When in doubt, sacrifice a cat.

Don't have any, and the strays are too fast.

Oh, c'mon. Don't tell me there aren't any "free kittens" ads in the
newspaper.

My long lost x-girlfriend is still trying to give me back 'our' cat.
She gets tired of all the scars from the ankle bites, and tired of
petting an animal that insists on being stroked right up until sinking
its teeth into her hand. For five years she has been trying to give
me this thing. The really mean cats live forever.

You just didn't smack it enough. Or squirt it with water with a little
ammonia. Cats are survivors, and will adapt if they believe you really
mean it.

OTOH, a friend's dog (Shih tzu)(gesundheit) was apparently bipolar. He
would be happy and affectionate and playful and then suddenly emit a low
growl and take a nip out of you. Turns out he had a tumor on his jaw
that eventually made it impossible to eat because of the pain, and he
had to be put to sleep. I still feel guilty about thinking the dog was
crazy, even if I did learn how to avoid getting bit.

I suppose I could accept under the condition that she not mind what I
do with it...

Would she recognize your handmade "coonskin" cap?

--
Cheers,
Bev
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Richard Henry wrote:

I stuffed some poison in a gopher run this morning after I found a fresh
mound in the back yard. The first one in months. My theory is that the
rats that invaded after the fire were keeping the gophers down, then we got
a dog a couple of months ago that killed some rats. Isn't the cycle of
nature grand?


Yes, the cycle of nature is grand but you continue to **** it
up. Poison? Why not let the yard go back to normal where a gopher
mound doesn't matter? Lawns are satan incarnate.

-klaus