Random Thought for Thursday 10/24/13

Look, I'm an animal guy more than anything.  I know more 'hood pet names than I do 'hood *people* names.  I've said before that people who walk out in front of a car I'm driving are fair game, and they're only spared if they are walking a dog, as the dog shouldn't pay for that owner's stupidity.

But, courtesy of last month's visit to the Chicago Botanic Gardens (a brief one at that, thanks to a fall thunder boomer), there's now this creature growing near the windowsill.  And it's really growing.  Like every day, I watch it get taller and taller.

I'm telling you -- it's alive, people!  It sits behind me across the room while I work at my desk (I work from home, in case you didn't know) and it clearly grows when I'm not looking at it.  I have to admit, it kind of creeps me out a little.

I want to give it a name.  Maybe if I talk to it, it won't sneak up behind me and strangle me while I'm at my laptop.  I'm thinking Seymour, right?  [Although may I should reconsider that, in case I find it ... well ... suddenly standing beside me ...]

I'M EXPECTING *THIS* BY THE HOLIDAYS:
http://mrbrownthumb.blogspot.com/2011/01/amaryllis-charisma-hippeastrum.html

THANKS CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN!:
http://www.chicagobotanic.org/

SUDDENLY STANDING BESIDE ME ...:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/suddenly-seymour-is-a-heartmelting-ballad-made-pos,95995/