We’ve been completely on our own for almost six months now – our followers are up and we’re managing to keep daily posts going. Dale had a few unwritten rules for the trail and I thought it wouldn’t hurt if we spelled them out.
It is a baboon congress, so it’s not a very long list.
#1. Be kind.
#2. Don’t worry if you reply in the wrong place
#3. Avoid publishing any email addresses, phone numbers or addresses. (We do have more than 5,000 followers, so this is a just in case)
#4. Pass on the right
#5. Don’t worry if you are Off Topic!
#6. Try to find photos that are licensed for re-use.
#7. Be kind.
Do we need any other tips for the trail?
Trail Baboon 
Silly is fine (and expected). capital letters and correct speling are optional (and occasionally lead to more silliness). Share the trail. Be kind.
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Rise and Shine Baboons!
Lots and lots of rules don’t help much if people can’t be civil.
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i before e except after c.
Port is left and starboard is right.
It’s always the quiet ones.
Line up according to size.
Nobody likes a snitch.
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I was trying to add a comment yesterday that contained a link to an external site and WordPress kept disappearing it. I tried three times before I gave up and rewrote the comment without the link. Is that a new restriction?
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WP contains mysteries that are undefined. Some days it does not know me. Some days it eats my comment.
I say try it again today. WP appears to have moody days.
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The not knowing part is very mysterious. It will say “logged in as littlejailbird” and yet still post my comment as Anonymous. Curiouser and curiouser.
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Probably just a fluke. But on the other hand WordPress doesn’t send out any kind of notices when they make changes.
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Form = from.
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Carry out what you carry in. Unless it’s chocolate; then you can just leave it with me.
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No, no, no, no. Leave that chocolate with ME.
Oh, okay, I guess I can share it with Linda.
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A related rule: cake is an acceptable breakfast food. It has eggs and flour so it’s practically pancakes and scrambled eggs.
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bill cosby did have great bits
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Always Have Someone Else To Blame.
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No kidding – six months??
Say please and thank you.
Big gratitude to VS and Renee for filling in posts when none have been submitted. Big gratitude to all baboons who have sent/are sending posts.
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yeah, really. I was thinking it was 2-3 months. But of course not.
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Thank you very much. It is fun.
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I suppose it wouldn’t be a good list without “don’t run with scissors”.
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OT. Don’t forget this Sunday is book club. Jacque’s house, high tea theme.
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Eh-hem. Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie theme!
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I’m thinking of a rhubarb-o currant something but could end up with something entirely different.
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o-currant? How did “black currant” turn into “o-currant?” Weird
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“Write early and write often” {from she who hasn’t written a blog post in forever}
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🙂 🙂
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…rules?…
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Wow, good to hear from you, tgith.
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Always flush.
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Alternatively, “If it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, flush it down.”
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Your mind is in the toilet. I was thinking Renee had won the lottery.
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Start with the outermost fork.
Don’t wear white after labor day.
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Oh, I always start with the outermost fork. Funny thing, though, there is never more than one fork, so I start and end with that fork.
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When does “after Labor Day” end? Isn’t it always after some Labor Day except maybe when it is Labor Day?
Not that I need to know. I very rarely wear white. Because I’m a slob and it will not stay white.
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By the sartorial calendar, after labor day ends at memorial day, the day you shouldn’t wear white before.
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Oh brother. Who makes these rules?
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Keep your eye on the ball.
…or the target
…or the sparrow
…or the prize
…or the clock.
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If you find yourself writing a Loonngg Comment, esp. if it gets into multiple paragraphs – consider turning that puppy into a blog post.
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I misinterpreted the rule “Pass on the right” to mean no talk of right wing mischief. Or did I?
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Maybe just “don’t dwell on it.” ?
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Haha. I didn’t even think of that. I looked at so many photos trying to find a good header photo for today and all of the running sites and all of the hiking and all of the biking all said pass on the right so I added that to be funny.
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Assume the best of others, they may sound snarky if you are having that sort of day, but odds are, it’s just you.
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Good one – and good to “see” you might.
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Auto-correct is having a fun time with me, today. That should read “‘see’ you mig”
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Ditto.
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If you drop something at a stand up party, walk away and keep moving.
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I was told yesterday, “Age and Treachery will always outdo youth and enthusiasm.”
I always thought it was ‘Baffle them with BS”.
Yeah, same difference he said.
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Hi there, guys.
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Well, it is about time young man! Do you have any idea how worried we’ve been?!
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Welcome home, Steve! Good to see you back on the trail and looking forward to stories from the move.
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YaY!!!!
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I just looked up Port Huron in the atlas, and you are CLEAR the hell over on the easternmost edge of MI, Steve. (But I guess you probably already knew that.)
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Well, he wants us to believe that he is in Port Huron. He could be somewhere else entirely and is just trying to fool us.
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As usual, Renee is right. I’m actually the surviving half of Siamese twins separated surgically and now living in the moldy basement of a farmhouse in the Faroe Islands, swigging absinthe and posting nonsense to gullible Americans. In my rare sober moments I pretend to be Steve Grooms, a mild-mannered former journalist and avuncular muse for my grandson.
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So good to hear that you are alive and well, Steve. At least well enough to come on here and greet us. We’ve all missed you and I’ve missed emailing you about photography stuff. Welcome back.
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