You know how you have certain images that pop into your mind when someone says a word or phrase?  Let’s say that I said to you “Surf Shop”.  In your head, you immediately picture your own idea of what a surf shop looks like.  Or maybe remember one that you’ve been to in the past.

Well, the other day Joe said to me “Check out the National Geographic going on in our front yard.”  Now, first of all, that’s an odd thing to say.  And even more odd, is the image that came to my mind: A TOPLESS WOMAN IN A GRASS SKIRT!  I was literally thinking to myself “Oh my goodness, there’s a topless woman in a grass skirt in our front yard?”

“Why?”, you ask  yourself.  As you shake your head at me.  And say “tsk, tsk.”

Well, I’ll tell you why.  When I was a kid, the first National Geographic magazine I remember seeing had pictures of topless tribal women in grass skirts.  Still to this day, THAT is what I associate with “National Geographic”.

Alas, when I went to look out our front window, there were no topless women.  Whew.

Or perhaps you are saying “Darn!”  Because a picture of THAT would be much more interesting than these two pictures.  But THIS is what Joe meant when he said “Check out the National Geographic going on in our front yard.”

Two creatures in our front window: A wasp was building a nest.  And a snail had set up camp.

Joe says the darndest things.  I keep threatening to tweet the funny ones.  All of them.