Name something that made you smile today!

I smile every time Mrs Squeeky smiles.

I’m making some pouched salmon in the electric frying pan. Looks good. Also I got some Lurve recently and made me smile.

I watched spiderman die.

Stupidity

A once-a-month customer decided to go to twice a month!
I correctly anticipated the new British prince’s name!

I was able to pull and shoot a crossbow today after being down for the count for more than 3 months. I need to regain my strength.

Be aware of those small things that make you smile…its really
the little things in life that add up to making life great.

@LuckyGuy Just don’t overdo it!

The humor in Avengers: Infinity War. I always enjoy the banter in the MCU films and I thought this one did it particularly well. But they also balanced it out nicely with some genuine pathos with the villain

@ragingloli damn you, spoilers

I enjoyed sitting in the warm sun for 30 minutes. I smiled on the inside.

@Aethelwine It’s not really a spoiler, Ragingloli was exaggerating. Considering the fact that another Spider-Man Movie is already planned

The closest I came to smiling in the past 24 hours has been grimaces from pain.

There is little happiness for me anymore.
I tend to dream that I am a teen, or in my twenties. When I wake up, it bums me out to realize I’m old, broken, closer to death than to joy.

I bought some mantis oothicas. If they produce and I get a few good survivors I will smile.
I could end up with a thousand babies.

@Patty_Melt Oooo!!! I did that last year!!! I think I bought 5 cases and 3 of them hatched.
I put them in different spots around the house and left one in the house inside a paper bag.
I put each case in an empty K cups to protect them.
At first nothing happens , nothing, nothing Damn I wasted my time Nothing…
And then there were hundreds of ½ critters crawling all around the kitchen window and cookbook book shelf!!! Aaaggghhh!!! I don’t want to hurt them but they are so creepy! And they are fast! They stand still and then they are on your arm or under your shirt Aaaaagggghhh!!!
I think 3 cases out of 5 hatched. i sprinkled the critters around the garden and enjoyed seeing one or two. every now and then.

My two dogs.

I bought ten! I have an area in a corner where I plan to hatch them.
They need water, but when they are tiny, a drop can trap and drown them. I have a leftover piece of sheer fabric I plan to drape in their corner, so I can spray mist it. It will be easy climbing for them.
I plan to relocate most of them outside. TAKE THAT, box elder bugs!
I got a smile, @LuckyGuy, reading of your experience. They do move quick when they want to. The thing is, when they jump at big stuff, it is not to attack. Sometimes it is to get a quick ride, but they are social. They like company. I had one a neighbor kid brought me last summer. It lived entirely along the top of my drapes, coming down occasionally to get a bug, or to have companionship. She would peek out when I called her, and if she wasn’t busy, she would skitter down the drape and listen to me talk. Her little triangle face would tilt, and she would just listen.
The cool thing is, they only eat prey. They have no interest whatsoever in human food.
You don’t want too many indoors. If they run out of prey, they go cannibal.
I hope I will have a big enough herd to keep my insect population down indoors and out, which also reduces the volume of cobwebs. Hopefully there will be plenty of breeders, so I don’t have to buy anymore.

I never considered keeping one indoors. It would scare me. The first time I saw one climbing on my wall there’d be bullet holes in my walls and I’d have to call a drywall guy and a painter. :-)

Awww. They are so chummy.
When I still lived in Reno, I had my first pet praying mantis. I didn’t know when I picked it up that it was only days from death.
It was on the porch, and when I reached for it, it climbed right onto my hand. It played around with me and my daughter, sometimes disappearing for a day.
I was watching TV, and reached toward the ashtray for my smoke. As I turned my head I saw a movement. He was on the end table, waving around to climb aboard my hand. I screamed pretty good, then picked up the startled bug.

I think it was happy that we kept it around and it didn’t have to die alone.
It liked giving nose boops. Any time we held it close to our faces it would poke – poke the nose. No pinching, just a little poke.

The only one that scared me I had seen clinging to a roof overhang. It was at least seven inches long, and could have easily had mouse lunches. I looked up, there it was, just over my head. AGHHHHH!

@Patty_Melt What does praying mantis poop look like? Is it noticeable?

I once tracked a Japanese gokiburi, (a big cockroach, something like a big palmetto bug in Florida.) by following its poop tracks. The bugger left his droppings from the kitchen to the living room. I hunted it for two days.
I shot it with an electric Airsoft bb gun. The head was too small to mount on the wall.

There is cleanup involved.
Once they are settled into a favorite spot, they keep that territory, and don’t roam much unless circumstances such as hunger or danger send them elsewhere.
They drop scraps and poop from where they stay most.
I am no expert, but the ones I have kept dropped little, probably lots less than soil and dead skin which falls from the average human. Routine cleaning is all that is needed.
They work a lot like spiders, preferring a snug hiding spot where they can watch for prey, and jump out for a quick snatch.
Last summer I found one of those little gray beetles which have back armor shaped similar to a coat of arms, in my bedroom. I got a container and released it near my girl.
WHAM! she got that, flipped it over, held that armor like a little bowl, and ate down that soft belly.
Her head tilted slowly side to side as she munched. She seemed so content I almost thought I heard purring.

Once you get past the fact that lots of movie monsters resemble them, praying mantids (proper pluralisation of mantis) can be fun, sweet, unusual pets.
I have never had such a mosquito – free summer as last year.

This thread has provided me some smiles, so, GQ.

My penis coz it looked like a startled snake after some pretty heavy duty pubic shaving.
I told Carstairs to just trim but the silly old bugger never listens.

Shaking my head, side to side, and wondering if it is inbreeding or what.
You
Are
So
Different.