Hung Out to Dry

New job. New boss. New hours. Not that the Secret Service was a nine-to-five gig, but it's well after midnight now and we're just starting.

"Can't work a field in high heels," Gibbs says, and leads me off to his car in search of socks.

I've got a feeling he's never going to tell me how he knew that I wouldn't take the time to go home and change into something more sensible after dumping my date. Or how he knew which size boots to bring along. One thing's for sure, it wasn't a lucky guess.

The hat fits too.








The line in italics is from the episode.

Hung Out to Dry

New job. New boss. New hours. Not that the Secret Service was a nine-to-five gig, but it's well after midnight now and we're just starting.

"Can't work a field in high heels," Gibbs says, and leads me off to his car in search of socks.

I've got a feeling he's never going to tell me how he knew that I wouldn't take the time to go home and change into something more sensible after dumping my date. Or how he knew which size boots to bring along. One thing's for sure, it wasn't a lucky guess.

The hat fits too.








The line in italics is from the episode.

Passing along a plea:

Please email members of Congress today urging them to provide emergency
funding for researchers who are trying to find solutions to stop the
spread of White-nose Syndrome (WNS). Congressional hearings are
scheduled for the end of this week. Experts from various agencies will
be testifying about the need for research funding. It is important
that law makers allocate funds to protect the spread of this
devastating phenomenon. Hundreds of thousands of bats have died during
hibernation over the last 3 years, spreading to at least 7 states in
the Northeast. Several endangered species are at extreme risk. This is
your chance to encourage your representatives to protect these
ecologically and economically important animals. They are the primary
predators of night-flying agricultural crop pests (moths and beetles).

Email your Senators:
http://www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/How_to_contact_senators.htm

Email your Members of Congress:
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

Please let me know if you have any questions prior to sending your
support of finding a solution to the spread of WNS. Thank you!

Rob Mies, Director
Organization for Bat Conservation
@ Cranbrook Institute of Science
39221 Woodward Ave.; PO Box 801
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303
www.batconservation.org
248-645-3232



Let me add that the predators who eat crop pests make a huge difference in our food supply. In 1958, Chairman Mao, for some unfathomable reason, decided that there should be no sparrows in China. He had the children go out and kill them by chasing them from roost to roost in fireworks until their hearts burst. Within a few days the plan worked. But the sparrows had been eating the bugs which ate the crops. And for the next several years, China had the worst famines in modern history. By the end of his reign Mao was secretly importing sparrows, but he never admitted it had been a mistake.

We need bats. If not for the crop pests, then think of all the mosquitoes that won't get eaten and will eat us instead!

Passing along a plea:

Please email members of Congress today urging them to provide emergency
funding for researchers who are trying to find solutions to stop the
spread of White-nose Syndrome (WNS). Congressional hearings are
scheduled for the end of this week. Experts from various agencies will
be testifying about the need for research funding. It is important
that law makers allocate funds to protect the spread of this
devastating phenomenon. Hundreds of thousands of bats have died during
hibernation over the last 3 years, spreading to at least 7 states in
the Northeast. Several endangered species are at extreme risk. This is
your chance to encourage your representatives to protect these
ecologically and economically important animals. They are the primary
predators of night-flying agricultural crop pests (moths and beetles).

Email your Senators:
http://www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/How_to_contact_senators.htm

Email your Members of Congress:
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

Please let me know if you have any questions prior to sending your
support of finding a solution to the spread of WNS. Thank you!

Rob Mies, Director
Organization for Bat Conservation
@ Cranbrook Institute of Science
39221 Woodward Ave.; PO Box 801
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303
www.batconservation.org
248-645-3232



Let me add that the predators who eat crop pests make a huge difference in our food supply. In 1958, Chairman Mao, for some unfathomable reason, decided that there should be no sparrows in China. He had the children go out and kill them by chasing them from roost to roost in fireworks until their hearts burst. Within a few days the plan worked. But the sparrows had been eating the bugs which ate the crops. And for the next several years, China had the worst famines in modern history. By the end of his reign Mao was secretly importing sparrows, but he never admitted it had been a mistake.

We need bats. If not for the crop pests, then think of all the mosquitoes that won't get eaten and will eat us instead!