Category Archives: R Attitude

Getting Ready for Events!

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New Year’s Eve is probably most meaningful to Critters who keep track of the Calendar. Rhinos are not much attuned to fretting with the particulars of Time, but We try to get into the Spirit of the Moment.

This thing on the wall is as much a calendar as anything else Rhinos notice. There is too much to preoccupy our minds to fuss with Numbers. After Three, that is.

Still, there’s a Festivity, so that grabs our attention! Break out the Confetti, and Rhinos are front and center!! Confettitators, from Way Back.

Cornfed

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Iowa, admitted today to the Union in 1846, lies in the Great Plains. The Iowans are renowned for pluck, determination, and hard work.

Iowa produces more soybeans and corn than any other state, and supplies the nation with ten percent of its food supply. Rhinos take our hats off to that. For certain.

Congratulations, you Hawkeyes, you!

 

For today’s image, We referred to Mr. Grant Wood, 1891-1942, an Iowa boy, whose paintings of rolling farmland tickle our Rhino Fancy.

Singleminded

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Rhinos are used to solitude. We wander around with other Rhinos, but not in a herd, like elephants. We hang out together when it suits Us, and otherwise, less so.

What We can tell you for certain is: it’s better to be alone and know what We’re doing and why, than hanging out with Bad Influences.

It’s far easier to get into trouble with Encouragement. Rhinos take these warnings into consideration when selecting playmates.

Grimm Reminder

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On December 20, 1812, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm first published their “Children’s and Household Stories”. It was successful, and was later expanded to include even more German folk tales.

Rhinos like these stories, even though they defy logic on every level. There is Something Powerful lurking behind the simplicity.

Part of our pleasure in these tales is that We can’t figure out what the Something Powerful is.

Flappering

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Illinois was admitted to the Union on December 3, 1818. It is quite a state, and has been for 201 years, which is a manyness. Much agriculture and industry. Many busy folks.

Rhinos are rhythmic vertebrationally, and so We salute the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties, a period of much extremity and sass. Plus shimmying to hot music.

Who could ask for anything more?

Here & There

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When Longitude got invented, it was a Rhino sign of hilarity to yell, “How’s your Longitude?”. The answer was always saucy and tasteless, often involving gestures.

To the extent that Longitude means something, We confess it has not impressed Us Rhinos.

Rhinos already know, and knew, where We are without Longitudinal Insinuations, thank you. And no, not Latitudinal ones either.