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May 11, 2011

Signs that we are different...

Military life is full of funny things when you pause to think about them.  Take yesterday, for instance.  The dogs' veterinarian was deployed, so I had to make an appointment with a different Army vet clinic, so that necessitated me picking up their records to transport.  This is what I got:

You may have to enlarge it, but notice the need to indicate whether the pet is Government-Owned or Privately Owned, LOL!  Also a spot on the upper right to indicate which branch of the military the pet "serves in"  :)


When you open the record, you will find that our pets are in "active" status serving in the Navy, and the pet's relationship to the servicemember.  Maybe I'm the only one who sees humor in this stuff?  We have to look for fun where we can find it sometimes.


Upon pulling out of the vet clinic at the Army base, there was this guy, practicing bagpipes at the tailgate of his car as nonchalantly as if he was digging for a soccerball.  They were loud, too!
  

And finally, I'll leave you with this gem... you might live here IF...


Yes folks, that's a piece of a training missile that fell from a jet flying overhead.  Nobody was hurt, so it just serves as funny stuff now.  I love how these people are just standing around looking at it,  one guy there is probably calling his insurance company.  :) 


But wait...there's more wierdness!  That was written last night, but shortly afterwards we had a bit of excitement...

At 7:20 pm, we had an event that as of this morning is still unexplained.  The walls and roof shook violently for about 2 seconds.  Very strange.  I was barefoot, and I'll say that it didn't quite feel like any earthquake I had been through (I've been through quite a few in NorCal), but yet all the other signs were there.  No movement underfoot, but walls and roof shaking, a quiet boom, but not a loud explosive noise.  Did not sound or feel like any sonic boom I've seen (which we are very familiar with), it was way more violent than that.  The really wierd thing was that this was accompanied by a whoosh where it felt like an immediate air pressure drop and where air seemed to quickly be sucked outward from the house.  Hubby and I immediately looked at each other and ran outside, both thinking the same thing, a jet crashed on the airfield across the street.  He called work, nothing had happened there.  About 15 minutes later we found out we were not crazy, reports from as far as far away as 60-70 miles were coming in about the event as well.  Military denies any activity, Geological Survey says no seismic activity, NASA here denies any activity.  So basically this morning we are left with no answers.  Not that I'm a conspiracy theory gal or anything, but I have to admit I HATE that it was publicized that the now famous Seal Team came from here, and the timing of the mystery event has a few people on edge.  The local news story is here, but there are no answers.  Of course "reliable postings" by Facebook users on the news website is confirming chupacabras, alien landings, space junk, BinLaden being shot skyward, etc LOL.  

I think the best way for me to deal with it all is by planting squash, so that's what I'm gonna do...

10 comments:

  1. To funny! Well if no probings were reported you can rule out aliens. And how is the local goat population? That will rule out chupacabra ;)

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  2. Love the military oddness. We had a military plane do a low fly by once. There are no Canadian military bases near here so it was thought to be a US military plane. People were upset that a military plane flew so low over the town. Of course neither military would take credit for the plane but all those people didn't imagine it so I'm thinking that that same thing is happening where you are. Maybe your husband will find out later.

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  3. Wow, that's freaky! Stay safe over there. I love the pets records, that's so military! I haven't ever taken our pets on base so ours aren't "active duty" critters. Last week we had a military plane fly low and slow over our garden. Strange considering that sortof plane would have come a long ways. I suppose wheels are turning I know nothing about.

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  4. 1) When you leave the military, do Marley and Sprocket get honorable discharge papers?

    2) The bagpiper needed to practice for an upcoming event and his wife threatened mayhem if he didn't take those %$&#* pipes and leave the house.

    3) That training missile debris is downright scary.

    4) You KNOW the military/government is well aware of what your "earthquake-like" event was. Once again I use the word scary. It's kinda scary that they don't want you to know what it was.

    5) Planting squash is the best thing you could choose to do! ;o}

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  5. Squash... definitely... squash....
    Judy

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  6. Never a dull moment, huh? We had an incident once that involved house shaking and noises like you describe, but ours turned out to be a break in the main water line. It blew a swimming pool sized hole in the street intersection, and sucked the water right out of our pipes! My, what a racket and "swoosh" that made.

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  7. Jane we are seriously lacking in goats around here, looks like the chupacabra have been active for quite some time here, LOL!
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    Sparkless, nothing could get through here undetected since we are a large city with a military base every 20 miles or so LOL, so I'm sure if it was a secret, at least it was our secret :)
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    the author, yes, probably those wheels turning! Something is always afoot, isnt' it?!
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    Gran, yikes! I'll admit I thought about water and gas lines but we would have found out about that one right away. Luckily we have neither here at the house!

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  8. Mama Pea & Judy, squash is definitely the answer LOL! And I truly hope the military never has the need to call Sprocket into active duty for a mission, they will be sadly disappointed and probably give us extra pay to keep her at home :)

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  9. I'm not a paranoid person, but really, you know darn well SOMEONE knows what that was. Freaky!
    And I wonder how often the military gets compensation claims like that vehicle with the missile part in it.....too funny.(though not if it's your vehicle!)

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  10. Holy Moly! You'd best be wearing a hard hat wired with tin foil! Ward off the debris and aliens in one full swoop!

    Picture it... :)

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