I wonder about Joe and Jed, because Jed made me wonder if standing my ground is preferable to light footing the light headed thing and allow this swamp mouse to get airborne. I didn't watch the entire thing as the only versions available to me had issues. One was dubbed in Portuguese, and the German version had an image quality that should be outlawed. Poor Joe lost the thing he loved, gained a lover he didn't love and then what?

Did I detect a hint of evil in yer mum's birfday gift? I don't remember ever seeing the Balloons in November from the balcony of my underswamp Bunker, but can think of no reason they couldn't fly at that time so long as one wears a decent Snowmobile suit, Helmet and a Parachute. One could always try to retrace Icarus's flight plan to warm up a bit.

Letting life live is an art we lost long ago. In an epic attempt to regulate Humans we build the biggest Clocks that go boing in the center of town, we even invented miniature versions that we can wear around our wrist, like shiny handcuffs, and now even our crypto wallets need to synchronize with the überclock before we get to spend our Bitcoins. If we don't keep track of time, time will keep track of us. I'm a notoriously bad planner, so I try to buck the trend, but end up right on schedule no matter what.

Woohoo, I finally found someone to go fishing with; a Fishytarian. As a source of food, fish has to be the best. For example; did you ever notice that the size of a Fish always increases after it's been eaten? After living in Minnesota for about 20 years, I discovered this to be a scientific fact with a better than 95% probability in 100% of Minnesota Fish species out of 11,842 Lakes.

Border Collies are worker Bees, they need to be kept busy or they'll get bored. A Dog like River would be much easier in an urban environment as Flat Coat Retrievers were bred for pulling Milk Carts. You don't want your Locomotive chasing alley Cats or biting the customer's children, so these Dogs have a very even temperament and are very easy to control without a leash. The exception is water, if there was a muddy puddle, River was in it no matter what I did.. Keep a good supply of Towels at hand and be prepared to shower with the Dog, they love water but hate to shower alone.