Singing In Mississippi

WARNING! The Following Post Contains Earworms.

It’s now Day 10 of my ‘House-Sitting in the Middle-of-Nowhere Mississippi Adventure’. Ten days of little to no face to face contact with other humans. Isolation does things to the mind (wicked things!). I do have the dogs to keep me company. I mean, when they’re not biting me or peeing on things. They also, apparently, find it completely hilarious to bark frantically at 3am at absolutely nothing. (What is it guys? What are you barking at? Is it….Bigfoot? It’s gotta be Bigfoot!!) I’m certain this is some sort of country-dog joke intended to freak out the city-slicker house-sitter. There’s also 2 chickens here on the farm, but they’re not really good company. That might be because I keep eating their attempts at reproducing….

Chicken #1 (lets call her Rhoda): Damn it, I know I left an egg right here earlier this morning.

Chicken #2 (we’ll call this one Diana): So did I! What’s going on here?

Chicken #1: Probably Bigfoot…

Meanwhile, in the kitchen….

Yum!

I might not ought to mention that I’ve eaten 2 entire watermelons in the past 10 days….single handedly. I plan to go out later today in search of another. I’m also thinking about eating this….

…if only I could figure out what it is. Oh, and I’ve been eating a lot of these too….

Yep, I’m foraging, baby! So far, no sign of Bigfoot…..apparently he (it?) doesn’t care for blackberries. This only means more for me!

Being in isolation, with no one to converse with, doesn’t stop me from talking. Though the dogs are fair conversationalists (I mean, when they’re not trying to freak me out), I find myself singing – WAY too much. And I’m a terrible singer, but who cares, right? There’s no one around to hear me – except maybe…Bigfoot!

So, what am I singing? Well, there are a couple of  pretty awesome songs which have been kinda stuck in my head the past few days:

This entirely addictive song by the awesomely cool folks at AsapSCIENCE is one of my favorites.  (Warning: Listen with the full knowledge that you WILL find yourself singing this – over, and over, and over….)

The Elements of the Periodic Table! AND! In order! In order?! Are you kidding me?! Nope, I kid you not. In order! (Notice how I just talked to myself there? Uh huh, I’m doing that a lot lately….)

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Another song stuck in my head is this incredibly cool Thunderstorm Song by one of my newest heroes, Mr Parr, of Mr Parr’s Science Songs! Mr Parr is a 6th grade teacher who’s made a TON of really awesome music-science videos for his students, all parodying popular songs.  THEY ARE AMAZING! And so is Mr. Parr!

This has to be the coolest parody of Gangnam Style since NASA, Johnson Style! (Which can be found on my April 11, 2013 post titled The Epically Awesome Award of Epic Awesomeness!)

Here, in south Mississippi, we (I say ‘we’ as I’m sure that there are other humans in the area….somewhere) get those afternoon storms Mr Parr mentions. We’ve absolutely no shortage of ‘hot and humid’ here. And… thunderstorms just happen to fall squarely into the category of …things I LOVE! They can also provide for some damn dramatic sunsets….

I’m hoping Mr. Parr would approve!

All Photographs: Alex Autin (somewhere in Mississippi (not Mars!))

Earworms provided by AsapSciece and Mr. Parr!!!

***Disclaimer: Bigfoot is a fictitious creature with absolutely no scientific evidence is to its existence. (Don’t try to convince the dogs of this at 3am!) This said, if Bigfoot does show up here I will attempt to engage it in conversation (I’m desperate!). However, if it goes after my watermelons I will open up some Texas-style whoop-ass on his hairy Mississippi butt!

June 4, 2013 | Categories: Adventure, Country Life, General Science, Heroes, Mixed Images, Nature, People, Photography, Science, Sunset | Tags: ...things I LOVE, Adventure, Alex Autin, AsapScience, Bigfoot, Blackberries, Chickens, Country, Country Life, Earworms, General Science, Heroes, Mississippi, Mixed Images, Mr Parr, Mr Parr's Science Songs, NASA, Nature, People, Photo Essay, Photography, Science, Sunset, The Elements of the Periodic Table, Thunderstorms, Weather | 56 Comments »