A quick update on the Robin’s nest. The tree/bush that they built their nest in has bloomed.
Also, there is at least one chick in the nest. I did not get a photograph of the baby, but we have seen it poke its head up looking for Mom to bring another worm.
No, it doesn’t have to go on forever. In fact, I can use mathematical proof by induction to prove that I am right in all cases.
Mathematical induction is a method for proving that a statement P(n) is true for every natural number n that is greater than k, that is, that the infinitely many cases P(0),P(1),P(2),P(3), … all hold.
This is done by first proving a simple case, P(0), and then assuming that the case P(k) is true and proving that the next case P(k + 1) is also true.
The first step proves the statement is true for k = 0.
The second step proves that if the case holds for n = k then it must also hold for n = k + 1.
Those two steps prove that the statement holds for all natural numbers where n >= k.
Got it?
Try to keep up.
For the first step of the inductive proof we can prove that my assertion for k = 0, basically that I draw you, is obvious because if I haven’t drawn you, then there is no you to draw you.
For the second step, where you are drawing you, I can always demonstrate that I drew you drawing you, and if you add another you drawing you I can always assert that I drew you drawing you before you drew you since you are a cartoon character that I invented and draw.
Therefore, it is proven that no matter how many times you show a picture of you drawing you it is true that I always had to previously have drawn you doing that…. no matter how many times you try that trick.
There!
Waddaya think of that?
I found DG busily drawing.
Hey, DG, whatcha doing?
Ah, yes…. but then….. I did have to draw you drawing you drawing you.
Don’t be silly. Cartoons can’t draw themselves.
OK fine…. but I had to draw you drawing you.
A robin appears to have taken a liking to our portico over the front porch and built a nest there.
Here is our front door.
Do you see it? Move a bit closer.
Looking out through the light.
The crazy bird has built its nest against the pillar of our portico.
There’s a lot of foot traffic through that door. I guess the birds are comfortable around humans.
I have been busy with other stuff.
Stuff like tax forms lost in the mail…. and the clothes drier up in smoke… and moving the snowblower into the garage and the grill out…. you know… other stuff.
Don’t be silly. Cartoons can’t draw themselves.
Our last SPOTH had tiger stripes with a hint of red. Well, here is one that is Red with a hint of tiger stripes…. or maybe leopard spots….. or maybe just splotches.
The plant is a Billbergia ‘Teng Ee’…. don’t know what ‘Teng Ee’ means.
We have been going through quite a few SPOTHs lately. I thought I would ask how DG’s SPOTH is doing.
Hey, DG, how’s that spider plant doing?
What’s that again? I couldn’t hear you.
Speak up. I still couldn’t hear what you said.
Oh? So soon? Bummer! Sorry about that.
Uh. You do realize, don’t you, that it is now April 4th? April Fools Day was days ago.
That gag only works on April first. Try to keep up.
Sigh.
Since we are getting into the taller plants, here is one that is not only taller, but it has a hint of red in it as well as a hint of tiger stripes.
That is a Billbergia Hybrid.
Here’s an even taller tiger striped SPOTH.
It’s an Aechmea ‘Chantinii DeLeon’ Black bromeliad. I bet you can’t say that three times fast without spitting up.
I don’t see anything about tigers or zebras in its name, though.
Dude. That’s just a spider plant. There’s nothing strange about a spider plant. Everybody has one.
OK. You got me on a technicality.
