Lay Lines by Carol Lay for August 14, 2023

Quick, pour concrete over the hatch before they change their minds!

In short, he plans to fiddle while Rome burns.

I side with the grasshopper.

This is one of Aesop’s Fables, and it never actually turns out good for the grasshopper. https://fablesofaesop.com/the-ant-and-the-grasshopper.html

“There’s a time for Work and a time for Play” Choose wisely.

Grasshoppers 3 a fiddlin went

Hi Ho! Never be still

They paid no money, tore the rent

Went all day long with their elbows bent

Now I love grasshoppers.

I once talked to a survivalist who had a steel walled underground bunker so that when the Big One hit he’d be safe from the cannibals. I told him all they had to do was stack a pyre on top of it and they had a ready-made Crock Pot.

I prefer the Ondt and the Gracehoper.

This was a wonderful change to a classic. Kudos