Speaking as an immigrant to a Nordic country, yes, the sport of orienteering is popular here, but it's broader than cross-country running+map-reading. They teach basic map reading in preschool, and high school students must do a map-reading/orienteering challenge of visiting every point on a map. The orienteering clubs even have a non-running version; in our city they set up 100 checkpoints around the city and nearby woods, and we have all summer to find them. Our kids found it fun as well. I've tried both the GPS and paper version of it, and found that relying on the paper map, while more challenging, gave me a much better sense of place than GPS.
When I lived in Louisiana I had a huge orb spider that would build a web on my back porch that would span about 12 feet across. She would make her web at night and a late night business meeting for the dog would make it possible to see what an enormous web she could make in a few short hours. Come morning the web and the spider would be gone only for the web to appear again in the same place the following night..
To expand on your exceptions, all that is needed is the addition of an adjective or the conversion of the word to an adjective. "I got laid low last night."; "I was anti-sober last night." Or maybe, "I was so pissed last night that I got pissed and pissed away an entire paycheck just before getting arrested for pumping raw sewage,"
The terraced pools... well, you may not be able to see those exact ones any longer, but there are others that look strikingly similar to that pic. The Pamukkale Thermal Pools in Turkey, as well as the Baishuitai in Yunnan, China.
1963 When my family moved to Michigan from Massachusetts we lived at my aunt's house while our new house was being built. There was a half tame squirrel in the neighborhood. One day I was hand feeding it. My mothers yells at me not to let it bite me. I think her voice frightened it because he nipped my finger which bled. Mother says don't tell anyone. I did, at supper and my dad freaks out and we all go to the emergency part of the nearest hospital. They determine I need a series of rabies shots but the doctor says they have 2 serums and if they give me the wrong one I'll be a vegetable because a girl the week before got a wrong shot and it happened to her. I saw a rabies shot, a huge amount of handcream thick penicillin in a giant sized needle and a tetanus shot on a tray and ran out of the building going anywhere/nowhere just to get away. They dragged me back screaming and I got the shots. A whole series of them - 1 a day for 3 weeks. Turns out that squirrels don't carry rabies because their metabolism won't support it. grrr
The northern state of Queensland does not follow the other eastern states of Australia in having daylight saving.It is said that the Premier of the state, at the time it was proposed, thought the sun shone out of his bum, and he wasn't getting out of bed an hour earlier for anyone.
I've tried both the GPS and paper version of it, and found that relying on the paper map, while more challenging, gave me a much better sense of place than GPS.
Praise from Caesar.