Baseball Shenanigans

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  1. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    That triggered my laughing function.

  2. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Sweetie is doing an open house again for the guy that thinks his (high) property tax valuation is bragging rights. He recently raised his axing price about 15 grand due to the county’s recent appraisal for this year. I’m sure he’ll have the appraisal laid out on display again like he did last time, with extra copies for people to take if they’d like. They just can’t reason with the guy.

  3. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. Surprise 70 and decently cool at 6; overcast seems to be the norm the past few days. Presume the breezes off the Gulf will continue today and keep feeding the storms making their way up the Mississippi River Valley. Maybe we will get some scattered showers here today. The NE is expecting cooler than normal temps and perhaps snow in the mountains this weekend, everybody else getting rain and maybe hail. Hmmm, maybe the MMGW acolytes are hiding under their rocks this weekend. 🙂
    #2 GJT
    The home seller is indeed off the rails touting the CAD’s appraisal as a plus. Gad. Given the reportedly hot market for homes now and some selling the day they’re listed, with multiple bidders, would guess he is totally forgetting the CAD appraisal means taxes to the owner. That’s stiff competition. Duh. That means him if he can’t sell the place soon, as I believe he will owe a proportional amount for this year up until closing the sale. Would seem showing an appraisal from a reputable private appraiser ought to better serve him if he insists on showing one. My sympathies to your dear wife on this matter.

  4. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #3
    Frustrated his home has not moved and that buyers don’t see the deal they’re getting with the list price so much lower than appraised value, the guy is now punishing potential buyers by raising the list to appraised amount. 😀

  5. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Good morning, Hamsterville. Is it just me or is everyone noticing some Proofreading Help — where a misspelled word or a doubled word such as is is — gets runtime flagging? I even see this happening in Hambone and in Facebook. Is it my new computer?

  6. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Aye no knot of witch yew speke.

  7. Hamous Avatar

    It ain’t helping sarge and his chronic “i before e except after c” problem.

  8. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Aye no knot of witch yew speke.

    Well, the Spell Helper isn’t magic. The only thing it could possibly do — and it is doing this for me right now as I type — is highlight “speke” which isn’t a word. Except as a proper name for some Brit explorer.

  9. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Apparently my IE9 now has a plug-in spell checker. It must have been picked up during some updating since I started setting up the new laptop. It is saving me from most of my need for edits of mistakes I can’t see until after I hit Post.

  10. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Beware of the autocorrect monster!

  11. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Just wait untill we get home!
    http://i.imgur.com/M860K6R.jpg

  12. Katfish Avatar

    Potential BACA heros don’t always GET a ‘holiday’ (don’t watch if you desire an untarnished Saturday)
    11 Suspects Accused of Gang Raping Madisonville Teen

  13. Katfish Avatar

    #11 – where oh WHERE is Lorena Bobbit when we need her?

  14. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #13- shoot, if’n he got Lorena Bobbited there might not be much left. 😀

  15. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #12: Once convicted, stake them out over a fire ant bed on a hot day or take them to the swamps and use them for alligator bait.

  16. phil Avatar
    phil

    Love those freeway signs, Click It or Ticket.
    They need to add this below Click It or Ticket.
    Illegally enter the country, get a meeting with Dictator OBeelzeBubama.

  17. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #12 Katfish
    Kudos to the Madisonville PD’s roundup. May they find and capture every last one of the lowlifes. Looks like all those arrested so far are adults. Two of the assailants are female??? More creepy. Prayers for the victim and her family.

  18. phil Avatar
    phil

    HCAD’s new promo to show they really do care about the homeowner.

  19. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #11 Tim
    Yeah, Bronco has developed a bit of a wandering eye since he’s been settin’ his bony a$$ in the Oval Office. I was surprised by all his yakking about the “prettiest attorney general” which I doubt if his wife appreciated at all. Maybe he isn’t gay after all.

  20. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well, I just got back from Academy. I went to see if they had any more 22’s and they were already sold out AGAIN, but they did have a few boxes of Speer Lawman TMJ ® for $22.00, dang that’s cheap even for the old days. I’d never heard of this particular ammo, but then I’ve only had this 45 for a few years. The ammo is made totally lead free including the “Total Metal Jacket” bullet and is used for practice on the range. It mimics the JHP service round. Limited to one box though. I do appreciate that Academy doesn’t price gouge, I’ve purchased a lot of stuff from “Cheaper Than Dirt” but after seeing the ridiculous prices that they are charging now, I’ll NEVER buy from them again.

  21. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Yeah, Bronco has developed a bit of a wandering eye since he’s been settin’ his bony a$$ in the Oval Office.

    Can you imagine not having a wandering eye, being married to the wookie and all?

    Maybe he isn’t gay after all.

    The jury is still out on that one, just like his citizenship . . . . .

  22. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #21 SD:

    I’ve purchased a lot of stuff from “Cheaper Than Dirt” but after seeing the ridiculous prices that they are charging now, I’ll NEVER buy from them again.

    The tendency, when you have someone by the pelotas/juevos/danglies, etc, is to squeeze. It is that old supply and demand thingie, untempered by basic decency. There is the issue of the replacement cost of the inventory to be considered, however. It may be quite a while before any discount ammo is available. I think the prices for firearms and ammo will plummet if/when the Ds are purged from controlling the Senate and White house and the extent of their control drops nationwide. The less the Ds control the more freedom for everybody.

  23. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #23 Bones, the ammo is already loosening up a little, last month the only way to get any of the popular stuff from Academy was to be there when they were unloading the truck.
    FWIW; I usually buy most of my ammo on-line in bulk or roll my own, but now it’s hard to find and I’m almost out of primers. I have plenty of brass, powder and bullets but not many primers.

  24. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    This morning just after 6 on the way to feed the mares there was a large pecan branch about 2″ in diameter leaning on the pasture side of the back yard fence, completely torn from the tree on the back yard side. Another smaller branch was hanging from the tree and must have been hit by the big one coming down. Both had been attached last night when we went to bed. Well, pecans are self-pruning especially when carrying an impressive load of leaves, though we must assume the steady and sometimes brisk breezes of late played a part in weakening the branches.
    It was a passing fancy that maybe a band of this spring’s juvenile squirrels had been partying up there last night and jumping on it in their revelry. There have been lots of youngish-looking squirrels in packs of 5 or 6 playing tag on the ground and in the trees, pretty much going at warp speed at times and doing some fancy leaping/landing. We thought their spring romance season was over long ago.
    Spouse hauled the branches behind the lawn tractor out to the burn pile in the side pasture. Eventually they will be dry enough to burn along with leaves from fall and spring shedding. Hope that can be done while we still have green grass and some soil moisture out there. Looks depressingly like the storm cluster inching this way from Victoria and Austin is going north faster than east. 🙁

  25. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Re: Self-pruning pecan trees.
    I voluntarily mow a public area which is ringed by a dozen ancient pecan trees. St. Augustine grass has survived the droughts in this small area that we refer to as “Max’s Park.”
    I walk underneath those old trees with care, knowing that a 400 lb., 8 inch limb could fall without notice.

  26. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    So, don’t be surprised if you hear that Shannon & Max were “taken out” by a falling pecan limb!

  27. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #25 Adee
    But I don’t think you can blame the squirrels, at least not after dark. I do believe they tuck in for the night promptly at dusk.
    We used to have an old maple tree full of hollows in our back yard. It was very popular with woodpeckers. The old pecker holes, if large enough, were then popular with mother squirrels. One such hole faced the back windows and we could see little zombie squirrel faces looking out of that hole just past nightfall.

  28. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    This tickler says Hillary is writing a tell-all bio in which she admits to lesbian affairs…
    http://gopthedailydose.com/2013/05/25/hillary-clinton-to-confirm-bisexuality-in-upcoming-book/

  29. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Hmmm, as much as I dislike Hillary, I believe the Daily Mail is a tabloid paper and thus to be taken with a grain/block of salt unless corroborated elsewhere.

  30. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I think some of the fights Bill and Hitlery had were over who gets the girl. It was pretty well known that Hitlery liked the girls when they were in the WhiteHouse.

  31. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Evening all. Had a do nothing day inspite of good intentions. Just lacking energy and the will. I was out at Independence Firearms on Hwy 50 earlier in the week and they had a reasonable selection of ammunition. Lots of 22 but no magnum or hollowpoints. Picked up some .357, 38 sp and a brick of 22’s. Neat place, it was the first time I had been in there. Staff was friendly as well. I will go back.

  32. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    32
    That place is a phenomenon.
    Parking lot packed from open to close, seven days a week.
    From day one.

  33. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    They are now closed Sundays and Mondays, but yes it was busy and they had lots of staff. They are opening an online store soon for those of you out in the hinterland.

  34. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    If you haven’t eaten yet or had some food that disagrees with you then you may read the info at the link…
    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/opinion/sunday/dowd-can-44-subtract-43-from-the-equation.html?smid=pl-share&_r=0
    Personally I think Maureen Dowd is a dipstick in an Edsel.

  35. Katfish Avatar

    #35 – good LORD – as if I was not already astounded that ANYONE actually transcribes a paycheck to this this pseudo self important oxygen thief………………….she actually typed the words “compelling speech” next to TOTUS’s name?
    Compelled to eviscerate one’s self with a wissin butter knife perhaps…………..

  36. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #35 TexCan
    I tried but I couldn’t read it all. Nothing she writes seems to matter in the real world.

  37. phil Avatar
    phil

    Maureen Dowd can’t help herself. She had a lObamaotomy years ago.
    Like most of the Lame Slimed Media propagandists.

  38. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #37 mharper42
    I join you in not being able to read all Maureen’s starry/glassy-eyed drivel. What a maroon.
    Edsel dipstick conveys a certain flair also, Texanadian.

  39. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    First! I mean, Mornin!

  40. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. Another morning with 70 at 6, whee. Gorgeous full Moon shining softly through a cloudy sky, wearing it like a shawl she is. Plenty of ground mist on the moors that sorta makes up for missing the rain yesterday evening other than a few drops. It came so close.
    It’s getting so we have much in common with the hapless Astros–missing a lot. 🙁

  41. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    G’Memorial Day All
    Remember Memorial Day for what it is.
    Memorial Day for all soldiers is embodied in the words of the oath that you first take when you enlist into the service of the country:
    I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR (OR AFFIRM) THAT I WILL SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC; THAT I WILL BEAR TRUE FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE TO THE SAME; AND THAT I WILL OBEY THE ORDERS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE ORDERS OF THE OFFICERS APPOINTED OVER ME, ACCORDING TO REGULATIONS AND THE UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE. SO HELP ME GOD.
    This oath taken by each and every soldier exemplifies the reason why soldiers do what they do each and every day. Soldiers are defenders of the same principles that made this country great. They stand as Patriots to defend and protect the ideals and sentiments espoused in the Constitution of the United States. Soldiers bear true faith and allegiance to that document and they work, and live, within the Codes of Military Justice. Soldiers also obey the orders of the President of the United States and the Officers appointed over them. These truths are self evident in the everyday lives of soldiers.
    Now, as we see our fellow citizens arrive back from a foreign land, we should not forget those words that each and every soldier spoke upon enlistment.
    When we look upon a returning soldier from conflict, a disabled veteran, or a grave marker – those words should ring in your conscience.
    I feel those words streaming from the eyes of the returning soldier and hear them from the sound of the stumbling walk of the disabled veteran, see them from the blind and disfigured face of the veteran at WalMart or the one with no arms asking me to retie his shoe.
    “So help me God” . . . blasting from the cold stone face of a grave marker.
    Remember those that gave their lives, so that we may continue to live in freedom as spelled out in the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence . . . Lest we forget.

  42. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Hear, hear OTL. God Bless our military folks, present and past.

  43. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I was all excited to hear something about drug testing passing in the Texas legislature, but alas, only for unemployment benefits, not welfare, and only if their previous employer required drug testing and only if a questionnaire shows suspicion to some bureaucrat. IOW’s, the druggies won’t be effected.

  44. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Now this is cool;
    America’s oldest veteran to spend quiet Memorial Day at Texas home.

    For his 107th Memorial Day, Richard Arvine Overton, who saw many of his fellow soldiers fall in the line of duty in World War II and even more die over the following decades, is planning a quiet day at the Texas home he built after returning home from World War II.
    He wouldn’t want it any other way.
    Overton, who is believed to be the nation’s oldest veteran, told FoxNews.com he’ll likely spend the day on the porch of his East Austin home with a cigar nestled in his right hand, perhaps with a cup of whiskey-stiffened coffee nearby.

  45. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Oh and Mornin’ Gang

  46. Katfish Avatar

    Yo Squawkster – trucking news I’d bet you’ll find remarkable at the very least (whatta buncha Guvunment MORONZ!)
    Inspections: Skagit River bridge hit a number of times by big trucks
    from Fox News

    State officials approved the trucking company to carry a load as high as 15 feet, 9 inches, according to the permit released by the state. However, the southbound vertical clearance on the Skagit River bridge is as little as 14 feet, 5 inches, state records show. That lowest clearance is outside of the bridge’s vehicle traveling lanes, Transportation Department communications director Lars Erickson said Friday. The bridge’s curved overhead girders are higher in the center of the bridge. …
    There are no signs leading up to the Skagit River bridge to warn about its clearance height. State Transportation Secretary Lynn Peterson said that under federal and state standards, the clearance is tall enough to not require signage.

    ?????????????????????????????????????????????
    More On The Bridge In WA
    no pole car / no escort????????????????????????????

  47. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Just come up with canned over easy eggs and biscuits and i’ll no longer need to be married.

  48. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I think only wide loads require escorts, no?

  49. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #49 Tim

    i’ll no longer need to be married.

    Bwa Haha Ha. Big talk. I betcha serve your Sweetie breakfast in bed.
    🙂

  50. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    And make sammiches.

  51. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I think only wide loads require escorts, no?

    That’s why the Secret Service escorts the Wookiee.

  52. Katfish Avatar

    #50 – GJT – all 50 states (and all Canadian provinces) have their own individual rules for escorts that apply to height, width, AND length also…I’m a Comdata subscriber and receive an updated CD every quarter with all revisions
    In THIS instance: Washington state:
    for 2 lane highways:
    width over 11ft: 2 escorts (1 frnt 1 rear)
    length over 105ft: 1 escort rear
    height over 14ft 6in: 1 escort – front w/ height pole
    for multi lane highways
    width over 14ft up to 20ft: 1 escort rear
    width over 20ft : 2 escorts – 1 frnt / 1 rear
    length over 125ft: 1 escort rear
    height over 14ft 6in: 1 escort frnt w/ height pole
    multiple and varying other rules for mobile homes / farm implements
    also plenty of exceptions / additions for various urban areas including curfews for morning and evenin rush hours

  53. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    One of the weather dudes on the tube said that his list of the worse towns for tornados in the last 10 years, in order, Moore OK, Tuscaloosa AL, Jackson TN, Huntsville AL….Interesting ~

  54. Hamous Avatar

    worse towns for tornados in the last 10 years, in order, Moore OK, Tuscaloosa AL, Jackson TN, Huntsville AL

    He left out Joplin, MO in 2011? That was the deadliest tornado in something like 60 years and the costliest ever.

  55. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #57 Hamous: We spoke of this very issue on these pages, that Gibson was targeted because they supported Rs and Martin was ignored because they supported Ds. Ditto that with the GM and Chrysler dealership closures; they had nothing to do with sales volume or profitability, just to which party they donated.
    I would love to see a class action lawsuit against the feds by the dealers that were forced out of business. I think that Gibson may still have a case against the feds, in light of the most recent revelations.

  56. Tedtam Avatar

    I had a wonderful day with Lovely Daughter on Friday. Yesterday I spent most of the day with a family member who needed me. Now I’m about to deconstruct my wedding dress, so I can use the lace and buttons for Baby-in-Waiting’s baptismal gown.
    Emotional weekend.

  57. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Bwa Haha Ha. Big talk. I betcha serve your Sweetie breakfast in bed.

    Hey there ain’t no nail-in-the-head arrangement goin’ on around here. I tell you that right now…..hold on, get back later

  58. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Now I’m about to deconstruct my wedding dress

    BLASPHEMY! You have to save it in pristine condition forever – its the law. Maybe you grand daughter will wanna be married in it.

  59. Dooood Avatar

    Now the Gibson Guitar raids make sense

    Yup. In light of this IRS crap recently, It’s clear that this administration will not hesitate for a nanosecond to abuse their power to quiet opposition. At the same time though, why is the focus only on the two companies as a point of contrast? There are a lot of guitar makers out there beside Gibson and Martin who use these same woods and don’t seem to be subject to these witch-hunts. It seems pretty blatant that Gibson was singled out from a field of many. Makes me want to go buy another Gibson product to support the company. Got a sweet 6 string SG now and I’d love to have an SG bass to add to the collection. Alas, so many basses so little time (and money of course).

  60. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    He who dies with the most instruments wins!

  61. Dooood Avatar

    I agree, Bonecrusher. I’m afraid Mrs. Dooood views it as mutually assured destruction though!
    8^)

  62. Katfish Avatar

    #63 – ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooBABY SG Bass!
    ………..always have loved that design but never played one

  63. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #65 Dooooooooooooooodski: Start making your own from scratch, she can’t gripe about that can she?

  64. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Absolute clueless morons and they wonder why Detroit is in such bad shape. Unfortunately it is quite indicative of the mindset of Govt employee Ds, from the Department of Repetitive Redundancies Department.

  65. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    #66 Katfish:
    I never owned an SG Bass, but I played a Gibson RD Standard Bass for several years (until it got stolen). It was a great bass with a thunderous low end.

  66. Tedtam Avatar

    Those people sure know how to put together a wedding dress. This is taking much longer than I though it would. I’m trying to save parts of the lace detail, and I just can’t cut it off at the seam line, because there are parts of it that are sewn down just over the seam line.
    I’m hoping that when I get to the bottom section it will go faster.

  67. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I was driving through the hood and saw that someone had tossed a line over the arm of a lamp post and hoisted Old Glory all the way to the top! I like it! Hey the Association Nazi even says it’s OK! Not sure ‘bout Houston Looting and Pillaging.
    I took a video on my crappy cell phone and ifin’ I had the keys to the executive washroom , I’d post it here. 😀

  68. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I just talked to daughter, she had a get together at her house yesterday that involved several of her neighbors, it centered on the smoked brisket everyone brought a side, she made a cucumber salad made with cucumbers, tomatoes & onions that all came out of her and hubby’s garden. 😀

  69. Katfish Avatar

    #70 – I’ve always loved the SG body design
    I learned on a Fender Coronado II hollow body
    I owned a studio model Les Paul Bass for many years (loved it but DANG it was heavy)
    I currently only have the lil Mustang my Son Guppie bought for me a few years back
    Don’t think I’ve ever seen an SG Bass in person nor heard one played

  70. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Speaking of “Slim Balls” Schumer Refuses to Endorse Protégé Anthony Weiner. You’ll notice that even though he didn’t endorse him he didn’t condemn him either, typical of the Slimy left, he’ll just stay neutral to protect himself and not hurt the douchebag. 🙁

  71. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Dang, have y’all been outside? I just went out to check on the ribs on the grill and it’s pretty cool in the shade. Best south Texas spring that I’ve seen in the 30+ years That I’ve been here.

  72. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    69,
    I could not agree with you more on this one. I have been to the Holiday Inn in Ann Arbor; I believe it has an adequate conference center.
    Regrettably, this terrible example of bad spending (let alone optics) is not reserved to the public sector. You can see similar boondoggles in the corporate world, which believe it or not you (the tax payer) gets to pick up 50% of the tab, as long as, we call the junket “training”. I wish stockholder associations and mutual funds would develop a little spine and demand better stewardship of funds.
    Of course that and perpetual motion are not likely to happen.
    Simple

  73. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    76 Dave,
    I have spent the last 3 hours next to my charcoal pit cooking six chickens for a get together tomorrow. You are right….this was a splendid day to be outside and consuming Lawnmower Lager(s).
    This is the good life ….the heck with the rest.
    Simple

  74. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    59 Boney,
    It is not going to happen. A good many of the dealerships that folded depended on a bad business model. They could only survive with high volume sales and when the bubble burst in 2007, the die was cast.
    The advent of the internet sales in the auto business has driven margins down to a point that a dealership has to do more than “fit people into cars” if they want to survive.
    Simple

  75. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #78 Simple, Yup life is good! 😀

  76. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My #76, the temperature has been in the low 80’s for a few hours and I don’t have a Hygrometer, but I’m thinking that the humidity is pretty low for this neck-o-the woods.

  77. phil Avatar
    phil

    So Lindsey Graham-Cracker is putting on airs saying we need a special counsel to investigate Evil Conniver Holder instead of ole Evil investigating himself.
    What a genius.
    Too bad this guy isn’t still alive.

  78. Tedtam Avatar

    I finally separated the bodice lace from my wedding gown. There’s a pretty section that just might work on the baptismal gown. I’m going to make it detachable so they can use the gown underneath, which will be less frilly, for any boys that may join the family later.

  79. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    TT, I think Bones may have reported you to the Wedding Gown Preservation Committee, and there may be a warrant out for your arrest.

  80. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I don’t usually recommend long videos, but I found this one fascinating. Dennis Michael Lynch, film maker of They Come to America, drove to Ohio to testify to the state legislature, in an attempt to dissuade them from giving driver’s licenses to illegals. In spite of its being 33 mins long, I listened from start to finish.

  81. Sarge Avatar

    I din’t perzacly know zackly what flaver of Skandi Aryan Bohunk them Ikeans is, but I’m pretty sure they were responsible for starting both World Wars.

  82. Sarge Avatar

    Those people sure know how to put together a wedding dress. This is taking much longer than I though it would. I’m trying to save parts of the lace detail, and I just can’t cut it off at the seam line, because there are parts of it that are sewn down just over the seam line.

    I’m tearing apart a tent so I can get the netting and hardware and as a result have a newfound respect for Chinese seamstresses.

  83. Tedtam Avatar

    The dress is completely torn apart. The carnage is splayed across my sofa – the sleeves and bodice piece over the back, the skirt lace below it. The acetate gown under is now in the trash.
    So sad. The pretty dress is now dismembered, and my memories of my wedding day are all I have left. Well, and Hubby, too. And the wedding did result in a couple of really great offspring. Using that logic, I guess I can include my house. And….

  84. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Do you have any fruitcake left. That stuff just never goes away. Have a joyous Memorial Day, remember those that gave it all.

  85. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    G’Monday Morning All
    Be honest, now. Who’s the first person you think of, Jesse Chisholm or John Wayne?

    Famous cattle trail debuts in print
    May 27, 1870
    In its edition for this day in 1870, the Kansas Daily Commonwealth made the earliest known printed reference to the Chisholm Trail, the major livestock route out of Texas. Cattle drovers followed the old Shawnee Trail by way of San Antonio, Austin, and Waco, where the trails split. The Chisholm Trail continued on to Fort Worth, then passed east of Decatur to the crossing at Red River Station. It followed the same route as modern U.S. Highway 81 from Fort Worth to Newton, Kansas. Although the Chisholm Trail was used only from 1867 to 1884, the longhorn cattle driven north along it provided a steady source of income that helped the impoverished state recover from the Civil War.

  86. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, everyone. I just stepped outside to feed the birds and found a very pleasant cool breeze, in spite of the 79 degrees on the weather station.

  87. Hamous Avatar

    And now, a musical interlude. Oh those wacky Dutch.

  88. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    The Dogs of War tribute… Even I have to admit I can’t visualize cats being of any use whatsoever to the military.

  89. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    WAF thread, Metamucil, I was thinking Laxative. 😉
    Mornin’ Gang
    I found some more pictures of my Dad in India and posted them at some other place.

  90. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #95. I think I’ve got something in my eye.

  91. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Squawk pron!
    /CAUTION: eye bleach may be required.

  92. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    PSA, Warning, warning, danger…….
    CAUTION: eye bleach may be IS REQUIRED!!! 😯

  93. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Hunnerd!!!

  94. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. Another coolish 70 at 6 accompanied by an awakening breeze.
    Three days in a row.
    Old Glory sways to the breeze’s caress on the front porch, and five small flags decorate the sidewalk to the house. Absolutely delighted at the turnout to place flags on the graves in the Houston National Cemetery and the media coverage it received. Well done, and God bless those who volunteered.
    .

  95. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    25 Photos You Need To Really Look At To Understand.Oh and can someone ‘Splain #13? That was the only one that I couldn’t figure out, photo-shop maybe?

  96. Tedtam Avatar

    I was trying to decide whether to work out indoors or work in the yard.
    Until I got up. I’m lucky to be sitting in my special back support chair with ice on the outside of me and ibuprofen on the inside.
    My hardest exercise today will be standing up and sitting down.
    Dammit.

  97. phil Avatar
    phil

    I gradually came to realize that the leadership of the Republican Party is incapable of responding effectively to Obama’s treacherous betrayal of constitutional self-government, or even admitting it. Why? Because that leadership is itself in the grip of forces that differ from Obama only in the more openly self-serving style of their betrayal. They purport to represent and speak for the large plurality of Americans loyal to the Constitution. They pretend to respect the ideas of God-endowed unalienable rights and limited government from which the Constitution derives. But they have in fact abandoned every goal of political life except the successful pursuit of governmental power, and the self-aggrandizing abuses it makes possible.

    Link

  98. Katfish Avatar

    #105 – awesome historical “journey” !!

  99. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #105, #106

    remembering how he’d scrambled those eggs in his steel helmet, stirring with his bayonet.

    Remarkable story indeed. And pretty similar to my latest culinary invention, the microwave omelette sammich.

  100. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Yesterday I started a briskit on the Old Smoky BBQ pit (a locally owned NON-UNION MADE PRODUCT) after marinating said briskit in my own secret marinade/sauce since Fri evening. The briskit was finished in the oven and is really good. Now I am making a pot of pinto beans and boiling the sweet taters for the sweet tater salad. Y’all be sure to send condolences when me and the Mrs are aching from eating too much.

  101. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Got a spare $700LARGE burning a hole in your pocket?? This is the boat for you.

  102. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #109 BC
    It looks like something out of Star Wars/Star Trek. Perhaps it could discourage some of our less sophisticated opponents merely by viewing it. For instance Somali pirates. 🙂
    Or in the alternative it might make them think “we gotta get us one of these.”
    If’n you overindulge in the holiday supper, you can always lie down under a tree and groan for a while.

  103. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #110: When I don’t have anything special planned, I tend to cook. I have come to the conclusion that I am better in the kitchen than I am in the garage.

  104. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #110: That is a SWATH boat, Small Waterplane Area, Twin Hull. The benefits of this design is incredible stability in moderate to rough seas and an increase in usable floor space. The 105 foot boat shown will ride as well or better than a 180 footer of standard design

  105. Tedtam Avatar

    #111 Bonecrusher

    When I don’t have anything special planned, I tend to cook. I have come to the conclusion that I am better in the kitchen than I am in the garage.

    That’s what she said.
    /limping off quickly

  106. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    David and I went out for a burger and fries at lunchtime. Now that may sound mundane, but we rarely ever do that anymore, so it was a treat.
    I bought some new hand clipping tools yesterday, and tried out the loppers this morning. It is good to get some exercise precisely when I want to!

  107. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #102 Super Dave
    Nose & mouth belong to dad. Shades to kid. Kid’s cheeks start just aft of dad mouth.

  108. Hamous Avatar

    And there it is: Dopey stimulus, obtuse bailout, noodle-headed Obamacare, half-wit Dodd-Frank, damfool IRS Tea Party crashers, AP and Fox News beset by oafish peeping Toms and the Benghazi tale told by an idiot. One could go on. Stupid is a great force in human affairs. And the great force has a commander in chief.

  109. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Pyro kilt teh blog. Where is Shannon and everyone else this weekend?

  110. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #116
    But Hammy brings it roaring back to life with a read that dares call Bronco stupid.

  111. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    #119: Whoo hoo. It took me a while to figure out #15 and I think flaming arror has it right.
    The camera, like eye witnesses is not reliable.
    I enjoyed the link though, it was interesting to look how compisition can effect the simplest picture,

  112. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #116 Hamous
    Great post. PJ nails it again. Probably from his secret bunker where the IRS and cronies can’t find him by phone or email. 🙂

  113. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    #109 Bonz
    Does it have two cupholders?

  114. Katfish Avatar

    Some decent news coverage for my NY Sisters & Brothers
    Yes…….only a local Fox outlet – but unless I’m mistaken I hear the voice of ole ‘blockhead’ Shepard Smith himself……….
    Bikers fighting for abused children

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