Annals of White Privilege – Hitchin’ Up the Mules
Super Dave wrote:
I have a photo for Texpat’s “White Privilege” series if he wants to use it. This would be my Uncle Luciean, in 1938, hitching up one of the mules to go out and start plowing 122 acres of land, to plant cotton and corn. My dad would be hitching up the other mule to help him. FWIW: My dad was taking the picture with his cousin’s Kodak Brownie camera.
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Guess we’re off to a late start this morning. Saturday mornings are for sleeping in. I was going to use the pressure washer to get rid of the bug splat on the front of my car, but I think the paint comes off easier than the bugs. I’m just still amazed at the depths of corruption in our intelligence and law enforcement agencies that is being exposed by this Mueller witch hunt. Yet many of our eReps still support Mueller and want this to continue. I do not know where to turn for the appropriate authority to lock these criminals up and begin proceedings against them. Simply amazing, even to an old skeptic like me.
Now, when are they going to go after the Dems for the Santa Fe shootings – there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that there is nothing they won’t do to protect their turf. To heck with election results, laws, even the value of human life (except for convicted death row inmates of course) as far as these people are concerned.
Have a great day you all.
Awwright!
Thanks, Texpat, IMHO; that is a great picture.
Mornin’ Gang
Fake news! White folk had nothing to do with growing cotton except for raking in the dough!
Finally was forced to find out what all the Yanni/Laural hoopla was about. Breaking News! Crappy audio heard thru various speakers/devices will sound different!
#4
That’s great!
The Brownie camera, introduced in February 1900,[1] invented low-cost photography by introducing the concept of the snapshot to the masses. The Brownie was a very basic cardboard box camera with a simple meniscus lens that took 2 1/4-inch square pictures on 117 roll film. The Brownie camera was conceived and marketed for sales of Kodak roll films. Because of its simple controls and initial price of $1 along with the low price of Kodak roll film and processing, The Brownie camera achieved and surpassed its marketing goal.
The Brownie is among the most important cameras in history.
The first model of the camera was invented by Frank A. Brownell. The name comes from the brownies in popular Palmer Cox cartoons. Consumers responded, and over 150,000 Brownie cameras were shipped in the first year of production. An improved model, called No. 2 Brownie came in 1901, which produced larger 2-1/4 by 3-1/4 inch photos and cost $2 and was also a huge success.
In 1908, the Austrian architectural critic Joseph August Lux wrote a book called Künstlerische Kodakgeheimnisse (Artistic Secrets of the Kodak) in which he championed the use of the camera for its cultural potential. Guided by a position that was influenced by the Catholic critique of modernity, he argued that the accessibility the camera provided for the amateur meant that people could photograph and document their surroundings and thus produce a type of stability in the ebb and flow of the modern world*.
Brownies were extensively marketed to children, with Kodak using them to popularise photography. They were also taken to war by soldiers. As they were so ubiquitous, many iconic shots were taken on brownies.
My parents gave me my first camera, a Brownie 127, around 1960. Every baby boomer had a 127 eventually.
*Also, critic Joseph August Lux had an interesting if flawed theory about a universally available camera. It’s too bad it didn’t work.
Good morning Hamsters. We were graced with a 73 starting out this morning and again relatively low humidity and a breeze helping things along. Perhaps we can squeeze another reasonable day out of this.
Had the first physical therapy session yesterday afternoon for my sprained ankle and arthritic knee on the other side thanks to the absurd happening of tripping on the front feet of the exercise bike and wrenching lots of muscles in the process. Did not fall, however. The medical folk and therapist find that amusingly ironic, which it of course is, no offense taken. 🙂
Came home with a list of therapy appointments and the exercise instruction sheets for the days I don’t have a therapy session. The first session has already done a bit of good.
And even better news is the carpenters have finished their work in the house, and we have it back to ourselves again. Snoopy Happy Dance called for in theory anyway if not in practice. All that’s left is some furniture repair or restoration of wet feet stains. Got on the waiting list for that, umm some time in July. Can easily see that things won’t be totally back to normal until or after the anniversary of Harvey on August 25th. But we are blessed, as there are still some folks who do not yet have walls inside their homes.
#7 Texpat
I had one of those in the 1950s.
GJT checked in at Magnolia Diner having breakfast with his Sweetie.
3. White privileged indeed. Dad was the son of a sharecropper in Belleville in the 30’s. Left school in the 8th grade to work the cotton fields. On his US Army enlistment papers; Occupation – farmhand.
I still have dad’s Brownie as well as a couple of others from my aunt-all in great shape.
Texpat, yes, if not for George Eastman, the common folks may not have ever had a camera. I didn’t take time to read the article, but the first Brownie cameras were loaded/unloaded at the factory. You’d send the whole camera to Kodak and it was unloaded in a darkroom, the pictures processed, camera reloaded and sent back to the customer for a nominal fee. A lot of people don’t know it but the Brownie is capable of taking fine pictures since it used the 120 film, which is larger than 35 MM. The downside of the camera is of course that was fixed focus and that worked fine as long as the subject was 6+ feet away.
4 EG
I want to put that image on a t-shirt.
11 CFree
Belleville ? as in Bellville, Texas ?
The only Belleville(s) I know of are in New Jersey and Illinois.
That can’t be an Alabama critter.
It has all its legs and can see out of both eyes.
Okay, didn’t catch the mespillung of Bellville, TX. But yes, he was from Bellville, TX. Also, lived in Carmine area. My Aunt never moved from there (Schwartz). Also, Brau is on grandmothers side.
#13 Texpat
Me too, and I bet a few million more folks do as well.
My mother had a Kodak Duaflex, 620 roll film camera, a slightly improved/modern version.
My dad had an Argus Range Finder 35 MM that he purchased in a Denver Pawn Shop, back in 42, he was going to photography school there for the Army Air Corp. He took hundreds of pictures in India and China. I’ve scanned in a lot of them but I need to scan a whole lot more.
Morning, everyone! I went out and started my sprinklers before I even signed in this morning. Checked forecast and see I have an increasing chance of rain Sunday night. Yesterday, I got to wondering if I did any watering at all last year. CoH Water website was not showing any historical details, but since I pay all utility bills online via my bank, I have a central location to look at those records. In 2017, I had not one month where water usage went above the default minimum. I think that is 3000 gallons. So no, I didn’t have to water the yard last year.
I got out early and cut down the old banana trees. I waited a little too long and a couple of them were so soft that they were almost impossible to cut. If they’re green, a bow saw will sail through them like a hot knife through butter. I had one nice tall one by the window that would most likely make fruit this year but it was too close to my water line so I whacker her down. I used to dread dragging them off to the gas line to rot but now I just hook them behind the Beast and take the whole bundle in one trip.
SD murdered the blog.
We are going to watch the Ted Kennedy movie tonight, don’t know why, we know how it ends. He is scorned, goes to prison for twenty years and the Kennedy’s are never heard from again.
GJT, thanks for saving the blog,..ole Dave can kill it Graveyard dead!
I had some pool time with the girls this morning, then lunch, then read “Go Dogs Go!” to put them down for nap time.
LD2 is quite the daredevil, compared to her sister. Jumping into the water and everything. So much fun.
Truth is, it’s too hot to blog today.
I talked to my son last night and one of his manager buddies had ALL of his part timers affected by the massacre. All of the stores have part time help that is usually high school kids, and all of this manager’s part timers went to Santa Fe school. One came to work in shock, having witnessed the carnage first hand. They wanted him to go home but he felt like working would help him get through the day. The manager took him into his office and they just talked for an hour or so. Another one, apparently charged the shooter and is in the hospital and one had his grandmother, (substitute teacher) murdered…..This company is like family so this hits them all very hard. 🙁
Never mind, Chappaquiddick has done been in and out of the theaters already. 😀
#25 Super Dave
How unspeakably horrible for you son’s manager friend’s employees who have directly been affected and for everyone else who works with them. And for everyone in the other branches of the business wherever they might be.
And sadly because the perp is a minor he is not subject to capital punishment, only life in prison according to Texas law that was changed several years ago to eliminate capital punishment as an option for minors. Right now I suppose many members of the Lege regret eliminating it.
#27 Adee: I don’t know what would be more worser: the needle or death by prison.
#27 – Don’t you worry about the capital punishment issue for the Santa Fe perp. He was supposed to be suicided out as part of the deal, but since he chickened out, someone in jail will take care of it for him. This is a setup and they cannot allow him to start talking too much. I’m telling you, these school shootings are not just random, isolated incidents. The patterns are too similar, they are planned out by a higher authority. I suspect the Dems, but who knows, it could be any other group out there. May include drugs or just indoctrination, who knows. But since we no longer have a functioning FBI or DOJ, no one can properly investigate to get to the bottom of it. It’s actually a pretty scary situation as best as I can tell.
#29 EG: Do you think this is the latest strategy to remove firearms from private ownership? If so, these ghouls all need to be lined up against the wall and shot with the very types of firearms the wish to first ban.
#30 – No, it’s bigger than that. The gun thing is just the foil. The Swamp is beginning to panic (in fact has been for some time), and everytime the heat gets turned up too high, they have to do something to take it off the front page for a while so that they can refine their game plan. This is all about protecting themselves when the Mueller thing blows up, which may be coming soon, or again, may not be. Anyway, it’s a diversion of some kind. Any group that doesn’t mind killing babies in the womb or just out of the womb has no problem killing them a few years later. There are no limits to which they won’t go to protect their Swamp.
Now, SD can explain the testing that went into this NASA study. While he’s at it, he might even explain what an Alabama Hot Pocket it. Never mind, I looked it up. I think I’d better erase this one – Granny might not approve, even if it is a scientific work.
our intelligence and law enforcement agencies that is being exposed by this Mueller witch hunt. Yet many of our eReps still support Mueller and want this to continue.
GooPeeReps say: Why we have the utmost confidence in the Ferris Mueller investigation. His character is above reproach and besides, we’re helping pad his retirement as he, like all of us, ride on and on on the infinitely funded by the taxpayer gravy train.
Mark Knopfler is Roadrunner.
16 CFree
Carmine Dance Hall was the hot place to be back in the 70s on a Friday or Saturday night. Lots of friendly, danceable girls up that way.
It seems they’re still in business. Asleep at the Wheel played there in April.
How many theorists does it take to be a conspiracy ?
We’ve got a start with two.
Nota Bene
RE: OC photo caption
Super Dave wrote “Kodak Browning Camera” and although I made the correction, it gave me a big laugh.
“Hey, here’s the 12 gauge Kodak my Dad gave me for Christmas. It shoots pictures and birdshot.”
#37 Texpat, You’re right! I went back and looked at the E Mail I sent to Hamous and it was “Kodak Browning Camera”! Oh, well, on my 16th birthday, my daddy gave me a brand new Belgian made, Browning Auto-5, Light 12, it is still one of my most cherished weapons.
Wife and I are watching a really weird, Steven Spielberg movie on NETFLIX,….but I guess that all of his movies are pretty weird.
Congresscritters aren’t smart enough to come up with a workable conspiracy. Even if they were, half of them couldn’t keep their mouths shut long enough for it to be successful.
We took my Godson to dinner at his favorite restaurant after graduation. Al Biernat’s. Steaks were excellent. I noticed they had bread pudding on the menu. I’ve decided I’m on a quest to find the best bread pudding in the country. D’amico’s is still in the lead for traditional, but for non-traditional Biernat’s is now #1. Chocolate bread pudding with a dulce de leche sauce.
I met Al, too. He’s much more pleasant than that Galveston Gangster.
My friend, Alan, came by the house today and dropped off his homemade cheesecake for me made from his Jewish grandmother’s recipe. Alan is an exceedingly bright electrical engineer who grew up in the fifties in Bayonne, New Jersey as the son of a poor Kosher butcher/caterer. He raised two sons who are computer geniuses and the younger is ranked in the top 25 SEO consultants worldwide.
His cheesecake looks nothing like what you’ve seen in a restaurant or grocery store. Best damned cheesecake I’ve ever eaten in my life, period.
#42 – Hey, now that SCOTUS said states could permit sports gambling, he’s probably the only one that vertically integrated; at the college level with UH, at the pro level with the Rockets, and of course on the other end with the casinos. Can’t lock it down much better than that anywhere this side of Nu Yawk City.
Ok, I was discussing my list of items I need at Home Depot with Himself. One thing is that both my 75′ outdoor extension cords have been “curling up”. By which I mean, what should be long and straight is instead sort of twisted into spirals. This shortens the overall length of the cord and over time makes it less useful. Anyone seen this behavior?
So he suggests I try to find info on my friend google. I search for “extension cord outdoors curling” and get a few hits on cords that are “twisting up”. One guy said “I believe that the outer jacket on the cord itself is shrinking.”
I haven’t found much yet, unless you count this joke that some commenter threw into the discussion:
I decided to change calling the bathroom the “John” and renamed it the “Jim”. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.
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Yup, he’s sitting purty.
#45 – Here you go, if this is what you are describing.
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Rescue-an-Over-Twisted-Power-Cord/
Pokehumpus makes a promise that she can keep.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/05/19/brave-elizabeth-warren-pledges-not-to-take-money-from-the-nra/?utm_campaign=twitchywidget
Asleep at the Wheel is still around? Had one of their 8 track tapes worn out in the late 70’s.
Also heard several years ago Jerry Jeff Walker was playing in El Campo and had his granddaughter singing with him – but source said it wasn’t a very good show. He played Eagles Hall in Bay City to Tin Top to Fairchild’s and all around.
49 CFree
Asleep at the Wheel is still around ?
Ray Benson is about 98 years old and won’t give up for another decade or so.
Asleep at the Wheel is still around ?
Around 11:00PM on Sat night asleep at the blog is still around too.
Listen to this song with your morning coffee and doughnuts.
If it doesn’t wake you up fully then you better check into Methodist and make sure your heart is still beating.
It’s Sunday!
Mornin’ Gang
Dick’s Sporting Goods feeling bottom-line pinch from P.C. gun control.
Dick’s Sporting Goods has just lost a ton of business due to its politically correct gun control move, post-Parkland school shooting.
Justice served.
O.F. Mossberg & Sons Inc., which owns Mossberg guns, announced they would no longer deal with Dick’s. And that was just after MKS Supply, the maker of Hi-Point firearms, and Springfield Armory pulled business from Dick’s as well.
The backlash is hardly surprising.
And
“We believe that refusing to sell long guns to adults under age 21, while many young adults in our military are not similarly restricted, is wrong,” said MKS Supply President Charles Brown, in a statement. “We believe that villainizing modern sporting rifles in response to pressure from uninformed, anti-gun voices is wrong. We believe that hiring lobbyists to oppose American citizens’ freedoms secured by the Second Amendment is wrong. … [We’re] standing by the American people by refusing any further sales to Dick’s Sporting Goods & Field & Stream.”What else to say?
Look for Dick’s, come Christmas time, to go the way of Sears — meaning, closures are on the horizon. The American people, loud and clear, have spoken.
Heh. Methodist.
Chris Wallace, like the rest of the media, is lying when he says there have been 16 school shootings so far this year. CNN claims there were 22.
Just examine the circumstances of these 22 so called “shootings”….
https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/03/02/us/school-shootings-2018-list-trnd/index.html
Good morning Hamsters. Another 73 at 6 and a light breeze ushered in sunrise, and beautiful it was. Mostly cloudy now, and of course those clouds will not produce a drop of rain before they move on even though the sky was kinda darkish in the direction they came from.
Read Super Dave’s #54 article, which nails what a large hunk of the public thinks about Dick’s seriously stupid PC edict about selling firearms and its implied inclination toward stomping on the Second Amendment. Dick’s management would be hard pressed to do a better job of self-destruction given the current backlash.
Read all the comments. They are bull’s eyes, and only one or possibly two libs had commented when I read them, and those persons were promptly taken apart by an avalanche of rational people.
#56
CNN itself is openly saying one of the incidents they are counting involved a BB gun??
Shots fired!!
#54 – SD in your link ole Bill Whittle “fires back” so to speak……….
No, I never get tired of watching.
#47 elgordo
If you twist in alternating direction when you coil it back up in the last step, it won’t have any twist at all.
Another method…
Left Dallas early enough to beat the yo-yo traffic from Lake Conroe back to Houston. 3-1/2 hours. Not a bad drive.
I watched the Preakness on YouTube this morning. Great race.
I don’t think this Justify horse is going to win the 1.5 mile Belmont.
We hope the Belmont will be run in much better conditions than the Derby and Preakness this year. What a messy track both times.
Gonna have to go to the Jockey Club stud book to get info on Justify’s pedigree, as there’s not much more than a fleeting reference to sire and dam in the Chron, and that comes from articles in other newspapers based in the area of the races.
We a bunch of OCD freaks ain’t we? I think some cords are just more susceptible to spiraling than others. I have always just simply did 2 1/2 to 3 ft loops but alternate every time, couple cords I’ve had probly twenty years and are fine, one does the twisty thing. BTW, I don’t thing the drill method of untwisting is OSHA approved. 😀
Advice you can use:
I’m starting a project, a reproduction of a writing kit used in WW1, that requires the fabric to be somewhat stiff so that, in conjunction with a piece of cardboard sewn between to sheets of fabric, you can write on it. The product I am using is called “Stiffy”.
Do NOT, under any circumstances, search for instructions on how to use “Stiffy” without using the word “fabric” in the search criteria.
That is all
68
And always snip off the ground pin.
Trump gets really bored on the weekend.
😀 Of course!
Man, this Sphenopalatine Ganglioneuralgia is a bummer.
One of my choir buddies gets a new vehicle every two years. I’ve watched her drive every brand of luxury SUV over the years. But I saw her climb out of this one, just now, at the grocery store…
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#47 EG
Thanks! I saw & read that same item last night. I am fresh back from Big Box Hardware trip where I bought a new 100′ heavy duty outdoor extension cord.
#74 Shannon, now that is a grocery getter’ grab the milk, eggs N beer and be back at the house in 10 minutes flat. 😀
SD
$200,000!!!
Her husband did pretty well. He retired young as a highly decorated FBI agent (white collar crime) and is credited with dragging the agency’s Forensic Accounting units into the 20th century. After retiring, he promptly created advanced curriculum, private training, and credentialing in the field and still works at that.
78 cont.
Joe and Judy are the nicest folks you could ever meet. Judy was born and raised in Bellville.
#64
That is pretty much what I do with the long outdoor cords. But my loops are close to 3′ worth of curled cord on each loop over my arm. Nice loose loops, no bends or knots. I think it is the heat, myself, that makes the plastic sheathing coil up like you see here.
We had an incident at one of our facilities last week with one of those reeled extension cords. A contractor was using it to power a portable AC. Besides not being rated for that kind of current draw they only rolled out enough of it for the length they needed, disregarding the clear instructions labeled on the reel to unroll completely. The coils on the reel melted.
Looks like a little sea breeze front is kicking in today.
Had a nice little shower out this way, even standing water in the ditches. Possibly more to come. At least it’s still rumbling.
As I was outside snapping a quick pic of my curly extension cord, I heard 2 big thunderclaps and got a few sprinkles on me.
#63 shannon
Similar to what I do except I don’t start in the middle. I start near the wall plug end and only pull out what I need.
Works great, no tangles, easier to handle. I use the alternating loop method for hoses.
Wahoo! Coming down real good right now. Love these special little surprises when you don’t watch the news.
Expecting KHOU to show up anytime now hunting drowning alligators.
Oh, forgot to tell y’all my sweetheart is making me Crawfish Monica a little later from some used leftover crawfish tails we had.
Still coming down hard! O.M.G! I forgot to get bread!
I was over in Nassau Bay this afternoon and saw a Coast Guard, Dolphin Helicopter coming in real slow, landing gear down and slightly flared. He looked like he was coming in for a landing and at first I thought WHT? Then I realized that he was heading for St John’s hospital, so I headed a couple of blocks over and watched him land. I figured that they must be taking someone to the emergency room, but they just sat there, the co-pilot opened the door and then they took off. I guessed that they were training the new guy to land on that little red cross. As I was leaving, I saw him make a big circle around NASA and make another approach.
Ministorm caught us just now. Oh well, I didn’t really feel like mowing anyway.
I see where the Santa Fe shooter’s main target was probably a girl who had rebuffed his persistent advances over the last month or so…according to her grieving mother.
Skies are that weird greenish-blue a little north of 290 & 99.
Today we discovered we have sparrow-sized bird family’s nest in our garage in a plastic tub full of plastic bags that’s sitting atop a cabinet. Had noticed the nest last week and kept forgetting to tell spouse about getting it down and out of the garage before eggs were laid. Too late, and the three eggs have hatched. Saw two adults flying from that cabinet top yesterday when I opened the big garage door, and they swooped outside through it.
This afternoon spouse took the nest in its box down, found the babies, and we looked for a safe place to put it on the back porch. Put our tall stepladder on the porch and placed the box on its platform facing the garage wall. Darn, the platform isn’t big enough to hold the box, and it fell off, spilled the nest out, but the babies were deep inside it and did not fall all the way out. Put them back in. They can’t see yet, are about the size of my thumbnail, and are all mouth. Ended up putting the box back on the cabinet in the garage, and just as spouse did so, there was momma bird with food in her bill atop the cabinet, looking for her babies.
Don’t know if they will be abandoned now, but in the meantime I guess we need to leave the people garage door from the back porch open so the parents can get in and out when the big door is closed. Can’t imagine that they will survive, but they deserve a chance.
Trump drops the hammer.
I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes – and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!
#93
Skies are that weird greenish-blue a little north of 290 & 99.
Hunker down, wrap your pipe, protect your plants, pets and patio umbrella’s. That color is usually associated with a tornado,……OH NO!!! We’re gonna’ be killed…..
Our ministorm has turned into a full fledged gully washer. Somebody’s going to have to mow during the week. Any volunteers? It only takes about an hour and half if you do it non-stop.
Well thank you, Phil. You’re the man.
#95 Shannon
Methinks President Trump well knows the value of patience, how to seem uninformed when in fact fully informed, and is quite the student of human nature.
😉
I know it’s not up to the quality of the chefs here in the couch; but boiled crawfish from HEB’s at 3.87/lb is hard to pass up. We”lol see if 3lbs will fill the boys up!
Shannon’s #63 video
The New York City Fire Department FDNY uses that method exclusively for electrical power cords as do most of the large professional fire outfits.
I’ve been storing my cords that way since I was taught the method in 1978…40 years now. Anything else is a waste of time.
It’s boiled Gulf Brown Shrimp, grandpa, just in case you were wondering. 🙂
Just now starting to hear a little thunder in the barrio. Sure could use some rain.
Remember all the doom and gloom about Trump starting a trade war with China? Well, maybe it’s thawing out a little.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-china-agree-abandon-trade-war-beijing-043915337.html
Trump orders DOJ to come clean on FBI putting a spy into his campaign; Rosenstein immediately steps forward to take charge of the matter. Where’s the AG. Rosenweasel need to be recused and a real investigation conducted. That corrupt DOJ just needs to be swept out, fumigated, and started over.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3656770/posts
Pleased that we actually have light rain here on the north side of the Brazos at Richmond. At last. Hope it gets heavier and lasts a while.
It would appear that all hell is about to break loose next week from President Trump’s side of the equation on the matter of Mueller’s currently and others’ earlier machinations. Starting with the Dem’s spy planted in the Trump campaign now being outed, it likely will get rolling with other aspects of illegal actions taken once they realized that he had a real chance at the nomination, and then had a real chance of getting elected, and once elected, it was Katy bar the door desperation.
Pass the popcorn.
Well, my zip code went from 20% chance of precip to 90% while I had a nap. I woke up to dark clouds and light rain, which turned into a gully washer. Doppler looks like everybody north and west in Houston is getting some. Several more hours of it predicted for me.
Raining steady now for about 15 minutes.
Just finished unpacking from my trip to Dallas. It rained the whole way from Dallas to to Houston, where it seems I outran the front just a bit, and just in time to deal with the I-45 freeway closing near my house.
3 major wrecks between LD’s home and just past the south side of Dallas. Then further down, a huge crane truck was somehow on the embankment, on its side. There were quite a few “side of the road” events. And WTH is it with people between Ennis and Madisonville that just suddenly decide to drive with flashers on? I’m guessing it was because it was raining hard, but then I can’t tell if you’re changing lanes or about to pull over. Must’ve been ten cars going freeway speed (or weather adapted freeway speed) with their flashers going.
It took me four hours to get there. Six hours coming home.
And I miss the girls soooo much. LD2 was quite cuddly this weekend. She came to wake me up this morning. I was laying in bed, I heard the door open, and then this whisper, almost too faint to hear: “It’s time to wake up, Noona.” Too cute.
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I followed your advice and I’ll be danged if it didn’t work.
Had an apple muffin, two cups of coffee and listened to the tune.
Ran 3 miles around 10AM and then helped my neighbor load several boxes and some furniture on a truck to take to a storage facility.
I’m beat but I feel good unca Shanny.
Marvelous Merlot here I come.
And last night Aggie Beau to us to a food truck park for dinner. On the way home, the girls were having a very serious conversation:
Sunshine: “If I let you play with my Rapunzel doll, that would be nice, wouldn’t it?”
L’il Darlin’: “Yes, that would be nice.”
Sunshine: “If I let you play with my stuffed dragon, that would be nice, wouldn’t it?”
L’il Darlin’: “Yes, that would be nice.”
Sunshine: “If I let you play with my Doc McStuffin, that would be nice, wouldn’t it?”
L’il Darlin’: “Yes, that would be nice.”
Sunshine: “If I let you play with my shiny pillow, that would be nice, wouldn’t it?”
L’il Darlin’: “Yes, that would be very nice.”
Sunshine: “If I let you play with my [insert toy here], that would be nice, wouldn’t it?”
L’il Darlin’: “Yes, that would be very nice.”
I’m trying not to laugh in the front seat as this conversation went on and on and on. I wondered how long it would go, and when Sunshine finally ran out of toys I thought the litany was over. Then I heard:
L’il Darlin’: “If I let you play with my [insert toy here], that would be nice, wouldn’t it?”
Sunshine: “Yes, that would be very nice.”
…ad infinitum…
I love listening to little kids’ conversations. They are so serious about this stuff, it just cracks me up.
Ooooh, now the dark web portion of our stories are beginning to come out. That’s operating down in my conspiracy territories where the real truth lies. Rosenstein is out front on this expose the spy story because he’s got the most to lose. Poor Jeff is at best lost in the fog, but if Rosenweasel gets taken out, it’s going to be real tough for the Swamp to hold it all together. It’s building up like a big case of explosive African diarrhea, and when it cuts loose, look out.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/intercepted-cia-chat-rosenstein-was-blackmailed-into-appointing-mueller/
Shannon, ‘member when Linda went New Wave? I blame Jerry Brown.
Still raining here.
Shannon, ‘member when Linda went New Wave? I blame Jerry Brown.
Don’t recognize that.
I don’t remember when I quit paying attention to her music, but it must have been before that.
The eighties just kinda sucked in general as far as I’m concerned.
I keep my electric cords on a reel. Sometimes with cord (small diameter rope) I will wind it up on a stick. With the garden hose, I have a reel in the back and I coil it, alternating loops on the ground in the front. With the one in the front I can simply pull on the end and it will unloop and not hang up nor tangle. Sometimes order matters.
The 80’s were a great decade for me. I moved to Houston in 81 and had some fabulous jobs. One in particular that I held for 4 years turned me into a total workaholic. I had had some graduate school summer research projects like that — work 12-15 hrs a day, 6 1/2 days a week, for several months. Then I had this job working with software interfaces to programmable controllers, and I loved it. I don’t like travel, but even some tech support trips I had to do were fabulous. They sent me to Flint, MI to the Buick plant where they had a problem. I was only there half a day and overnight, then the customer wanted me to take one of their PLCs (programmable logic controller) back to Houston on the plane. Basically an 80 lb ruggedized computer in a metal suitcase. I asked them to ship it to Houston instead. I never would have gotten that thing through to my connecting flight at O’Hare. Good memories!
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Going cold turkey off jonesing for coke after 30 years has a way of distorting your artistic vision, if you know what I mean.
A person could lose all kinds of perspective or perhaps they just fried their medulla oblongata.
Disco arrived and then peaked in the mid seventies. The DNA of the entire world population was irrevocably damaged and we’ve been falling irretrievably into the abyss ever since. The eighties just confirmed it.
I loved the 80s and there was some really great music.
Ah grasshoppah! Snatch the pebble then seek and find many jewels in the rough.
There were a few bright spots in the 80s music wise.
Let’s not forget the 80s were the decade of SRV.
And lots of music that reminded me of my favorite 80s show Miami Vice.
When I listen to this I can see Sonny Crockett cruising in his black Ferrari Daytona and being just one breath away from saying….
This is Miami pal.
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