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Love & Romance in New York City, 1947


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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Hey, we have a weekend thread, thanks, Texpat.
    Mornin’ Gang,…again.

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Brought over from Friday’s thread;

    Shannon, the rain started about 5:30 and ended an hour later. It rained fairly hard and we got ¾” enough to kick-start my Wheat/Oat patch. The TS is heading into northeast Florida and on into Georgia, so we’ll be on the dryer side, I hope we get a few more of the outer bands during the day though. It is still sprinkling a little, has been since the real rain stopped.

    Radar Map, the band of rain, north of Troy, passed through 5:30-6:30.

  3. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Bringing this one forward…

    SD
    You never know what you’re going to find at the Dollar store.

    https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/PsEv5nngT-SxXkMY9cIM8A.Yl2VBMsn500-FlzpqR_mJH

  4. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    So should I use Troy to keep up with your weather?

  5. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Got my drive thru flu shot at the hospital just now.

  6. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Oh. Marley Mill.
    It’s a pretty good jaunt to Troy.

  7. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    No Post Office in Marley Mill.
    Must have an Ozark address.

  8. Hamous Avatar

    Maternal Grandpappy was from Burnt Corn. They used to have a post office but now it’s considered part of the greater Evergreen metropolitan area.

  9. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    No Post Office in Marley Mill.
    Must have an Ozark address.

    Yup.

  10. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. Love amongst the snowflakes and drifts in the pic. Warm hearts rule. 🙂

  11. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Road tripping with the lovely BSue

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It’s time to send this one to a nursing home somewhere.

    Hillary Plops Out Another: She Was Robbed Of Her Rightful Presidency By Hacking 10-Year-Old Children

  13. Tedtam Avatar

    Question….is there a way of boosting wifi signal to reach 100 feet or more?

  14. Hamous Avatar

    Whole home mesh wifi

    TP-Link Deco Whole Home Mesh WiFi System – Seamless Roaming, Adaptive Routing, Compact Plug-in Design, Up to 4,500 Sq. ft (Deco M3 3-Pack)

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RLHLXLC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_DcZQDb4ZGQA3E

  15. Hamous Avatar

    There are many systems. I have no idea which one is best.

  16. El Gordo Avatar

    Morning gang.  I’m not feeling real chipper this morning – a cold or a touch of the flu or something.  I use a wireless range extender on my wi-fi to give coverage to the back of the house.  Those wired ones work pretty well too if you are looking to go in one specific direction,  It’s college football Saturday and I can’t even get excited about that.  Anyway, you all have a great one.

  17. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Tell BSue HELLO!

  18. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I had to go with a whole home mesh network. I had been using a wi-fi extender but the download speeds were horrible.

    I now wish I had gone with a mesh network much sooner.

  19. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #12 Texpat, Like I said yesterday, I think she has lost her damn mind.

  20. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    There are riots in Chile right now over raising subway fares 4%. My daughter, HeartCrusher is there now for her Rice MBA. Prayers would be appreciated.

  21. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    wish you were here

  22. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, chickadees! I have been out with step-stool and hand clippers, trimming away the shaggy new growth that spurted out on my ligustrums, after some good rains. Taking a rehydrate, dry-out, breathe-deep break.

  23. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #20 cont’d: She is due back this Friday.

  24. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #21

    Oh no, Squawkie has done flipped his lid.

    I knew that would happen sooner or later.

     

  25. pErpeTuAlLy OfFeNdEd Avatar
    pErpeTuAlLy OfFeNdEd

    21 Bro Squawk

    Even with the long upside down beard you can’t fool me.:)

     

  26. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    The Last USAF operational F-82 Twin Mustang, tasked with patrolling the long Siberian coastline and Alaskan wilderness, Ladd AFB Alaska, 1953.

  27. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #12 Texpat

    Hildebeast is orbiting an unknown planet in an unknown galaxy far, far away.
    Good grief.

  28. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I almost forgot.

    1959 GMC 101 NAPCO front driving axle Civil Defense Truck

    Lannon Fire Department of Lannon Wisconsin contacted me about 8-10 years ago as they were ready to retire and sell their ’59 GMC NAPCO 4×4. They had no idea of value or how to sell it so I offered a number of suggestions which all worked exceedingly well for them. It brought a whole lot more value than they ever expected. Except for the light bar, its was still pretty much as delivered in ’59

  29. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    21

    There’s probably possums living in there.

  30. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Here is the demand letter to CNN from the Donald Trump for President 2020 Campaign’s legal counsel if you haven’t seen it.  He does a pretty good job of telling them he’s going to sue there a$$ off.

    Letter here at ScribD.

  31. Tedtam Avatar

    I had to go with a whole home mesh network. I had been using a wi-fi extender but the download speeds were horrible.

    I now wish I had gone with a mesh network much sooner.

    Those systems look like repeaters. Looking at crossing about 150 feet of open space, from one home to another. A Roku was purchased for the second home here without thinking about the wifi access.

  32. Hamous Avatar

    Houston finally won a conference game. Gators bounced back from the LSU loss last week and whupped South Carolina. Upset of the day (so far), Illinois beat #6 Wisconsin.

  33. Hamous Avatar

    Nice roll! That’s what they teach you in jujitsu, Joe.

    Haha

  34. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    35 hamous
    That happens from time to time.

    Worst one I saw was a a OU-Nebraska game when it used to pretty much decide who went to the Irange Bowl that year. The students were busy inundating the field with prohibited oranges while the band played Boomer Sooner and the Wagon was doing its thing. While the Ruf-Neks (spirit group) we’re trying to get all the hundred of oranges off the field, the wagon ran over him.

    It’s amazing how students can manage to smuggle that many really bulky oranges into a stadium where they were almost frisking everyone on the way in.

  35. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Everytime that Felonia Von Pantsuit cackles away her conspiracy theories, she reinforces the belief that she is actually an alien from the planet Retardulon.

  36. Hamous Avatar

    This is gonna be a tough game.

  37. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Hey, where is anyone tonight?

     

  38. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    You left me no choice but to use this #42!

    Slackers!

     

  39. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #40 M42: Cute

  40. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Damn, this is nerve-wracking. I never get used to it.

  41. Hamous Avatar

    Don’t look now but the hapless Jayhawks are about to beat Texas.

  42. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Luckily there is another dad at the campsite who has DirectTV and unlimited data on his phone. We are all huddled around this guy’s cell phone.

  43. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Last-minute field goal by Dicker the Kicker

  44. El Gordo Avatar

    Astros still trying to hang on.  Go Stros.  Rice blew another game tonight due to poor coaching calls.  Getting tired and still not feeling well, but gotta stay up for this.

  45. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Crap… guy’s cell phone died. Desperately hooking up back up battery.

  46. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Wisconsin (rated #6) lost to Illinois this afternoon. An unexpected nasty surprise. Sniff.

    Hoping the Astros win tonight and postpone legions of anxiety attacks to the World Series games. 🙂

  47. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    My boy Altuve with a walk-off 2-run HR

  48. El Gordo Avatar

    Astros to WS.  OK, way to go. Night all.

  49. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Yea for the Astros, and on to the really big games.

  50. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    What an awesome team! Go Astros!!

  51. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Mornin’ Gang

  52. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Way to go Astros, Roll Tide and WHOOP! Last night I was watching the Astros play the Yankees and flipping over to the Aggies playing Ole Miss and then the Alabama, Tennessee game came on. I about wore out the remote, luckily they were on channels #23, #24, #27. And if Texpat’s , #44 “Damn, this is nerve-wracking. I never get used to it.” Was about the Astros game, I can relate! I did get sucked into the Playoff game the most though.

  53. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I’m having a fine cup of coffee from the HEB Pecan coffee that daughter-in-law sent me, she also sent some San Antonio Special, whatever that is, but it is her favorite.

  54. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    1953 GMC 632-42 Road Tractor with integral sleeper.

    I’ve never seen another one like this and it was very striking and unique. Owned by John Holmes of Vineyard Haven, MA, I shot these images 15 years ago at a little show in Foster RI. Sadly, John passed away at age 60 just two years after I took these photos. “Big John” was a very talented engineer, welder, and metal fabricator. He was also the maintenance engineer for the Flying Horses Carousel in Oak Bluffs

    John was fascinated throughout his life with American transportation history, particularly the railroad, shipping and trucking industries. He was a commercial truck driver for some time, and an antique truck enthusiast. He fully restored the 1953 GMC 630, which he frequently took to antique truck shows around New England which was no easy task as it always involved boarding the ferry to reach the mainland.. He enjoyed driving the ’53 630 immensely, and loved to travel, either alone or with his daughter or friends.

    Big John was a good guy and friend to all of us in the antique truck world in New England.

  55. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Seeing as how my 3 y.o. grandson is here, I had to get an early start on separating liquids this morning.
    Morning Dave, I know he’s up already.

  56. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    61

    “[Brantley’s] throw to first was clocked at 86.9mph.”

  57. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Also in my 61:

    “The Astros completed their defensive trifecta in the eighth with a perfectly executed 4-6-3 double play on a Gary Sánchez ground ball. José Altuve fielded the ball and made a high toss to Carlos Correa, who then fired a 94.5 mph missile to Gurriel for the inning-ending double play.
    Correa’s throw was the hardest Statcast has tracked from a shortstop on a throw to first that resulted in an out since it began tracking this data in 2015.“

  58. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Not being able to see the game on TV, these online videos are the first I’ve seen of it.
    The Altuve walkoff homer is just amazing.

  59. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    See ya later Yankees.

    Again.

    Darn. Gotta buy another pennant collector’s mug.

    The last one is my favorite, even more so than the World Series one.

  60. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    That Michael Brantley play was just incredible.  The catch was great, but jumping up and throwing an 87 mph burner into first base was…just wow.

  61. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Pelosi in the meeting lecturing the President before storming out and running to the media mics and cameras.

  62. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I guess the game riggers changed their mind.

  63. Hamous Avatar

    Not being able to see the game on TV, these online videos are the first I’ve seen of it.
    The Altuve walkoff homer is just amazing.

    Are you able to get Fox 26 up there in the hinterlands?

  64. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Yes. We get 26.

    We’ll be able to see the Series.

    Until they take that away, too.

  65. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    A guy in scrubs is trying to go to work and stupid students in San Francisco are blocking pedestrians and traffic with their Extinction Rebellion demonstration.

    He’s had enough.

    VIDEO here – profanity – NSFW.

  66. Hamous Avatar

    Astros didn’t play the Nats during the regular season so it’s hard to predict anything but I’m going with Astros in six. I would go with five but it’d be nice to win it all at home this time.

  67. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Like so many things, baseball is on life support. Eventually there will only be a dozen or so teams. And all the games will be on some obscure cable channel, a quaint reminder of better days.

  68. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I have no idea how they are going to do this without creating another disaster.  Scroll down at the link and look at the aerial shot.

    The two unstable cranes at the Hard Rock Hotel collapse site will be brought down by a controlled explosion.

    Following the partial collapse of a Hard Rock Hotel construction site in New Orleans last weekend, city officials are preparing to stage a controlled explosion that will bring down two badly damaged cranes towering over the city. The detonation is planned for Saturday close to midday, according to authorities.

  69. Hamous Avatar

    71 Texpat

    There was a similar incident in London last week where the Warmmongers were trying to climb on a train to stop it. People waiting for the train grabbed them and dragged them off.

  70. Hamous Avatar

    It’s an electric train, too. Dumbasses.

  71. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Mattress Mac is poring over his hedge sheet this morning.

  72. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    76 Hamous

    Yeah, I saw several videos of that chaos.  These Extinction protesters are so stupid they don’t understand they are undermining their cause by infuriating the general public.

    It’s different for those farmers in the Netherlands.  Over 80% of the Dutch public backs the farmers.

  73. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #71:. Scrubs guy is a hero. Too bad he didn’t have the equipment in hand to give a few hickory shampoos. PEACEFUL protests do not involve blocking traffic – ever.
    If this sort of nonsense continues, some guy or gal is going to use more lethal means to make it stop.

  74. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    The Dutch farmers did that to get the attention of their parliament. I would imagine it’s like it is here where the globalist loons are so hellbent on implementing their vision that they don’t listen to their own constituents.

  75. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #51 Adde, I just saw a recap of the Wisconsin & Illinois game, what a heart breaker.

  76. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    My favorite from Powerline’s Week in Pictures:

  77. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    If you haven’t already realized the Brits have gone off the deep end, this should convince you.

    Meet Mr. Broccoli

    VIDEO HERE

  78. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #84:. That imbecile should not be given the time of day. Piers Morgan and company should be horse whipped for wasting valuable air time on such nonsense. Unfortunately, this stupidity can only end in violence.

  79. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I’m just a broccoli…

  80. Hamous Avatar

    Line just to get into the team store this morning.

  81. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    There were numerous defensive gems by the Astros in this series, they are just damned good defensively. The Yanks on the other hand made several key errors. Yankee legends are turning over in their graves.

  82. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Salena Zito on Zuckerberg’s odd angling lately:

    Mark Zuckerberg wants you to know that Facebook strives for diversity in its workforce — and not just on the basis of race or gender. The CEO says he works hard to recruit people who attended a state school, are rooted to their local communities and come from traditional backgrounds.

    “We certainly do,” Zuckerberg said of his 40,000 mostly US-based employees in an interview with The Post.

    “There’s a woman who runs our commerce product and is deeply religious,” he said. “The person who runs policies of the company is quite a prominent Republican. So we have people from quite different views, which I think might be a little bit different from most of the other tech companies. That’s something that I really focused on.”

    Glenn Reynolds comments:

    So Zuck has a lot of access to information, and he’s really changed his tune lately. Would he be doing that if he expected a Democratic win in 2020?

  83. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Donning my Official Autographed San Saba Tinfoil Hat…

    Hillary Clinton decided that an Acela corridor World Series would be too distracting from her Presidential run announcement. So she paid the Yankees handsomely to lose.

  84. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Just pulled up at the house and my duranta bush is covered with Monarchs.

  85. pErpeTuAlLy OfFeNdEd Avatar
    pErpeTuAlLy OfFeNdEd

    Deep State is already working on rigging the Series for that DC team.

    No way they want a team from a Trump supporting state to win.

     

    Hammers be smashin’

    Blackberries be crackin’

    bases be stolin’

    umpires be trollin’

    astros be battin’

    strike zone be fatnin’

    Nats in the box

    4 balls and a walk

  86. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, everyone. Enjoyed my sudoku and still working on my big covfefe. Finished my cottage cheese and peach slices bowl, still working on the oat cereal. My big fluffy cat Travis decided this year that he wanted to lick the cottage cheese bowl after I finish it. But there’s a problem on Sundays: I do the puzzle before I have breakfast. This means it’s about 45 minutes average before I start eating, so average what he sees as an hour LATE before he gets the bowl. He watches me eat: resentful, impatient, unhappy.

  87. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Stolen bases? Bunts?
    Do they even do that anymore?

    Not too many Ricky Hendersons or Joe Morgans wandering around anymore.

  88. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    My fave play is the suicide squeeze. Followed closely by stealing home.

  89. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Nice walkoff suicide squeeze, by Milwaukee this year.

    https://youtu.be/uJeXs4X3ACA

  90. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Hunnerd?!?! Dang, I stumbled into that one.

  91. El Gordo Avatar

    Can’t remember whether I checked in this morning or not.  Feeling better today, but I’m not out of the woods yet.   I suspecting a flu bug or something like that I picked up somewhere.  Nothing else to report on since I’m not doing anything.  You all have a great one.

  92. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I’m off to the store to get chili makin’s I found the last package of Bambi round steak in the freezer and with this cooler weather, it is time.

  93. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #97 Hamous, nope, twern’t us,..this time,… 😀

  94. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Watch Jeremy Pruitt unload on Jarrett Guarantano after Alabama’s 100-yard scoop and score.

  95. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The greatest At Bat of my lifetime. I’ll never forget it.

    https://youtu.be/N4nwMDZYXTI

  96. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    105
    In that ‘88 World Series, the Oakland A’s team was heavily favored.

    In Game 2, Orel Hershiser went 3 for 3 at the plate (in real baseball, the pitchers actually have to hit) and threw a 3 hitter.

    Dodgers took the Series in five.

  97. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    105
    Gibson did not play again in that series.

  98. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I bought some new sheet sets from online Cosy House, after my first purchase from them was surprising liked A LOT both upstairs and downstairs. I wanted a “winter” appearance for these, so got plain charcoal gray for both beds. Washing them both together was problematic because my Full had size label on every piece, but his Queen size did not. We have made up both beds, and I guess I’ll find out at nap time if this set has the wonderful air-proof quality I like. When I lie down, I easily start feeling too cold (due to a genetic defect in my skin temperature sensors), so these sheets are perfect for me. Little to no air exchange through these microfiber sheets means my body warmth keeps me from getting cold. If for some reason I start feeling hot, I can just throw off the top sheet.

  99. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Here’s a t-shirt that is definitely not for Every Man.

     

  100. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    No, that is NOT my Hubs. I would never have a husband with ink on him.

     

  101. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    With the loss in Game 6, this is the first decade since the 1910’s that the Yankees did not win at least one pennant.

    Glad to be of help.

  102. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Where is Fall? Temp here is 90 right now.

  103. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    112 Adee
    Karl and I decided we didn’t want the Astros playing in the snow in New York.

  104. Sarge Avatar

     Shannon says:
    OCTOBER 20, 2019 AT 10:26 AM

    Just pulled up at the house and my duranta bush is covered with Monarchs.

  105. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Oh Sarge, stop it!!!

     

  106. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Okie Woke-y

    The University of Oklahoma has moved to make campus award titles gender-neutral following a complaint by a “nonbinary” student.

    https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/10/u-oklahoma-makes-campus-awards-gender-neutral-after-complaint-from-one-student/

  107. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Gidget, AKA, Paul Gigot is a never Trumper AZZH0!E,…who knew that loser was still on the air, anywhere? Kimberley Strassel set him straight,….as usual.

  108. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #109, mharper,….I know that girl, well several of them, actually. 😉

  109. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Socialist Hell

    China has exported their censorship and control ‘expertise’ to Maduro’s regime. They have already provided them with the technology and tools required to implement a form of social control, and now the Chinese art of censorship has inevitably extended to our Internet access. Chinese operators are directly operating inside CANTV’s infrastructure in order to selectively suppress and inhibit access to specific websites and services.

    https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/10/20/my-socialist-hell-the-death-of-free-speech-in-venezuela/

  110. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Packers won over the Raiders in fine style 42-24 on a sunny day at Lambeau Field. Can envision the late greats Bart Starr and Vince Lombardi smiling their approval. Spouse records the Packers and Texans games to be viewed later. I watched it live, and he’s viewing the Packers game now. The Texans game was regrettably not as cheerful.

    The advantage to recording is you can fast forward through the commercials.

  111. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I just walked in from outside and dang, that big ole pot O chili smells soo goood!

  112. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    The O’McHarpers are off to HIS appointment with a surgeon tomorrow afternoon, to see what is recommended to get rid of a large anomaly that was found during his recent first-time-ever colonoscopy. We heard what the gastroenterologist thought about it, that same day 11 days ago, but we’ll see if the referral agrees. Fortunately, I have lots of free time the next 2 weeks, so I shall be the chauffeur.

     

  113. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I just carried some items out to the curb for CoH Heavy Trash junk waste coming up on Tuesday. While doing that, something seems to have zapped my middle finger, left hand, although I felt nothing like a bite or sting. Now I have an itchy purple swelling in the middle joint. Just have to wait & see what develops. I put some Allegra itch cream on it, which helps dull the sensation.

     

  114. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    No chili in Houston today, got too warm for that. It’s 86 right now, with dusk headed our way.

     

  115. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Any time, any weather is chili weather.

  116. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The hottest traffic lady in Houston history left Channel 2 after 15 years.

    “After a long, good faith negotiation between both parties, we could not come to a new agreement with Jennifer.“

    https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/jennifer-reyna-leaving-kprc-2

    I can’t stomach Channel 2’s morning news, but I always enjoyed the occasional peek at her traffic.

  117. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Maybe KHOU will get rid of that thing they replaced Darby with, and hire Jennifer.

    I guess I can dream.

  118. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    We’re down to 83 here. Bring on those cold fronts promised for next week.

    For dessert we had some of Blue Bell’s Christmas Cookie ice cream that just got in the grocery stores. Same flavor as last year when it was quite a hit. Rich vanilla ice cream with chunks of real cookie dough and red and green sprinkles mixed in. Yum, yum.

  119. Hamous Avatar

    Hey, at least 13 still has Deborah Wrigley 😉

    I think she’s the only local news person still on the air that was here when I moved here in 1981.

  120. Hamous Avatar

    Whatever happened to Shara Fryer?

  121. Tedtam Avatar

    I got back this afternoon from visiting my family near Lufkin.

    Cousin Pat and Aunt Mary were a tremendous source of support during my Harpy phase. Aunt Mary has told me that I’m her favorite niece; I guess it’s good to find out, even at my age. There’s Mary’s son, Robbie, and her husband, Gary, as well. The whole gang always makes me feel so welcome and loved when I visit.

    This visit was to see Pat. I think I’ve already mentioned her fatty liver problem. She is, indeed, green. Her eyes are definitely green and her normally fair skin (she’s a red head, like her mom) has a strong green cast to it. I was able to have a frank talk with Aunt Mary before Pat made it home from work on Friday. “From what I’ve seen, working at the VA, and looking at Pat, it’s not good. Not good at all. I think I’m watching my daughter die in front of me,” she said, “I think they caught it too late. All the men that I saw looking like her didn’t make it.”

    It seems that Pat also has a blood disorder that causes her body to produce waaaay too many white blood cells. She’s had it since childhood but hasn’t really been seeing a doctor for it. I don’t know that they could do anything about a genetic disorder, anyway. The current doctor are worried that her body is attacking her liver, and that a transplant would suffer a similar fate. Not to mention her diabetes issue, which makes things even worse. This past weekend her blood sugar dropped as low as 39, which caused her brother to run for a soda to keep her from teetering over. Then it shot up to 239. She is having a tremendously hard time managing her blood sugar level. On top of that, she has a hard time eating and a harder time keeping down what she manages to eat. She’s lost weight in her arms and legs, but her tummy is very round. She has a pain in her abdomen. And she’s more tired than her usual self, though she seems to be keeping her spirits up. She laughs easily and as often as she can. It’s good that she lives at the same property as her mom and her brother. They are watching out for her.

    She comes into town on Tuesday to see a specialist. I’m hoping that there’s something that can be done. She is truly a light in this world.

    I lit a candle for her at mass this morning, and said a lot of prayers for the whole family.

  122. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #127 Shannon
    KHOU has been our go-to tv station for years for the 6 and 10 o’clock news as well as many of the CBS tv shows, the good ones that require some thought beyond age 12 or so. But we rarely watch their morning and/or noon time news unless something like a hurricane or other bad weather or some disaster is lurking. Result is we don’t recognize any of the broadcast staff for those while the 6 & 10 folks seem like neighbors.

  123. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I believe Shara Fryer still has a morning gig on KTRH, she’s been, or has been there for a long time.

  124. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    133
    Yes, Shara anchors KTRH radio morning drive time news. With some dude.

  125. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    When I was growing up, Channel 2 News was the best.
    KTRK 13 eventually edged out the rest and stood at the top, seemingly forever. 13 had the same formula and the same team for so long, I just got bored with them.
    I don’t remember when I switched to KHOU, but it was when Lisa Foranda was anchoring. She was just so breathtaking that I couldn’t resist. Pretty much stuck with them ever since. Dave’s weather is so superior to the rest, I’ll stay until they get real stupid and fire him.

    Bound to happen. The TV people who make those decisions are the dumbest people on the planet.

  126. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    But we rarely watch their morning and/or noon time news unless something like a hurricane or other bad weather or some disaster is lurking.

    Adee
    Houston morning TV news is a vast, banal wasteland. And that goes for all four of the stations. I watch 11 because that’s the channel on which it was left the night before. 🙂

  127. Hamous Avatar

    Since I’m working from home a lot I can confirm that noon news isn’t any better. Shirn Min is most annoying.

  128. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Heh
    290 is virtually complete and now you only have to use it sporadically.

  129. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I can’t believe Wrigley is still there.  She’s been one of the few genuine journalists to ever work in Houston television.  Wrigley has always been highly respected among other reporters.

  130. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I despise television news so much, from local to network, I stopped watching it years ago.  The only time I see it is when Her Highness has it on and I walk into the room.  Every time I watch a few minutes I feel like the brain cells are evaporating in my head. I just can’t stand it.

  131. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The years have not been kind to Deborah. It’s fairly shocking that she still occasionally gets an on air gig.

  132. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Deborah must know where all the bodies are buried on Bissonnet.

  133. Hamous Avatar

    290 is virtually complete and now you only have to use it sporadically.

    Four years of hell. But it’s nice the one day a month I go in. Just to remind me, they recently tore up the Gessner eastbound onramp to and westbound offramp for a couple weeks. I’m assuming it was bad concrete.

  134. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    One day.
    Cool.

  135. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’m still unclear on that interchange.
    Is there actually a separated/dedicated lane that runs all the way to the Katy and dumps you westbound on 10?

  136. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    142 Shannon

    Deborah was a regular down at Kay’s Lounge on Bissonnet at the northern edge of The Village.  What a dive.  I think Dave Ward’s bar tab paid the overhead there for thirty years before he quit drinking.  You never knew who you were going to see when you went in there, but it was the quintessential reporters’ hangout.  Actually, the most interesting feature of Kay’s was the massive amounts of spectacularly funny and creative graffiti in the restrooms.

  137. Hamous Avatar

    I’m still unclear on that interchange.
    Is there actually a separated/dedicated lane that runs all the way to the Katy and dumps you westbound on 10?

    Two lanes peel off to the right around 34th and dump you on I-10 both directions.

  138. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    It was fun sleeping on the ground for two nights, however, I’m looking forward to sleeping in my own bed tonight.

    I didn’t put the rain fly on my tent Friday night because the rain chances were very small. Around 5 am I realized I was getting wet from a light drizzle. I got up and affixed the rain fly and then I couldn’t go back to sleep. I’m not like Dave. I need my beauty rest. 🙂

  139. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    When I was a boy, my folks always had the evening news tuned to Dave and Deborah. Sher min was a young cub reporter at the time.

  140. Sarge Avatar

     TexMo says:
    OCTOBER 20, 2019 AT 9:09 PM

    It was fun sleeping on the ground for two nights, however, I’m looking forward to sleeping in my own bed tonight.

    I didn’t put the rain fly on my tent Friday night because the rain chances were very small. Around 5 am I realized I was getting wet from a light drizzle. I got up and affixed the rain fly and then I couldn’t go back to sleep. I’m not like Dave. I need my beauty rest.

    That wouldna happened if you were sleeping in a hammock with a proper rain fly. You don’t sleep on the ground where the water is, and going back to sleep is as easy as closing your eyes.

    And you should put up the rain fly with either a hammock or tent.

    Keeps the bird and bug poop off’n you.

    Nobody listens to me—-

  141. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I guess hammocks are pretty useless on the Llano Estacado.
    Or Kansas.
    Or eastern Colorado.
    Or North Africa.

  142. pErpeTuAlLy OfFeNdEd Avatar
    pErpeTuAlLy OfFeNdEd

    I despise television news so much, from local to network, I stopped watching it years ago. /snip/ Every time I watch a few minutes I feel like the brain cells are evaporating in my head. I just can’t stand it.

    Yup a vast wasteland of propaganda, giggly “news” girls saying awww and ooooh and fat guys in backwards baseball caps reviewing the latest sh*tty movie from Disney  telling us how it’s a fun and great movie.

    Losers.

  143. El Gordo Avatar

    #146 – Kays Lounge was a Houston landmark when I went to Rice in 1964, and was only recently demolished in the name of progress.  Otherwise, we’ve got tornaders dancing around north Dallas where I stays when I’m up here, but somehow I’m still alive.  More on the way later, but it’s bedtime for me.  More later and night all.

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