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Tuesday Birding Porn Open Comments

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A friend of mine asked me if I ever get tired of seeing the same birds every time I go out.  The answer to that question is no.  It is easy to take Audubon Book pictures, for me the challenge is capturing critters doing stuff.  Take the Great Blue Heron with the fish.  I have a whole series of him walk around with the fish empaled on his beak, interacting with the seagull, and finally carrying the fish off to eat in peace.  I followed the Caracara with his mouse until he flew down and buried the thing.  All these things just fascinate me to no end.  Oh and the Snowy Egret with the waves.  He was so funny standing there and then a rogue wave gave him a shower.  The best thing is I get to share the pictures and stories with y’all and others and maybe, just maybe my God given talent gives someone a moment of peace in this really messed up world.  Lemme know yay or nay and I will post the series of events pictures.  BTW most of these pictures have not been seen on that other platform.

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86 responses to “Tuesday Birding Porn Open Comments”

  1. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I say yay, great stuff.

    First!

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Neat pictures….GJT, beat me Thaaat much, but the cat is fed and stabbed, coffee is ready….Oh and yay!
    Mornin’ Gang

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I can’t decide which one is my favorite, but it is most likely the Kestrel, followed by the Caracara. I don’t think that I’ve seen a Kestrel in the wild but I’ve seen several Caracara’s mostly around NASA. When we first moved into our house in 82, we no trees, and the only birds that we had was the Shrike and a few mocking birds. The Shrike is a prairie bird that impales his insects on thorns or often barbed wire. The Mocker, don’t really need much in the way of trees, since they’d build their nest in a bush. For several years we had one living in the big Pyracantha, by the house.
    By the time we moved away, we had lots trees and plenty of songbirds and Raptors and tree rats.

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    1958 GMC 101-8 Deluxe Cab Fenderside with V8 option

    Original GMC factory product image
    Sporting plenty of chrome, a big back window, and optional 336 V8 engine, this GMC shows it can look good and help you work at the same time.

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    CNN Reporter Informs Iranian Protesters They’re Supposed To Be Shouting “Death To America”

    TEHRAN—As Iranians protested their government’s downing of a passenger jet, a frantic CNN reporter ran through the crowd lecturing them on how they were actually supposed to be shouting “Death to America!”

    The CNN reporter arrived at the protests, excited to cover another anti-US protest but quickly realized they were actually shouting “Death to the dictator!” and blaming their government for shooting down the plane.

    “Guys, you’re ruining the narrative!” he cried through a megaphone. “We can’t run with this! You’re willing to assign blame to Iran more readily than the media and the Democrats were! This isn’t good for our viewership! Are you guys in league with Fox News?”

    “Please guys, please shout ‘death to America,’ just for a few minutes so I can get some B-roll!”

    His efforts weren’t having any effect, so the reporter began trying to start up the chants himself. “Come on, people! Death to America! Death to America! When I say ‘Death to,’ you say, ‘America!’ Death to!” A shoe was thrown in his direction, though, and he scattered, fearing for his life.

  6. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, gang. I like the bird pix, Squawks, but I am most drawn to the turtle pix in today’s shots. I am a big fan of reptiles, so I mourn the lizard hanging out of your shrike’s mouth. One of the reasons I adopted my little orange tabby JoJo was the number of times I saw her running around with baby lizards hanging out of her jaws. She was chasing birds and squirrels, but never caught one as far as I know. But I didn’t want her to kill all the baby lizards in the back yard.

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    For you amateur musicologists out there. When Hoyt Axton was being discussed here, I dug this up and then forgot to post it. I did write something about Mae Boren and her family back on Lone Star Times, once upon a time.

    Her Wikipedia bio page:

    She was born Mae Boren in 1914 in Bardwell, Texas, but was raised in Oklahoma. There were many politicians within her family – her brother, David, became a state senator. She obtained a degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma and then worked for Life magazine as a reporter. In the mid-Thirties, she married a schoolteacher, John Axton, who liked to sing for pleasure (their son, Hoyt, who was born in 1938, became a musician).

    Her obituary in The Independent:

    Her songwriting partner, Tommy Durden, read a story in the Miami Herald about a man who committed suicide in a hotel and left a note which said, “I walk a lonely street.” He suggested to Axton that it could make a good blues song. She replied that it must have been a “heartbreak hotel” and that they must write the song for Presley. They completed “Heartbreak Hotel” within an hour, and Axton asked Glen Reeves to cut the demo for Presley. She offered him a share of the royalties but he declined to take it.

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas preview video on his Twitter feed right now.

  9. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang. The old Keurig was moaning and groaning this morning and sounded like my stomach after a big night of gas station burritos, so I decided to look it up on the You Tube to see what might be done about this. The You tube experts suggested that it might be time to clean and descale the thing. Now I’ve done that before, so this is not the first time, but it may have been a while since I did the last one, so I went to work on the project. Now there is nothing wrong with old coffee and coffee grounds, but the sure do look nasty, and this machine looked nasty. BTW, I don’t use those premade K-cups, I mix my own Community Coffee Dark Roast in one of those little stainless steel pods with a paper filter it in, so the opportunity for extra grounds to escape and pollute the machine is probably easier than if I used the plastic K-cups. But anyway, like most other things that you expect to take only a few minutes, this has turned into a project. You see, one of those You Tubers showed how to disassemble the top of the unit and access the plastic plumbing underneath. So, there we are.

    I ran some vinegar through as instructed, and like most other things, I decided that if a little bit is good, a lot must be better. I haven’t seen any boulders coming out of there, but the water/vinegar mix goes in crystal clear and comes out so cloudy you can hardly see through it. And, the machine does not seem to like running one cup right after the other, so I have to unplug it between cups and let it reset itself. Long story short, once I finish running this vinegar mix through, I’ll probably spend the rest of the day running fresh water just to try to get that vinegar taste and smell out of there – but by gosh, I’ll have a clean running, quiet machine again. I does make good coffee.

    I toss a little deer corn out back every evening, and in the mornings, it’s all gone, but I haven’t seen many deer lately. Yesterday, just before dusk, a group of 5 young (small) does came out and casually ate up all the corn. There’s a big buck hanging around that I talked about yesterday, so I assume that he’s gathering a harem to keep him warm for the winter.

    OK, you all have a great day. No school today over at LSU, so no telling where some of those people wound up after last night’s crushing win. If I remember correctly, youth, alcohol, and an active imagination can lead to some really great ideas that often don’t turn out so well when the morning comes.

    PS – most importantly, I love the birder pics. Keep ’em coming.

  10. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well, the wife left this morning on a Road Trip to Midland to see daughter. I was hoping that we could make a Road Trip, to California to see the boy and his family, but I guess that I’ll have to get a trailer for my stuff, (one bag and a few hangers), since she pretty much filled up the back of the Tahoe.
    BTW; She was all excited about her first Road Trip in her new Tahoe. 😉

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Squawk’s red ear turtles sunning themselves on that plank remind me of my next door neighbor when we were kids. He loved reptiles, turtles, lizards, snakes, etc and got me interested also. When we were about 8 or 9, my neighbor and I turned a rear corner of his backyard (about 30’x40′) into a turtle sanctuary. It had a small fence around it with creeks, ponds, trails, bridges, overpasses, caves, shelters, etc. It was very cool. We then spent the summer in the creeks, bayous and woods hunting turtles and bringing them back to the Turtle Resort. We created a written log and inventory of the different species and varieties of turtles – red ear, yellow ear, map, box, sliders, snapping, cooters, tortoise – we had as residents.

    We put out food for them everyday, robbed from our mothers’ kitchens. Once school started and the weather began to cool, we took down the fence and delivered most of them back to the wild. A few stayed, burrowed into the mud and hibernated for the winter.

    Mrs. Baldwin, my friend’s mother was extraordinarily patient and tolerant with our project. It helped that she was an elementary school teacher. Her son, my friend, grew up to be a professor in zoology.

  12. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #11 Texpat, that is a neat story and typical of young boys back the day, only y’all did take it up a notch or two. Do you have any pictures, BTW?

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    12 Super Dave

    Even if I had photos, they would be lost in the wind by now.

    The sad thing is boys today spend their lives indoors entranced and brainwashed by computerized hypnotists. The boys I grew up with lived for the summer and warm weather – the outdoors. Our mothers practically had to organize search parties to find us as the sun was going down.

  14. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #13 Texpat, so very true and it is sad that a lot of kids today, will never know what they missed.

  15. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Super Dave

    That same friend came over to get me one really hot summer day when we were about 10 years old. He needed my help, but didn’t really tell me what he was going to do. I followed him down a trail into the woods along Rummel Creek to a huge old tree we had spotted months earlier. The tree stood in a clearing and the west facing trunk was partially hollowed out, probably from lightning. Inside the trunk was an enormous honeybee hive.

    My friend, Terry, barefooted in a t-shirt and cutoffs slowly eased up to the tree with the cardboard box I brought along. He carefully reached into the tree and lifted out this huge honeycomb and set it into the box. The whole time there were thousands of bees buzzing around him and I thought he was going to die. I was standing behind another tree about 30 feet away ready to go call an ambulance.

    Terry, moving in slow motion, picked up the box with the hive and the queen bee in it and started walking back home. I was aghast. The bees were following him in a cloud and we walked the approximate 3/4 mile to his house and put the hive into a plywood box he had set up in his backyard. Much to his mother’s consternation the hive stayed there until winter.

    He did not receive a single bee sting. Not one. I still, to this day, do not know where or how he learned to do that at 10 years old. He just shrugged his shoulders when I asked. I can see the whole thing like a video replay in my mind.

  16. DeLeCtO's diLLards wILLaRdS Avatar
    DeLeCtO’s diLLards wILLaRdS

    Go Clemson.

  17. DeLeCtO's diLLards wILLaRdS Avatar
    DeLeCtO’s diLLards wILLaRdS

    bUrnie the naked communist exposes himself.

  18. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is not making headlines although it is very important. I suspect the Trump White House has made it clear to the Euros the US will continue to increase sanctions against Iran. They are, as usual, trying to have their cake and eat it too, but the space to negotiate continues to shrink.

    France, Germany and Britain:

    In triggering the dispute mechanism, “our three countries are not joining a campaign to implement maximum pressure against Iran. Our hope is to bring Iran back into full compliance with its commitments under the JCPoA.”

    Iran has long accused the Europeans of reneging on promises to protect its economy from U.S. sanctions. Foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi dismissed the “completely passive action” of the three countries and said Iran would support any act of “goodwill and constructive effort” to save the agreement.

    NOTIFICATION

    To trigger the dispute mechanism, the three European countries notified the European Union, which acts as guarantor of the agreement. EU foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell said the aim was not to reimpose sanctions but to ensure compliance.

    After months of announcing gradual steps to reduce compliance, Iran said on Jan. 6 it would scrap all limits on enriching uranium.

    The nuclear diplomacy is at the heart of a broader confrontation between Iran and the United States, which killed Iran’s most powerful military commander in a drone strike on Jan. 3. Iran has since seen an outpouring of domestic unrest after accidentally shooting down a Ukrainian airliner.

    The European countries said they were acting “in good faith with the overarching objective of preserving the JCPoA”.

    This is a procedural step mandating no material action, but it does send a pretty strong diplomatic signal.

  19. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    There was an unchaperoned pre-teen girl slumber party in the room next to me. They were literally bouncing off the walls until midnight. The adults were conveniently down the hall.

  20. DeLeCtO's diLLards wILLaRdS Avatar
    DeLeCtO’s diLLards wILLaRdS

    None of what Veritas exposed about naked communist bUrnie will be shown on the pro-gulag Newspeak Media Networks.

    #foodlinesareAgoodthing

  21. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Bee story: /shiver/

  22. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The supervisor of the subject exposed by the first of O’Keefe’s videos is the director of statewide field operations for the Sanders campaign in Iowa. O’Keefe says he hopes the Sanders campaign and the media try to paint this Kyle punk as a lone, crazy low-level operator. He says it will play into the Project Veritas game plan.

    They have more videos.

    She just set her Twitter account to private because there are tweets in there praising this thug.

  23. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    At one point one of the adults came in and told them they had an 8am wakeup call. I made sure they were awake at 5am.

  24. DeLeCtO's diLLards wILLaRdS Avatar
    DeLeCtO’s diLLards wILLaRdS

    The Babylon Bee in reality is really quite truthful.

    Much in the same vein as the movie Office Space which instead of being a comedy it was actually more like a documentary on corporate IT life going into Y2K.

    @foodlinesareAgoodthing

  25. DeLeCtO's diLLards wILLaRdS Avatar
    DeLeCtO’s diLLards wILLaRdS

    #foodlinesareAgoodthing.

    #TPSreportsareNot.

  26. DeLeCtO's diLLards wILLaRdS Avatar
    DeLeCtO’s diLLards wILLaRdS

    What bUrmie meant was that food lines area good thing as long as he’s not one of the hapless saps that has to line up for food.

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Old Serpenthead has poked out of his hole and let us know he is backing obscure presidential candidate, Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator from Colorado. It is important to also note the editor of the editorial department at the New York Times is James Bennet, his brother.

    Bennet has tried to ride the fence halfheartedly as a moderate Democrat. He speaks one way on the 2nd Amendment and acts another way. Since Sanders and Warren have dragged the Dem Party ideological center so far to the left, even a guy like Bennet begins to look like a middle of the road Democrat.

    If Carville is now backing him, I have a theory. After reading about a meeting with several prominent Democratic political consultants involved and their candor about the fear running through the DNC over a Sanders or Warren nomination, I understood their reluctant support for Biden. They think he’s the only hope to shift the power in the Party back to the middle. The one thing they agreed upon was that a Sanders or Warren nomination would banish the Democratic Party to the Wilderness for a generation. They think the campaign will be so bad and embarrassing, it will take years to recover.

    I believe the old guard influential guys like Carville are strategizing for a brokered convention in August. They realize they can’t win with Warren, Sanders or Mr. Dementia now so they will covertly try to manipulate the convention into a stalemate and then in the midst of chaos offer a milquetoast, bland guy like Michael Bennet as a compromise candidate who looks staid and “normal” next to Crazy Orange Man Bad.

    Bennet is straight, white, Ivy League, mother Jewish, father Christian, environmental activist lawyer wife, three kids, grandfather worked for FDR, father worked for Carter and Clinton. Perfect bonafides.

    We’ll see.

  28. DeLeCtO's diLLards wILLaRdS Avatar
    DeLeCtO’s diLLards wILLaRdS

    I believe the old guard influential guys like Carville are strategizing for a brokered convention in August. They realize they can’t win with Warren, Sanders or Mr. Dementia

    but look! up in the sky! it’s a bird! It’s a plane! no! it’s, it’s…

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #28

    It can’t be Hillary. The Bernie guy said she’s going to suicide herself.

    That means it has to be The Wookie, only because AOC doesn’t have enough miles on her years behind her.

  30. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #27, 28: If there is no first round winner at the convention in August, all manner of violence will break out. Expect someone like the Shaved Wookie, Felonia, Romnutz (watch that slimeball change parties to take advantage of the situation), or a Soros Clone (whomever that may be) to come in and attempt to “rescue” the party. There will be bloodshed in August and more after Trump wins in November; the big question is: how much?

    The Chinese curse is upon us: We are indeed living in interesting times.

  31. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Y’all underestimate the devious (and brilliant) machinations of the old, Democratic operatives. Hillary, Joe, Michelle, Bernie and Warren are out. They will engineer a complete standoff so there will be no choice but to choose an outside nominee. I don’t know if it would be Bennet, but he’s a good bet if all this goes down as planned.

    Their goal is to avoid a total slaughter at the polls and the utter humiliation of the Democratic Party. They are prepared to lose with their political reputation intact if need be so there is a viable party to be a contender in 2024 against Pence or whomever the opponent ends up being.

  32. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #15 Texpat, Another great story, your friend, Terry, was smart enough to get the Queen and with that, the worker bees followed along, because of her scent. We had bees, off and on, growing up and the tame, European, bees seldom sting, even if provoked. They will sometimes attack, if you disturb their hive but if you start extracting the honey, they’ll try to eat it, to keep you from getting it. The bee keeper, often uses a smoke pot to distract them and that works pretty good. When they swarm, they do this because a new Queen was created to split the hive. She flies off and a good portion of the workers follow her to their new home. I have never heard of a swarm stinging anyone ever.
    That said; it was thought that the bees would only sting you during the Dog Days of August and there is some truth to that, ask me how I know. I think that it is just so hot that they get aggravated and might sting you. In any case a bee sting is mild, no worse than a mosquito, NOTHING like a wasp, that hurts like hell and swells you up bad.

  33. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I’ve been thinking about getting a bee hive here on the farm,…since I HAVE NOTHING to do. But, not sure I will, just yet.

  34. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I made sure they were awake at 5am.

    HA! That’s the time! 😀

  35. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Just took a peak at a video of Jill Biden addressing her husband’s faithful followers in a town called Boone (state unknown).

    All ten or twelve of them. And a handful of what looks like staffers and/or press.

    It was held in a closet somewhere, so the optics were of “a full room” instead of “pitiful turnout”. On the wall was a handmade sign: “We’re riden’ with Biden”.

    Given Biden’s touchy-feely problems, they may want to rethink that motto.

  36. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Their goal is to avoid a total slaughter at the polls and the utter humiliation of the Democratic Party. They are prepared to lose with their political reputation intact if need be so there is a viable party to be a contender in 2024 against Pence or whomever the opponent ends up being.

    The “they” in this case may well have the goal(s) of which you state. The psychotic AOC wing of the party are under no such illusions. They think that they can, should, and will win and there will be violence if they don’t; being the good Marxists that they are. There will be bloodshed, the question is how much. . . .and who the unlucky victims will be.

  37. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I have never heard of a swarm stinging anyone ever.

    I remember reading a story years ago in which a father scooped a new swarm into a box (the new hive) with his bare hands, with the bees like a cloud around his head and body. Freaked his kid out. He told his son that a swarm never stings.

    However, the next day….

  38. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    There is indeed a battle going on for the heart and soul of the Democrat Party. Left Wing extremists are trying to finalize the take over started by Obama. The fund raising prowess of the Clintons and Pelosi is being matched by AOC and others, with help from Soros.

    The operative theory, and principal danger to the Republic, is that eventually there will be an economic event such as what happened y to Bush, that will catapult the commies into power so they can “fix” the economy.

  39. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The operative theory, and principal danger to the Republic, is that eventually there will be an economic event such as what happened y to Bush, that will catapult the commies into power so they can “fix” the economy.

    I think Van Jones and Bill Ayers each have spoken about the need to crush our Capitalistic economy so that it could be rebuilt in the utopian ideal form. As long as Capitalism is working, Socialism has a much diminished chance of taking hold in a quick fashion.

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Thousands standing in freezing rain for Trump Wisconsin rally.

  41. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Remember a couple of months ago when global warming was going to swallow Venice with rising sea levels?

    Just kidding!

    I’m excited to see how they blame global warming for this.

  42. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I’m excited to see how they blame global warming for this.

    I’m liking this global warming, wearing shorts again today, had the A/C on in the truck.

  43. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    A balmy -18 F, windchill -35. That’s up from -40 this morning. I like your wildlife photos as it appears so does everyone else. Battery froze in the TW’s car. We haven’t been driving it enough.

     

    IHW

  44. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    33 dave
    You can prolly find a beekeeper who will place hives on your estate and maintain them. I would imagine you’d get some vig from the action.

  45. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    I had bees two years ago on my place and the garden, fruit trees and berry trees exploded with goodies. The next year I didn’t have any bees and everything was pitiful. The weather didn’t help. The garden did fine but the fruit trees were pitiful. We were giving apples away the year before and got three last year.

    Life was not good.

    We are about 80% self sustaining here. Our major purchases are lettuce and fresh tomatoes.

     

     

     

     

  46. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    If you don’t go see Little Women you’re an evil person.

  47. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    I vote for Sqwack to post the series of pictures. Those will be most interesting to see.

  48. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    Saw an add for this vacuum tube pre-amp. Seems pricey for two tubes and four knobs.

    https://www.kozoaudio.com/products/the-curry-tube-top

  49. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #35 Tedtam

    That likely would be Iowa since it is first out of the box with the primaries.
    Oops, I think Iowa has caucuses rather than a primary.

  50. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I’m in agreement with you all about the prospects of a brokered convention for the Dems. But, as I’ve said before, I expect hiliary to come riding in on the back of a white horse, completely nude, long hair covering everything (coming from her head, not other parts of her body), and offering herself up for sacrifice to serve as the nominee, all for the good of the party of course. She’ll be elected by acclimation. She’s had all of her plastic surgery taken care of and the scars healed up, so she’s ready to go. May require an abundance of alcohol and drugs to keep her running, but she promises to do whatever it takes. hiliary 2020 will be her motto.

    I’ve been keeping an eye on Pochahauntaus, and it seems to me that she is actually a robot. She’s always waving those arms about, but the motions are not smooth and natural – they are rough and jerky, machine like. Sort of like when Zero tried to throw a baseball and looked like a left handed girl. And for sure no human being, not even my ex-wife or hiliary, could have a naturally developed human voice like hers. Not even hiliary. Well, maybe that female football announcer on ESPN could come close, but I’ll swear it’s mechanical, not human.

    OK, should I watch the Trump rally tonight, or the Dems debate. Which do you think? More later.

  51. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    A tad on the bawdy side, but fits in with the Animal World theme today…

     

  52. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Quaint little “Target store“. Only in Texas…

    And in case you’ve never seen the Marfa Prada boutique…

     

  53. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    My vote is to commission Squawk to take pictures of wild birds with Texpat’s style of women in the background… minimally clad of course.

    I figured if we paid Squawk to include the women of Texpat’s choosing that Squawk wouldn’t gripe about the lack of posterior accoutrements.

  54. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Hamous I want to know if you turned the tv up really loud this morning or did you have a conversation with yourself in a loud voice?

    BTW, now you can tell your company that they need to put you up in some classier digs with better sound attenuation.

  55. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    GJT, I think I would have fainted if someone at my table dipped their succulent piece of chicken fried steak in ketchup.

  56. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I’ve been keeping an eye on Pochahauntaus, and it seems to me that she is actually a robot. She’s always waving those arms about, but the motions are not smooth and natural – they are rough and jerky, machine like.

    I’ve been saying that for a while. I think I used the term automaton, like what you see at Disney World. She ain’t a human being.

  57. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Hamous I want to know if you turned the tv up really loud this morning or did you have a conversation with yourself in a loud voice?

    TV up loud, banging my fist on the shower wall, talking loud.

  58. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    GJT, I think I would have fainted if someone at my table dipped their succulent piece of chicken fried steak in ketchup.

    It was horrible TexMo, horrible. I had to have a beer later, yeah, that bad!

  59. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Praise Jesus, the slumber party must have checked out.

  60. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Went to Don’s tonight. The best oysters on the half shell I’ve had in quite some time. Nice and salty! And the catfish Acadian was good too.

  61. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #52 nharper, I have seen both of those, but have you seen the Target store on Cozumel? It’s on the east coast of Cozumel, about halfway from the southern tip to the lighthouse at the north. I took this picture in 2001, when the wife and I went to Playa del Carmen, we took a day to go to Cozumel, rented a Yamaha version of a Vespa and drove all the way around the island. We rented a Jeep on the mainland and went all over the place, including the ruins at Tulum. We took a tour bus to Chicken Itza. Good times.

  62. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My #61 sent me down memory lane, my bride, on the Yamhachi Scooter, on the far side of Cozumel, just south of the Target store. FWIW; That little 50 CC bike would move, we smoked a Vespa, with only a driver and we were doubled up on the Yamaha. 😉

  63. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GhNNoYfOU&list=RD36GhNNoYfOU&start_radio=1

  64. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I’ll bet the food is significantly better in Louisiana than in Minnesota or Michigan. Though I do not have much to go by on way of comparison.

    I went to Ely, MN a couple of years ago with the eldest boy to go canoeing with the Scouts. We stopped at some mall in Duluth to eat lunch at the food court before we headed up to Ely.

    I’ve only been to Michigan twice. I remember BASF sprung for a really nice lunch at a restaurant on the Detroit River in Wyandotte.

  65. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Hamous, you ever been to Pat’s of Henderson? They used to have a location in New Iberia but I don’t see anything on it nor the original one in Henderson. Doesn’t seem they have much of a web presence to tell if they’re still there. Of course the Lake Charles restaurant is still there and thriving. Best seafood you’ll never put in your mouth ‘shire, I’m tolding you that. It is my picky wife’s favorite ever.

  66. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I’ve had some decent food in the Detroit area. Last trip I had some tasty Polish chicken and dumplings at a little hole in the wall restaurant, served by a plump Babushka. The pierogi was very good too.

  67. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #61 Dave

    We took a tour bus to Chicken Itza.

    Heh. I think that is Chichen Itza, good buddy. 🙂

     

     

  68. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    GJT

    Haven’t been to Pat’s. I’m real bad about driving nonstop until I reach my destination. Maybe when I retire I can be like SD and take leisurely trips.

  69. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Hamous I want to know if you turned the tv up really loud this morning or did you have a conversation with yourself in a loud voice?

    TV up loud, banging my fist on the shower wall, talking loud.

    Flashback: When I was youth minister, I took a bunch of kids to the National Youth Conference and we stayed in a block of hotel rooms. The chaperones and I took shifts in the hallway to make sure there were no shenanigans. I had to tell one room of girls that they needed to quit jumping on the beds and laughing/shrieking so loudly. I think they were playing at Supergirl or something. Anyway, I was sitting in the hallway talking when we heard more loud laughter and shenaniganing from that end of the hall. I went down there but was confused – it was from the room across from Supergirl room. I couldn’t remember where we put everyone, but this room was on our floor….

    I became more concerned when I realized one of the voices was male and one was female. From the sounds inside I surmised there was some rather active foreplay and chasing-round-the-room going on. I knew I had to stop this NOW and I knocked on the door. I could hear the man say “Hurry! In the bathroom!” There was a thud, a giggle, more hushed commands to hide, and then the door opened.

    There was an adult male there, obviously part of the wedding party downstairs. I was guessing he wasn’t supposed to get caught with whomever he shoved into the bathroom and that a copious amount of alcohol was involved. He was flushed and out of breath. I apologized and explained why I knocked on his door. “I thought you were part of our youth group,” I said, trying not to blush and/or laugh.

    I myself was giggling as I explained to the other chaperones that room XXX was not part of our room block and to ignore whatever sounds came from there.

    But we didn’t hear anything the rest of the night.

  70. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I sat next to a nice older couple at the bar tonight. Turns out she was originally from Katy. She graduated from Katy High School in the early 60s. Her graduating class was 77 students. It’s probably close to 1000 now.

  71. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #68

    I was figuring on a place to go while you’re on one of the trips there. Henderson or New Iberia are fairly close, if they are still there.

  72. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Or you could sit in the bar seeking old wimmin from Katy.

  73. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Oh, smiley!

  74. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Heh. I think that is Chichen Itza, good buddy

    No, I’m from Alabama, so it will always be “Chicken Itza”,… so there! 😉

  75. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    64 TexMo

    I’ll bet the food is significantly better in Louisiana than in Minnesota or Michigan. Though I do not have much to go by on way of comparison.

    Folks open Louisiana cuisine restaurants all over the world. I’ve been in many of them.

    I’m still looking for that Michigan or Minnesota temple of gastronomical splendor. I’ve been to both places and well, I’ll take a pass.

    Please don’t even mention the food in Ohio.

  76. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well, I’m not a world traveler, but once, while in Minneapolis, I had fried Walleye and damn it was good! White, flaky meat, just like fresh water bream, only much bigger.

  77. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    #75 Texpat

    Please don’t even mention the food in Ohio

    In school we were taught that Manifest Destiny was the main driving force of westward expansion. I believe it’s because those from back east found the food so horrible in what would become the Midwest that they kept on going.

  78. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Looks like the one in Henderson is about 25 miles. That could be doable if I don’t work late.

  79. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Here’s a story all dog lovers will like. Yeah, I have 7 cats, but I am a dog lover, too. Unusual but heartwarming animal shelter story.

    https://blog.theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com/lt-dog-escape-artist/

  80. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Any place that puts cinnamon in their chili spaghetti sauce can’t be trusted with the gastronomical arts.

  81. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    77 TexMo

    Analysis: True and factual.

    However, they kept going west and then we ended up with California non-GMO burritos and bean sprout organic tacos. Ghastly food. If California, Washington and Oregon didn’t have Pacific fish they wouldn’t have any decent food at all.

  82. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I probably mentioned one of my bosses taking me to a restaurant in the Cincinnati area that served the “best ribs you’ll ever eat”. They were basically boiled in barbecue sauce in the oven. Probably not the worst ribs I’ve ever had but I can’t think of the worst ones.

  83. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    The staff also discovered the serum from Gumby’s blood has healing properties.

    I see the Aussies have hippies too!

  84. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Man, I just hate these people.

    House Rules Republicans
    @RulesReps

    FLOOR ALERT:
    @HouseDemocrats just REFUSED to bring up
    @GOPLeader’s resolution to condemn the Iranian regime & stand with the protesters in Iran demanding freedom & basic respect of human rights.

  85. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #83 Hammy

    Uh? Australia?

    Gumby may look like your typical hound mix, but his Houdini-esque escape skills have made him quite famous in the town of Charleston, South Carolina.

  86. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    ???

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