I’ve been watching some educational films from the 40’s and 50’s. It’s interesting to watch – these things are obviously not being taught these days. Some of the “female” ones I found cute, seeing how times have changed.
First, for Valentine’s Day:
Self-Reliance:
Facing Reality:
Grooming for women:
Habit patterns:
The Gossip:
The Procrastinator:
More to come….
Friday Life Skills Open Comments
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I always thought that this magazine article was timely, well written, and informative.
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I agree EG, and what a fantastic day to celebrate good wives, on Valentine’s Day.
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Told my Sweetie she should go by the grocery store today and just pick up anything she desires to cook up for a nice Valentine dinner, no limits. I know, I know, but she deserves it.
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Mornin’ Gang
Well today is my Flex Friday and Monday is a holiday, Saturday is my bride and I’s 39 anniversary, and Monday ole Dave turns 60!! Who’d a thunk it? Anywho we’re heading over to Fredericksburg for a couple of days, staying in a rustic cabin out in the sticks. Did I tell ya’ that life is good?! -
My neighbor directly across the street just showed up in one of his trucks to attempt to clean his driveway. He was in a Ford F-350 4-wheel drive dually with a large plow. He usually backs in and pushes the snow out of his driveway, across the street and into our front yard.
After trying for about 15 minutes, he gave up and left because the snow drifts in our yard are so tall and heavy the truck couldn’t budge it. The only way left to move snow here is with a front end loader. It has to be picked up and piled. -
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#5:
He usually backs in and pushes the snow out of his driveway, across the street and into our front yard.
I would really suck if he pushed it into your driveway. When the guy would push his snow onto your front yard, did he at least have the decency to plow your driveway also? That is the way we would handle that here in Houston, if we ever had snow to plow that is.
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If pushing his snow into my yard was a problem, he wouldn’t do it. He is, in fact, a very good neighbor. -
Oh! Thanks for clearing that up. It didn’t sound like a good thing to do.
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Bonecrusher and mharper42
People in my neighborhood work together and help each other in snowstorms. We don’t have any problems and those of us with plows and blowers clear the old folks’ properties. I don’t know how you would handle it, but that’s the way we do things here.
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People in my neighborhood work together and help each other in snowstorms. We don’t have any problems and those of us with plows and blowers clear the old folks’ properties.
When the hurricanes hit and destroy stuff we help each other. My neighbor let me tap into his generator to keep my fridge and a fan running when IKE knocked out power for almost 2 weeks at my house.
I’m glad that you live in an area where the neighbors actually act like neighbors. There may be some hope for the yankees afterall. -
Obviously, you people don’t understand what happens in a serious snowfall in a residential neighborhood.
Yes, as a lifelong Texan, I don’t understand that, and glad I never had to learn how that works.
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#12 Doodski:
In my estimation, the only thing of which Mitch McConnell and John Boehner have been guilty in the past few years is to have worked tirelessly within political reality and to have reacted sensitively to the hands that they were dealt.
The above came from your link. I find it to be as appealing as the basement of an outhouse. As the article further outlines, all spending bills originate in the House and the House controls the purse strings, period, dot bingo, there is no ambiguity in this Constitutional reality. What the above two Rinos are guilty of is complicity with evil, spinelessness and denial of reality. Basic realities:
1) We have been spending more than what is received in revenue for decades and it is not sustainable.
2) The federal government has far overstepped its constitutional bounds and has grown too big to support. The size, scope and power of the federal government must be reduced.
3) The higher the debt and/or tax rate, the slower the economy grows, as you increase one or both the economy will eventually crash. -
further to #14
4) The MSM will never give an R positive coverage unless they are selling out to the Ds. To expect anything else requires an active suspension of disbelief.
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#5;
The only way left to move snow here is with a front end loader. It has to be picked up and piled.
You can always go out and breathe on the snow. 🙂
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By the way, with all the amounts of snow texpat has described, that’s one heck of a snowball fight when the snow is ready for such packing.
http://lh6.ggpht.com/-rMCmGwajZe4/UVMA5sRUgKI/AAAAAAAAGIk/hjkE-5xXiss/Calvin%252520Hobbes%252520Snowball%252520Fight.gif?imgmax=800 -
I found a picture of me in my early yute.
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#s 14 and 15 BC,
Yes. I’ve heard this ridiculous argument put forth about how Rs need to be squishy to be electable for so long I’ve completely given up voting. When this argument is made, they consistently gloss over the fact that Rs did hold majorities during the GWB years and still violated this principle:1) We have been spending more than what is received in revenue for decades and it is not sustainable.
So, I’m to believe that for a politician to be elected, he has to advocate and actively work for endless deficit spending? Hmmmm… if that’s what it takes to be electable then we are really and truly hosed. I’m w/ Sarge. Let it burn.
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I first read this article in the dead tree version of National Geographic and found it so interesting that I actually registered with them so that I could link to the online version. Subject is research on the brain.
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Good Valentine’s Day morning Hamsters.
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Good V
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Read the article in Doood’s #12 with a sigh at the Republican party honcho excuses given for being mice hiding in their holes, only darting out in the dark of night in hopes of snatching some cheese from the Dem traps without being snared. Apparently they never heard of the Mouse That Roared, never mind Braveheart. Pathetic.
Nitwit author and chorus only needed look in the mirror for the idiotic campaign advice Mitt Romney received from the weak establishment braintrust to tread lightly rather than lay out the case for fiscal responsibility, self-reliance, be the best that you can be at whatever your vocation is, believe in America’s greatness built by generation upon generation. If Mitt had taken the bit in his teeth and run with it, he would have been elected.
There are many, many more of us than there are of them or liberals, and we shall make sure our primary votes count. And we are royally pissed. -
Dooodski, Sarge, Hamous, et al: Your position with respect to the R party and the country is shared by Ann Coulter.
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Happy Hallmark Day Yall 🙂
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*update*…………………Sha-Na-Na had a little surgical assistance this morning and is now back in his room awaiting word that he is cleared to EAT
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Hope they fixed you up real good, Shannon! Oh and bon appetit.
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In a first, Adee (#23) got nabbed by Granny Hammy.
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Let it be known that Nueva Jersey is not cold.
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And we are royally pissed.
Good on ya, Adee! Eventually the message will get through.
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Oops, it appears that I have been moderate-ified. Maybe shoulda said “pi$$ed” instead.
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… it could not matter less who wins any particular seat on this Titanic.
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Catching the true spirit of today.
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#34: Sadly that is true for lots of people. Me and the Mrs are blessed because it does not pertain to us.
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Stop the presses! I actually agree with Joan Walsh (although for entirely different reasons):
The cowardly strategy apparently even has a name: “Vote No, Hope Yes,” in which Republicans vote against a common sense solution to a stalemate – like the deals to avoid the fiscal cliff last January, or to reopen the government in October – while actually hoping the measures pass by the grace of Democrats.
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Hamous: I understand that one needs to understand the enemy in order to beat them, HOWEVER, reading Salon can cause permanent brain damage. I agree that the three rinos pictured need to be gone and as soon as possible.
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On another topic completely, this is what can be done when you are creative and have billions of petrodollars burning a hole in your pocket.
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I would like to have at least one and perhaps a dozen of these.
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Here’s an old one for gtotracker.
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I dropped in for a drive by and Hamous found this? I could not have remembered them on a bet. They sound a lot like the Del Fuegos.
Heard a new Rosanne Cash song today. I really like how she sings.
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As I was listening to it I thought they sounded like this band.
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I still pop a Guadalcanal Diary cd into the truck on occasion. I think REM came from the same source. Sarah Borges has a sound close to them. Much better vocals in my opinion.
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If we are going back to the 80’s…
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Trish Murphy is new to me though she has been playing Houston clubs for years.
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How many vacations have you been able to take in the last 5 years? This next one for JugEars makes 23, and all on the taxpayers dime. What an arrogant, insolent bastige.
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For mining the 80’s, back at ya Hamous.
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#34 Pyro
Catching the true spirit of today.
What a sour comment, I don’t think you really mean this.
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To finish off, Stephenie Trick. She makes a piano shout with joy. I prefer her studio recordings because the live recordings have applause breaks.
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Beautiful full moon in the hill country tonight, y’all missed it slackers. 😉
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