Speaking of hats, there’s this A&J from June of last year. As you might divine, it is an unvarnished memory and observation of my own. Daddy would be 100 years old this coming Monday, Halloween, were he still living. My younger brother and his family are coming over Saturday, and we’re going to have a family party in Daddy’s memory. I’m sure there will be stories told (Again!) for the benefit of my niece and nephew, who never got to meet their paternal grandfather, and for our own amusement, of course. He was the prototypical Arlo.
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I have never clicked on this cartoon on GoComics.com before this morning. In fact, I’d never even noticed this cartoon on the list at GoComics.com before this morning. But for some reason I did and clicked on it (10-26-16). In the context of recent discussions here, that is more than passing strange, I’d say.
http://www.gocomics.com/lay-lines
You must still be proud of him and sorry he did not get see you grow up and who you have become.
Yes, I am my father’s child, there is no doubt . I always wished to know him. Talking to the men who flew with him in Italy brought him to life for me for the first ti.e in my life. But I was always proud of him. My love of so many things comes from him.
Funny, I was thinking of my dad when I read Jack Hoover obit. my dad got his pilots license at 14 in North Carolina and flew crop duster and air show routines which would explain how he ended up in a reconuisance squadron.
My mother said all he ever wanted to do was fly either forI militany or civilian. He was so smart, graduated high school at 14 and dropped out of Wake Forest to enlist.
This just began playing https://youtu.be/O6MbPWzIFUk
And then this one followed it, my theme song
https://youtu.be/d32h0TuSgEY
And some girls really do…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0htPUtEg32Y
And some women do https://youtu.be/IYTSwGNLPsE
Hi, Trapper Jean!
Perhaps I should have gotten a Trigger rather than a Bullet…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I51JXpcLwk
I now have that” peaceful, easy feeling,” just voted.
It’s a girl in a flatbed truck slowing down to take a look at me. The Eagles “Take It Easy”
Yep, there it is now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-NH4CkPjFk
Ever been there? I used to have Arizona in my territory with three differing jobs.
On some of my runs from the LA area to Georgia I stopped at the Flying J in Winslow.
…GR 😉 I was once told I could be anything I wanted to be…totally missed out on this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7OpJAzQJyo
….slippen and sliden
updating my UTube….thought of you….
I have that cousin in Tuscon I need to visit one day. On the way to visit the one in SF. 🙂
I’ve been skimming through the newspapers that came while we were away and found this interesting tidbit (in case anyone outside of Florida thought I was exaggerating last month when I said how nice it was to get away from political ads for a few days): “A recent NBC report found that presidential campaigns are spending a fourth of all their money on TV ads right here in the Sunshine State.”
PBS and Turner Classic Movies are godsends!
Jackie, only if she is the one who wants to be my friend. Had enough of the own me, stone me ones back in the day.
Debbe 😉 A set of skates would have been just the thing to accessorize your orange string bikini. 😉
Ever see a movie titled “Boogie Nights”?
Or, R.A., my alternative method…watch nothing but sports on TV until at least mid-November.
Or turn it off entirely and if you don’t miss it for two years you will have missed the majority of the annoyance.
And you will be rid of another addiction in some cases.
Have I mentioned my butterfly garden? We have hundreds of butterflies of all varieties that swarm daily out in front yard where most of the blooming flowers are right now. It is like one that you’d often pay to enter where the butterflies land on you or near you, unafraid and fluttering.
That and birds and cats make yard so peaceful.
Gardening is the slowest of the art forms. You have to kneel and pray a lot as well, an act of religious faith to plant.
Watching World Series games now, but they will be over soon. The only football team I follow is sucking wind this year as, frankly, many of the other NFL teams are, and I appear not to be the only one with that opinion. Not too many weeks of college football left. Don’t watch basket games at all. Now you know why I wouldn’t have bought a TV to replace the one that quit on me.
Debbe 😉 Hippie chick music?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8lf7RLYIww
Who is it sending me music? Some one does. They come via email but no reply or name.
https://youtu.be/EtLVXBqfqBY