I scanned this old Sunday this morning, just for you. I drew a lot bigger back then! It took two passes on my 11X17 flat-bed scanner to get it all. That is the very reason I began drawing smaller, shortly after this cartoon appeared in 1995. It was about that time I started scanning the daily cartoons and digitally transmitting them to my editors in New York. I started drawing smaller so I could scan a cartoon in one pass of the scanner. It was sometime later before I began transmitting the Sunday cartoons, because they simply were too big to transmit by dial-up modem. As it was, I remember it would take 12 to 15 minutes to transmit six daily cartoons. Now, it takes about three seconds.
Forward to the Past
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314 responses to “Forward to the Past”
Yeah, Ghost, I have learned how to kill real snakes with a shovel or hoe since moving to OK. My gardening lady has killed a bunch of real ones in clearing the Back 40 this year, small copper heads mainly. The mulch mountain was full of them apparently which did not surprise me, they love it.
It is the ones one the floor in my bedroom or crawling across the bed that scare me. Thank God I do not drink or I’d have delirium tremors from hell!
Love you and by proxy your Mama too, so keep taking good care of her. All mine has is me, my husband and one granddaughter to keep her on path to 100. We figure great grandson at age two won’t be much benefit unless she becomes “Oldest Living American” and then he can take over with care!
Love, Jackie Monies
Good morning, Villagers! Such a great morning. It was in the sixties when I ran and I did ten miles from sheer exhilaration. I felt great till The Boss Of My Life Caught me liming, measured my knee, and said no run for me tomorrow. 🙁 Patients are nutso this morning. “What can we do for you this morning?” “A vending machine fell on me and I want her to look at my back.” Uh, okay
Durn, those Dark Side people ARE getting better Ghost! It is you being the early and first poster to set the standards probably.
JJ has totally nailed the restaurant business (and mom and pop motels) from the beginning, as he has sailing, boats, gardening and many, many other topics.
If people don’t “get it” that is their loss.
Love, Jackie
Lily, don’t you know that studies show that falling vending machines are a leading cause of requests for pain meds?
A nurse who worked in Urology told me of the patient who brought into the clinic a kidney stone she had passed as proof she needed a refill for hydrocodone. The stone analysis results came back from the lab as basically “parking lot gravel”.
Debbe – Blacklight is settling just fine. She has turned into the biggest kitty busybody! The last couple years at the apartment, the windows held no interest for her. Once she got accustomed to being so close to the activity, she spends most of her time on the porch, nose pressed to the glass, watching the world go by. I am slowly making headway in the house. And this weather is perfect. No warmer and no colder. I wish.
One of these days, I will have to get the laptop on in time to watch OF, neither of my handheld device do flash.
Jackie – Snakes are fine. Spiders… not so much. This year has been a banner year for spiders too. My store is full of them. My clerk found one on her head! I would not have survived the encounter. Along with the questionable wiring, leaking roof, corporate doesn’t appear to be too concerned with them. (Until one finds its way into a customer’s bag, I’ll bet.) Then again, my district has several managers ready to retire, one who may or may not have quit, and no one ready to jump in. Would not be surprised to be moved again. Mercifully, I was on vacation the week the last manager quit. Didn’t really want to drive an hour to work every day.
Speaking of pain meds, my Mom has already taken herself off the Norco she was prescribed for pain related to her lung problem, which were definitely affecting her memory and cognitive functions adversely. So, “Yay, radiation therapy!” And, “Yay, getting my mama back!”
Forecast for today here calls for a high in the mid-80’s, which is seasonable for us. No big deal for those in you more northerly climes, I’m sure, but it will be the first day this week our high hasn’t bumped 100. I may even go to the range this afternoon and ventilate some targets. Take that, you wasically paper wabbit!
Just had an automobile video ad pop up on my computer. Apparently they now build cars with “driving aids” for careless, clueless, distracted, oblivious, driving-around-with-their-heads-up-and-locked drivers. About time, I’d say.
Ghost: We had one of those who claimed to pass a stone in the hospital for another thing. Analysis showed “chewing gum and dirt.” One problem these fakers have is they don’t realize how small real kidney stones are. Oh, and I glanced at The Dark Side, saw somebody had commented, “Take her skinny dipping Gene,” muttered a bad word, and saw it was you. So, it you felt your ears tingling five minutes ago, you’ll know why 😛
Just put it on cruise control while you play games on your new Apple Widget.
Old Faithful Geyser is predicted to erupt at 12:24pm ± 10 minutes Mountain Time [1324 CDT], during my nap.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Husband came back from urologist visit yesterday, after x-ray, ultrasound and two office visits in one day he has two stones stuck too large to pass. Has to go next month and have them crushed to pass. He has NEVER taken pain meds unless in surgery in hospital!
If you want to see bogus medical claims, go be a workmen’s compensation adjudicator! It is a way of life for many.
Mindy, the convenience store management/owner concern level seems low nationwide, honey! Did I tell you about years ago when the hurricane blew out all the walkway roofing, allowing the big rats to jump out of attic areas of the one in our strip shopping center? We had wrapped a wedding gift for customer, one flung himself out of attic and bounced off the big package. She never saw it!
Anyway, that same strip center is still there 25 years later with a convenience store in same location and I’ll bet same sanitation level or worse!
Love, Jackie
OF about to blow!
There she blows.
Grr, stupid Chrome was loading with the bookmarks too far to the right and I had to change the resolution to enlarge the page and get at my bookmarks. I hate my laptop.
Right now, Jackie, I have a bladder stone and it’s not getting broken up by a laser for several weeks. At 3 cm, they’re not asking me to pass it, but there are no symptoms, so no hurry to remove it. It did cause a rather nasty infection, but as long as I keep properly hydrated, that shouldn’t be a problem in the short run.
Lily: Heh. I just thought it was getting a little too serious over there on TDS. And was the bad word related to sex, ancestry or an anatomical feature? 🙂
Jackie, per a urologist I know, the magic number for a passable vs. non-passable kidney stone seems to be 5mm. But that’s not carved in stone, so to speak.
I married kidney stones! Mike has had since a teen, has two or three different kinds, his mom and dad had, now both our children have them, my one son in law does, so I figure grandkids will be blessed. I do NOT have them, something I ascribe to the drinking of large amounts of nonsweet iced tea with about half a lemon or lime, all day long.
It has of course made me wonder if our diets have done this, along with maybe bad DNA? I have been giving gout advice to gardener, who has it (beer drinker and eater of lots of things like sardines, processed meats, etc.) but that is nothing my husband does/did. Same things affect kidney stones with purine high foods and beer, alcohol. Moderate amounts of wine are OK but high fat cheeses, dairy, beef, bacon, sausage, all that kind of stuff are bad.
Only bad veggie I know of is asparagus and mushrooms for purines. I sent gardener a big plate of fresh fruit, potato salad, lettuce and tomato salad and low fat smoked turkey and provolone hoagie.
(I am baby sitting grandson, so time on my hands here.)
LOVE, Jackie
Jackie, The Man In My Life had a terrible gouty attack after making a pot of beans and eating too many of them. Dry beans are a precipitator of gouty attacks. Poor baby, I had to give him two shots of Decadron to keep him on his feet. Like he says, gout is funny only if you don’t have it. (Mea culpa, I gave him a “gout stool” for Christmas one year. Well, he is so hard to buy for!) Milton said that if it were not for gout, his blindness would have been bearable. Great picture by Gilray showing podagra : http://s1306.photobucket.com/user/Lilyblack1/media/GoutthePatriciansMalady_zpsa680f407.jpg.html
Meat, eggs, fish–in other words, animal proteins–are the biggies for purines. Were the beans seasoned with animal fat?
My personal theory is that most everyone produces kidney stones, but a high liquid intake can help flush them out before they become troublesome or even noticeable. Avoiding spinach helps prevent formation of calcium oxalate stones. Wish I’d known that when I was a kid, when my Mom was making me eat it. Of course, now I like it. 🙂
Ghost: JUst a tiny bit. Anyway, animal fat doesn’t have purines in it, just the proteins 😛 . Look it up. Dried beans are a known precipitator of gouty attacks
I didn’t mean “seasoned with lard”, I meant “seasoned with evil-devil-bacon”. I’d think there’d be some protein in it somewhere. 🙂
From http://www.whfoods.com. If it’s on the InterWebNet, it must be true. 😀
“Recent research by Choi and others has shown that the impact of plant purines on gout risk is very different from the impact of animal purines, and that within the animal food family, purines from meat and fish act very differently than purines from dairy. Choi’s work has demonstrated that purines from meat and fish clearly increase our risk of gout, while purines from vegetables fail to change our risk. Dairy foods (which can contain purines) actually appear to lower our risk of gout. In summary, this epidemiological research (on tens of thousands of men and women) makes it clear that all purine-containing foods are not the same, and that plant purines are far safer than meat and fish purines in terms of gout risk.”
“Far safer,” meaning, “not safe” There was no bacon in those beans, (or in our house at all, since I have lived here – six years) just a few bits of boudin sausage. See here: http://www.nutrition.com.sg/atd/atdgout.asp
Oh, this is funny, must email it to my dad: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153284861454119&set=gm.10152327435895334&type=1&theater
Having just researched gout diet/precipitators for gardener, the conclusion I came to was a vegetarian/fruitarian diet high in whole grains, low fat except for good fats like avocado, olive oil was best thing. I gave her the Mayo advice with 2-3 oz. of animal protein, like chicken, turkey per meal and she nearly fainted.
Dr. Johnson and his gout was my initial introduction to the disease, as Boswell documented. I think he was addicted to oysters?
While visiting the DuPont homes, one of the owners, builders, had a gout chair and stool and a small room he stayed in and looked out onto his gardens from. Or he went by carriage to view estate.
I didn’t see any early wheel chair around but no one mentioned any.
Of course, in historic days everyone drank beer, even children. In fact, we visited my SIL’s grandmother in PA and she was from family of 12 living children, told us they could not afford milk so all children drank beer, once weaned from mother. I do believe her!
I usually drink a gallon to two gallons of liquid per day, so those stones don’t have much of a chance!
Love, Jackie
*passes on the drinks a gallon a day comment- who needs trouble?* 😛