I’ve been so busy catching up after the New England foray, that I haven’t had a chance to update for days. When I said things would get back to normal around here, that isn’t exactly what I meant. And then there was the holiday, etc. Anyway, Tuesday always is a good reset day at arloandjanis.com. Here’s a late Labor Day-weekend cartoon from 2009. It accurately reflects how Labor Day was around here. I did get out Monday evening on a local lake after the craziness had subsided, and I saw a bald eagle. Was I ever angry! I’d just spent a lot of money and trouble to get to Maine, where I saw eagles, and here was one in my own county. I felt cheated.
103 responses to “Post Labor Day”
That is the best catching up to do. We went to the Ford Museum in Dearborn, which I had not been to in about 15 years. They had a special Beatle exhibit which was OK, but had articles that were not genuinely theirs . For example, they showed guitars which were the same model, but not the actual ones used by the Fab Five. They did have the chair (actually a rocker) that Lincoln was shot it in as well as the vehicles that Kennedy and Reagan were shot. Fortunately the admission was a gift as the price was surprisingly high.
catching up on funnies….wanted to share this one 🙂
http://www.gocomics.com/bc/2016/08/22#mutable_1480361
We are getting more bald eagles around here, too. My wife went on an Alaskan cruise in July, and called me one day saying she was watching a bald eagle fly around the ship. I told her we could go to one of the local lakes here, and possibly see eagles. She wasn’t impressed.
We have lots of eagles on Lake Eufaula, you can see dozens circling the high cliff’s down toward dam where they build nests , they fish in the river as it comes out of dam back into the Canadian River, so lots of them flying and dive off those cliffs.
Only Native Americans can own the feathers so you can’t pick up any you see on ground.
Best eagle viewing is on water from boats.
Aside, why does spellchecker take a perfectly typed correct word and change it to something entirely different and nonsensical? I used to be a proof reader, paid.
To show it’s doing something?
Have decided to leaverify boat in Port Townsend for some necessary modifications and repairs. This is town full of repairmen.
I will drive back sans boat in truck. Come back later to retrieve her. Stopping in Golden, CO at Sage Marine to get my motor mount I am buying. More scenic route home@
Steve from RO, MI – I just mentioned this weekend to my wife that we need to go to the Ford museum. I haven’t been since 1979. Regarding the Fab 5 Beatles, are you including Best or Sutcliffe (or someone else)?
Bob:
Sorry, I was thinking of one of favorites, Jeff Lynne of ELO, who produced the Beatles Anthology in the 1990’s and we joked that it was the Fab Five. Best and Sutcliffe were Beatles before they were Fab (a George Harrison tune that Jeff Lynne produced!)
Jackie, have you considered hiring a transport service to return Stella to OK? For what fuel, food and hotels are costing you, it might not be much more and would save you having to drive back to WA again this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsyfvYyxjp8
Steve from Royal Oak, MI, enjoy.
The Henry Ford Museum has always been a favorite spot for me. I hope to get to the Smithsonian one day (fingers crossed).
Smithsonian is neat, and perhaps unique in that it is free. Many once were. Peace,
Jackie posted a picture a lot like this a few days ago. Maybe it’s different in Texas, but Florida snakes are not poisonous – they’re all safe to eat. Several of them are quite venomous however, so they’re probably not worth the trouble.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207571145700082&l=443ad839b8
Grr … thought I had the picture set to Public. I’ll try to fix it later. We’re off to the local Irish pub in Richmond Hill, GA, now.
George Martin was the real 5th Beatle- his work in the production booth complimented and completed the visionary songwriting of Paul and John.
Ruth Anne, I thought FL had several poisonous snakes such as 3 different rattlers, cottonmouths, and corals.
Or was your usage of “poisonous” meant solely with reference to eating their meat?
The Smithsonian is like a monster set of buildings, don’t think I will ever get through all of them.
Why did the spell checker change the spelling? This could be an entire new joke class.
“Because it was autocorrect.” 😉
Still recovering from the London Loonathon. She leaves no passageway unexplored and views sleep as a nonessential.
Going BACK to Port Townsend is one of the attractions of leaVing her there! No way would I miss that. I like PT so much I hate to leave and had considered living there part of year
Oddly the journey to me is as important as the destination or the acquisition of something.. Stella is just my ticket to the Chocolate Factory
God bless us every one.
If you don’t eat your meat then you can’t have any pudding. The Ford museum was a little bit of a disappointment to me. They have room for so much more. I would love to see an eagle but I’ve never seen one. Depending on the election I may be like Ben and vote for the turkey.
Jerry in FL, which turkey?
C e-p: I was always told that “poisonous” refers to something that is dangerous to ingest or perhaps to touch. “Venomous” refers to a creature whose bite injects venom (duh), which is commonly referred to as poison and thus the confusion. I expect we might hear a better explanation from a biologist.
Still trying to create a visible link to the photo.
See if this works. FB can be so annoying!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207572343210019&set=a.1115308686264.2017232.1333360791&type=3&theater#