Still running! I have to make an early run to the lumberyard this morning, but I wanted to keep things moving here. I’ve toyed with the idea of cloning myself, but I can’t help worry: what if instead of halving my pressures and problems, it doubled them? You know, the inevitable unforeseen consequence that has kept horror stories alive since Mary Shelley.
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I wished someone a “Happy Groundhog Day” on-line today, and they immediately sent this back. Probably the best laugh I’ve had in a while.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/90/e7/72/90e772fb1cfb25a7badf876c9a034156.jpg
I hope Jean sees it when she gets over being goofy from her procedure. 🙂
I have seen the lava pour like this from Kilauea but perhaps not this violently? In the 1960s she began to erupt again explosively. I happened to be in park. We were literally too close because they weren’t exactly expecting it.
But the close ocean lava was in small planes. The Royale Airlines belonged to company Mike worked for and they’d drop down low over waterfalls, lava, almost touching wheels to waves it sometimes seemed.
Ghost, two thumbs up for the Groundhog photo! domaucan1, don’t stop posting. We need an antidote.
Ha! http://www.grimmy.com/images/MGG_Archive/MGG_2017/MGG-2017-01-30.gif
And another: http://www.grimmy.com/images/MGG_Archive/MGG_2017/MGG-2017-01-22.gif
Jackie: ‘We didn’t know what ground hogs were in Mississippi Delta.’ That’s because they don’t [or didn’t] range all the way to the Gulf. Will try to remember to find current distribution online.
About verboten topics, esp. religion. See my last post, above, about the lava show. It asserts what most scientists consider likely facts about the physical universe. Some, of various sectarian persuasions [and a very few others], consider such assertions godless, false, demonic, atheistic, and worse[?], and label evolutionary biologists like me atheists. Sorry, if I run into some scientific info I consider of interest to us in the Village, I’m gonna* post it [*now in dictionary]. I will likely mention such things in my next sermon at BUMC.
Peace,
You are preaching to the choir. I have been an evolutionist all my life!
Some posters here some time ago sang a different tune; others may avoid comment. Half of polled Americans accept ‘alternative facts.’
Searched online: ‘Marmota monax geographic distribution.’ All sites with maps show them well inland from the Gulf. One simply colors every state they inhabit, incl. MS and AL, and is thus misleading. They might be in N. LA. Maybe I can zero in there.
Peace,
Jackie: Searched some more. Distrib. in AR is mostly in highlands, not coastal plain, but map in one article suggests there should be records from extreme NE TX, but TX doesn’t report any. Distrib. seems to have changed little since the ’50s. Peace,
The first ground hog I ever saw was on the Blue Ridge Parkway or in Virginia. We were driving in the famous red convertible with the top down and my cousin cried out “Look at that fat furry thing up on the side of the grass! Follow it!”
We were on a road with no traffic at all and a speed limit of thirty I think. He wanted a photo and that silly critter ran right alongside the car like he was racing us and winning. Cousin was hanging over side of car with camera as seat belts didn’t exist yet nor much concerns about kids falling out chasing a ground hog.
OK, I was a dubious character builder except two boys are lawyers and third a dentist and each has talked at length about my positive influence on their lives. He got his ground hog photos, I came across them in some old black and white five by three prints not long ago.
Only I knew it was a racing ground hog but I smiled because I could see it still. And smell the air and the ferns and trees after that late afternoon rain. The sun broke through the clouds and directly shown onto the golden buffed browns of his fur.
Jackie: Map at this site shows no suitable habitat in TX. Peace,
http://texasalmanac.com/topics/environment/physical-regions-texas
Saw mine all on East coast. Never saw one in South.
I date myself every day so what’s one more? I loved and still love “Stranger on the Shore.”
RIP Mr. Acker Belk.
Left off link.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=rJLJCctP6Rg
Jackie:
Love that tune – have the original LP
It is in my Requiem collection To be played at my wake (or whatever)
Jackie:
When you get stopped in Black Jack if you can’t sweet talk them;
Dazzle them with science–
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http://www.gocomics.com/muttandjeff
Here’s another I suspect you like Old Bear. It still makes me cry.
https://youtu.be/sGWs1HK8iDU
I have to take Black Jack to Tulsa tomorrow. I hope to leave early and take the scenic route along the Arkansas River. For one thing the roads may be secondary but they are way better than our primary highways which are awful.
Getting the tracking gps so if I drive down a ravine I can be found.
About tonight’s new A and J, when I was young and either just married or young and not yet married Mike and I went to New Orleans for a romantic weekend. In those days he’d let me eat whatever I liked. That night it was a muffelata sandwich. He didn’t like muffelatas and ate something.
Despite my being really hot in those days I almost ended up sleeping alone. I’d brought half my sandwich back to room, they were large. The sandwich ended up being put outside door and I ended up brushing my teeth a dozen times and scrubbing anything that had garlic on it.
A great Artist
Another of his greats
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3-IoylSOuc
en Deutsch:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1yl5lgMUYU
Progress at The WW&F
Click on right of pic. Some 1890 pix too.
https://www.facebook.com/147279126870/photos/pcb.10154482734611871/10154482726516871/?type=3&theater
Wow, the Village is quiet today. I hope everyone is well. Are we observing a moment of silence?
We’ve moved on to “The Run of Things”!