I didn’t update Tuesday, because I was traveling back from viewing the total eclipse with some friends. I won’t say a lot about that, because so much has already been said, but it was a very interesting experience. The weather in north central Tennessee was perfect, and I feel lucky to have seen the full effect. I will say that I am now an eclipse snob. I have known about the coming of this solar event for several years and long ago made plans to be in its direct path. What I did not know until recently was that my own hometown and surrounding area would experience something like 95% totality. I couldn’t help thinking, “I’m driving six hours for an additional five percent?!” However, when that sun winked out completely, as if a celestial switch had been thrown, I knew it was worth it. The difference was dramatic, and I’m going to rub it in with all my buddies who thought they saw the eclipse.
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Jackie, if you can’t find the remote there should be a power button on the side of the tv.
Reticulated giraffe and [I believe] Grant’s gazelles. Peace.
https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/african-animal-lookout-camera
My son is running a 10 mile race in Flint that is pretty noteworthy. We used to run it together when I was able to run and I miss it. He works for Ford and is running as part of a team. He is the #2 or #3 man. I plan to get up at 5:00 and ride up with him. They have a VIP area where I can wait at.
Last night he got home early and got in a run. He tried to tie his house key to the string on his shorts. When he got back to the house, the key was missing. He tried to stay calm, but he needed to pick up his son at daycare and the car keys were in the house. As he was moving, he felt something funny in a very private area. The key had slipped off and fell inside his shorts! He laughed as he never noticed it during the run.
What did the lion say to his wife? “While you’re up, get me a Grants.”
Anybody?
Peace,
Steve in Royal Oak, good thing that was not a new key with sharp edges. he would have noticed that sooner, though!
Mark, we have the remote and all the other stuff. We just haven’t felt the need to turn on a television!
Mark:
He might have run a bit quicker!
Reading posts from friends in Texas on hurricane plus lots of jokes and puns and funny messages from those cheering me up and making me laugh.
Thank god for Facebook and messenger. I could not post any of them here for fesr of offending others. We are as solemn as a church here and I have been in happier mortuaries. ????
Jackie can I continue to pray for you without offending you?
love the comics
hey! I did not think my first comment wold be on that cool! 😉
hey you might think my email and no website wold work on YouTube too? <3
Jackie, I never thought of these refugees from the Gulf Coast: https://consumerist.com/2017/08/25/heres-what-to-do-with-gators-displaced-by-hurricane-flooding/
Grant’s, dammit. Also, it’s ‘As long as you’re up …’
More than you wanted to know re dinosaur/alligator/bird classification, thanks to Mark’s stimulating me to browse.
http://users.tamuk.edu/kfjab02/dinos/VPDINOSAURS.htm
Don’t blame him; my bad.
Peace,
I love jokes and puns. I’m not very quick-witted. Somebody else will have to make them. I’ mm laugh.
I’ll laugh
It might be safe to go back into the water there, but not into their own lawns! They need to carry ball bats:
http://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Turkeys-Terrorize-Town-Attacking-Residents-of-Foxboro-Mass-392076881.html
So things are too solemn here?
From the Internet:
On their way to get married, a young Catholic couple is involved in a fatal car accident. The couple found themselves sitting outside the Pearly Gates waiting for St. Peter to process them into Heaven. While waiting, they began to wonder: Could they possibly get married in Heaven? When St. Peter showed up, they asked him. St. Peter said, “I don’t know. This is the first time anyone has asked. Let me go find out,'” and he left.
The couple sat and waited, and waited. Two months passed and the couple were still waiting. While waiting, they began to wonder what would happen if it didn’t work out; could you get a divorce in heaven?
After yet another month, St. Peter finally returned, looking somewhat bedraggled. “Yes,” he informed the couple, “You can get married in Heaven.” “Great!” said the couple, “But we were just wondering, what if things don’t work out? Could we also get a divorce in Heaven?” St. Peter, red-faced with anger, slammed his clipboard onto the ground. “What’s wrong?” asked the frightened couple. “OH, COME ON!,” St. Peter shouted, “It took me three months to find a priest up here! Do you have any idea how long it’ll take me to find a lawyer?”
I’d forgotten the joke, but remember the punch line. Probably was the same joke. Peace,
TruckerRon: Funny!
Very funny!
If that joke from Trucker doesn’t make Jackie laugh I don’t know what will. No wonder she feels depressed, with the hurricane and her medical problems too. Jackie, I sure wish Mindy from Indy and Debbie would write a lot more now on these pages. We all miss the dispatches from the hen house, and the convenience store! Debbie, we would all like to know more about how your father is doing.
If you guys can stand to hear about some really GOOD weather — Old Bear and his wife Ann have had spectacular nice days for their vacation in NH, Conn., and Maine. Everyone should be so lucky!
Hoping the hurricane isn’t as awful as they are predicting. I must tell you also that my grandson Jack is at Rice University in Houston and now I am all worried about him. Any advice from Jackie and other folks from Houston? Hope that John is OK at the concert tonight in Houston. Please let us know about it.
Speaking of good weather, since the eclipse we’ve had 2 more clear nights here in my town, making a total of 20 clear nights since March 22. I don’t count the ones we had up in Dillon MT since the wildfire smoke still made for an impenetrable night sky while we were there.
Concerts in Houston were cancelled per CNN and area declared evacuation along coastal area.
Rain is just starting in the Austin area, but no “solemnity” here. (that REALLy looks like it needs a vowel– Alex, I’d like to buy an I please?).
Maybe the betrothed couple would have done better to find a justice-of-the-peace or a ship captain?
There’s one Facebook meme about the hurricane evacuation… all the northbound Interstate lanes are packed, apparently slow-moving or stopped. There’s one lone car heading south on the other side…the caption, “Man, I forgot my phone charger!”
😀