This old Sunday has run here before, but that was a few years ago. And I like it. There is big news today in my old hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Harper Lee’s new old novel “Go Set a Watchman” is being released. Apparently, a lot of people already are restless, because the real-life Atticus Finch, Lee’s father, wasn’t Gregory Peck after all. I am looking forward to reading the book, and I’m reserving judgment until then. Things have been kind of slow around the Web site this summer, but be sure to check in next week. Arlo & Janis turns 30 on July 29, and I expect we’ll have a modest party. And did I mention it’s hot?
In the Footsteps of Little Billy
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196 responses to “In the Footsteps of Little Billy”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/16/bear-pies-colorado-bakery
Have to agree with the bear…I don’t eat pie made from mal-colored celery, either.
Of all the fruit pies, I prefer strawberry-rhubarb myself.
Food fight! 🙂
Yes. My mother had most of hers removed when I was a preschooler and had to take thyroid supplements for the rest of her life. I know that there are some nasty side effects if you don’t, but my understanding is that it takes a while for them to show up, and Mom never had any. Don’t worry, it’s just one more pill to get in the habit of taking every day.
My boss had his thyroid removed the last week of May. He was back to work a few weeks later. So far he’s doing okay, but projecting his voice his still pretty hard. He’s hoping the gravelly voice hangs around so he can join an Allman Brothers tribute band and quit the day job. Silver linings, I guess.
Had to go in an hour earlier than planned today – all because of a meatball sandwich. (Long story.) Worked eleven hours, came home, and mowed the lawn – with my “no battery” lawn mower, as my neighbor’s young daughter calls it. She is amazed by the mower that “doesnt make noise, and doesn’t take “batteries” (Isn’t that what powers everything in a small child’s world? 🙂 ) Anyhow, 4am, was a long time ago. I’m tired. Night all!
PS – Debbe – A big hug for you!
GR6,
Thanks again for a great memory about Harry Chapin. He was one of my favorites. I almost cried when he was killed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. His “Cat in the Cradle” is a real classic.
Blessings and prayers for everyone.
Trucker: Friend and former student had hers removed around age 30, cancer if I remember, has taken thyroid supplements ever since, seem to be no obvious ill effects. She and husband live in Eau Claire, WI, so see them irregularly. Near retirement if not already. One initial complication; she needed complete removal and one of the 4 parathyroid glands was too imbedded in the thyroid. Parathyroid hormone is crucial to life; she went into parathyroid shock but came out and does fine with only 3 parathyroids. I expect your surgeons know of the potential problem; also, thyroidectomy techniques may have improved over the decades.
Bear: Thanks. Local dictionary apparently thinks parathyroid is only an adjective so rejected parathyroids. It now knows better.
Peace, emb
TruckerRon: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002933.htm
Debbe 😉 I didn’t plan to play so much “dead rockers’ music”, but it’s just worked out that way lately. And in that case, I can’t leave out another member of The 27 Club, the Lizard King.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deB_u-to-IE
Debbe 😉 A rare double play, because both songs are classic Morrison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv8GW1GaoIc
Thanks for the link to the article, Mark, and for the experiences shared. My wife is calmer about it all than I am… and hoping life afterwards will be better. The thyroid has to go… it’s alternately dumping too little and too much hormone, making her miserable. There probably is at least one cancerous nodule amongst the 10 that showed up on the echo.
TruckerRon, You are welcome. Prayers for the best possible outcome. Thyroid replacement is pretty cheap with effective generics and pills are small so post-op routine should be easy to follow.
I have stones in the salivary glands and have to take thyroid medication also. Unhappy side effect, at age 66 my hair is beginning to thin a little on top. Just when I thought I would never lose it!
Jerry
It is that you are getting too tall for your hair follicles
Jerry
Hope you have not reached this stage
http://www.gocomics.com/dilbert-classics/2015/07/09
and the next one.
Good morning Villagers…
Old Bear, that is too funny…..both comments 🙂
My Dad, for years and years, has combed his hair over his bald spot. I get a chuckle when the wind blows….and there’s that bald spot.
Indy Mindy…I don’t know how you do it. And then to go home and mow, the humidity is killing me. Don’t forget to hydrate 🙂
Thanks all for the hugs and prayers, and today is PAYDAY. I somehow suspect Ian will be finding a way to get his paycheck. I think I will have The Boss hold on to it. I spoke to The Boss yesterday regarding Ian’s predicament. he said..”let him sit there and do some thinking, heh, he could have got up early and started walking home” (E’ville is like 80 miles SE of us), I laughed, and told him that Ian could even get a piece of cardboard and write ‘JASPER” on it. So today, I am going to make sure his life insurance is paid up….
TR, my first cousin had her thyroid removed many years ago. She takes thyroid pills, and is doing just fine. Sorry, I can’t recall details, but it looks as though Mark (the link man 🙂 has come through again…you are good Mark, and I mean that as a compliment.
gotta ya’ll have a bless day
GR 😉 here’s one you don’t hear too often….and I think your comment regarding Ian is spot on. He hates the chicken house, McDonald’s pays more than what The Boss does, but The Boss says you know what you are getting into when you start working for him.
OH, back to the tune….enjoy!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3Ja7wDuY9o
🙂 the boys and I were just talking yesterday about how drunks talk…like “I swear to officer, God I’m not drunk”
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8451354368/h3D62BF56/
Just entered today’s high and the relative humidity…it’s supposed to be 93 degrees and if the relative humidity stays at 82 percent…it will feel like 127 degrees to the body:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/epz/?n=wxcalc_heatindex
..and Denise, those two boys left work yesterday to put up hay….I’m not going to push them much today. Just want to get that plastic egg in, I put out a colored, plastic Easter egg at the back of the belts (I put two out), and when that egg comes in, I have pulled in that day’s lay.
TR, you may know this already… beware sun. Make sure she wears hat and and all the stuff one should do but often disregards. After surgery (or maybe it is the replacement pills) one is very sensistive to sun/heat. Other than that it isn’t too bad a process.
Jimmy! 🙂
What a great bear story, sand!
Mindy, I will henceforward regard meatball sandwiches as suspect.
Llee, thank you for the information on sun/heat and thyroid replacement medication. I have been on the med for about 25 years and don’t tolerate high temps well (though, honestly, didn’t like hot weather much before that). I never suspected there might be a link. I’ll have to do some research. (Still have my thyroid, it just doesn’t produce much hormone.)
Debbe, I’m grinning, thinking of you watching for those colored plastic Easter eggs! It sounds like those two boys are are doing some responsible growing up…I bet it has something to do with your influence on them.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/the-100-most-used-emojis/?ex_cid=538twitter
Speaking of plastic eggs, whatever happened to the ones that came with pantyhose in them? Which always struck me as rather odd, for some reason.
Have I mentioned that I consider pantyhose to be an abomination before God and man? I believe that I have.
TIP is strange:
http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/
Ghost: Wife wore pantyhose. What’s wrong w/ them?
Peace, emb