This is my first ever post from a phone! A borrowed phone at that. I am unexpectedly incommunicado. I will be back early next week when we will discuss progress of the book. Which there is. Progress, I mean. Meanwhile, this post will keep the lights on.
“Ah’ll be bahk.”
By Jimmy Johnson
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154 responses to ““Ah’ll be bahk.””
Thanks Jimmy.
I’m answering via phone. Can’t wait for the book!
So are you busy washing dishes at Gene’s?
Still in bed with Dickens. Time to drag out and take my meds and iced tea.
Ghost is up at computer trying to get into email from plastic surgeon about my breast reconstruction. It’s pages long but neither of us can open it, much less fill it out.
A voice from the ether!!!!! Hope all is well JJ, bring back a souvenir or it didn’t happen. Take care.
Per Dictionary.com…
incommunicado
adjective
1. not able, wanting, or allowed to communicate with other people.
“They were separated and detained incommunicado.”
synonyms: isolated, out of reach/touch, sequestered, unreachable, secluded
“He has been held incommunicado in a South Carolina navy brig.”
OK, Jimmy, care to explain why your are being held in a South Carolina navy brig? And since when does South Carolina have its own navy?
Ghost, maybe it’s a Cajun Navy brig. I had joked on the A&J fans facebook page that maybe Jimmy was running a rescue boat in Houston. Jimmy being the kind of guy he is, that may be nearer to truth than a joke?
Jackie, here’s a gift you could give Ghost: https://www.amazon.com/Halloween-Couples-Hes-My-T-Shirt/dp/B074DN9H4C
It did occur to me that Jimmy might be helping with Harvey or his church might be.
Ghost
During the Revolution each Colony had its own Navy.
Mostly Privateers.
It is OB’s brother that needs the prayers (We all do, but he more than most just now).
( And don’t forget Jackie )
Yes, prayers for OB’s brother. I’ll simply tack them onto the ones I saying for Jackie.
Could Arlo and Janis build in a swamp? Sure they could. Washington DC was built in a swamp and now it’s…well, never mind.
On the bright side, it seems remote enough that Janis could work on her allover tan in between skinny-dips.
For a reasonable offer, we have swamp land for sale.
Houston flooded and Katia, instead of going into Mexico, is moving to the east. Irma has 185 mph winds and is headed for south Florida with Hurricane Jose right behind it. People of south Florida assume the crash position and pucker up!
Jerry: Have you noticed that at least one of the models has Irma coming on shore right about at Mar-a-Lago?
Ghost and OB: Since the 1860s? Which state was involved in the Monitor/Merrimac fray? Peace,
Virginia, I presume.
There are 4 Virginias in Dad’s side of my family [Aunt Budge, Ginger, and Sue: one solution to multiple name mania], + one imported: half-bro Bill’s wife.
Peace,
Ruth Anne, no I had not. That means there’s a possibility that it could be blown back out to sea, but the hot air could also cause further strengthening.
I’ve followed the forecast conditions and projected tracks of a lot of hurricanes in my time, but, as I remarked to Jackie earlier today, I don’t recall any with an outlook that so consistently became direr with each forecast update than that of Irma. Of course, whether or not it will live up to its ominous potential will be another story. I’m not an alarmist, but I fear it may.
As I mentioned last week, Jackie and I spent part of Labor Day volunteering to assist at the Tulsa end of the Great Raft Race on the Arkansas River between Sand Springs and Tulsa.
http://www.newson6.com/story/36287282/tulsas-great-raft-race-continues-growth-in-third-year
The format had changed since Jackie worked it in 2015. Rather than checking in the rafters, we were set up inside the main gate checking in the other volunteers and dispatching them all over the river park to the various attractions and venues. Sort of like their “war room”, so it was not dull even though I didn’t get to see any damp and tipsy bikini babes landing their rafts.
Besides, most of the in-and-out foot traffic went right past our tent, and many of the young ladies who arrived were wearing cutoffs and tank tops. And a number of them didn’t bother to re-don them before leaving wearing just their bikinis. Also, there were more sundresses in evidence than I’ve seen since arriving in Oklahoma. It was a bit windy, and the stiff breeze caused some interesting ascents of several already high sundress hems. It was enough to make Ghost’s heart go pitty-pat. Plus I got one of the neat t-shirts issued to the volunteers.
The strangest part had to be seeing a guy with a dog that appeared to be an exact one-half scale model of Dickens. It was like seeing the canine version of Dr. Evil and Mini-Me.
Jimmy:
I assume that you don’t have a smartphone.
Myself, I have deliberately stuck with my seven-year-old dumbphone for a variety of reasons.
This pic from the Tulsa World of a raft having water balloons tossed at it from a bridge seems fairly typical of the entrants.
https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/tulsaworld.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/6/d1/6d1196d5-45a5-5ed0-b3e9-f9b9a2350f87/59ada150c5e00.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C771
For about 5 minutes I just watched a live cam from in front of Sloppy Joe’s in downtown Key West. I saw a total of 5 people, all on foot except for one scooter. It is calm and not raining, but most of the people seem to have used their heads for something other than a whiskey decanter and hit the road.
Not to make light, but I suppose if one does not like one or more of the forecast tracks of Irma, one may choose another one. (One of them goes just about over where all my stuff I didn’t bring to OK is.)
http://gunfreezone.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Hurricane-Irma-Saturation.jpg
Then there’s this map (if I can get it to work)