Summer continues, but here is an old A&J from 2009. At least the door is open, and the lights are on.
At Your Service
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162 responses to “At Your Service”
Good morning Villagers….
TR and cXp, from what I’ve been reading, prognosis is grim.
Saw some early pics of John McCain in his youth…nice, very nice looking young man. Proud to have him served our country.
Llee, sorry to have read about your brother, prayers for you and all family……….Amen.
Hey, Jackie and GR….how long do you want to play this game…pulled this up: https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/weirdest-town-names-in-united-states
Can’t believe there’s a Ding Dong, Texas 🙂
later…..
SMIGZ ???????
Debbe: https://thoughtcatalog.com/michael-koh/2014/01/52-weird-names-of-places-in-the-united-states-that-you-just-cant-believe-are-real/
Alabama has a good selection of odd ones too: http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2014/01/names_of_30_alabama_towns_that.html
Louisiana weirdest name was Waterproof? There are ONLY three towns in parish I grew up in on family cotton plantation: Newellton (where I went to school, legal address), the parish courthouse in St. Joseph and Waterproof.
Waterproof is smallest but all are small. Name was supposed to be because it didn’t flood from Mississippi river.
Have been through Okay, Oklahoma.
In none of my three marriages would that door to the bathroom have been shut. Ajar, I suppose, but not shut.
I have driven by Climax Michigan. We also have Paradise MI and Hell MI.
THanks folks. Thanks for the link, MArk. I knew it was out there but lost it. 🙂 After second surgery in the wee hours of the morning, sounds ok. Stabilized. Damage to upper neck vertabrae (?) and bleeding stopped/corrected. He got out of the plane on his own, once some wreckage had been cleared. He’s at a good trauma hospital and outlook right now is good but long haul ahead of him. Dr. will be back on rounds this morning and then we’ll hear more after.
I can almost imagine him trying to avoid the line “shoot shoot shoot…don’t mess up this plane”
Boss got hotel rooms for Allison/family as well as him&Wife across from hospital. Sounds like a good guy.
Thanks for the support, folks.
Llee
Prayers
Thanks for the update Llee. Glad to hear his boss is taking care of things, good for him.
You’re welcome for the link. I did quick search and got several returns last night.
We talk about “snail mail” but it looks like UPS is in real competition for that title:
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=45093340&nid=148&title=at-last-man-receives-package-more-than-a-decade-later
In the summer of 1971 I went on a tour with Young Americans in Concert in which I played bass clarinet both in the symphonic band and the orchestra. I faithfully mailed a post card or letter home (paying for air mail) from each hotel we stayed in overnight. The last to make it home, from Rome, arrived in March of the following year.
The so-called “shark cam” system off NC is having work done by a crew of at least 2 people; you can watch them do their thing and wonder exactly what that “thing” is.
Yes, now, even as I type.
I have never seen so many gazillions of small fish there; maybe the fish feel safe from predation with two such larger individuals present – who are not being predatory.
It strikes me that I have never seen a crab at the shark cam site; are crabs too smart to be out in clear view? No doubt some permanently predatory piscivores would expand their menus and consider cunning, crafty, cancrinoid critters crunchy!
curmudgeonly, that’s a lot of alliteration there. Did you strain yourself?
I’ve been watching the shark cam too. The number of fish today is truly amazing, as is their disregard toward the divers. They also didn’t seem disturbed earlier when a shark swam through their midst. The movement is mesmerizing.
cx-p: I’ve seen lobsters, the Caribbean spiny variety, but not crabs and they’re not included on the fish/non-fish ID guide (link above the comments on that page). Maybe it’s too deep for them.
For anyone who’d like to join the watch party, here’s the address –
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/shark-cam
Rumor has it the divers were adding a light to the cam area.
Mark – not really! I even left off “probably” & “certain”, though the last has an initial “s” sound.
Ruth Anne, some crabs are found thousands of feet down, and this platform is in shallow water – when the camera points upward, the sun’s illumination is obvious. However, I don’t have any better idea….
We plan on studying some sea life tonight, too…up close and personal at a Louisiana seafood restaurant.
Overheard in the vehicle yesterday:
Ghost: “I have no clue what that highway crew was doing to the closed lane of that bridge.”
Jackie: “They’re DOT; they probably don’t either.”
Ghost: “Heh; probably not. ‘Grady, round up a crew; pick out a random Highway 9 bridge in McIntosh County; and spray some a that green stuff that just came in on it.’ ‘Well, awrite then, boss; I’ll do ‘er.’”
We’ve had some mystery bugs lately. Sometimes they’ve been in the house but they don’t seem to bother anything. Yesterday I was able to take a picture of one outside and then used Google Image search to identify it. We have a new friend!
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/urban/roaches/ensign_wasp.htm
We had a great time visiting with my cousins at an old time seafood restaurant and tavern. I had not been there since I left college in about 1963 I think. Nothing had changed in 54 years. Same staff I think.
Busy day tomorrow.
PA has a lot weirder names than Coupon
Moosup does not sound weird – but then I grew up just down the road
Woodstock CT has Stogie Hollow which is a district like Coupon.
Also there is Indian Neck & Slaughter Beach
Little Canada in MN is not strange not when there is cities called Coon Rapids &
Sleepy Eye & Welcome & Hayfield
It looks like they had an Atlas with a limited number of named in the index
Ruth Anne, that sounds like something FL really needs. Thanks for the fascinating information.