(UPDATE: It is Sunday, the last day of the Boston Comic Con. I hadn’t meant to go dark the past few days, but I’ve hardly had a spare moment. In fact, I think the past month or so possibly has been the busiest of my life! That’s not a bad thing, and I’m not complaining, but I’m ready to slow down. As for BCC, I know you expected more in thee way of live coverage, but I will at least recap it for you in the coming days. I do want to say, I have met some wonderful fans from the Boston area, and I thank each of them for coming out. The Comic Con isn’t necessarily the easiest ground to navigate!)
Things are about to get a little crazy around here. Delta permitting, I will leave for Beantown tomorrow morning, where I will be on exhibit at Boston Comic Con Friday-Sunday. I know it costs to get in (I don’t get a cut of that; I’d let my readers in free if I could.), but I hope some of you in the Boston area will come by and see me at table D915. Autographs and handshakes will be free. I ship more books to Massachusetts than any other state, and I’m looking forward to meeting some of you. Also, I will be in Burlington, VT, two weekends later for the Vermont Comic Con. This is an experiment for me. I expect to be the old geezer in the corner fielding questions such as, “Is that strip still around?” It’s true, I’m in the corner, the southeast corner. I don’t know how much time I’ll have, but I definitely plan to send you updates here.
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Now Jimmy has about 2% as many photos on-line as the notoriously private J.D. Salinger. (I did the math.) Of course, Jimmy is still alive, so he’s got that going for him.
Dickens the Adventure Dog is wearing himself to a nub running defense against the Ghost kitten. My very senior black and white kitler cat Skipper is hissing too. He and Dickens have lived together in peace for over six years.
This is a fearless terror.
Ghost, you never answered if you flew the Tomcats?
Chinese laundry is back operating today and I just put clean sheets, comforters, etc. For benefit of the critters and me, purples and yellows. Working on uncluttering house a tad. May take more than a tad.
I’ve been in this house for a little over a year so I should probably start unpacking sometime soon. Maybe week after next.
Jerry, I just saw funniest quote, “Why is it the trip that took you three hours to pack for takes three months to unpack? ”
I am unpacking my suitcase from that long trip to Canada as we speak. Don’t even remember the clothes.
You are going to have Christmas every day.
I’m going to organize my closet someday soon. I have about 100 shirts.
Brother and family is coming so have to pack up clutter.
Problem is I have not unpacked clutter from when my cousin
visited 20 years ago.
are coming
I have two large warehouses. One holds just boats.
Second one holds all the clutter and stuff we have removed from house and various places. Cooler weather we begin unpacking the clutter and I donate or hold garage sale. I hate garage sales. So we will donate to God’s Helping Hands no doubt.
I usually offer to employees and they haul it to the donation center. These are the ladies who had deer jump through window of shop and destroyed. They prayed to God for help and I showed up with a half dozen truckloads. They told me this after I showed up several times with truck full for about fourth time.
I am waiting for cooler weather and their next need of a miracle
Jackie, I volunteer to “help” you with the warehouse full of boats… ??????????????????
Rusty
Sorry, emojis doycome through. That should be 😉
Rusty
Jackie, F-14 Tomcat = US Navy fighter.
I can’t say much about unpacking. Remember, I’m the one that just unpacked all the “new” 10-year-old t-shirts.
Debbe 😉 “Southern”…it says so right in the title. Dang, I’m gonna have to boil some shrimp this weekend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpKFRP05Po4
GM Debbe
“Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.”
Christopher Hitchens
Well, please forgive my ignorance of fighter planes Ghost. You can tell my experience consisted of wearing the tee shirt.
Dickens is defending his territory. Lil Ghost was cuddled against my hip and Dickens came over top doing his best imitation of a cat eating grizzly. Dickens is now on that hip and he NEVER sleeps there.
Are any of the Village in the rain deluge area? Weather news about Louisiana and Mississippi was devastating and it is supposed to move this way.
Good morning Villagers….
Llee, thank you. I try to make my slumps short lived….just been really worried about my sister. But it is in His hands and prayers help. Pray your pain is short lived too.
We’re supposed to get rain the next three days with cooler temps too….yeah
Sandcastler…love that quote, and I believe in pixie dust too 🙂
Old Bear, sometimes I get in trouble when I do think for myself…especially when I’m right all the time 🙂
domaucan….happy trails….
I like the idea of GR having a spirit animal….clever Jackie. And just how are your chickens doing?
Still sending prayers to Mark. Jackie, who is taking care of his Mother?
Happy Caturday
GR 😉 you sure have introduced me to a lot of country that I’d not heard of before….but, I’m open to all and the party never ends….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3zSp_uhjcI
yup, that could hurt….
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Debbe, Marks mom is home alone with a neighbor checking on her and a visiting nurse. His mom is a heavy smoker, one right behind the other and his brother cannot deal with it so he won’t take her to his house. I told Mark, who does not smoke, that the second hand smoke will hurt his own recovery. You can tell I am not sympathetic to smokers.
I love the Highwaymen. I had never heard that song. but I can see that I have another cd to order. Stupid car makers are not putting cd players in cars now. Well I will have one installed when I get to that point or I’ll not buy another new car. Debbe, my wife would not listen to anything slightly country, but now she listens to Gorge Jones and others. By the way, you should watch the video of his funeral. I know that sounds strange, but true. Also, BTW, I’m not complaining that I have too much stuff. I know where there is a house that finally got totally repaired from Hurricane Ivan only to be heavily damaged by a tornado this year. I know how lucky I am.
Things you learn by watching Russian car wreck videos-They have better taste in radio music than most of us.
Rain trying to wash most of S.E.LA away. Sure hope we don’t have too much trouble getting to NOLA tomorrow. “See” everyone in a week +.
Blessings for all who are in need. God bless us every one. God bless America.
How is southern Missitely.ssippi faring with rain? News said I55 was shut down completely.
That dang Lil Ghost kept me awake all night loving on me. I didn’t mind him cuddling, it was the biting ears and neck and pawing. I have scratches.
Chickens are doing fine. If we get the heavy rains predicted we may need a raised place in their pen.
Spirit animal? Possibly, but I don’t bite…very hard. Have been scratched, though. 😉
Most of the heavy rain that last weekend was being predicted to come onshore from Pensacola to Tampa instead seemed to actually arrive from Mobile to the LA-TX state line. Just what NOLA and southern LA needed, lots of rain. My BIL was headed to Deepest South LA on Wednesday to take care of some business, so I need to check and see if he made it back OK.