Yes, it’s that time of year, also. Time for a homecooked meal served en plein air, complete with a fresh baguette. By the way, the one-and-done Braves are on top of the National League East by 2.5 games, solidly on schedule for their annual date with destiny: elimination in the first round of the playoffs. I see the BoSox aren’t doing so well.
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Lily…once upon a time I was a heavy book reader….now it’s music….I’m a sixties child, late sixties that is…..just went through a few of the old America tunes…..oh, nostalgia….and that horse with no name and the Sandman flying like an eagle out of an abandoned hurricane….
Heh, did you get in your wind sprints this morning?
Fast note to tell JJ I am thinking of Alabama today and all last night. Not that I wasn’t worried about Oklahoma too of course. Daughter and I cleaned out the storm cellar, got it empty and scrubbed, tried to find all the spiders! She said if we did that, we wouldn’t need it but if we left the dog cages and dirty dog beds in, then we’d be certain to be hit.
Hope the rest of you have a plan like that for today and tomorrow. Think of you all a lot and miss you.
Husband not doing well with chemo but survived the lung removal well in beginning.
However, I haven’t missed a single A and J, even if I read sporadically.
Love, Jackie Monies
OH yes. On further news we dodged storms and power loss but my 93 year old mom left the freezer door open (big freezer) and defrosted all the meat! We are having a meat cooking marathon and freezing the results.
Wish you all keep safe today and take shelter if they warn you!
Love, Jackie Monies
Debbe, I am not a big music person aside form church choir (I am a doer not a passive listener) so I don’t even listen to music from one Sunday evening to Sunday morning, except for Wednesday choir practice. I was born in 1985, so maybe theer isn’t that much music playing in my teenage years that I liked enough to look it up on YouTube.
Jackie, I’ll say a prayer for you and your husband.
Jackie…oh, so good to hear from you…glad to hear you are taking preparations for the “impending”. Been thinking of you much…as I had a special Uncle who was diagnosed with lung cancer, had one lung removed. Just missed your postings…you’re so poetic my friend…….gotta go…..Brooklyn says the garden tub is getting full…..oh, sweet lavender bubble bath…and she’s taking back to her mom some of her ‘griddle cakes’………
Lily…music, whatever it may be, soothes the soul………..
Debbe, since this is a blog for followers of a family strip I won’t post the link for that one, but if you Google the words you will get multiple results. However, this one is good, too, and shouldn’t offend anyone who is not a stork: http://i0.wp.com/i-mhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Never_Give_Up.jpg?resize=299%2C299
Jackie, my best wishes to your husband and yourself. And from the Alabama tornado belt, use your weather radios, everybody, and take cover when they tell you to. Our local head weatherman, James Spann, recommends that anyone setting up a weather emergency kit include a bike safety helmet as it will help prevent head injuries when things come loose and start flying around.
Glad to hear from you, Jackie. I too had been thinking about you.
Everyone who is in harm’s way, please be careful.
Debbe, here it is! http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/6/article/98784/
Lilyblack, the difference between Fantasy and Reality is that Reality has no background music.
Jackie, sending you hugs and good thoughts!
Oh, and Debbe? You can be the Indiana Poultry Queen if you want to! Every woman deserves a tiara.
Brooklyn just left to go home…her dad has her every other weekend visits…I so look forward to those and miss her….we just finished dancing to the America’s tune of Sister Golden Hair…THREE times, she loved her lavender bubble bath. I was emotionally hit when she said I was like her Grandma Roxy, who died from cancer about a year ago….I felt special when she put me in that category.
Jean…I AM the Indian Poultry Queen….not been crowned yet…but my ‘girls’ will attest to that, I even have a a couple of cages set aside for an ICU unit…and I have had good results. My Boss once told me there was no one in the county who cared more for hens than I…..we are all creatures of God…be it winged, two legged, or four legged…..
…MARK…I do respectfully admire your post….thank you. I bookmarked your earlier post of the Captain Kirk ‘stress’….went back and looked some of the other ‘quotes’…some are questionable, but….it depends on what you’re looking for 😉
Lily…my favorite Christian singer is Fernando Ortego….great songs.
Be safe…be alert…be there for others…………..
the rain is starting here……………
GR 😉 ??????
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Debbe:
Cute, but it works only with the misspelling. That’s a chaise longue.
Peace, party pooper emb
Jean: Too true. I would be afraid when they started playing that ominous music for m the horror movies
Ah, home again, home again…after a week on the road.
Jackie, at least a dozen times in the past weeks I’ve started to ask you for an update. But I knew we could trust you to give us one when you had time, so I didn’t, and you did. Prayers and hugs.
Love, Ghost
[More when I get fed, watered and unpacked.]
Ahhh…GR 😉 home alone….naturally…and safe at that 🙂
Who knew Robert Downey Jr. could sing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiuzFNtki60
that’s all folks……………………… ….
This is not looking good:
http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php
But you know what eMb…every body loves a party pooper, that’s why we invited you…party pooper….
peace and love……..
say good night Debbe……………….good night 🙂
Lady Mindy, I for one will file away Arlo’s “dodge” for possible further use. 🙂 And it’s pretty obvious from looking at Janis in the last two panels that Arlo has still “got it”. 😉
And I just noticed…Arlo seems to have rather large hands. Humm.
Debbe 😉 Thanks for the tune, hon. I’ve always loved Aretha. Here’s one back at you. You can ride in my pink Cadillac anytime you want. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip_pjb5_fgA
If you miss the tune tonight, I hope it helps get your heart started in the morning. If you’re still up now, sweet dreams.
It still saddens me that The Big Man is no longer with us. But I guess in a way he still lives as long as someone can recognize one of his sax riffs on the first or second note.
We have missed the storms, thank God. I hope everyone else has too. When the internet gave me people to love worldwide, disasters suddenly became close events.
When I have time I will tell you what fiascoes I added to chemotherapy and death’s. Like digging up the yard in a bad imitation of a canyon (yard flash floods and takes everything to the lake) and hiring a handyman who was a meth addict (gone now) so all locks are being changed in a.m. The locksmith said he had a sudden increase in business in neighborhood.
Daughter and 2 year old Jack are staying to help care for husband and entertain him. Life is an adventure that just keeps taking new paths.
Love, Jackie Monies
Prayers for you and yours, Jackie – as well as for all those in the paths of tornados. Keep singing, Lilyb – good music really helps me worship.
Today’s A&J was really good! Truth be told, Arlo was correct in his tacit assumption that Janis wouldn’t then be in danger of acquiring any new germs.
Jackie, your story of the meth addict handyman reminds me of what happened when my wife and I moved into a new subdivision. Shortly after most of the houses had been occupied, a man rang our doorbell and offered us a bargain price on deadbolts. We turned him down, and a couple of weeks later heard there were burglaries among his customers. Seems he kept a copy of each key for later use. Don’t know whether he used them himself or sold to the highest bidder.
As for the weather, today is the third anniversary of the monster tornado that wrecked my hometown. We have had heavy thunderstorms, but no tornadoes. Thank God!! And I mean that literally.