Have I told you this story? When I ask you something like that, I’m not joking. I strive to be correct and accurate with all I post here, but I regard this as our morning conversation. I’m not going to take a lot of time to search the archives to make sure I never repeat myself, because that’s what friends do. They swap the same old stories. And yes, as a handy example, the “Indian Summer’ artwork of the previous post has run here before, not long ago. Anyway, when I was a boy the family dog was a terrier named Spooks. We fed Spooks Ken-L Ration dogfood (I can still sing the jingle!), but she was never a voracious eater. What she didn’t consume, Mama would cover with foil and put in the back of the refrigerator. My father, a dedicated midnight snacker, unwittingly consumed Spooks’ leftover supper one night, and the next day when he asked my mother what it was he’d eaten she told him. Without batting an eye, he simply said, “I thought it was a little mealy.” As I know I have said before, there was a lot of Arlo in my father.
Cold Comfort
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60 responses to “Cold Comfort”
Blood moon/ super moon only 5 times since 1900. last was 1982
1910 1928 1946 1964 1982
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/sciencefair/2015/09/21/lunar-eclipse-supermoon-blood-moon/72572664/
Last total visible from earth till 2018
OF just winding down. Should be a new prediction [MDT, add 1 hr.] soon. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Had an early-up today to carry my BIL in for one of those tests from which they will not permit you to drive yourself home. While trapped in the waiting room with a TV tuned to one of the 24/7 “news” channels, I recalled why I stopped watching news “opinion” and “commentary” shows of all stripes a while back. The words “pompous” and “fatuous” come to mind.
On a happier note, initial negative results from my BIL’s test, and I got to see a couple of old friends I’d not seen lately who are on staff there.
OF just winding down. Should be a new prediction [MDT, add 1 hr.] soon. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
“Supermoon” lunar eclipse “due” 2007 [= 8:07 pm] CDT Sun. 27 Sept. Trouble is, that site did not say if 8:07 was the beginning or middle of the eclipse. I’ll be out there at sunset, which, of course is when a full moon rises. Ah, just remembered the Sky & Telescope calendar on the back of my office door. It says 9:11-10:23 pm CDT. The 8:07 likely is when Luna first enters the penumbra of Earth’s shadow, and 9:11-10:23 pm CDT the period when all of Luna is in the umbra.
Please ignore dire predictions, based on Revelation or astrology or psychics or whatever. Dress warmly and enjoy the show. The management is not responsible for the weather; that’s Thor’s job or Zeus’s, depending on your theological preference.
Now go check the OF website.
Peace, emb
The best thing I ever did was turn off the telly. Operative word seems to be “tell”. Never keyed to that until just now.
The one in my hotel room is festooned with an extensive collection of scarves I must pack but a good use of that big screen.
Now I have to learn how to avoid political comments on Facebook. A friend asked what one thing we would rid the world of if we could choose just one? I replied pollutants, social, political and chemical.
Rather like the question they used to ask in the beauty. Competitions. Love.
A Super Moon brought the water back into Florida Bay in the Everglades and allowed us to save the Red Scamp and get her out in that infamous stuck in the mud in endangered grasslands debacle. Fun memories.
In the highly unlikely event that I’m ever in a beauty contest, I’m gonna say I’m in favor of world peace.
I’m going to say world peas.
Maybe “whirled peas”?
About our oviparous cockatiel: The cage she favors for egg-laying is next to an outside wall having a heating/cooling vent. Thus, we keep a large piece of cardboard vertically between the cage and the wall/vent so as to minimize drafts on the avian inhabitants.
Today’s egg was laid atop the edge of that vertical cardboard! It did not end well. Cockatiel omelet, anyone?
Upon closer examination, Tippy may be Tipper. We haven’t taken “it” to the vet yet.
Thought for the Day: I really want to become a procrastinator, but I keep putting it off.
There’s a support group. I’ll let you know when the meeting is.
Dearest Ghost, Glad that your brother-in-law had good results, and you saw old friends. About TV in waiting rooms, a pox on it! If it’s annoying, I will sweep a smile around the room and say, “Are you guys watching the TV?” Surprisingly, no one ever is! So I look around for a way to turn it off. The controls are usually on the right edge. Sometimes I can unplug it. Sometimes it’s too high up on the wall; that shouldn’t give you any trouble, Ghost! Or Mark either.
Oh, that’s a funny one, Ghost, and Jerry’s reply! You should be on TV!
Jackie, I’ve been enjoying your stories ever so much — what a writer you are! And you make it look so easy. Sigh.
OF due 1812-1832 CDT. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
R.I.P. #8 – Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra
May 12, 1925 – September 22, 2015
You didn’t even have to be a baseball fan to be a Yogi fan.
“It ain’t over till it’s over.”
Is it me or does the Pope seem to be an FSU fan?
Charlotte in NH, I could probably reach most of them. Wonder if you could just ask the receptionist for the remote, or to turn it off. My smartphone has a nifty feature that lets you program it to work as a remote for most a/v from cable and satellite boxes all the way down to stereos. But I have it programmed for my own stuff and would have to be seriously annoyed to use it on waiting room (or restaurant) tv. Bet I could have fun till somebody caught on though! Go in a sports bar and change all their tvs to PBS or something else opposite to their usual background.
Jerry, I did laugh out loud at that!
http://runt-of-the-web.com/funny-signs/funny-signs-epic-dog
This ought to give you a laugh.
Now I have that tune stuck in my head! Puns and music, what a combo.
http://runt-of-the-web.com/funny-signs/cheese-store-sign
Debbe 😉 What can I say about this Mood song except that…no, I can’t say that here. 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7UBpkw1elg
Jerry
Our Tippy is male – an EXprocreator.
The name Tippy is gender non specific. Tippi maybe not so much.
Thanks, but MBH will probably not agree.