Remember “More” magazine? It was a magazine dedicated to telling women how great it is to be old. “More” ceased publication in April. Gee, imagine that. This is a special Saturday edition of arloandjanis.com. As I told you earlier this year, I will be in New England for the Boston Comic Con, Aug. 12-14, and for the Vermont Comic Con, Aug. 27=28. I have a lot of readers in New England, and I am looking forward to meeting some of them. I just learned, however, that the Boston Comic Con potentially could sell out of tickets before the event, meaning buying tickets online beforehand is the only way to guarantee entrance. If you’re interested, you can visit their Web site. I thought I should mention it. Exhibitors (That would be me!) don’t get a direct share of the gate. They just sell things. At the A&J table, autographs and conversation will be free. I hope to see as many of you as possible.
140 responses to “Continued Beach Erosion”
You cannot leave me alone for a minute. I just drove home with a boat and now I am trying to buy another up in Ottawa, Canada.
I have invited Lora Llee to ride along to go see it. How many of you all could we stop off and meet from Oklahoma and Missouri on up to Ottawa?
Seriously. Llee is like me, we want to meet our Villagers.
Okay that’s not bad. We are going to be close to Miss Charlotte on New Hampshire so that’s a must go.
If Llee can’t go I could use a volunteer. Mark can’t get off work on short notice. I am driving new F150 so I can haul it back. Dickens goes of course.
One has to be flexible to have adventures. That is why I have an Adventure Dog.
Reminder: for border crossing, you’ll need a passport. Such was not the case during my many years of travel to/in/from Canada.
I always have my passport in my purse but Dickens the Adventure Dog has to have current documents.
I don’t currently have a passport, so that would let me out anyway.
I always have a passport along just in case as we usually went into Canada at least once a year. But dogs have to have a health certificate issued by only a few vets. Fortunately my vet is one of few in Oklahoma and I am a regular naturally. He has to exit Canada before it expires and get back I to U.S.
Guess what was on Sirius?
https://youtu.be/w7N0mY6FaRg
Dear Jackie, this adventure sounds terrific, and I’m flattered that you thought of me, but I don’t think Southern New Hampshire is that close to Ottawa.
Re sawdust and ice cutting: anybody besides me raised on the Laura Ingalls Wilder books? I can pretty well quote whole passages of them, and “Farmer Boy” (I think) had a great section on cutting and hauling the ice. They brought it to the ice house and laid the blocks out three inches apart in both directions. It was Almanzo’s job then to tamp sawdust into all the cracks and spread a three-inch layer of it on top then before they got back with the next load. (Can you tell I loved those books??!!)
I’ve been to her house. Read books to my daughters and may have read for myself long ago.
Miss Charlotte it is sure closer than from Oklahoma.
Fun site! Yes, this is a commercial site, but SO interesting to look at what’s selling for how much in any area desired [home town? other places of residency? friends’ & relatives’ areas?].
Get the home page, type in a town/state or zip code, and look. Tabs at upper right let you get either a list of things available with small photo & price, or get a map with locations noted with prices.
I found this fascinating enough to put it into my list of favorite sites.
http://www.realtor.com is the place. No registration needed. The site may even estimate the present value of places not for sale!
PS: both the list and map options permit the user to get the full data page, of course.
I sent this to Jackie earlier. Like I told her this film has many of my favorite Floyd pieces on it and is the only live concert released on video before Roger Waters left them. David Gilmour, lead guitar and vocal, was a male model before joining and you can see how he managed that here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnC7TdkRnP4
And this locomotive might be getting old, but it’s still got plenty of fire in the boiler;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09VqNLo05lw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWtV4DACpVg
I had this album when I was a high school senior. Early electronic rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC2gg0hXvGE
Jackie, I look forward to seeing you and anyone else coming up with you. Your boat is moored a few blocks away from my house in Ottawa.
Gary, that is fine antastic! Lezlie who has helped with the build in Texas is coming along. She is cute, petite, smiling and resilient woman. I love her to pieces. She built a very famous boat, a Paradox named Tardis, which she sold before it went on to fame in Texas 200.
We will have fun. We will stop and visit Lora on first day and visit Gary at end of the road in Ottawa. Dickenson loves her. He will be happy as well.
Just spent a few hours and drove about 150 miles to rescue daughter and her family. Their Nissan Pathfinder suddenly quit running… the engine quit while she and her family were traveling at 65 mph. She weighs all of 95 pounds and had to steer to a safe spot in a narrow Utah canyons without power steering! Reading the codes showed that the sensor no longer recognized the chip in the key. If I could find the jerk who designed that system I’d hold him while my daughter slapped him a few times!
We’re having fun with our Chrysler T&C trying to reject its “chipped” key because, according to our mechanic, a rod in the steering column is bent slightly; we have to put the steering wheel in its highest position, start the car, then lower the wheel to where we want it.
Putting chips in the keys may have cut the number of cars being stolen… but it also put my daughter, her husband, and my two grandsons at risk!
What an awful thing to happen, Trucker Ron! I am so glad she was able to steer to a safe place, and that she could call on a professional driver (you) to come and help her. Darn this technology that isn’t paying attention to peoples’ real needs.
Debbe 😉 Yep, I love me some Alison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06NmutNGF44
This came on radio this afternoon and my mind immediately flashed to you Ghost and all the memories of convertibles, sports cars and being young, if not in love. It made me laugh. So here is Paraise By the Dashboard Light by Meatloaf.
https://youtu.be/C11MzbEcHlw
You are missing your big chance to drive not one but two cute wholesome American shorties to Canada and back. In a brand new Ford pickup named Cowboy. The boat is named Cookies.
I am going to buy a new larger boat that has full cabin and head, galley and can go in big water. I will bring it to Mississippi coast for certain. This boat is named Stella Maris.
Good morning Villagers….
…and a happy trails to you, Jackie. I’m in the chicken house just off of 231, about three miles north of little ole Haysville. But I can’t let you in 🙂
Old Bear…you back yet?
Mark, thanks for the address. Ian cleaned up my computer yesterday afternoon, blew out the tower, uninstalled some things he thought would improve the performance, and they didn’t, and defraged it….will get into my email tomorrow morning.
Sand, had forgot that David McAllum was in that movie.
Hello Nancy, and Miss Charlotte….
And TR, your daughter’s guardian angel was with your daughter, I’m glad she and family are safe.
gotta go….just finished folding scrub t-shirts, now I’m fluffing the pants.
…and the cool front is coming in tomorrow, Amen. I was really concerned and still am about my Miss Prissies…when I left hen house at 1ish, it was 92 degrees. Ian had to put on a new anti-reverse bearing on my packer yesterday that took almost an hour to put on…first time for this packer, so he wasn’t familiar with how to like the old packer. He turned up the belt speed as we still had three skids to do, he packed and I paced the front deck busting up egg blocks…and it was hot. I almost had a hard time breathing that stagnant air.
happy Monday!!!!!
GR 😉 think you’ll like this version..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60vZ__-uJCQ