Of course, in the turbulent corporate seas of today, Arlo and most of his shipmates would have been thrown overboard long ago to lighten the payload, and the ship would be crewed by foreign nationals who are willing to subsist on hardtack and won’t sue when they’re flogged. Actually, this sort of thing was happening to merchant mariners long before the rest of us ever saw it coming. Well, no one literally was thrown overboard that I’m aware. Anyway, that’s the good thing about a cartoon job.
Daysailing
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147 responses to “Daysailing”
sideburns, how that is that living in the desert thing working out for you? Close to getting your forty years in?
Except for when I was in the Navy, I’ve always lived in the LArea, where the climate is semi-desert and we need several aqueducts to provide us with enough water. Now, I live in Camarillo, former home to the infamous Hotel California, where it’s not quite as hot and dry. You might well say that I put in my forty years and have reached the Promised Land.
Thanks for the chuckle, sideburns. The only problem with the promised land is all their damnable propositions, they just couldn’t settle for ten simple rules.
I love California. Well, that part of it north of Cambria, anyhow.
Lily, which state will that be in next year?
Clif – I am quite jealous. I would love to see the night sky from open ocean. I admit I wept several times while watching the new Cosmos series just because of the beautiful imagery.
I kept thinking of the first stanza of Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence”
TO see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
To see how small we are in the cosmic realm is to be humbled. I believe the line Dr. de Grasse Tyson used was something along the lines of “a dust mote in a sunbeam.”
Completely off topic – the local radio station played CHRSITMAS CAROLS all day today. I don’t care if they were promoting Holiday World or what, no. No. NO. NO!
Sand, Northern California? (Don’t mind if there is a joke I don’t get cause we Texans are famously ignorant about California)
Texan here too. The latest California proposition is to split the state in to five or six seperate states.
Heck, we’ve had that option since 1846 and never used it. The old joke was that nobody could decide which mini-state was going to get the Alamo.
Where is everyone? Is something important going on tonight, like people who have dates, things to go to, places to be? Lives?
Daughter and I have been off most of day checking on motels, cabins, restaurants, businesses, trying to order porta potties (I didn’t order quite enough) get my Corps of Engineers permits, borrow a fireworks tent in case of inclement weather, just the normal things I do between June and October.
And to think that this is a hobby that I do for free and try not to lose too much money on expenses! I am a nut case.
We are holding Whole Hawg Days, festival, arts and crafts and rodeo, which I have nothing to do with, this weekend. It gets it name because when it began they smoked and roasted whole pig carcasses, now they do pork loins, then give them away tomorrow. My other daughter thought they were Harley Hogs and won’t come. Younger one is going to park for festival and pork sandwiches, then taking grandson to rodeo to see horses and mutton busting competition and the fair/midways.
Aren’t small towns fun and nice people?
Love, Jackie Monies
Hey, Jackie, had a nice evening at home and am working on J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Tales From The Perilous Realm.” I am also four margaritas into the bag, so I am a happy camper.
When I was on the road, I found the best people in small towns and at truck stops!
Two years ago one of my friends, who worked to create the new World Park in Panape, Pacific ocean and regularly commutes between there, Japan (where wife is) and America was eating with us downtown when the local high school came by with the home coming parade, bands, floats, so on. He was totally enchanted with the small town main street, old buildings, the local people parading and on streets.
Sometimes as Americans we take all this for granted and don’t see it for what it is, something to treasure. He had not seen an event like that in so long and remarked about the charm and friendliness he had experienced here in our little town.
Love, Jackie Monies
Jackie, I’ve known cats like this: http://www.gocomics.com/herman#.U9M7y_ldWSo
Good morning, Villagers. This is the day we call “Neighbor To Neighbor” when we make box lunches for all the homebound and I am as usual there in my little apron that reads “Susie Sous-Chef.” We make over 150 meals for our less fortunate neighbors.
“. . . cats like this: http://www.gocomics.com/herman#.U9M7y_ldWSo ” This now leads to today’s Herman. To get the cat cartoon, click the back arrow above today’s H.
I see H. online, and sent yesterday’s to my favorite cat person. Fortunately, M. Trouve’, is not that destructive.* He also is missing his front claws, and a couple of other things.
*In theological terms, he is, like his staff person, not “totally depraved”, only moderately so. Makes us ineligible for membership in some denominations.
That is funny! We have two, Ashes and Meow Meow, who came without claws as strays. Skipper and Garfield have their claws, Garfield is the bad boy- a big ginger (orange) tabby who picks something and then claws away at it. I made mistake of buying some of those new wicker baskets within shelving for my “nautical” bedroom I am working on. He has already gotten two of them with major damage, so I plan to keep turning the baskets around to fresh sides, as luckily we bought square ones!
Love, Jackie Monies
I thought the crowd in here was growing, which might make things more interesting. Alas, that’s not the case.
Love, George
Jackie:
“. . . who came without claws as strays.”
I should have written, “. . . also is now missing . . ..” M. Trouve’ was not missing anything when I found him in a foxhole [?] he had dug in the snowbank across from my home.
“Virgin Mindy . . . Love, George”?
Here’s one of my favorite Herman cat cartoons. Click on the picture to enlarge it. http://www.comedycard.co.uk/products/funny-greetings-card-herman-cats-got-your-teeth
EMB- “The Three Faces of Eve”, dissociative identity disorder.
Love, Jackie Monies
We have found in our household of felines, 4 total, 2 declawed, 2 not, that claws don’t determine pecking order. Our big grey stripped Herman rules the roost through sheer size and attitude. Our newest addition, a tiny, declawed calico runs our second biggest cat with claws all over the place. Attitude is everything.
Good ethological analysis, but declawing is easier on the upholstery. M. Trouve’, however, has slightly damaged some wicker work by biting it.
Attitude: I believe I’ve noted before that we had a neurotic medium sized bitch [border collie cross] who was completely dominated, except at her feeding dish, by a much smaller declawed, neutered male cat. Cat got along with normal successor bitch [beagle basset cross, neutered] famously. They rough-housed. When cat tired of it, he just climbed out of Annie’s reach.
Virgin Mindy/George, it is never boring when you are trolling…er, I mean posting:P
All done with our food ministry. More than 140 meals served