Looking through more recent material, I found this short series. It is similar to the “ten-gallon hat” comic strip that appeared in newspapers recently. Frankly, I’d forgotten about the “lederhosen” series, although I drew it less than two years ago. I do like it, though, and I also liked the “ten-gallon hat” cartoon. I believe it was Charles Schulz who said, drawing a daily comic strip is doing the same thing over and over for years without repeating yourself.
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Several years ago, after our faithful minivan was totaled by a careless neighbor, we went through a series of rental SUVs provided by the insurance company. While we appreciated the free use of those vehicles (and enjoyed exploring the various accessories!), we quickly noticed how much more fuel they took! Once the dust settled on the paperwork and we had a replacement minivan, it was a relief to return to our normal fuel usage.
That rhino was supposed to be something else.
The best car I’ve had yet was a Toyota minivan from the generation before the Previa. It had the motor mounted between the front seats, tons of legroom and headroom, decent gas mileage and if you took the back seats you could haul darn near anything. Ex and I got a huge cut Christmas tree into it that had the top between the two front seats and the trunk almost on the rear hatch, with all the doors closed! Because of the fact that you were sitting above the front wheels, you had great visibility. You could also drive down the aisle of a parking lot and comfortably turn and park on the opposite side. Blown head gasket did it in (third time) only bad part of the design was poor cooling in this part of the country.
It looked a lot like this:http://www.ebay.com/itm/Toyota-Other-Base-/231510498797?forcerrptr=true&hash=item35e719dded&item=231510498797
We owned three Mercury Villagers that each got about 400,o00 miles on each and got sold and kept going. They were hard to kill. And yes, I have carried plywood and tons of building materials, boats and a million samples in them. I have a year old Honda right now and it is best minivans I have driven. That is a car sales man speaking. It is what it should be.
But there is a huge difference between something that serves a purpose and something you are passionate about and makes your heart sing. A black Mark 8 or a red Corvette or sometimes a less pretensious vehicle can do same. I am partial to big Ford trucks in black and red.
Good morning Villagers…..
Staying home today…Ian just left, going to be a long day for him. Anxiety is mounting….I dread the next couple of weeks…..this will be my 4th hen house cleansing, and it’s not an easy task. Going to be working two straight weeks.
And yes, Denise, it is a miracle. I use to say to Ian (to quote Bill Cosby)….”I can take you out of this world, ’cause I can make another one like you”! But, he’s my one and only child. And he is spoiled. It was just me and him for ten years before I married. I was walking out the door the third time from his father (we weren’t married, just together for 14 years) when I discovered I was pregnant…at 35…I kept walking and didn’t look back.
GR 😉 I worked with my mother in the bridal shop business for 14 years and Ian worked with me at the hotel, and now at the hen houses….I still wouldn’t change anything in the world for those and present opportunities…..and there were times. Like the the time I super glued the decimal on the the ten key calculator on my mother (I was the bookkeeper, with no computer)….she kept changing it, and when I would come back to add up checks, checkbook, my totals just didn’t calculate…so I ‘glued’ it…it didn’t go over well then, but we laugh about it today.
Jerry, I pulled up the article on the female news anchor…tragic, and she had just left a news scene in which she was reporting a fire.
And Note Dame beat Butler…sad story there too. Husband told me the mother of the Coach of Notre Dame had died yesterday. He didn’t tell his team until afterwards.
Just full of……sad news today….think I’ll go back to bed for a while.
Oh, worked with Kyler’s mother yesterday (my husband and Ian watched Little Red Chief). She was telling me of his aggressive 2 and 1/2 year old behavior. He mimics her and hits her. Came home for work yesterday, and my husband said that Kyler was a ‘monster’. The little turd threw my glasses in the trash…..made him sit in the corner for 10 minutes, you would have thought I’d beaten him.
later……………………
Always liked this song….may it brighten your day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrotsEzgEpg
plus, it’s the original
Debbe, I could not go back to sleep with out telling there are courageous women and you know who you are. Lying here thinking about that. Sometimes walking is the hardest thing to do and far braver than those who stay.
You deserve kidnapping by a crazy cat lady with a propensity for liking those she knows are survivors.
Love Jackie
Another thought, you can only spend the money twice Thinking about pickups and carports, used sailboats and face lifts and tummy tuck and which would make me happier and bring more quality to life? All are about equal in cost, if not pain, and none essential to life if one removes the element of enjoyment
My irreverent mind probably offends some, so I apologize now. On positive side I don’t give a hoot about jewelry social standing or who “right people” are in life.
Love today’s A&J. It is so true – actually the subject of a sermon I heard this past week – how love grows sweeter and deeper as we mature and travel through the trials and tribulations of this world.
Jackie….I always wanted a ‘knee’ tuck…..I had great looking legs in my day, and was not afraid to show it. But just like everything else…the law of gravity is cruel to both sexes 🙂
Good morning Granny Carol….after 15 years of my only marriage…my husband has become more tolerant of my ‘quirks’.
Was checking out the brackets…..Sandcastler, who? Louisville or UNI? And, by then I’ll be asleep. Should be a good game.
How about a knee that works? I know several things that impedes.
Jackie, yeah, I get this ‘catch’ and ‘pop’ every now and then. So instead of ‘knee tucks”…it may be knee surgery later….but as I long as I can walk those 600 foot aisles at work, I’m doing pretty good. I just don’t like to run them if there’s a problem with augers and I have to run into the packing room and shut them down.
It’s the hips that bother me the most…but, walking is good for me. I cannot sit for very long times…I’ve got to ‘move it, move it, move it’….plus, a couple of pain pills help.
Debbe, Louisville
Sandcastler….Louisville….husband says UNI has good team…but, have they ever played Louisville before?
Back to a young man’s fancy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r5xqiBl-Vs
…but don’t we all wear a brilliant disguise? I know I did some 15 years ago 🙂
Jackie, maybe we should think of ‘eye tucks’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ2d87EFIM0&spfreload=10
…sorry, in a Bruce mood, but ya have to admit, sad eyes can be made into a brilliant disguise 🙂
Well, I love Springsteen too, Debbe but I was rather hoping you meant Bruce (Lee) or (Lenny) Bruce both of whom eyelids might apply!
Have not had my anti-depressant yet this morning. Short of total body lift I might have to work at this piece meal.
Jackie…know of both Bruces’…but Lenny was way ahead of his time. He would fit in well with today’s ‘sick’ comedy slick.
Watched “The Angriest Man In Brooklyn” the other evening with Ian on Netflix. I saw nothing but sorrow in Robin’s face…he didn’t even have to act, his true human demons came thru in that movie. Then Ian pulled up “Good Morning Vietnam”…..(Ian had never seen it before), and I watched his face closely….still I saw and ‘looked’ at his expressions and saw a sadness.. My nephew-in-law, Andrew, suffers from bi-polar..and is not medicated.
JACKIE….EAT!!!!!!
It’s raining, it’s poring and it’s good for the new sod and good for returning to bed.
For me, when it comes to vehicles, the “huge difference between something that serves a purpose and something you are passionate about and makes your heart sing” is the difference between a reliable tool and a fun toy. If you have a heavy load to move, an old, reliable Volvo VN tractor-trailer beats the sexiest, loaded-with-gizmos pickup truck by a country mile.
My SIL is trying to justify buying one of these because it makes his heart sing: http://www.icarreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2012-Ram-5500-.jpg
Bruce Lee was mentioned in my self-defense class last week. One of the instructors was teaching the class (which included a good number of petite females) how to punch an attacker and made the point that size and strength are not nearly as important as how their punches are directed into force. “Bruce Lee weighed only 140 pounds, but he put every ounce of that into every strike. Would you want Bruce Lee to punch you?” he asked one of the other tall, muscular instructors.
“Hell, no,” the instructor replied. “Not even right now, and he’s been dead for 40 years.”
Ate yogurt and Diet Coke