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Dog of Love

By Jimmy Johnson


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218 responses to “Dog of Love”

  1. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    Debbe aka Sherry 😉 Sounds like a bar or two I’ve been in. And you don’t want to know what drinking gin does to me.

  2. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    But back then it was known as the Rustic

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF0gsbQKhD8

  3. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    Debbe 😉 In case I’ve never mentioned this before…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0_OUar-K94

  4. The Man Formerly Known as sandcastlerâ„¢ Avatar
    The Man Formerly Known as sandcastlerâ„¢

    Debbe, tempting offer.
    Meeting an Egyptian fighter pilot to talk old times.
    And relive some of our crimes.
    Morning breakfast at the rode side inn.
    The road goes on forever,
    The party never ends.

  5. Ruth Anne in Winter Park Avatar
    Ruth Anne in Winter Park

    emb: Just noticed that explore.org now has links to the Chesapeake Conservancy falcon osprey, and heron cams. Good news since the CC website was always slow to load, for me anyway.

  6. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Well GR 😉 ….that’s one on you, never had heard george sing that….too funny 🙂

  7. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    As it is my bedtime…Dad’s tucked in, chocolate milk in ‘fridge, we had pizza for supper plus a couple of friends…dang they both had the same name too 🙂 I say good night.

    My favorite Eagles tune is ‘They Call it Paradise’….I leave you with this song…and have you ever REALLY listened or read the lyrics….and that was some twenty years ago it was written by Henley and Frey…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–AvCsh48bk

    So lucky to have seen them in concert….with Emilylou Haris opening for them/

    Good night my friends, and love to all.

  8. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Dang good thing I proofread my links,,,,,oops, posted george again….here is

    “the last resort’ by the eages

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdx6oyBOVj0

  9. The Man Formerly Known as sandcastlerâ„¢ Avatar
    The Man Formerly Known as sandcastlerâ„¢

    LOL, wishing I had Debbe’s time machine. “The Last Resort” was written in 1977.

  10. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    Debbe 😉 Guess it’s Mellencamp Night in the Village.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h04CH9YZcpI

  11. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    lyrics:

    The Last Resort
    Eagles

    She came from Providence, the one in Rhode Island
    Where the old world shadows hang heavy in the air
    She packed her hopes and dreams like a refugee,
    Just as her father came across the sea

    She heard about a place people were smilin’,
    They spoke about the red man’s way, how they loved the land
    And they came from everywhere to the Great Divide
    Seeking a place to stand or a place to hide

    Down in the crowded bars out for a good time,
    Can’t wait to tell you all what it’s like up there
    And they called it paradise, I don’t know why
    Somebody laid the mountains low while the town got high

    Then the chilly winds blew down across the desert,
    Through the canyons of the coast to the Malibu
    Where the pretty people play hungry for power
    To light their neon way and give them things to do

    Some rich man came and raped the land, nobody caught ’em,
    Put up a bunch of ugly boxes and, Jesus, people bought ’em
    And they called it paradise, the place to be,
    They watched the hazy sun sinking in the sea

    You can leave it all behind and sail to Lahaina
    Just like the missionaries did so many years ago
    They even brought a neon sign ‘Jesus is Coming’,
    Brought the white man’s burden down, brought the white man’s reign

    Who will provide the grand design, what is yours and what is mine?
    ‘Cause there is no more new frontier, we have got to make it here
    We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds
    In the name of destiny and in the name of God

    And you can see them there on Sunday morning
    Stand up and sing about what it’s like up there
    They called it paradise, I don’t know why
    You call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye

    Songwriters: Glenn Frey / Don Henley

  12. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Sand…yup, it was….and yet it still resonates today…..that’s the benefit of growing up in a little old small town south of Bloomington…..Loogootee, IN. Ya never grow old 🙂

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CVLVaBECuc

  13. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Say goodnight Gracie…….

  14. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Good grief, Sand, my math is really off…..that was written forty years ago!!!!!!

  15. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    It was written while I lived in Hawaii I think? I know we thought it referred to destruction of local Hawaiian culture and people by the Christian missionaries who came to do good and ended up doing well.

    At local small town buffet eating leftovers while my hardworking Chinese friends mop floors around me.

  16. The Man Formerly Known as sandcastlerâ„¢ Avatar
    The Man Formerly Known as sandcastlerâ„¢

    Feel not bad Debbe. Loon will tell you I have a 17 year gap in my life starting in 1968.

  17. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Fortune good one. “Your eyes will be opened to a world full of beauty, charm and adventure.”

  18. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Sorry, I was in Houston by then. Definitely NOT paradise.

    Warfare breaking out in kitchen. Knives will be flying soon. Time to take Dickens his chicken stick.

  19. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    “Never bring a knife to a gunfight.”

    We need to talk about your G42, Jackie.

  20. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    What G42? Is that my gun? My friends were just yelling in Chinese at each other or else their son?
    I think each other.

    They love me enough to act natural around me, even arguments. They don’t do that in front of regular customers. They don’t cook special food for regular customers either to help them lose weight.

  21. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Jackie, it refers to the continual search for someplace better than where you are, and how humanity carries its problems with it. Instead of moving on, it encourages us to improve what we have. Figured out a workaround for my internet problems. New cell service allows me to use phone as wifi connection. Will get my last 8 hours done after all this week. Good night all

  22. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    Can’t sleep. Probably a common ailment these days. Very happy to see Debbe is back. Hal still hasn’t learned to spell your name. Don’t worry. This is as political as I’m going to get. I had no idea. Not in my wildest imagination. Nuff said.

  23. emb Avatar

    Jerry, Hope you’re back asleep. I awoke about 0300, couldn’t get back to sleep, got a non-fat yogurt out, and was sitting here looking at the rift valley river in Kenya, about 1230 EAT. 77F [floor of the RV is high enough above sea level for that], hippos in the river, non-IDed birds flitting about, and lo, a large mammal strides across the scene. A man [almost sure male], not carrying anything sizable, no back pack, no hat [at least no prominent brim or peak], fully clothed, sleeves, trousers, shoes, probably black but not sure at this distance, exit stage R. Have never before seen any sign of people here, no vehicles, and the webcam is on this side of the river. Near its edge; only time anything but water visible this side was when the water was 3-4′ lower and bottom was dry. Peace,

    http://explore.org/live-cams/player/african-safari-camera

  24. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Good morning. Going back to sleep. Running on little actual sleep.

    Why do so many of my clothes seem to have Marilyn Monroe’s laundry tags? Well, this nightgown does. They seem to have run out of fabric to finish sewing the top.