It turns out, 20 years later, that eggs aren’t bad for you after all—or bacon either if it isn’t highly processed, but that kind of bacon is hard to come by. It isn’t often you see this many people in an A&J strip! Maybe that will make a good theme for us here this week: other people in Arlo & Janis. To be honest, I’ll have to think about that one.
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Jackie, I seem to recall seeing movies portraying 1950s male HS students with peroxide-bleached hair, so that could have been a thing in the ’40s as well.
When Pneumatic & Pulchritudinous Hair Stylist and I were discussing hair color yesterday, she told me she’d once had a male client who wanted her to color his hair a uniform silver gray and how she had gone about doing it.
GR6: “That’s different.”
P&PHS: “He had a girlfriend he wanted to impress.”
GR6: “An older girlfriend?”
P&PHS: “Yep.”
GR6: “Damned if I’d ever do that.”
P&PHS: “You wouldn’t have to.”
Jeez, I was about to say silver hair wasn’t necessary. My late husband had beautiful silver hair, as do many of Portuguese descent. I should have been suspicious when he started coloring it since the silver didn’t bother me.
Nostalgia time? I rarely post music here, but just got an email from MPR.
http://www.yourclassical.org/story/2016/04/29/hooked-on-classics?utm_campaign=APM%20YC%2020160504%20K-tel%20EMAIL&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&utm_content=Classical%20disco
Not sure if the music starts right away or if you have to scroll down, but there’s 6 min. at the end. [He’s not conducting, just keeping the beat, though the pickup orch. seems to be live.]
Peace,
Debbe 😉 Technically, I didn’t forget your tune last night, I just fell asleep in my recliner before I posted it and when I woke up at some ridiculous hour in the middle of the night, all I could manage was to stagger off to bed. (I’m sure you can’t imagine what that’s like.) Consider me mortified, self-chastised, and suitably contrite.
At least I never stutter when I call someone “Baby”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cia_v4vxfE
Lora, I have your beautiful iris painting hanging in my bedroom to my left. My favorite flowers,, along with hydrangeas. Purples I love but it is the flowers that bring back the wonderful memories of my grandmother’s irises.
Thank you so much for sharing your gift. The check is in the mail and that is no joke. Love, Jackie Monies
Favorite flower? What comes to mind often is bird’s foot trefoil. Small but exquisite, common on moist roadsides, good N2-fixer [intro from Eurasia]. Peace,
OK Jimmy, this series is danged funny! You nailed drones in the sky phobia.
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Dare I admit I have several Hooked on LPs but from RCA not K-tel.
It must be the THUMP-THUMP-THUMP.
Have a feeling the colorful hair looks better in photos than real life – especially
after a few days.
Today’s A&J
I have been told it is against the law to interfere with a drone – but if one were
to be harassing me (over my own property) I would tend to ask forgiveness
rather than permission.
My fathers uncle demonstrated the resolution of crow eyesight when my father
was a lad in the old country.
Taking a broom and holding it as a rifle he stepped out of the house – no reaction.
Taking a rifle and holding it as a broom – all kinds of alarm.
While my brother & I were hand throwing skeet -many years ago – a crow made a turn just a little out of shotgun range, made an arc then continued on his original flight path. Impressive.
Good morning Villagers….
Can’t remember the coffee brand Mom and Dad, probably Folgers….as I am a Folgers girl, dark columbian flavor is how I jump start my day. And I save the plastic containers, take some to work to store ‘stuff’ in.
Anyone remember George Carlin’s take on ‘Too Much Stuff”? Must look that up, too funny, I remember.
Old Bear, you reminded me of a memory of my Uncle Ron (may he rest in peace) skeet shooting in the back yard of Mom and my Stepdad’s homestead.
Jerry, honk your horn as you pass through Indiana 🙂
Jean, those are some wicked hair colors….go for it. Loved the cotton candy one.
Mark…that sounds like a win, win situation.
Ya’ll have a blessed day…..
GR 😉 staggered, heh 🙂 Been there, done that!
something I just staggered on this morning….good song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSWdug1HiCg
everyone say ‘awww’
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Awwwwww 🙂 Good ones, Debbe- thanks!
Had not realized sharpness of crows. wow.
Jackie, I’m very glad you are happy with the artwork.
Jerry- layers. As the weather warms (if it does) you can peel off clothes and still be comfortable.
“hunk on Walnut” fluff the hair…. lol Jimmy! Now to today’s laughs……..
The last time I read an article about “drones” (the unarmed, domestic versions), about half the respondents seemed to be of the “I own the air over my property for as far as my shotgun can shoot and I’ll shoot down anything that invades my airspace that I damn well please” school of thought. I’m certainly happy that, back in the day, I never passed over the property of any of them, flying pipeline patrol in a Cessna at altitudes lower than many “drones” fly, while their spouse happened to be sunbathing au naturel in the backyard.
Passing time on patrol? And I worried if you still had a license?
From Wikipedia: The law, in balancing the public interest in using the airspace for air navigation against the landowner’s rights, declared that a landowner controls use of the airspace above their property in connection with their uninterrupted use and enjoyment of the underlying land. In other words, a person’s real property ownership includes a reasonable amount of the private airspace above the property in order to prevent nuisance. A landowner may make any legitimate use of their property that they want, even if it interferes with aircraft overflying the land.”[5]
The low cost of unmanned aerial vehicles in the 2000s revived legal questions of what activities were permissible at low altitude.[6] The FAA reestablished that public, or navigable, airspace is the space above 500 feet[7]
Except, I hasten to add, that the FAA may issue wavers for aircraft to operate below 500 Above Ground Level when not taking off or landing, which is how I could routinely and legally fly below 200 AGL while patrolling pipeline right-of-ways. Small comfort, though, if Bubba had decided he didn’t like me flying over his AGL pool while his sweetie Darla Mae was floating on a raft wearing her itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny yellow polka dot bikini (or less) and broke out his trusty 12 gauge Remington Express 870 duck gun. 🙂
Also, it seems the FAA has now claimed jurisdiction over airspace right down to the ground; otherwise they wouldn’t be able to regulate UAV operating in that airspace, which they now in fact do.
Arlo’s “skeet” shooting form is pretty much OK, except for closing his left eye. Why give up a large percentage of your vision and situational awareness by closing one eye? Of course, it’s still better than closing *both* eyes, which I suspect some folks do. 🙂
Remember The Pioneer Woman Defending the Ranch House™ in all those old Western movies? She’d point a musket in the general direction of a bad guy on a galloping horse fifty feet away; close her eyes and fire; and knock him right out of the saddle.
Saw a clip from a movie sev. yrs. ago where a woman with a pistol kills 3 mobsters in a moving car, and saves the kid therein. Sort of like the French Resistance woman in Pibgorn. Peace,
My favorite scene in “Miller’s Crossing” (one of my favorite gangster movies) was the one where Leo took out several rival mobsters sent to assassinate him (including some firing at him as they try to flee in a sedan), using a Thompson M1928 “Tommy Gun” with a 100-round drum magazine, while “Danny Boy” plays in the background.
Of course, he fired at least 500 rounds from that magazine without reloading but hey, that’s Hollywood for you.
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And here I am out just looking at wildflowers. I 40 in Oklahoma and Arkansas is pretty spectacular.
It was 35 years ago today that my mom was killed in a car accident, thanks to a not-sufficiently-attentive driver. The driver was a friend, doing a favor by driving mom to the hospital to fetch my dad, who had been released. The crash was right in front of the hospital. When dad heard the hubbub and mom didn’t arrive, he knew….
To those villagers facing the loss of a parent – or who have already lost same – I still don’t know whether a swift loss is better than a slow decline. Given that all humans must die, I can see benefits/detriments to each course of events.
On a brighter note, my nephew’s wife – who has had a LOT of problems getting pregnant and staying so – just had an ultrasound and it shows what certainly seems to be a well-formed child. Yay! They do have one child already, thanks to IVF and a lot of health care, so this will be a second. Hard to imagine the $$$$$$ involved for all the cyclic attempts; it would not surprise me to hear it topped $200K.
Pax vobiscum.
Speaking of “Awwwww” (and Debbe and Llee were), I had to make an early afternoon run to the Post Office and passed one of the large downtown churches where a pre-school class and their two teachers were headed across a parking lot for, I suppose, a field trip. The brightly dressed four-year-olds were marching in-trail between their teachers, each of them holding onto the tail of the t-shirt of the child in front with both their little hands. They reminded me of a line of baby ducks, and they were so disgustingly cute I just had to say “Awwwww!”
And I’m not even an “Awwwww!” kind of guy.
The discussion of airspace reminds me of the controversy on the beaches where “land” owners want to fence off all of the beach behind their house right out to the water and prevent anyone from walking on “their” beach. Large condos have fences from building to building and security guards that will prevent you from walking through their parking lot. No one should have ever been allowed to build on the beach and eventually they even moved the road away from the beach so that you can’t even drive along and look at the beach. It’s the golden rule. Them with the gold makes the rules. Debbe, I’m not looking at my schedule but I think that will probably be about Friday. I hope that all of your girls are staying healthy. The talk of guns reminds me of a western, I think that one of the stars was Val Kilmer. He was shooting everything in sight and turned to the camera. You could see right through the empty chambers of his six gun.
Today is Cinco de Mayo, which celebrates the Mexican Army’s victory over French Army units at the Battle of Puebla on this date in 1862. On paper, the Mexicans should not have won. But it was, after all, the French Army.
Enjoy your tacos and enchiladas. And no, that’s not “cultural appropriation”, whatever the hell that is supposed to be.