This comic strip from ten years ago this month is an excellent example of the subtlety for which A&J is known. Subtlety usually elicits one of three responses: “That’s cute;” “I like funny comic strips,” and, most often, “I don’t get it.” I suppose this particularly strip could have been made better if I’d added a thought balloon in the first panel, reading, “Boy, I really do like to relax and do nothing in the beautiful spring weather” and another in the second panel to the effect, “I sure do like to work hard in the yard and garden when spring finally comes!” I’m sorry. I’m not talking about you. You wouldn’t be here if you didn’t get it. It’s just that I woke up in a snarky mood.
Feverish Plans
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317 responses to “Feverish Plans”
Crummiest eruption I’ve seen lately. Didn’t really go off until 2 min. after the 20 min. window. emb
OF due 1855-1915 CDT. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Oh David, very sorry your day has been so rudely interrupted. Did you have to wait very long in the ER? (That can add insult to injury.)
Hoping that whatever is wrong “can easy be fixed” as a long-ago auctioneer used to say of any broken pieces of old furniture. Wishing you the best treatment and recovery. Love from Charlotte
had to jump in here real quick, and will exit the same, but I saw this some nights ago 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt6jZHvVNA8
where’s the warm blooded reptile now 🙂
No, and no, to your queries, Sandcastler. She has tried the banjo and the bass guitar, but stayed with neither. She loves rock music and attended many live concerts with her ex. She does like Chinese food. 🙂 and can operate a snowblower.
Thanks Charlotte, it was a very long, long-shot.
David, I pray that all will be well with you. Hope you get great doctors who know exactly what to do. After the loss of my cat this week, I have been in quite a funk. I talked to my neighbor about his dog, and he, of course, was very sorry. He is truly one of the nicest people I’ve ever known, which is what makes this so difficult. He did offer to find another home for his dog, and although I did not demand it, I hope he does. Soon.
Out of the ER after only 3.5 hours! CT scan determined that I have a growing seroma (basically a bruise from clear cellular fluid with minimal red blood). Good news that it isn’t a hernia. Knowing that, I just have to live with the discomfort until it reabsorbs. Thanks for the prayers and well wishes. 🙂
Good news is always good news. I swear I am swearing off of all chowder and fried food for life but I am like an alcoholic at a bar I know better than go to
That is good news, David! Blessings!
More prayers headed your way, David.
Good news, David.
More good news…I found Naked Janis. (It’s from not long after my sister passed away, which would explain why “memory-chaining” failed me. That’s not a period of time I particularly want to remember.)
What did you have, Jackie? Fried clams with clam chowder on the side? Don’t feel too bad; corn and crab bisque is my guilty pleasure. Well, my food one. 😉
David, good news is good news.
We’re still enjoying the aftermath of our noon time pulled pork. Nice place, great outdoor seating, fine German beer, the pig keeps reminding us we ate him.
That is good news David.
Cute commercial Debbe.
Ghost, your memory still failed you. Where’s the link to Naked Janis?
sandcastler ™ sounds like a good lunch, except the beer. Went to an Indian place today. Chicken curry, vegetable sharma(I think that’s the name), some spicy green bean/potato dish and a dessert similar to donut holes served hot in a flavored syrup.
In the fullness of time, Mark, in the fullness of time.
For some reason all this talk of food is making me want some Thai. Not sure of the causation relation there.
My guilty pleasure too in food but this was wild caught shrimp and mushrooms with mahi, lobster and shrimp, sweet potato fries. I am eating leftover mahi and BS is at 99.
I will probably get points with my fly fishing endo guy. Just visited through Pilar fill in Boat and bought a tee shirt with mermaid that says Carpe dium. Got on at Buffets that said growing older but not up.
This phone keeps putting words in my mouth. I am not claiming them but I did eat the food
Michele hates food here. Driver position is open again .
Jackie, sweet potatoes are a good choice for those of us who have to watch their blood sugar. Not only do they have less carbs than white potatoes, their glycemic index is lower. (That means that they don’t cause as much of a spike in your glucose reading.) You can even shred them and make “hash golds” out of them, seasoned with cinnamon, nutmeg or pumpkin pie spice. And, of course, they’re a great source of Vitamin A if that’s a concern for you.
David, I’m taking Calcium (with Vitamin D) and Magnesium, both twice a day, by prescription because of osteoporosis. If you have to avoid sunlight, and aren’t already taking all three, you may want to ask your doctor about them. BTW, we all know that milk is Vitamin D enriched, but what most of us don’t know, is that the only milk that gets enriched is what you buy in the market to drink. Milk that’s being made into ice cream, yogurt, sour cream or cheese doesn’t get the extra processing.
OK, this is different…
http://www.amazon.com/Spam-Macadamia-Nuts-4-5-Oz/dp/B004N9RTRQ/ref=pd_sim_gro_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=11QSAYD4FPEPBB1JBPPJ
Now this I might have to buy for my emergency larder. I mean, really, when would there be a better time to eat Spam than during a major disaster/emergency? And in six different flavors?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DGHJSQQ/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00DGHJSQQ&linkCode=as2&tag=vifrthpo-20&linkId=HQLHZSD53S4KOSNE
Sideburns I am from Louisiana and my family ate sweet potatoes daily worse than Scarlett O’Hara s bunch after the Yankees left. I love them of course in any form.
When I was in school my prof went north for a seminar on the train . It was a long time ago. Anyway, the guy next to him struck up a conversation and prof said seminar on sweet potatoes. Man assured him the family ate them all the time. How often? Every Christmas and TG.
I haven’t eaten Spam yet and it is not on my Bucket List
I have, and it shouldn’t be.
Peace, emb
Nighty bunch.
Spam did as much harm to the people of the Polynesian islands as anything else we introduced.