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”
You can glaze Spam with ham glaze and bake it. Pretty tasty then, cuts the salty flavor.
Debbe, there is some kind of gene link that causes deafness in blue-eyed white cats. If the cat is not entirely white, small colored patch somewhere, they won’t be deaf.
Jackie, have you seen the picture of the huge alligator on the golf course in Florida? I think the course was near the marina where they cancelled the Everglades Challenge. This one was estimated at between 11 and 13 feet in length.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/03/12/huge-alligator-take-stroll-on-florida-golf-course-goes-viral/
Grew up with gators able to come in front yard but didn’t . Not sure why?
Lost cat. Wanted dead or alive.
http://wonderly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/tomsan_schrodinger-s-cat.png
Schrodinger’s Putin: http://laaake.com/
Both funny Sand.
I have a great picture of a fifteen foot gator getting after me at Rockefeller Refuge in South LA as I was about to climb the first tree I could find. Gators are quick for a short burst. They are fed on Fridays at Rockefeller but they have to get out of the water to eat. I was on a group that was working with alligator farmers in the last century. We picked up eggs from huge nests and gave them to the farmers to hatch and they released 17% into the wild to replenish the gators. Now they are everywhere, almost like nutria. Rockefeller also had a gaggle of Canadian Geese that were permanent residents. They were big enough to stand by a pickup truck and gaze in the windows. I was blessed with an interesting career in South Louisiana.
Sandcastler….too funny…both of them.
Everyone on TDS is getting into this quantum theory PPCCBS…..but, stroll down to the last two coments….someone demands they call PETA and another asks “have you ever tried to put a cat in a box>? NOW….those two I are the most enlightening comments made so far 🙂
(PPCCBS = peepeecawcawbull$hit)
Mark…thanks….my Dad swore the cat could hear, but my Stepmom knew better, vibrations….and yes, I did fall far from the paternal tree 🙂
Heh, I do remember “Quantum Leap”….does that count?
Daughter just informed me that gators did come on bank and my crazy relatives shot them. I keep telling yall mine make Duck guys look normal.1
Ghost report, I had small size grilled Cuban shrimp on yellow rice with black beans and grilled vegs and a cup of Cuban chicken soup
Mark we are on way to ride Thomas the train at a train museum but museums closed for the season Thomas is doing a tour like a celebrity
Used to call on those gift shops down there and those gators were damn fast and they would toss out marshmallows to them which they did at Disney world long long ago as well. So the gators would wait for tourists
Loved Quantum Leap, not so much NCIS New Orleans
Jackie, novel approach to keeping tourism on check; feed excess tourists to the gators.
Jackie: Props for your excellent menu choice.
Jackie, so then they were tossed to the gators?
Great minds.
Actually Trapper Jean fried bologna is great when done right. I used to fix it for my b’fast before going to work in the afternoon. My daughter would come in about that time and ask for her slice of “pacmans”. Yes to her, and to me after that, a properly sliced fried bologna looks like Pacman. Now her kids have learned to ask for “pacmans” even though they have never seen or played the game. Of such things are family traditions made of. I always made enough breakfast for her to have part of it for an after school snack.
Loved Quantum Leap – feel the same as you about the NCIS New Orleans, Jackie. As for Spam – tried it once and that was enough. My Mama cooked real meals every day when I was growing up, including homemade biscuits, but sometimes when a meal called for sandwiches, we always loved fried bologna (baloney) with mustard on our white bread!
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Had “real meals” when dad was home; spam, eggs, tomato soup or bolonga when he was TDY.
More kids than I think I have seen or heard in my life. Chaos and crying The strollers are larger than some cars I have owned and may cost more. We are actually at the Miami zoo but the heat and humidity is bad. I got excited to see a Trane under the train but alas no air.
My godson was not able to have a birthday meal this past week, due to the hoards of spring-breakers swarming his favorite eatery in their resort-area home town.
“Bologna/baloney” reminds me of my childhood days when, if a sandwich was not made from sliced leftover meat, it was made with something that fell into the category of what we called “lunch meat”. In addition to the aforementioned baloney, there was, as I recall, chopped ham (which was likely little different from pre-sliced Spam), liverwurst, olive loaf, and paper thin slices of what purported to be chicken, turkey, beef and corned beef. I feel sure these are all still available in markets today, but I now prepare all my sandwich meats myself.
You may have moved way ahead of all candidates, Ghost.
Seriously I am noise intolerant and heat challenged and in the running for saint grandmother . The screaming is pretty serious in here.
For those interested, our neighborhood squirrel paid Blacklight a visit today. Relaxing kitty porch day has been ruined. Ifeel you follow my name, you can see the pictures on Facebook. Blacklight is now pouting on my bed. Unfortunately, I’m getting ready to change the sheets. Poor kitty.
I own an insolent cat too who has a look.
Jackie, they are doing a Day out with Thomas at a railroad museum south of Birmingham in April. http://hodrrm.org/body.cfm?id=97
I went up there last year when they had a steam engine to pull the short trip. Got there too late to look over the museum collection indoors, but did see the rolling stock outdoors. Would like to go again sometime. They don’t have an operating steam engine, but instead a father and son team who have restored several old saddletank engines truck them to different railroad museums so people have a chance to ride behind one.
Two years ago I went to the Gatorland zoo in Orlando. Old time attraction with a big collection of various reptiles. Very interesting place.
Here’s a link to the folks with the traveling steam engine.
http://www.haveenginewilltravel.com/