Are you aware there are entire movies on YouTube? Most of them are old and probably no longer protected by copyright, but there are quite a few, including old naval warfare movies. (It’s true: if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all, but they remain one of my guilty pleasures.) Of course, I’m sure you already know this, but why doesn’t anybody tell me these things?
163 responses to “Finish Line III”
Hey Jerry, I fell in doorway and caught the right side going down on the door locks metal frame. I really did puncture it. Luckily they are real so no deflation.
Emb is with us still. He is back earlier in night.
Debbe is still at her dad’s and will be indefinitely. He is just old so nothing specific that can be cured. She misses us.
Today’s TIP BlogSpot. Favorite subject, realistic rather than idealized person, not bad comment. Peace,
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
Livecam highlights in Kenya. Peace,
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/african-safari-camera
Heads up for another phone scam: https://consumerist.com/2017/01/27/if-a-telemarketer-or-robocall-asks-can-you-hear-me-just-hang-up-its-a-scam/
Larsson’s painting is ‘Model Writing Postcards, 1906.’ Reasonably innocent. Peace,
Jackie, you wrote that the fall was your fault. I have been a klutz all my life—all my falls and other accidents have been my fault, but still hurt like h-e-double-toothpicks and have sometimes caused serious damage. Don’t blame yourself, sweetie. Keep close watch on your blood sugar, hydrate, don’t rush, keep walkways clear, maybe add balance exercises to your routine.
Jerry, emb is here, thank goodness, and so are you, also thank goodness!
sand, aren’t grenades called pineapples? 😉
Ghost wrote: “Probably a little more reliable than, ‘What is it, Dickens? Did Jackie fall down the well again?'” That just tickled my funnybone. Lassie-Timmy-well references are a guilty pleasure.
Mark, thanks for the heads-up on the new phone scam.
How to tell a ‘pineapple’ from a real pineapple [be careful / that pin!] Look down on the obvious plant thing from the top. Its segments form three interlocking spirals, three successive ## in the Fibonacci series: 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,… Lots of examples of these in plants anatomy [mentioned here before, maybe yrs. before some of you came to the Village]. ‘Seeds’ in a ripe sunflower, leaf whorls around a stem of some plants, leaf spirals in some succulents, scales in conifer cones, etc. Search ‘Fibonacci series in nature’ or some such.
Fibonacci did us a much greater favor: introduced the Indian [through Arabic] decimal ##, which displaced I, II, III, IV, … X, …, XL, L, XC, C, CD, D, … MMXVII, etc. Picked it up on gubmint[?] or commercial time spent in N. Africa.
Peace,
Hello all! Nothing really to say– except to acknowledge everyone. This place is a little like the Cheers bar. Names are known and conversation is friendly. Thanks.
Once you pull the pin, Mr. Grenade is no longer your friend.
Smigz if you had seen the position those exceedingly too tight yoga pants were in as I headed for bed to try and pull them up the rest of way you would have KNOWN the accident was my fault beginning with the part where I ate the food that put the fat back on me! With my hands full of s hoes, socks, jacket, scarf and purse.
I found the scarf on floor when I came in last night.
A friend asked if I was sure I didn’t want to go to emergency room?
I said no, they’d have to cut the pants off with scissors and while I had bought them on sale they’d been expensive originally!
By the way I wore them to gym not because I looked hot or they were comfortable but because neither they nor I were.
Some times I do things to remind myself.
How the other half lives. Guaranteed to make Southerners feel chilly, and perhaps grateful for where they live, unless they’re having a tornado or flood now.
Click on this site, bison calving* grounds in Saskatchewan, Can.
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/plains-bison-grasslands-national-park-cam-3
Make sure the sound is turned up. That sound is not static on your machine, it’s the same ever-present wind [not always this strong] that making the webcam shake] characteristic of the shortgrass prairie.
Those two lumps are bison. Do not try to pet them. People [foreigners!] live here, not in Grasslands Nat’l. Pk. itself, probably, but nearby, even N. of GNP. Americans live S. of this province; in W. ND, it’s much the same. Teddy Roosevelt wrote about it. Any further comment or comparison would qualify as politics, but it would be facts, not ‘alternative facts’.
*No calves yet, unless explore.org is streaming old runs. Calves come later; maybe I’ll catch them this yr.
Peace,
No bison calves yet, but there are seal pups in Maine – http://explore.org/live-cams/player/seal-pups-cam – and there will be hummingbird chicks before too long on another cam.
More proof most of us in Village might need Ghost’s research on alarms for ill or seniors or just live alone.
I was eating an English muffin with butter (my fault again) and it went down my throat and choked me (my fault, I know better and I was talking) person I was talking to had no idea what to do (my fault I had never said)
The choking makes me lose consciousness for lack of oxygen. This is because an ear nose and throat surgeon removed my epiglotis (spelling?) As part of my sinus surgery. No longer approved but I trusted him twenty years ago.
Try not to complain but many seniors die because of choking.
Jackie, what’s this about burying boats? Are you going ancient Egyptian on us?
Slow cooking chicken breasts with potatoes, carrots in a mushroom rosemary sauce. To go with brown rice and some corn for dinner tonight.
Tomorrow I am making a Polish dish called Golombki which I bet Smigz knows. It appears to be what we in South call stuffed cabbage rolls.
Make cabbage rolls and have made this version which is unrolled and made in layers like casserole, just in oven.
Am actually following recipes some. This one is a slow cooker cook book. Anyone here make this in any version?
No Jerry, I am giving them away mainly and trying to bury some of bad memories associated with them, keep the good ones.
Still have one or two thinking of keeping but not definitely. Maybes.
Just read MTM autopsy or death certificate. Which is scary. That is what I can get so easily because of the missing epiglotis and aspiration of food and liquids.
Jackie, you be careful! I worry about you down here in OZ!
I’d like to watch the live camera pix that are linked to by Villagers, and the “thumbnails” come up but when I click on some, nothing happens. What should be done to get them showing, anything special?
Jackie, Ghost, emb et al, I have a simple Medline connected to a landline phone. So far the only time I had to use it was when my daughter choked on a mint leaf (thick and fuzzy, you chew them for flavor and then spit them out; but she forgot about that part.) The emts showed up in pretty good time but by then it had gone either down or up, not sure. Anyway, I’m glad I have “the button” and am always careful that it’s on me. I got awfully tired of having that string around my neck and now pin it inside my shirt; easy to reach.
p.s. daughter is 50 years old, so you never can tell !
I’m happy that Jackie is doing okay, so far; but she’s skating on thin ice, it looks like. Just as I am myself.
Charlotte: I wish I knew the answer to your webcam question, especially since the view of the aurora in Manitoba is really nice tonight – http://explore.org/live-cams/player/northern-lights-cam Your chances of seeing them in person are a little better in NH than mine in FL 🙂
Miss Charlotte I no longer have a land line. We are in an area with one very small company serving only a few towns, no alternative. My late husband got angry, after 20 years and for reasons I’ll not go into.
So when I tried to reinstate they got ugly. Nothing like small people, small companies in small towns. No longer an option.
And I travel far too much.
Jackie:
Please get those knees done asap –
MIL did not so fell when one gave out.
Broke her hip – so that had to be done first.
It was only time she had the portable phone near
(We kept telling her to keep it near) still had to crawl
10 – 12 feet to call us.
emb:
Pine cones have same swirls — yes?
Was watching Mecum auctions this afternoon—-
Some really nice cars went for cheap prices – others not so much.
For Jackie a 2005 T-Bird $20,000 beautiful black.
A ’69 Mustang &36,000 did not make reserves.
For me — a 1950 GMC dark green and black Pick Up $23,000
A ’06 powder blue JAG $8,000
And for the really rich among us – A 2015 Porsche 918, no paint (Carbon Fiber) and cloth
seats (well they were Nomex) 1 million 475 thousand dollars