Last week I showed you an old Sunday from 2009, featuring Ludwig at the game console. Since then, I ran across this one from 2008, which I like better. I think it has run on the Web site before, but here it is again. Apparently, Ludwig was just learning to play. He made a lot of progress in a year.
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emb: I always see your OF alerts an hour late. 🙁 But I decided to look anyway this time. You’re the expert here…. are all those smoke flumes (well, it looks like smoke maybe) from other geysers? It looks wet there- from rain? Or the eruption? Or maybe even dunking from fire planes? (Wasn’t Yellowstone another place with fires?) And Ludwig is a MUCH better video gamer than I! The nephew has given up on my ever learning to play Halo or any of his other games….
I am 71 and my other half is 84. We gave been “seriously” together about 5 years, although we were friends 5 years before that. I can honestly say that I am grateful that I have lived long enough to outgrow my youthful ideas and prejudices. I am happier now than I have ever been. I am finally at peace.
Very good. I am sometimes at peace, and particularly so when helping people who enjoy that. No single significant other at present, but who knows?
Llee: OF is one geyser in the Y. Geyser Basin, apparently the greatest concentration of geysers in the world. Most of the white stuff is steam but it’s got dilute chemicals in it you don’t want to inhale. I and family were there once, in ’62, and ran into very few smells. OF is neither the world’s most regular and frequent geyser nor is it the largest, but it is the largest frequent regular one. The basin is well above a large mass of hot magma, which has coated thousands of square miles with ash every hundred thou. yrs. or so, but not to worry: there are plenty of instruments monitoring it, and there w/b plenty of warning. When mega-volcano blows, there may be little loss of human life [if people behave], but it will do billions of $$ of damage. If it happens before the 2016 elections, Fox will blame xxxxxx xxxxx.
There are informative websites.
That’s neat, emb. Thanks! It is cool how the ….smoke? makes all kinds of patterns against the background. Have decided it is rain- and a cold rain- at the park. Folks are hurrying past as if trying to keep warm.
WOW! The rain clouds were making their own neat patterns and then WHOOSH it erupted and seemed to clear a path! Rain clouds on one side, clear skies (pretty much) behind it and man oh man it was neat. 🙂
Mostly steam, not smoke. Just missed and eruption, and folks are leaving under umbrellas. It’s rained lots out there last couple of weeks.
Possible light frosts, mostly in low spots, tonight here.
an eruption
Llee – It is 9:27 Indiana time. My post time will show 8:27. The time zones are off here. You might not be missing it.
I would like to vouch for the great benefit, blessing, and joy of living past 50 – every day is a gift, and as Charlotte said, we live life one day at the time. I believe “older and wiser” is a good thing; wrinkles are okay too. Most of all, compassion and love for others eclipses all that other stuff that seemed so important in our youth.
Heh, you guys can sing the praises of sag all you want. I know what I see every day. Old age is not for little Susie. The Boss Of My Life is 56. She says I can live here as long as I want. Our casa is free and clear to The Man In My Life and his will (I’ve seen it) gives it to her along with a pot of money. I suspect I will last to 50, but not more than a year or so past that. You all don’t believe me, but I know. And it doesn’t bother me at all. I’m having my fun.
The time predictions at the Old Faithful webcam site are given in Mountain Time.
The time stamps on our messages here at A&J, Inc. are in Central Time.
Lily, if you don’t want to live the final 30 years or so of your life, that’s fine with me. I just wish there was some way you could have transferred them to my sister. She would have loved to have them.
I would have loved that, too.
LillyBlack, you can always do what a friend of mine did: when he reached fifty, he started counting in the opposite direction. Instead of heading toward his second childhood, he’s on his way back to his first.
Sideburns, nice of you to post a photo – it avoids my imagining your appearance. The site also showed your interest in computers, but I can barely operate email, so that part wasn’t helpful.
Age: Mine lies between those of Galliglo & eMb, albeit not exactly halfway. Had I expired at, say, 50 years, a number of benefits would have been missed. Not the least would have been the increase in wisdom I truly needed (and still need)! On the other end of matters, our financial position then was typical, but now is far better than anything I could have imagined in younger days. My wife/kids would have been left with a 5-digit mortgage and little income (wife worked in daycare although having a degree and graduate work in education; daycare pays peanuts). A neighbor taught (by example) a lesson around that time and I adopted that policy for the benefit of others – perhaps the Almighty was using her to relay the lesson to me.
Yep, as far as I’m concerned, the years since 50 have been nicer than the years before 50 in almost all respects – and the major exception is probably not the one you are suspecting!
Good call on the bistro idea guys. I wonder what Gus will think of the idea…
Good morning Villagers…
Denise, I meant to thank you for your kind words of encouragement…and you are right, personal derailments does make one stronger. That last cleaning of the hen house almost killed me. I physically got down, and have no energy, picked up an upper respiratory infection. Feeling much better, and as we all know, if one doesn’t feel good physically, it does affect one’s outlook.
Gal, we women are like wine….the older it is the better it is 🙂
Well, I do believe with this front that went through chased the dog days of summer away…it will be a low of 45 degrees tomorrow night….where’ my flannel sheets?
At least it won’t be so hot as we continue to clean those stinking rods off, individually, with steel wool pads then applying a thin layers of mineral oil…..arrrgghhhhh. Spent about three hours inside the hen house yesterday, (and yes, I do use a dust mask) monitoring belts, rolling those stinking little eggs onto the belts and rescuing a couple of hens with their heads stuck in cage partitions. I cleared out my ICU cage to nurse back to health some distressed hens. I’m such a loon (and that’s a compliment Loon 🙂 )
GR 😉
today’s grin…. https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8311610368/hE0A9D792/
ya’ll have a blessed day
Debbe: You are SO right! Just no comparison between young and aged wine – and us!
@sevans1956: http://twitter.com/sevans1956/status/510058776561344513/photo/1. Not sure if you can se this…
Dearest Ghost, your words about your sister brought me close to tears. Very sweet and heartfelt.
Sideburns, my dear husband tried that for a couple of years, causing much amusement to the family; but sad to say, it didn’t end well. He’s gone now and I’m left behind.
Debbe, on a much happier note — so glad you are feeling so much better! You sure do cope well with all the problems that darned henhouse throws at you. We all missed your tough and humorous outlook on life, and are happy you are bouncing back.