Since we’ve been at the beach since early last week, I thought we’d stay there. Here’s a little something from summer of 1996 for you to enjoy, and the comments will reset. What more can I do this morning except promise to do better. Happy Birthday, United States!
Happy 4th of July!!!
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108 responses to “Happy 4th of July!!!”
Sorry to read that, Jerry.
Am watching the western sky and sunset from my hotel in Idaho Falls which of course is in Idaho. Here to see a friend with 40 things that float, although he says 30 have migrated to another of his homes. I told him I would look at what was left!
There is the biggest fireworks show west of Mississippi River here but hotel says it will take me three hours in traffic jam to return to hotrl. I will skip and go to pool and exercise! Thousands were floating the rivers as I drove here today, some in huge multi float raft ups flying American flags.
Love Jackie
Wow! I just got home from a great fireworks show that our town puts on and what do I see? A&J is back! I missed reading the comments every day. Thanks JJ.
For NK in AZ, word choice does matter: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/06/09/Newspaper-headline-hails-debut-of-amphibious-pitcher/2131433874904/
Debbe 😉 Did you miss me, hon? 🙂 Glad your Dad did OK. A flirt, huh? He and I might get along.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0nc-hh9viQ
So happy to see the site working again — I’ve missed it so much.
Jackie, you seem to be having a great road trip. Skipping the fireworks was the best thing to do, I believe. I myself have gotten very tired of the sheer noise of the event. My house is not far from the field where the fireworks are set off, so there’s no escaping it — I can sympathise with peoples’ pets. And I can’t help sighing over the waste of money. I know it’s debatable, but there are more important things it could be used for.
I have a friend who claims to be ambidextrous…she says she can drink with both hands.
Charlotte, I always felt the same way about Mardi Gras parades and balls. While I have enjoyed them in padt, I have always known the money could be spent on better things. As well as the money spent cleaning trash for months that is thrown on streets by revelers.
Good morning Villagers….
The Village Orphanage Society…..lol, that is a good one 🙂
Gosh, I’ve missed this place every morning….you guys are the greatest.
Thank you Denise, I’ve been doing so, so…the weather has been cooler, but the humidity is high.
Got to work last Thursday, and I slept thru a deluge. The creek that runs beside the hen house came out of it’s banks. Washed away some of the gravel and dirt foundation under the bridge. Had that fixed, The Boss’s nephew came in and reinforced the sides with I beams and then filled it with dirt and rock….the way it should have been done in the first place. We even had to get out of the car and remove debris laying on the bridge. There’s a pile of egg shells off to the back, and you can see the water line. The Boss is going to have to do some major work soon, or we will be losing our two grain bins.
And my Miss Prissies are cooing and cackling and laying, and my roosters are crowing…all is well inside the hen house…it’s that stinking packer and the thin egg shells that are killing me as well as the 100 percent humidity that is in the packing room. Have a digital thermometer and it also gives the relative humidity.
Yes, GR 😉 , why yes, I missed you. You and my Dad would get along. He is very flirty….for being 83!
They put a stint in his left artery going into his led…. and the doctor said they couldn’t do anything about the smaller vessels in his legs. He stayed overnight, my sister Brenda picked him up, and that afternoon I tried to call him…he was already out and about
Actually I enjoyed my time with my sisters that day, we laughed a lot and I learned a new phrase…my other sister, Jacquie, was called my Mom’s name by her husband….Jacquie stomped her foot on the floor and told him if he ever called her Dolores (mom’s name) again, she would Kill him, cremate him and then use him for liter…..hahahaha!! Loved it.
Steve….we’re going to have to rip out our carpet too. Not looking forward to that, but when one has cats, they do have a tendency to mark their territory…the worse are the females. I am down to three inside cats and one that comes in and out.
Going to work with Skittles today….hope Indy Mindy checks in soon….been thinking of her also.
Ya’ll have a blessed day
Oh, and when I clicked your link GR….it says I need to update something…will get my geek son to look into it. When I hear Frampton’s songs, all I can think of is his hair….he had big hair 🙂
And what is that thing that he and Joe Walsh put in their mouths to make their voices sound electronic?
I’m so sorry for your loss, Jerry. Many of us are, or are close to being, the oldest generation in our families, and it certainly is an odd feeling. I kind of feel as if there’s a big void on one side of me; that void is full of all the wisdom and knowledge my elders possessed, and I don’t feel I have the experience or right to claim that I possess it, too. Yet I know that I need to be for the younger family members what the elders, in their best moments, were for me.
Debbe, I’m so thankful the surgery and the sister experience went well. Maybe they’ve managed to move past some of their misconceptions? The stent will make a world of difference for your Dad—it did for my Mom. He’Ll be flirting on two feet for awhile to come!
Jackie, it’s true that the novelty of fireworks and mass celebrations wears off, but the people watching is always new and different!
MIndy, if you have a chance, drop us a quick line to say you’re still beating their furry little heads down.
Jerry in FL, I think this is what it was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocoder#Uses_in_music
It’s good to be back in the Village again!
I saw a sign yesterday that I laughed a lot at: Happy Traitor’s Day, you ungrateful Colonials!
Jerry, I, too, am sorry for your loss.
We had carpet in our old house, and when we were getting ready to move we had it steam cleaned, but there was still a cat smell on one section in the hall. Husband pulled up that section to replace the padding, and said even with vacuuming and cleaning it was still so filthy if we had put carpet in the new house he would have ripped it all out!
Now we have what I call “mo-hair floors”: mo cat hair on the floors than on the cats! 😉
Jerry, sorry for your loss. The older you get, the few relatives there are. My grandparents are long gone. Both my father and FIL have passed. Most of my aunts and uncles are gone. And I have lost some cousins. My mother, MIL and siblings are still around.
Jackie, I have been to the fireworks on Parliament Hill in Ottawa a few times when I was younger (and stupider) but I doubt I will go again. It takes forever to get there (usually parking at least 10 miles away and finding a bus to downtown) and you are packed shoulder to shoulder. I think I would rather go to the fireworks completion across the river.
Debbe, flirting at 83 helps keep you young and alive. I like your father already.
Trapper Jean, we had to replace all of the carpeting in our old house before we could think about selling it. Criteria for the new house was 1) no carpets and 2) no fireplace. Although it would be nice to have a fireplace for emergency warmth, we never really enjoyed it. It was messy and drafty and really restricted furniture placement.
OF due at 11:41 MT, give or take :10, so the site claims.
In my family, my generation is now senior, and has been for at least 8 years. I am among the youngest of several cousins, although not the very youngest. Some of my cousins are older by 15 years, maybe more.
Sorry for your loss, Jerry. Those events seem to be happening more often, the older we get.
Debbe 😉 Sadly, Frampton’s “big hair” appears to be no longer (although it certainly appears to be shorter). I suppose that’s what happens when geriatric rockers reach Medicare age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN0fneIQhJk
Jerry in FL, Sorry for your loss. I have my mom and her brother, and that;s it for that generation. Mom will be 86 in about a week, still gets around pretty well, but her short-term memory is not good. I’m glad you still have your mom too.
And on the voice thing, my first guess was wrong. I think this is really what you meant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_box
Mark, I laughed out loud—and then sighed in despair that we see this kind of thing so OFTEN nowadays in what are supposed to be professionally-written papers or magazines!!
NK, two of my favorite books are collections of press errors. They are from the Columbia Journalism Review. One is titled: Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge, and the other is Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim. Some are photos with unintentionally funny captions, others are poorly thought-out or misspelled headlines and some are badly-worded paragraphs.
Here is one example: http://www.sparselysageandtimely.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/pot-on-ship.jpg
Mark, I appreciate the information and I thank everyone for their kind comments. We have all heard that as we get older we trade places with our parents and they become the children. Unfortunately this is very true in the case of my mother. From the loving person that she used to be she has become a cranky two year old who goes back and forth from withdrawing from the world and wanting nothing to do with anyone to wanting everyone’s attention and thinking that she can control that way that everyone else behaves. I understand that she is 89 and has gone through a lot, but it is still difficult to deal with. I am very patient but when my wife or sister-in-law gets in an argument with her it puts me in the middle and wife, if you are reading this, you know that it’s true. I hope that I don’t become that person in years to come.
I have loved those kind of errors since the ever popular shot in the fracas. On the other hand, I hate to see obvious misprints in best-selling books. Doesn’t anyone proofread this stuff?
Layers and layers of editors. Some of them apparently only semi-literate themselves.
It’s worse these days when the software “corrects” back to a mistake that a human has already fixed. At least in the old days, it was strictly human error. And people have come to depend on spellcheck as much as GPS, with similar results. You know where you want to go, but the AI doesn’t necessarily know how to get there.