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!!!”
I think that most writers simply trust to the spelling checker on whatever word processor they use and don’t use proofreaders as such. That means, among other things, that nobody is looking for cases where a word is properly spelled, but isn’t the write word, such as getting “their,” “there” and “they’re” mixed up. And, if your program has dictionaries for more than one language, it’s always possible for it to use the wrong one, with very odd results. I know that one from experience because my copy of Firefox has been known to switch from US English to English, Zambia on it’s own.
Oh, how true, Mark!!!!
I HATE it when the computer tries to think for me. And I have turned OFF grammar check. I am a better grammarian than AI! So there, I rant.
sideburns, isn’t the write word. Spellcheck or you?
I think that it’s funny when you use the same word twice in a row and you know that that is going to look strange.
And here’s one of my favorites-cattywampus. Even spellczech doesn’t approve.
Being treated royally across the West. Had eggs Benedict at 7 a.m. and delicious, best thing I can say was I substituted sauteed spinach and sliced tomatoes for potatoes. In Idaho.
Just had yummy salmon grilled and waiting to go exercise in pool, if dinner quiets down. I love these guys out here, this area is all about celebrating the outdoors with rafting, wind surfing, sailing, scuba, motorcycles, dirt bikes, hiking, running. Skiing too. I feel like a slug in comparison. But I love everyone I have met, so down to earth and real.
Love Jackie
This computer doesn’t have any Spellcheck anywhere, except for the Windows Live Mail, for Email. That just puts a red line under wrongly spelled words, it doesn’t try to think for me. Plenty restful compared to the aggravation you folks have to put up with.
My cousin Paul and I seem to be the last ones left of our generation in our family. He seems ageless, is very fit. I don’t like getting older, but it’s better than the alternative! Paul and his wife hosted a family reunion at their home on a back road, yesterday July 4. It was great seeing cousins we haven’t seen for years, many of whom we see on Facebook, lovely talking with them in person! Cousin Debbie came from Wales, in the UK. Of course, she and her husband had several events and destinations to visit, lots of planning. They went to a wedding in Nova Scotia, her niece. Cousins from Maine, New Jersey; two of my children from Vermont, two more from NH. Good friend Dudley played a tune on his concertina — he’s a renowned contra dance caller — Sandy from NJ was recording this by video on her Smartphone, and I’m watching him playing really and on her screen at the same time. What a wonderful world we are living in — in many ways!
Debbe 😉 Ever take one of these, hon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEEzbFxEbB8
I use the term spelling checker instead of spellcheck, Mark because I know too many people who would think (or, at least, pretend to think) that I was trying to make sure that magic spells were set down properly.
Good morning Villagers….
Cattywampus!!! I hadn’t heard that word in a long time Jerry…..must use it today 🙂
Jerry, I think we share the same mother…….I’ve also been wanting to ask you, since I know you are a Robert Duval fan, have you seen the movie “The Judge”? If not, you need to….great movie with Robert Downey Junrior.
My son is the last of the surnames, my paternal grandfather had one surviving brother, and he had just one child, a daughter. Then my paternal grandparenst only had one son…Dad, and he told me a couple of weeks ago that the only good think my Mom did was give him four beautiful daughters. When I gave birth to Ian, I decided he would carry my maiden name….so if he doesn’t ever marry and have a son….the surname will go down with him.
One of the commentors on TDS is wondering why all the strips of music lately…..maybe because we post a lot of U tube links…..
And it’s a Monday morning….and ya’ll have a blessed one
=^..^=
You betcha GR 😉 rode right into…….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCkHanF4v1w
I know, 17 minutes long….I remember playing that album on a portable record player over, and over……way back in the late sixties….were they called phonagraphs?
And this is why I don’t have house plants….
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8505889280/h1E5695B1/
….and Sandcastler has been MIA too….
I figured someone on TDS would wonder why Arlo thought the fly catcher was a hookah. Because, as Debbe said, “late sixties”.
So Ghost, based on Arlo’s comment to Janis, I’m guessing you may be a fan of nude swimming? 😉
I couldn’t make this up, folks: there’s a store near me called “Hookahs ‘R’ Us.”
So here we are all up and bright eyed and bushy tailed. Oh right, that is my ten pound sleeping partner, Dickens the Wonder Dog kissing me.
David oh David! With straight lines like that you are just inviting naughty comments from some of us. How about sleeping? Sunning? Janis hates tan lines.
Love Jackie
Debbe, That 17 min version was my first attempt at converting my vinyl to CD.
Debbe, I did see that movie and it was great, like everything else that he has done. We sat down and watched To Kill a Mockingbird about a year ago. It was the first time that I had actually watched the whole movie from beginning to end and I loved it. It’s hard to believe that was his first movie. I remember The Apostle and I would like to see it again. My grandmother was one of 10, but none of her brothers had any children. I have one male cousin on that side of the family who married late and has no children. He has Parkinsons also and when he is gone there will be no known relatives with my mother’s maiden name. There are already no known relatives alive with my grandmother’s maiden name. There are family reunions, but no one there actually has that name.
There is a very poor quality black and white video of Iron Butterfly lip synching the song. I think that’s the only video. I suppose that anyone would have trouble with the complicated lyrics.
Yeah, David, I got it, too. But Jackie seems to be our current authority on skinny dipping. Unless someone is holding out on us. 🙂
One may only surmise that “Phantom Panel Five” would be Arlo saying, “Come back in the water, and I’ll show you!”
Best movie I’ve seen in ten years Of course, I could just stare at Blythe Danner all day . .. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ill_see_you_in_my_dreams/
Debbe, that song is used at the end of the movie Manhunter that we discussed before. It has a very powerful impact combined with what is happening onscreen.
Jackie…”Whole Foods Market is recalling Cherry, Blackberry and Peach pies produced and sold in four retail stores in the Southwest Region, which includes TX, OK, LA, and due to undeclared egg.”
A food product is being recalled because it contains…another food product. Life is odd at times.
Coincidentally, on the same day Janis blew off the idea of shorter shorts, I visited my pneumatic and pulchritudinous hair stylist, who was wearing…shorts. Not exactly Daisy Dukes, by any means, but definitely shorter, at 4.2 inches below the crotch, than the ones Janis was wearing.
Yes, I did the math. But of course you knew that, didn’t you? 😉 Plus, P&PHS has been working on her bikini bod since the first of the year, and I’d have to opine that it’s very much ready for primetime.
I love summer.