It might be a bit early for a cartoon about raking leaves, but not if you have pecan trees. They’re the last trees to turn green in the spring and the first to shed their leaves at summer’s end. Plus, they’re very bad about dropping huge living limbs without warning. Normally these characteristics are ameliorated by a crop of delicious and useful pecans at least every other year, but around where I live it has been several years since a good crop of pecans, and this year will be no different. Plus, in a land that at one time was awash in an overflow of tomatoes from Independence Day thorough Labor day, cultivation of the tomato has become very problematic for home gardeners. Those lucky enough to have a crop by early July can almost count on the vines withering away by the end of the month. All I know is, things aren’t what they used to be. Happy Labor Day!
But it’s Labor Day!
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131 responses to “But it’s Labor Day!”
Now, I am back to the ENG board. This is something I never knew existed.
Good morning Villagers….
Well, glad yesterday is over, now for tomorrow’s whether.com forecast….80 degrees. Heck the low by the end of the week is going to be 48….I see we will be closing windows in the hen house.
Gary, never got around to ‘frying that egg on the steps’ yesterday. When you said ‘grits’ the first thing that came to mind was that infamous “grits, dummy’ from the movie “Roots”
Never EVEN heard from my birthday boy yesterday….and Andrew and I left a singing birthday wish on his voice mail.
I love the gas being cheaper…..someone said it’s supposed to go down to less than $2/gallon here. Then I will fill up, but I use a higher octane in my ‘Suzi’. I also get better gas mileage when I use the higher octane….
Ya’ll have a blessed Monday on Tuesday 🙂
GR 😉 I rode that magic carpet while chasing rabbits…. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_raXzIRgsA
..then there are those who have too much time on their hands…get it? hahahahahaha
http://cheezburger.com/8559392000
To the Windows 7 and 8 users:
Because I was using 8.1, I was able to upgrade to Win10 for free; I like it much more than all of the other OSs that I have used since 1984.
However, if you upgrade, you will need to reset the privacy settings.
Also, if you don’t want Microsoft to use your available bandwidth and your machine to send updates to other computers (as well as receive them from others), you will need to disable that function.
The number of services increased quite a bit, and I am in the process of disabling many of them. Because many of them are new, I am researching them as I have time.
Two features of Win10 that I especially like: 1.) The replacement for IE is Edge, and it’s extremely good. 2.) The voice recognition/dictation program is well done. I have used Nuance Dragon Naturally Speaking for about four years, but I doubt that I will ever upgrade it again. I consider the Microsoft program to be a Dragon Slayer.
GR6 @ 7:36PM mentioning Crown Vics, reminded me of the 50th anniversary Edsel made from a Crown Vic
http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/features/flipping_a_flop_the_edsel
CXP,
For the alt-key feature, hold the ALT key and enter the numbers on the numeric keypad on the right of the keyboard. The numbers across the top won’t work.
Neat article about the “50th Anniversary” Edsel, John. Although I understand that, back in the day, teenagers had a different name for the “impact ring” design feature on the front of the car…perhaps the real reason they never caught on with the younger crowd. 😉
For all of you who want to enter special characters, here’s a listing of the codes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters#Latin_script
CXP, as David says, you have to use the numbers on the keypad and the num lock shift has to be on. Some keyboards don’t have that rightside key pad and the keypad numbers are on the keyboard on the I-O-P, K-L-: etc keys, reached with the num lock on.
Another thing I thought of – the cursor has to be where you want the special character.
Forgot about the side # keys because that is all I use.
cep
As for all the keys in the Swe keyboard – get a blank piece of paper and just push keys
Ya! they do change don’t you know.
Ya! they do change donät you know.
Not that different for above
!”#€%&/()=?`
1234567890+´
qwertyuiopå¨
asdfghjklöä
zxcvbnm,.-
Is the Swedish keyboard
Old björn, tack så mycket!
Debbe 😉 Playlist Two, Song the Eleventh – When one door closes, another one opens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLdvnQD_eio
I didn’t understand everything about Laugh In, but as a young teen I did like her:
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/09/08/judy-carne-star-laugh-in-dead-at-76/
I considered Carne the brightest light in the Laugh In show.
Good morning Villagers….
Sad to hear about Judy Carne, I watched that show faithfully…loved the scenes between the dirty old man and the old lady with the handbag..with him getting ‘bagged’. Then there was Lily Tomlin as the telephone lady…”we don’t have to care, we’re the phone company!” And how true that was and still is 🙂
Spoke to Ian yesterday, and he really likes his job…does a little of everything, waiting tables, cleaning up, and even playing ‘chef’. I’m happy for him.
I really don’t know what you all are talking about, I’m still in the dinosaur age with my OS….
Cooler weather today…..and it’s about time.
Hey..what day is it?
Ya’ll have a blessed day
GR 😉 this morning, I’ll be driving to work to this……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv8GW1GaoIc
today’s grin…..
https://i.chzbgr.com/full/8560160512/hBEE4FB8B/
I have 2 large and 1 small pecan tree at my house (a mobile home). The squirrels love to run across the roof of the house (one sounds like a herd of elephants) then get into the tree out back and eat the green pecans. They drop onto the roof of the house and my garage and it sounds like I’m being invaded. My mother didn’t believe how loud it was so I video taped the sound. Very interesting.
We don’t have pecans here, but I do have a Meyer Lemon tree in the back yard. Not only are they better than regular lemons, they’re much bigger than the Meyer’s you buy in the market for three times as much as regular lemons cost. I also have rosemary growing out back and a thyme plant in a big planter out front where it catches the morning sun. Fresh herbs are much better than dried, especially if you can grow your own.
Hard to believe no one here has mentioned the return of Gene and ML to the cartoon. But I’m sure there were some real gems posted over on TDS, where they should have a daily MIAMA (“Missed It A Mile Award”) for comments.
A small herb garden was one of my good intentions that fell by the wayside of the beaten path this year, but that’s spilt milk over the dam now, Sideburns; perhaps next year. (I claim the daily award for mixed metaphors.)
One of my favorites was always, “I’ll burn that bridge when I come to it.”
GR6, that last quote sounds like General Sherman’s trip South.
Weather Channel is calling today Webcam Wednesday so here’s my current favorite – http://explore.org/live-cams/player/shark-cam
Very soothing to watch all the little fishies while you wait for the occasional shark, ray, or turtle. Plus you can play Name that Fish 🙂