It’s Valentine’s Day, 2015, and it falls on a Saturday. You know what that means, don’t you? It means you won’t get into so much as a Burger King without a wait! Be sure to visit today’s A&J for my indirect thoughts on that one. Where do you get your ideas, indeed. Don’t get me wrong. I love a nice outing in a good restaurant, especially in observance of Valentine’s Day; I just make it a point never to go on Valentine’s Day! This allows for a truly romantic dinner in a peaceful atmosphere (at normal prices), plus it serves a secondary purpose if necessary: “Valentine’s Day? Don’t you remember that cozy little place we dined at last August!”
Happy Valentine’s Day!
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255 responses to “Happy Valentine’s Day!”
To expand on my statement of the other day that “Sex is dirty…if you are doing it right”, I’ll add, “If you want to (or are able to) watch TV right after you finish, you’re not doing it right.”
And Happy Valentine’s Day to all my ladies in the Village.
We did the nice French restaurant Thursday night. Tonight will be someone’s favorite roleplay game. 😉
Ghost you are a good motivational speaker and inspiration to us all. Sand, who gets to pick role?
From last of For What It’s Wyeth
Jackie @ 7:32 14th
Hear Hear
David
Prayers to you
Saw a thing about Oleo – “it is one molecule from being plastic”.
Well so is the stuff we breath and the stuff Jackie’s pride & joy floats upon.
Great cuisine = 40% butter
Hint – if that bottle of wine is not up to your taste, take a little butter before sipping.
(That from a PBS “How to taste wine”)
And some wine is like Ernie Mordue’s home brew – you are glad when it is all consumed.
sand and Loon could play “Naughty Combat Operations”. Shock and awe, you know. 😉
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Jackie, I would never be able to picture you in a “cheap bass boat”. (Say it fast) 🙂
Moonlight beach Mr. Ghost.
Ursen, I wish the vet had better news for Herman, but I’m glad he will be with you and loved for awhile longer. Give that little guy an extra hug from the Village!
David, what wonderful news! I’m praying for the best possible outcome.
JImmy, you know the best love is homemade…on tonight’s homemade menu is Hungarian mushroom soup, roasted red pepper and cheddar biscuits, a cuddle on the couch, and then…
Ghost, back atcha!
JJ, I agree with you on your above comments and today’s A&J. We had our Valentine’s dinner LAST night and will be enjoying our time at home tonight – nothing better than being together no matter what day it is!
And a happy, homemade day of love to all the Village. Love others, love yourself, and be open to being loved.
Who knew this line was from a love poem? (I posted this awhile back)
COME in the evening, or come in the morning;
Come when you ’re look’d for, or come without warning:
Kisses and welcome you ’ll find here before you,
And the oftener you come here the more I ’ll adore you!
Light is my heart since the day we were plighted; 5
Red is my cheek that they told me was blighted;
The green of the trees looks far greener than ever,
And the linnets are singing, “True lovers don’t sever!”
http://www.bartleby.com/246/209.html
That was in relation to Jackie welcome ANY time
So, I slept in! OF due 1134-1154 CST. Peace, emb
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Still Bathsheba’s bottom on the TIP BlogSpot.
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
I’ve not been able to find the chivalrous painting on the TIP comic.
Peace, emb
Llee: an artist with good Google skills 🙂
Jackie, what a beautiful love letter to Mike! (and I, too, wonder how Jethro gets those boats out of his basement!)
One of the many reasons I love you people—you watch NCIS! Best regards, Nancy Kirk
My wife is away for a few days with her mother, so I am remembering how I felt 33 years or so before I met her. One time though, I was traveling and took a female Quality Engineer to dinner. We were having a great time, laughing and telling stories when the waitress commented how nice it was to see a “long time married couple”having such a good time. We both laughed, especially when I told the waitress: “I can’t wait to call my wife and tell her you said that!”
If you know someone alone, today might be a good day ti do something nice for them….
So-so eruption, near the end of the 20-min. window, many jets largely obscured by steam moving obliquely toward the webcam. New prediction should be up soon.
I’m alone, but will collect hugs tomorrow at church.
Peace, emb
emb, here you go: http://www.illusionsgallery.com/Shadow-Leighton.html
It makes more sense now.
Happy Valentine’s Day to the ladies of the Village, and may it also be happy for their men!
Mark: Thanks. Wonder why it’s not been published before. Too mundane for some critic?
OF due 1311-1331 CST. Nice geyser blowing now, nw side of geyser basin.
Peace, emb
So, I mailed by deposit check off to Washington state. They are in boat show season so I may be pushed down the line of manufacture unless I got points accumulated with the company?
Each boat is pretty much custom made, one at a time. Got my cat food, resisted buying onion and potato sets as we are to have snow tonight I am told. Hard to believe, it is beautiful out.
Think I will go pick up meds and go on to Tulsa after I go get my yard man to fill my gas tank and my tire air for me on his third job. Also take him his money for time I was gone and thank him for the enormous, sweet deputy.
Brought my rock mason hunan beef lunch and need to pay him more money. Got the sweetest Valentine card from him and his wife featuring a kitty cat in a flower pot. I imagine I will get huge bear hugs from yard man. Hugged my Chinese/Vietnamese friends and told them I loved them. They always custom cook my food, give me more than I pay for and insist on giving me special “treats”. Ghost, I boxed up half the hunan shrimp but they insisted on adding more fried rice and added extra vegetables because they know I am a semi-vegetarian.
All in all, a good Valentines so far. I am headed to Tulsa to buy a Glock in case I have to pistol whip the ATT clerks. I think Martine is dead, along with Bert. This is worse than who shot JR Ewing.
Love, Jackie
The Hermanator says, “Thank you” Denise. Right now we have him on a soft diet from the dental work and going through the picky stage. He wants his crunchies, but can’t eat them for now. And nothing smells worse than some brands of canned cat food. It would curl the nose hairs of a buzzard.
Isn’t that true, Ursen? When Mike was stuck out in the Everglades with his sailing partner, the partner opened a can of human style fish and the sea gulls began to attack him. Mike said it smelled like bad cat food, Andrew denied it in print. Another friend said he was quite certain Mike knew the smell of cat food when he smelled it!
As the kids used to say, “Gag a maggot!”
I found human baby food, especially the meat ones, worked on my sick cats. I once nursed a cat that vet said would die back to health spoon feeding him meat Gerber’s. When he was too sick to eat, I made a slujrry of the baby food and water, drew into a hypodermic needle without a needle and squirted it down his throat. Every two hours. Learned this trick from a vet.
Love, Jackie