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OK, so it’s not Saturday, as promised. It’s Sunday, but here’s the end of Harvey, as promised.
Hardly Harvey, fini
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69 responses to “Hardly Harvey, fini”
As I recall, Jimmy, I suggested the T-shirt the day the Cobra first appeared. I almost copied it and did a transfer to make my own but there would have been a copyright problem and I stay legal. Mostly.
Mindy, good to see ya. Don’t stay silent so long the next time.
Ah, Columbus, Ohio. What a night I had there in 1973.
This is the first time I’ve been this early posting. Sideburns, the closest thing we had to something fermented at my daughter’s reception was the vinegar in the barbecue sauce on the grilled chicken. It was a complete southern style lunch following a morning wedding. 😉 Debbe, Lilyblack was running at a pretty good clip to get that time on a marathon. A marathon is 26.2 miles which means she was running close to 7.5 minutes per mile. My husband is also a marathoner and has run over 20 marathons and/or ultras. He has slowed down a bit through the years but still finishes in around 4 hours. I, too hope all is well with GR and his mom.
Hello, the Village!
My Mom had her final radiation treatment Friday. She goes back next Friday for another progress check and to get the results of her final CT scan. But all appears to be going well for her, so I decided to decompress and do some “conscious uncoupling”* for a couple of days.
Debbe 😉 Ah, the Darksiders. And I had just mentioned a few days ago that they seemed to be making nice with each other. Shoulda known better. Take care of your finger. And Jackie, take care of all of you.
One of the best things about the InterWebNet is that it exposes you to people with different points of view. But unfortunately, one of the worst things about the InterWebNet is that it exposes you to people with some REALLY different points of view. Sometimes, when I run across some particularly wacko conspiracy theory-based site online, I read a bit of it for the entertainment value. But I quickly begin to think about the “minds” behind those theories, and those of the theorists’ true believers, and I often start to find it chilling. (And not “chilling” in the way TV news anchors seem to find half or more of life’s everyday events either chilling, scary, frightening or terrifying.) I’m not saying all conspiracy theories are wacko, but many of them….Wow!
* Quoting Gwyneth (“I am who I am; I can’t pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year”) Paltrow. Who also came up with, “You’re so handsome that I can’t speak properly,” when introducing President Obama at a political fundraising event she hosted at her posh Brentwood home. Good grief, lady. Get a grip. Or perhaps at least take another enema. Of course, she has also stated, “When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.” So at least she seems to be moved as much by the presence of our Commander-in-Chief as she is a zucchini plant, so…
“Pretentiousness, thy name is Gwyneth Paltrow.”
OF due 1728-1748 CDT, rain now, drops all over the webcam window. May be better in an hr. emb.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
P.S. Second panel is probably the last we’ll see of Janis’s bottom for a while. That may be a great relief to some people. Peace, emb.
Hellooooooo, Mindy!
The karate instructor hasn’t commented on Area 51. Yet. When she started 5 years ago, he was a fairly normal guy who had a great rapport with kids and was great at teaching karate. Over the past 3 years he’s gone vegan, started spouting off to the kids about “cleansing”, chakras, etc. Fortunately his mom has a school as well (his parents started the franchise) so I’ll be visiting that one soon to watch her teach a class or two. Maybe this nut fell far from the tree?
Mindy!!! Welcome back.
Stayed at my Mother-in-law’s condo and she gave up her bed for my wife and I. She did not read the notice that the condo mgmt had scheduled a power outage for 2:00 am. She has a security system and when the power went out it proclaimed THE POWER IS OUT, THE POWER IS OUT THE TELEPHONE IS DISABLED!!. Needless to say, our hearts were racing. Without my CPAP, it took a while to fall back asleep. Finally sleep came back and at 3:30 we heard ” THE POWER IS BACK ON. THE POWER IS BACK ON, THE PHONE IS ENABLED!” Nice to know that you are safe in those situations….if you don’t have a Heart Attack!
Ghost,
Best to your Mom.
The last panel of the last strip has always struck me as especially poignant.
Janis’ body language is perfect.
Thanks, Bob. She’s an amazing lady, not just for her age, but for any age.
Area 51, TR? I believe the CIA (and possibly the NSA) would prefer you call it Homey Airport. Or just Groom Lake. 🙂
Jean dear, thanks for the link to the Dragon*Con photos the other day. I now understand that is where many young ladies go when they want to get 80-95% naked in public. (As usual, I did the math. This time, lots and lots of math.) I still wonder what, if anything, all those Princesses wear under their harem skirts. But the most impressive (not to mention the most apparently pneumatic) female had to be the one cosplaying Jessica Rabbit.
Mindy, I remember you saying that about the Cobra logo. And you are still welcome to come out and play with us whenever you’d like.
I went back and tried to find where Jimmy talked about the origin of the car logo but could not find it as a part of any of his blog entries. Sadly, I suspect that was contained in the Comments section of an early blog entry and (as I may have mentioned once or twice) seems to have been eaten by either WordPress or the InterWebNet.
Jackie is in office, we all just went and ate Mexican food down the road a mile, giving another small restaurant a nice piece of money they weren’t expecting! And a waiter some good tips. I realized the reason I was probably shaking and trying to faint was I had been interrupted and not taken my medications all day!
Most boats have left and we will get serious about clean up tomorrow. Poor gardening lady will have to fill pot holes and track marks all over back yard, but I expected that. Her work in yard and the fall garden was greatly admired.
We have so many green beans to eat! We need to pick again tomorrow. They are so beautiful, long and straight, purples and greens and yellows, almost white, rattlesnake patterns. We let a few morning glories grow on the trellis’ which just looks beautiful.
We did not begin to raise as much as we wanted to for the American Cancer Society but that is OK, we have another event this week down in Port Aransas, TX to go to for the plyWooden Boat Show and will sell items and ask for donations for the ACS there and hopefully raise more. We are probably at over $3000 for a donation to ACS right now.
We sold raffle tickets for donated items which people enjoyed winning and trying to win. I won two items I really wanted and entered a lot of tickets on, the Dianne’s Rose shanty boat plans and a beautiful painting of a white egret chasing minnows. If you want to see a work of art in a shanty boat, google Dianne’s Rose.
It came from Canada and is fabulous boat.
Glad Ghost is accounted for, Debbe is under treatment for hand, the village is limping along! Lily, there is the opportunity to travel to interesting places in marathon running but you’d have to find a companion and some time off.
Love, Jackie
Forgot to explain why my grandmother would not move clock hands. She believed that God and Jesus had established time and days and hours in the Bible and that it was not created by man. She believed Daylight Savings time was a creation of the devil. So our clocks stayed set same way year round, which made you add or subtract to find true time.
She also made you quit working at exactly midnight on Saturday, even if you were canning a 100 quarts of beans. No work on Sunday except to feed people and wash dishes.
Love, Jackie
Jackie, I have to say that twice a year, for about a week each time, I have to hold with your grandmother that Daylight Saving Time is indeed the work of the Devil. 🙂
Big family reunion/birthday party today for my mother who will actually turn 89 in 3 days. My mother spent the day enjoying what she seems to love the most these days unfortunately-complaining. When she had friends and relatives that called her every day she complained about that and now that they are dead she complains that nobody calls her. She says that she doesn’t want to take a taxi anywhere and when she has someone that will take her to doctor’s appointments and grocery shopping that they want to hurry and get back to their own families. She could have a chauffer drive her around in a limo every day, but did I mention my father taught her that money is not to be spent on foolishness?
Good morning Villagers…
“Conscious uncoupling”??? Leave it to what’s her face 🙂 Glad all is going well with your Mother, GR 😉
Thanks Granny Carol for the stats….that’s some serious energy. I do a lot of walking in my job..up and down 600 feet of aisles every day…six of them. It’s not a steady walk, as every now and then I have to stop and pull out a distressed hen or a dead one. Sometimes I pull a wagon to carry them.
Ah, back to work today. We have shrink wrap which I think I’ll use to cover my finger. The “Barney purple gloves are snug and I don’t think the one index finger will cover my bandage. I;ll place the finger guard over it though.
Jackie…the radar shows a lot of rain in OK….bless your heart…and take you meds to day girl!!!
Ya’ll have a blessed day….
Hello Mindy 🙂
Good morning! Crisis besides the weather which woke me up with lightening, wind, rain, floods and no tv or net to see if a tornado was on way, listening for the sirens over the thunder and pounding rain, lightening.
No cat and dog food or litter. Dollar General here we come! One mile down road, God bless them, they get every $$$ I can give them in gratitude!
Have to tell you story about Rick Bragg’s (great writer) family plot which is right below the Dollar General sign in Alabama!
Love, Jackie
Re:4th comment from top, when I heard Paltrow’s teenybopper gushing, my first thought was, that this is someone very uncomfortable around black people or is actually racist and it’s a bumbling attempt at overcompensation……… …my wife has met Harvey, OMG the lawnmower tracked mud across the driveway !
Interesting take on the older of the Genesis creation stories; actually, the sequel to the story itself. At least, I think that’s what Tintoretto’s painting is about.
http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/
Busy; have a talk to give this afternoon. OF site is on hold of some sort.
Happy “Columbus Day” holiday to everyone.*
* Void where prohibited by law. Or by political correctness.
What’s next, Seattle and Minneapolis city councils? Changing “Independence Day” to “British Colonists Day”?
GR6, thanks for the clarification on the holiday. I thought it was “Columbo Day” and had been searching the tv guide for the all day PETER FALK marathon. Now I can just go to a tapas bar for a celebratory feast.