I’m back! I didn’t intend to be gone for so long, but I was traveling a bit, and working on other things a bit, and there were some technical issues, excuses, excuses, excuses. I thought a traveling cartoon from 2012 might be appropriate. I hope your Memorial Day weekend was a good one; mine was. We are having the exterior woodwork painted. That noise you hear are the painters scraping and moving ladders and jiving. They are right outside my work room (Office seems a bit of an overstatement.) today, making it hard to think of anything else. They’re nice guys, and they’re doing a great job, but I’ll be glad when they’re gone.
92 responses to “Home Affront”
Never cared for her work, but RIP anyway
Dave, that is very true, but you hear ’em long before you can see the teeth
Jackie, never saw that one. Link, anybody?
Jackie, one comment I’ll carry forward from day before yesterday…
I’m sure Mr. Snow told you about the spirit of the little girl who resides in the Waverley mansion, just as he told that story to us all those years ago. People are fascinated by ghosts, aren’t they? 🙂
And Lily, was that all that was written on the wall? Just your name? 😉
I don’t wanna repeat it. When I found out about it, I marched into that bathroom and scrubbed it off.
Hey, somebody just told me that the car A&J are lounging on in the header is a Ferrari 250 California Spyder. How about that?
Ghost, Mr. Snow and I exchanged ghost stories. And his dog and I loved each other. I actually never toured the entire house because he fascinated me too much. He was sitting out on porch all by himself with is dog and a cane. No one seemed to be paying him any attention. I notice things like that.
So, I went up and introduced myself, shook his hand and thanked him for opening his home to us and saving the house. We got along “like peas and carrots” as F. Gump said.
Then another of the volunteers, dressed in Civil War uniform, came up and started telling ghost stories. He belonged to a paranormal society and had studied Waverly’s ghost.
I grew up in a house with a resident ghost and have seen many since or at least experienced them. I am a believer.
Not long after my kids bought their Disney-like “haunted house” I was in house alone, heard children/girl running upstairs and a woman talking to her and following. I thought it was my other daughter and my granddaughter but they were not even there. That house also has lots of unexplainable events.
Love, Jackie Monies
Jackie asked, “Are WE really real?” I can’t speak for anyone else, but I am real Monday through Friday, and then I get unreal on the weekends.
Lily, for all I know, A&J are leaning on a “maniacal toon car.” For extra points, name the source of that phrase.
I thought A & J’s car was a Shelby Mustang?
Love, Jackie Monies (who actually doesn’t know!)
Lookie: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/240872280041990906/
Ghost, that sounds like out of the movie “Who Killed Roger Rabbit?”
Who by the way had GREAT and sexy girlfriend with fantastic headlights and a great rear bumper.
Love, Jackie Monies
Love Jessica Rabbit: “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way”.
Out in raised bed gardens finally trying to clear and plant something. Keep looking for the snake. I am like Janis.
I hate snakes!
Love, Jackie Monies
Jackie, snakes serve a pest control purpose. They will eat those pesky critters that would otherwise ruin your crop. As long as they are outdoors. Any annoying things that come indoors should be promptly removed to the yard where they belong! One of my friends defined the difference between a bug and an insect based on whether it was in the house or outdoors.
I still think it is this.
http://www.hagerty.com/price-guide/1965-Shelby-Cobra
I have had our garden planted since March: onions, squash (yellow and zucchini) peppers, radishes, and tomatoes. Herb garden has basil, thyme, chives, sage, mint, and rosemary, all arranged wagon-wheel fashion around a bay tree. The Man In My Life works on the flowers with a little help from me. He does love his roses
If you get over hating/fearing snakes in general, and learn how to tell species apart and whether you are likely to run into poisonous snakes in a particular place, life outdoors can be more relaxing. Also, such knowledge can have practical advantages. I may have run this by years back.
In some state and natl. forests in the Pacific Coast Ranges, where selective cutting occurs, sawmills produce lots of waste that makes good campfire wood. After they’ve cut a cylindrical trunk into as many planks, 2x4s, etc. as possible, there remain many slabs of outer wood + bark. At Lake Hebo [State Forest], about 3,000′ elev. in the OR Coast Range, the rangers piled such campfire wood in a square enclosure of wood rails in a relatively sunny spot. After a chilly night, red-headed garter snakes have to warm up before they can efficiently go about the day’s hunting for smaller critters, so scores sun themselves on this woodpile. Several campers around, but nobody ahead of me at the woodpile. I also trapped my first Mountain Beaver nearby [= common Coast Range primitive rodents not at all closely related to real beaver, nor to any other extant rodents.]
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Mountain beavers aren’t related to other beavers! Next you are probably going to tell me that prairie oysters are not related to other oysters!
GR 😉 I was just a messenger….yes, I noticed I was the last blogger….but, hey, who better???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKyFweWu0OQ 🙂
The worst snake I didn’t pick up was a multi-colored one that looked like a crumpled cigarette pack. I reached to get it and it moved and so did I.
We have a lot of small poisonous brown mocassins I guess? around here. One bit my hairdresser on the toe and it nearly killed him.
I know, I know, the good ones eat mice and gophers and things like that. But I am still afraid of them. When I lived in New Orleans my neighbor behind me let her boas out to exercise in the yard and I was always afraid one of them would be in my pole beans!
Lily, in Oklahoma we start planting as soon as the soil thaws normally but this has been an unusual year for me. I have almost $1000 of treated lumber still laying out by my back garden that was all rototilled and ready to install when Mike was diagnosed in late January with cancer. I am going to hire a carpenter to install it for me and then someone to fill it with compost and soil.
Love, Jackie Monies
Yep, and darning needles aren’t related to knitting needles, nor walking sticks to your granddad’s cane.
I did a search. It’s a USNFS campground, and is only 1,650′ elev. One comment complains about noisy young people parties there. We were there in ’62, in late July or so, and the other campers in the 12 campsites were mostly families, not noisy.
Today, we were talking about what to do after the inspection….Ian mentioned Rio….and then this tune came to mind…..love dancing to it….
Pablo Cruise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQS4OE_YoS4
I’ve always wanted to go to Rio
Jackie, it was too cold to plant in February. I mean for me. The ground wasn’t frozen or anything (I can’t remember the ground here in East Texas ever freezing). But the first nice weekend I got out and got busy. I am the Designated Gardner, except for the roses
Jackie….so did Indiana Jones….he hated snakes……
Debbe 😉 That CCR parody never gets old, as far as I’m concerned. Nor does Lorraine’s cleavage.
I recently ran across a version of that song by Willie Nelson and Paula Nelson, his daughter. It still sounded like “Lorraine” to me.
Speaking of which, this is for all the birds with broken wings I’ve healed over the years and then let fly away…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3PB1jWO3_E
GR 😉 I’ve heard the same version…via U tube…knowing Willie’s ‘select’ wordings…could have been a Lorraine in his life 🙂
Now you made me forget the next one….any who….here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Hy7uAb_eU&feature=kp
But before that, what did you think of Pablo Cruise’s “Rio”…I found it to be a pick up for me and I hadn’t played it in a couple of years…..
Jackie, you were correct about the “maniacal toon car” quote. You were also correct about Jessica.
My Dad always told me there were only two types of snakes to fear…dead ones and live ones.