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”
GR 😉 I dedicate this one just for you….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTzGMEfbnAw
She was great in concert…worked then as a bartender at the convention center in Corpus…found the ‘boxed’ seats within in a sound room , with special speakers in the wall, and a perfect stage close up…..She was dressed in all white denim, complete with cowboy hat.
Debbe 😉 I don’t recall ever hearing that version of “Rio”. A foot tapper…I liked it. But boy, I do remember Juice.
This one is great slow-dance music. Or make-out music. No, I’m not implying anything. Why? 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obDo8Btfdhc
I miss Teddy.
Good night to all, and to all a good night…..supper’s ready…and my husband bought me some sweets to eat later….nothing like a big glass of milk with a chocolate cookie, oatmeal cream pie, and a good old chocolate covered Suzie Q….but, since I practice “responsible decadence”, I’ll snack on two of the three….with whole milk….it does a body good 🙂
GR 😉 it’s all a game of give and take:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ7uXX9K7Sk&feature=kp
…and I enjoy playing “tune tag” with you, my friend.
Now to hit the stir fry……
Here’s why……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CNA8b-6L2E
I’ve always wanted to believe in ghosts and UFOs but I’ve never seen any. How many among you have?
Why? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTpNAfcslMw
Always loved to dance to this….back when I had a special dance partner…and that’s all we were……
TR…my son and I have both seen a darkness out of the corner of our eyes inside the hen house. We would see ‘somethng’ and turn our heads to look, and it was gone. I feel there is ‘somethng’ there….as the hens would start their ‘clackling’ afterward. No one will convince me other wise……
Debbe 😉 Stir fry. I was just trying to decide what was for “supper”. Thanks, hon!
Debbe: Since you’re signing off for the night, here’s what a local DJ used as his sign off song every midnight when I was in high school – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMK3R8ALK8s
I would listen to his show on my trusty little transistor radio in the summer when I was out of school and could stay up that late. I could be wide awake at 11:50 but sound asleep before the song ended.
One other question for the group: Does anyone else dislike the Top Stories feature of Facebook popping up on its own? Sometimes I can go for days without it showing up, some days it shows up several times in a day.
TRon – and anyone else: Permit me to mention something I’ve found escapes too many folks.
The initials UFO stand for “unidentified flying object”; that says nothing about the source of said object. To a blind person who has just received sight, an ordinary bird is a UFO! So is a plane or a kite or a mosquito. Ditto, for a youngster just noticing the world about him/her. In fact, to the many adult, sharp-eyed, experienced British plane spotters during WWII, there were who knows how many UFOs at night, when clear identification was not possible.
Conclusion: please don’t equate UFO with extraterrestrial things.
You’d be amazed/aghast at how many college students DO equate the above separate ideas.
End of lecture; there may be a short quiz on Friday.
TR, not me, in either case. Don’t believe in them either.
@Trucker Ron,
When I was Symply 18, I spent a summer in Israel bumming around. At one point I was in the Eilat area without the kind of money one would use for a hotel so I opted to sleep on the beach of the Red Sea with many other folk my age and a host of Israeli soldiers bivouacked in the area. As the hour got late a tiny red light was noticed high in the sky and then later a green one as well though quite distant from the red. In the blink of an eye these “lights moved from one end of the horizon to the other. We asked the soldiers if they knew what it was and their answer was UFOs…they were not at all at ease with what was happening and were making radio calls to what we assumed was their Fargone command. We never did find out in the AM what we had seen, the soldiers still were in the dark(or said they were)…pretty interesting
On another note the company has now booked a “newer” band called Enter the Haggis for Halloween…care for a sampling?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv_EAfB16fY
Ruth Ann…just had to check in once last time….when I was a teenager, I also had a small transistor radio…I could pick up a Chicago AM station at night….as long as I had it in my window (before A/C, and in little podunk southern IN)…and pick up tunes…thanks for the link….enjoyed it, as I’ve bookmarked it. Never heard of him, but now I have…..
Ruth, do you remember the call letters for that station? We could have been listening to a Chicago station…at the same time……I don’t recall them at this time….too tired to think. For some reason, WJPS comes to mind, but I don’t think that’s what they were. I think they were just three letters. May have to ‘research’.
Say Goodnight Debbe……goodnight, Debbe
OH, GR 😉 you are very much welcomed, glad I could help with your menu.
Our house was in prior lives the scene of a gruesome murder. A foreman/overseer had sold the cotton and had thousands of dollars to pay the shares to the workers. He was murdered and his body pushed into the fireplace to burn.
The gold was never found (perhaps) but his body burned into the thick board floors and left a pattern forever. It is still there beneath an over-floor but most of my life it clearly showed.
When I was about 14 I was reading in a bedroom at dusk when I looked down through the three rooms (doors line up in old homes for ventilation) and saw a tall man dressed in a dark suit and tie. He was in my bedroom door about 40 feet away.
Being polite, I greeted him and asked whom he was looking for? I told him my grandmother was out but would be back shortly.
Just as suddenly he turned and vanished. I got up and went to look for him, nothing. I then noticed the dozen or so hounds lying on the porch sound asleep. No one ever came in without arousing those dogs!
I don’t know if anyone else ever saw this ghost but people still hunt for the lost gold. And occasionally I still run into ghosts but I rarely see them.
Love, Jackie Monies
Except the Marfa Lights. Now those are UFOs ( pace, emb ) that I can get behind
emb: I have never seen any lights in the sky or any objects during the day which I have been unable to identify to my personal satisfaction as being of terrestrial origin. Nor have I experienced anything that could be described as spectral or ghostly. In some ways I envy those who have witnessed such things. Yet in even more ways, I’m glad I haven’t!
Debbe 😉 Back in the day when many AM stations signed off at midnight (like Ruth Anne’s) or had to reduce their broadcast power after dark, one of the so-called “clear channel” stations the could be easily received at night was in Chicago…WLS. Does that sound familiar?
I am always unfailingly polite, both to spectral and earthly intruders. My husband still tells people about the time I told a potential burglar and rapist when he entered our bedroom that I believed he had mistakenly entered the wrong apartment.
Love, Jackie Monies
At age six I felt the chilly hand of a departing soul on my shoulder. And, like Lillyblack, have witnessed the Marfa lights. My opinion on the Marfa lights; it’s a portal to another universe and those attempting to crossover get zapped. Like man, it is a universe sized spirit zapper.
Jackie, in the same situation, I would also be polite…by politely pointing out to the intruder that what I was pointing at him was a 12 gauge shotgun.
For many years, prior to the Braves moving from Milwaukee to Atlanta, the favorite baseball team of most Southerners was the Cardinals…because KMOX, the 50,000-watt clear-channel station in St. Louis would broadcast their night games.
The Marfa Lights are pretty spectacular. We used to drive and work around the Corpus Christi area and customers were always warning us about a certain remote highway where alien space ships stopped car engines, abducted people, appeared in flashes of light.
We really didn’t take it seriously of course. But a few years ago I sent my two young daughters as a “chase/rescue” team for the Texas 200 small boat race, which follows the remote Texas coast. The oldest daughter was looking at the map and roads and commented that the remote roads had her worried about the aliens.
I said, “Don’t be silly. Those space ship stories weren’t true.” Turns out the alien problem she was worried about were the people smuggling people and drugs across the remote areas.
My kids are Texas tough and they did go and rescue people and haul tons of food and ice and kept people hydrated.
Love, Jackie Monies
Well, Hawaii was tough on bringing guns into the state back then, Ghost.
This St. Patrick’s Day I bought myself an Irish shillelagh which is supposed to be a walking cane but has a big lead weight set inside the top decoration. Better and longer than a baseball bat. I also keep a loaded 44 revolver with those exploding bullets but I’d have to wake up to shoot anyone! Mike took my shotgun away a long time ago. Also my automatic. He figured I might shoot someone after I slammed a steel door on his arm and almost broke it when I wasn’t expecting him home.
Love, Jackie Monies
The Border Patrol maintains a flight facility between Marfa and Valentine for an unmanned blimp. It is just off of US 90, past an old WWII airfield. At night it is highly lighted and could called the Second Marfa lights.