In real life, Arlo wouldn’t even have to turn the light on, but then I’m allowed to draw him flipping a light switch.
Home & Away
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132 responses to “Home & Away”
Good humor heals! And there is no shortage of it here. Galliglo, I’ve been curious. I haven’t tried to look it up, but is that the name of a place?
Good morning Villagers….
Whoaa…..hi, my name is Debbe, and I am a U tube addict 🙂 GR 😉
Jerry….I feel Jackie is real, and what Gal says has a lot of validity to it. (Like that $50 word?) And yes, she does have a lot of stories…..what makes me feel sad is, I don’t have a detailed memory as she does. Jackie has been through a lot in the past few months and years as a caregiver to two, not one, but two family members….so, she’s “Busted out of Jail” as the saying goes. And Jerry, I do respect you and your little snippets…..they are entertaining.
Ah, Miss Charlotte,….glad you enjoy my recounts of my day at work…..had a tough old Miss Prissy that didn’t want to give it up…..that wench ran down 600 feet of aisle with me behind her with my bright flashlight…finally nailed her and for one brief moment I wanted to hammer her head…..but then I picked her up and petted her….gosh, what a sucker I am 🙂
Old Bear, I am sorry to hear about the loss of a good friend…and I too, like Gal, like the phrase “stepped on the rainbow”….love the link.
On a more serious note.. we had Kyler yesterday…his mother, Rachael (Andrew’s live in girlfriend) has suffered a tubal pregnancy. What irritates me is she and Andrew spent the whole afternoon Saturday at an ER room at a local hospital. She went to two local hospitals. One hospital told her she had an ovarian pregnancy. She and I looked that up. I told her it could be a tubal pregnancy. Well, it burst yesterday, and she went into emergency surgery…..I told her yesterday afternoon to forget about the local hospitals and go to Evansville and they have the Women’s Pavilion and are exceptional doctors and nurses….my sister goes there. She was in surgery within 2 hours after getting there. No word yet, but I know she will be fine…and she will need a lot of support when she gets home. We will be there for her.
Mark…saw that too…..I love brussel sprouts….they make the whole house smell while cooking 🙂
gotta go……
Ya’ll have a blessed day
Oh, and Rachael’s mother is with her, as Andrew couldn’t get there. He and Ian are prepping for the arrival of the other half of hens tomorrow morning.
BAM 🙂
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The current series about Janis in ninth grade is interesting.
I taught ninth-grade children for twenty years.
In many ways, they were the easiest group to teach.
In many ways, they were one of the most heartbreaking.
Yeah, I know. I’m a guy. Not supposed to have emotions. Bull.
When it comes to children, I have a very big soft spot.
Debbe, You keep all of us entertained. I know that the work you do is hard, but it gives us a smile to know that you haven’t forgotton that a chicken is a living, breathing, feeling animal.
Thank you for the info, sideburns! And there are novels—wonderful!
Old Bear, I’m so sorry for the loss of Mary. Ernie and all who loved Mary are in my prayers. On another topic, the animals homes program on PBS was interesting last week, and I look forward to another episode tonight.
Every well-functioning group needs a Devil’s advocate or two to keep it from becoming too complacent in its own internal culture.
Galliglo @11:11 pm and Debbe @4:32 am: so well said. Bless you both, and all here who care enough to address difficult issues. (Formal business in Village Hall meeting now concluded; coffee, cookies, handshakes, hugs, and laughter are being served in the back of the Hall.)
Rachel, Andrew, Kyler, and all who are helping them will be in my thoughts and prayers, Debbe. The medical staff failed Rachel in not admitting her for treatment immediately in such a serious situation.
Rick, some of the strongest, gentlest, and most admirable men I’ve known have been teachers. If your heart can’t be broken, you’re not doing it right.
“At 14, I was awkward.” Isn’t that redundant?
I’ve been working with teenagers my entire adult life and have to agree with Rick. Anyone who thinks that is a carefree period has serious memory problems.
I would not go back and go through those teen years again for all the tea in China! I have to admit – I have always wondered about those who say their teen years were the happiest they have ever been. What Universe was that?
Denise: “Formal business in Village Hall meeting now concluded…” I LIKE that! And about teachers: So many of our young people need the example of a strong, caring man. I am thankful for those fulfil that role.
Debbe: Prayers for Rachael… And you.. and family…
I have found that my Kindle makes a good flashlight.
Jerry: I have addressed the origin of “Galliglo” but it has been quite a while.
My late Significant Other (also Jerry, but from Ohio!) gave me that screen name several years ago. He wrote a semi-political blog where readers contributed opinions, jokes, tall stories, etc. Everyone had a screen name and he was the only one who had access to actual names and email addresses.
Galliglo is a combination of my place of residence (Gallipolis, Ohio) and my name (Gloria): Galli + glo. I rather like my “alias.” A lot of people have called me “Glo” throughout the years and “Gal” isn’t that much of a stretch, so it is all good.
Of course, those who are on Facebook, like Charlotte and Nancy, know the REAL name!
Brooke gives an explanation about why he doesn’t accept comments on 4/12/15
http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2015/04/12
Debbe:
Prayers for Rachael…
Crab:
Do you use it as a flashlight? Or is it an app?
Be very careful of flashlight apps – some are Trojan Horses some
just take up too much memory.
I will rely on Mark to find the U Tube clip about that.
Nodak Wayne: Gee… Brooke has given us a paean to grandiosity. Gosh – it must be catching!
Maybe as much as 1′ of snow in the geyser basin, hard to see OF / snow on the webcam lens. emb
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I don’t k now if I’m one of the ones Jerry is talking about that have gone quiet, but I’m still here. I just haven’t had much to say lately. Several friends and family members have had babies and I have been busy making blankets and baby samplers so I don’t get back to the Village as often as I’d like.
I will chime in on the Prisoner discussion, though. Love the show! McGoohan never actually said that Number 6 was really John Drake, but neither did he say he wasn’t, and the opening to The Prisoner had several outtakes from Secret Agent. Secret Agent also ran in two parts: Danger Man from 1960 to 1961 in a half-hour format, then Secret Agent from ’64 to ’66 as a one hour show.
“Llee” is my middle name. We had a lot of Lora’s (various spellings/pronunciations) at work- several of us moved to middle names to avoid confusion. It comes in handy. 🙂 I enjoy this place: Jimmy for the artwork and humor, y’all for friendship. 🙂
Without getting down into the mud to debate the multiple definitions of trolls, concern trolls, etc., I will simply say that my policy is to accept every Villager as what they portray themselves to be until it becomes undeniably obvious that they are not. At that point, I will simply utilize the aforementioned down arrow key (or, more likely, the scroll wheel of my mouse) to bypass comments from that person and cease interacting with them. The same policy applies to the (thankfully) rare person here I find boring or unfailingly irritating. Life is too short, and I would prefer to spend my time reading and/or responding to the comments of those many people I actually enjoy hearing from here in the Village.
Now, back to what I should be doing.
Galliglo: “But… We have to realize that some of it might be somewhat ’embroidered’. This happens sometimes with extremely creative people. It isn’t intentional – it just makes such a good story!”
Reminds me of Pooh-Bah’s excuse for his self-serving [everything he does is self-serving] but impossible tale in Act II of G&s’s “The Mikado”: “Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.”
I may have done some of that here, but none of it worth apologizing for. Most figments have been meant to protect the guilty or disguise a person or place, like Koko’s statement that Nanki-Poo has emigrated to Knightsbridge [in London]. This is one of the few legitimate items to change in a local production. D’Oyly Carte did in their first Mikado that I saw in NYC just after WWII: “Hoboken,” if I remember. Any well-known nearby place that would amuse the local audience. “Ypsilanti” would work in Ann Arbor.
Peace, emb
TIPs are = again. Slightly naughty, slightly sad. emb
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“Where am I?”
“In The Village.”
Certainly gives one pause when considering that those were the opening words to every episode of “The Prisoner.” 😉
And I will concur with Ruth Anne about memory of teenage years. Apparently most every adult had their memory wiped as they graduated from high school. Why else would your parents be so disdainful and dismissive of the zit that invites insult, but more importantly, the loss of The Greatest Love Of Your Life? Granted, a fairly short life until then, but being told that there are more fish in the ocean, or my personal favorite, “It’s just puppy love. Grow up!” by callous adults that fail to remember that THEY were up on the bridge, preparing to JUMP, at a similar time in their own lives, borders on the criminal.
Janis was pretty insecure in the early years of the strip in any event, so discovering that she was EXTREMELY insecure as a skinny, gawky 14-year-old is not a big stretch. Or as Arlo opined, “The Dog of Love starts the journey across the eight-lane highway of Life…”
GR6
To paraphrase a spinach eating sailor.
“We are what we are and that is all that we are.”
(Mostly)
I am real…at least the last time my loving wife pinched me. I use the scroll wheel on my mouse extensively. I sometimes wonder why some people post what they do, but I don’t stand in judgment and usually it is pretty harmless.
I have pointed out here a phrase that my wife, (the author featured if you click on my name) used in a book. She coined “a cd-skip moment” in which a person suddenly hijacks the conversation or changes the subject without much cause. Again, usually harmless. I did ask Jimmy if I could mention her career here and he said go ahead. I know that I have actually read a certain author from Bahston, so as long as we not selling sunglasses or get rich schemes, I don’t think that it’s an issue.
Are we all real? I hope so…Although some may be Fargone.
It’s wonderful to read all the generous and perceptive comments this morning! You folks have such wisdom to share and it really opens my heart to let the hugs and the comfort in.
Last night I was feeling rather blue over the way things felt in the Village, and I was tired. Thinking as I got ready for bed, “I should keep quiet … I think I put my foot in my mouth … I’d better quit complaining…” Discontent.
Now that I’ve seen all those good comments and good advice, I feel lots better! Thank you, Denise, Debbe, Ghost, Jerry, and Galliglo, and on and on.