Yes, I know. It’s still unadulterated summer, but I was stuck for a title. Have I ever posted this? I honestly can’t remember. I drew it a few months back. It was inspired by a drawing I made back in the 90s, a design for a tee shirt. The shirt was to be the prize for a little contest I ran, and only 50 were every produced. Alas, that first drawing is long lost to me, but I thought it turned out well enough that it inspired this drawing. No one is more painfully aware than I that many of the plans I introduce here are, to put it charitably, slow to develop. However, I should have some concrete news next week about the tee shirts we discussed months ago. I will tell you now that there almost certainly will be A&J shirts available in plenty of time for holiday shopping. Details to follow.
Indian Summer
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101 responses to “Indian Summer”
There is a club. You can buy t-shirts, parts and models.
and all kinds of stuff including a whole tractor on ebay.
OF due now w/in 20 m CDT. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Ghost – As long as you use safe mode and the words tractor and logo, you are fairly safe.
Here’s a photo of a Cockshutt tractor – http://www.bossenimp.com/GetImage.ashx?Path=~%2FAssets%2FProductImages%2FDecals%2FDCK10LG.jpg&height=auto&width=500
Decal. Stupid paste overwrite.
Good crowd, ideal light E wind, nice blow started 2 m before predicted 1904, but:
1. Webcam operator presumably has a screen much like ours. Crowd could see the tops of the maximum jets, but we could not. We’ve already seen the crowd; webcam needs tilting up, which happens only sometimes. Zoomed in on OF as it waned, but should have covered full blow from bottom to top; angle but not aim was just right for that. He’s already seen several blows today, but she always has new viewers.
2.webcam needs oil.
Peace, emb
Mindy, link would not open for some reason.
I hope that things are doing ok workwise.
Jerry in FL, I think this is what Mindy wanted you to see: http://www.bossenimp.com/Search.aspx?k=cockshutt
Mindy from Indy and Jerry in FL, take your pick: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cockshutt+tractors
That anonymous was me, not Jackie. Cleared my cache and it dropped my user info on this page.
I told Siri, “Define Cockshutt”, and you wouldn’t believe what she thought I said. Or perhaps you would.
TruckerRon, look at this: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-walmart-truck-20150920-story.html
As this post has sales as it’s “theme”, I thought this would be a good time to say Thank You! I received my copy of Beaucoup Arlo & Janis on Thursday and have mostly devoured it already.
Thank you JJ for adding the liner notes to give the reader a much broader background on you and your thought processes. Combining that with the various tidbits offered through the years on this blog you make us feel, if not personal friends, as if we are neighbors who know you across the fence.
I have been popping in here to catch blog entries on a catch-as-can basis since the days of Katrina, and I know I have missed past books and offerings that I wish I had collected in my younger and poorer days. I will be keeping an eye out for the new shirt.
and we hope to hear from you more often. Denise, hello…? I’m not a tractor person in spite of coming from a long line of farmers. I planted strawberries once and tomatos once, neither with success. They were cool old tractors though. I do have blueberries where I live now so we’ll see.
Mark, I like many of the features of that experimental truck. I don’t like the concept of putting the driver in the center, even if it streamlines things–that leaves no room for any passengers (co-drivers or your kids) except back in the bunk area. And being a hybrid, there’s still the matter of manufacturing and eventually disposing of the massive batteries… there’s a lot of pollution involved even with the batteries in the four-wheeled hybrids.
Debbe 😉 Another Mood song by the same artists as yesterday, but I don’t think anyone would quibble about that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8hjtFq3vE0
Keep praying for my InterWebNet connection…it needs it. The continual short-term interruptions have not abated. Very strange…as though someone is flipping a switch on and off at somewhat random intervals. Reminds me of the old story I told a while back about the TV repairman making a house call who couldn’t figure out why the TV kept powering up and powering down until he realized someone had plugged it into the old-timey device that made Christmas tree lights go on and off. And of the TV commercial of a few years ago where the man was flipping a wall switch in his house on and off, on and off, trying to determine what it controlled. Meanwhile, his neighbor is watching in shock as his garage door opener is raising and lowing, raising and lowering the door, banging it onto the hood of his car.
Remember our cockatiel who laid eggs on the curved top of a cage? She’s at it again. As she usually produces about 6 in a batch (each about a day apart) I will expect repeat performances as the next two weeks elapse. For those who haven’t heard this before, the cage has a top which is a semicircle when viewed from the front or back, and those two semicircles are connected by thin rods or thick wires. Today’s egg was just barely lodged between two of the wires where the angle is 45 degrees off vertical – or horizontal, for that matter.
Good morning Villagers….
And yes, GR 😉 , one does not need much imagination to know what Siri came up with 🙂
….I pray today is better than yesterday at work….’Skittles’ may be put on probation after the way he spoke to me yesterday……I’m lucky I didn’t slap his nasty mouth.
Mark, you didn’t answer my question regarding how that website knows I have ad block….I figured you would know.
Thanks Judy….my sisters all are on thyroid meds and it does take time to find the right dosage.
have a blessed Monday………….
Jerry:
Thanks for the info.
I can’t find a link, though.
Saturday was my 40th Class Reunion, so I was in Fort Wayne this weekend. Everything was a flashback. Some of my classmates have not aged well. Thank goodness for name tags!. However some of us looked pretty much like we did 40 yrs ago, but with silver hair and a little more weight.
Because of Facebook, my wife actually knew a few of the people. Also because of Facebook, a lot a people felt like they knew her but are not friends…yet. She did not want to go, but said that the experience was much more enjoyable than she thought it would be. She was also surprised at how many of my classmates knew me. I told her that she has known me for 34 years, and I’m sure that she has noticed just about everyone I meet remembers me. Sometimes they even like me! lol
Today’s strip reminded me of the time that I was on Mackinac Island and had trouble getting my portable satellite radio to pick up the Tiger game. I went to the beach near a wedding reception and listened as Pudge Rodriquez hit a game winning home run. I started yelling and jumping around and everyone at the reception started staring at me. One I told them that Pudge had hit the game winner, everyone erupted. They realized that I was not quite as crazy as I appeared….I guess I had them fooled!
Going to funeral. Not mine. Back late.
Going to funeral.
Aftershocks still rocking Chile, including a 6.3.
OF due 1007-1027 CDT. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
emb – thanks for showing me the OF site. I often “check it out” when I have a spare moment, and remember my visits there long ago.