OK, I promised you more “wild art.” How’s this? I drew this to be the cover of my book. Beaucoup Arlo & Janis, but I chickened out. I didn’t want to have to listen to all the juvenile giggling and hooting which I knew would ensue (No, not you!) or to that annoying tut-tutting about children reading the comics. I told you: I chickened out. Instead, I went with a more staid version of a Rodin theme which I thought turned out well enough.
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208 responses to “Modely Crew”
Doctor who?
Sounds like an Abbot & Costello bit starting
Who’s on first?
That’s right
I’m sorry, I don’t know
Jean & Jackie:
Wife and I were early starters, 19 and 20 when we got married. Fifty four years, five kids, 13 grandkids and 6 great-grands (one born this AM) we’re still together and having fun.
There is a kernel of truth in today’s real-time strip. We old folks at my church use FB to keep up with each other and our kids. The younger ones use something else… and I don’t care.
OF due 1837-1857 CDT. It’s a nicer day there > it is here.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
My younger daughter quit FB sometime in college because she was not happy that it began to include everybody (originally for college students). I got on to keep up with my older daughter and her children, plus various other family members. Eventually, my younger daughter got married and returned to FB because she now has children too! Eventually everyone becomes an old fogey!
emb –
I finally got to see Old Faithful. Until just now (and don’t laugh), the ONLY depiction of Old Faithful I had ever seen was courtesy of Warner Brothers cartoons. No, I am not kidding. Thirty-six years old, and I’ve never seen it. Happened to have the laptop on, so I made sure to plant myself in front of the screen. You failed to warn that occasionally, whoever is manning the webcam would zoom in and out and pan around. Startled me a bit. Was definitely a cool sight. (Weather aside.)
Broke down and bought a rake this afternoon. Since when did leaf rakes get so huge? Holy cow, I thought it was somebody’s idea of a joke! While raking, I rang across several slugs and a grass snake. I had a couple frogs when I moved in. No spiders though. Oh, and someone stole one of my trashcans. Seriously.
Mindy, I went tool/yard implements shopping today and had a serious conversation about damage to all my garden tools with concrete. Like my little moon shaped hoes are $18.95 each and durned hard to find!
I bought a new handle for the ruined (and expensive) garden spade from the fancy garden suppliers whose name escapes me right now. Bought two small rakes with metal tines but think I passed on the monster rake. Got new shovel, new flat rake for garden work.
Then I made poor Ralph scrape off the concrete and I will get Mike to polish all that remains fit to reclaim with a metal polisher or something. This was totally unnecessary! You should see my poor garden carts they have turned into concrete carriers!
I am going to sort some tulips, daffodils into groups to plant. Got my bulb fertilizers, bone meal, blood meal, all the specialty things you put with bulbs, topping whole deliciousness with several inches of cotton hull compost. Planning to encase the critters in plastic chicken wire to keep out eating critters who like bulbs. Or maybe I will just sprinkle a layer of sand and some crushed rocks?
Truth is, some women clean house, some clean closets, some plant stuff for anxiety attacks. I have been known to do all of the above! I am Janis.
Love, Jackie
M’Indy: In ’62, I was 32 when I had my one chance to see OF live, I believe before the present boardwalk and benches were installed. I don’t remember what sort of barrier there was, but I think we may have been a bit closer than is allowed now. It’s probably safer now, and more democratic: a greater number can get a good view with the crowd spread out.
I also remember a 1-, 3-, and 6-year old that were a bit impatient, and I was a dishrag, from hairpin driving down the east flank of the Tetons with failing brakes the day before, wife perhaps a little worn too. I think we probably stayed > an hour but then gave up. Don’t know if any predictions or times of last blow were available. OF probably blew shortly thereafter. Don’t know if any of our kids has seen OF live. One and his wife have driven to the West Coast and back.
A good friend has written a user-friendly guidebook to YNP, now in its successful 4th ed. She grew up in CO, I think, is in love w/ the whole area. I may remember to post her site here. She is a retired cellist, married to a geologist I’ve known since 7th grade, who was major prof of her first husband, also a geologist, at Brown U. First husband died young, of cancer, as had the wife of my buddy. She left Providence to get an MA in music [Indiana?]; they married after she got back from that. Neat people.
emb – You are probably correct in guessing you and your family just missed the eruption. It always seems to happen that way. At least you knew what to expect. In the cartoons I remember, OF looks like a mini volcano and there are no other geysers in the immediate area. I was aware there are many geysers in Yellowstone, but had no idea so many were visible from a single vantage point. Must make a trip out there. Ando your friends sound like a nifty couple.
First trip to Yellowstone was in 1961 in my infamous red Ford convertible, with mom, grandmother and a younger cousin. I loved YNP and actually saw a lot of animals besides geysers, like a moose eating water lilies in a pond up to his knees. Now it was so crowded when we were there, plus rangers try to keep tourists and animals as far apart as they can.
My grandmother thought we were in the ante room to hell and Satan was just waiting for us. She was terrified the entire time. I was young, fit and we walked every boardwalk until I wore a huge hole on inside leg of only pair of warm pants I had brought. No one warns Southerners about how cold it really is, even in hell’s waiting room.
But I still love YNP and would love to be there in winter and snow.
Love, Jackie
The end of the fourth very long day in a row…the first time I’ve had time to check in here since Saturday night. My Mom is much improved, and I hope she will be discharged tomorrow. Thanks for the thoughts and prayers; they are much appreciated.
As to my thoughts regarding a subject mentioned above, they will, for the time being, remain my thoughts. I will mention that one of the first jobs I had after the AF was as a skip-tracer. And I was very, very good at finding people, even long before the Internet existed.
I don’t know whether I would enjoy a visit to Yellowstone in winter as much as I once would have, but it is still on my bucket list.
In the unlikely event that I ever open a Book of Faces account, I predict that FB will shut down the very next day, because everyone else will have moved on to something else.
EMB,
I love your postings of Old Faithful. I saw it in person as an adult, with my two elementary school age daughters. We followed the Oregon Trail west, with stops all along the way until we reached the turn for Yellowstone. We spent several days in the park. We saw Old Faithful erupt, we saw numerous other geysers and mudpots as well as many different types of wild life. I had one afternoon to fish, and I was lucky enough to catch cut-throat trout along the shores of Lake Yellowstone. My wife and I stayed in Yellowstone Lodge for a night while the kids stayed with Grandma and Grandpa in the camper. It was a fabulous trip!
David: Thanks.
Trucker: “I don’t know whether I would enjoy a visit to Yellowstone in winter as much as I once would have, but it is still on my bucket list.” They close some roads, I suppose depending on conditions in a given winter. Best check beforehand. The webcam continues; with few or no people there, bison are more frequent, esp. since the warmth melts snow, making grass more available.
Jackie: “. . . thought we were in the ante room to hell and Satan was just waiting for us. She was terrified the entire time.” Sad that faith, for many, is still in those terms. Henry Morris, 6 day believer with a Ph.D. from U. Minn. in hydraulics, opined [not in his doctoral thesis, I hope–I saw it elsewhere] that the craters on Luna resulted from battle btw. heavenly and satanic angels. I was once tricked once into a debate w/ him. He got > he bargained for, and lied / what I’d said in the next issue of ‘Acts and Facts.’
EMB, it is true that my grandmother was a quite literal interpreter of her Bible and faith. Fortunately, I never subscribed to her rigid beliefs and I have enjoyed a much more joyful life, even if not free of travail and sorrow. Something she did not ever get to experience, I am sad to say.
I for one loved Yellowstone, still do, loved Hawaii, have seen a lot of volcanoes and lava flows both on mainland and there. I do not believe there are devils and gremlins and bogie men in the core of the earth. Not so sure about the surface, however.
Ever since that first long ago visit to Yellowstone, when it began to snow on Labor Day weekend, I wanted to return to a real Yellowstone winter when they broke out the horse drawn sleighs. I am afraid now those are motorized snowmobiles!
Love, Jackie
GR, glad you could check back in and glad that your mother is much better. Prayers continue.
Went back and read what I said awhile back. “I am trusting Ghost to be smarter than me and more capable of smelling out a troll.”
I know you did that Ghost and I assumed you had checked all this out, so I didn’t even try. Heck, I used Federal investigators who were of limited use anyway! I mean, the FBI wouldn’t bother unless someone got shot usually.
Suspicion that you are some kind of professional ghost remains. And I know you are smart. That is a compliment.
Glad your mom is better. Mine isn’t having chest pains now but we still have to go see all the cardiologists, internists and allied physicians, so I dread that. Not sure what they can do?
Love, Jackie
And in case anyone wonders about *me*, I am in fact a real person. It’s a matter of personal pride that I have never posted anything here that is anything other than the gospel truth, with the exception of the occasional (and obvious) embellishment for (I hope) comic effect. Oh, and maybe an even less occasional “the names have been changed to protect the guilty” type thing. 🙂
G’nite, friends. With my BIL having had to go out of state Saturday to check on his seriously ill brother, tomorrow promises to be another taxing day, especially if it involves (hopefully) getting my Mom home from the hospital. And yeah, the follow-up cardiology and other specialists visits will come next.
Although I have never made it to any of the great Western parks, I have visited Mammoth Cave and a number of the Tennessee-Georgia battlefield parks. All were very interesting, well-kept and full of educational opportunities. These places are definitely your tax dollars at work doing a great job on a shoestring budget.
Ghost, glad to hear your mom is improving. As for your former career as a skip-tracer, you continue to prove this Village is a small world. I also worked as a skip-tracer for a couple of years, but after things got computerized.
Mindy from Indy, glad you weren’t there when the store was robbed!
Jackie, gardening can be stress-relief, or the cause of stress if you and your spouse can’t agree on what you are attempting to do!
In another lifetime I lived for two years in Sioux Falls, SD. I made it out to the Badlands, which I loved, but never anywhere else. For the time being the closest I’ll get to Old Faithful will be watching it on eMb’s link.
and eMb, I do truly believe you to be a wise man. I think that if we try we can live up to the adage that with age comes wisdom, so I try to learn something every day. Not always something big, bit something.
Indiana SAM, thanks! I’ll be waiting!
Ghost, wishing you an easy, peaceful day watching an old movie with your Mom once you get her home!