Today, another sleeping-cat Sunday from the archives of Arlo & Janis. And more about wine. Prohibition understandably was hard on vintners. Many vineyards ripped out vines of grapes more suitable for wine and replaced them with grapes good for eating or for juices and jams, such as Concord grapes. This practically destroyed a long-established wine industry in the Ozarks and in New York. These regions relied heavily upon “my” grape, the Norton, said to be the only native North American grape that will produce a decent dry wine. Just now are the Norton wines really coming back in Missouri and Arkansas. My favorite prohibition story, true or not, is about desperate grape growers who would ship their produce to consumers with instructions such as, “Do not mash these grapes into juice, add yeast and store for several months in a cool dark place. It will turn into wine!”
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Obviously, this country went crazy while I was not looking.
http://houston.cbslocal.com/2014/06/05/mom-claims-daughter-got-sunburned-because-school-wouldnt-allow-her-to-bring-sunscreen-on-field-trip/
Luckily, smaller school districts like ours seem to be immune to the insanity, at least for the time being. I brought this up to The Boss Of My Life who happens (ahem!) to be the supervising physician for our school district, and she said such things must merely be okayed by the school nurse.
I’m back. At last. My internet died during a thunderstorm Monday afternoon. Fried both the modem and the router. Modem belonged to Comcast, so I got a free swap. Router all mine, so was the replacement cost.
Having A&J and village withdrawal! Boy, I missed you all!
Mindy from Indy, good thing to kill spiders/insects is mix up liquid soap with water in a spray bottle. Spray the critter with it. The soap mix coats the body and covers up its breathing apparatus, killing it without noxious fumes which are as harmful to you as to it. Worked great on a black widow at our guardhouse. Do not use on the running type though as they are faster than you.
If the kid had carried sunscreen to school in a spray bottle, I suppose she’d have been suspended for the year under some “zero tolerance” policy regarding “guns”. Loved the part where they said they feared that children might “ingest” the sunscreen. One is tempted to observe that if 10-year-olds drink sunscreen from the bottle it would merely be Darwinism in action, but if one said that that it could be considered snarky, so one will not.
….and a Good Early Morning Villagers…
My husband and I are in battle for classic U tube its….non one, and I mean No One. should ever cut off ‘Layla before the piano ensemble….I left him, but without adamantly stating that no one cuts off the piano solo in “Layla”…I kno2…old tune, but still a classic.
I’vs noticed you haven’t posted lately Mark…I’m just now getting into Petty’s new release….
..and wirhPetty’s new release, my fav..so far: http://www.youtube.com:/watch?v=Qv3oaDX9ikY
So I guess….tag
Going back to bed….
Now to get some much needed sleep…………………………..
Good morning, all. Good morning, so far. My usual eight miles and our usual rounds this morning, no ER or OR to play with 🙁 And 9CWL was so funny today I laughed out loud for about a minute. I mean, I had tears in my eyes!
Today’s A&J. Hmm, you gotta believe JJ reads our comments sometimes.
Mindy from Indy, I tried killing a spider with body glitter spray. Now it won’t stop stripping and I have to call it Cinnamon. 😉
“A spokeswoman for the North East Independent School District”-one wonders what her official title/position is, and why she was hired if she’s nutty enough to think that a kid is going to drink sunscreen.
This website is owned be a gentleman who makes wine from all sorts of things including grapes: http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/
He is the guru of country wine making
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Jean dear, I can’t wait to hear the back story of how you happened to have body glitter spray on hand. 😉
Today’s TIP BlogSpot is cute and only slightly naughty:
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
Cannot list the TIP site, or we will get moderated.
Spider’s!!! ACCKKK!!!! One bit me on the arm several times once, and each spot puffed up real bad and stayed around for a month. Don’t risk that anymore. Any spider near me is dead, dead, dead from smushing. I love them outside because they control other nasties, but don’t come near me I will make you smush.
Mindy from Indy, does this look like the one you saw?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_spider
Some 35-40 years ago, I taught in FL and had a “pet” wolf spider which lived above the front door where the door frame didn’t seal to the concrete block wall. It lived quite comfortably there, helped along by the occasional live cockroach I’d toss into its web area. “Farquhar”, as I called him/her/it, got fat by being a good hunter in a good spot; enjoyed watching the show.
While I enjoyed Farquhar, others of our acquaintances liked neither spiders nor cockroaches. Arachnids have always interested me, but I join in the general dislike of roaches. We found that the FL dislike of roaches was so prevalent that many folks refused to refer to them as “roaches” or as “cockroaches”. New names were invented: “croton bugs” & “palmetto bugs” were two of the commonest, with “water bugs” trailing. I’m fairly sure there are actual “water bugs” which are not roaches – so that name would be wrong – but I wonder if there are actually things called “croton bugs” or “palmetto bugs” aside from those FL roaches. I suppose I could use Google, but I haven’t.
Now, I’m trying to imagine a cockroach covered with body glitter spray, thanks to Trapper Jean!
Today’s TIP go comic [more girls, but no naughtier]
http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/#.U_egwWd0zIU
is Diana and Actaeon. A. = the intruding male; D. is probably the broad on the far right. All the girls are pretty broad. No idea who they are, maybe just D’s. retinue.
Insert “I” in 4th line.
Here’s what happened to poor Actaeon, as told by Bullfinch himself. The girls are Diana’s retinue, wood nymphs.
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_dianaactaeon.htm
EMB,
We did have “palmetto bugs” in the Gulf Coast area of Texas. They are bigger than normal cockroaches. M understanding is that the Eurcotis floridana is the larger variety, the one we called palmetto bugs. The smaller, American cockroach is Periplanta americana.
I like Albani’s version better: http://s1306.photobucket.com/user/Lilyblack1/media/ActaeonandDiana_zps8176e3f8.jpg.html
Ce-p – Most people in Florida use cockroach and palmetto bug interchangeably. However, to some of us whose families have been here for multiple generations (and yes, we do exist), roach refers to regular American cockroaches and their German cousins. Palmetto bugs are the usually larger and much stinkier Florida woods cockroach, sometimes called a palmetto beetle.
I’ve never really minded wolf spiders – anything that eats roaches is OK by me. Golden orb spiders in the woods are rather pretty. But the little ones that are hard to ID quickly, those I don’t trust.
The weirdest thing has been happening on posting. I’d write something up and hit send and it would vanish. Vanish and never appear on blog site. I decided I was being moderated and it was going into ether. But then I never got a letter or reprimand, and we send those on our sites unless it is a total scam/spam/troll who gets eleminated.
So, yes I have been busy trying to keep up with emails, articles, etc. But I had decided to at least say “Hi” morning and night.
Love, Jackie
It has to be computer. This is my laptop and the desk computer was vaporizing my posting.
Got a tremendous write up from Small Craft Magazine on their blog and sent out to about 7000 members for our sailing event. I owe one to Messing About in Boats and Duckworks Magazine too. I get way behind with stuff.
This is a one woman operation actually, as we don’t even have officers or a board. When it happens, we have lots of volunteers though and help. I keep telling everyone we are a three ring circus and the audience sort of dictates, like herding cats.
I love the cat jokes and both the Cat in A Sack strips are like my cats. I have one who likes to give you baths with a rough tongue too.
On 9CL Martine stripped off again, I was right, no bra wearer. But where is she putting that gun?
Wine making jokes are funny too. Foxtrot’s is even funnier with Chateau de Roger.
Love, Jackie
Possibly, I didn’t stop to look too close. The body looks about right though. Icky.
That was for Mark in TTown. Trapper Jean, there is a leg joke in there somewhere, but I’like let Ghost write it. (Ha!) Who didn’t see Martine’s strip-distraction coming?
Jackie, glad to hear from you. I was starting to worry but figured it was just your boaty activities.
I see wolf spiders ever so often. They aren’t aggressive but can sometimes bluff weenies like my co-workers. I read somewhee that daddy-long-legs have the most potent poison of the whoe spider tribe, but we don’t have to worry cause of their itty-bitty fangs.