Is Arlo a pedantic smartass or a smartass pedantic? There’s a current cartoon coming up later this week in newspapers that is very much in this vein. This cartoon from 2003 ran online not very long ago, but I’m away from my desk this morning and suffering connectivity issues on top of all, so I just grabbed something off the shelf. I do like this one. It’s very Arlo & Janis.
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So do we, 10,000 lakes and all that. But those folks now have a nest in their backyard. Maybe the owls were a problem at night, though hoots may be preferable to screams. Both cams have pixelated areas to protect people’s privacy.
Peace,
Regarding today’s [13 June ’16] A&J: I had a very similar conversation with my church choir director yesterday. She’s 57 now, started dyeing her hair at 40 because her then 6 year-old daughter was horrified that her momma had grey hair when other kids’ mommas didn’t. She, like I, started greying in our thirties.
In family photos there’s almost no difference in my appearance since I turned 45, and the cashiers have automatically given me that discount (too polite to ask my age?) since that time. So, I guess I am finally as old as I look at 63?
Blessed with ash blonde hair that is fashionably streaked by nature. My hair dressers ooh and ahh and tell me how beautiful it is and to never dye it, that it is the color that everyone else is dying to have.
OK, I love puns but really they say that.
Funny, my late husband never noticed. He wanted to dye his beautiful silver hair and began doing so until I protested vehemently.
Well, the day has started out well. The new glasses I ordered & paid for last Monday came in early and I am now wearing them. Can’t say I see a lot of difference between the new and the old, but 3x the ophthalmologist (annually) told me of optional changes in need, so I finally decided to get new ones.
Starting last mid-week, the basement tub began to overflow onto the floor, apparently from a partial blockage somewhere in its outflow. [It didn’t require a genius to figure out that one!] Said tub has the outflow from the washer, which made the problem more critical. It got so that I’d sit nearby during a laundry load and bail out 2 full buckets of the wash water so the rest would fit in the tub, and another 2 full buckets of the rinse water. That system worked, but was an ache in the posterior. The tub then drained over the course of about 8 hours. Buckets could be emptied in a bathroom. To add nutrition to the mix, the tub’s drain is also the drain for the kitchen sinks immediately above – so the kitchen sinks didn’t drain well, either, and little bits of cooking scraps & table scraps from the kitchen sinks and associated dishwasher appeared in the basement tub, too. Not wonderful.
Managed to get a plumber here this morning, while having visions of backhoes digging up the front lawn out to the street and receiving a bill written in rather too many digits. To my relief, the guy came and had it unclogged in 10 or 15 minutes. Expected cost will be around $200., I am told…will find out when it is mailed to me.
Can pray that his labor also unclogged the floor drain, which also didn’t work, thus compounding the tub overflow problem.
Yet, we can now do laundry and run the dishwasher, so the outlay is justified.
Grey/gray hair? Moi? I simply tell observers I am reverting to my childhood blond and that their eyes are improperly focused on the wrong regions of the optical spectrum.
We’ve been more fortunate with our few drain clogs. I was able to clear them by using the plumber’s helper featured in cartoons. According to a plumber friend, those are meant for floor and sink drains, not for toilets.
Time to get out from under the comforters and the ten pounds dog on my legs. I swear he is gaining weight. It is a rainy day here. I love staying in bed when it rains. Especially now that I know nothing floods any more.
That was a superb description of your plumbing! Time for my bath.
Jackie, that’s what my hair stylist says about my hair color. Could we be sharing a stylist? Is one of yours pneumatic and pulchritudinous?
I hope JJ’s got his connectivity issues fixed. Tomorrow is the 7th day since this post opened. So if no new (retro) strip tomorrow, we are locked out.
No, itty-bitty and tiny as I used to be. The one with big inflatables was my husband’s, ironically also named Jackie.
For Jackie and anybody else using a stationary bike: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=video+for+stationary+bike+riders
Thanks Mark. They have WiFi at fitness center and I will use this, take my big tablet.
You’re welcome, Jackie. Got to be more fun to watch than today’s TV shows.
Here’s the most beautiful version of this song by everyone’s darling, Linda Ronstadt and yes, I loved the movie and I cried at Kevin Costner and the ending and middle too. No one would take a bullet for me.
https://youtu.be/D090T2MSxKY
Debbe 😉 According to my calculations, you were somewhere around Sweet Sixteen when this one was released.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16PUWjdxivc
Get your comments in early folks. We might be locked out come morning!
one of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW2KN7Tz89s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9s2hp9i680&index=15&list=PLj8Els8LrlixT0i-0MEvq2giCUDKxp89-
another good one
And a little Heart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1vO6QoACPk&list=PL_GDdZ5z6gLz691vBG9NdEsf2Lo03H_lD&index=14
And Tangerine Dream to finish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpp9ulYMBcc
Happy Dreams!
My daughter and I both have the same operating system (OS X 10.11.5 [El Capitan]) and are running the same version of Safari (9.1.1). But she can access the Book of Faces while I cannot without using a different browser.
Any ideas why that might be so?
Well, Amazon says their Cloud Drive will be no more after 1 August. I liked having automatically synced folders on my home machine, my travel machine, and my iOS devices. Anyone using something similar that works for you?
I got a Box account years ago but have seldom used it. May have to take another look at it.
Someone tell me if Wally World is needing to move some merchandise because consumer spending confidence is at a standstill due to election horrors and international unrest?
It is danged early to have put all the outdoor furniture on clearance. You think soy sauce was a problem? You should have seen the commotion loading ten pieces of outdoor woven wicker in a mini van. Three employees and a manager! Finally I got exasperated and said I was a retired wedding florist, to stand back and I could get anything in a van.
The front deck is large and aas minion damaged most of its firniture, so had just said I was replacing at Labor Day sales. Has it moved up like Halloween and Christmas?
Today’s cartoon, lots of purple and lavender hair at salon today, along with one going rainbow hot pink and teal. It looks good on gray hair so you change color to gray first.
I still have my natural color. Younger people go where I do obviously.
Wore one of those sheer cardigans. With jeans, a tunic and a hat. I love colors! Right along with black! Have my cute navy and white shorts ready to wear to nail salon with my Ann Klein cut lace top. The only thing that makes me happier than wearing Ann Klein is fact I paid $6.79 for a $70 top on clearance.
The thrill of the kill.
Hair color = Feed dust
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Prof. George Healey, my first, and widely beloved, Freshman English teacher at Cornell, quoting someone or a general custom, said, ‘Horses sweat, men perspire, and women glow.’
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Doubt your prof. was quoting my mother but she used that.
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Get a lint trap for your washer outlet – keep lint from plugging drain.
Cup of chlorine bleach once a week also does wonders.
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Jackie
Going to Church doesn’t make you a Christian
any more than standing in the garage makes you a Car
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You are more acceptable to see the face of “The one that looks after
use all” than most Bible Thumpers.
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Ghost
I think you also think if there were 1 or 2 carrying in Orlando there would
be less families grieving.
But there are other ways to create mayhem.
GM Debbe
If you don’t like the commercial hydrating drinks to prevent cramps try
Dill Pickle Juice – I like mine neat but works dilute, like Switchel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchel
Laura Ingalls Wilder describes a switchel-like beverage that her mother had sent for Laura and her father to drink while haying: “Ma had sent them ginger-water. She had sweetened the cool well-water with sugar, flavored it with vinegar, and put in plenty of ginger to warm their stomachs so they could drink till they were not thirsty. Ginger-water would not make them sick, as plain cold water would when they were so hot.”
B’ugs
Old Bear I got a lovely letter today from a net friend who I think would love the Village, fit right in. It seems I had performed a miracle to help him get his home air conditioned and save him dying in the excessive heat, as he has lung disease. Now this is a bit complex but I told him the Lord works in obscure ways and uses messengers less conventional than others. I do believe that, not all angels look like stain glass windows and you need to know that in order to recognize one when you meet them.
Some even cuss a little. I love the movie Michael, that is how I picture angels.