Well, we griped about the cold all winter; can we gripe about the heat yet? It’s been a hot summer where I live, or it would be except it isn’t summer yet. The temperatures haven’t been so extreme, but the humidity has been stifling. I’ve been busy with a lot of outdoor projects this month, and on some days work simply is impossible for several hours past noon. I’ve almost been bear-caught on several occasions. Well, now is the time for all of you who endured all that snow and ice to put away those sun-belt real estate brochures and relax outside.
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Good morning Villagers….
I absolutely love today’s real time strip….JJ, another classic.
…and welcome back Jackie, and good news about Mike too….I pray his recovery continues…Amen, And when you slept with that many pets, I hope it was a king size bed 🙂
I googled your lake, and the link was about as big as your lake….looks like a lot of fun.
Ruth…I had posted a link on the previous blog regarding room temp on eggs…did you see it?
Loon….can I stand behind you when the space aliens show up….I only joke about ‘bleached blondes”…I think it’s the peroxide that soaks into their brain that leaves them wide open to jokes 🙂
Yes, this blog is like a variety hour comedy show.
Well, it seems 4-H fairs are not like they used to be…no carnival…little Brooklynne was disappointed…nothing but agri animals.
Mark, will check out your link when I get home from work.
Well, the 15 year old got the one big turtle out, but the others were so small, unfortunately they succumbed to the environment. Too much play in him yesterday, liked to drove me up a wall. Today….I’m gonna work his butt off.
Sharon….just checked the whether.com and humidity here is 90 percent…be careful out there walking…..you remind me of Janis and her walking.
GR 😉 yes, in his 15 year old mind he was thinking ‘mutant’.
…and I too have noticed Lily has not posted in a couple of days…maybe she is on a marathon.
ya’ll have a blessed day
=^..^=
Loon…..I want to apologize for my remark…I did not mean to insinuate anything.
The days are getting shorter.
Strip of 06.22.14:
Perhaps no baseball metaphors in Shakespeare, but baseball quotes are another matter:
Shakespearean Baseball Quotes!
http://bill37mccurdy.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/hollywood-baseball-quotes/
A quick hello to all. Loon is getting her yoga in before packing for another trip. Something about a Las Vegas conference. From the looks of what she has laid out I can only assume it is going to be held poolside.
“Then to the King’s Theatre, where we saw ‘Midsummer’s Night’s Dream,’ which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. I saw, I confess, some good dancing and some handsome women, which was all my pleasure.”
–Samuel Pepys, September 29, 1662
Old Sam sounded like my kind of guy. 🙂
@Jackie Monies,
Symply fantastic news! Hope it is the first step to a quick recovery….
The Bill Cosby album with “Chicken Heart” story was the one we used to recreate the skit of playing football as kids in the Fargone Camp Morgan variety show in NH years and years and years ago…
I thought this link from the “Close to Home” would be useful in the third panel for talk like a pirate day
http://www.gocomics.com/closetohome/#.U6cC8vldWSo
Re: the village,
I have not participated in many blogs(is that what this is?) but for me it was not the lack of civility that drove me away, it was more the lack of content…JJ has given us a rich garden and we grow what we like, some let things go fallow for long periods of time but the ground is still fertile upon their return, or we can grow unbridled as some of our posters do. I like participating here, lurking here and for a while living here when I was pretty down…works for me, hope it works for you.
http://youtu.be/Imq7ieasKaQ … … OK, go ahead and eat your earwax, but not on TV !
About bleached blondes: at my aunt’s funeral they had a slide show with music, a nice thing many funerals seem to do now with the family providing photos. The ONLY photo of me out of a lot they must own was me with a giant head of teased and frosted blonde Texas Big Hair.
I guess in past I have been everything from white blonde to pastels like pinks and baby blues when that was rage way back in prehistoric times. I am a natural dark blonde and the gray is now over coming the blonde. I keep reminding myself I used to pay to achieve this look.
Symply Fargone, this is not a forum nor really a blog. I classify it as a discussion group which is as interesting as any that you’d hold to discuss some topic. Hence my comparison to book or garden or cooking groups. This one is more interesting.
Love, Jackie Monies
Loved today’s strip! Loved the Shakespeare baseball quotes!
See? Where else can I acquire knowledge like this?
Love, Jackie Monies
An astute comment, Symply. I too have come to realize that the goings-on here in the Village have become a small but not unimportant part of my life.
Yes, Jackie, the only down side to the retention of old family photos… 🙂
Wasn’t there some discussion about “A Midsummer’s Night Eve” here just a few weeks ago? This is not the first time that I’ve wondered if Jimmy might not read our comments and sometimes mine at least a tiny grain of an idea he then expands into a cartoon.
Nah…more likely, he’s just a creative genius who spun his knowledge of Shakespeare and the approaching summer solstice into a clever cartoon.
Off to hospital in Tulsa, but I was thinking a little about what a blog, a forum, a chat group, etc. is. I sometimes blog or write sustained events ongoing or recently past and I think that entails some continuity and topic that stays the same. There may or may not be participation by others in this.
On forums I think there are often multiple topics that run in “threads” and people comment or read those that interest them, ignoring others or writers they are not interested in.
This still doesn’t tell me where this A & J group falls, as it is unlike chat or other pages because those are usually inane. More like the dark side over on go comics.
One thing I know about good bloggers, many of whom I count as friends, they are open and usually pretty transparent people. They are fearless in their writing, telling not only what happened but not being afraid to say what they felt or thought about events.
These are usually pretty personally written and you begin to feel you truly know them.
So, I feel A & J is indeed a blog. Written by many people.
Love, Jackie Monies
Not all of us who read the blog get a chance to participate. I end up reading a whole week’s worth of comments at a time. I quite enjoy catching up on the goin’ ons of the various village folk. Unfortunately, I cannot usefully comment on things that are many days old. C’est la vie.
Don’t let a few cranky folk (or snarky folk) try to ruin it for everybody. Without the off-topic discussions, this would be a very dull village.
Symply Fargone: How are your foxes? You haven’t mentioned them in quite some time.
Jackie, that is good news about your husband. i hope he gets to come home soon.
Gary, Feel free to post on past musings – some topics never grow old. (Just don’t ask about egg dishes, chili, or barbecue unless you have A LOT of time to kill. 🙂 )
Speaking of food, a few days ago, I pulled out the rolling bin that holds Blacklight’s food, and somehow, a stray pinto bean, a deserter from this past winter’s chili pot, came rolling along. The flooded kitchen gave one last surpise. The bean had sprouted. On a whim, I tossed it into some dirt. I now have the beginnings of a magic beanstalk or next winter’s chili bean harvest.
Recipe: Check out today’s (6/22/14) “Zits” cartoon….
Did someone say “chili”? 🙂
No.
A TDS commentator piqued my interest a couple of days ago with “so I lit a fire.”
tag……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkcRZSdc8us
Sndcastler…tell Loon I don’t do yoga, but I do carry bags…………………
Chili…I think the high tomorrow is around 81 degrees….yup, I’d say it’s time for some chili.
We have Brooklynn for another night. Andrew is taking tomorrow off to spend more time with her, and I’m going to take Tuesday off.
This Friday is Boss Man’s start of his 2 week vacation…….. 🙂
The Boss takes an annual vacation to Canada for two weeks of…fishing, sleeping and eating. I’lll always remember what his son-in-law said about his vacations….”poor men can’t afford a one week vacation, let alone a two week vacation!”
Think raise……………………
OK, Mark, I tried the link, and I’m being distracted right now,…but, Brooklynne (sitting next to me with pen in hand) has glue, scissors, and a stapler right now….not to mention the tape dispenser at hand….she will one day work for Hallmark 🙂
ya’ll have a pleasant evening…I am
Traffic on I-10 yesterday was the worst that I’ve ever seen and the 4th isn’t here yet. I have a new battery and I’m good for a few more miles.
@Mark in TTown,
The Fargone foxes Symply did not return this year, we have acquired (via food and water under the covered grill) a feral cat that has replaced the rodent catching abilities we were so proud of in our foxes, this year again only one mouse in the traps like with the foxes, the year before we were in the 20s!