I want to wish you all a happy and prosperous 2015. There’s just something about those multiples of 5, isn’t there? They just have to be special. I want to thank all of you who read Arlo & Janis, whether in the newspapers or online. You make my life as I know it possible. You probably don’t think of it that way, but I do. I will continue to do the best I can. Also, I thank those of you who come here to my own Web site. I’m tempted to say, “the usual gang of idiots,” but I don’t want to offend those of you who were not readers of “Mad Magazine” in your youth. As for the Web site, I think I can promise this will be the year of bigger and better. Please stick around.
Not Again!
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203 responses to “Not Again!”
The New Lincoln…The Car So Ugly Even Matthew McConaughey Can’t Make Me Want To Drive One.
Sorry, Jackie. I used to like them, too.
Big10 Pac12. What does that sound like?
If you take my DTS, cut off the trunk, cut the fuel mileage in half, give it a rough ride and make it difficult to get in and out and you’ve got an SUV. No thanks. I’ll drive it until they make a decent car again. It seems that Oregon has re-invented the game of football. I’m glad that Urban Meyer has to play them next.
JJ,
From your fellow alumnus, thanks for making all of us smile, and, even though our wonderful team didn’t get the job done in the Outback Bowl, IT”S STILL GREAT TO BE AN AUBURN TIGER !!! WAR EAGLE !!! GO BIG BLUE !!! Keep up the great work with Arlo and Janis and all the rest of the gang.
HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone. May God bless us everyone.
Good morning Villagers…..
Thank you JJ for the well wishes and back at ya.
Posted my New Year’s greetings on the previous page, but I’ll post today’s greeting with “Hope you all had a wonderful New Year’s Day'”.
Thanks for the tune Mark…will listen to it later, I’ve got work clothes in the dryer and we have to leave a little earlier than usual this morning.
Llee, what kind and how many chickens do you have? The 75,000 plus we have keep the hen house warm….it was 69 degrees in there yesterday morning. I made my rounds and came in and checked the temp and it was 70…..I jokingly said I must have made the temp go up one degree by getting the old girls stirred up.
Oh, and I’m seriously thinking about getting those foot warmers that Llee posted. I wasn’t in the packing room much last winter as my sister-in-law did the packing, and I mostly stayed in the hen house….where it was much warmer. My SIL was sent to the other hen house as one lady quit coming in, and it does take two people to run both places.
I hear freezing rain on my skylight….today’s high 38, tomorrow’s high 57, then it’s back down to 38 on Sunday, and the high on Monday is 28….sheeessshhh…..
Speaking of Mad Magazine, Spy vs Spy was brought up last night in conversation…loved that comic.
ya’ll have a blessed Friday
GR 😉
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GR 🙂
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I don’t have chickens, Debbe. Not now. This was back in Florida on the homestead. Grandma would often add warm oatmeal to the girls’ feed during winter. 🙂 When her family moved to Florida from Canada (from England earlier) her dad built a house 20×60’…and 40′ was for chickens! They were one source of income for the family. By the time I came along she only had a dozen or so chickens in a smaller area, and sometimes put a “fresh eggs for sale” sign out by the road.
Wait, have I told y’all that story before? Sorry!
Nice morning to be a graduate of (The) Ohio State University.
Unfortunately, thanks to NyQuil (yep, flu), all I saw was part of the first quarter and thirty seconds of the third.
Debbe 😉 You nailed it with one, hon. Although I must point out I’m not as “fluffy” as that cat. Proportionately.
If I worked your schedule, I’d have no sense of humor at all.
If your team won, congratulations. If your team lost, condolences and the reminder that there’s always next year. If you don’t have a team, you probably wonder what’s all the fuss.
@Debbe,
An earworm from our show coming on January 15th Symply presenting Jeff Pitchell with Greg Allman’s son Mark and Charles Neville recorded on 12/27/14…pretty Fargone good and is Mark tall(looks like his Dad too)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVSyrXeMcog
As the person who in high school and college had a subscription to MAD magazine I am quite happy to be counted in “the usual gang of idiots”!
Last night we had baked chicken with rice and blackeyed peas. I would have cooked collard greens, but I’m the only one that eats them, and I can’t eat that many. 🙁 My late MIL would make baked ham, sweet potatoes, rice, peas, collard greens with ham hock, and corn bread. Everything was good, but I sure do miss her collards.
Happy New Year to everyone.
Thank you, Jimmy, for the great year just past, and here’s to the great year ahead!
GR6: I do remember what the fuss was all about… but for my own health’s sake I have had to give up my addiction to sports coverage.
Trapper Jean: As much as I loved my mother-in-law, I do not miss her cooking. My father-in-law had had two heart attacks in the 1960s, the result: their cooking was extremely lean and bland. I don’t miss the overcooked hamburger steaks, and I was quite tired of having mashed potatoes and peas as the side.
I am very thankful that my wife has learned to cook a much wider variety of food and not overcook the meat in an attempt to get rid of excess fat.
Speaking of health, CDC declared 12/30/14 that influenza has reached epidemic status. Reports are that a relatively high percentage of early cases required hospital care and critical care.
Did everyone who can get your flu shot?
This is the time of year I begin to think of all the food service and temp agency employees who cannot afford to take a sick day, or may even endanger their job if they do so, and therefore go to work with the flu.
Debbe, of course I thought of you.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/01/01/california-chicken-cage-size-law-expected-to-increase-egg-prices/
Nodak Wayne, egg prices are higher here in AL than they were last year. Since California has rammed their law down everybody’s else’s throats without regard to economic consequences in other states, maybe the rest of us need to enact special agricultural ordinances respecting California-grown products. Let’s see, we keep getting lots of bacterially contaminated food from California so we need special inspection rules for those products to protect our citizens.
It’s all good. To the Gubmint, especially in California, “feelings” are now more important than facts, economic reality or human beings, even the feelings of “bio-engineered egg-laying machines”.
Meanwhile, one is left to ponder whether or not homeless veterans living in cardboard boxes have enough room inside them to “move around and stretch their wings”.
Ghost – I’m with you on that thought. There has been a push from several groups in Florida to require large companies to provide paid sick leave. The strongest opposition has come from the theme parks and restaurant industry (notably Darden) so of course it won’t happen. Too often these same companies provide little or no health insurance, frequently by keeping many of their workers at part-time status.
Somehow there are small local independent businesses that manage to do the right thing – maybe because they don’t have stockholders or because their “CEO” is working alongside the little guys and not collecting a six figure bonus. Meanwhile, I get my flu shot every year, wash my hands a lot, and try not to think about the very scary potential side effects of this short-sighted attitude.
There is a hilarious story making the rounds on the InterWebNet concerning one of the items included in the Hasbro’s “Play-Doh’s Sweet Shoppe Cake Mountain Playset” that many children received for Christmas. But for once, I will let good taste dictate and say nothing further.
Except to note that Hasbro has announced on their FB page that they “are in the process of updating all future Play-Doh products with a different tool.” You really can’t make this stuff up.
GR6, saw that PlayDoh article just before the New Year, shocking! Though some mommys may see it as an added Christmas delight.
I have a feeling that the office football was a big one.
Ruth Anne: “Too often these same companies provide little or no health insurance, frequently by keeping many of their workers at part-time status.”
That has been driven by the insanely increasing costs of health insurance brought on by the “Affordable” Care Act. People do what they must to survive economically; sometimes the only option is to cut benefits by reducing people to part-time status. When the only other option is to close your doors…
We really need to revisit the ACA and rewrite or replace it with measures that reduce the pressures that result in increasing prices.
Ancient Roman: “Dratus! It’s been XV for three days now, and I’m still writing XIV on my checks.”
TruckerRon:
What do you think about repealing the ACA and replacing it with nothing?
Would that help or hurt the people? The economy?
Some people say that what we had before was better than this monstrosity.