I told you when I began showing you this little series on Tuesday that I like it. Having seen it again, I haven’t changed my mind. Not all but most of the gags involve the dry, conversational humor I like to think I’m good at. Anyone who has followed baseball will tell you that if you hit a single every time you come to the plate, well… you’d only be the greatest baseball player who ever lived. Most of these are singles and doubles. I’m not holding these strips up as great, but if you’re at all interested in what the guy who draws this stuff likes, this is it. I like this.
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Smigz and Ruth Anne, origami was a hot topic when mine were elementary aged. Lots of cranes and four-point stars were traded and ‘sold’ in class projects. I was always reminded of Edward James Olmos’s character in Bladerunner. Though now I don’t recall if I ever made that connection to them when they grew older.
Both developed a love of reading, but Harry Potter led to Dystopian Teen fiction for one, and Classic Fantasy themes, a la Tolkien, for another. I’ll have to ask if they ever delved back to earlier authors. Sometimes book journeys are personal quests that don’t lend to including you parents.
I can crochet pot holders, place mats, square fringed tote bags and some simple afghans.
Square things.
Nothing cute or curved. Square more or less .
Smigz: Here are the dinosaurs – https://flic.kr/s/aHskYzP2Jf They range in size from 13″ to 18″.
Morphy: Life includes many personal quests that “don’t lend to including your parents”. Just be glad they took book journeys.
My dinosaurs are not crocheted but appliqued, on a custom-made sweatshirt that Elaine gave me maybe 3 decades ago. I have it with me at summer theology.
Peace,
Ruth Anne, I agree wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, my children were raised between two homes. But near one was an abandoned mini-golf business, complete with not so nice graffiti. I did my due diligence to check it out once, just in case it became important later. I felt totally out of place as an adult. If any one had seen, and asked, “what are you doing?” I honestly don’t know what I would have said.
It was exactly the kind of place a group of young ruffians should explore and make their home base for a summer of mischief. In my youth, it was an abandoned shack just over the irrigation ditch in that one orchard. You gotta be strong enough to not fall in, kid. if you fall in you’ll be swept away, and we’ll never catch up to you.
No confirmed knowledge, because nothing bad ever happened. But I’d like to think it was explored. I’d be a little disappointed if I found out they were too good, or too scared, to check it out on their own.
Jackie, I’ve found the tractor-seat garden scooter very helpful. There is a removable bracket behind the seat for a 5-gallon bucket. I’ve used the bucket for tools, seeds & plants, and for harvesting (or as we call it “pickin”). If others are interested:
http://www.gardeners.com/buy/deluxe-tractor-garden-scoot/40-131+++GR.html
Mark in TTown, it sounds like you were an RM. My late father was one, after the navy he worked for the phone company as a teletype repairman. He also acquired model 15 and 28s and converted them for use as radio teletype on the HAM bands. When I enlisted in the AF, I selected my career field primarily because use of a teletype was part of the description. Tech school had a typing requirement and none of the guys in my class knew how to type. I had had four tears of typing but couldn’t convince the instructors to let me phase out of the class. One of the requirements for passing the school was to be able to type 20 wpm on the tty. I did 60. ;-P
Chris, I was a CTO, an RM with a higher clearance. We were more diversified, too, which is why we had that third letter. In my case the O stood for Operator and we worked with the tty and encoding equipment.
Morphy, maybe this will help: https://www.navy.com/about/uniforms
I never thought about the orientation of the stars because they weren’t part of my rank insignia. I was only an E-4 with an eagle and stripes but no stars.
Got clearance today to go back in water at pool to do stretching and walking and non impact water exercises. Plus all the walking I can do.
Have to find a suit to take along tomorrow on Trip so I can get in motel pool.
So I can garden without much fear of infecting my knee. I sat down and bent and weeded some this morning. Ordered a red tractor seat to sit and ride on at David’s recommendation. Best idea I have seen. Love the bucket for holding things.
Was sent this:
Vietnam War Casualties Listed by Home of Record.
http://www.virtualwall.org/iStates.htm
Someone put a lot of work into it – there are a few caveats about finding
by “home of record” not being a “Home Town”
Men to Honor
Interestingly I can find no one from the parishes I came from in Louisiana, yet I know many did serve and I thought died?
However, I went to college in Lafayette, LA in this period and many died and are on list including the highest number of officers of any city. Odd?
What few realize are the high numbers of civilian American deaths in war, the contract and Federal employees who served over seas in the Pacific theater as support to troops.
Good morning. Legs hurt but exercising any how. Keep on keeping on my friends.
Even when it hurts.
Weeded most of large flower bed. Big grasses. Why can’t yard help recognize noxious grass, if not Weeded?
But it made room for iris and daylilies I need to plant. After I clean beds the moving of plants begins to move to proper light.
God forbid anything grows roots.
Best view i have ever seen !