A lot has happened since we visited last. A Super Bowl was played. Harper Lee is publishing the sequel to “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Friends in the Midwest and Northeast are being buried in snow still. There are new pictures of Fidel Castro. It’s been a busy few days. Speaking of Harper Lee, I lived in Monroeville, Alabama, and worked as a reporter for the weekly “Monroe Journal” when I was a young man. Monroeville is where Harper Lee was born and raised. She would fictionalize it as “Maycomb” in her famous novel. In my day, the book and Ms. Lee were not the industry they would become, but the town was very proud of its Favorite Daughter, who was living in New York City at that time. The only bookstore in town was a religious bookstore on the town square. As a matter of course, it had for sale autographed copies of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” available to anyone with a few dollars. Did I buy one in my almost two years in Monroeville? No, of course not!
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82 responses to “Roaring Forties”
Still trying to figure out the geometry of Janis’s swimsuit strap. Thought at first it was supposed to be a T-back, but then decided that it might be an X-strap. Of course, I’m actually more interested in what letter of the alphabet the front might represent. 😉
Lady Mindy, definitely Malwarebytes, and it is worth the one-time charge for it. Also, I just recently installed the (free) Sophos Virus Removal Tool recommended by Kim Komando.
Here’s a signed 1st edition; they’re only asking $6,500:
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=10770645687&searchurl=tn%3Dto+kill+a+mockingbird%26sgnd%3Don%26fe%3Don
But they are wearing their PFD’s so that is a positive thing! Not sure real sailors would get on a jet ski unless for rescue?
Jerry, I used to do the Parades of Homes and Street of Dreams tours in Houston, so I know you will not be in the house! LOL since I cannot find an emoticon to use.
One of my houses I worked on was on the front cover of Architectural Digest and doctor said he didn’t want anything of his family’s personal objects moved in even if the tour ended. He wanted it to match the magazine on his coffee table. Lord to be so rich!
i once was “docent/guide” on a house and my job was to keep the tourists from setting foot in the walk in showers and the pool sized soaking tub that only needed Ester Williams rising from it between the marble columns and twin pouring waterfalls. Coast of that bathroom alone was what most people spend on entire home. Lord, to be so rich and not just a minion that created it.
Love, Jackie
My goodness, and my first edition Robert Lewis Stevenson “Treasure Island” is only worth a pittance! Jimmy, you goofed up big time.
It took a long time before Larry McMurty was welcome in Houston or in his hometown of Archer City.
I am cooking lunch for my Army fiend and housekeeper/yard lady who is helping him. Computer thinks that is Army fiend, so I will leave it. Inch thick pork chops bone in with fresh baked sweet potatoes, herbed zuchinni and fresh baked sour dough.
Taking applications for additional minion.
Love, Jackie
Jackie, one of the other villagers found how to make a smiley a few days ago. It was either Ursen or Old Bear, I get them mixed up (Ursen=Bear, Old Bear).
I think it was simply 😉 semicolon close paren, or 🙂 colon close paren
That was it. and my connection of names left out Ursine=Bear. So Ursen=ursine=Bear=Old Bear.
🙁 😉 😉 😀
I’m a pretty good country cook, Jackie, but I see you already have one of those. I was looking at WW recipes by email (another perk of monthly membership) at lunch and found recipe for Cuban-Style Pork and Sweet Potato Slow Cooker Stew. After seeing your lunch menu, I think I’ll stop and get ingredients on the say home.
I wonder if (insert name of overly-enhanced female celebrity of your choice) would need a PFD?
Hum. Janis lures a ghost into the bathroom by announcing she’s about to take a bath. (A little exhibitionism, perhaps?) Angus sets off the fire alarm to get Lady Mindy to jump out of the shower naked. Jackie’s ghost shows up while she’s naked in the tub. I may need to have a word with “the boys” about appropriate behavior. (Honest, guys, it wasn’t my fault all those college girls kept taking off their tops in front of me that time in the Tallahassee boutique.)
I suspect that many women do have a streak (no pun intended) of exhibitionism in them. How else to explain all the female “flashers” photographed in public places on the internet? Yeah, well, I know that alcohol is often involved, but still…
OF due 1508-1528 CST. Get URL from one of my posts yesterday. Peace, emb
Michigan dug out about 30 hours ago, but another two inches due tonight:. a mere pittance!
Ghost, as Lewis Grizzard says “If you can’t chew the pork chop bone you are in the wrong restaurant.” I was raised in a Delta plantation where you fed all the field hands, deer hunters, visiting evangelists and free loading relatives. I can do country better than Paula Deen. And just as fast usually because you never knew if you’d be feeding two or twenty.
I still like people who cook that are not me. Taking applications for a minion, I keep saying.
That Cuban recipe sounds good. I may be getting to eat Cuban faster than I anticipated? I am not showing up for yours, just heading toward Cuba.
The Castro photos were interesting to me last night. I still have somewhere a photo of me with Raul Castro but I never did see Fidel. It shocks me that he is still alive. Think, if they let us go there again it will be just like it was the day it was when I last was there.
And the cars will still be on the road!
Love, Jackie
Today’s TIP BlogSpot and comic are the same. Some would take umbrage or say “sick” or some such. Peace, emb
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
Jackie, earlier on the previous I offered you an ad swap. Want to trade? 😉
I would bet money Sand that you have been to Cuba more recently than my memories!
What ARE you wanting to swap? I bet you HAVE a photo of Fidel too.
Wait, memory has returned. Arlo and Janis went to Cuba didn’t they?
We had to read To Kill a Mockingbird in High School English. It was good and I asked the teacher if we could read another one from Ms Lee….I will read the sequel (or is it a prequel as she wrote it before Mockingbird). I kidded my wife that I would dust off one of her old books that never got published and fund our retirement. Of course I am still waiting for one of her published books to do that, but we can dream.
We ended up with 16.7″ at the airport. Not a major media event, but it did shut us down for a day. Of course the schools are still closed but unless the 2-4” tonight becomes something more, most of the schools will be back tomorrow.
There was a run at the grocery stores on Saturday. But I took it as an occasion to work on my stand-up act and everyone waiting patiently with a smile on their faces. At one point I commented on the good behavior and the guy in front of me said “Whatcha gonna do?” I said “Oh we can complain!” and 3-4 people laughed and said “TO WHO?” I told them “I know the guy in charge of the complaint department and he is pretty understanding…. Too bad people don’t pay better attention to him”
With all of the shoveling, I think there might be a shortage of Advil and Tylenol!
“Our complaint department manager is Ms. Helen Wait. So if you have a compliant, go to Helen Wait. Thank you for shopping us.”
Don’t suppose I’ll ever make it to Workers’ Paradise, Caribbean Division.
Always thought mine was a male of older age since you can smell liniment , strawberry candy, cherry pipe tobacco and bourbon, all things that no one in this house owns or uses. I have cold spots too all over but especially in master bedroom where he seems to favor my bed with the big canop frame. I have been offered a priest to perform ghostly banishment but I decided I liked him.
Since I have been a lifelong fan or The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and the sea captain ghost played by Rex Harrison I decided long ago to be tolerant. Sometimes it seems he has invited others or left the door unlatched.
Not being blasphemous either. Love, Jackie
Jackie, foolish bet. Autographed picture of Che, not willing to trade.
canopy not canape- of not or
Steve in Royal Oak, MI, and also a shortage of Aspercreme, etc. Wives should be giving lots of back rubs there now!
Jackie, don’t think that’s blasphemous. An elderly man I knew was a long-time Pentecostal preacher whose wife passed before him. He said he felt her presence with him at times, especially at night and that he could even smell her perfume.
Sand, what year on trading card? Mine are of 1959 vintage, first anniversary of revolution and no autograph, in fact I am looking somewhat askance at Raul and no hugging or kissing. Everyone was too dirty and uniforms too wrinkled to my taste, ill fitting. Perhaps yours were too in those days?
Pretty cool, actually. In those days people were unsure I think but a number of my friends’ families were shot or disappeared. Then a lot of the free lance pilots and boaters ended up in prison there and you’d see them on news reels and go, “Oh my gosh, there’s ——–” And then Bay of Pigs. We have forgotten already, just like it seems we have in Viet Nam.
Current IS situation is horrible. I cannot stand to watch news or read a newspaper. We are doing press releases and publicity for these people. I hope I have not offended anyone here?
Love, Jackie
Mark, my spirit has been here 20 years and I was married to Mike for 48. Who ever this spirit was, he was not mine! He seems to like me but pulls a lot of pranks and modern technology seems to frustrate him. As it does me.
The cats and dogs follow with their eyes sometimes which is strange. They do not bark.
Dear Jackie, I agree with you SO MUCH on the current mess. We have forgotten history and are doomed to repeat it.
Quick method to peel a hard boiled egg. And they said the internet was a waste of time.
http://boingboing.net/2015/02/03/quickly-peel-a-hard-boiled-egg.html#more-362122