I stopped by this morning to unlock the door and turn on the lights, but I can’t stay long. I’m on the road for a couple of days. No, I am not at the beach as are Arlo and Janis in the above oldie from 2010. I wish! However, speaking of leisure, et al, I have not forgotten our discussion about the work status of our friends. In fact, I have enjoyed thinking about it and look forward to sharing my thoughts with you. That’s why I’m not going to rush into it now. In a day or two, I’ll have more time to spend on the subject. See you then! And please, try not to break anything.
157 responses to “She Buys Sea Shells…”
No posts since 854pm last night? Where is everybody?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNLhxKpfCnA
Heavy thunderstorms here in Tulsa at this time.
Good morning Villagers…..
We signed and signed yesterday afternoon….we closed on ‘the Homestead’. Even left with check in hand. I will be debt free. Very bittersweet ending to a long journey, especially for my younger sisters and their husbands. Lots of manual labor went into this ‘ending’.
Steve, a one day trip to Spain is a lot of work…long ways across that ‘pond’.
Gots to cut my nails today, don’t like all the ‘clicking’ on this keyboard. Not to mention the typos.
…and Rick, I see that at family get togethers with sisters and nieces. Sister #4 took some last pics of ‘the Homestead’….one really nice one with sun setting and reflecting off of the pond’s surface. Told her to print and frame it.
Just now had to switch from ‘cool’ to ‘heat’ for Dad. Put extra blanket on him.
OMC…little Miss Fluff and Puff just dropped an empty pill ‘bubble’ at my feet, she’s ready to play fetch!!
Just now fed and watered Dad and all the kittehs. The little ball of fluff, the Calico kitteh, is making her appearance. She’s feral like her mother, darts real fast under the sun room’s crawl space.
….lots to do today, think I’ll buy Dad new socks, no time to do laundry…crap, I still have laundry in dryer.
Ya’ll have a blessed day with plenty of sunshine and a cat on your lap!
…and that’s a fact…
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lolcat linguistics 101…..
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“Just now fed and watered Dad and all the kittehs.” Debbe, that just tickles me!
Jackie, are you thinking of becoming a Midwesterner?
The Shari Lewis posts have been really enjoyable. She and Jim Henson are two of my favorite creative people.
Mark: That reminds me of the very old SNL skit when the hippie gets search roughly while the two Nuns with cocaine oozing out of their suitcases go right through. I am sure security will be pretty obvious in Amsterdam and Paris. I am going to Valencia, which has a nice downtown and a beach.
I did buy some steel toed shoes online as I don’t have time to shop. I have some boots, but they are big and I had blisters all over when I wore them last. These look like running shoes. I am a bit concerned as shoe sizes vary, but my fingers are crossed.
Debbe, that ONE day meeting will take most of the week. I’m leaving after work on Monday and getting home about dinnertime on Thursday, provided I hit all of my connections. A colleague told me he missed his connection in Paris, but then he is not as experienced traveler as I am. My wife was like, “I wouldn’t mind missing a connection in Paris”.
I just realized Valencia is near the Mediterranean Sea. I’m definitely walking down there to dip my toe.
Speaking of selling sea shells, meet Mary Anning:
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-scrappy-female-paleontologist-whose-life-inspired-the-tongue-twister
I’ve read and would recommend the book by Tracy Chevalier that is mentioned in the article about Mary Anning.
Just watched Jack sing as a pink Mother’s Day flower. Cute as a pixie.
Steve it is likely the end of the season, but perhaps you can eat a fresh Valencia orange or two while you are there! Even though seeded, there’s no comparison to most navel oranges from the States. In my opinion, Valencia oranges are the best!
Coincidentally, I’m told that the fruit proceeded the color name (in English) for up to 200 years. Here’s the info, to save a Google trip:
“The citrus definitely got named first. The earliest recorded use of orange the fruit in English is from the 1300s and came to us from the Old French orenge, adapted from the Arabic n?ranj, from the Persian n?rang, from the Sanskrit n?ranga (“orange tree”). The Sanskrit word’s origin is unclear, but it might come from a Dravidian word meaning “fragrant.”
The word’s use as a color name doesn’t crop up for another 200 years, in the early 1500s. English speakers probably didn’t have a specific name for the color until the fruit was widely available in their markets and inspired one. Before then, linguists believe people generally referred to orange as “yellow-red,” ?eolur?ad in Old English.”
Quote courtesy “Mental Floss”
Valencia has sweet oranges, but I think that the Valencia Orange was developed in the US and even led to the naming of Valencia California. I am not an expert, however.
Anyone else having problems with Comcast email today? After a LONG wait, one of their chat people said they will be down for several hours yet. I was wondering if this is system-wide or something more localized.
c ex-p: http://downdetector.com/status/comcast-xfinity
Mark – just heard reports of large hail in Tulsa. Hope you have your hardhat!
Thanks, Mark. That is an interesting site to visit.
Slept all afternoon courtesy of that dangerous drug benadryl that Ghost always takes, combined with big slug of cough medicine so I didn’t cough through Jack’s program. I have awful sinus drainage poring down my throat.
Going to see daughters family doctor in a.m.
A little update on the hearing I wrote about. After talking to my VFW lawyer we found out that there are actually two hearings coming up on two separate appeals, one in June and one in July. Wow I hadn’t expected both to be that close together. I won’t know until tomorrow which is which, one from 2005 or the one from 2009. All is good though, even though the early one makes the later one moot, my the lawyer says go for both anyway. Who knows what the future may bring? Believe me dealing with the VA can be the most confoozing thing one can do.
ursen, glad you have it well in hand and moving forward. No woories about a blistering pace being kept, but still definite movement.
Worries was a fatfinger typo, left in to continue the babble. And just to make HAL draw all those little squiggly lines.
My girlfriend from HS days joined the Army in 1973 to get away from a bad home situation. Army doctors made things worse by treating an illness without doing required pretest for pregnancy so the fetus aborted at about 12 weeks. She left the Army with some severe psychological problems, plus several physical ones from nursing violent patients, including dissociative personality disorder from trying to cope with it all. To this day she’s not been allowed by the VA to claim any of her disabilities.
Good evening Villagers…
Fingernails are cut and I’m on a roll at 85 wpm…last time I was clocked on an old IBM Selectric typewriter… in 1974 I had to have a timed writing of ten minutes with no less than 80 wpm and no more than 10 errors…I passed it…graduating in 1973 from a business college with a business degree in “Executive Secretary”, which has graduated to “Administrative Assistant” 🙂
Jackie, getting ready to take a couple of generic ‘Benedryl’ …allergies here in SIN can be ‘head stopping’ and worse yet the,.,.,., sneezeing..over, and over…so I take me some generic $ general benedryl…..about . right.now!
Personally, I liked the spelling of ‘confoozing’ and ‘woories’…there’s some ‘deep seeded’ lolcat there guys 🙂
gooood nite ….
TruckerRon I really feel for the vets who get treated like that. Sometimes I get the feeling that the system is set up specifically to discourage requests for disability. Like I said I have been grinding this out since 2005. If I didn’t have a very good Veteran’s Service Officer and a supportive and understanding wife I never would have made it. There is a saying among those working on appeals, “Delay, Deny, Wait for me to die.” Just ask those working on Agent Orange claims, if ya really wanna get depressed read an honest account of that.
Trucker Ron…I’d have her get in contact with Ursen’s VFW attorney…just a possibility there..just say’in.
Ursen, she lives in Clarksville TN. Would that work for your attorney?
Sometimes camouflage is for attracting your meal, as shown with the orchid mantis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdfGCscTMak