Happy New Year! If this cartoon seems familiar, it’s because it ran only two years ago. I hope you’ve enjoyed the holidays. I like years when Christmas and New Years Day come on Friday. It’s as if everyone tacitly agrees the official holidays will be stretched out for an extra two days. However, Monday can be a hard landing. Brace yourselves!
112 responses to “Spirit of Resolution”
Yeah, takes some guts to get up on the stage with “The Piano Man” and play the piano. But Vandy students can do just about anything…just ask me.
Oh, and get BP going…check. Nice outfit. Ironically, I was admiring Ms. Crow’s abs when one of the numerous “New Year’s” commercials for how to get “sculpted abs” came on a TV news show. Don’t believe she needed that product.
EMB,
Aren’t grandsons wonderful? I am blessed with four and they are all brilliant and perfect, to me!
God bless us every one.
EMB,
P.S.
I also have two perfect granddaughters! God bless us every one.
Debbe not YOU as a biddie, your spent chickens and poor babies being killed.
The old biddies are the women who belong to book clubs and writers clubs and barely read but go wearing too much makeup, bad hair styles, ugly clothes and drink cheap wine in the misconception this is culture.
No, you are too real and real women don’t do this pretense. I’d go anywhere with you and have a great time.
So I admit to having a really “bad” mind and I read A and J On a Smartphone usually. Clicked on today’s strip, couldn’t see much but Janis in front of fireplace and Arlo with wine glass and I said “Oh no, Jimmy you are really pushing envelope today.”
Ghost Sweetie, I don’t suppose this would apply to you, then…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPOlECVWtaI
eMb, congratulations to your grandson!
Jackie: Of course I’ll join you at the museum! Mind if Bob tags along? Lots of good lunch options, including Vietnamese.
Hal must have been at it again – it’s Winter Park not Winter Garden for Tiffany. Winter Garden has its own charms however, a dying citrus town that has been revived by the West Orange Trail (a walking and bicycling rail trail). Plus it’s on the shores of Lake Apopka, a dying lake that is slowly being restored to health if not its glory days as a bass fishing mecca.
Jackie…your only saving grace was when you called me ‘honey’. Hey, isn’t it about time for you to see your Aunt in Terre Haute????? Wanna see Hindostan Falls? How about Brooklyn Bridge”…..OK….how about a cruise down McBrides Bluff in Shoals, IN. Interesting fact about McBrides’ Bluff….and lot of houses/cabins are actually built into “the bluff”…..awesome pics I’ve seen lately from nephew and his friend….the river is risiing….the White River, Shoals, IN. Williams Dam is scary…there is no dam now…just a turbulent whirlpool about 2 feet below the dam.
Jackie….I do hope that some day we can meet…I’m just giving you a ‘jerk on the chain’…you are a inspiring lady, I’m just ten years younger than you….you have inspired me to great lengths. That’s why I am still at the ‘chicken house’…6 to 7 days a week…I love my ‘babies”, Little Miss Peep is doing well…..she still has that ‘peep’ voice…but one day, she will rule the roost.
Love Debbe Osborne
Ruth A1nne, of course Bob should come and Vietnamese sounds great, I have an entire new wardrobe to stain with fish sauce! A blank canvas,
Debbe, I do need to see my aunt, she is last I have and she and I were close all my life. I used to write her long letters when I was a teen, the kinds of stuff I write here. She loved them, said I made her laugh and pulled her out of unhappy places. Yeah, I am same person, just the nut shell changed.
Hal is driving me crazy, I type a full correct word and he goes “You just THINK you said that!”
I have to drive my pickup to Illinois to deliver my grandson’s Christmas gifts so they can be installed on his play tower before he graduates from high school. I know January in Indiana can be cold but I love neighborhood pubs, restaurants, small towns, Dollar Generals, Tru Value hardwares, I will brING a cat or dog carrier if you want to send some roosters home with me, animals don’t have to be productive at my place. Nor people it would appear?
Just looked at the calendar, dentist and dermatologist are oeasily changed, so I can go January 13 to 21 in that window of opportunity of opportunity. I will check with aunt. Love, Jackie
Music has a way of grabbing you. Turned on Pandora just now and on came The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, one of the most beautiful pieces of music, this is a piano solo, but words are beautiful. It was my song for 50 years for the beautiful man I was married to. He was beautiful then and he died beautiful. Physically stunning.
I wanted to play it for his funeral but didn’t, didn’t think people would understand. Few people get music.
Debbe, that dam site does look scary. The same type of dam cause major problems for a water rescue unit in Gadsden, Alabama earlier this year. Some kayakers went over the dam and got trapped in the current. Then, during the rescue attempt, both water rescue boats got pulled over themselves, resulting in the drowning death of one of the rescuers. Apparently those dams set up a rotating current where anything that gets caught in them just keeps going to the bottom and them back to the top over and over. It was described as like being trapped in a front load washer that won’t stop.
Jackie, you should have played it. After all, it meant something to you and Mike, and that’s what mattered. My suggestion, play it at Sail Oklahoma this year and explain it is in his memory.
That is what I decided I would do. I hope my daughter will give me some ashes to scatter as Mike asked. She confiscated ashes. If not, I have large bucket from the Red Scamp I can use. Ashes. A friend of mine in Port Townsend just did something beautiful. He built a dinghy and put his friend’s ashes in it, they set it afire and launched it and it burned until it sank.
Mark you aren’t getting off easily, I am going to come visit. If you are only off weekends I can come on a weekend, pick something to do you’d like or somewhere to go. I like almost anything, I would probably have fun at a monster truck rally. Never been to one but you get idea.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
I don’t want to brag or make anyone jealous or anything, but I can still fit
into the earrings I wore in high school
Jackie, I saw your Facebook pics of the Port Townsend boat send off. Beautiful indeed.
Wasn’t that amaxing? Pete’s mom and dad were very famous cruisers and boat builders, not rich at all. They lived on home built boats with seven kids (if I got number right) never “came to land ” for so long, gave birth to kids on boat in foreign lands, raised them there. She came from a poor farming family in a small town in West Texas. Ran away to sea. Had never seen the ocean.
Pete and Kathy revived one of the most historic bronze foundries on America. Most are gone. They can make any part of any historic ship, even without an original to copy. I got the $5 tour from Pete. I was awe struck.
Debbe 😉 I’ve always had a thing for loose women. Ah, footloose women, I meant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFWDGTVYqE8
OK Ghost, you know that the new power cruiser I commissioned from Mr. Welsford about three years ago to design for us is named Footloose. I own the plans when he finishes the design. I can’t attach it here probably but Google Footloose by John Welsford, New Zealand and you should get my boat design to come up. I am thinking I will still build it with help from the boat shop nonprofit I donated our boats to.
The design is named for me because I identified so strongly with this movie and music, I was the Kevin Bacon character in my little hometown, the girl who the churches prayed for and preached against. I brought the devil in the rock and roll music and went to extreme of organizing and putting on the first junior senior prom in history of the school and parish. With a live band and dancing and corsages and formals.
So, when I ordered the boat design, John surprised me by naming it for me Footloose. That was way back in 2012 I think. I own plans and supplies. It steers like any other car or power boat, has a full head and shower, hot water, a full galley, deck on top, deck on front and back, a full sized queen bed, tables and seating for meals, trailers down the road and looks a lot like a 1960s retro power cruiser, very traditional looking.
Footloose, design by Welsford, belongs to me. No giant multi decked plastic dock queen. This is more real.
I knew most of that. I hope she gets built; I’d like to see her some day.
I am thinking I will build her. The holdup is completing the design and I need to find out what problem was that required redesigning her. Perhaps she can be built as is? At 23 or 26 feet or whatever finished hull is there is no way I could do this, I want to have fun, not spend rest of my life building a boat. But Footloose is my kind of boat, a river running travel trailer that can handle any river in America, lakes and ICW. And can cook aboard, all the things I like. She was always mine, now to get her built maybe?
I thought this was funny:
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No one mentioned it, so I thought I would. Guess who showed up as Commenter #9 on the gocomics page for Sunday?
Anyone interested can make their own decision as to whether or not she is trolling there.
I eschew the Dark Side but I wouldn’t take that bet!
Does anyone else have cats that think doors are to go in and out like so many revolving cats?
Got two new vases of flowers arranged and an older vase freshened up.. in the general,scope of things I think I am happy because I am surrouding myse,F with beauty and things I love. It hit me that with all the thousands of flower arrangements I have done none were for me and few people thought to gift me with any.
A self indulgent life with spas, my house setting up as one, no art work on walls I hated. New things.
Getting up to run errands in Tulsa tomorrow if I can get outta here!
Good morning Villagers….
She’s back…….
Jackie, you may want to rethink that time frame, Arctic front moving in at mid January. I don’t do well in anything below 20 degrees. I’ll be the one in Carharts…zip, zip, zip.
Old Bear, pretty good one there….must remember that one.
Mark, yes you are correct. A friend and I went over there one time when it flooded. Not only the sight, but the sound scared me. Why anyone would want to go over a dam like that is inviting death.
Over slept….gotta go