Obviously, summer hours have gone into effect here. However, the door is open, and the lights are one. Help yourself to whatever’s in the fridge. You long-time visitors take care of the newcomers. By the way, today’s classic strip is from way back in 1993 and probably was born from the frustrations of being a humorist, especially an oblique one.
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Thank you Mark. Good night all.
Speaking of levity, reminds me of an old blues song that was recorded by Led Zeppelin. You know, When the Levity Breaks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbrjRKB586s
Summer Hours? Gee Jimmy, don’t you work summer hours all the time? 😛 Seriously, we enjoy the blog very much and glad that you share your gifts with us.
Somewhat irreverent, but I know ordained theologs who will probably like it.
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Peace,
Jackie and Mark, thanks for sharing Dickens and Ghost. I would just like to pick Dickens up and cuddle him. Ghost is turning into the neighbor on “Home Improvement.” 😉
Dickens is indeed the most lovable dog. Ghost calls him a “poofy dog” and says it is good thing he is so utterly adorable.
Dickens believes one of his responsibilities is to lick any hurting parts of those he cares for. He just kept into licking my replaced knee when I woke up. He has wanted to since surgery.
Ghost says he is beginning to worry about his left arm. Dickens licked it for at least 15 minutes last night and then started on it when alarm went off just now.
Wow, I just realized that it has been a while since I actually said anything here, though I have been in and out of the Village sort of regularly. So, here’s the thing…
About a month ago Husband had a really bad kidney stone, to the point that I had to take him to the emergency room. He got pain meds, xrays, a CAT scan, and the diagnosis that it wasn’t moving on its’ own. The next week he went in for surgical removal, just a bit of outpatient work. A few days later he got the news that the CAT scan showed two tumors on his left kidney, one certainly cancer. He opted for removal of the kidney rather than chemo, so two weeks ago that happened. He was in the hospital for three days total, then home on light duty for a week, and now is up and around and checking on his bee hives. He plans on going back to work next week.
And on another front, our daughter has gone a few days past her doctors estimated due date, and we are all waiting for the baby to decide it wants to be born. The doctor says it’s a girl, but I still have a reservation or two about that. I keep reminding Daughter that my grandmother, a very wise woman, told me that as smart as the doctor might be, that baby will be born when it gets ready, not when the doctor says.
So that’s what has been keeping me occupied lately. I have wandered through and read the broadsides posted in the Village Square, and wandered on. I still need to sign up for the gym and work on my knee. I’ve just been too tired to do it. Maybe today!
WOw, Jean! Hugs and prayers for all of your family. Good to hear from you, tho;. Hang in there.
And when that baby gets here, give it a little squeeze for me? A new person to enjoy- yay!
Good morning Villagers…..
Jean, hope it’s today…the delivery that is. Yes, you have been busy. So happy all turned out well with your husband….we may grumble about them, but we still need them around (still trying to figure that one out 🙂 )!
Smigz…I thought the same thing about GR’s ‘plate’ face….the neighbor from ‘Home Improvement’!
Sister who just had the sinus surgery came by last night and we walked around the yard…when she’s feeling better we’re going to get ready for some fall planting. My ‘mater plants are doing well, have a wire cage around the two…looks crowded, but if I can even get just a few home grown ‘maters out of them, I’ll be happy
Let the ‘fixed’ male kitteh back outside yesterday morning…such a sweet mother and son reunion. Can’t trap anymore until after the 4th, surgeries are only done on Tuesdays. Taking in the momma cat and Big Daddy next…I can catch them easily. Going to put on flea med today on them both. Paid $45 for three tubes of that Advantage Multi…and they are small tubes, must be potent stuff.
Slept until 7:30….highly unusual for me, must have been tired…..
later
About 2 years ago now the wife had her thyroid imaged and biopsied and was told she had numerous nodules that were precancerous and was given the option of having them tested regularly or removing the thyroid. No doubt, no hesitation, she opted to get rid of it.
In the big scheme of things, you can afford to lose certain body parts today and get along fine with supplemental medicines. And you can also do very well with certain bionics regulating your heart, perhaps even controlling or assisting it.
Hurrah for modern medicine… and the people who dedicate their lives to keeping us ticking longer!
Yes, Ghost is doing a Wilson. We worked that out. I had quit my Facebook postings pretty much when we began traveling and didn’t want to show him or identify him. He came up with how to work around that.
He is often in photos now, just a glimpse like a ghost or behind something like Wilson. He is actually a lot like Wilson.
I never watched Home Improvement… seeing an episode of a series every now and then at a truck stop didn’t work for me. I ended up ditching TV series and just renting videos to watch in my truck.
To me Ghost looked like Kilroy.
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…come to think of it….it does
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my philosophy for the day 🙂
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Items gleaned from TriviaFirst #26, which comes via email. Didn’t know about persimmons, or Interstate emergency landing strips. Other things also, but those are of biol. and political significance. There’s a habitat group in the AMNH with a ‘possum in a ‘simmon tree [dialect courtesy of Mom], who probably never saw the exhibit.
Persimmon is Japan’s national fruit and it originated there. They are not native to America; Commodore Perry sent seeds from Japan in 1856 and American persimmons started in CA and moved across the south. Opossums are fond of persimmons. Persimmons grow on trees that resemble plum trees and are flat like tomatoes with a layer of leaves around the stem, called a calyx. Not all persimmons are sweet enough to eat, and the less colorful varieties should only be eaten when very ripe. Most persimmons grown in the United States are not interesting to eat. A recent study suggests that persimmons can kill breast cancer cells while leaving normal cells alone, and scientists are trying to figure out how to make use of this information.
Geographical trivia: 1. Over half of the coastline of the entire United States is in AK. 2. The
flow of the Amazon River in S. A. is 3x the volume of all the rivers in the USA. 3. Canada has more lakes than all of the rest of the world combined. OH, however, has no natural lakes except Lake Ontario at its northern border; the ones in the interior of the state are all man-made. 4. After Warsaw, Chicago has the second largest Polish population in the world. There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin, Ireland; more Italians in New York City than in Rome, Italy; and more Jews in New York City than in Tel Aviv, Israel. 5. Under international law, the smallest sovereign entity in the world is actually the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, located in the City of Rome, Italy. It is the size of two tennis courts, smaller than the Vatican, and has 80 residents where the Vatican has 100. 6. The driest place in the world is actually an area near Ross Island in Antarctica, which has not had any rainfall in two million years.
President Eisenhower ordered that one mile out of every five miles of highway in the interstate system be straight, so that it could be used as a landing strip in an emergency.
Peace,
[dialect courtesy of Mom, who probably never saw the exhibit].
Jean dear, good report about your husband, albeit arising from a bad situation. Next good report I want to hear from you is that you are up off your tush and working that knee. I have no doubt the PT has done wonders for Jackie and her knee. She is doing so well her surgeon has agreed to do the right one a full month earlier than usual; it’s scheduled for early October.
Help! I’m being held as a Gardening Assistant in eastern Oklahoma. (I should have guessed what was up when Jackie seemed to know every garden center employee in every area WallyWorld and Sounds-Like-Woes by name.) On the bright side, I have learned Jackie’s highly technical method for planting flowers…dig hole in ground; fling plant into hole; push dirt back into hole.
Speaking of gardening centers, we were checking out of one the other day behind an attractive blonde lady of about retirement age and her male companion. (Red tank top with…YES!…pokies on display. The woman, not the man.) As the man handed a jumbo pack of D cell batteries to the young male cashier, he remarked casually, “She has a (personal relaxation device)* so powerful it uses a lot of these big batteries.” Had she killed him on the spot, I would have had to testify at her trial on her behalf. Hanging (and gardening) with Jackie is never dull.
*Not the word he used
Why is Clint Eastwood hiding behind a plate?
Lot’s of giggles and good news today. Doggy licks can be soothing, to a point. If they become bothersome you can always move the peanut butter jar further from the liniment jar.
In case someone shoots at us he can deflect bullets with the heavy restaurant grade China?
Clint aka Ghost is always armed but does not want to ever have to ever use. He just goes prepared.
Some times I know the customers too. The cashier is named Alaska, where he’s from, and he and his family have been breeding wolves and malamutes forever, since his grandfather. They oppose killing wolves or dogs.
The customers breed a rare small dog breed, adorable, and rescue animals of all kinds, including llamas, donkeys, goats, geese, ducks, etc.
Yes, Ghost is right, I have friends in garden centers, hardware stores, veterinarians and places I go to.
Truth or dare, Ghost is first armed man I have ever slept with. He does disarm himself but he excells at disarming his partners and women in general.
He is charming Southern gentleman with impeccable manners.
At first, I thought it was loving and adorable that Dickens likes to lick me. Then I began to wonder if he might be preparing for the day TSHTF. With no one able to feed him, he might be tasting me to see if my carcass would be good to eat.
No, Dickens is a therapy dog whose therapy is to lick you where it hurts.