Yesterday, Steve from Royal Oak immediately picked up on the same thoughts I was having as I dug up this old series, specifically how difficult it was, in my youth, to get to know a girl over the phone. Or at least how difficult it seemed! I think I launch far too many old-fogey threads as it is, but I think it’s a worthwhile subject: what is it like for kids today, who are connected, individually and collectively, to one another on a constant basis? You want to talk about a societal ground-shift. Or maybe it’s just as difficult today to cold text that cute young thing in third period algebra.
181 responses to “The Christmas Caller II”
First time I asked a girl out I tried to get my mother to make the call. She and the girl’s mother were friends. Needless to say, that didn’t go over, but both mothers had lots of chuckles.
Dearest Ghost, I had no idea you were interested in astronomy. How did that come about? Can you see the night sky well from where you live? Do you like to observe the constellations?
Mindy from Indy and Jackie from Wacky, (sorry couldn’t resist the rhyming name, I used to be part of this organization. Was a fun way to spend many a weekend. This event takes place at King’s Arrow Ranch in Lumberton, MS every March.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ4FQHnEGPg
Charlotte, I took an elective college class in basic astronomy, which ties in with my general interest in science and technology. I was fascinated with the night sky when I was young, back in the day when good eyesight and lack of pollution allowed me to clearly observe the Milky Way on a clear night and contemplate the distances and number of stars it represented. Away from city lights, this area is fairly good for observing.
William Tecumseh Sherman and his men burned every home in my hometown parish of Tensas, LA when he joined Grant’s forces in the siege of Vicksburg. We were part of his scorched earth policy and the only home left was the one Grant headquartered in.
My ancestor aunt was most likely/definitely not named for Sherman but for the Native American chief. My family often favored classic writers like Cicero and native American names like Tecumseh. And famous Americans of historical note.
You have only to live here among the relocated and displaced Native Americans to recognize they were treated both treacherously and unfairly. They do not discuss it or demonstrate hatred but it is a constant in their histories.
In my front yard is an iron frame of a child’s bed from the boarding school established in Tahlequah, OK where the Native American children were taken from their families and sent to be made more Christian/European and removed from their cultures by the Indian agents/government. The school burned and this frame is a surviving reminder to me of what we do in the name of “civilization”.
I keep it planted in flowers and if I try and make it neat and tidy it just doesn’t like it. So, it tends to be disheveled and wild.
Love, Jackie
Mark, that is OK, my two daughters and Mike often call me “Yacky” instead of Jackie.
EMB, are those stories available online? I’d like to read the set. Your setup of the character intrigues me.
Dear Jackie, so much sadness, injustice, and greed. We are lucky to be living in a more civilised and peaceful world. But how long will this last? A long time, we hope … but we can’t see the future. I’m glad you and lots more in the Village are fighting injustice every day.
Lots of love to everybody. Good night for now,
Charlotte
It isn’t on GoComics yet but the Sunday A and J is great! It looks like me if you are trying to put a pill down a cat!
It isn’t on GoComics yet but the Sunday A and J is great! It looks like me if you are trying to put a pill down a cat!
I have broken the blog.
Forgot to answer Ghost: I did all Mike’s homework for his second degree in Travel Industry Management. He had an A average.
I was also always a top salesman when I sold, it takes a little mental telepathy and being in someone’s mind to do that. And I have a keen recall too about people and that helps when you are in sales, which is what makes a good travel agent. (A dying profession)
My beautiful possum is out on the baker’s rack behind the computer. I think I will name him Pogo, trite but I love Pogo. “I go Pogo” for President. Hope this doesn’t ensure someone shoots him.
Now the apricot cat is out there with the blue gray one. I think I will take some food out, possum got it!
Love, Jackie
Tortoise shell Mama Cat is out eating with her largish gray kitten and her apricot and white kitten. OK EMB, what are odds on sexes of those two? I can’t catch them to find out!
I’m pretty sure I just typed a comment and clicked on Submit Comment, but it has disappeared!
Okay, Comment, Take Two!
Since we’re Decking the Halls, there’s always this one- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PIaElhVFV8
Jackie, if I ever get to Oklahoma I might just take you up on the Bologna Bolognaise! Speaking of traveling, I have lived in South Dakota, and while the western side is not bad, I have been known to say the eastern side (particularly the southeastern corner) is like living on the back parking lot of a K-Mart on a summer Sunday morning-flat, deserted, and murderously hot.
Good morning Villagers….
Indy Mindy, Gal said it best “spiritual’, thanks for the pics of “Blacklight”, and the link of all links (yeah, I concede)….anyway, it made me start thinking of “Angel Mounds” just a couple of hours from here. In all the years I lived in Evansville, I not once made it there…may just have to do that sometime. My husband and I once went to New Harmony…another Southern Indiana historical sight.
Here’s a link to Angel Mounds and some history on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Mounds
Yesterday with the teens drove me to drink last night….yup, came home and slammed down some lager…. 🙂 There is so much play in those two 15 year olds…….and I was not in the mood for it. One had to leave at 11ish as he had a family reunion to go to. I told him no, and then I asked about the food….it was an Amish family reunion…..I then (couldn’t help myself) asked him if they were getting together to “build a barn”? His mother’s maiden name is Stoll, and it’s Mennonite/Amish. He left at 11, and then it was “Skittles” and me. He got on the phone with The Boss and was wanting to scrap all the metal at the 3 & 4 dump site…..lots of old steel auger there. Said he needed Christmas money, I hollered in the background….”work more hours” The Boss told him to put a business plan together, how much gas it would take to haul it and what percentage would he get…..I just started laughing. Hey, The Boss had to buy it in the first place. But Dakota said that scrap metal was low right now.
Looking out my computer room window, it look’s to be a damp, cold, dismal winter day….gray.
later……………..
GR 😉 my husband loves to listen to that group…will play it later for him.
…and what is it about these Sony hackers……I love it. Poor Tinseltown.
testing comment three
It won’t let me post the link to the strip of 12-20-2008
So, you will have to scroll down to the archives and pull it up…it’s worth it and on subject.
Since I’ve lost the longest link posted to Indy Mindy, maybe I’ll go for the most successive comments in a row 🙂
Arrggghhhh..just got a call from Dakota…..they had a belt wrap around the black roller that pulls the canvass belt and brings the eggs in….it’s not good when that happens….the teens just don’t pay attention.
The belt must have wrapped so bad it put tension on the belt tray in the front, and the belt tray snapped and broke in an upward position that it cut off a hen’s head as she had her head out feeding from the feed trough…..I am not a happy camper now.
later……………………………….gotta go in…..need to find the maintenance guys, Ian and Andrew, which I suspect they are incognito now….and no cell phone.
Nope, just made a phone call and Ian and Andrew are there now……Amen
In looking out my computer room window, and if I didn’t know any better, I would think the album cover from Fleetwood Mac’s “Bare Trees” was taken from where I am sitting.
Indy Mindy, this one is for you, because…you are a
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eFPbr04RNc
OK, so I scrolled back, landing on the wrong date but I thought it was applicable too and read it, then came back to read Debbe’s comments again for right date, then thought she might be speaking of the REAL daily, so went there. Finally landed on the “Happiness is knowing the girl wants to talk to you” strip!
Which all made me notice that back in those days of 2008 Jimmy did not have many comments posted by us, the Village, like he does now. Did anyone ever figure out how to find those old comments? I think Ghost did.
Having said that, go back to paragraph one above and you figure out the likelihood of me landing on them anyway.
Good morning all. I think the instant sweet rolls are burned already!
Love, Jackie
GR 😉 and a repeat…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy-51ZTbFis