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Cross my heart and hope to die! I pulled up a batch of about two dozen old cartoons from 2004, looking for something interesting to share with you today, and this was among them. I couldn’t pass it up. Nonetheless, I wanted to post something today that would give us a semblance of normalcy around here. I’m sure everyone is as tired of the teeter-totter art as I am. It is Tuesday, however, and I almost never miss a Tuesday. If you only check in periodically, click the new link above or go back a couple of days to see what we’ve been up to. As for the rest of you, there is news about multiple rewards and other things. We’re going to get back to the barking, but we have time. I’m going to leave this with you for now. Semblance of normalcy is what we’re all about here.
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78 responses to “This and That Old House”
It can’t be THAT early? God bless us every one.
I would like to ask everyone in the Village to say a prayer for healing for my home town of Baton Rouge, LA. This is NOT the way we live down here. Thanks.
Louisiana, Louisiana, they are washing us away.
Ironically I am watching Rehab Addict as I pulled up the blog. I am working from home as I am having both a furnace and AC put it. I don’t have any money either…lol
Semblance of normalcy, that’s us all right.
Debbe, I will pray too. A will between two married folk needs to entered in jointly. Maybe not in the legal sense, but in the moral sense and for the health of the marriage. You have had a lot of drama over the past couple of years, so I would suggest that someone wise counsel you in determining what to do. It should never be done in haste and without thought.
This is a day late for the X-ray glasses series, but it just turned up on BBC.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160718-the-secret-history-of-x-ray-specs
I think that the “X-Ray” glasses that Arlo found were the ones that he uses to look inside our windows!
Semblance of NORM-alcy
I just finished an Adirondack chair from one of Norm’s Old Yankee Workshop books.
emb (and other bird cam fans): There’s a nice blogpost, with lots of photos of the banding of the Chesapeake osprey chick, here – https://ospreycamerablog.wordpress.com/2016/07/19/big-blue/
Debbe, get a lawyer if you have questions. Never try to play a game where you don’t understand the rules.
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13707708_1177536822311172_6864020759798195087_n.jpg?oh=997e6f5cd031b78756d42cc18fd617c4&oe=583687DC
Weather forecast calls for a chance of funnels and water spouts. Semblance of normalcy on the Texas Gulf Coast.
Sweet Charlotte, I’m so sorry to hear you are under the weather (deck). Do what they tell you in rehab; they know their business. And as I tell my mom about forty times a day, “Be careful!”
I’m really beginning to hate 2016.
Here’s a song for all of us in the Village https://youtu.be/SszbIAXvazg
For Debbe, Mark, Ghost, doumacain, Miss Charlotte, Gallego, Jerry, me and anyone else who needs to hear it out there. Came on my radio a few minutes ago and I sure need it.
Miss Charlotte I have been worried for good reason apparently. Mark, good advice and I hope you took it too.
Ghost, I agree but 2014, 2015 weren’t all that good years either.
Had a fun night with my girl friend, more laughs than I have had since I got married and gave up female friends along with male ones. Rediscovered wine and dishing on men. Good times. Thinking of taking country dance lessons too. Maybe there are still good looking dance partners. Gave that up too. Never too late to discover things you once loved or find new ones.
Advice for us all.
Jackie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw_6eUgpo30&index=15&list=PL-w1scsQWbsA5AQLDQTN-CBWmaDatKRk2
Semblance of normalcy? I think it was George Carlin who said “Reality, what a concept!”
And one more good one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kB7OR161-U
Good time for music.
Was Elon Musk,in a recent interview, who said we all are living in a computer simulation.
Think the traffic is bad where you drive?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1412529/18-drivers-die-after-getting-stuck-on-motorway-for-35-hours/
Sorry about some of those other articles. That’s obviously a tabloid paper.
Titillating. Don’t get that depressed, Ghost.
My hometown of Winnsboro, LA is reeling from the 22 year old wife of one of the local ministers being kidnapped and shot, left for dead in cemetery. I have known her family all my life. Her family is connected to most churches in the area by ministries. She was taken from a convenience store I have stopped in dozens of times across from her job at her family’s business.
You don’t have to go far to experience horror and hatred but we can’t go looking for it. Yes, I have flashbacks but I refuse to hate even when history keeps repeating.
Love the new Kickstarter art, Jimmy, and feel like part of a privileged gang (village?) to see it. My wife and I are still discussing which bonus to bid on! Er, I mean donate for! Nice work!
Ghost, at least nobody died here: https://consumerist.com/2016/07/18/ikea-shoppers-trapped-for-hours-while-competing-for-single-parking-garage-exit/