A little bathroom humor from 2008, for a Friday morning. This is why I like 100% cotton tees.
Throwing in the Towel
By Jimmy Johnson
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182 responses to “Throwing in the Towel”
Hello to Debbe, I miss your stories from the chicken house. c ex-p, thanks for your thoughts. Jackie, thanks for checking on me! When you’re on Facebook, see what my daughter Amy Christian posted today, the 29th, from Normandy. She and her husband visited Omaha Beach today and posted a few photos. Very moving for our family. I will write more tomorrow.
I did not like the Coke!!! It had been over 45 years since I drank a real Coke and not only did I not enjoy it but it left a horrible taste in my mouth!
My friend’s Cokes In real glass bottles are safe. I will not sneak them and drink them as I no longer think they are good. That is pure heresy given where I am from and my background.
Tomorrow I need to go buy a shop vacumn to vacumn up the fleas. I will stock up a few cartons of the six ounce glass bottles for my friend but no Diet Coke for me.
I did not like the Coke!!! It had been over 45 years since I drank a real Coke and not only did I not enjoy it but it left a horrible taste in my mouth!
My friend’s Cokes In real glass bottles are safe. I will not sneak them and drink them as I no longer think they are good. That is pure heresy given where I am from and my background.
Tomorrow I need to go buy a shop vacumn to vacumn up the fleas. I will stock up a few cartons of the six ounce glass bottles for my friend but no Diet Coke for me.
Miss Charlotte, in September I will be in Camden, Maine for the Tall Ship Rendezvous for a week. I plan to go see Symply who has invited me. I hope you would welcome a visit as well?
Fall is a beautiful time in New Hampshire.
How did Jimmy nail me with the Sunday strip about storms?
Jackie:
That is not the reaction I was expecting. Fascinating, especially because I have had the same reaction with other drinks and foods that I tasted again after years of abstinence.
I have heard anecdotal stories that our sense of taste changes as we age, and I think the concept is most likely correct.
Remember the other day…”good Lord willing and the creek don’t rise”?
It rose.
So FAST! Crazy how fast it goes.
But happily it also did not stay long. So, the drying out begins.
JAckie, Mark, the storm was over by you first…you okay? NAncy? And anyone else in the path- be safe!
Jimmy, your depiction of lightning was so realistic. We’ve been having thunderstorms for the last hour. The storms and your comic have reminded me of a thunderstorm we encountered during our travels. We had left Yosesmite National Park and stopped for the night at Walker Lake in Nevada. We were looking at the lake when we saw a thunderstorm building over the lake. We hurried insidebefore the rain hit us. There we watched a bolt of lightning headed right at us. It traveled right next to the van and struck something behind us. When it was calm again, we checked to see what had been hit. The lightning struck a metal outhouse. I’m sure glad no one was in it at the time.
Morning. Giraffe on riverbank.
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/african-safari-camera
Peace,
LLee, safe here in Tulsa. Storms were so bad that I stayed home indoors all day yesterday. I’m about 2 blocks from a fire station and I heard sirens all day long as they answered calls.
Rain and flooding from run off water during storms but ditches handled amazingly, given volume. Late last night water began coming under walls in breezeway and back laundry because it was unable to drain patio due to water rushing by Northside of house.
My friend Glen, the deputy sheriff who lived here two years had come back to work on porch repair and got rained out but I just switched him to inside work. Lucky because he and I ended up doing mopping and sopping.
I always feel safe when Glen is here even when tornadoes are here or temporary rivers going by. I tried to convince him to move back and get his old job back. He is near his family in OKC now so unlikely he will.
Do miss him. Like a 6 foot eight middle aged son I never had.
Glenn is with you, Jackie? Good!
Mark…good thing you got new books and such (last weekend?) – who needs to go out?
Technicolor™ radar looking “impressive” this morning. Leading edge of squall line should be here in a couple of hours. Reminds me of getting weather briefings for return-to-base flights. FAA briefers would sometimes make it sound as though I should sell the airplane, buy a farm, and start a family where I was. However, FAA Wx forecasts were, as we said about USAF Wx forecasts, 90% correct…10% of the time.
On a few occasions while outside, I have been so close to where lightning struck that the interval between “flash” and “bang” was almost imperceptible. Two of those were immediately preceded by a distinct “clicking” sound, which my brain interpreted as God flipping the “lightning switch”.
From the Tulsa World:24-hour rainfall totals in inches
Bixby: 2.81
Eufaula: 3.78
Inola: 2.83
Miami: 2.73
Nowata: 3.64
Pryor: 3.2
Skiatook: 2.68
Tahlequah: 6.79
Talala: 3.64
Tulsa: 2.81
Jackie is in Eufaula, I’m in Tulsa.
Only good thing I’ve seen about the weather this morning is Jacqui Jeras, the tall, shapely blonde on TWC who makes the black sheath dress she’s wearing look good. One finds one’s silver linings where one can.
I don’t watch TWC, so I had to look up Ms Jeras. As my grandpa would’ve said, “She can make a potato sack look good!”
Reports of lightning striking a VFD fire station about two miles from me. Hope it didn’t catch fire.
Rick, on the subject of Ghost’s “lady” my Daddy would ask is she waiting for somebody or anybody?
We still call them gas stations around here. I haven’t seen an actual service station in ages, as they’re all do it yourself places.
Ever since Coca Cola did the whole “new Coke” thing and changed the formulas I haven’t liked Coke. Heresy from an Atlanta girl, I know, but there it is.
And the Chicken Festival was great fun! Many groups out with their smokers and so many rubs and sauces! I think I’m still in a chicken coma. Also an arts fair and live bands to see and listen to, so a good day was had by all!
Jackie, shop vacs are terrific for sucking up water (especially out of carpeting) during minor floods.
Yes, I know! This house has been flooding for its entire existence. Last time I looked I had three smaller ones for house, a large one or two limited to house use and three or four for shop use. (Mike was a professional boat builder and wood worker)when Glen and I were searching last night we found none.
We think they ran away to join the orphans in the circus. Frankly I am surprised I have a stove, washer, dryer and fridge since pieces of those have gone missing. Thrown away I will say charitably.
Debbe, have been trying to phone you back since you called this morning. Your line is busy. Are you off the hook? I assume you can read this if not post.
Contact me if things are not ok. I need to ask you about motel near you so can stop and see you.
Hello Village, hope to shut down laundry in time to go to small family semi-reunion in Indiana near where Debbe lives with her dad. Plan is to go see her after my bunch heads home.
Yea!!! Think I may get her a tablet so she can post here and not have anyone else use it but her. We all miss her so much.
Different computer
I’m Debbe’s sister…she is ok. She is having problems with her computer. Asked me to send this for her.