I know it has been a week since my last post, but it has not been in vain. We’re in our fifth day of record-warm temperatures around here; it has been unusually spring-like, and we’ve been taking advantage of it to do some serious work at the parsonage. Remember the parsonage? Others and I have been rebuilding a rotten porch from the ground up, and I’ve not forgotten how so many of you made it possible. I will try to update more frequently this week, though. A lot is going to happen this year; the future is going to be interesting.
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Once I got used to engine stopping, first time or two startled me, my driving adjusted to it. Hauling that boat cross country she went beautifully with never a pause. Drove beautifully.
Repair shops don’t want to spend money to be certified or buy equipment, hoping they will fail and they won’t have to.
Good morning all. I am going in and make blueberry whole wheat pancakes for breakfast. After I weigh myself.
With iced tea.
Forgot to send Ghost a song and the rest of you too. A very young and good looking Merle Haggard live when he could still really play. There is an awesome long guitar riff in here and saxophones. I loved saxophones, where did they go?
https://youtu.be/HuJ9rNSImQA
This song which I had never, ever heard of before by the Bellamy Brothers came up on my youtube feed recommended for me. It screamed Ghost all over it so I have to send it on to him. Boobs by Bellamies.
https://youtu.be/Q7DniRWRA7s
Speaking of old country songs I looked up one of my mothers favorites for years. “Bimbo Where You gonna go?” Was written in either 48 or 49, put on record in 53, released in 54 by Jim Reeves. She always said it reminded her of me when I was young, around 2 years old, because I used to toddle over to the neighbors for an extra breakfast biscuit and orange juice almost every day. What power old songs have over our lives sometimes. For me it is the old, old, old hymns that get me, like “It Is Well” and “And Can It Be?”.
Thanks, Jackie. That was truly a Band of Boobs. I’d love to see the casting call they put out for that video.
I could reciprocate with Jimmy Buffett’s “A Love Song (From A Different Point Of View”…umm…perhaps not.
My Internet friends are still laughing at me and the teal melons. They actually know me but since I seldom wear low cut tops they probably hadn’t realized I was same size as a ball cap.
My housekeeper brings her toddler here to work and she said she looked around and Kay was wearing one of my bras on her head as a hat.
I will look up Buffet song. I can’t post one I like but he is embarrassed by it often. How are you doing? I am on weigh to fitness center.
Old Bear, the winky was a treat. Like finding a Hidden Mickey wondering around Disney Parks. The fact it was organic makes it fun. Lynn’s book is so good because of the humor. It is a rare twelve year old that actually cares about punctuation. And that is the last time many of us had any instruction. [My professors marked the paper, not the punctuation.] But make it funny, like Lynn does, and people will buy the book. I enjoy the humor, even if I can’t remember the rules correctly. Sounds like you are describing the same.
All of Ford’s development professionalism, or conversely first year production glitches, had nothing to do with a criminal hit-and-run, Jackie’s valiant recovery technique, or Allstate’s shameful handling. A Hummer might have rolled if a sedan were pushing behind its balance point at highway speed.
That Trigger was contacted in a more controllable place, and Jackie did well with it, was the best that could be expected. Being lightweight aluminium may have helped twice: less mass is less momentum, tearing and crinkling absorbs forces that would have caused more lateral movement. And that saves lives while looking really nasty.
Nor should you feel any guilt over paying up front, that is the correct way to purchase. Pay for your new car not the banker’s car. This should have been settled in one business week. When it was not, it was due to after-incident actions by paper shufflers behind badges, coveralls, and smiles. The smiles was supposed to represent Allstate, I couldn’t come up with a metaphor for uniform of the job.
Glad to read you are more active and feeling better, Jackie. Moving and sweating beats stewing. Unless you are actually stewing a wonderful new pot of goodness in the kitchen. Love that stuff.
My helper cooked hamburgers and macaroni and cheese for everyone while I was on phone trying to straighten out why Direct TV cancelled my account rather than coming out to reinstall the dish. I hate customer service, took about an hour and talking to three reps who were Indian from India.
I think I am making meatloaf with rest of ground beef. I have a lot of customer service calls! Dang!
Domaucan1, glad to read good tidings. Blushingly admit, my first thought thought of a warmer than usual Mardi Gras, lead to a picture of a more scantily clad after-party. And when imagination starts, it branches.
GR6, If temps rise, do pokies subside? Thought you may be qualified to ask. You may even have a percentage to report.
Jackie, Dave Barry once said that dealing with Direct TV was like battling with Bruce the Death Squid.
Morphy, there are two prominent (you saw what I did there, didn’t you?) causes of pokie enhancement. Ambient temperature is one of them and yes, pokie prominence is inversely proportional to increase in temperature. However, I have never done the math to determine the exact relationship. Of the temperature factor, that is.
Well, it’s about time. It’s already almost two decades past when it was promised to us.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbus-group-tech-idUSKBN1501DM
Oh, and I’ve had better days, Jackie, but I’ve certainly had worse. Glad you’re headed to your fitness center. Many say the big challenge is to make it to the gym the first day. I say the real challenge is go back the second day.
Defensive driving at its best…
http://www.accuweather.com/en/videos/trending-now/kansas-troopers-dashcam-records-his-near-miss-with-a-jackknifing-semi/5283848418001
But the death squid were so damn ably polite. Just repetitious on making you give them the info twice. And raised the installation and membership costs by $30 each and paid no attention to the “I did not cancel this, you did and this was rates I was given last phone call.”
“Ah, no, you see this is the rate today and you are applying today.”
Wait til I try to explain the dish is not on roof but lying in grass in back yard. They could not get it.
Still in gym clothes and going.
I find a man who quotes Dave Barry extremely attractive and sexy. Speaking Southern just makes it better.
Temperature has risen here. I looked in mirror and they are still there.
On the Dual-yes I see them-Response System, I’ve never thought plastic beads to be alluring enough to elicit an arousal response. Maybe I’m not doin’ it right after all.
Ghost yours and mine ARE the same song by Jimmy Buffet. I have been listening to it as long as he has existed but I knew it by Why Don’t We Get Drunk? Not by your title A Love Song.
I was too embarrassed as you apparently were too. At least we are exercising a little restraint I’d Jimmy ain’t.
My birthday is February 7, a week before Valentine’s. I am assuming you are pre-booked elsewhere.
GR6:
Was it George Carlin that said “A near miss is a a hit”?
“Well, it’s about time. It’s already almost two decades past when it was promised to us.”
More like 5+ Decades.
GM Debbe where-ever you are.
Greetings Mizz Charlotte
Prayers and hugs for those that need them.
PS today is Ben Franklin’s Birthday
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.
On things technology promised that finally delivered: flat-screen wall-mounted TVs. It took a while, but the final product is excellent. Unfortunately, the product it delivers has gotten far worse in the interim.
“Temperature has risen here. I looked in mirror and they are still there.” The Other Cause, perhaps? 😉
Have a recent update for The Indiana Orange String Bikini Babe™?
By the way, when did they change the name? It is on my cds as the old name and on YouTube under old name with 1.4 million plays. But is there under new name too, just fewer listens.
Political correctness?
So, why not?
Mine arrived in Oklahoma. Want a photo op with those melons?
No, just glanced up.
Jackie, ParrotHeads will spread the wisdom under every title they can think of. Keeps things easy after Five O’clock Somewhere. It is a difficult regimen to keep. Just a few ounces at a time.
Old Bear, I remember current, and read back issues, of Popular Mechanics promising neighborhood airstrips. There actually are two 1960’s era subdivisions in my area with airstrip markings and elevated windsocks. Not being licensed, I assume Piper Cub and equivalent traffic is handled by regional ATC, GR6?
But when Airbus CEO declares it is the next logical step after underground rail 100yrs ago. I reply, when the subway breaks down or derails it stays underground. Poorly maintained private aircraft will not continue to float like some dirigible.