Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

Oh no-o-o-o-o-o...you've gone too far this time, Boss...I sense a 'Caine Mutiny' coming 'round the bend.
I conferred with a shrink via teleconferencing, and she said as long as you didn't stick pins in Cheney's eyes, to let the video stay up.... so we're clear here...and personally, The Night Watchman gives you the seal of approval!

ha, Dexter -- maybe i should add that no former vice presidents were harmed in the making of this video

Jesus Christ Craig .....

They're going to kick you out of punditville.

ROTFLMAO! Perfectly twisted.

Chris Rea - Baby Please Don't Go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so72pc7UcKY

OMG!!

*L*

Craig, have a drink or something.

tt

cBob...last thread you posted a John Hiatt song. Hiatt is a native Hoosier, and at one point in his early years, he signed on to play guitar with a band , which is only noteworthy to me because the guitarist he replaced was my brother Bob who moved on to another band...brother Bob worked his way through school at Ball State in Muncie playing cover songs on the college circuit around Indiana.

It is his unpredictability that I adore, and that they lack. Could never have seen that one coming.

Craig, I see you joined the gym.

tt

Chris Rea - Texas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMk208Op1Jc

"They got big long roads out there"

Eweeeeee, that tongue is hideous!

tt

TIPTOE: ARLO ALERT!! Arlo Guthrie was featured on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion...most NPR stations re-play the show Sunday afternoons, or I think you can get the current-show podcast at the show's website....

Thanks, Dex. Maybe he'll post the link somewhere.

tt

I wish someone had an "in" with Bernie of the Imus Show...the I-Man would love to show this video.

I came to terms with West Nile Virus being around here. Obama is doing well, and I'm happy.

Now the damned pigs/ducks are gonna kill us all off.

New strain of Swine flu.

tt

Chris Rea - The Road To Hell - Full Version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abZlWqVeLzg

Dex, from Arlo:

"Arlo Guthrie
next at The Palace Theater, Waterbury, CT - A Prairie Home Companion 04/25/09last Sunday"

tt

Dexter -
I love Hiatt, remember that band's name ?

The Jeff Healey Band - Confidence Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MevNeiO4Zk

Y'know, CBob, I don't know my brother's band he quit and Hiatt joined...i just found about it yesterday...he had never even mentioned it before...I'll look to see if i still have that message...
in the meantime, FRANK RICH IS on FIRE!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/opinion/26rich.html?_r=1

CBob...i found the message, which was a copy of an email he sent to a folk club requesting mic-time...here's my brother's message...
"... I was a Hoosier. I used to be a R&R lead guitarist in Muncie IN (AGES AGO). I often tell people that was the "best worst-paying job I've ever had." The guy who eventually took my spot in the group (after I quit to become a schoolteacher) was the legendary John Hiatt. The best man won.

Back in the late 1970s I used to perform regularly in NW Indiana at a coffee house associated with the Northern Indiana Arts Association. Great memories of Friday night open mikes.

I would like to play a tune or two at one of your open mike nights. My acoustic Washburn six-string is chaffing at the bit.

Whaddya think?

--Bob "

Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rlQqWbp7rY

Dexter -

Sweet .

Big Audio Dynamite - Rush

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrJxbe3tKf4

JJ Cale - They Call me the Breeze

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCVQWVxHl4k

Little Feat- Time Loves a Hero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK_hftXn4dk

Johnny Bond - Hot Rod Lincoln
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV18vVAbyIg

Dave Edmunds - The promised land

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80jlH7Tg33k

I think I remember a flu in 57'-58' that I had. Otherwise I'm not sure I ever had flu. What I always go was sinus infections since I smoked and drank. I now get the shots,

I have to say tho that, from the descriptions people give me of flu, those are the kinds of things I'm not always aware of - think I just feel crummy. If I don't have a fever, I don't tend to realize I'm sick. that's kinda sick, huh?

Oh God Craig, I see we have inspired you. Very worrisome, very worrisome. It was great.

There is no joy in Mudville.......mighty Cheney has struck out......

maybe craig's defense lawyer can argue that the "torturing" in the title is an adjective not a verb.

the dick has been a torture and torment to me

craig, you forgot the buckshot in the face.... oh no that was for a friend tho wasn't it... nevermind

talk about straight lines dangling out in front of the crowd........lol

and Helen T. I have always loved her. Any time she talked I listened, even before I knew she was also your friend Craig. I just want to pinch those cute cheeks of hers. Any my drunk friend who doesn't believe that Craig would talk to me... I threw in, just to rub it in, that Craig was also a friend of Helen Thomas. I think I really got her on that one. But will she remember in the morning? Probably not.

Very dangerous with our men folk here Sturge, as we can already see.

yep.....but not me.......i wouldn't touch that line with a ten-foot pole........

and who drew the face on that dick? Very talented.

and one day at prison camp.....no I better not.

You're on an early morning roll, Carol!

Kind of getting over the blues Patsi.

it's quiet.............too quiet............I don't like it..........

Have you ever been afraid, Sarge? I mean, really afraid?

Don't those drums EVER STOP?

(drums never stop.........because after drums stop comes bass solo.....)

Can ya sing Sturge or do you just play the tunes?

Matt Bai on why Washington doesn't need to Twitter:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/magazine/26wwln-lede-t.html?ref=politics

I totally agree with that guy Patsi. That twitter is just ego lotion. Apply as many times as you need it to make sure youre still important.

sturge, you dangle whatever you can...

each to his own
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-OEhHthSd4&feature=related

hey all, just saw the vid on the "weekend funstuff" link below craig's torture chamber with 6 seconds of helen greeting us . what a nice surprise, but can anyone identify and explain the little pix running along the bottom of it?

we sing we dance we crawls on our bellies like a rep-tile........

and how many beers does it take to get to the third level Sturge?

little pix running aong the bottom of it? I don't see that. Did someone slip something in your drink Pat?

could also be a detached retina.

Almost forgot. The owl babies finally poked their little selves out of their hole last evening. Getting pretty big. I knew they would wait until my sister got here. I will try and catch a pic but there is a new tree branch that has obstucted my best view.

ct, play the helen vid and at the very end you'll see pix crawl. interesting.

OK, it is time for me to let the grown ups play. I have to fix big sis breakfast, spinach cheese, with feta, omlet, bacon and to reduce total calorie count, little bagels. Also some satsuma juice I froze immediately after picking off the bush last Fall.

Are those from some older TM videos?

I see what you mean. Scary.

Craig,

You may need to go back to smoking.

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TT

Read last night ... We aren't even up to deaths from a bad cold yet. Typical media over the top panic before there is a reason to panic.

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STurgeone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tByhkaVcyE

Some good news for a Sunday. Tamil Tigers call cease fire. Maybe some of the refugees can get off the beach

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8019199.stm

some color on my derby pick

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009904260403

The worst flu I ever had was in Korea during the winter of 68-69.

Stinky and I were taking the night train from Kunsan to Seoul with our kids who needed to see a specialist at the 121st Evac because of spots on their lungs.

No sooner had we boarded the _very_ crowded train when the flu kicked in. A splitting headache so bad that merely touching a hair on my head sent shards of glass ripping through my brain. All this was accompanied by a raging fever and nausea.

When we arrived in Seoul on Saturday morning, we went straight to the Grand Hotel, checked-in, and I headed for bed. Stinky was in a panic and called for the hotel doctor who took my temperature (axillary) and poked and prodded and then gave me a significantly large injection.

By Monday morning I felt I could survive the 45-minute taxi ride to the 121st, which I did, selling Buicks only once along the way.

The kids appointment went well. The things in their lungs were pronounced artifacts and they were cleared to travel with us to the States.

I still wonder how many other kids in the orphanage weren't so lucky in their outcomes.

Sorry, I'm not caught up yet, ans will be completely off thread as usual.

"Chloe, it was my one big accomplishment lately. My effort at procreation. Again I am a failure." http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/baracks-first-100-days.html#comment-222798

Carol,
The way I see it, on the up side those corn plants provided nutrients for those sweet little rabbits. So in that way, it wasn't a complete loss. (I feel sure they'll grow back, but like you said the rabbits will come back too.)

You are a good mother. I can tell by the way you treat your pets, your nurses, and your patients. Those inmates are so lucky to have you. You heal people, for godsake Carol. What could be more nurturing. (I hate to hear you selling yourself short.)

Craig,
Thanks to Helen and you for that clip.

I also watched the Cheney video.... it looks like you practice witchcraft. :-J)
(if so, job well done):)

Carol, Tony, et al.!

We were listening to a program this morning on large cats. It said that some of the American varieties like panthers and mountain lions, really like armadillos. So, ...

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Happy Spring to Ms. Thomas! What a nice breakfast treat on a beautiful Sunday morning... (^_^)

"The kids appointment went well. The things in their lungs were pronounced artifacts "

.... speaking of good parenting, Flatus. You're the best (at everything you do). :)

Morning Ivy,
Do you mind if I ask where you live?

No, not the best Chloe. I've merely lived long enough to accumulate a few good things worth talking about.

I'll try to make a post on the blue corn site later today, but I have 8 thriving plants and one which was broken by a cat using my little patch for a twa-lay............I was happy the cats might keep away Mr Rab-BIT but now i just want the plants to grow too big for a cat to break with his tidying up........

feral felines fracturing my corn...........rats...........

or crummy cats crapping in my corn
not a happy sight on an otherwise sunny sunday morn

I know exactly what you mean Flatus.
But I still stand by my evaluation.

Sturge, Free fertilizer!

yeps.....if life gives you crap, just call it manure........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo

In GOP base, a 'rebellion brewing'
"A quick tour through the week’s headlines suggests the Republican Party is beginning to come to terms with the last election and that consensus is emerging among GOP elites that the party needs to move away from discordant social issues.

But outside Washington, the reality is very different."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21677.html

LOL Sturge. Just pretend it's not there.

... also from politico
"Swine flu updates: CNN's John King says Obama was tested for swine flu after his visit to Mexico. "He's just fine," senior adviser Valerie Jarrett tells him.

Gibbs on "Meet" urged Americans not to panic, but said the W.H. is taking the outbreak "very seriously," and that Obama is being briefed by DHS and CDC "every few hours.

Jarrett on the "torture" docs: "There's nothing in those documents that the American people hadn't seen all over the news," Jarrett says. As for prosecutions, "The rest of it he's leaving to the Attorney General. That's who supposed to make decisions about prosecutions."

craig, are you related to eric crawford, the guy that wrote the story linked above at 8:12? he really captured the passion and dream of the 75 year old trainer and owner of the next derby winner. good writer.

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Hey Chloe --

Near Birmingham. Not far from the Cahaba River. It's almost time here for the springtime phenomenon of the endangered and hard-to-reach Cahaba Lily. Each flower blooms for just one day. I'm still waiting to see it myself.

http://www.cahabariver.net/lily.htm

ct, about your corn-eating bunny, maybe the stuff called shot gun repels-all animal repellent granules will work.

"This repel-all animal repellent granuals effectively repels deer, rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, dogs, cats, raccoons, porcupines, bird, rats, beavers, groundhogs, skunks and shrews from around your home and garden....This animal repellent can be used as a behavior modification tool for breaking bad behavior of domestic or wild animals.

Repel-All animal repellent can be used where kids and pets play. It is also biodegradable and won't harm lawns, gardens or other plants when used correctly."

http://www.cleanairgardening.com/animal-repellent.html

Some very nice pictures in This week in photos. There's one of Bill Clinton sitting next to Michelle and another of Barack watching Bill plant a tree in a park site, as well 'many' others.
http://www.politico.com/slideshow/slideshow.html?xml=xml/322#id=322&num=6

Ivy, I've heard it's really beautiful there.
Wish you could link us some pictures some time. I can visualize the things you describe (wild life, flowers, etc) but sure would be nice to see them. I very much enjoy your posts.

have no idea if it works, but bought some to use this year on the corn patch where the raccoons had their orgy last year.

"How To Use: REPELS-ALL® Granules can be
applied as either a Broadcast application at the rate
of 1 pound per 500 sq. ft. or as a Perimeter/Barrier
treatment, sprinkling a band 6 – 8 inches wide,
next to and around the area you wish to protect.
When treating young, vulnerable plantings, make
first application at the beginning of their growth cycle
and repeat at 7 to 10 day intervals during periods
of rapid growth. Apply monthly during periods of
moderate growth. Do not apply directly to vegetable
crops intended for human consumption. Apply to the
area around desirable vegetables to form a repelling
barrier."
http://www.bonide.com/lbonide/backlabels/l2360.pdf

Ivy, Those lilies are beautiful!

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Hey Chloe --

If you scroll down the link on my post, you'll see photos you can click to enlarge. They're spectacular up close.

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P.S. How are your bluebonnets doing?

Had a nice pleasant evening listening to a husband/wife duo w/acoustic upright bass player. Albert and Gage is their name. They are from Austin. Chris Gage played piano for Roy Clark for about 8 or 10 years. Christine was and still is a veteran of the folk circuit in the Southwest.

here is a youtube that sorta gives you a taste of our evening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dsimp-qwxs&feature=related

Patd, I don't know if it's just my computer or what, but I have trouble loading that link for the repellent. So I looked up a site that sells it. I'm going to try it. I like the idea of the granules more than a liquid. Granules always seem more effective, if for no other reason than they last longer.

Flatus, I also got the seed for my sacrificial garden, but it probably won't come up until about the corn will (and I don't want to wait, so...)

Ivy, The blue bonnets came of early and they are beautiful too. But those lilies..... wow!.

... forgot the link to a site I can load that sells repellent granules... (I wonder if Lowes or Home Depot have the granules?)

(sorry about all the typos on my previous post)

..geez, it's time for me to quit.
The link: http://www.yardlover.com/products.php?pid=8996

Very nice Doots. What a nice way to spend the evening.

"here is a youtube that sorta gives you a taste of our evening. "

Good stuff, Doots!

thanks we have seen them many times. It is a coffee house circuit that and this venue was a Methodist Church. (they don't allow secular music) and the proceeds go to band and a charity every month. This month was to help buy school supplies for about 19 schools in the Arlington ISD for students that are "At Risk" due to poverty. They play in the Houston area some at places like the Mucky Duck or Anderson Fair. Look for them. There website is www.albertandgage.com

Here outside of Columbia, we've gone through our flowering cherries and dogwoods. They've been replaced by the blossoms on our striking tulip tree, and by the emerging blossoms on the slender bay magnolias that grow wild in our woods.

We also have wild persimmons that Stinky loves to harvest, as well as Korean variety that, if it survives--it's been touch and since we planted it a couple of years ago, will provide very large, sweet, and succulent fruits.

We lost our pear tree over the winter. It never did thrive. And, for the ten years that we've had them, our tulips have been a dismal failure.

The star performers of our native bloomers are the iris that thrive despite the benign neglect that we shower on them. Each variety is unique in its own way. Despite them being fairly close together, we've not seen any signs of hybridization.

Oh, the camellias are gone, too, having been replaced by roses. The gardenias are the next things scheduled to come on line.

"Flatus, I also got the seed for my sacrificial garden, but it probably won't come up until about the corn will (and I don't want to wait, so...)"

Chloe, now all you have to do is wait. If you have some nice rocks or stones around, why not stack them to make a nice, simple pagoda?

Birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Law_Olmsted

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All the reasons I love Spring Flatus. Thanks for describing it so vividly.

Birthday of John James Audubon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_James_Audubon

Craig, Is that from left overs from Stetson and visits to the special fields?

So does this replace Mr Bill with Mr Dick?

Craig..... OMG!..... ROTFLMAO!!!

Happy springtime to you too Ms. Thomas....

Rick and I just had our first fresh maple syrup of the season...... poured on luscious buckwheat blueberry pancakes...... YUM!

hey CBob.... it's kinda ironic that you and Johnny Appleseed share the same last name.... I hereby dub you Bobby Cornseed.....

we had another bear visit us last night.... this one smaller.... it got on it's hind legs sniffing up the pole looking for my bird feeders..... but they were already in my house..... ha! ha!

geez..... I'm jealous of all you southern TMers with all those beautiful flowers already in bloom..... we feel lucky to have our daffodils .....

"If you have some nice rocks or stones around, why not stack them to make a nice, simple pagoda?"

Rocks and stones are not something that we have naturally in our part of Texas. (But I can always get what I'd need at Lowes.) It was a real surprise to me, after living in California all my life, to look around here and not find any. We were always near the mountains, so there was never a shortage of natural rocks around.

Maybe I should get a Buddha, kinda like what Jack has in his garden, except smaller (since it will be a small garden). I'll look.

Thank you little Chloe. You are always the sweet one.
Life is good, wish you were here.

For your viewing pleasure:

There are two little fuzzy butts in this picture. See if you can find them. Just got the pic this AM.

http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu286/cithorn/100_0118.jpg

Girl in the hood:

http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu286/cithorn/100_0121.jpg

Good shot in that tree Carol!

And the one of you in the boat, priceless! Beautiful lake. Did your sister take the picture?

I wish I was there too!

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Hey Renee -- here's the missing link - lol

"Nathaniel started John Chapman on a career as an orchardist by apprenticing him to a Mr. Crawford, who had apple orchards."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Appleseed

Now I do look better than that but no time for makeup and lipstick. Yes, my sis took the shot. It's a river Chloe, a river. Did you find both little owls?

No, not 'til you asked. But now I see the second one on the upper right.

River, got it! I'll try not to make that mistake again. :)
ps You don't need make up. You look beautiful in that picture as is.

thanks we have seen them many times. It is a coffee house circuit that and this venue was a Methodist Church. (they don't allow secular music) and the proceeds go to band and a charity every month. This month was to help buy school supplies for about 19 schools in the Arlington ISD for students that are "At Risk" due to poverty. They play in the Houston area some at places like the Mucky Duck or Anderson Fair. Look for them. There website is www.albertandgage.com

sorry for the double post.

(they don't allow secular music) Opps misspoke. They don't allow non secular music in the coffee house venue.

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Renee,

Not ironic - Relative

Ivy....
I think the universe is trying to play a trick with us..... that's just too much of a coincidence to have J. Appleseed have his seed spreading career started by someone surnamed Crawford..... BTW.... I was born and grew up in towns neighboring where Appleseed was born and grew up.....

Carol... I think women are more beautiful in their natural state..... good picture...

chloe, did you try the first link posted? that 2nd link was a pdf and sometimes they are hard to access. here's the 1st again.

tony, they also tout this for repelling armadillo, but you might not want the smell of the rotten egg ingredient right under your nose if the critters paths are too close to your house

http://www.cleanairgardening.com/animal-repellent.html

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Chloe
I got a 32oz spray bottle of Repels All(smells terrible) at Home Depot..I didn't see the granules though.I sprayed it on the armadillo the other night and he took off..I haven't seen him since...I was busy yesterday flooding their (under the foundation of my house) holes with water and filling them with pea rock and dirt..So I don't know how effective it is but my hunch tells me the granules would work better as the smell from the liquid dissipates quickly....

Jamie...
are saying that John Chapman was actually a relative of our CBob?

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Flatus
HA HA ,getting a large cat like that might just work but something tells me the cat might like my little Jessie too....

Flatus,

Wonderful description of how your growing season is progressing. The first signs of spring just this week here in CT----forsythia, daffodils up & out--weeping cherries about to burst.

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Pat
Your right about the smell.I have a hole under the front of my house near the front door and every time i open the door like yesterday for the Jehovah witnesses you can smell it...I think I will order the granules....Thanks

Ivy, Thanks for the link about the cahaba lily--a beautiful, delicate flower---love daylilies--though
each time I plant some the buds are eaten before they get a chance to blossom.

Now that Patd has brought it up, the final field for the Derby is set. Anybody want a horse or change their mind?

Solar Crete Chocolate Candy Mike Smith
Desert Party Ramon Dominguez
Jamie? Dunkirk Edgar Prado
Flying Private Robby Albarado
Jack, Ivy Green Friesan Fire Gabriel Saez
Patd General Quarters Julien Leparoux
Bethy, Renee Hold Me Back Kent Desormeaux
Rezdog, Pogo I Want Revenge Joe Talamo
Mine That Bird Calvin Borel
Mr. Hot Stuff TBA
Musket Man Eibar Coa
Papa Clem Rafael Bejarano
Jamie? Pioneer of the Nile Garett Gomez
Carol Quality Road John Velazquez
Regal Ransom Alan Garcia
Square Eddie Corey Nakatani
Summer Bird Chris Rosier
West Side Bernie Stewart Elliott
Win Willy Cliff Berry

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Carol -- beautiful pictures...we can call you Cap'n Carol? Aye aye, Cap'n... arrr (^_~)

Love seeing spanish moss in the trees...we don't have that here.

The nature segment on CBS Sunday Morning show today was the Louisiana bayou.

Emailed to C-Bob first so not to get spanked again. My corn nubs are up about 1 1/2 inches this AM. There is still hopi that they may return if that unidentified critter doesn't take them down again when they start looking tasty.

Renee,

I vaguely remember that ages ago when we were discussing genealogy that he mentioned Johnny was some sort of family on his mother's side.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/opinion/26rich.html?th&emc=th

"The Banality of Bush White House Evil"

"Five years after the Abu Ghraib revelations, we must acknowledge that our government methodically authorized torture and lied about it. But we also must contemplate the possibility that it did so not just out of a sincere, if criminally misguided, desire to “protect” us but also to promote an unnecessary and catastrophic war. Instead of saving us from “another 9/11,” torture was a tool in the campaign to falsify and exploit 9/11 so that fearful Americans would be bamboozled into a mission that had nothing to do with Al Qaeda. The lying about Iraq remains the original sin from which flows much of the Bush White House’s illegality."

I've created a blog totally devoted to OSH and her campaign to get Liberator status for her father's regiment. Please drop by and say wonderful things. The more track backs and followers we can get the more urgency it adds to the issue

http://94campaign.blogspot.com/

Chloe,

Wish I could send you some rocks! CT is chuck full of rocks.

Each year you can start digging in the same area as the year before & more rocks seem to appear. When my house was built the boulders that were uncovered were used to create the driveway border. And there are still remnants of the original rock walls built long ago by the farmers who settled this part of New England.

Carol,

Thanks for sharing the photos of the owls and great photo of you enjoying your river.

I can understand why you so cherish your little bit of heaven right here on earth.

Coreen, I wish you could to. It's not that there aren't plenty available, they ship them in by train. All kinds of rock and stone yards, but it's just that I have to pay for them. What we have in our area is more of a sand.

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Pat, Thanks.
The one you linked is 3 lbs. I'll need the super sized one.

Tony,
I hope you're having a great weekend... as well as all the rest of you.

We're about ready to get out and about. Maybe catch a movie if we find a good one we haven't seen. Then we'll hunt down a really good lunch. Since I don't much like cooking anymore, we go out for meals a lot, at least on the weekends.

See you all later.... have a good day, and thanks for giving me such a nice morning.

Jamie add me to Desert Party pick for the derby (I guess Flatus, too.)

Craig, love your Cheney voice.

Jamie- I don't even know how I can possibly express my gratitude for what you have done today, although I'll try, somehow words don't seem enough.

My father use to teach a course in aesthetics, one class was about the words "heroic" and "sublime"

Sublime (philosophy)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Sublime.
In aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublimis ([looking up from] under the lintel, high, lofty, elevated, exalted) is the quality of greatness or vast magnitude, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness with which nothing else can be compared and which is beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation. This greatness is often used when referring to nature and its vastness.

You are not only a force of nature and bandwidths, but your efforts are heroic and you my dear friend are sublime. Thank you.

OSH

Not taking any bows. This is something that simply should happen. Distribute the web site far and wide. When it comes to good causes, I am a great fan of incessant nagging purely on the basis of , "GIve the darn woman what she wants so that she will shut up and leave us alone." :-)

Do you want Chocolate Candy or another horse in the Kentucky Derby?

Blond

Got It

Does that mean I have to leave once the mission is accomplished?
How about 94th- Patton's Golden Nugget?

Only the brave and beautiful boy of ten named Andy from Salinas ever crossed the old Chinaman. Andy was visiting in Monterey and he saw the old man and knew he must shout at him if only to keep his self-respect, but even Andy, brave as he was, felt the little cloud of fear. Andy watched him go by evening after evening while his duty and his terror wrestled. And then one evening Andy braced himself and marched behind the old man singing in a shrill falsetto, “Ching-Chong Chinaman sitting on a rail---‘Long came a white man an’ chopped off his tail.”

The old man stopped and turned. Andy stopped. The deep—brown eyes looked at Andy and the thin, corded lips moved. What happen then Andy was never able either to explain or to forget. For the eyes spread out until there was no Chinaman. And then it was one eye—one huge brown eye as big as a church door. Andy looked through the tiny transparent brown door and through it saw a lonely countryside, flat for miles but ending against a row of fantastic mountains, shaped like cows’ and dogs’ head and tents and mushrooms. There was low coarse grass on the plain and here and there a little mound. And a small animal like a woodchuck sat on each mound. And the loneliness—the desolate cold aloneness of the landscape made Andy whimper because there wasn’t anybody at all in the world and he was left. Andy shut his eyes so he wouldn’t have to see it any more and when he opened them, he was in Cannery Row and the old Chinaman was just flap-flapping between western Biological and the Hediondo Cannery. Andy was the only boy who ever did that and he never did it again.

--steinbeck

Sorry folks, I'm not kin to Johnny. But I got to say Ivy's 11:03 post is pretty ironic.

" Mr. Crawford, who had apple orchards ........ "

Damn fine metaphor.

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Nope we are the ones doing the nagging. We just go on to a new mission or kick back and rest on our laurels while chit chatting here.

Coreen.... we haven't touched the stone walls on our property.... we love them.... and we've placed some of the huge boulders that came out of the spot we built our house around the yard as natural benches....

Sturg....
Steinbeck.... he knew how to write.... timshel....

CBob.... thanks for clearing that up..... yup.... Chapman and Crawford... damn fine metaphors indeed....

Celtics game time..... have fun!

Hi all, as a break from torture on the beautiful day, I thought I could interject a scientific post related to global climate concerns. But first,

Mayor Bloomberg just addressed questions about swine flu. Funny how Jon Stewart just nights ago had on the author who’s new book Dread, in part attributed to our existential neurosis an overblown fear regarding flu pandemics, terrorism and other perennial worries. Back in the seventies it was nuclear Armageddon or an Ice Age. Is our present concern is neurotic? (note: author didn’t actually use this term)

I offer some interesting links below in regard to climate and terrestrial magnetism. They are fascinating and show what a marvelous and complex way we exist in our solar system. I am not advocating one way or other in regards to human induced C02 which I agree is likely has been a contributing factor in recent climate changes. The day after 9/11 the mean US temperature increase slightly due to the absence of air traffic crisscrossing the nation, however transient. Below point in a direction first uncover almost fifty years ago and still lacking crucial date on both a paleo-biological level and climate history. For your Sunday……(please forgive the links as they are scientific and for general consumption)

Magnetic field and climate
http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/news/story.aspx?id=296

Fascinating magnetic map
http://geomag.usgs.gov/

interesting exchange between popular myth and growing evidence
http://www.space.com/common/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=4566

I haven’t sprung for the $18 lol
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mscp/ene/2009/00000020/F0020001/art00005

Interesting activism
http://www.pureenergysystems.com/news/2005/02/27/6900064_Magnet_Pole_Shift/

Now these links above talk about earth’s magnetic field and implications to our heath and climate. The Wired link from yesterday was a separate affair concerning the sun’s dangerous affect on earth’s climate and our decreasing electromagnetic protection. What a complex system we live in and that we flourish in this unique dynamic balance pushed far from equilibrium.

And yet Wiki states in regard to earth’s magnetic fields citing one lone paper based largely on speculation:

“Some speculate that a greatly diminished magnetic field during a reversal period will expose the surface of the earth to a substantial and potentially damaging increase in cosmic radiation. However, Homo erectus and their ancestors certainly survived many previous reversals. There is no uncontested evidence that a magnetic field reversal has ever caused any biological extinctions. A possible explanation is that the solar wind may induce a sufficient magnetic field in the Earth's ionosphere to shield the surface from energetic particles even in the absence of the Earth's normal magnetic field.[7]”

Have a nice Sunday...........

Mending Wall
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
He is all pine and I am apple-orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
"Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down!" I could say "Elves" to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there,
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."

-frost

I, Too, Sing America

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.

Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed--

I, too, am America.

--langston hughes

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A little perspective:

There is the strong probability that somewhere around 40-50,000 years ago the human race was reduced to less than 10,000 breeding pairs. The various waves of plague in the middle ages only carried off about 10% of the population. The great Spanish flu pandemic wiped out less than 40 million. The Hong Kong flu of the 1960s killed off about 350,000 world wide.

With less than 100 cases so far, there are plenty of people too spare and a long way to go before we need to start worrying.

My favorite Langston Hughes poem with all its colors, spices, and tastes. A poem you can truly savor.

Harlem Sweetiesby Langston Hughes

Have you dug the spill
Of Sugar Hill?
Cast your gims
On this sepia thrill:
Brown sugar lassie,
Caramel treat,
Honey-gold baby
Sweet enough to eat.
Peach-skinned girlie,
Coffee and cream,
Chocolate darling
Out of a dream.
Walnut tinted
Or cocoa brown,
Pomegranate-lipped
Pride of the town.
Rich cream-colored
To plum-tinted black,
Feminine sweetness
In Harlem’s no lack.
Glow of the quince
To blush of the rose.
Persimmon bronze
To cinnamon toes.
Blackberry cordial,
Virginia Dare wine—
All those sweet colors
Flavor Harlem of mine!
Walnut or cocoa,
Let me repeat:
Caramel, brown sugar,
A chocolate treat.
Molasses taffy,
Coffee and cream,
Licorice, clove, cinnamon
To a honey-brown dream.
Ginger, wine-gold,
Persimmon, blackberry,
All through the spectrum
Harlem girls vary—
So if you want to know beauty’s
Rainbow-sweet thrill,
Stroll down luscious,
Delicious, fine Sugar Hill.

The "Torturing Cheney" video is hilarious!! 8~D

The story revenge I heard yesterday :

Tony Greer's grandfather leased the corner at 19th and Ave. H in Lubbock, back in 1935 . He was a blacksmith by trade, and the cotton boom had come to the Southern High Plains of Texas. At that time , many farmers still used mules , so shoeing mules was a brisk business.
As time went by, the Greer family eventually bought the 3 lots on that corner. Tony has all the paper work, from when that first lease was taken out, and all the transactions that followed. As time went on, Tony's father bought the business, and moved into wrought iron work. Greer Iron Works ............. we all knew the name.

Yesterday, a fellow came by and told of a friend he had back in 1967 . The fellow was a vet from Vietnam , a Sea-Bee . He had come back home, and was going to Texas Tech studying art. To support himself, this vet had gotten a job with Greer Iron Works.

It seems the budding artist learned that his girlfriend was seeing another fellow. So he came down the Iron Works one night, and "borrowed" the Iron Works service truck. The one with the big Miller welder in it, and the boom on the back used to set heavy wrought iron gates. He went the the home of his rival , lifted up his car , and welded together, every joint the underside of that car, and quietly set it back down.
Tony had never heard this story , and I'm pretty sure it has to be true, complete strangers don't come up and just spin out a gem like that .

"There is the strong probability that somewhere around 40-50,000 years ago the human race was reduced to less than 10,000 breeding pairs. The various waves of plague in the middle ages only carried off about 10% of the population. The great Spanish flu pandemic wiped out less than 40 million. The Hong Kong flu of the 1960s killed off about 350,000 world wide."

jamie, that and wars are natures way of pruning

jamie, wonderful job on the 94th page. does it help if we visit it often? so many hits mean so many squeaks of the wheel?

From the Frank Rich link :

" The report found that Maj. Paul Burney, a United States Army psychiatrist assigned to interrogations in Guantánamo Bay that summer of 2002, told Army investigators of another White House imperative: “A large part of the time we were focused on trying to establish a link between Al Qaeda and Iraq and we were not being successful.” As higher-ups got more “frustrated” at the inability to prove this connection, the major said, “there was more and more pressure to resort to measures” that might produce that intelligence. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/opinion/26rich.html?_r=1

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Ideas as corn flakes .................

" You don't roll out a new product until after Labor Day " Andrew Card White House Chief of Staff - Aug 02'

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Hits help, comments help, spreading news of the site anywhere you visit with commentary. Need to get OSH to import the blog on face book. A campaign there would help as well.

Nagging of Congress Critters, news people ... any way you can think of to make the wheel go squeek squeek squeek until someone who can write a bill and gathers sponsors gets off their rear and does it.

The whole problem with inertia is that it is hard to get something started. Once it starts moving, it usually picks of speed. :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dVo3nbLYC0

Responding to comments and a question from the congressman, Gore said, "I believe that it's important to look at the sources of the science that we rely on. With all due respect, I believe that you have relied on people you have trusted, who have given you bad information. I don't blame the investors who trusted Bernie Madoff. But he gave them bad information and..."

It was at this point that Barton cut Gore off to interject, "I've never talked to Bernie Madoff."

And to think people wonder why this job has made me lose faith in Congress.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/04/24/gore_hearing/index.html

homeland security announcement on flu

http://www.necn.com/Boston/Health/2009/04/26/Swine-flu-forces-US-to-declare/1240768157.html

Thought for the day :
" A minister says matrimony should be enduring. It is. "

..any of youse guys see His Majesty King Abdullah II looking straight down as he answered D. Gregory's question as to if Jordan used torture against al Queda operatives?
He just looked SO MUCH like he was lying in his teeth as he said "I would like to believe my people were telling me the truth" (as they denied using torture)

I mean...I ain't sayin', I'm just sayin'....

The video is great and thanks for making it possible for Ms Thomas to say hello.

It's a torturous route to any explanation that would jusify torture
turns the rightwingers into contortionists.

The great turtle race is nearing its end. May make landfall and start of egg laying by tomorrow

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/greatturtlerace-map/

Craig has WAY TOO MUCH TIME on his hands. LOL!

"It's a torturous route to any explanation that would jusify torture
turns the rightwingers into contortionists."

Katherine, they hinge all their arguments on the premise that the individual being tortured is indeed guilty, or if the individual's connection to guilt is tenuous, that he's part of the larger group where if not guilty now, will be guilty sooner or later. So, even if the torture is unjustified because the individual has no idea about what the torture is about, it is justified as punishment for some other crime in the past, or, at worst, in the future.

Now, if that doesn't make sense, nothing will. :((

patd, thanks for the link to the swine flu update.

tt

Conspiracy theory: Prez Obama brought back the super-flu when he came home from globe-trotting...or at least that's one way Faux News could spin it.

Good to see Ms. Thomas. Saw her on C-SPAN this week with Sam Donaldson. He should've let her speak first once in awhile without being asked to do so. (He must be related to me; he'd fit right into the family.)

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Corey --

Reminds me of a little doll with an inscription my mom made for us all one year.

Dammitt Doll

When you think you want to climb the walls
or stand right up and shout,
Here's a little "Dammitt Doll" you cannot do without.
Just grab it firmly by the legs
and find a place to slam it,
and as you whack its stuffing out,
Yell, DAMMITT, DAMMITT, DAMMITT!!

"The U.S. declared a public health emergency Sunday to deal with the emerging new swine flu, much like the government does to prepare for approaching hurricanes."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_swine_flu_emergency

Then we are all doomed.

It's too nice a day to stay indoors, but I just wanted to say that Craig's video reminded me of one of my favorite Mills Brothers' songs. No offense intended to our host.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2m8VZBfRYo

Thanks for the Langston Hughes, Sturg. Prompted me to buy a couple copies of his work to replace ones that I had given to worthy people.

Public radio from Ohio State would periodically have readings of his poetry. I always found them a special treat.

And, Robert Frost. I'm convinced that I bought our place on Lake Champlain because of his poetry.

Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
"Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.

-frost

if frostie was on tm he'd know there's always........one more cow.

Colorado Bob, this is JOE BARTON you are talking about now correct? What else do you expect from a moron?

"It was at this point that Barton cut Gore off to interject, "I've never talked to Bernie Madoff."

Avian Alert: today's visitor

Belted Kingfisher

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Belted_Kingfisher/lifehistory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belted_Kingfisher

Had other visitors too - a pair of mallards -- but no ducklings! Did Craig's "missing daddy duck" fly the coop with a single woman?

(^_~)

http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/04/24/torture_redux/index.html

"I can't believe it's not torture, redux!"

"Will Obama turn out to be the Democrat who says he can't live up to an international agreement signed by Ronald Reagan, because it might get in the way of his political agenda? I sure hope not. Taylor Marsh sees some reason to believe the administration will handle this correctly -- most notably, the fact that more shocking torture revelations are headed our way, which will almost certainly increase the pressure on Democrats and the Obama admnistration to act."

Thanks Pat for the link to the swine flu update. My sisters and I had to laugh when Janet said you can't catch it from eating pork since that was what we were having for lunch. I BBQed some baby back ribs and made my famous sweet and sour BBQ sauce. It is so good it will make you want to slap yo mama. Mine is safe cuz she is outta reach. She already moved up.

Been watching baby owls all day. I think there are three but only two at a time come out to sun. I hope they have strong feet because we have been having some gusty winds, 30+mph. River has been trying to go down but the winds keep pushing it back up.

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Hey Chloe
I had a good weekend,thanks.Its nice you guys make a point of doing things you enjoy on Sunday's.I'm glad you also get to eat out because cooking if you don't enjoy it can be a pain and the clean up too...I hardly ever eat out as I enjoy cooking and I like to control the ingredients of the foods I eat...I also found that spray bottle of Repels All at Lowe's today but no granules...Hope you found a good Movie....

James Ruben. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124061309079054521.html

"Mr. Obama's new diplomacy is well-suited to an era of democratic government and instant communication. By refusing to snub Hugo Chávez, Mr. Obama makes it harder for dictators and anti-American activists to demonize the U.S. Of course, national security is not a popularity contest. "

But that is exactly what is happening with the leaders of Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Pakistan, etc. They see and smell weakness, and will promote any sign of weakness to their benefit, whether that is Obama patting a dictator on the back, or blaming America for it's prior actions.

Iran continues to build it's nuclear plants, N. Korea continues to defy the world, Cuba ridicules America the day after Obama's speech, and nuclear powerhouse Pakistan everyday is falling closer and closer into the hands of the Taliban. Talk is cheap, and only provides your enemy more time to plan your demise.

And Chloe, I'm going to look for that Repel or something like it tomorrow.

If they smell weakness, their sniffers ain't working right.....they need Ernest Angeley to bring back their sense of smell........

oops....Angley........

http://www.ernestangley.org/

http://www.ernestangley.org/miracles/

Do you need a miracle?

Mackie Messer........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgLiJ0AokT8&feature=related

Dooty - nice entertaining link - thanks.

Ct - what wonderful photos! I'd love to see one of your camp itself. The river is the ole mississippi, isn't it? It's a much broader river than I had pictured. AND you look terrific. You should see me when I get up...no, you shouldn't.

I just heard that airlines are refunding tickets if people are afraid to travel. Man alive.

We had another evening of watching old tapes of
All Creatures...... a panacea for the disease of frustration and anger and stress.

Look out old Mackie's back:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qrjtr_uFac

uno mas......bobby shows some chops.......come rain or come shine-ola..............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRuvIvuPOME&feature=related

Bethy, Thanks. The river is the Calcasieu river. Name comes from the Native American Atakapa language, meaning crying eagle. Its historical Spanish name was Arroyo Hondo meaning deep stream.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcasieu_River

I'm intrigued with this but I hope that these animals are all neutered. Coming from a shelter they should have been.

http://www.flixxy.com/cat-sanctuary.htm

Tomorrow I will try to remember to take a pic of the camp. It is not the Ritz. It is comfortable and has all the conveniences except washer and dryer. My house is only 1.7 miles away so that is not a problem.

Carol - where on that map is your camp? north fo the Calcasieu Lake? Is that glulf waterway neat?

Sturge - thanks for bobby. I mentioned him as a rock and roll singer at the office one day, and a co-worker screamed in outrage. She was a pia anyway so I just disagreed with her and dropped it, but I think he was just plain great.

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Thank you, Cap'n Carol! Feels like we've had a relaxing get-away weekend at your camp place.

I can almost smell the river breeze...

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Did you like the ribs and BBQ sauce and my mom's recipe for Jewish potato salad?

toward the end bobby let his beard grow and tried to go more folk........to get people to call him Bob Darin......if he hadn't died he might have pulled it off..........at least I remember reading that somewhere............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvY99BJzN-M&feature=related

We're getting ready to watch Marley and Me. I am going to have to hold my Maggie girl when it gets to the sad part.

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Can't handle it...see Best Comments 4/4

Where's the recipes? Missed 'em...

I am so hooked on watching all episodes of "Jack and Bobby" from 2005

http://www.thewb.com/shows/jack-and-bobby/

So far ahead of its time. Shame it got cancelled

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ct, get the tissues ready. like i said before, Marley & Me made me cry worse than Ole Yeller

Finally the photo of Ed and I at breakfast. My apologies for the delay Ed , it isn't easy getting good help around here The stainglass behind us is one of my father's creations.
.http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=23394&id=1315243533

dang it all. give me another chance
.http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=23394&id=1315243533

Jes'um crow.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=395243&id=1315243533

Sorry about all of that.

love the Ed and Sea pic, what was the background? very hip looking. and sea,

sea, you look like carole king. no chance you're really her?

Great picture you guys. I was expecting both of you to be older. You are youngsters.

Sea & Ed - how wonderful! thanks for the pix. You both look great!

The stain glass is of the outside of the building. Across the St. is the old train station. I took the last train out of Altamont when I was a wee one.
Tourists use to mistake me for Caroline when I was cleaned up and hanging around up island in the village near her house..It was weird, they would look at me and start whispering.

Ed and Sea now on our sidebar, check it out:

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/trail-mix-stuff.html

love to see our regulars meeting up. so very cool

Ed looks more athletic than the photo shows. Wasn't at all surprised when he told me that he is an Ump

I don't know about Ed, but that is right about where I should be filed-under Weird Stuff.

oh sorry, "Weird Stuff" seemed the best place for it. no harm intended

So...can Ed explain the infield fly rule to all of us? Nice pic of Ed and Sea.

Sturgeone,

Langston Hughes was an American, too. Yet :

"I dream of the land my soul is from.

I hear a hand stroke on a drum.

Shades of delight cocoa hue,

Rich as the night, Afro-blue."

I remember discovering Hughes when I was a lad, when I came across an extraordinary pop/blues album by Oscar Brown Jr. The album had a song Brown wrote and performed, of Langston Hughes' marvelous poem, I excerpted above. Afro-Blue was a sensual shock for a kid raised on poems by Robert Lewis Stevenson and Robert Service. Around the same time, I came across the work of e.e. cummings, and Frost's "good fences make good neighbors", a poem which might have been used to bad advantage by the East Germans at the time. However, on hot dates, when I wanted to put hot dates into a romantic mood. It certainly put me in a romantic mood, as if I ever needed encouragement.

Langston Hughes was a great American artist, and you, sir, are pretty dam' good yourself.

No need for ANY apology Craig, I thought it was pretty funny . And Craig, thank you for providing this cyber home where I have made many fine friends. Thanks to your website Jamie became aware of my efforts for the 94th. Jamie's generosity in posting about the 94th and then today creating a website is an act of kindness I will be thankful for all the days of my life. She sure played it forward.

I had no idea that they made old sea hags who looked so young and unhaggish.

In the mid-late 60s there was a Popeye remake in which a villainess called the Old Sea Hag played a role. I would watch this show with the little brother of the gal I was escorting back in those days.

Anyway, I don't see much resemblance between the Old Sea Hag and oldseahag. Coincidence ?

Hey Corey, been thinking of you, how are you doing? Sorry to hear of your loss.

Xrepblican- You would see more of a resemblance if it were a close up!

Been of the phone with DirecTV. I thought I cancelled my service in February. They've been charging me for service since then. They just disconnected me tonight. Not happy about that.

ColoradoBob,

The Greer Ironworks story reminds me of

1. The smartass fellows who stuffed thermite bombs in the corners between the train wheels and the rails at a commuter rail stopin the mid '60s.

2. Fred, the cement mixer driver in the old folk song.

Of course, welding all the joints under a vehicle is more classy than loading a convertible with wet concrete, but you'd think someone would spot the midnight spotwelder laboriously plying his trade, whereas a cement mixer can just dump and run. When engaging in such RFs, the clean getaway is very important. Even when the RFs are entirely apocryphal.

In either case, it is the other dopey swain (?swine?) who gets hurt, rather than the perfidious sorceress, which leads me to suspect that the authors were authoresses. Anyway, I hope so.

Xr - your post to Sturge re Langston Hughes was beautiful, and spot on.

My first view of poetry other than Stevenson and Service
(altho I do enjoy them) was Thanotopsis in 10th grade, so Hughes was greedily appreciated a few months later. Poetry tells us so much more than it says, things that can be said no other way.

Thanks all you guys for you references to poetry.

i once had a friend, a polish georgetown english major from new jersey.......he could recite from memory poem after poem famous in english lit.....long ones, short ones..........and these days with this here awe-ful internet tube i find that i can amuse myself, as he used to amuse us all, by just popping up poem after poem......it's nice to have somewhere to put them now and then.............

He wound up moving to texas and i havent seen him for right on to 'bout 40 years....

down to ol' san antone he went with a cranium full of pomes....

He showed me where to start reading........

taught me how to fish, you might say.......

I amused him in return by being able to manipulate a piano and guitar......

West Michigan is all abuzz. The new Sonic Drive-In opens up in Grand Rapids tomorrow.

and by knowing my way around in bars...........lol

corey......roller skating waitresses?

ok, my blue corn seeds from CBob are now planted. here are the dirty details..

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I should say.....in "southern" bars......honkey tonks and dives.....

his favorite thing was the gallon jar full of pickled pig's feet and on the lid was written "Hors d'oeuvres"

Sipapu -- may we all enter the great portal now

and i DON'T mean the freaking ski resort

and Craig did you send you pics and accomplishments to C-Bob's blog. I suggest you do. It is manditory for the experiment. Really. The experiment needs the data. Don't make him fuss at you.

yes i have filed my planting data as required, ct

NEW THREAD.. http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/obamas-swine-flu-challenge.html