I have a feeling that they've both had so much "work" done that there's no telling what (or who) they originally looked like!

Methinks 'tis a mask of Captain Kirk. If I ain't mistaken they're now requirin' references over there, eh? Who you gonna use, Skillet and Marie?

Well Peg, since we are in a democracy I looked up what the opinion is on the internet, you may be right because no one seems to think she is.

Here's what people thought on the subject:

Jeannette Lucci is Susan Lucci's mother.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

no shes ur mom giz yo ugly like her

Her parents are Jeanette and Victor Lucci.

Susan was one of Barbara Walter's

For years there have been rumors that Susan was the daughter of Phyllis Diller and the sister of Robin Strasser. Susan is not related to either woman.

LOL !!!!!!!! not that old rumour again, you have heard part of it and it is false, the other part is that Phyllis Diller is also the mother of Robin Strasser "Dorian" on One Life To Live ABC making her a sister to Susan Lucci(La Lucci) "Erica" on All My Children ABC. The Soap Opera Digest has shot down this rumour so many times when a reader would write in about this in the Ask Us column.

Guess you know your soap characters Peg.

Oh, I found a list of more pertinent information.

In electronics, a jiffy is the time between alternating current power cycles (1/60 or 1/50 of a second)
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
More money is printed daily for the Monopoly game than by the U.S. Treasury.
More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
Mozart was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
Ninety eight per cent of the weight of water is made up from oxygen.
No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins, which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as 'supercooling.' If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.
No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson's fictional ship was the Titan.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
On the new one hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that have blue eyes.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Pamela Lee-Anderson is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
Panama hats come from Ecuador not Panama.
Peanuts are used in the production of dynamite.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes."
Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
Polar bear fur is not white, it's clear.
Race car is a palindrome.
Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.
Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians. (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.)
Revolvers cannot be silenced, due to all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
Rhythm and "syzygy" are the longest English words without vowels.
Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person, to date, to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit.
Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
Russians generally answer the phone by saying, 'I'm listening.'
S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash.
Samuel Clemens's pseudonym "Mark Twain" was the nickname of a riverboat pilot about whom Clemens wrote a needless nasty satirical piece. Apparently, Clemens felt guilty later and adopted the nom de plume as some sort of expiation. The phrase "mark twain" from which the river pilot got his name does not mean two fathoms (twelve feet.)
Sharon Stone was the first "Star Search" spokes model.
Smithee is a pseudonym that filmmakers use when they don't want their names to appear in the credits.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
Soda water does not contain soda.
Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.
Soweto in South Africa was derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship.
Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.'
Speak of the Devil is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention and he would appear.
St. Bernards, famous for their role as alpine rescue dogs, do NOT wear casks of brandy around their necks.
Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.
Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
Talk show host Montel Williams had a nose job.
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
The "Grinch" singer and voice of Tony the Tiger is a man named Thurl Ravenscroft.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans.
The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was spun-off from the Danny Thomas Show.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average scalp has 100,000 hairs. Redheads have the least at 80,000; brown and black haired persons have about 100,000; and blondes have the most at 120,000. (That is more than a thousand hairs in each square inch!)
The band "Duran Duran" got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella."
The bat on the Bacardi symbol is there because the soil where the sugar cane grows is fertile from the excessive guano (bat droppings.)
The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers. No one knows why.
The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Huptmobile.
The car manufacturer Henry Ford was awarded Hitler's Supreme Order of the German Eagle.
The childrens' nursery rhyme 'Ring-a-Round-The-Rosies' actually refers to the Black Death which killed about 30 million people in the fourteenth-century.
The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof'.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.
The dunce cap of schoolhouse fame originates from a paper cone that was placed on the heads of accused witches during the Middle Ages. When Joan of Arc was martyred, she was wearing one of them.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin," pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom." As a small boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; eventually he was able to add it to "Star Trek" lore.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
The first inter-racial kiss on TV was in an original "STAR TREK" episode entitled "Plato's Stepchildren". The kiss was between Nichelle Nichols and William Shatner.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
The first safety razor was not actually invented by King Gillette himself but by a man named William Nickerson who was Kings partner. They believed that the label bearing Nickersons name would be bad for business, plus it was Kings idea anyway.
The first time the word "hell" was spoken on TV was in an original "STAR TREK" episode entitled "City on the Edge of Forever". The exact quote was "...let's get the hell out of here...", spoken by William Shatner.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
The 'Hundred Years War' lasted 116 years.
The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.
The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.
The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive--so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California.
The magic word "Abracadabra" was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
The name of the Vulcan's heaven is Sha Ka Ree, this is a play on the name Sean Connery who was considered for the part of Sarek, Spock's father.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.
The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.
The Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence - he invented dynamite.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
The NY phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII. The NY phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.
The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
The original copy of the Declaration of Independence is lost. The copy in Washington D.C. is what is referred to as a holograph. That is a term for a handmade copy of a document and is not the same as a laser produced hologram.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
The pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
The Phillips-head screwdriver was invented in Oregon.
The phrase ' The 3 R's ' ( standing for 'reading, writing and arithmetic' ) was created by Sir William Curtis, who was illiterate.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
The province of Alberta in Canada has been completely free of rats since 1905.
The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
The 'Screwdriver' was invented by oilmen, who used the tool to stir the drink.
The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
The spaceship 'Valley Forge' from "Silent Running" (1971) actually got it's name from the location used to film some of its interiors; a decommissioned aircraft carrier named the U.S.S. Valley Forge.
The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.
The term "Mayday" is used for signaling for help. It comes from the French term "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MayDay" and means, "Help Me."
The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought to be it's country of origin.
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY.
There are four cars and eleven light posts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
There are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.
There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.
There are only three cities that are named exactly after the state they are located in: Maine, ME; New York, NY; and Wyoming, WY.
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
There is a town in Texas called 'Ding Dong.'
There is about 200 times more gold in the world’s oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
There is no mention of Adam and Eve eating an apple in the Bible.
There were no squirrels on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts until 1989.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would forestall curses.
Turkey's often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
U.S. Interstates which go north-south are numbered sequentially starting from the west with odd numbers, and Interstates which go east-west are numbered sequentially starting from the south with even numbers.
Until 1967, LSD was legal in California.
Video Killed the Radio Star was the very first video ever played on MTV.
Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.
Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
When opossums are playing opossum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
While at Havard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on a Spanish exam.
While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1, named so because it was the first paved road anywhere.

for all you cow lovers lol

http://my.break.com/Media/View.aspx?ContentID=136598

Ha ha. I'll pass this one on to a few people- I am going to really milk it.

Time for Heart to check in. Oh, Heart.... :valentine:

where has everyone gone, i posted a few pic in the ablum in CGCS here one you can almost read the writhing on the ball
http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/for...&cmd=si&img=507

See.. I can be quiet when I really try !

Well almost. I did do some rabble rousing but not here.

I did have to break my silence to say goodnight ..


Sleep well everyone.

Where have you been rousing the rabble? We mighta wanted to play, too!

Hey Ace...

That penguin picture is priceless.

Hey Peg....you told Marine that one part of the whole was incorrect. He's a MARINE!!! What did he do? The predictable....gave you the WHOLE ENCHILADA to figure out!!! Now THAT was funny. Anyway, thanks for the trivia, I once had mAmA send me a list like that on a Sunday afternoon, and I looked up the dates and veracity of every fact, and sent it to ALL of the people that she had sent the trivia to. That would be, everyone on her aol list. THEY were impressed....mAmA was NOT LOL!!

My oldest is coming home tomorrow and we have to get a bunch of things done, but mostly, we have to de-traumatize the kid!!!!!!!!! The youngest is what psychologists call a "resilient personality". He will be home next weekend. Mr. Heart is stilll staying in the yurt and it's 95 degrees outside! He's in hell....I sent him there enough times I think maybe God listened to me when I cursed him.....be careful with curses you guys cause sometimes they work.

I'lve been mopping, scrubbing, scavenging, and grocery shopping. All because I'm certain that the eldest thinks I could never survive without him and I don't want him walking in here and deciding he was right. I will never live it down. I'm also working, looking for a long term position and working with the school to get my MSQA going.

I haven't been around here much because I just KNOW I will be lulled into an argument where no one's minds will be changed, but my shoulder willl hurt again.

Nice pics Vet!

I'm praying too Betty!

You too Steve....all my love and good wishes coming your way! :valentine:

Anyone else suffering from the heat?

Good morning everyone!
(or what ever 'tis where ever you is, eh?)

Finally got our power back, so here goes, eh? Really bad thunderstorms last night that methinks caused all kinds of problems. Lotsa catchin' up to do I'll bet.

A frog telephones a psychic hotline and is told, "You are going to meet a beautiful young girl who will want to know everything about you."

"Great," says the frog, "Will I meet her at a party?"

"No," said the psychic, "Next year - in biology class."

Well, here's hopin' the weather's great where ever y'all are at! Enjoy the day, be safe, stay well, don't do anything clumsy or dumb and remember to play nice!

What heat ?? Yep, it finally got to me. I am a raving lunatic. Thankfully its much cooler today and the humidity is GONE!!

That's wonderful news Heart about your boys. They won't care if there is mud up to the ceiling. All they want is their Mom. Relax and Enjoy.

I'm being very good and not touching anything else in that territory. I will only say, do what is right for Heart. In the final analysis that is really what makes things right for everyone. You are in my thoughts and prayers.

I am having a bad time with my leg at the moment. It isn't even beginning to show signs of being finished draining or whatever its doing. Its clean, no redness or streaking but I spend more time than I like changing bandages still and its hurting more than slightly. But the work doesn't take a vacation so I have to keep moving. Perhaps that's a good thing.. it keeps the circulation going.

Just in from cleaning pumps and need to get cracking . I have a lot to do today and keeping busy stops thinking which can be a very good thing at times !

So I'll love ya and leave ya .. have a great day everyone !

My oldest daughter played Girl's Softball.

I got a story for y'all about how serious some people get over Girl's Softball.

This was when we were stationed in Colorado Springs. My daughter was playing for what they called a tournament softball team, that's a team which travels around and plays just in tournament matches. You get some really good players involved and some really good games.

Well she was 11 years old at the time and we had travelled to a place called Mustang Oklahoma for a major tournament. The team she was on was very good and it took something to beat them. Let me tell you, Okies take their Girl's Softball seriously. My daughters team was playing a local team from Mustang and this local team was absolutely cleaning their plow.

Remember I told you my daughter was 11, right? Everybody in this tournament was suspose to be 11 or under 11. Well this local team ended up whipping the tar out of my daughter's team. Later that afternoon, we had gone back out to our van to have a sandwich and a soda pop and here we see the pitcher and catcher of this team which beat my daughter walking out across the parking lot. They both went and got into a car and drove off.

Now I don't know that much about the traffic laws in Oklahoma but I thought it mighty odd that they let 11 year old girls drive there.

Methinks most everyone's off doin' somethin' else someplace else, eh?

BTW heart, had any offers for good jobs startin' at seven figures yet?

Leaving in the morning for Bozeman, Montana. I hope everyone has a great week. We made the decision to go two days ago, and I've been running around every since. Can't wait to get out of this heat and see some beautiful scenery. Here's to God's country. Take care all.
The Snuff

How about a little "Rah Rah" for our troops?



Notice the small black patch under the us flag...

Have a good safe trip, eh? Enjoy them big Montana Rainbows in the Gallatin! Methinks 'tis one of the funnest rivers I've ever fished, but 'twas many years ago.

Have loads of fun, Snuffy! Maybe you'll meet up with a handsome guide!

Going, going, and I'm almost gone.

Huh? What did I miss? Where have you almost gone, Joe DiMaggio?

(woo woo woo)

Where are you going ? And for how long ? Who's gonna keep us in line ?

Snuff's taking off -have a really good time Snuff ! ... now you .. poor Amy and Pie .. they will have their work cut out for them !

I just hate it when I do that. It was an unfinished post (pressure from the big guy, hurry up aren't you ready yet). So I asked him to fill the car up with gas.

Just realized I've only been at the cabin twice this year and it's already August and winter could be just around the corner up here. That's not quite true but anything goes in September.

We'll be back late Monday or Tuesday so I'll see you all then.

Have a wonderful time Cardinal ! Relax and let the "big Guy " spoil you !

Tell him a Granny needs a lot of attention.

Have fun Ladies and don't feel the least bit guilty.
(just teasing).

Suddenly we hadda bit of activity here, eh?Watch out for them

Well hell, methinks I'll just mosy through the other areas and try some more tact and diplomacy, eh?

Have a great trip Snuff! Ms. WS and I are right behind you- leaving Tuesday for a much-needed and deserved vacation. We're going up the coast for a few days, then into the Sierras.

Pie, anything in particular I should know about trailer camping? Like, maybe, getting out of a rising river or sumptin?

I'll be in chat tonight, but will miss next week, and maybe the week after.

Cardinal: where ya goin'?

Tom: the flags are most appropriate...

Those of us left here will just have to try to uphold chat.

We're strong! We can do it!

And neither has any DNA... so we'll never know...

Good morning everyone!
(or what ever 'tis where ever you is, eh?)

Looks like it got real quiet real early here last night, eh? Methinks chat musta been hot!

'Twould seem Red Bird's trip to the lake ain't gonna be too excitin', unless sittin' indoors and watchin' it rain's your idea of excitement. Maybe the weather'll turn nice in time for their drive home.

My e-mail's been full of great stuff again lately, eh? Between the Nigerians wantin' to give me large sums just to help various government officials out and all the lotteries I've apparently won methinks I must truly be blessed. Then, to spoil the mood, I get these notes from Al Gore warnin' me that if I don't do the right thing we're all gonna die from the wrath of nature and/or actions of the Christian fundamentalist right wingers, eh?

Thankfully they've finished filming the "Underdog" movie here. Now methinks weekend traffic in Providence'll return to its normal chaotic routine.



Bein' there's so many chronologically gifted here methinks y'all will appreciate this:

It's the Spring of 1957 and Bobby goes to pick up his date. He's a pretty hip guy with his own car. When he goes to the front door, the girl's father answers and invites him in.

"Carrie's not ready yet, so why don't you have a seat?," he says.

"That's cool" says Bobby.

Carrie's father asks Bobby what they're planning to do. Bobby replies politely that they will probably just go to the soda shop or a movie.

Carrie's father responds "why don't you two go out and screw? I hear all the kids are doing it."

Naturally, this comes as a quite a surprise to Bobby-so he asks Carrie's Dad to repeat it.

"Yeah," says Carries father, "Carrie really likes to screw; she'll screw all night if we let her!"

Well, this just made Bobby's eyes light up, and his plans for the evening was beginning to look pretty good. A few minutes later, Carrie comes downstairs in her little poodle skirt and announces that she's ready to go. Almost breathless with anticipation, Bobby escorts his date out the front door. About 20 minutes later, Carrie rushes back into the house, slams the door behind her, and screams at her father:

" DANGIT DADDY....! IT'S CALLED THE TWIST..!"


Well, here's hopin' the weather's great where ever y'all are at! Enjoy the day, be safe, stay well and remember to play nice!

I was having quite a nice morning until I read that the whole world hates America.

Not everyone Peg .. They hate the government maybe but NOT the people!

And some of us really love you guys !!!

Candidate... how are things going ???

And now I am heading back out to my gardens. I've been working for hours on the front yard and next I take on the back yard. Having to work around this darn leg problem is a pain .. in more ways than one but I really have to get the flower beds done as the ground is drying out very quickly even after all that rain we had.

My leg is all bandaged and covered to keep dirt out of the wound which hasn't even begun to close up yet and now if I don't do anything dumb .. I may just make it through the day in one piece!

Stay out of fights and don't get anyone riled up !

Heading out the door. It is sunny and warm. The worst of heat wave has broken.

There are a couple more days of this nice celebration

http://www.yankeehomecoming.com/

Have a good one.

Oh!...Is that all...? I thought it was something earth shattering...

Nice to see everyone finally woke up! Geez, 'tis not even noon yet, 'cept if you're in the Atlantic Provinces.Especially our Helvetic brethren, eh?

Big doin's here in Little Rhody today. With our large Portuguese community the last weekend in July and first weekend in August are always impressive.

Last week was the historic blessing of the fleet. This week is the Feast of the Sacred Heart, eh? Both are big celebrations with lotsa eatin' and drinkin' and makin' merry!

This will drive you nuts!
This is another example of an amazing
illusion!!!? The last sentence is so true.

If your eyes follow the movement of the
rotating pink dot, the dots will remain only one color, pink.

However if you stare at the black "+" in
the center,
the moving dot turns to green.

Now, concentrate on the black "+" in the
center of the picture.
After a short period, all the pink dots
will slowly disappear, and you will only see only a single green dot
rotating.

It's amazing how our brain works. There
really is no green dot, and the pink ones really don't disappear. This
should be proof enough, we don't always see what we think we see!

Frenchy , given how tired I am its amazing I can see anything !

But that is a good one !

I have been working outside from shortly after 8 this morning except for when I came in to feed Les and clean the canaries cages and feed them. It's finally finished but it was a tough job today ! All the heavy rain and then several dry hot humid days had really baked the earth. I feel like I'm 100 years old at the moment. I ache everywhere.

( I'm looking for sympathy .. not getting any around here ! ) I was even asked just now .. when's supper ?

Dominos Pizza delivers!

Ya know where ya find sympathy in the dictionary, don'cha Betty...? Right between sh** and syphilis...

I do sympathize with you though...

I copped out and barbecued hamburgers and made a salad.

He's fed and I don't have too many dishes to do. Dishwasher is broken at the moment and awaiting replacement parts which won't be in till after the weekend. Funny I remember the day when I said I wouldn't give a DW house room! Boy ! was I wrong ! I'm lost without it.

Steve .. thanks .. There is about as much chance of sympathy around this house as there is of my developing syphilis !

Y'all realize how difficult 'tis to find any Swiss humor anyplace? Methinks even the Russians got a better ability to have fun and laugh at themselves. Them Swiss are just so business like and gloomy, eh?





Wish they'd lighten up! Methinks they need help...



Added on edit: Gettin' close Liza Jane! Methinks you'd best be watchin' the post count, eh?

I knew I should have stayed here.

BTW: What do you suppose it means when mosquitos, fleas and other "biting" insects do not bite me, but bite the rest of the family? What could be wrong with my blood?

Sympathy, Betty. I got in few hours in the heat her today and am feel'in the pain myself.


Steve, I am still seeing dots !

heart I have a aunt says she has never been bitten!!!
heard that a college was doing a study on this and said that their are people who don't get bites body puts off odor they are trying to reproduce this smell
ps and no you don't stink lol

taken last night about 7 pm (for some of the others 1900 hrs )
reelfoot lake tn

It's kosher...?

A Jew walks into a bar with a frog on his shoulder! The Barkeep says..."Where the hell did you get that?" The frog says..."Brooklyn...There's hundreds of them down there!"

Congratulations, Steve!