Very cool, NH! And, speaking of pets……I hope everyone who wants to will still post pictures of pets (passed on and present) on our pets page anytime you want.
I still have some pictures in mind to post of all the dogs in my life, including Stella Mae (the original StelBel!), but I have to locate them first, since a lot of them are photos that haven’t been scanned into the computer.
I never commented later on June 1st page, since this past week has been so busy for me, but I do plan on getting back there to comment on all the cute pictures! Thanks to all of you for participating in that and please, keep those pictures coming!!
I just discovered that I’ve been the hitee-of-opportunity for a car thief.
As near as I can tell, the theft took place at the MacDonald’s I go to on Wednesday last.
We were under a heat warning at that time, and I left the windows on my car down while I went inside to buy my coffee.
The parking lot was occupied by very few cars, and all of them were of a quality and shape that their owners would not be thieves.
My error (if I’m correct about the theft’s location and time) was in not looking around for any of the many street-people who travel up and down the main street nearby.
The — I’m-not-going-to-be-that-long-but-the-car-is-black-with-black-interior-so-it’ll heat-up-fast — reasoning was in full force here.
I guess someone was around.
What he got, I’m presuming male, was my light-jacket with 3 (complimentary to me) disposable masks in a pocket (replacement value around $150); the flashlight I keep in the car for checking under seats when things fall there, (replacement value $7.29 including tax); and the weird thing that I can’t figure out the why of is the plastic disposable food container I use to hold the elastic bands I carry in the car for temporarily holding things folded or closed (it might have been under the jacket and was a “bonus” find). Other things of far more pawn value were left alone.
I’m thinking maybe someone started looking at him from elsewhere, because no one was around when I got back with my coffee.
The lesson I’m taking from this is it’s never too short a time for a thief to strike, so always lock the car.
Figure $200.00 total. Consisting of time, wear and tear, and direct replacement costs.
How did I notice it? I went looking for the elastic bands and then the flashlight because I figured they’d fallen under the seat.
Heck, don’t know about your area, but laws have deteriorated so much that around here they wouldn’t even waste their time prosecuting the thief if they caught him/her/it.
Around here, the courts are now so backed up due to the plague, they’d never come to trial because the court would rule that his/her/its right to a “speedy trial” had been violated..
I call those people the ‘watchers’. Warm up your car in the driveway or run in to the convenience store and leave your keys in the ignition ~ the watchers see it and take it. You don’t see them, but they are there watching and waiting for you to slip up.
One of my uncles (the one who later flew water bombers) was held back from the front because he was so good a pilot, the R,C.A.F. decided he was best utilized getting what skills he could imparted to the pilots that would go to the front in the short time the war allowed for training.
I’ve heard it said of him that he could fly the box the plane came in.
It’s family history that he was involved with the training of Richard Burton (who wasn’t a pilot).
In answer to Claude, and his non-confrontational, and in fact barely curious, take on Cleo’s weaponry movement, and likely resulting armory emplacement…
I say… well,I look at this as the worst, the most lax and most over-permissive parenting on the comics page.
…
Confound it, Claude!
How many squirrels or cats have to die before you grow a … uh…. angry….before you grow angry?
I understand that a lot of people in the industry, not just pop, were fans. Classical to Hip-Hop. They were absolute professionals at how they approached their music.
I hum along too. 🙂
The picture below is a link to an article about the memorial park built to commemorate the landing point of the Canadian forces at Juno Beach.
There are more pictures in the article of the remains of the German defence emplacements that every country’s landing forces had to face that day.
The first time i heard of “life” it was described by Sagan in the original Cosmos. It’s come up in my reading a couple of times since then. I just stumbled across this on YouTube.
…
Recognized all of them, but could only name about half of them without the prompt in the upper left.
Nice to put a name to all the familiar pieces.
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Very cool, NH! And, speaking of pets……I hope everyone who wants to will still post pictures of pets (passed on and present) on our pets page anytime you want.
I still have some pictures in mind to post of all the dogs in my life, including Stella Mae (the original StelBel!), but I have to locate them first, since a lot of them are photos that haven’t been scanned into the computer.
I never commented later on June 1st page, since this past week has been so busy for me, but I do plan on getting back there to comment on all the cute pictures! Thanks to all of you for participating in that and please, keep those pictures coming!!
Hi mama! 😀
These don’t look like the dragons you’d find on Pern.
I just discovered that I’ve been the hitee-of-opportunity for a car thief.
As near as I can tell, the theft took place at the MacDonald’s I go to on Wednesday last.
We were under a heat warning at that time, and I left the windows on my car down while I went inside to buy my coffee.
The parking lot was occupied by very few cars, and all of them were of a quality and shape that their owners would not be thieves.
My error (if I’m correct about the theft’s location and time) was in not looking around for any of the many street-people who travel up and down the main street nearby.
The — I’m-not-going-to-be-that-long-but-the-car-is-black-with-black-interior-so-it’ll heat-up-fast — reasoning was in full force here.
I guess someone was around.
What he got, I’m presuming male, was my light-jacket with 3 (complimentary to me) disposable masks in a pocket (replacement value around $150); the flashlight I keep in the car for checking under seats when things fall there, (replacement value $7.29 including tax); and the weird thing that I can’t figure out the why of is the plastic disposable food container I use to hold the elastic bands I carry in the car for temporarily holding things folded or closed (it might have been under the jacket and was a “bonus” find). Other things of far more pawn value were left alone.
I’m thinking maybe someone started looking at him from elsewhere, because no one was around when I got back with my coffee.
The lesson I’m taking from this is it’s never too short a time for a thief to strike, so always lock the car.
Figure $200.00 total. Consisting of time, wear and tear, and direct replacement costs.
How did I notice it? I went looking for the elastic bands and then the flashlight because I figured they’d fallen under the seat.
Heck, don’t know about your area, but laws have deteriorated so much that around here they wouldn’t even waste their time prosecuting the thief if they caught him/her/it.
Around here, the courts are now so backed up due to the plague, they’d never come to trial because the court would rule that his/her/its right to a “speedy trial” had been violated..
What a shame!
Thanks for the sentiment. 🙂
I call those people the ‘watchers’. Warm up your car in the driveway or run in to the convenience store and leave your keys in the ignition ~ the watchers see it and take it. You don’t see them, but they are there watching and waiting for you to slip up.
And I 🤓 🤡 that I am, did.
😄 A lesson learned without too much loss, anyways. It’s a shame people can’t be trusted, but that is humans for you!
One of my uncles (the one who later flew water bombers) was held back from the front because he was so good a pilot, the R,C.A.F. decided he was best utilized getting what skills he could imparted to the pilots that would go to the front in the short time the war allowed for training.
I’ve heard it said of him that he could fly the box the plane came in.
It’s family history that he was involved with the training of Richard Burton (who wasn’t a pilot).
In answer to Claude, and his non-confrontational, and in fact barely curious, take on Cleo’s weaponry movement, and likely resulting armory emplacement…
I say… well, I look at this as the worst, the most lax and most over-permissive parenting on the comics page.
…
Confound it, Claude!
How many squirrels or cats have to die before you grow a … uh…. angry….before you grow angry?
I started listening to “Sara”… thinking oh yeah, I know this song… I like Fleetwood Mac…
But something was wrong.
…
Then I realised that even though I KNOW it’s not Fleetwood Mac…
when I read the title “Sara” something in me clicks… and automatically cues up my ears…
I’m forever expecting this:
…
Dylan has a song called “Sara” too…
What’s in that name?
And doesn’t anybody spell it properly, with an “H”?
…and, then there’s this one:
They had already done another one about Sara, as well… But it’s not in the title…. “Las Vegas Turnaround.”
Apparently, she was a stewardess… pardon me, a flight attendant… and Hall’s girlfriend.
…
When that album came out, my partners at work bought it.
Any new records (remember those?) went into repeat play in our clothing shop.
I was kind of snotty about not liking Hall and Oates…. too soft, too pop… teeny bopper music.
…
Insipid lyrics about a stewardess. OMG.
A billion years later, I’m halfway embarrassed to say, it’s THEIR disdained and maligned songs that I still remember and hum….
not the edgy rock and roll I wanted to play, and decreed more significant.
I understand that a lot of people in the industry, not just pop, were fans. Classical to Hip-Hop. They were absolute professionals at how they approached their music.
I hum along too. 🙂
77 years ago today
Edward Hopper
I don’t Claude and Clara have anything to worry about.
(there is no “DO NOT PUSH” button)
Somebody must have pushed Cleo’s buttons!
“Spirit of American Youth Rising from the Waves” at the American Cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach – Normandy (October 7, 2017)
Awesome!
EWC is in for it.
Both littles are here… be back later
HuGz! for all!
Enjoy!!
The picture below is a link to an article about the memorial park built to commemorate the landing point of the Canadian forces at Juno Beach.
There are more pictures in the article of the remains of the German defence emplacements that every country’s landing forces had to face that day.
All of the videos were terrific. Especially the Tribute. Thanks for posting them!
Why, not to worry. Cleo is just preparing her tribute for D-Day.
Yeah, right!
Red Panda
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The first time i heard of “life” it was described by Sagan in the original Cosmos. It’s come up in my reading a couple of times since then. I just stumbled across this on YouTube.
Where is she even getting that stuff?!?!?!