Well, a few showers predicted: 65 Thursday, 67 Friday (mostly cloudy), 67 Saturday (intermittent clouds, and 73 on Sunday (partly cloudy). Near Los Angeles, California. But gas is about $4.50 a gallon and you use up most of it sitting in %$#@ traffic on the freeways.
Leaving Ashland, Oregon last Saturday going south, I filled the tank with gas at $2.99/gallon. In Yreka, CA it was $4.19 (at the cheapest Valero), only thirty some miles away.
It’s not about how far you drove, but about crossing the state line.
California has the most expensive gas in the US, due to way higher taxes included in the price, and stricter environmental protection standards for refineries, gas pumps and even the gas mixture that can be sold.
Oregon has a lot of environmental regulations, so it’s more expensive than in some states… but not California.
City taxes and ordinances are different, as well. I paid something like $4.39 at Costco the other day.. cheapest here.
Gas in Texas and Oklahoma is not much more than half that price… but it burns dirtier, and that formulation can’t be sold here.
It might seem crazy what I am ’bout to say
Sunshine, she’s here you can take a break
I’ma hot air balloon that could go to space, huh
With the air, like I don’t care, baby, by the way, huh
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do
Here come bad news, talking this and that (talk, yeah)
Well, give me all you got and don’t hold back (yeah)
Well, I should probably warn you, I’ll be just fine (yeah)
No offense to you, don’t waste your time, here’s why
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do (hey, c’mon, uh)
bring me down, can’t nothin’
(Happy) bring me down, my level’s too high
(Happy) to bring me down, can’t nothin’ (huh)
(Happy) bring me down, I said (let me tell you now), uh
can’t nothin’, uh
(Happy, happy), bring me down (happy, happy), my level’s too high
(Happy, happy) to bring me down (happy, happy), can’t nothin’
(Happy, happy) bring me down, I said
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you (Because I’m happy) Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you feel like (uh) that’s what you wanna do (hey, c’mon, uh)
, can’t nothin’
(Happy, happy) uh, bring me down (happy, happy) my level’s too high
(Happy, happy) to bring me down (happy, happy), can’t nothin’
(Happy, happy) bring me down, I said
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you, ay, ay, ay
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you (hey)
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do
Huh-huh, come on
I’m with Cleo, BTW… Honestly, Claude, who wants to go outside in winter.
Outhouses went out of style over 100 years ago for a reason.
And you can’t read, standing on 3 legs in the snow. Or two, for that matter.
Reading in the bathroom was so common in my family, when I was growing up, that knocking on the only bathroom door was usually accompanied by an impatient “Come on! Are you just reading in there??”
So of course, my brother’s first wife was aghast, and even claimed to have never heard of anyone reading in that room.
She threw out any magazines or papers left anywhere in it, insisting that they were now contaminated.
For my part, I’ve never heard of anyone not having heard of reading in there… I was even at somebody’s house once where they had a little joke sign on the door… “The Reading Room.”
Sorry if that’s all TMI… but it just shows the stupid things people can fight over, if they’re looking for a way to fight.
HEY! I am NOT over a hundred.
When I was quite young, Dad bought a farm in Missouri, and we spent a year driving out on weekends and re-modeling it to suit (and I helped!). We moved in and the neighborhood ladies came to pay their respects. At some point in the proceedings, the ladies all stood up and clustered around the back door. Mom had to say “Ladies! It’s in here.”
First indoor plumbing for miles around.
Lol… I didn’t say they didn’t exist, I said they went out of style… as in, people chose not to have them if they could.
I’m sure those ladies were delighted, and probably used the facilities an extra time, just for good measure.
I’ve lived on a houseboat and temporarily in a bus, worked at the Renaissance Faire, and stayed in cheap, local hotels in Mexico, in the 1960s, and spent 2 months in a tiny backyard adobe house in Guatemala, in 1978… none of which involved a flush toilet, and except for a couple of the Mexican hotels, none had running water.
In those hotels, you had to ask them to light the water heater, and wait, if you wanted to shower.
And I’m not 100 either, though sometimes it feels close.
In the early 70’s, my girlfriend’s family had a cabin in the mountains. they had, as the sign on the door stated, “The unflushable”. One evening, as it was being used, I decided to step over towards a nearby small tree and take care of a #1 business. I figured the snow was why I didn’t hear anything hitting the ground.
The next morning, I realized I stopped just sort of a steep hillside and what i thought was a small tree was actually just the top of a very tall one.
Yikes!
.
“Peek a boo”
,
Wouldn’t want to live there. There was a storm along the southtowns around Buffalo that covered houses that way as well.
Makes the house look knitted.
And..um .. uninhabitable.
Then again, if I could just stay inside all winter…. and never open the door… and keep the heat on….
At first i thought it was a sand castle.
Understandable.
But why do the structure on the right, and seemingly the one in the narrow strip visible between the other two, have NO ice on them? Shenanigans?
It almost looks like it was photoshopped in, doesn’t it?
Maybe that side was down wind?
It’s real:
https://us.cnn.com/2020/03/01/us/lake-erie-ice-houses-frozen-trnd/index.html?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=yandexsmartcamera
WOW!
,
Typical male. He’s being evacuated from a battlefield and he starts thinking about sex the moment he sees a girl.
Gotta continue the lineage goin’ forward without ya!
She was very pretty, and only 22 years old…. not surprised she got whistles.
Of course, it was considered more acceptable back then.
,,
..
I can’t figure out why it’s not falling off.
Found it! 😀
,.
I recognize
If nobody posts the movie I’ll Google it later.
Well… Nobody did, not yet anyway….
But I searched
On the Beach.
..,
I think I hear my mother calling me….. I’d stick around, but….
It’s so lovely! (When you don’t have to go out in it.)
I dread this coming weekend! (Queens, NY). The snow shovels are ready.
Well, a few showers predicted: 65 Thursday, 67 Friday (mostly cloudy), 67 Saturday (intermittent clouds, and 73 on Sunday (partly cloudy). Near Los Angeles, California. But gas is about $4.50 a gallon and you use up most of it sitting in %$#@ traffic on the freeways.
Leaving Ashland, Oregon last Saturday going south, I filled the tank with gas at $2.99/gallon. In Yreka, CA it was $4.19 (at the cheapest Valero), only thirty some miles away.
It’s not about how far you drove, but about crossing the state line.
California has the most expensive gas in the US, due to way higher taxes included in the price, and stricter environmental protection standards for refineries, gas pumps and even the gas mixture that can be sold.
Oregon has a lot of environmental regulations, so it’s more expensive than in some states… but not California.
City taxes and ordinances are different, as well. I paid something like $4.39 at Costco the other day.. cheapest here.
Gas in Texas and Oklahoma is not much more than half that price… but it burns dirtier, and that formulation can’t be sold here.
In Norfolk, VA, we’re supposed to get snow, sleet, ice, freezing rain and cold rain. How much of each is anyone’s guess.
Grand Central station-1941
Just a classier time.
,..
I thought it was Bob Hope.
OMG… Of course it is!
I knew it was, but I was in a hurry, and my fingers somehow detached from my brain when I was typing.
I had the other one on the tip of my tongue, cos I was about to label him in a different picture.
Gonna fix it right now
His nose gave him away.
I was way wrong!
Hope you didn’t believe my original post!
I’m still wrong. 🙂
And a fine specimen of a pal it is!
,.
Silly Casper…. The letter is solid… you can’t pull it inside through the door.
,
Cool picture… Amazing luck… but not “transfixed”. LOL
Skewered?
That works.
Or pierced, joined, penetrated by a single bullet…. Just not transfixed!
“2 pierce with a sharp implement or weapon.”
,..,
I knew a guy in college who looked sort of like that.
They’re soooo cute when they’re small. Only about 6 feet tall at birth.
,,
Didn’t know the guy in the middle, but got the other two.
I didn’t get him either. Too young for me to recognize here.
Happy Song by Pharrell Williams ‧ 2013 Lyrics
It might seem crazy what I am ’bout to say
Sunshine, she’s here you can take a break
I’ma hot air balloon that could go to space, huh
With the air, like I don’t care, baby, by the way, huh
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do
Here come bad news, talking this and that (talk, yeah)
Well, give me all you got and don’t hold back (yeah)
Well, I should probably warn you, I’ll be just fine (yeah)
No offense to you, don’t waste your time, here’s why
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do (hey, c’mon, uh)
bring me down, can’t nothin’
(Happy) bring me down, my level’s too high
(Happy) to bring me down, can’t nothin’ (huh)
(Happy) bring me down, I said (let me tell you now), uh
can’t nothin’, uh
(Happy, happy), bring me down (happy, happy), my level’s too high
(Happy, happy) to bring me down (happy, happy), can’t nothin’
(Happy, happy) bring me down, I said
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you (Because I’m happy) Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you feel like (uh) that’s what you wanna do (hey, c’mon, uh)
, can’t nothin’
(Happy, happy) uh, bring me down (happy, happy) my level’s too high
(Happy, happy) to bring me down (happy, happy), can’t nothin’
(Happy, happy) bring me down, I said
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you, ay, ay, ay
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you (hey)
(Because I’m happy)
Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do
Huh-huh, come on
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Pharrell L. Williams
Happy lyrics © Emi April Music Inc., More Water From Nazareth, Universal Pictures Global Music
Ceci n’est pas une Milkbone, ou une pomme.
The AI picture of Star Trek/Wars folks yesterday reminded me of this… which of course is not AI but a genuine childhood photo (cough)…
Or so the guy said on eBay….
I think….
I’m with Cleo, BTW… Honestly, Claude, who wants to go outside in winter.
Outhouses went out of style over 100 years ago for a reason.
And you can’t read, standing on 3 legs in the snow. Or two, for that matter.
Reading in the bathroom was so common in my family, when I was growing up, that knocking on the only bathroom door was usually accompanied by an impatient “Come on! Are you just reading in there??”
So of course, my brother’s first wife was aghast, and even claimed to have never heard of anyone reading in that room.
She threw out any magazines or papers left anywhere in it, insisting that they were now contaminated.
For my part, I’ve never heard of anyone not having heard of reading in there… I was even at somebody’s house once where they had a little joke sign on the door… “The Reading Room.”
Sorry if that’s all TMI… but it just shows the stupid things people can fight over, if they’re looking for a way to fight.
HEY! I am NOT over a hundred.
When I was quite young, Dad bought a farm in Missouri, and we spent a year driving out on weekends and re-modeling it to suit (and I helped!). We moved in and the neighborhood ladies came to pay their respects. At some point in the proceedings, the ladies all stood up and clustered around the back door. Mom had to say “Ladies! It’s in here.”
First indoor plumbing for miles around.
Lol… I didn’t say they didn’t exist, I said they went out of style… as in, people chose not to have them if they could.
I’m sure those ladies were delighted, and probably used the facilities an extra time, just for good measure.
I’ve lived on a houseboat and temporarily in a bus, worked at the Renaissance Faire, and stayed in cheap, local hotels in Mexico, in the 1960s, and spent 2 months in a tiny backyard adobe house in Guatemala, in 1978… none of which involved a flush toilet, and except for a couple of the Mexican hotels, none had running water.
In those hotels, you had to ask them to light the water heater, and wait, if you wanted to shower.
And I’m not 100 either, though sometimes it feels close.
In the early 70’s, my girlfriend’s family had a cabin in the mountains. they had, as the sign on the door stated, “The unflushable”. One evening, as it was being used, I decided to step over towards a nearby small tree and take care of a #1 business. I figured the snow was why I didn’t hear anything hitting the ground.
The next morning, I realized I stopped just sort of a steep hillside and what i thought was a small tree was actually just the top of a very tall one.
Yikes!
Eek!
We had the water-heater issue last time in – Seoul…