The photo of the moaning child you posted is of the character Butters, from the South Park TV show. Mr. Thornton, despite riding the shuttle between Toronto and Buffalo (Toronto’s AAA team), does have a career in full swing. He (Thornton) is not to my knowledge suffering. But he is a dead ringer for the South Park character, hence his nickname.
she’s been in pretty bad shape for several days now…she told me she can’t schedule a doctor appointment because she can’t GET to the doctor…or even
to her car.
That does not sound good. Is there anyone who can help her? She could call an ambulance. This is when we need doctors to make housecalls. I’m sure a lot of us wish we were closer.
You have my sympathies. I keep wondering if we are going to have a Summer, since we haven’t had much of a Spring. People aren’t sure if they should start planting or not.
I don’t live with snow or ice, but even here, wintoer seems to have dug in its heels….
though this week we’re supposed to have a warm spell of our usual May weather.
Last week the nights were just above freezing…. 34° to 36° …. I know, boo hoo…
But since the low 50s would be normal, we’re also on the fence about planting.
…
I was given the advice years ago by a trusted local produce grower to hold off on putting in tomatoes till May 15th, because they hate cold toes.
He promised they would catch up with, then live and produce much later than, all the ones planted in early April that suffered cold soil.
So every year I’ve chomped at the bit in the warm spring air, while my neighbors already had 3 foot plants… but he was right about April nights.
….
This year, on May 17th, I don’t see one tomato plant started in the neighborhood, and I just realized yesterday that I haven’t thought about buying any yet.
I, and for that matter Stel Bel, live in the Northeast, in New England. We had temps all last week in the mid-80’s, which is very high for us before mid-late June. We’re about a month ahead.
They tell us here that NE is warming faster than the rest of the country. I don’t know what the source of that information is. I do know that the Red Sox, playing in Arlington, TX against the Rangers last week, encountered at least one day with a record-setting high temp @ 96 Fahrenheit. They have a domed stadium, and the roof was closed.
If we go until May 21st without temps in the 70’s (and it looks like we are going to), we will break a record from 126 years ago of longest period of time without temps in the 70’s. Fortunately, no snow in the forcast, except in the mountains ~ lots of rain, though……North Idaho.
I’m betting that company uses this photo as a lure, to sell kits that will only look like clunky amateur copies.
No WAY the delicate shading of, eg, the yellow patches on the wings or the shadows in the petals are painted in discrete little sections, big enough to hold a visible number, with no blending or minute strokes.
Hard to believe ANY brush could do it, without leaving space for numbered patches… even an expert’s…
ohhh yeahhh, I remember that!—it was sorta like a party line and numerous kids
could get on but, as you said, you had to speak in between the busy signal beeps….
it was an interesting concept but too cumbersome to me
In Madison, WI, where I lived, one person would call himself, creating a busy signal, then the rest of us would call him….
Two people would hear each other over a loud busy signal, but it would fade a little with each additional caller…
Finally the original person could hang up and call himself again, and somehow connect with the rest of us, without the call dropping, and hearing almost no signal.
….
Even if he finally hung up and went to bed, others on the line were still connected, but the fewer who remained, the louder the busy signal became again.
Hard to remember, but I think when he got off the line, his home number worked again, and no new callers could reach our little group….
but as long as he remained on it, if his family got a call, it reached our chemistry homework group instead.
…
We also never told our teacher about the mutual aid.
There were a few other groups doing it too, eventually… but I wasn’t part of them.
Greta Garbone looks so beautiful!
With her lovely gossamer wisps of costume…
Her come-hither lowered lids enhanced by (sorry NH) lovely purplie eye shadow….
she’s a true femme fatale…
….
And Ramon Nov-arrooo… oooooo…… oooooooooh….
Yes, he was a dog…..
and way before my time, thank-you-very-much….
But what a heartthrob.
…
Beautiful job, Stel… kudos to both (cough) the costume designer and to you!
Sorry you’re not well. Feel better soon!
…
I guess you didn’t have a poster for the human version ready…
I know you don’t like them too big, so I found a smallish one to post for you.
Of course, it doesn’t incorporate all your detail.
Your design is obviously too complex for their lesser talents to steal….
but this one I think uses part of it….
while the rest of your artistry seems to stand unique.
….
…
Humans are so prudish compared to dogs…
This film was made prior to their so-called “Hays Code”.
I’ve read that it was MUCH racier than the copies that remain today… and the dance we see in that little clip has been very much cut for the censors of the day.
Apparently it was longer, and got quite a bit…um… let’s say wilder.
….
The scenes with the human Greta and Ramon were also shortened, to eliminate anything but suggestion.
Not that they were ever X-rated, but they did originally leave a little less to the imagination.
…
You wouldn’t find Garbone and Nov-arrooo worrying about how far to go on camera…
The director yells “Cut!”, but sometimes he has to get a bucket of water.
For what it’s worth (it’s the internet):
CINEMATEK, the Belgian film institute apparently has publicly shown a copy that runs 108 minutes. The censored versions run 98 minutes, so presumably CINEMATEK’s is the original release.
Another bit of the ‘net says TCM is in negotiations to gain airing rights. Maybe.
The real Mata Hari… though of course, it’s not her real name.
She was Dutch…. Margaretha Geertruida Zelle.
At 16, responding to an ad, she met and married a 31 year old officer in the Dutch East Indies company, and became Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod.
…
Posted with him to what is now Indonesia, she studied the dances and culture that she adapted to her stage act.
Neither of the Macleods was suited to married life… he was a drunk, and she… well… didn’t act very married.
…
After their divorce, she took up dancing and a bit of prostitution… and a LOT of affairs.
Dalliances with officers on every side of political conflicts, along with the immense popularity that made her a good example, ie,, a scapegoat, got her accused of spying for the Germans in WWI..
Now they say she hardly passed any information, and maybe none that was useful… but she was shot for a spy, by a French firing squad, at 41.
…
In this youthful picture (above) she leaves little hidden… though … cough… she doesn’t really seem to have a lot to hide.
It was quite shocking in its day, though…the very early 1900’s.
Alas!
Stel’s not doing so good lately
so I’m filling in
So sorry to hear that. Stel, take care of yourself and I hope you are feeling better soon. I’ll send healing thoughts your way.
A lot of that moaning and groaning goes on at my house ~ and it’s not the good stuff. It gets so hard to do anything.
🙁
Stel, good wishes and healing thoughts are being sent your way!!!
maybe our ‘pets’ will help you!
Awww. Poor Butters.
https://www.mlb.com/player/trent-thornton-663423
it looked like he has a pretty good career going ……did I miss something?–
I mean, why POOR Butters?
The photo of the moaning child you posted is of the character Butters, from the South Park TV show. Mr. Thornton, despite riding the shuttle between Toronto and Buffalo (Toronto’s AAA team), does have a career in full swing. He (Thornton) is not to my knowledge suffering. But he is a dead ringer for the South Park character, hence his nickname.
thanks for that!
Get well asap, StelBel!
looks great! does he make housecalls?
Stel, so sorry that you are feeling poorly!
she’s been in pretty bad shape for several days now…she told me she can’t schedule a doctor appointment because she can’t GET to the doctor…or even
to her car.
That does not sound good. Is there anyone who can help her? She could call an ambulance. This is when we need doctors to make housecalls. I’m sure a lot of us wish we were closer.
MMM would be happy to help. he’s my official ‘driver’. he keeps threatening to get a chauffeur’s cap.
Awww! Get well soon, Stel ❤❤❤❤
.
Stel needs these two. I’m sure Max is helping out, though.
Yeah, he’s really helpful.
I’m sure of it.
,
Love the color!
WOW!
🙂
Have i ever mentioned that i’m kinda found of birds?
Breakfast, lunch, or dinner?
Once or twice!
He looks like he has a light inside.
Spring is finally here!
sure you aren’t due for one more little tiny blizzard?
Thursday night! UGH!!
You have my sympathies. I keep wondering if we are going to have a Summer, since we haven’t had much of a Spring. People aren’t sure if they should start planting or not.
I don’t live with snow or ice, but even here, wintoer seems to have dug in its heels….
though this week we’re supposed to have a warm spell of our usual May weather.
Last week the nights were just above freezing…. 34° to 36° …. I know, boo hoo…
But since the low 50s would be normal, we’re also on the fence about planting.
…
I was given the advice years ago by a trusted local produce grower to hold off on putting in tomatoes till May 15th, because they hate cold toes.
He promised they would catch up with, then live and produce much later than, all the ones planted in early April that suffered cold soil.
So every year I’ve chomped at the bit in the warm spring air, while my neighbors already had 3 foot plants… but he was right about April nights.
….
This year, on May 17th, I don’t see one tomato plant started in the neighborhood, and I just realized yesterday that I haven’t thought about buying any yet.
Yet on “Overboard” they are claiming the weather is so hot everyone should have already had their ceiling fans on. Separate universes?
I, and for that matter Stel Bel, live in the Northeast, in New England. We had temps all last week in the mid-80’s, which is very high for us before mid-late June. We’re about a month ahead.
They tell us here that NE is warming faster than the rest of the country. I don’t know what the source of that information is. I do know that the Red Sox, playing in Arlington, TX against the Rangers last week, encountered at least one day with a record-setting high temp @ 96 Fahrenheit. They have a domed stadium, and the roof was closed.
If we go until May 21st without temps in the 70’s (and it looks like we are going to), we will break a record from 126 years ago of longest period of time without temps in the 70’s. Fortunately, no snow in the forcast, except in the mountains ~ lots of rain, though……North Idaho.
We seem to be sharing that weather pattern. I have not planted my tomatoes yet. Still, it’s better than the hot dry conditions SE of us.
,
Perfect ~ amazing Mother Nature!!
I’m pretty sure an actual photograph exists somewhere, but this is from a paint by numbers kit. LINK
I’m betting that company uses this photo as a lure, to sell kits that will only look like clunky amateur copies.
No WAY the delicate shading of, eg, the yellow patches on the wings or the shadows in the petals are painted in discrete little sections, big enough to hold a visible number, with no blending or minute strokes.
Hard to believe ANY brush could do it, without leaving space for numbered patches… even an expert’s…
In fact I don’t believe it… I vote photo.
I agree. I was thinking the same thing.
I remember it well.
Pop got mom the extra long stretchy cord.
We never got a wall phone.
Our only phone was in the hallway, sitting on a special “phone table”…
which had a shelf for the phone book, and an uncomfortable little seat, where you had to stay because the cord was short.
…
A guy from my chemistry class figured out how half a dozen or so of us could connect at one time, by talking over the busy signal (impossible now).
When we did homework that way, the rest of the family would keep walking past and saying “get off the phone!”
ohhh yeahhh, I remember that!—it was sorta like a party line and numerous kids
could get on but, as you said, you had to speak in between the busy signal beeps….
it was an interesting concept but too cumbersome to me
In Madison, WI, where I lived, one person would call himself, creating a busy signal, then the rest of us would call him….
Two people would hear each other over a loud busy signal, but it would fade a little with each additional caller…
Finally the original person could hang up and call himself again, and somehow connect with the rest of us, without the call dropping, and hearing almost no signal.
….
Even if he finally hung up and went to bed, others on the line were still connected, but the fewer who remained, the louder the busy signal became again.
Hard to remember, but I think when he got off the line, his home number worked again, and no new callers could reach our little group….
but as long as he remained on it, if his family got a call, it reached our chemistry homework group instead.
…
We also never told our teacher about the mutual aid.
There were a few other groups doing it too, eventually… but I wasn’t part of them.
By the 1970s I’m told it no longer worked.
yeah. that was strictly high school time for me-the early sixties
Me too.
Very interesting poster. Nice colors….all of them. I’ll bet Louie Stay-boy didn’t live up to his name.
I asked this little guy “What’s the rush?” His answer? “Didn’t you hear? StelBel’s not doing so well….
Very cute! That should help.
Wow… Mata Hari!
Greta Garbone looks so beautiful!
With her lovely gossamer wisps of costume…
Her come-hither lowered lids enhanced by (sorry NH) lovely purplie eye shadow….
she’s a true femme fatale…
….
And Ramon Nov-arrooo… oooooo…… oooooooooh….
Yes, he was a dog…..
and way before my time, thank-you-very-much….
But what a heartthrob.
…
Beautiful job, Stel… kudos to both (cough) the costume designer and to you!
Sorry you’re not well. Feel better soon!
…
I guess you didn’t have a poster for the human version ready…
I know you don’t like them too big, so I found a smallish one to post for you.
Of course, it doesn’t incorporate all your detail.
Your design is obviously too complex for their lesser talents to steal….
but this one I think uses part of it….
while the rest of your artistry seems to stand unique.
….
…
Humans are so prudish compared to dogs…
This film was made prior to their so-called “Hays Code”.
I’ve read that it was MUCH racier than the copies that remain today… and the dance we see in that little clip has been very much cut for the censors of the day.
Apparently it was longer, and got quite a bit…um… let’s say wilder.
….
The scenes with the human Greta and Ramon were also shortened, to eliminate anything but suggestion.
Not that they were ever X-rated, but they did originally leave a little less to the imagination.
…
You wouldn’t find Garbone and Nov-arrooo worrying about how far to go on camera…
The director yells “Cut!”, but sometimes he has to get a bucket of water.
…
Not if Cleo were starring, though.
Don’t worry. She’s not that kind of dog.
For what it’s worth (it’s the internet):
CINEMATEK, the Belgian film institute apparently has publicly shown a copy that runs 108 minutes. The censored versions run 98 minutes, so presumably CINEMATEK’s is the original release.
Another bit of the ‘net says TCM is in negotiations to gain airing rights. Maybe.
I read about that… Some film groups think it’s the whole film, others think it couldn’t be…
They believe that quite a bit more than 10 minutes was cut.
….
I didn’t know about TCM’s attempt… not TMC?…
But I read that the Belgian copy was not available online, and very seldom shown, so I didn’t mention it.
Got a good laugh out of your ‘bucket of water’ comment. Picturing it ~ unfortunately!
Well, dogs will be dogs, you know.
And the puppies would be pretty, at least.
The real Mata Hari… though of course, it’s not her real name.
She was Dutch…. Margaretha Geertruida Zelle.
At 16, responding to an ad, she met and married a 31 year old officer in the Dutch East Indies company, and became Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod.
…
Posted with him to what is now Indonesia, she studied the dances and culture that she adapted to her stage act.
Neither of the Macleods was suited to married life… he was a drunk, and she… well… didn’t act very married.
…
After their divorce, she took up dancing and a bit of prostitution… and a LOT of affairs.
Dalliances with officers on every side of political conflicts, along with the immense popularity that made her a good example, ie,, a scapegoat, got her accused of spying for the Germans in WWI..
Now they say she hardly passed any information, and maybe none that was useful… but she was shot for a spy, by a French firing squad, at 41.
…
In this youthful picture (above) she leaves little hidden… though … cough… she doesn’t really seem to have a lot to hide.
It was quite shocking in its day, though…the very early 1900’s.
My thoughts exactly.
A real tomboy.
cherry cobbler
walnuts
black walnut table
Brought over from today’s “Ripley’s.”
Very funny!
This is here because I got curious after hearing Chuck Berry the other day. This is the bridge.
And this is here because I heard it the other day and wondered if disco was coming back. Nope. Original release 1977. Cute though.
Stel, get well. (you poor bassick hound).