AUGUST 2014
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Florida is not the place to be this morning.
New record low for Tallahassee. They're down to 23 degrees this morning! It's warmer here in La Crosse.
Rita, Roger, Carl and Kathy return from South Dakota today.
I'm guessing they'll bringing some of those great South Dakota Phesants back with them.
Back in the old days, there was a fabulous night club in Rapid City, The Esquire, that served pheasant under glass. I can't stand wild meat but I ate it once, just to say I had tasted it if anybody asked. Nobody ever did.
Back in the old days, there was a fabulous night club in Rapid City, The Esquire, that served pheasant under glass. I can't stand wild meat but I ate it once, just to say I had tasted it if anybody asked. Nobody ever did.
Friday, November 11, 2011
ALL THE BEST COMES FROM SOUTH DAKOTA!
Congratulations to
THE 28th BOMB WING AT ELLSWORTH AIRFORCE BASE IN RAPID CITY!
Last night they received the Fairchild Trophy, making them the BEST BOMB WING IN THE U.S. AIR FORCE.
THE 28th BOMB WING AT ELLSWORTH AIRFORCE BASE IN RAPID CITY!
Last night they received the Fairchild Trophy, making them the BEST BOMB WING IN THE U.S. AIR FORCE.
It's just amazing.
I thought I could see pretty well until I got my new glasses. WOW! Now, I can see half way to Sioux Falls.
Without the glasses I might have missed this sign.
Without the glasses I might have missed this sign.
YIKES!! This is a COLD morning.
I want to go to the grocery store early this morning so I checked the temperature, around 5, to see how warm I should dress. I was surprised to see it down to 28 degrees!! That's the coldest we've seen, so far, this season! Guess that means I'd better pile on the clothes.
Jonathan Winters is celebrating his 86th birthday today.
I keep thinking I should do something to celebrate 11-11-11 but I can't think of what it would be. Next year there will be a 12-12-12 but, we're lucky, there will never be a 13-13-13.
Donnie's visit to the doctor sounds like a Marx Brothers routine.
"Spent the morning at a clinic, a periodic general exam. Won't know anything until lab results back, but everything the doctor could feel with his hands and fingers seems to be okay.
The nurse/tech who did the preliminary height/weight/blood pressure was an older woman who appeared to be new to the job! She measured my height--"71 inches, now that would be 6 feet 1 and 1/2 inches...." I said I thought 72 inches is 6 feet. She muttered a bit, then said again 6 feet 1 and 1/2. As she already had me bending over to fit under the measuring stick, I could see there was no way this was going to get accurate.
Then she took my temperature. In recent years I've had this done in a couple seconds, in the ear. She resorted to an old-fashioned under-the-tongue thermometer, and stood there holding it in my mouth. And holding. "It's not moving," she said. "93.6." It's been so long since anyone held a thermometer in my mouth that I was a bit confused myself. "What's normal?" I asked. Again she hemmed and hawed, and never did give me an answer. But I guess I never got past 94 degrees. We Scandinavians are colder than normal people."
The nurse/tech who did the preliminary height/weight/blood pressure was an older woman who appeared to be new to the job! She measured my height--"71 inches, now that would be 6 feet 1 and 1/2 inches...." I said I thought 72 inches is 6 feet. She muttered a bit, then said again 6 feet 1 and 1/2. As she already had me bending over to fit under the measuring stick, I could see there was no way this was going to get accurate.
Then she took my temperature. In recent years I've had this done in a couple seconds, in the ear. She resorted to an old-fashioned under-the-tongue thermometer, and stood there holding it in my mouth. And holding. "It's not moving," she said. "93.6." It's been so long since anyone held a thermometer in my mouth that I was a bit confused myself. "What's normal?" I asked. Again she hemmed and hawed, and never did give me an answer. But I guess I never got past 94 degrees. We Scandinavians are colder than normal people."
Carl sent this.
I saw the last trick but I don't believe it. I watched it again. I still don't believe it. Although, I did something very similar on a bar in Rapid City one night. The folks, there, didn't believe it either.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
TV TIP
Don't miss the Mt Rushmore Float in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC. Not only is it a spectacular float that should give South Dakota and the Black Hills some great coverage, but to make it an even more spectacular entry, the one and only Neil Diamond will be riding and performing on the float.
THE GREEN THING
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days.
The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right. We didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right. We didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person.
Remember: Don't make old people mad. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off.
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days.
The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right. We didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right. We didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person.
Remember: Don't make old people mad. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off.
AT LEAST WE STILL HAVE SUMMER IN THE PICTURES
I ran across a picture I took this summer that I forgot to show you. Love the way the trunk of this tree grew out over the water and then up.
I THINK I CAN NOW SEE MORE THAN I WANTED TO SEE
SEE HOW HAPPY I AM WITH MY NEW GLASSES??!I THINK I LOOK JUST LIKE A COLLEGE PROFESSOR....A VERY OLD PROFESSOR.
BY SATURDAY WE COULD GET CLOSE TO 60 IN LA CROSSE
At 4 A.M. it was 40 in Dripping Springs. Add the breeze and it felt like 38. That might be a bit nippy for tea on the deck with Donnie and Linda this morning.
MY FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS TODAY:
Off to the clinic, first thing, this morning to pick up my spiffy new glasses!
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