Tuesday, June 10, 2014
One of my favorite episodes
If only for this bit of repartee at 6:50
Ralph: "If you can't give me ten, I'll take five. For five dollars I can go as Billy the Kid"
Alice: "I'll tell you what I will do. I'll give you a tin can. You can go as Billy the goat"
It's the kind of conversation I grew up with in real life.
Dutch newspaper report from December 30, 1888: 'Last Sunday night at half past eleven a painter named Vincent Van Gogh, appeared at the maison de tolérance No 1, asked for a girl called Rachel, and handed her ... his ear with these words: 'Keep this object like a treasure.' Then he disappeared. The police, informed of these events, which could only be the work of an unfortunate madman, looked the next morning for this individual, whom they found in bed with scarcely a sign of life. The poor man was taken to hospital without delay.'
Monday, June 9, 2014
Friday, June 6, 2014
70 Years ago today.
"[Today] marks 70 years since D-Day and World War II’s all-out invasion of a mainland Europe controlled by the armies of Adolf Hitler. June 6, 1944 was an epic, go-for-broke day with Allied forces storming the beaches of Normandy under withering German fire. Now those American “boys” who went ashore at Omaha beach, Utah beach, who parachuted behind the lines, are pushing 90. Many are already gone. There is a kind of last salute that comes with this anniversary. This hour On Point: remembering a battle like no other, D-Day, 70 years on."
-Tom Ashbrook via WBUR
Thursday, June 5, 2014
The garden is getting a wee bit overgrown
After a cold wet April & May, where everything in the borders seemed to stall all fo a sudden the flower beds of exploded!
Should anyone care to make a donation to the pergola fund it would be gratefully and hurriedly accepted.
In the mean time I expect I'll be ordering a mess of juniper ground cover from The Arbor Day Foundation as a temporary measure.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Monday, June 2, 2014
Sunday, June 1, 2014
All the carb cutting is working.
Made it down to 182 lbs from a high of 206 in April. Have about 10 more lbs to go.
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