Super Hot Dog....

Today is our water day for our yard so my dog enjoyed the sprinkler raining on her. My husband finally got our wet dog inside. He wrapped a towel around her, then she took off to the backroom where my son and I. She stopped and looked up to her left looking like Superman. She's super. She's hot. She's dog. Off she runs to her cookie jar.

If You Are hurt, there's a doctor right there

My son's friend mom is a medical doctor. His mom one day came home with a Segway which suprised the heck out of her 5 adult children. This is definitely out of character of their mom to buy this kind of gizmo. About a month ago, she fell off her Segway. This man helped her up and dusted her off. He realized she was in front of a doctor's office. He told her, if you are hurt, there's a doctor right there. Her office. She started to head to office and scared the heck out of the man she was injured more that she was claiming.

Could this be the cattle guards at work?

I thought this youtube video fit nicely with Woodsterman's Blog today.

H/T to Woodsterman for his blog and for the morning laughter.

This is an old post from Willswordsofwisdom..

"Under Sharia Law she cannot come as his wife, if he is Muslim. Sharia law prevents a Muslim leader from bringing his wife to a political event. Any Muslim following the Islamic Creed would know not to bring a non-believer as his wife.

An expert on the Middle East, Scholar Dr. Jim Murk gives a better explanation than mine. An orthodox Muslim man would never take his wife on a politically oriented trip to any Nation ruled by Sharia Law. Michelle would know not to ask to travel with him. Remember, once Mr. Obama got to Saudi Arabia he already knew the protocol and bowed to the King. In those countries Obama is seen as Muslim, because his father was a Muslim from Kenya."

Hat tip to Willswordsofwisdom. You can read his full post on this here

11x14 Aqua Oil Painting

This is painted on a Masonite board. I used aqua oils instead of my regular oil paints.

I Want Your Money. New Film Trailer....

Enjoy!

Hat tip to Breitbart.tv
http://www.breitbart.tv/i-want-your-money-new-film-skewers-obamanomics/

The Week

My dad's old friend from Lockheed dropped for a visit. He is 90 years old. He traveled the US is on his way to his home in Texas. Our families spent many holidays together back in the 60's & 70's. He lost his wife of 66 years. Since he is being the last of the bunch alive, he is now spending time visiting the kids of his co-workers.

He hasn't had a dog in years. He spent his time spoiling my dog with pets and belly rubs. One of his homes, he planted dichondra grass. He didn't mow it. The grass gets to a certain height and stops growing. Beautiful! Wonderful! Lord, I tried to get my dad convince it wasn't necessary to mow dichondra. My dad just pointed to the hand push mower and said, "Mow".

Yesterday, we spent part of the day at our council meeting at city hall. Our city is having some tax issues. It was good to know that our city council members are very conscientious about the taxpayer $$$'s. Of course, now they are. There are new faces to the city council. There were concern citizens showing up too. Highly recommend if you can, show up at these meetings.

Hopefully I can get back to blogging regularly again.

Mosin Nagant Humor....

Stuff you know if you have an AK	Stuff you know if you have an AR	Stuff you know if you have a Mosin Nagant
It works though you have never cleaned it. Ever.	You have $9 per ounce special non-detergent synthetic Teflon infused oil for cleaning.	It was last cleaned in Berlin in 1945.
You are able to hit the broad side of a barn from inside.	You are able to hit the broad side of a barn from 600 meters.	You can hit the barn from two counties over.
Cheap mags are fun to buy.	Cheap mags melt.	What’s a mag?
Your safety can be heard from 300 meters away.	You can silently flip off the safety with your finger on the trigger.	What’s a safety?
Your rifle comes with a cheap nylon sling.	Your rifle has a 9 point stealth tactical suspension system.	You rifle has dog collars.
Your bayonet makes a good wire cutter.	Your bayonet is actually a pretty good steak knife.	Your bayonet is longer than your leg.
You can put a .30″ hole through 12″ of oak, if you can hit it.	You can put one hole in a paper target at 100 meters with 30 rounds.	You can knock down everyone else’s target with the shock wave of your bullet going downrange.
When out of ammo your rifle will nominally pass as a club.	When out of ammo, your rifle makes a great wiffle bat.	When out of ammo, your rifle makes a supreme war club, pike, boat oar, tent pole, or firewood.
Recoil is manageable, even fun.	What’s recoil?	Recoil is often used to relocated shoulders thrown out by the previous shot.
Your sight adjustment goes to “10″, and you’ve never bothered moving it.	Your sight adjustment is incremented in fractions of minute of angle.	Your sight adjustment goes to 12 miles and you’ve actually tried it.
Your rifle can be used by any two bit nation’s most illiterate conscripts to fight elite forces worldwide.	Your rifle is used by elite forces worldwide to fight two bit nations’ most illiterate conscripts.	Your rifle has fought against itself and won every time.
Your rifle won some revolutions.	Your rifle won the Cold War.	Your rifle won a pole vault event.
You paid $350.	You paid $900.	You paid $59.95.
You buy cheap ammo by the case.	You lovingly reload precision crafted rounds one by one.	You dig your ammo out of a farmer’s field in Ukraine and it works just fine.
You can intimidate your foe with the bayonet mounted.	You foes laugh when you mount your bayonet.	You can bayonet your foe on the other side of the river without leaving the comfort of your hole.
Service life, 50 years.	Service life, 40 years.	Service life, 100 years, and counting.
It’s easier to buy a new rifle when you want to change cartridge sizes.	You can change cartridge sizes with the push of a couple of pins and a new upper.	You believe no real man would dare risk the ridicule of his friends by suggesting there is anything but 7.62x54r.
You can repair your rifle with a big hammer and a swift kick.	You can repair your rifle by taking it to a certified gunsmith, it’s under warranty!	If your rifle breaks, you buy a new one.
You consider it a badge of honor when you get your handguards to burst into flames.	You consider it a badge of honor when you shoot a sub-MOA 5 shot group.	You consider it a badge of honor when you cycle 5 rounds without the aid of a 2×4.
After a long day the range you relax by watching “Red Dawn”.	After a long day at the range you relax by watching “Blackhawk Down”.	After a long day at the range you relax by visiting the chiropractor.
After cleaning your rifle you have a strong urge for a stiff shot of Vodka.	After cleaning your rifle you have a strong urge for hotdogs and apple pie.	After cleaning your rifle you have a strong urge for shishkabob.
You can accessorize you rifle with a new muzzle brake or a nice stock set.	Your rifle’s accessories are eight times more valuable than your rifle.	Your rifle’s accessory is a small tin can with a funny lid, but it’s buried under an apartment building somewhere in Budapest.
Your rifle’s finish is varnish and paint.	Your rifle’s finish is Teflon and high tech polymers.	Your rifle’s finish is low grade shellac, cosmoline and Olga’s toe nails.
Your wife tolerates your autographed framed picture of Mikhail Kalashnikov.	Your wife tolerates your autographed framed picture of Eugene Stoner.	You’re not sure there WERE cameras to photograph Sergei Mosin.
Late at night you sometimes have to fight the urge to hold your rifle over your head and shout “Wolverines!”	Late at night you sometimes have to fight the urge to clear your house, slicing the pie from room to room.	Late at night, you sometimes have to fight the urge to dig a fighting trench in the the yard to sleep in.
There you have it. In the end, it is clear to any open minded inquirer that the Mosin Nagant is the most superior weapon of all time, but the AR and the AK come out as a draw when compared side by side.

Source: http://7.62x54r.net/MosinID/MosinHumor.htm

California Funeral causes Bailout

A co-worker of my son just returned from attending a funeral in California. He found unemployed California relatives stuffed into his car to start a new life in Texas.

Chicken Fried Bacon,

I noticed a lot of fast food commercials are trying to attract men to their dining facilities with bacon. They are serving anorexic sliced bacon on top of their burgers or yardbirds. (chicken, if you don't speak Texan-ese) Now, Texans just love their chicken fried steaks. I personally hadn't had this dish. Don't know if I will after seeing that huge steak on the plate.

Shopping on Base Today

I liked the bumper sticker on the Airman's truck of head of us going through the gate: Born in Texas. Built in Texas. He was driving Toyota Tacoma. Tacoma's are made in San Antonio.

I started to read the headlines on the Air Force Times. This one headline caught my attention: First Fatal C-17 Crash. 4 Alaska Airmen Killed in Air Show Practice Flight. I looked at my husband and asked him if he heard about it. He said no. We purchased AF Times to find out what happened. It happened on July 28, 2010. So I came home and checked our local nitwit paper that claims "We care about the Military, NOT!" Nothing! Nada! Zippo! 4 airmen lost their lives. A silent pray to the men who lost their lives.

Remember when....

Clinton had his haircut on the tarmac and we thought that was outrageous expense?

Drinkbonds or how to explain bailout in understandable terms

Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit . She realizes that virtually all of
her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar. To solve this problem, she comes up with a new marketing plan that allows her customers to drink now, but pay later.


Heidi keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the
customers' loans). Word gets around about Heidi's "drink now, pay later"
marketing strategy and, as a result, increasing numbers of customers flood into Heidi's bar. Soon she has the largest sales volume for any bar in Detroit .


By providing her customers freedom from immediate payment demands, Heidi gets no resistance when, at regular intervals, she substantially increases her prices for wine and beer, the most consumed beverages. Consequently, Heidi's gross sales volume increases massively.

A young and dynamic vice-president at the local bank recognizes that these
customer debts constitute valuable future assets and increases Heidi's borrowing limit.


He sees no reason for any undue concern, since he has the debts of the
unemployed alcoholics as collateral.


At the bank's corporate headquarters, expert traders figure a way to make huge commissions, and transform these customer loans into DRINKBONDS. These securities then are bundled and traded on international securities markets.



Naive investors don't really understand that the securities being sold to them
as AAA secured bonds really are debts of unemployed alcoholics.

Nevertheless, the bond prices continuously climb, and the securities soon become the hottest-selling items for some of the nation's leading brokerage houses.



One day, even though the bond prices still are climbing, a risk manager at the
original local bank decides that the time has come to demand payment on the
debts incurred by the drinkers at Heidi's bar. He so informs Heidi.

Heidi then demands payment from her alcoholic patrons, but being unemployed alcoholics they cannot pay back their drinking debts. Since Heidi cannot fulfill her loan obligations she is forced into bankruptcy. The bar closes and Heidi's 11 employees lose their jobs.

Overnight, DRINKBOND prices drop by 90%. The collapsed bond asset value destroys the bank's liquidity and prevents it from issuing new loans, thus freezing credit and economic activity in the community.The suppliers of Heidi's bar had granted her generous payment extensions and had invested their firms' pension funds in the BOND securities. They find they are now faced with having to write off her bad debt and with losing over 90% of the presumed value of the bonds.


Her wine supplier also claims bankruptcy, closing the doors on a family business that had endured for three generations, her beer supplier is taken over by a competitor, who immediately closes the local plant and lays off 150 workers.

Fortunately though, the bank, the brokerage houses and their respective
executives are saved and bailed out by a multibillion dollar no-strings attached
cash infusion from their cronies in government. The funds required for this
bailout are obtained by new taxes levied on employed, middle-class, non-drinkers who have never been in Heidi's bar.

Gardening

Here is one of the watermelons growing in the garden.







My dog is checking to see if the critter is still in the micro sized garden. I think the secret to gardening vegetables in this town is to plant way too close together on the east side of the house. My son isn't teasing me this year on how much will growing 1 tomato is going to cost.

Silver Retirement Anniversary from the Air Force.

My husband has been retired from the Air Force for 25 years today. This is a photo that was taken at his first duty station in '65.

Happy Anniversary!