Porcupine Pie

Neil Diamond has a few humorous songs.a

I'll catch up reading all of your blogs on Saturday.

Prayer by Senior Citizen..

The Ladies Are Back in Action

These ladies picked a painting that has quite a few elements to paint: Sunset, mountains, yellow haze mist, pine trees, bushy tree, big tree, lake, cabin, path, waterfall, bushes and a lake with land projects. The ladies did a fabulous job.

Farewell Peter Falk

He did a fabulous job roasting Frank Sinatra.

Deepest sympathy to his family.

At Last Night Meeting....

This Sexy Senior Lady Citizen brought down the house with: I am waiting for the Government to send me a free gun. This was right after one of the members brought up that some agency providing free cell phones.

Our local pitbulls that are challenging our local officials at city meetings are getting on the officials nerves. One official is exasperated. The official apparently told a member to get different city council to talk to them. Huh? So you won't listen to your constituency but a different city council members you will? Can we get this in writing?

Obama's Legacy (Video)

 Mind Numbed Robot has a friend, Conservative Hideout, that wants this video go to viral.

The New Danger...

 I found this on SaveArlington.com

Cul-de-sacs?! Really, cul-de-sacs? You see, the video above was created to deliver a message. That message is that you are taking up too much space! This term is often referred to as "sprawl" by groups such as the Council for New Urbanism (CNU) and the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG). In fact, the video you just watched that said "private lawns" are a threat to the planet was created by the North Texas division of the CNU. So why would anything the CNU says or believes have any effect on us? After all, they're just a non-profit organization right?.......
Need I remind you, I'm 20 years old, my generation will be the ones taking on the burden of our already staggering 14 Trillion dollar debt this country owns. This Thoroughfare and Development Plan is nothing more than writing a hot check for $233 million when your account reads -$14,000.000,000,000,000. So let me end by giving you the real answer to the question: What is the biggest threat facing our planet?
The answer is D. Government. When government begins to team up with groups such as the North Texas Congress for New Urbanism, and begins developing policies based around that organizations beliefs, and not the constitutional foundation they should be tamed to, it becomes a threat to our planet, our liberties, and our freedom. From here, read about the Charter of the New Urbanism or the 2035 Mobility Plan to learn how all of this ties with the Hike and Bike Master Plan.
Zack M.
The full article above is here: http://savearlington.com/start

Castle in the Air in A-Town

From our local paper...
"Skies turned from blue to partly cloudy then stormy in a short period of time late Saturday afternoon as a dry line developed on top of Abilene. The conditions turned from 107-degree heat to storms that in Abilene produced brief downbursts of hard rain, rumbles of thunder that set off security alarms at businesses, super gusts of wind that downed power lines in northeastern Abilene and penny-size hail elsewhere.
The weather outburst disrupted the Juneteenth celebration in Stevenson Park, where tents were flattened and an air castle reportedly was blown about 30 yards with as many as seven youngsters inside.
One witness said the castle had been tied down.
“It blew it way down to the road,” said John Lyons, describing wind that lifted the lightweight inflatible and sent it tumbling. Witnesses described how men were able to chase down the castle — one of two at the event — and hold it down before it reached the roadway.
As far as the children — Lyons said maybe six or seven were inside — they all were able to get themselves out of the castle, he said.
A trained weather spotter reported to the National Weather Service that straight-line winds of 70 mph struck east Abilene about 5:30 p.m."

For the whole article: http://www.reporternews.com/news/2011/jun/18/another-100-plus-day-but-spotty-rain-was-a/?partner=popular

The article doesn't say if any of the children were hurt or not.

Reading the article reminded me of Don McLean's song.

Happy Father's Day

My dad loved to go camping and fishing. There were very few Father's Days that we spent at home when I was growing up.

My dad started my how to fish training when I was 6 weeks old. He would hold me while he fished. My dad had a real thing about fishing in the High Sierras in August. He loved fishing during the day and watching the Perseid at night. My dad taught me how to put on a swivel, weight, fish hook and worm on my fishing line before teaching me how to tie my shoes. 

One time when I was a kid, I slid down this rain drenched hill into the lake's algae muck. Dad gave me a college level geological lecture on soggy mud hill landslides and its dangers. It was complete with diagrams and mathematical formulas beyond my years. After his lecture was done, he sent me to campground faucet to wash off.

Happy Father's Day to dads everywhere.

Subs!

Defence of Ft. McHenry By Francis Scott Key

O! say can you see by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
’Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country, should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation.
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust;”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave! 

Happy Flag Day. 

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