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  • Ponderings

    If while being transported to the hospital their patient repeatedly rips an IV out of her arm in order to drink her own blood, should Da Kid present his paramedic supervisor with a necklace of garlic bulbs?

    (Too late. He already did.)

    Which is a better tactic for [...]
    Posted: March 08, 2008, 6:40pm EST
  • The Golden Moment

    The Golden Moment I captured that cool, blue morning a month ago was actually a first farewell. Although I didn't know exactly when, I knew those old dead oaks would be leaving. And now they have.

    I don't remember them looking sickly. I just [...]
    Posted: February 20, 2008, 6:14pm EST
  • oh dear ...

    "What we've learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback. It is making a comeback and let me tell you something, for the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well," [...]
    Posted: February 19, 2008, 5:34pm EST
  • The "Angry American"

    Talk-radio host Neal Boortz read from an op-ed published in the Aspen Times Weekly on February 9, about one special interest group none of the candidates running for president have given any consideration to.

    When done reading, Boortz commented that while he largely agreed with what had [...]
    Posted: February 18, 2008, 2:15pm EST
  • Picture this?

    Posted: February 17, 2008, 5:42pm EST
  • Quotable Quotes

    "For over seven years the Democratic Party has fulminated against the Electoral College system that gave George W. Bush the presidency over popular-vote winner Al Gore in 2000. But they have designed a Rube Goldberg nominating process that could easily produce a result much like the Electoral College result in" [...]
    Posted: February 11, 2008, 4:59pm EST
  • Playing with my food

    I opened the booklet and read a couple of the recipes aloud. While Herself, shaking her head from side to side asked if I was turning into a survivalist, Da Kid wanted to know now long it take me to fix him some jerky because, "I LOVE jerky!"

    When [...]
    Posted: February 10, 2008, 6:01pm EST
  • All aboard "The Straight Talk Express"!

    From the January 27 edition of Meet The Press"


    [TIM] RUSSERT: If the Senate passed your bill, S1433, the McCain-Kennedy Immigration Bill...

    JOHN McCAIN: Mm-hmm.

    MR. RUSSERT: ...would you as president sign it?

    SEN. McCAIN: Yeah ...Then, remembering the reaction" [...]
    Posted: February 03, 2008, 3:42pm EST
  • He ate what?

    Not waiting until Sunday Buddy, a three-year-old Labrador retriever, started his Super Bowl snacking early with some ... uh, rather expensive fare.

    More here. [...]
    Posted: January 30, 2008, 3:20pm EST
  • Quotable Quotes

    "[T]he modern [political] campaign excludes anyone who lacks the narcissism, cold-bloodedness, and unreflective nature that the process requires and rewards." -- Andrew Ferguson (Via Reason) [...]
    Posted: January 29, 2008, 1:20pm EST
  • Great. Just great.

    Fred drops out, and that's when his poll numbers start to climb.

    I wonder if the jump had anything to do with last night's GOP Florida love fest "debate." (Transcript here.) The only REALLY important matter discussed was whether Sly Stallone, who's apparently backing' [...]
    Posted: January 25, 2008, 6:16pm EST
  • Quotable Quotes

    "Fred Thompson was not the most exciting candidate and certainly not the best campaigner. It was his philosophy and ideas that captured me and earned my loyalty and support. It is very difficult to simply transfer your allegiance to someone who might represent only a pale echo of your candidate’s" [...]
    Posted: January 24, 2008, 4:48pm EST
  • Damn.

    "Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort. Jeri and I will always be grateful for the encouragement and friendship of so many wonderful people." -- Fred Thompson
    [...]
    Posted: January 22, 2008, 5:59pm EST
  • Hugs, laughter and tears

    The invitation arrived several weeks ago. The date on the card ironically, the second anniversary of letting Tank go.

    Next door to the space it had been renting and four years in the making, January 19 was the grand opening of Southeast Veterinary [...]
    Posted: January 21, 2008, 4:52pm EST
  • You never call me.

    Is it something I did?

    You used to call me all the time. Several times a day, sometimes. Even if I was doing something important, I'd stop and we'd talk.

    Your friends haven't stopped calling me.

    (Why have you?)

    Just last night the phone rang. When' [...]
    Posted: January 17, 2008, 1:45pm EST
  • Received in email ...

    (from Da Kid.)
    ~~~~~

    ARE YOU A DEMOCRAT, REPUBLICAN, OR.............


    Here is a little test that will help you decide. The answer can be found by posing the following question:

    You're walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children. Suddenly, an Islamic' [...]
    Posted: January 16, 2008, 12:54pm EST
  • A Golden Moment

    Mr. Hawk and Lady Hawk (this missus) stopped by for a quick visit this morning. She took off before I could grab my camera, but he didn't.

    That was a nice way for my day to start. Thanks fella.' [...]
    Posted: January 15, 2008, 3:19pm EST
  • I feel great!

    My back aches, my shoulders hurt, and my hands are sore. But, I feel great!

    No, really!

    Really!!!

    As bad as the hay situation was, the word's already circulating that the continuing drought is going to make it even harder to come by next year. As it' [...]
    Posted: January 08, 2008, 6:24pm EST
  • Look out! It's CLIMATE CHANGE!!!

    One thing about living in Northeast Florida is if you don't like what the weather is now, all you have to do is wait a day or so (or maybe only a few hours) and it will change. Often, drastically.

    Sunday was delightfully warm with' [...]
    Posted: January 04, 2008, 5:29pm EST
  • "It's almost like finding a long-lost child."

    When Walter Smith's wife died Buddy, a yellow Lab, became his constant companion. Then, someone stole Buddy.

    "Smith [86] started his tireless search, making daily visits to animal shelters, running ads in the newspaper. It was no good. People called with vague Lab sightings. One'" [...]
    Posted: January 02, 2008, 6:23pm EST
  • "Happy New Year!"

    Owwieeeee!

    My head ... and my belly feels funny, too.

    The Tweat Lady said some hair of the dog would make me feel better so I licked Stawbuck but when I did the he mumbled, "Sasha! I love you," fell over, started to snore [...]
    Posted: January 01, 2008, 8:25am EST
  • FYI

    Tomorrow on FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace, Fred Thompson and David Yepsen.

    David Yepsen? Who's he?

    "If any man knows Iowa politics, it's the Des Moines Register's David Yepsen. We'll ask David who's up, who's down and what surprises we might expect" [...]

    Posted: December 29, 2007, 5:01pm EST
  • FYI

    Almost out of milk, I made a mad dash to the store today and couldn't help but notice that one of this week's supposed sales was bell peppers at $2.69 a pound. For all I know that might be a darned good price, but unless I need them fresh because [...]
    Posted: December 28, 2007, 6:22pm EST
  • [nt]

    Posted: December 25, 2007, 9:16am EST
  • Grinch!

    That's what you can call me. No problemo! I.have.had.it!!!

    Everything's wrapped. No, it's not but as wrapped as it's gonna get. I already told Da Kid there's one present for him and Herself I ain't gonna wrap, ‘cause I ain't gonna try to left that' [...]
    Posted: December 22, 2007, 5:43pm EST
  • WHUMP! The windows rattled ...

    ... and I felt the floor shake. Damn! I thought. A tree must have come over ... hit the house? I headed outside. Seth, my neighbor's son, yelled over, "What the hell was that?"

    "Damned if I know," I replied. But if it had affected him, too, it probably [...]
    Posted: December 19, 2007, 6:17pm EST
  • Yoo-hooooooo!

    Open the door!

    I didn't need to pee that bad after all!

    Let me in! It'th cold out here!

    I'm thtill out here!

    I know you're in there!

    I can hear you.

    I can hear your footthteps!

    YO! I'M [...]
    Posted: December 18, 2007, 12:58pm EST
  • Iowa's GOP "Debate"

    I'm almost done watching today's version starring the Democrats. Thank gawd I had the good sense to tape the danged thing so that I can watch it in bits and pieces. Quite frankly, I can only stand so much before I'm overcome with disgust.

    The format, identical to yesterday's [...]
    Posted: December 13, 2007, 4:56pm EST
  • It's just not fair!

    The Tweat Lady let me out to pee and poop and then she put me in her caw and we went for a wide and then we were at this place with music and noise and funny people-wides that go up and down and wound and wound but weally don't [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2007, 6:52pm EST
  • Quotable Quotes

    "Democrats bemoan the lack of 'affordable housing' while simultaneously demanding government rescue home 'owners' with unsustainable mortgages. But saving the latter obstructs the former: the principal benefit of a property-bubble correction is, after all, much more 'affordable housing.'" -- Mark Steyn [...]
    Posted: December 10, 2007, 3:38pm EST
  • Busy work

    This morning the local weatherjerk was STILL prognosticating that -- on his ten-point scale with ten being perfection -- today was going to be a nine.

    I don't know about anybody else here in Northeast Florida, but I've been freezing my ass off all day and the sky hasn't [...]
    Posted: December 07, 2007, 4:22pm EST
  • Pearl Harbor Day

    Posted: December 07, 2007, 1:50pm EST
  • It's really not that hard, Rudy

    From the Associated Press, this regarding Rudy Giuliani and the FairTax:

    "I think there are several tax deductions that are vital to our economy," Giuliani said. "This would not be a good time — I don't know if there would ever be a good time to do this [...]
    Posted: December 04, 2007, 5:23pm EST
  • Stuck On Stupid

    Da Kid, who'd finally gotten a day off, and I were "out and about" the other day. Our last stop was a big-box home improvement store to pick up some screws and a couple nuts and bolts of a particular (and apparently peculiar) size. We also [...]
    Posted: December 04, 2007, 4:47pm EST
  • Picture this?

    Posted: December 01, 2007, 3:38pm EST
  • I hate these things!

    Ultimate 2008 Presidential Candidate Matcher Your Result: Mitt Romney

    Mitt Romney was the governor of Massachusetts, where he was known as a centrist. He reformed the state healthcare system, and would pursue reforms at the national level as well. Romney supports oil drilling in Alaska, but also alternative energy sources. He [...]

    Posted: November 25, 2007, 4:41pm EST
  • Poor baby

    I hadda pee and poop werry werry bad and you were late but I was a werry werry good boy and held it ‘til you got here ...

    nibble-nibble-nibble

    ... and didn't hide when the yappingratdog over there ...

    gobble-gobble-gobble

    ... or [...]
    Posted: November 24, 2007, 5:53pm EST
  • Scratch one

    From Fox News Sunday yesterday:

    [CHRIS] WALLACE: Now, Thompson and McCain both talk about leaving abortion and gay marriage to the states, the way, in the case of abortion, it was before Roe vs. Wade ever became the law of the land in the first place.

    Why [...]
    Posted: November 19, 2007, 4:57pm EST
  • Shhhh! It's a secret!

    I guess rich folk like Warren Buffet, Bill and Hillary and others who keep saying we should all pay more taxes because the government really needs the money and they can afford to, don't know that if it's really THAT important, they can take a big chunk of their wealth [...]
    Posted: November 17, 2007, 2:48pm EST
  • Ca-RUNCH

    A few weeks ago Sheila, my neighbor, telling me the pecans at her father's place had gone completely nuts this year, said her father had asked if "that Yankee neighbor" of hers would like some.

    Not just yes but HELL YES! Not that I'd say the word hell around [...]
    Posted: November 15, 2007, 6:22pm EST
  • A bit more than an "OUCH"

    It was around 11:30 and I'd just gone to bed, covering Starbuck up with his blanket so that lying beside me, his shivering didn't keep waking me up during the night. His far more sensitive ears must have picked up the sound just before mine did. I felt him tense, [...]
    Posted: November 10, 2007, 5:50pm EST
  • It's a "ruff" life

    Cooler weather has arrived in Northeast Florida. The weatherjerks don't have to remind me of that constantly. Starbuck's shivers last night were more than enough.



    ~~~~~

    Zoe, the hostest with the mostest, invites you to join her and [...]
    Posted: November 08, 2007, 4:45pm EST
  • He's reporting for duty . . . early

    I realize most of the candidates hoping to become their party's nominee in the 2008 presidental elections all started their campaigns earlier than normal, but I think this is a tad on the silly side:

    "[John] Kerry said Monday that he might run for president [...]
    Posted: November 07, 2007, 4:42pm EST
  • [nt]

    Posted: October 31, 2007, 6:57pm EDT
  • I guess they were doing the job Americans won't

    "Six undocumented Mexican immigrants were arrested today by U.S. Border Patrol agents at Qualcomm Stadium, after a report that they were stealing food and water meant for evacuees, according to spokesman Damon Foreman." -- Los Angeles Times

    "The six thieves admitted that they were indeed illegal immigrants from [...]
    Posted: October 25, 2007, 7:17pm EDT
  • Sweet Revenge

    Da Kid heard it growing up but Hubby and I knew it never sank in. We usually began, "Kids ain't cheap," and often finished with something along the lines of, "but this is insane!"

    A good example is the pants Da Kid had to wear as part of his [...]
    Posted: October 23, 2007, 6:32pm EDT
  • 30 years ago this morning

    Thiry years ago this morning I bolted out of bed when the blasted alarm . . . blasted.

    Nothing new there. Working full time for the city plus a part-time job, if I didn't have the radio's volume set on BLAST I probably would have [...]
    Posted: October 20, 2007, 6:04pm EDT
  • Word for the day:

    Posted: October 16, 2007, 5:42pm EDT
  • Honor thy father

    October 9 was the first anniversary of Hubby's death.

    That afternoon, Da Kid came in and showed me the tatoo he'd had done on his shoulder a few hours before.

    [...]
    Posted: October 12, 2007, 3:40pm EDT
  • In passing

    Posted: October 05, 2007, 7:03pm EDT
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