No, really! Well…I put something in his ear and set THAT on fire. Continue reading “I set my husband on fire, mwah-ha-ha-ha-ha!”
Living in 2009
Gotta love this!
YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2009 when…
1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
2. You haven’t played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
4. You e-mail Continue reading “Living in 2009”
Prayer for the President
This is not the post I thought I would be writing two or three weeks ago. After reading the following paragraph, perhaps you will be forced to confront the uphappy truth that I have now realized: our country only has one president at a time, and the one we’ve got is the one we’ve got.
BARACK OBAMA
Perhaps it’s just some Obama ally speaking out of school. But these are probably some of the most terrifying words to come from an unidentified source in some time:
Sources close to the White House say Mr Obama and his staff have been “overwhelmed” by the economic meltdown and have voiced concerns that the new president is not getting enough rest.
Geraghty goes on Continue reading “Prayer for the President”
Artist in Residence
Serena’s art is going to the dogs….in a manner of speaking. Her art tutor had her playing around with different shades of red and red-brown on brown paper, as a break from oil painting (in which she is doing extremely well, by the way). Serena chose a picture of a dog’s head to experiment on. Continue reading “Artist in Residence”
Another Catalpa tree bites the dust
Actually, the dust (driveway) bit the Catalpa. Catalpa wood isn’t strong, and this one shattered when it hit. The day, Wed., 2/11, brought high winds(gusting up to 40 mph), and a short but heavy storm. This is always a bad recipe for old trees. The ground gets saturated, the wind blows, and the roots come out. Much of our 1/2 mile front avenue was once bordered by Catalpas, now probably 100 years old. A wind shear a few years back took out 5 in close proximity to each other, and other storms have claimed a few more. Continue reading “Another Catalpa tree bites the dust”
The surprise that almost wasn’t
In the midst of Iceland, we had been making surreptitious plans with Rainey (Sarah’s husband), to come down and surprise her for her birthday. The ice threw a kink into those plans. Serena volunteered to stay home to look after things, since she had to work Friday, anyway. But we weren’t comfortable leaving her when it involved kerosene heaters and generators. Enter our wonderful cousin, John Graham, who lives in Shelbyville. He agreed to come out and be with Serena during the nights, and help her oversee the mechanical devices that were powering and heating the house. His wife, Ann, took Serena to work Friday, after Serena hiked down to the end of the avenue. (By then, we’d had a few more inches of snow over the ice to make the driveway even more treacherous.) More on that in a minute. Continue reading “The surprise that almost wasn’t”
Encased in ICE
This year has been busy happening, and my posts haven’t, so I’m going to try to catch up today. The biggest recent happening (and the coldest, most destructive and pestiferous) was the now famous ice storm that swept over 6 states — KY being about in the middle. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. Oh, we’ve had sleet. It left a beautiful icing on the trees for the sun to set asparkle, and maybe resulted in a lot of small twigs falling to the ground. We had one of those late in 2004.
Raise that kind of storm several exponential powers! Continue reading “Encased in ICE”
Starwars- All Terrain Armored Transport- NOW!!
Remember? 
I remember clearly when I first saw them on the screen. Now Boston Dynamics has developed something that actually is them, and the possibilities are both amazing and frightening. No laser canons, nothing as big as an office building… yet.
It’s below the fold– watch it! Continue reading “Starwars- All Terrain Armored Transport- NOW!!”
Globally inconvenient- we protest!
Big Fix? A renowned environmental consultant says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been cooking the 
books on global warming. Former University of Winnipeg Climatology Professor Dr. Tim Ball writes in the Canada Free Press, “The only place where CO2 is causing temperature increase is in the IPCC computer models.”
He says the IPCC has a habit of releasing computer model summaries before climate studies are even completed. He says by doing this, “The summary gets maximum media attention and becomes the public understanding of what the scientists said… they create an appearance of certainty about a human cause of [global] warming.”
Adding, “The computer models themselves are completely inadequate to represent global climate… but don’t believe me. The IPCC technical report released in 2007, says so.”
Finally, as if to drive home the point, my buddy Bob in Cincinnati sent this picture of a global warming protest attended by hundreds of … snowmen!
Pestiferous
Ahh… now that’s a word!
In a technical sense, it means to bring or spread disease. When I saw it used on a recent blog post, however, that wasn’t what came to mind. Rather, I was thinking about a combination of “pernicious, evil” and “annoying or troublesome”, all alternative uses. Here’s a partial list of my choices:
- Media lies- great distortions of some important truth, endlessly repeated to push a destructive agenda. “It’s not a baby, it’s a fetus” comes to mind.
- Pornography is all it’s forms- the beauty and joy of marriage turned into poison.
- Consumer debt for depreciating things- buy what you can’t afford today while hoping you will win the lottery next week.
- My sins- the bad habits I can’t seem to break, and especially the unnoticed failings which offend God or hurt others.
- Mosquitoes- precisely!
What do you think? For some inspiration, click on the link above and then click on the “Hear” button. Just the sound of it should help you build your own list…