Well, May

So.

It is May here, and do you know what? Half way through we get

 

Snow?      SNOW?

To quote Mr. Peavey, "well now, I wouldn’t say that"


 It was just a little snow.



http://www.mediaheritage.com/mr-peavey/

Just stuff post

NO S-M-O-K-I-N-G! NO SMOKING! 

 Yup it is Twilight Zone day once again.

Oh, I get it, it's your birthday! that must be it! you can't eat hamburgers with peanut butter all the time, right?

If you saw the movie, you would get it.

On another note;

Some how, 

"non-judgmental life coach, please refrain from imposing white, eurocentric perspectives and  implied beliefs, consciously or subconsciously, in the pre-eminence of European culture on my multi-cultured, rainbow inclusive identifying belief system, or I will have to shelter in my safe place over your views on vaping in the gender neutral relief station"

is not the same as 

"Teacher, don't you fill me up with your rules, cuz everybody knows that smokin ain't allowed in school. 

Smokin in the Boys room

Smokin in the Boys room..."

No image, just audio.

Aunt Penny's kitchen.

Tombs, travel and trouble, the adventures of Lawrence Griswold

So,
Poking around the internet, I came across this guy:
Lawrence T. K. Griswold, Jungle Explorer, Adventurer.

In the forward of his book, Tombs, travel and trouble

http://www.amazon.com/Tombs-travel-trouble-Lawrence-Griswold/dp/B00085UOS0

he wrote:

'In fact most of the time I was either scared to death, too busy to think about it all, or just damned annoyed. Adventures, in retrospect are pieces of extremely bad luck that missed a fatal ending. A set of circumstances starts a chain of consequences. If you are in the immediate vicinity the chances are you are about to undergo an adventure. If it turns out fatally for your side, it's a tragedy. If it turns out fatally for the other side or with nobody hurt at all, it's a comedy. One or the other, tragedy or comedy - it's never adventure when it's going on!'

In 1935 he was a passenger on The EMPRESS OF ASIA, under the command of Captain A. V. R. Lovegrove.

They concluded a Pacific crossing upon reaching Vancouver on June 21st, 1935. On this crossing Hawaii was called upon prior to reaching Victoria. Over 100 passengers embarked at Honolulu. The ship reported an uneventful passage. Cargo included mail and a large consignment of general freight.

Lawrence Griswold, however, had in "general freight" boxes of live white monkeys and
cobra snakes for zoological institutions in New York and Washington.

Try getting a box of cobras and another of monkeys, of any color, on a ship today.

In fact, today you would get Samuel Jackson beefing about "Snakes on a Boat"

Later, while exploring South America, he noted

"When I got clear [of the jungle] there wasn't a man in sight. As I stood looking for one of the foremen, another of the mestizos broke out of the forest to my left
about thirty feet away. Dressed only in cotton pants he carried his
machete threateningly and his expression was murderous. He loped toward
me, his body bent slightly forward and the long machete swinging easily
from his right hand.

Everything suddenly seemed perfectly simple.
I stood my ground, raised the revolver and shot him."

Sounds like I think I have heard this before.

 http://raven.theraider.net/archive/index.php/t-22928.html

April Fun Facts:

01 International fun at work day
02 Peanut butter and jelly day
03 Tweed day
04 Walk around things day
05 Go for broke day
06 Sorry Charlie day
07 No housework day
08 Carmel popcorn day
09 Winston Chirchill day
10 Golfer's day
11 Eight track day
12 Big wind day
13 Scrabble day
14 Pecan day
15 Rubber eraser day*
16 Eggs Benedict day
17 Bat Appreciation day
18 Juggler's day
19 Garlic day
20 Look alike day
21 High five day
22 Jelly bean day
23 Zucchini day
24 Pig in a blanket day
25 Penguin day
26 Pretzel day
27 Babe Ruth day
28 Astronomy day
29 Arbor day
30 Hairstyle Appreciation day

*The rubber eraser, called "the plug," by those in the know, is the part people use to erase the errors they make with a pencil. An ingredient called "factice" is what does the erasing. It is a product made with rape-seed oil from the Dutch East Indies mixed with sulfur chloride. Rubber, contrary to the common notion, is only for binding purposes.
So now you know.

April

One year.
Lets see If I can keep this going.


So,
Last month I decided to try the cuisine at the Wyoming Valley Medical Center.
Veggie broth for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Near the end of my stay they let me have orange Jello™ and vanilla ice cream.




So I never got around to the St. Patrick's Day extravaganza.


You know St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland?
Know what he said when he did?

"You boys comfy back there?"

So now we are in New Hope, PA and a quick trip over to Longwood Gardens, one of the DuPont homes, now a public garden.

The DuPont folks didn't like the fact they could not grow oranges in PA so they built an indoor citrus garden, heated by four boilers that used 150,000 gallons of fuel per year so they could have fresh OJ any time. The oranges and limes didn't work out, so they had them torn out and replaced with tropical palms and orchids.

And a bunch of other bushes and leafy green things.

At one point, I said to Mary "this place needs little brightly colored birds and snakes."

A moment later a guy walked past me and said to his family "this place needs a bunch of little monkeys."

 

I think snakes would be better, somehow.

 

But that is just one guys opinion.

 

Good Friday

Jesus:  "I am the good shepherd. I lay down my life for My sheep. No-one takes my life from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down and the power to take it up again. This command is from my Father."

 

Satan: "No one man can carry this burden, I tell you. It is far too heavy. Saving their souls is too costly.

No-one. Ever. 

No.    Never."

Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.

Luke: I can eat fifty eggs.
Dragline: Nobody can eat fifty eggs.
Society Red: You just said he could eat anything.
Dragline: Did you ever eat fifty eggs?
Luke: Nobody ever eat fifty eggs.
Prisoner: Hey, Babalugats. We got a bet here.
Dragline: My boy says he can eat fifty eggs, he can eat fifty eggs.
Loudmouth Steve: Yeah, but in how long?
Luke: A hour.
Society Red: Well, I believe I'll take part of that wager.

  George Harris Kennedy Jr.
Born: February 18, 1925 in New York City, New York, USA

Died: February 28, 2016 (age 91) in Boise, Idaho, USA 

One of his first roles in film was that of a slave in Spartacus (1960). When the crowd was asked for Spartacus, he was the last close-up of a slave yelling, "I am Spartacus".

A former Army career soldier, Kennedy attacked Cary Grant with a steel claw, pursued Joan Crawford with an ax, attempted to assassinate Gregory Peck, and kicked Jeff Bridges to death.

Due to his tall, enormously broad frame, Kennedy was frequently cast in the 1960s and 1970s as bullies and thugs, and had the distinction of brutalizing stars like Cary Grant, Paul Newman and Clint Eastwood on-screen while gaining a reputation off-screen as one of the nicest actors around. 

So,  he attacked Cary Grant with a steel claw, pursued Joan Crawford with an ax, attempted to assassinate Gregory Peck, and kicked Jeff Bridges to death on camera, not in real life.