Oh, oh! raising hand. Kin i talk about Christmas trees? Is it true there are three schools of thought on the subject? Natural tree, artificial tree and bah humbug? No doubt there are many pros and cons for each type and situation. Our is to go natural. Not to the extent of chopping down some Sasquatch tree house, we go across the river to Patty's Nursery where they stand side by side by the hundreds. Every year we come back with a Noble Fir in the red pickup. These famous trees in this area grow on mountain side farms in Oregon. Possibly why the Oregon Trail went there? Mentioned in Christmas movies as "A Noble Fir, the Noblest of Firs, Fir sure". More work than artificial, but they smell good. The people that go for artificial think they are cheaper in the long run. True. But those same people always complain that when they put the tree sections together the next year, the middle section lights don't work. Hard-wired, only an electrical engineer could repair it. After a sweating six hours by the husband, they go out and buy another artificial tree. Can't even get artificial tree insurance, ya know? A bah humbug guy lives next door. No lights, no tree, no wife, but a faithful dog. We have over 5000 lights on and around our split level. He is the type you see on TV. If he had any lights, they would be an arrow pointing to us saying 'DITTO'. Thank you for the opportunity to opine. It was fun. Better than the tale of Diddy and the Great Railroad Chase or Taylor Swift vs the Kansas City Chiefs.
Always vastly preferred the natural trees growing up then something happened. You have to water it everyday and pine needles in the rug but that's OK. The aroma, sitting there in the dark watching the ornaments twinkle from the lights. Then we had a cat named Herbie. He was a real outdoor cat a good ratter. Had the tree in the living room and one day Herbie thought he was in the forest climbed all the way up the tree and everything came crashing down. Fake trees ever since. Not the same.
Saw on the local news that Amazon is now offering Hyundai cars and even houses. I'm kind of assuming that the large car size drones over NY that GeeeeZ wanst to shoot down may be Hyundais by famous Amazon drone delivery. Xmas trees - never had one get knocked over, 3 cats and 3 kids. Solid big three legged stand put on by Patty's nursery. They had a shop dog. Huge Bernedoodle, has her own couch, named Posie and is fond of kids. Got our cat a new house for Zmas - large plush house with ears and a tail. He went in an fell asleep. They should make some for humans.
Went to my favorite cigar store after work today to pick up a 4-pack of Romeo and Julieta cigars and some fresh pipe tobacco. They have a nice and varied pipe assortment behind a glass case. Price range $100-$150. I'm more on a Dr. Grabow type budget.
Will they be raiding the neighborhood bodega? Better have your green card. What's with Syria - Assad and minions gone to Russia and Netanyahu sending bombing missions over. Why do they call it the Holy Land?
Talk about what you like. OK. Sitting in my study, adding a bit of CB to what was left in my coffee cup, I looked over at the library and spotted "The Pipe Book" between the biography of George C. Marshall and the History of WWII. Thinking the old book might not be on the shelf of the Yonkers library, i reached over to scan through for any interesting thing about pipes. Old book, written in the late 1920s, much on pipe objects found in Indian graves, the relation between tobacco and hemp etc. Cigars seemed to be present amont the Mound People as well. As it passed to the Europeans, we learn they prefer thin bowls and Americans prefer thick bowls. The first pipes were of cherry wood, smoked hot, didn't cake well. Then the meerschaum appeared circa 1800s. Smoked good, quite fragile. Had a couple myself back in the day. Some guy from France was visiting Napoleon's grave on the Island of Corsica and discovered farmers there carving things out of briar root. Rosary beads and pipes (holy coincidence) circa 1824. The stems were of wood and didn't last long. Back in the US the 'Missouri Meerschaum was a hit. Corncobe pipe. Had a couple, smoked hot, but with my old army hat and sunglasses I cut a General MacArthur figure. The stem problem continued until the late 1930s when they discovered lucite plastic. Elsewhere I read that one complaint about the Dr. Grabow is the stems wear out rather quickly. Heck I got several pipes over 25 years old still working. I like talking about what I like. Puff
Very interesting. Passed away at the ripe old age of 97. A physician approved pipe invented by a physician. Wouldn't fly today. Would probably be drummed out of the medical profession.
As near as I can tell, the med profession is confused. Many lump it with chain smoking cigarettes, others know you don't inhale. Been smoking a pipe for 66 years and still have clear lungs on my x-rays. Fortunately, the don't do the breathalyzer down at the clinic. Had some trouble with their eye test. Chart down the hall. Ever try to pornounce ESGPUFA?
My go to is acetaminophen - cheaper version of Tylenol. When it comes to pain killers, it's almost as good as Christian Brothers. Saw my doctor back in the day at a Burger King, but never ran into one at the liquor store. When I had my physical in 1978 for work in explosives, the old guy was a chain smoker, yellow fingers and smelled like an ashtray. Cigarettes have fallen from favor since the days in WWII, where the Catholic chaplin lit a cigarette, put in the dying sailor and gave him last rites. Never cared for cigarettes myself. Waste of tobacco. (I'm stocked for awhile, 3 1/2 cans of PA.)
RFKJr's lawyer wants to ban vaccines for Hepatitis A and B, Polio, Tetanus, Mumps, Measles and Whooping cough. I wonder if that bunch missed the Sanity vaccine?
Even though everything I know about the man says he's against vaccines RFK Jr. keeps insisting he's not against vaccines. I just stepped on a rusty nail where do I go for my tetanus shot?
His interview with the Senate sounds fascinating - "On April 15, 1994, Richardson married Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the brother of her close friend Kerry Kennedy, aboard a research vessel on the Hudson River. They had four children: Conor, Kyra, Aidan, and William. During their marriage, Kennedy was widely regarded as a serial philanderer and was known among his friends for sending explicit nude photos of women that they presumed he had taken, according to Vanity Fair. The highly-publicized allegations of sexual assault against Kennedy by the family's then-babysitter, Eliza Cooney, allegedly took place during this period. On May 12, 2010, Kennedy filed for divorce from Richardson. Three days later, she was arrested and charged with driving under the influence. A court ordered that full temporary custody of her children be granted to her estranged husband. On May 16, 2012, Richardson was found dead at her home in Bedford, New York. Her death was ruled a suicide by hanging. An autopsy revealed that she had antidepressants in her blood. Before her death, Richardson had discovered Kennedy's personal journal from 2001, in which he recorded sexual encounters with 37 different women. According to Kennedy, Richardson passed the journal along "to her sisters with instructions that, if anything happened to her, it should be] published in the press". Holy Confirmation, Bat Man!
Before Trump nominated these people didn't he know about all their Samsonite baggage? Everyone might have a skeleton in their closet but not a whole boneyard. How'd he get that many women into bed with him a nice candlelight roadkill dinner first?
Wouldn't have a beer with RFKJr. "What's that smell?" "Fresh hot milk from a Holstein with mastitis" and then run off with my Mrs. Where did they even find him?
Oh, oh! raising hand. Kin i talk about Christmas trees? Is it true there are three schools of thought on the subject? Natural tree, artificial tree and bah humbug? No doubt there are many pros and cons for each type and situation. Our is to go natural. Not to the extent of chopping down some Sasquatch tree house, we go across the river to Patty's Nursery where they stand side by side by the hundreds.
ReplyDeleteEvery year we come back with a Noble Fir in the red pickup. These famous trees in this area grow on mountain side farms in Oregon.
Possibly why the Oregon Trail went there? Mentioned in Christmas movies as "A Noble Fir, the Noblest of Firs, Fir sure". More work than artificial, but they smell good. The people that go for artificial
think they are cheaper in the long run. True. But those same people
always complain that when they put the tree sections together the next year, the middle section lights don't work. Hard-wired, only an electrical engineer could repair it. After a sweating six hours by the husband, they go out and buy another artificial tree. Can't even get
artificial tree insurance, ya know? A bah humbug guy lives next door.
No lights, no tree, no wife, but a faithful dog. We have over 5000 lights on and around our split level. He is the type you see on TV. If he had any lights, they would be an arrow pointing to us saying 'DITTO'. Thank you for the opportunity to opine. It was fun. Better than the tale of Diddy and the Great Railroad Chase or Taylor Swift vs the Kansas City Chiefs.
Always vastly preferred the natural trees growing up then something happened. You have to water it everyday and pine needles in the rug but that's OK. The aroma, sitting there in the dark watching the ornaments twinkle from the lights. Then we had a cat named Herbie. He was a real outdoor cat a good ratter. Had the tree in the living room and one day Herbie thought he was in the forest climbed all the way up the tree and everything came crashing down. Fake trees ever since. Not the same.
ReplyDeleteHerbie was a lumberjack.
DeleteOne day Herbie was in the neighbor's backyard and the blue Jays we're dive-bombing him. Ran back in the house.
DeleteSaw on the local news that Amazon is now offering Hyundai cars and even houses. I'm kind of assuming that the large car size drones over NY that GeeeeZ wanst to shoot down may be Hyundais by famous Amazon drone delivery. Xmas trees - never had one get knocked over, 3 cats and 3 kids. Solid big three legged stand put on by Patty's nursery. They had a shop dog. Huge Bernedoodle, has her
ReplyDeleteown couch, named Posie and is fond of kids. Got our cat a new house for Zmas - large plush house with ears and a tail. He went in an fell asleep. They should make some for humans.
Went to my favorite cigar store after work today to pick up a 4-pack of Romeo and Julieta cigars and some fresh pipe tobacco. They have a nice and varied pipe assortment behind a glass case. Price range $100-$150. I'm more on a Dr. Grabow type budget.
ReplyDeleteGot an expensive cat condo at Pet Smart. Hardly anyone uses it. Maybe I'll use it. Cat prefers the cardboard box on the porch. Go figure.
ReplyDeleteWill they be raiding the neighborhood bodega? Better have your green card. What's with Syria - Assad and minions gone to Russia and Netanyahu sending bombing missions over. Why do they call it the Holy Land?
ReplyDeleteApparently Obama holds some sort of record for deportations. Biden even deported more than Trump in his first term. Go figure.
DeleteKind of picky, but that's ferals for ya.
ReplyDeleteTalk about what you like. OK. Sitting in my study, adding a bit of CB to what was left in my coffee cup, I looked over at the library and spotted "The Pipe Book" between the biography of George C. Marshall and the History of WWII. Thinking the old book might not be on the shelf of the Yonkers library, i reached over to scan through for any interesting thing about pipes. Old book, written in the late
ReplyDelete1920s, much on pipe objects found in Indian graves, the relation between tobacco and hemp etc. Cigars seemed to be present amont the Mound People as well. As it passed to the Europeans, we learn they prefer thin bowls and Americans prefer thick bowls. The first pipes were of cherry wood, smoked hot, didn't cake well. Then the meerschaum appeared circa 1800s. Smoked good, quite fragile.
Had a couple myself back in the day. Some guy from France was visiting Napoleon's grave on the Island of Corsica and discovered farmers there carving things out of briar root. Rosary beads and pipes (holy coincidence) circa 1824. The stems were of wood and didn't last long. Back in the US the 'Missouri Meerschaum was a hit.
Corncobe pipe. Had a couple, smoked hot, but with my old army hat and sunglasses I cut a General MacArthur figure. The stem problem continued until the late 1930s when they discovered lucite plastic.
Elsewhere I read that one complaint about the Dr. Grabow is the stems wear out rather quickly. Heck I got several pipes over 25 years old still working. I like talking about what I like. Puff
Was Grabow an actual doctor I wonder. What did he do? Any bios?
ReplyDeleteYep.
ReplyDeletehttps://pipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Dr._Grabow
You working guys don't have the time, but it's all out there somewhere.
Very interesting. Passed away at the ripe old age of 97. A physician approved pipe invented by a physician. Wouldn't fly today. Would probably be drummed out of the medical profession.
ReplyDeleteAs near as I can tell, the med profession is confused. Many lump it with chain smoking cigarettes, others know you don't inhale. Been smoking a pipe for 66 years and still have clear lungs on my x-rays.
ReplyDeleteFortunately, the don't do the breathalyzer down at the clinic. Had some trouble with their eye test. Chart down the hall. Ever try to pornounce ESGPUFA?
Wonder how many doctors drink. Eat pizza. Go to bbq's. Many push Tylenol over the other painkillers. Must have stock.
ReplyDeleteMy go to is acetaminophen - cheaper version of Tylenol. When it comes to pain killers, it's almost as good as Christian Brothers. Saw my doctor back in the day at a Burger King, but never ran into one at the liquor store. When I had my physical in 1978 for work in explosives, the old guy was a chain smoker, yellow fingers and smelled like an ashtray. Cigarettes have fallen from favor since the days in WWII, where the Catholic chaplin lit a cigarette, put in the dying sailor and gave him last rites. Never cared for cigarettes myself. Waste of tobacco. (I'm stocked for awhile, 3 1/2 cans of PA.)
ReplyDeleteRFKJr's lawyer wants to ban vaccines for Hepatitis A and B, Polio, Tetanus, Mumps, Measles and Whooping cough. I wonder if that bunch missed the Sanity vaccine?
ReplyDeleteEven though everything I know about the man says he's against vaccines RFK Jr. keeps insisting he's not against vaccines. I just stepped on a rusty nail where do I go for my tetanus shot?
ReplyDeleteAny other country in the civilized world.
DeleteHis interview with the Senate sounds fascinating -
ReplyDelete"On April 15, 1994, Richardson married Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the brother of her close friend Kerry Kennedy, aboard a research vessel on the Hudson River. They had four children: Conor, Kyra, Aidan, and William.
During their marriage, Kennedy was widely regarded as a serial philanderer and was known among his friends for sending explicit nude photos of women that they presumed he had taken, according to Vanity Fair. The highly-publicized allegations of sexual assault against Kennedy by the family's then-babysitter, Eliza Cooney, allegedly took place during this period. On May 12, 2010, Kennedy filed for divorce from Richardson. Three days later, she was arrested and charged with driving under the influence. A court ordered that full temporary custody of her children be granted to her estranged husband.
On May 16, 2012, Richardson was found dead at her home in Bedford, New York. Her death was ruled a suicide by hanging. An autopsy revealed that she had antidepressants in her blood. Before her death, Richardson had discovered Kennedy's personal journal from 2001, in which he recorded sexual encounters with 37 different women. According to Kennedy, Richardson passed the journal along "to her sisters with instructions that, if anything happened to her, it should be] published in the press".
Holy Confirmation, Bat Man!
Before Trump nominated these people didn't he know about all their Samsonite baggage? Everyone might have a skeleton in their closet but not a whole boneyard. How'd he get that many women into bed with him a nice candlelight roadkill dinner first?
ReplyDeleteNever worked for me!
ReplyDeleteHe ain't no Tom Selleck.
ReplyDeleteNo. Tom never had a brain worm + he can reverse your mortgage.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't have a beer with RFKJr. "What's that smell?" "Fresh hot milk
ReplyDeletefrom a Holstein with mastitis" and then run off with my Mrs. Where did they even find him?
He jumped on board the Trump train. He crashed MAGA and Trump was too polite to kick him off.
ReplyDeleteMaybe. But maybe he thought this guy can really ruin Health and Human services - you know drain the whatever?
ReplyDeleteIt's kind of an enigma.
ReplyDeleteWhen RFKjr comes to a fork in the road, he sits down and dines on roadkill - Yogi Bear.
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