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@edgarblythe,

Paper mache is a good and easy way to create shapes for your horse.

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@cicerone imposter,

Been checking into that and chicken wire. Does anybody know what a horse looks like?

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@edgarblythe,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XcKBmdfpWs

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@edgarblythe,

Plenty of pictures on the net.

http://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/of%20horses.html

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@cicerone imposter,

I have a few dramatic illustrations of the Headless Horsemen to draw on, CI. Razz

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@edgarblythe,

edgarblythe wrote:

The moringas are undergoing their first (semi) cold weather test. They prefer it be at least 70 degrees and the high today will be mid sixties. Way I see it, if they can't take our mild winters I will do without them.

That would be a shame if they don't survive, as you've put a lot of work into them up to now. You obviously take a lot of pride growing them.

Is it not possible that they can rejunvenate themselves after a bit of cold weather?

edgarblythe wrote:

The Mentalist took a trip last night. Thinking he was fixing an ordinary cup of tea, he ingested a drug, which made him chase a rabbit, much like Alice, through a door and into a garden. The garden would have fit very well into Lewis Carroll's novel. There, he met a girl, who proved to be his murdered daughter, not Alice. At show's end he wanted so badly to re-conjure the illusion he was sipping more of the tea. I was near to tears a few times.

My wife and I saw that episode, and while that scene was quite touching, we felt the overall show was quite lacking in real substance.

And, again, there was mention of Red John. I really think the show does itself a disservice by the frequent return to that storyline. It started out as a good fresh series, but now it's tending to be stale.

Do you agree at all? I know you've mentioned from time to time that there are some shows you don't like.

Ed, if you are able to receive it, the Vegas show is quite good, with Dennis Quaid.

http://www.rickey.org/vegas-series-premiere-recap-and-review/

You might enjoy it. Do you know it?

edgarblythe wrote:

Does anybody know what a horse looks like?

http://www.turanianhorse.org/images/horse2.jpg

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I wrote about the first episode of Vegas. I noted Quaid's grim face in every scene. I noticed last episode he almost cracked a smile a couple of times. It is good so far. Let's see if it develops into a really good show.
The Mentalist is one of only a few shows I watch every week. I don't consider the Red John story line detrimental to the program. In fact, it supplies the whole rationale for the series. When I complain it is because the writers have let us down in a number of episodes.

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Oh, the moringas. I read on one web site that in our kind of weather, they could lose their leaves, but revive in the spring.

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@edgarblythe,

Sounds like all will be okay then?

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@Reyn,

I be hopeful. edgarhopefulblythe

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Today is Sam's birthday. Number 68. He always said he was one year younger, but he could never fool this brother.

The Jets were especially tough last night. If they had any consistency they could win some games.

There is a poll this morning, affirming that non religious belief in the US is growing. It asserts that non believers are overwhelmingly Democrats. Just in time for the election. Over the past twenty years, I have met no more than half a dozen persons who disavow any religious belief. If the fundamentalists would settle down it would be a non issue.

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@edgarblythe,

The slowness of this conversion to "no belief" is too slow to have any influence on our politics.

Look at all the "nuts" who believes a fetus at conception is a person with the belief that all human life is precious. But they have no interest whatsoever about the cost of having a baby, and after any baby is born It's precious only when they want to voice their ignorant opinion about "life."

How many of these "nuts" have ever paid the tab for that baby's costs to live?

From WebMD.

Quote:

If you don't have health insurance, you should know that the average cost of prenatal care is about $2,000, if you're paying out of pocket.

And that's only the beginning. The cost to feed, clothes, and educate a child runs in the hundreds of thousands during its lifetime.

How many of those pro-lifers ever helped with any of these costs? I would guess "none." Aren't they the same people who wants to end ObamaCare?

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@cicerone imposter,

What about all the other forms of life which cost money to maintain?

Was the potential cost not known about at the time of the conception and only became apparent when the deed was done?

What a pathetic excuse.

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@spendius,

Veblen wrote--

Quote:

The notion of a legitimate trend in a course of events
is an extra evolutionary preconception, and lies outside the
scope of an inquiry into the causal sequence in any process. The
evolutionary point of view, therefore, leaves no place for a
formulation of natural laws in terms of definitive normality,
whether in economics or in any other branch of inquiry.

And you think you are an evolutionist and a spokesperson for science?

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I spread rye grass seeds yesterday. Going to try to finish the paint project today.

Went to newly opened Petco store yesterday. It is less than half the size of the Petsmart I go to. I didn't feel comfortable in there. Punky says to keep our business transactions with Petsmart and I am inclined to agree.

The Catcher in the Rye has picked up some, enough that I will continue reading. I think there is a disconnect between my thought processes and the author's. I did not like Franny and Zooey.

Vegas was fairly entertaining last night. I think the show needs to give Dennis Quaid's character a life, outside of punching thugs and clearing crimes. I like that he always appears in control and nobody in the stories has managed to subdue or humiliate him. I get tired of shows that allow heroic characters to get kicked around ninety percent of the time and then come through at the final second.

Thumbed through Fifty Shades of Grey a few days back. It is everything the critics said it was. And I had been wishing to find a pleasant surprise - As I said before, I don't believe in book burnings. But, I don't have to read them all, either.

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@edgarblythe,

edgarblythe wrote:

I spread rye grass seeds yesterday. Going to try to finish the paint project today.

Did you find a catcher yet?

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@Ragman,

These seeds are, in my opinion, totally unnecessary. But, the boss says they are necessary. Hey, boss ain't always right, but them seeds are on the ground and got watered once already. Make work for the ground crew.

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I agree with snood that Romney's popularity deserves to be in the single digits. On the other hand, I found it impossible to believe people would vote in, in succession, GW Bush, first as Texas governor, second and third as US president. There is no explaining the fundamentalist mindset that pushes these people to the forefront. In American politics fundamentalism is a force that surges and recedes, but never subsides.

Writing I admire is not always by writers with tales or points of view I care about. Capote, Maugham, O Henry - Maugham in particular caused me much reading I ultimately dismissed, in substance, after enjoying the style.

The VP debate, on TV tonight, will be interesting. Ryan with his pointed words and Biden with his rambling style that takes two minutes to state what could be pared down to a few sentences. I am curious to see if Ryan flip flops the way Romney did.

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@edgarblythe,

(Catcher in the Rye)

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@edgarblythe,

edgarblythe wrote:

Vegas was fairly entertaining last night. I think the show needs to give Dennis Quaid's character a life, outside of punching thugs and clearing crimes. I like that he always appears in control and nobody in the stories has managed to subdue or humiliate him. I get tired of shows that allow heroic characters to get kicked around ninety percent of the time and then come through at the final second.

Yup, I thought it was quite good.

Here's the real life Sheriff Ralph Lamb (2 pages):

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/19/nation/la-na-vegas-sheriff-20120720

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