I Think

He's a song and dance man ed.

He writes songs for him to sing because there are not enough songs he fancies singing all that much. He likes to perform them too. They inspire him, he has said, when he sings them.

How do you interpret "spring" in the line "she was born in spring and I was born too late"?

Gee. That's a toughie, spendi. Why don't you ask what he means when he says, Me oh my love that country pie.

Belt broke in the car. I got it towed on my insurance, which covers for a hundred miles. Just to be helpful to the wrecker driver, I googled it at sixteen miles. But the dispatcher must have failed to tell him. After he disengaged the car from the wrecker, he said, "Did they tell you your coverage stops at eighteen miles?" "Hundred miles," I said. "Besides, I googled it at sixteen." He did some paperwork and drove away without another word.

Thinking about putting up a six foot chain link fence across the front. Local kids are breaking down the wire one to play with Rocky. I never see them at it, but the fence can't take a lot more of that.

Everybody knows what that means ed.

My point exactly.

Not really. The "spring" thing is a bit more difficult. And less flippant. He still sings STOF but I've not heard of CP. No Citypie though.

It is a big line. It's one of the keys to unlock the mystery.

It's a hopeless line unless it is poetic. Which it has to be. It is not the spring of March/April.

I read something on letty's radio thread that had me reflecting. None of my relatives have actually fought a war. Not that none wore uniforms. I recall my grandfather sent to Paris, in WWI, and some uncles sent to Korea, as the hostilities were ending. But, my grandfather didn't really fight. I served just before draftees were sent to Vietnam. My two oldest brothers were drafted during Vietnam, but neither left the country. We saw no action. I guess my family was not born to fight.

good timing

Last evening, a dog jumped the fence, to get into the yard. It was very friendly to Rocky, but, when I went to investigate, it barked at me. So, I coaxed Rocky into the house and waited for the other dog to go home. Before I could let Rocky out again, I used a flashlight and walked the fence. There were no holes, and the dog was gone. I need to put that six foot chain link fencing out there, for sure.

I have been reading a friend's book, but only sporadically. It is about his brother, who died from cancer. Tough reading, after I lost two brothers to that disease, recently. I saw a news article that stated that cancer, worldwide, is on the rise in a dramatic surge. It is what we are allowing business and industry to do to us, causing it. For we are not saying in strong enough numbers and language to cease and desist. They are the instruments, but we are the minds.

Not only will that not happen ed, but it can't. At least not in a democracy. We are THE cancer.

You should make it more obvious. Sarcastically speaking.

After all. You're only sixteen. Young minded. Not fully mature. Will probably never understand such a thing as difficult life some adults were, are forced to live. there being nothing they could had done to make it any better. And you most likely take me as a joke when comes to I mentioning anything. As a lot of others do. The fourteen year old may be available still.

Subway is taking the shoe rubber out of its bread recipe. I wonder why they thought we need it in the first place? Who makes up the recipes for big companies?

The thread about the statue of a man sleepwalking has imprinted that distasteful image on my brain, possibly permanently. I don't argue whether or not it is true art. That's not for me to decide. But, like whatsisname's The Scream, keep it away from me.

On a happier note, Rocky is gradually becoming less puppy and more manageable. I discovered there was a hole under the fence, after all, but Rocky did not take the opportunity to enlarge it to get out on the street. I have started putting my big garden rocks in all the holes and on potential digging spots.

Azocarbonamide...shoe rubber chemicals -- a bleaching agent in the flour...oh how nice. I'm glad I only had 2 sub sandwiches in last 12 months from them.

"A bleaching agent is used to help develop gluten and to make the flour white (flour is actually slightly yellow). It is also used to overall keep the form."

Maybe that stuff is the secret of how customers can lose weight.

I had better stop eating bread. I can't afford to lose any weight.

You mean to say that all your daily trip to the local pub hasn't put some weight on your skinny frame? LOL

I think there's something going on that I don't know about. again.

It is commonly said that dogs descended directly from wolves.
"The new results, published today (Jan. 16) in the journal PLOS Genetics, reveal that dogs do not hail from the same lineage as modern wolves — a big surprise, said Novembre, who was hoping to see evidence for either a single domestication or multiple domestication events, where, for example, the Australian dingo would be most related to the Asian wolf and the African basenji would be most related to the Middle Eastern wolf.

Instead, the dogs are all most closely related to each other. The pattern suggests that dogs arose from a now-extinct line of wolves, Novembre said. Later, early in domesticated doggie history, they interbred with still-wild wolves, causing a genetic snarl that frustrates dog genetics researchers to this day.