There's a good chance you hallucinated this week without ever knowing it

Inverse ^ | October 11, 2019 | By Jack Barton on

[Tax-chick]

Speaking of drool, I finished reading a car book. I’ll box it up today and try to get it in the mail tomorrow.

[Monkey Face]

Well, the grandmother has her priorities right, and I’m sure she knew exactly what she was doing when she told him that.

As you probably already know, some kids need to be favored at certain times in their lives, and others need to be favored later. Or earlier. The point being, they all need to be favored just because they are who they are. And the favoring is different for each child.

And it is very kind of her for offering to help Tom.

[Monkey Face]

Oh goody!!! Thanks!!

[Tax-chick]

I meant “graduated from college a long time ago.”

Anyway, it was a kind thought ... and Tom will be proud to say he doesn’t need help!

[Monkey Face]

Sometimes, grandparents have a tendency to expect more out of children than they can or are willing to give. It doesn’t make any of it right or wrong.

Because I was pretty much forced out at 17, I never expected more of my children than what I saw that they could comfortably do. They both joined the military and all I could do was wait and see. Now, there are grandchildren and greats that I never or seldom see, so in some ways I’m still waiting for the final analysis.

Any mistakes I made in helping my children become who they are were made in ignorance because I didn’t know any better.

[Tax-chick]

I assume that everyone is doing the best they can with what they have to work with, in the absence of other information.

[no-to-illegals]

Will make a note of that date of 2024 April 8th May we one and all reach that date full of life ....

[no-to-illegals]

Thank you for the kind words regarding Better Half and me. May God protect US all during the coming years .....

[no-to-illegals]

HUGS

[Tax-chick]

You’re welcome.

[Silentgypsy]

Thank you.

[Monkey Face]

Backatcha!

[Monkey Face]

My mother got Diphtheria and survived because “I didn’t know I was supposed to die.” And my dad survived Typhoid. She had heart problems all her life, and he was deaf in one ear.

Typhoid killed off most of his immediate family, leaving only three sisters and him. The sisters were all left with varying degrees of deafness in both ears.

So COVID-19 isn’t the worst thing to hit this country, but it is the one that gets the most hype.

[Tax-chick]

You’re welcome. Free kittehs for all!

[Tax-chick]

COVID-19 isn’t the worst thing to hit this country, but it is the one that gets the most hype.

We are in an entirely new communications environment. Nothing in the past ... not a celebrity's breasts, not a disease, not a cute cat ... has ever been hyped the way any of them can be today.

[Monkey Face]

WOW!! Be still my heart!!! There is actual, REAL, bona fide SUNSHINE coming in my living room window!! *GASP* I think I’ve died and gone to heaven!

[Monkey Face]

And, yes, you’re right about the new communications environment. These days, the “news” flashes around the world as soon as it happens.

I think its a disservice to children, and I really do wish that journalists were as honorable and respectable as they were 50 or 60 years ago. Now one has to fight through the filters to find the real, honest news. Thank heaven for Free Republic!

[Tax-chick]

Congrats on the Sunbeam. It’s overcast here, a little dim. Jake decided to nap in the boys’ room.

[Monkey Face]

It’s shaping up to be a beautiful morning, but Admiral Fitzroy’s Storm glass saying more storms are coming. At any rate, I have the front door open about an inch so I can get some really fresh air in here. No breeze, either, for a change!

[Tax-chick]

I assigned exercise to some of the boys who were nagging me about computer games. DP went to Costco. I suppose, if we get a state-mandated lockdown, I’ll feel better about his compulsive shopping.