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Posted on 04/20/2006 2:10:46 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Jessie got the VIP treatment (for his type of VIP). Got to empty a minigun from a SOF humvee. Also got to play door gunner on a UH-60. They let him shoot up the brush along a river bank.
We don't have a grill at all. Sigh. Maybe my sisters would like to go in on a charcoal one for Father's Day or somethin'.
Pretty day here, not much on the schedule. Wish we had a pool, it's hot.
Just got off the phone with mom who was busy calling all the relatives who are vets and thanking them for their service. We watched the Memorial Day service on PBS last night and my heart was full of gratitude. It remains so this morning. Many thanks to those who have served and those who gave their lives.
Get a chimney starter...
Though...I'm still not sure how those would work for something really big. Would probably at least be good for a starter bed of coals.
My Dad decided it was high time they had a grill...so he bought Margaret one for her birthday early this month. ;-)
Oh well. She was happy!
Tricksy!
Heh...being Dad, he actually had her buy it, too. Said "You'd like a grill, wouldn't you? Go find the one you want, and I'll pay for it, within reason." And gave her the cash to buy it.
He doesn't like shopping. Heh. Guess I come by my dislike for crowded, noisy situations honestly.
So we're driving down at the end of the first week in June, will pick up the truck, then get David at the Atlanta airport. SirKit will go get the cargo trailer and head home with it while David and I drive the red van (Brego) down to the coast where he'll drop me off at my sister's, the kayaks off at SirKit's brother's rectory, then drive on home to Texas in his new (old) car. He's so excited to have wheels, he doesn't even care that it's a minivan!
Range Time is always a good thing...
Just finished watering, got the soaker hose on the rose of sharons today, yesterday it was on the daylilies, the rest of the gardens got hand watered. Got another canna coming up, asiatic lilies will be blooming soon.
There were about a dozen dogs at the dogpark today, all seemed to get along pretty good. Gypsygirl is slowly becoming a bit more socialized toward them, she doesn't mind them but doesn't encourage social interaction.
SirKit detests going out shopping, but will sit at the computer and shop for hours, if he's really looking for something in particular. We've gotten some good deals on stuff by his doing that. The truck we just bought is one case in point! He has found awesome stuff on ebay for fixing up the house. He even found a great deal on new furnaces, and saved enough so that we added A/C to both upstairs and downstairs furnaces for the same total amount as it would have been for someone locally to install just two furnaces.
He'll do most of the installation, and we'll have the licensed plumber come over and 'Bless' it so we can get the town's inspector to approve it. That's what we did with the new larger natural gas lines. He did all the work; the plumber just came in and did the connection to the actual gas line, then tightened everything. When the town plumbing inspector came by to check it out, he commented that the plumber had done a really good job running the lines. I just smiled and said, "That's great! I'll tell him you said that." ;o)
Homer would love a dog park, Gidget wouldn't... She's rather uninteresting in dog play. Unless it's on TV... Go figure.
Of course there are all the Biblical names and the more common names you get today. The girls' names are always stranger than the guys names, but here are some that I have in the ol' family tree:
Alden, Alon, Eulon, Elon, Isham, Melvin, Levi, Beauregard, Menoah (went by Noah), Lavender (went by Lav), Alvah, Leander, Emory, Flake, Mickleberry, oh yes and a couple of funny first and last combos like Sledge Hammer and Jack Hammer (brothers in the hill country of Texas). Forrest is another one (My dad was a Forrest Henry Jr. from Mississippi). Two good nicknames for Forrest are "Woody" and "Trees." Then Absolom, Ptolemy Philadelphius, Prentice, Lafayette, Clell, Drayton, Elmer, Elvis (my great grandfather had twin brothers named Ellis and Elvis in Mississippi), Alford, Felton, Columbus, Grover, Zebedee, Asa, Hollis, Bartholomew, Bartlet or Bartelott, Lemuel, Hilliard, Orman (I have a cousin named Orman - he goes by his middle name), Carroll, Greenberry, Anderson, Ashberry, Archibald "Archy", Ezekiel "Zeke", Charles Virgil, Farish, DeWitt Franklin, Francis Marion, Micajah, etc. My greatgrandfather's name was Osceola Johnson. He went by Oce until the 1940's when he changed is name to Otis Berry.
Anyway, you get the idea.
As for using last names as first names, it was *very* common in the South. So was having a president's name like Jefferson, Taylor, Madison, Washington, etc.
One name I found... Sherman Tecumseh (first and middle names) - NOT a southern name, but interesting nonetheless (I have no idea how this person got into my family tree. The vast majority of my family was in the TN, SC, NC, MS, and VA areas).
There's a drinking fountain for doggies, quite a line this morning. :-) It's apparent that there is a need to make the concrete pad bigger.. The parks department used plastic netting in the grass to hold the sod and seeding in place, starting to come up now and it won't be long before a dog gets tangled up in it.
Exciting! That's another step closer to your actual move, and that's awesome.
Cisco would *love* a dog park.
He's very busy right now...alternating between eating breakfast and running over between bites to give me dog food kisses. He's very happy, at least. He usually is. ;-)
Heh... the life of a moron :~D
Cool thank you! I want to pattern a character after a fella I met once. His name was Ashley and went by "Ash". I don't want to use that name per se because the character is going to have some major character flaws that the real person doesn't. Regardless, Ash would introduce himself with his full name, his full traditional southern name of Robert Ashley Somethinorother. He'd then say, "It's a family name. Just call me Ash."
Nice post, Ruthy, a nice mix of somber and silly cuteness :~D
Watching the president at Arlington now.... A little later we will be shoveling poo.
'Tis a good life! ;-)
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