It's the time of the year when I cancel the Internet for a couple of months. I just want to wish all of you a safe and wonderful summer. See you in the fall. I love you all and miss you already! Take care everyone, Gatorgal

A kitten. There is nothing more perfect on God's earth than a kitten. Puppies are close seconds.

Talking Heads

NOTHING!

Yes, I converted to the faith "I will not put my kids through all the crap I had to go through as a child". We discuss every religion and many branches within so they have some ideas when they they want dabble, try, decide.

I'm a huge Who fan. In 1993 I had to be the 3rd caller on a radio station when they played something by them. I was. I won a CD of "Tommy", a video of the movie and a 3 night 4 day trip to NYC to see it on Broadway! We stayed at the Hilton Towers overlooking Central Park. We had orchestra seats and it was fantastic. And since that was only 4 hours out of our stay we had all this time to play in one of the greatest cities in the world. What a wonderful trip. And so many different agencies donated, nothing put us over the mark and we didn't have to pay any taxes on it. This is my only winning, but it was perfect.

The 1960's. In that decade the Civil Rights emerged, the questioning of an unjust war emerged, the questioning of male/female roles emerged. Plus there was the greatest music ever made in modern times. And you young ladies today, you can thank the brief clothes you wear to all those midriffs that daring young women wore then. We have a lot to thank them for.

Grilled cheese and tomato soup

NOTHING where I live. All the takeout food is nasty here. If the liquor stores did drive up or delivery, I might consider takeout.

Can I use my native tongue? The F bomb is always great.

"Oy veh"

Eh? It's Canadian.

"I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength, and I stand and watch until at last she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says, 'There she goes!'

Gone where? Gone from my sight...that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of destination. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says, 'There she goes!' there are other eyes watching her coming and their voices ready to take up the glad shouts 'Here she comes!'"

I hate some of my neighbors. Most of us have 1 garbage can and 5 recycling buckets. They always have 3 huge cans of trash and 1 measly recycling bucket. Plus they put all their beer cans and wine bottles in the trash to hide them. As if we didn't know how much they drink. The rest of us gloriously display our beer cans and wine bottles along with the milk and orange juice cartons.

My first was around the corner from Fenway Park. Second was 1/2 block from where the Boston Marathon runs. Now I live in Boringland but thankfully I can follow it all on TV. Obviously I hate where I live now. I would give the Marathon area an 8, and Fenway a 6.5. What's it like elsewhere?

As with all of you, I salute the living and mourn the dead. I wore a POW/MIA bracelet for long after the Viet Nam War. I finally took it off in the '80's. I've kept it all these years. My daughter had to pick a vet last fall to write about and she chose him. He is listed on the Wall and his family has a website about him and his joy of living before he went missing in Cambodia in 1968. He is the one I am thinking about the most today, along with his family.

As opposed to polygamy, yes. Otherwise, my opinion, it is up to each person about how comfortable he or she feels.

Freak and Luncie,  can I come home?




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I have had this dream most of my life.  I am running through the White House to let JFK  know that people are going to kill him.  He sits in his rocking chair and laughs at me.  I get so frustrated and can't get the words out.  And then it happens.  My daughter interprits this as the hopelessness everyone felt when he died because there was nothing they could've done to stop JFK from being assassinated.

A man once played well in Boston
He went to California not Austin
As he he swallowed his drug
MLB pulled out his rug
He said, Damn this gonna be costin'

This is for you, Manny.