StandardTime

¿¿¿ Where's the standard ???
¡¡¡ It's back'n'forth !!! 
Indiana eventually voted to SpringAhead, but never bargained for FallBack.  Russia has stuck with DST - they don't FallBack!
By the way, an overlap in the fabric of time is a parallel universe.
Deja vu all over again.

Urban assault

The dog motel aka Motel6:  I never make reservations, but I have reservations; irregardless I stay anyway - if not for Motel6, I couldn't go anywhere with Gus.

Meme~phis TN down-river Aug'13

Jones~boro AR over-the-river Apr'14

DayliteSavingsTime

¿¿¿ Where's the savings ???

For example, the gardner who liked DST cause it gave her flowers an extra hour of daylite.
One workplace referred to it as "advanced" time; SO, east-to-west timezones:  EAT, CAT, MAT & PAT ~ sounds like Dr.SeussTime.

By the way, a hole in the fabric of time allows for time~travel.

To be continued ... the 1st Sunday in November.

NewYears PRO~crastination

Resolution: to blurblog more/again;

Prediction: Google's spring cleaning will doom Blogger;

Google's continual flux can be difficult to adapt to; SO I expect to migrate to WordPress which has lots of bells&whisles to get use to.

Now, at least, both offer apps for mobile/smartfone.

Born on the 4th of July

Gus, the Brittany, 5 years-old
Gus says, "Dog park!"

100th annual-versary

In the early 50s, I don't think I was even 8 years old, my father took me to a coal mine.  We took his 1949 Plymouth coupe up Fairview Canyon to the top of Huntington Canyon.  The coal mine had a horse-drawn hopper; I was given a helmet & loaded in the hopper, then with my Dad beside the drover, we headed into the mine shaft.  At the end of the shaft were miners ready to load the hopper with coal from the mine face; while the drover hooked the horse up to the other end of the hopper.  My Dad & I had to walk back-out, up against the wall to avoid the hopper as it came back and forth. (Also there was a crew starting a side tunnel with a drill.)
We couldn't ride-out because at the mine opening, the horse with the drover behind would veer to the side after the drover had pulled a pin releasing the hopper straight-ahead to hit a bumper, dumping the coal into the top of a chute - a coal truck could then be loaded from the chute below.
I wonder about the hazards to the horse; for example, the pin not getting  pulled - a horse once spooked may never work in the mine again.

Addendum:   This blurb not a MyStory but my Dad's story ...  in coal towns like CastleGate, they raised canarys for use in the mines, but there were canarys that never sang - sometimes the canary in the coal mine did not die, it just never sang again.

James A. BELL

HapBday!-)

¿mini?banana ...

 ... "But yes, ... no bananas today" ... it stands 6 feet in its pot AND its spread is 6 feet in diameter (with another offshoot, too) ... it has taken-over the dining area (the dining table is in the front room).

Qashqā'ī

Davood gave me this vest ... the Qashqā'ī are nomadic tribesmen of the Zāgros mountains & Bushehr on the Persian Gulf. The vest seems to be an itchy wool; ought to have the distinctive Qashqā'ī "cap two ear" to go with it.

HapBday!-)

PutT PutT versus Daffy ...

I know Daf was used for 14 years, 258000 miles ... PutT has been ABused by others since '07 :-(
Daf has outlived his reliability ... PutT remains to be seen :-(

This is the car I wanted automobiles.honda.com/cr-z/ :-)

Addendum:  Then there is the car buying experience ... there was once a caricature of Nixon with the caption , "Would you buy a used car from this man?"  Yes, I would prefer Nixon over Honda which may have the best reliability, but the worst hard-sell, high-pressure dealers (likewise for dealerships owned by Carlock).  New or used, a saleman is just a front man for the "man behind the curtain".  TrueCar.com does new & Kelley Blue Book knows used, but what dealers offers up-front pricing with no fees?  

This blurb is not a MyStory but my UncleHu's story ...

Gran'maBelle had 5 young boys to feed ... she took their lunch to them at school. Since it was during the Depression, sometimes they would have potato sandwiches ... the other kids were envious 'cause the Bell boys were getting a hot lunch.

Times are not tough for me, but I made-up my own recipe for a hot potato sandwich - using either hash brown or mashed potatoes - shallow-fry a latka (potato pancake) with flour & egg to help hold it together, then serve on a yeast roll or muffin or thick slices of toasted sourdough or rye bread.  I'm sure Gran'ma Belle did what she could to fancify it for the boys, so I add cheese with either bacon or sausage, too ... bon appetit  ... 

The master bath (& bedroom) is mostly unused, I was weighing myself when I thought I ought to run water thru the drains to fill the traps since the toilet bowl was low (in the winter I antifreeze them), to my surprise there was a frog under the seat, like pictured above, but not as colorful. By the way, this bathroom's decor/theme is cutsy frog.

 I set him free, outside, where he may find his way back thru the sewer.  SO, what next ??? Snakes!

PostScript:  Urban tales tell of exotic snakes & alligators, but in this part of the country it's more likely to be snapping turtles.

Sproing

Wisteria

~Best in show~

Also the honeysuckle & Gus the magnolia made an effort to bloom; otherwise, it has been a "Silent Spring".

Six-Niner-Romeo

The soaring club's Schweizer training glider - in it I soloed and got my glider rating. In it I never soared with eagles, but flew ridge lift with hawks - even spooked  and "chased" a deer on the ridge top.   My last flight in 69R was a ride with a friend  - a quick aero-tow to the ridge & back seeking lift, but not a bump; however, upon landing we learned of the excitement - there had been a earthquake while we were up-in-the-air.  (Note:  the earthquake epicenter was just NNE of the airport where the powers-that-be later put Jordanelle dam & reservoir - no fault was going to stop them.)
 The soaring club also had a single-seat sailplane (Cherokee II RM) which tried to put the fear of flying in me. In a spin, a wing would suddenly drop, flip upside-down, then nose to ground, but neutralize controls and it would just as suddenly return to normal flight. Then there was once I went red-line airspeed in clear air turbulence - realization: I was more afraid of the parachute on my back (it simply served as the seat back cushion).

25th plus 10

Valentines Day 10 years ago was our 25th wedding anniversary. Previously Joelyn said she wanted to do something special for our 25th - celebration, vacation, etc.; I wasn't keen on the idea.
That Valentines Day morning, I took Joelyn to her regularly scheduled, on-going appointment with her oncologist who wasn't aware it was our anniversary. This was the day Dr Regina referred Joelyn to hospice ... mid-day hospice was at our house with a complete support system:  scheduling nursing & an aide and a hospital bed & oxygen was delivered. That day was special, all right; especially since I still cannot believe I was married for 25 years.

Happy Birthday annual-versary

Robert Nesta Marley

BlueAmberol.vs.Blu-ray

Edison Blue Amberol Record with the following on the rim: "1875. THE RUBE AND THE COUNTRY DOCTOR. HARLAN & STANLEY." & "PAT'D. 7". Produced in 1913, numbered 1875. ¿Time to update my record collection? I'm considering an 8-track in a '56 Studebaker Skyhawk.

Addendum: In Lehigh the neighborhood gang's only income was nickel bottle deposits. We would frequent the local dump. Once we found a cardboard box with about a dozen cylinder records, but a so-called adult talked us out of them except I was, "keeping one for myself!"

Daffy Bell

Pete, a neighborhood/high school friend, got this for me when he & his sister and his Mom went back to the Carolinas 'cause it reminded him of me.  The Daffy Bell on his chest is almost wiped-out.  Porcelain with a bead strung as a clacker - made in Japan - not Looney Tunes.

HapBday!-)

PostScript:  When Pete died, it was 4 years before I found out.

Ginger ale marble bottle

A.E.KEMP / GORE & Kilner Bros mark: KcB / 6933 and a cork ring inside.
Is this from New Zealand? But found in SW Wyoming!

Whatever

...the new spillway at Reelfoot Lake (the port at Cates Landing on the Mississippi River is another destruction site).  The current spillway, circa 1930, is also the bridge connecting Lake to Obion county and is under-destruction from traffic.

This past weekend was the annual traffic-jam (http://www.reelfootartsandcrafts.com/); craftier than artsy, but mostly peripheral flea-markets & lots of yard sales. This coming weekend is the waterfowl festival (http://www.reelfootwaterfowl.com/); lots of duck calls, but no duck come!

'Tis Fall judging by the farm equipment I encounter on the road. Corn is finishing-up then soy and cotton starting-up...streets are lined with cotton bolls especially as they converge on the gin.

Since the flooding in early May--some bugged-out never to return--seems like it's been even quieter around here; maybe it's those who couldn't afford a muffler before, can't afford gas now.

*Sparkle Brewed---

to the Altitude
That was Fisher Beer's jiggle.

I was having a Fisher with ALynn, a college friend, when I first noticed the mountain scene w/REFRESHING AS A MOUNTAIN SPRING on the bottom of his can as he was taking a sip. This is when Fisher Beer was brewed by Lucky; not long afterwards, it was undrinkable when it was made in Golden, CO.

HapBday!-)