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TREPIDATION

 

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THE FRIDAY FUNNIES

Hello again, fellow sufferers.

I was thinking how to do the funnies today and I thought maybe I'd just put up a list of the new job nominees in Washington.

But then I thought, "Yeah, it's a clown car but if they actually get confirmed . . . ."

So I'm just gonna kick off this week's edition of the Cartoon Carnival with this.

As always, the Trekkies have the penultimate words.

And the head-scratching, eye-rolling, pain-groaning reactions.

So, Gentle Readers, now that I've brightened your day, keep grinning and carry it on and into and through a Spectacular Weekend.

And always keep laughing!

Here, kitty-kitty . . .

( . . . uh, oh, I sense danger ahead . . . )

RANDOM PHOTOS

These have nothing at all to do with each other but since I have posted pretty infrequently this week, I thought I'd show you what's been entertaining me.

Yesterday as I sat in the lobby of our cardiologist's office waiting for my wife to finish her appointment, I was struck by a reflection in the huge windows looking out over Prescott.

It's that rectangular loop with the circular spots over it.

To my mind it suddenly looked like an invasion from Mars.

You know, UFO's and all that tommyrot.

I believe it's just lights over my head but . . .

Then there's my longtime friend and long-ago colleague, Ron Talley.

That's not his real last name, by the way, but it's how he was known when we worked together in television news in Phoenix.

He's been spending a few weeks in Spain and he wrote that years ago when he was in Morocco he bought a fez in Fez.

Currently since he needed a haircut, he visited a barber in Seville.

His wife recorded the event for posterity.

MY wife said "Even with all that white hair, he's a handsome guy!"

A few minutes ago I spotted my candidate for a handsome guy.

For any herpetophobiacs* out there, let me quickly tell you that he is NOT inside the house.

He's crawled up between the screen and the glass window.

SWMBO, who as you know has knowledge of everything, said "He's looking for a warm place to spend the winter!"

Judging by the look of his mid-section, I'd say he's been stocking up for the winter too!

So there's a window into my little world.

--- *herpetophobiac is someone with a fear of lizards, snakes and other reptiles.

VETERANS DAY

I've posted these photos here before but I wanted you to have another look, or perhaps a new look, at them.

Our grandson, Russell "Rusty" Milburn, with his wife, Kayla.

He served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.

This is my uncle, Zenas Howland Taylor, headed home from his service in Burma and India during World War Two.

He was my father's brother.

Another uncle, my mother's brother, Conrad "Connie" Hylland also served in World War Two, but in the Pacific.

Unfortunately I don't have a photo of him.

He was one of the unfortunate ones who didn't make it back.

So this is in remembrance of him.

Three sergeants.

On this day, and every day, let's remember them and all the others who served for their country.