THE FRIDAY FUNNIES

Can you believe it's the last day of January?

Can you believe it's Friday?

If you can, you know it's time for some titillation, some tintinnabulation, some tee-heeing.

It's time for The Friday Funnies!

Oh, stop, she said.

And he did!

That's it for this week.

Now trot out there and have a terrific, tempetuous, troublesomeless, therapeutic, tantalizing weekend!

And always remember to keep laughing!

Here, kitty-kitty . . .

MEMORIES

When we got ready to open a bookstore in Prescott Valley in 1996, Judy's son Scott came out from Indiana and built bookshelves for it.

He also built our front counter, which was quite fancy for a used bookstore.

When we closed the store in 2003 one of our good customers, Betty Comfort, bought the counter for the Dewey-Humboldt Public Library she was helping put together in the next community.

Judy told Scott about this and said she wanted to take him down there to see his handiwork.

He professed ignorance, or at least a faulty memory, about the counter but yesterday they made the journey about 15 miles down the road.

And Scott posed for his mother's camera in front of something he had built 24 years ago that is still in good use.

Betty Comfort is gone now but her charitable work is remembered in the library where one corner of it is designated "the Comfort Corner".

SIBLING RIVALRY

. . . or, "I told you not to touch my horse!"

SUNDAY BRUNCH

We joined the BRD and her visiting older brother Scott, as well as Beau Jack, for a mid-day meal and drinks at a Mexican restaurant.

Gayle and Scott, two artists in conversation

Beau Jack, aka Wild Bill Hickock

Keep it interesante

UH . . .

WHAT A HAM!

Before I got into commercial radio and television for a career I was a ham radio operator.

I got my first license with the call sign KØCND when I was 15 in North Dakota and held it for about 15 years before life events caused me to let it expire.  

Then years later I took the test and got another license with a different call sign.

I held that license for about another 15 years, making contact with other hams in over 100 countries around the world.

I operated with a provisional license and a call sign of XE1HFB when we lived in Mexico.

(I used phonetics of Half Full Bottle with that call sign.)

Back in Arizona again, I went with a local ham to the national convention of the American Radio Relay League in San Diego.

And then Judy and I opened our bookstore ten years later and before I knew it that license had expired.

I've never gotten back into the hobby as the Internet has taken over my life.

But you know me . .  I've still got the badges!

THE FRIDAY FUNNIES

Hiya folks the button man is back and . . . oh, wait a minute, he's taking a break today because it's time for THE FRIDAY FUNNIES!

All right, ladies and gents, that's about enough, perhaps more than enough, for this week.

Now have yourselves a wonderfully wild weekend and always remember to keep laughing!

Here, kitty-kitty . . .

(oh, dear . . )