Best wishes to all the moms being remembered and celebrated today.
Sunday, May 9, 2021
Saturday, May 8, 2021
SATURDAY
A lazy Saturday and time for a new header photo.
It's the north shore of Waialua and the image was captured by someone from Portland, Oregon who goes by the name Sean O.
I don't have much else this morning.
No pictures of note.
My latest experiences in the kitchen have yielded Friday night pizza (frozen, from the supermarket, with a little doctoring) and an old-fashioned Tuna Noodle Casserole.
My family wasn't French-ified.
We called it a "hotdish".
At any rate I decided you didn't want to see either one of those so no photos exist.
Got a load of laundry going this morning, have to run to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription and with that I'll probably have worn myself out.
Just a typical Saturday.
Enjoy the header.
Friday, May 7, 2021
THE FRIDAY FUNNIES
But they're fixed now and we can resume our traditional travel away from our travails.
Yes, it's time for some HUMOR!
(That's HUMOUR to those of you who speak the King's English.)
Whatever.
Think about it.
Okay, while you're doing that, let me importune you all to have a remarkable weekend.
And always remember to keep laughing!
Here, kitty-kitty . .
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
THE HEAT IS ON
The nearest official thermometer is at the airport in Prescott, a few miles away and a couple of hundred feet higher than here in Prescott Valley.
It says the temperature at 4 p.m. as I'm writing this is clocking in at 83 degrees.
I was just talking to my neighbor and he said the thermometer measuring the outside temperature on his truck said it was 86.
But the real heat today came in around 100 miles to the south of us, at the airport in Phoenix.
But what the heck, the first day we hit the century mark this year happens to fall on Cinco de Mayo.
Not that we need it but what two better excuses to crack one of these . .
Monday, May 3, 2021
TENACITY
You have to give plants, and WEEDS, a lot of credit.
They can grow into trees sometimes through a crack in a sidewalk.
Nothing seems to stop them if they are left alone.
Kudzu came from nowhere and took over the southland of the United States.
Out where I live cacti grow in a land seemingly devoid of water.
Or tumbleweed.
Who can overlook tumbleweed?
Then there are these small, delicate white blossoms that crop up everywhere during the Spring of the year.
Sunday, May 2, 2021
Saturday, May 1, 2021
MAY DAY
There can now be no doubt - Spring is here.
I know that first by observing the temperatures rise into the 80's here the past couple of days but second and more important by May 1st arriving.
That is traditionally a holiday to celebrate another Spring season.
When I was a kid, we used to exchange May Baskets, usually containing small hard candies.
I understand adults sometimes gave baskets filled with flowers.
Some Socialists and Communists chose the date as International Workers' Day and held parades.
Now, in my senescent years, I might prefer to mark the day the way our neighbors' cat Matty did on our couch yesterday.
Friday, April 30, 2021
THE FRIDAY FUNNIES
If you thought *yesterday's* post was funny you probably also thought yesterday was Friday.
Ha!
Gotcha again!
Because, Gentle Readers and Humor Seekers, *today* is Friday.
I know this because the Comedy Cartel is calling to me, shrieking "let me out, let me out!"
And so I shall.
Now if you think this week's edition went to the dogs you might be right.
At any rate I hope you have a wonderful weekend, full of yucks, fine dining, some outside activities and don't forget to pet your puppy.
Oh and one other thing.
Always remember to keep laughing!
Here, kitty-kitty . . .
Thursday, April 29, 2021
THIS IS TROUBLE
One of my longtime friends, identified on this blog only as Timmer, is a recently-retired vice-president of a television station in Denver.
But many, many, many years ago, he and I worked together in his first job out of college, at a different television station in Phoenix.
Timmer was a photographer then and I was a reporter, both for the news side of the station.
Before my time in Phoenix, I had worked for a radio station in Indianapolis and there met Tommy Terrific.
Tom had a long and successful career in radio and television in that city before retiring some years ago to a coastal village in California where he created his own blog, Light Breezes.
There is a story that Timmer and I went to Kansas City to a Democratic mini-convention when the late Arizona Congressman Mo Udall was running for President.
Tom reportedly came from Indianapolis to cover the same convention.
The stories that have emanated about these three youngish men wreaking havoc there have never been confirmed by anyone of respectable reputation.
But the reports were enough to prompt She Who Must Be Obeyed to dub the three innocents The Terrible Trio when she saw this photo, taken in front of the vaunted palm tree in our Phoenix backyard.
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
HEADING EAST
When I was out this afternoon running some errands (masked) I found myself behind a vehicle with this statement in it's rear window:
Unmasked
Unmuzzled
Unvaccinated
Unafraid
I was having one of my imaginary conversations in my head, thinking I'll pull up alongside them and tell them I have another couple of U words for their sign:
Uninformed
Un-American
But you know, I don't like confrontations and those kind of people are usually armed so I just shook my head and let it go.
While I was out, I also encountered several rain showers and one sort of a hailstorm so I scurried home rather quickly.
This evening, some great sky shots in my neighborhood.
Monday, April 26, 2021
PINK
Pink sky at night - - a (???????) delight!
I couldn't find a finish for that bit of doggerel.
I know "Red sky at night, a sailor's delight" but nothing about a pink sky.
Actually I'm not sure that tonight's sky is actually going to be pink.
But the mighty Google tells me that there's a full moon scheduled tonight and it's known as a Pink Moon, named after phlox, the pink flowers that bloom in the Spring.
Well, regardless, a glance at our sky a bit ago told me that we probably won't see it anyway.
Sunday, April 25, 2021
HERE WE GO AGAIN
As the header says, Begin.
Begin another year though it's becoming more and more difficult.
But yesterday was a pretty good day.
We made only our second trip to a restaurant in over a year, this time to the Red Lobster for, of course, a lobster gorging.
Well, that's what I did, on the orders of my wife and, you know, I don't call her She Who Must Be Obeyed for nothing.
She, on the other hand, had Coconut Shrimp, an old favorite of hers there, and it was such an ample serving that she brought half of it home for dining today.
Along with two take-out bowls of Lobster Bisque.
I think after today we will have had our seafood fix for awhile.
Of course, there's always . . .
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Friday, April 23, 2021
THE FRIDAY FUNNIES
TGIF!
Thank God It's Franklin!
Oh, you don't get it?
See, while I'm known on here as Catalyst or Bruce or HWMOH (He Who Must Obey Her) . . my real first name is Franklin.
Not named after Benjamin or Delano Roosevelt but after my dad.
Who knows where he got his first name from?
But you didn't come here to read my family history, did you?
You came for these!