Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for May 17, 2014

We had a dog named Scooter when I was a kid. She was a Brittany spaniel.

Going up the hill is ok,. but coming down is awesome!

I went looking for GIF images of bouncing dogs. My “safe search” setting is set to modderate.The things, pairs of things, that poped up were mesmerizing.I lost the dog GIF I wanted to use…

not just a swinger, but a balancing genius!

Nice story. I heard it before but it is nice to hear again. Good advice.

OMG Bev! It worked!! Hope Stel likes it…now I gotta get the size down…

Love all you do and say!

Which reminds me, I’ll be taking 2old for a ride this afternoon…gives a whole new meaning to the “mother in law” seat…

God Bless Rose!

…..Horse……………………….Pucky………………

Today’s random rabbit.

Scooter is utterly buoyant today.

re:Miss Millie High Maintenance…I can say it but I cant outdo it….She is gorgeous!

the only 78’s I ever heard were my dad’s Hanks…Williams, Snow, Thompson etc…but this was pretty cool!

ear worm wont stop…Aint we crazy…aint we crazy….sheesh!yeah, I guess we are…

Miss Millie is feeling Peacockish…

man if you knew how crazy Stanley was you wouldnt even post this….lol…but he did have a great pond we all used to go skinny dipping in…Stanley Marsh was and is totally insane!

re Miss Millie…

dont you love those fiddles?….I can eat em up with two spoons!…great song…man, he knew my hometown and thats for sure!!

got the speakers cranked….

BEVIEK, your avatar is lovely, just makes me dizzy.But it doesn’t take much….

Sorry I haven’t been here much. Life has gotten hectic recently, and will be for a while.

Good Night Ballard Dears, I miss all the crazy antics here. I’ll try to get her more often.

re: Amarillo…the reason that strip was funny was because thats EXACTLY what the weather there is like…I can remember one day when it rained then turned into snow then back to rain with hail and then we had to rush to the storm cellar due to tornado’s being sighted…notice that tornado’s was plural…

@Essex60give a man a fish and he eats for that day…teach him to fish and he will be gone all the time!thats when we women can get our serious shopping done…

………………………………………………Ah! Horse Pucky!! Ahhhh ha ha ha ha ha……………

@ Annette, My pool and waterfall are nice, and I’ve enjoyed while living here for the last 16 years (since about when I turned 60). My new man (and most of my close SCA friends) live on the west side of town; he’s in Sun City and that community has many perks, including really nice pools (one totally indoors – better for me to swim without sun exposure) and I’m ready to let someone younger maintain a pool.

I’ve been advised I can get about double the 160 I paid for this house in current market, and I really don’t need my OWN pool (he has a nice in-ground hot tub that he’s re-piping now) and I will build a small waterfall (like the smaller one I had in IL- shown here early spring, before the lilacs leafed out.

Being “so far away” makes the friendship so much stronger.

This evenings random (kinda) rabbit.