Recent Comments

1. about 16 hours ago on Overboard

   Dumping burning embers and coals onto a wooden ship is not smart thinking.

2. 1 day ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   Sludgy swampy water can harbor a great many viruses, bacteria, mosquitoes, and other pathogens which you don’t want in your drinking water. And I doubt the English had been in quarantine for several months before making the trip.

3. 1 day ago on Pickles

   My favorite old sweatshirt began life as a Navy Blue “This Old House” sweatshirt from the late 1970’s to early 1980’s. The once pristine white stenciling now appears to have come from an inadequately inked silkscreen. The Navy Blue fabric is now more of a blue -Gray. The ends of the sleeves and bottom of the body are frayed, and there’s numerous holes from burning embers cast into the sky by 30 foot flames jumping from burn piles then returning Earthward. The elbows are pretty much gone, and there are snag holes from nails that cought the fabric and slowed gravity’s effect on me.

   Nonetheless, it’s my shirt. Anybody wanting to destroy it had best wait until I’m gone.

4. 5 days ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   I don’t think I believe that 27 pounds of yarn is enough to crochet a life size gorilla.I do believe Cinco de Mayo is only popular in the USA because of the Margaritas.

5. 5 days ago on Adam@Home

   After my dogs recognized “w-a-l-k” spelled out, we went to the word “claw” (walk spelled backwards), which they learned, and finally “c-l-a-w”, which they didn’t. One of my current dogs opens the front door, comes inside and barks to call the other 2, then, having gathered the troops, runs back out. He also talks, but I don’t speak fluent dog yet.

6. 6 days ago on Overboard

   Dandelions are early bloomers, providing pollen for bees at a time when there are few other pollen providers. Chemical herbicides are especially harmful to bees when nature is providing few alternatives. And remember that bees were imported to the Western Hemisphere at about the same time as Dandelions. Without bees, agriculture would be markedly different (weaker).

7. 7 days ago on Baldo

   There’s going to come a time when everyone is going to have to do one of two things: walk away from the process, or hold their nose and vote for the least objectionable. I’m not going to tell anyone who stinks the least though. I think it changes by the hour.

8. 7 days ago on Overboard

   My dogs (past and present) love carrots, and my guess is that most dogs do.

9. 7 days ago on Zack Hill

   Of all the things I have lost in life, I miss my b**t the most.

10. 9 days ago on Overboard

    Lyrics: April Come She Will, {c) Paul Simon

    “April, come she will

    When streams are ripe and swelled with rain

    May, she will stay

    Resting in my arms again

    June, she’ll change her tune

    In restless walks she’ll prowl the night

    July, she will fly

    And give no warning to her flight

    August, die she must

    The autumn winds blow chilly and cold

    September, I remember

    A love once new has now grown old”