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Rants & Raves 6.20

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Written by Kristin Chapman

June 20, 7:15 AM

Here it is, Rants! & Raves!, your weekly chance to sound off about the week past. Remember the rules:

1. A Rave! is something that happened during the past week that you’re pleased about and is signified by the word “Rave!” and/or an appropriately peppy emoticon.

2 A Rant! is something that happened during the past week that you’re ticked about and is signified by the word “Rant!” and/or an appropriately grumpy emoticon.

3. You may Rant! about something a person said, did or wrote, but you may not Rant! about generally disliking a person.

Have fun!

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BY montyfisherwoof 06.20.09 AT 7:28 AM

Took my first trapeze lesson. It felt great. It may be addiction at first swing.
Got a set of photos from the orphanage in Nigeria that I have supported. Wonderful kids!
Had one absolutely sinfully rich cheesecake this last week.
Made a very taciturn woman almost bust her sides laughing.
Played the new guitar at a youth bible study and three kids want to write some new songs if I will play them.
Overall a good week.
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BY Chas 06.20.09 AT 8:13 AM

Last night we got to see a pretty young livewire you know as Worthygirl. We also saw Godspell. KLasko says she was trying to picture us at Godspell. She has us figured. As I told Worthy, it isn’t our genre, but we enjoyed it; really did. I thought it was a church group presentation, but those people were pros. That talent didn’t come from a typical local church. They were good.
Worthy was a busy stage manager for the play.

Elvera paid the same price for orange juice as usual. Only, she says the 64oz half gallon is now a 59oz half gallon. They must have thought she wouldn’t notice. That’s almost an eight percent increase.
I just don’t like sneaky price increases, like adding ethanol to gasoline. I prefer they be honest about it.

, Tomorrow is the first day of summer, and today we will probably turn our air conditioner on the first time this year. They predict mid 90’s in the mountains today. It was warm yesterday, but we were in and out. My son keeps his AC on all the time. I have never done that, even in Virginia.
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BY Random Name 06.20.09 AT 8:40 AM

Aside from still being alive at the age of 65, I can think of anything to rave about this morning.

Well, there’s this. We had a good summer rain, so I don’t have to water the fruit trees in our garden this morning. And the Spitzenberg apple tree set a good crop of fruit. (This is a “heritage” apple that Thomas Jefferson grew. You won’t find this apple in your market. It is delicious and my wife tells me it is amazing for making pies with.

On the other hand, about the only thing I can think to rant about is that the bunnies started to show up on our property after staying away most of the spring. They’re rant is that I shoot at them with my pellet rifle. My rant is that with my cataracts it is hard for me to aim.

I have scheduled cataract surgery in July. I imagine as my eye surgeon starts to bring a blade down toward my eye, a group of bunnies will start to jeer, as when I played Little League baseball we would go, “Hey batter, batter! You can’t hit the side of a barn!”

What kind of cat call does a rabbit make to an eye surgeon when it wants his hand to slip as he takes a blade to my eye?
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BY Random Name 06.20.09 AT 8:41 AM

CAN’T think of anything to rave about. I can rant about my dyslexia.
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BY Chas 06.20.09 AT 9:06 AM

Random, I have a minor cataract problem, my dr. doesn’t want to fix it yet. I have asked around, and those who have had it done lately says that it is a “non event”. Cararact surgery used to be a major operation, where the head had to be restrained for a long while.
They tell me it has become a minor operation now.
Let us know how it turns out.
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BY kBells 06.20.09 AT 9:18 AM

My mom had cataract surgery. The main thing I remember about it was sitting with her in a room with a bunch of other people with X’s on their foreheads. This was so the Doctor would know which eye to operate on. So Random, make sure they mark the right eye…I mean the correct eye, unless it really is the right eye instead of the left eye.
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BY Random Name 06.20.09 AT 9:21 AM

Right.
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BY fisherman 06.20.09 AT 9:54 AM

I don’t have cataracts, but I do have other problems with my eyes and I empathise with your concerns Random. I hope the surgery goes very well with you and you are seeing well again very soon.
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BY Peter L 06.20.09 AT 9:57 AM

Digital TV. I can finally get PBS clearly and watch Masterpiece Theater.

Digital TV. When it rains, we get poor reception. At least with analog, we could see something, even if it was snowy. The sound still came through loud and clear. But with DTV, poor reception just goes blank- no picture of any kind and no sound. Wasn’t one reason of the delay was so we could hear about severe weather? What good is it if there is no signal during severe weather? And why not encourage people to turn on a radio at those times?
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BY Mark Roth 06.20.09 AT 10:12 AM

Good

Morning!
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BY Mark Roth 06.20.09 AT 11:01 AM

It’s 8:01 am here in Oregon.

I live in Oregon!
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BY klasko 06.20.09 AT 11:19 AM

Good Morning!

It’s raining (again) here in northern VA.

That means the dogs don’t like to go outside.

That means I have some carpet cleaning to do.

Got to meet and have coffee and lunch with Michelle yesterday. Had a great time.

People on WMB are actualy getting together in real life.

DH is away on a business trip.

I have too many “Honey Do’s” and not enough time for my own projects this time around.

:-) My daughter is coming up for a sleepover and we’re having Girl’s night in: Chick flicks, Chinese food and Chocolate!:-)
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BY mumsee 06.20.09 AT 11:21 AM

It is cold and rainy here, thought I might start a fire yesterday but went and sat in the hot tub instead. Until the lightning got going. I believe these are what used to be called the million dollar rains but now are probably the billion dollar rains. Getting the crops up and going.

We had a fun indoor day yesterday, lots of games for the kids and crossword puzzle pick up for me and evidently too much time on here.
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BY Chas 06.20.09 AT 11:22 AM

While at USC my granddaughter worked two summers as a counsellor at Camp LaVida, a Baptist girl’s camp near Winnsboro, just north of Columbia.

She is a RN now, and tomorrow goes back to Camp LaVida to be camp nurse for a week.
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BY Make it Man 06.20.09 AT 11:33 AM

urg.

Yardwork.

Sweating like a pig.

Getting amazingly dirty.

But the yard looks nice.

The wife loves it.

and me.

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BY Make it Man 06.20.09 AT 11:37 AM

Rant.

spam filter keeps blocking my home computer.

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BY Cheryl D. 06.20.09 AT 11:49 AM

As for cataract surgery, I have a neighbor who used to squint through his Coke-bottle glasses, and he recently had it done. He said the doctor said he’s the worst case he’s ever done, nearly blind. But it was successful. Then he had lasix done, and this formerly blind guy now wears only reading glasses.

God is good.

A little bit at a time, income is coming in.

I’m learning to trust God. He must really think I’m a hard case.

I’m having a hard time being motivated for housework.

My brother just got word that the treatment he and his wife were hoping might possibly cure her cancer won’t (it seemed quite unlikely to me that it would, but she’s actually getting better each week right now, except for one nagging progressive symptom). The doctor who has done it for ten years told him no, it won’t beat the cancer, but it just helps people feel better.
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BY Karen O 06.20.09 AT 1:01 PM

– My beloved hubby is depressed by a downturn in business. He puts the bread in the stores, then a few days later takes much of it back again. Has a “what’s the point?” kind of feeling.

– He still has a good job, though!

– We thought my mom only had a few months left, but she was told this week that she may still have up to a year or 2. She decided to give up on giving up (it wasn’t working – she’s still alive) & start to try to live again.
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BY Karen O 06.20.09 AT 1:05 PM

Kbells – Funny about the Xs, but a good idea.

When my dad was about to go into surgery to have his right arm amputated due to cancer, he made a point of making sure they knew which arm to take.

Good thing he did. They had written down to take the left arm.
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BY donna j 06.20.09 AT 1:12 PM

It’s Saturday.

We haven’t had rain in ages, so we’re now on water rationing (we can only water between certain times on certain days) and will be charged dearly if we don’t cut individual water usage by 15%. Consequently, everyone’s lawn is beginning to look (almost) as bad as mine. I don’t feel so alone now.

It’s overcast this morning but we’re supposed to get higher temperatures this week as well, into the 90s perhaps. No a/c at my house, the theory was since we’re coastal we never need it. But we do (or maybe we’ve all just gotten soft and used to it in today’s world).

I’m also learning to trust God in what has been a rather tight month when it comes to bills (some extras lately) and seeing how there’s always just enough.

Lots of people to pray for right now who are facing tough times, including my neighbor whose husband goes in for surgery Monday for an aortic aneurysm; a friend and the wife of one of our pastors facing breast cancer surgery (it was caught very, very early, they can do a lumpectomy); and a co-worker who sits next to me & appears to be struggling with some serious personal anxieties and phobias, including one that has caused her to quit driving.

I’d was sharing the gospel with her several years ago as we’d struck up an email friendship on weekends, she seemed interested & even visited my church with me once (her background is christian science). But then she seemed to back off, so I did as well. And I haven’t kept up with her as I should have, I’m afraid, so now suddenly I’m aware that she’s in a bit of a personal mess that I’ve been only vaguely aware of. Praying for a way “in” again to re-establish more of at least a casual friendship.

Eye surgery these days is an amazing thing — I’ve known many people who have had the cataract surgery, it’s really quite routine. Lasik is absolutely amazing and it’s something I’d definitely consider myself someday since I have to wear either contacts or glasses full time now.

It’s just so complicated anymore to get an accurate prescription for me, not to mention expensive (even with insurance) to buy the progressive lenses for eyeglasses + contact lenses every year or two. My doctor says I would be a good candidate for the surgery, but he also said there’s no harm in waiting as the technology continues to improve so much. Someday……..
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BY Random Name 06.20.09 AT 1:14 PM

Fisherman, thank you. (And to anyone I might have missed.)

I will try to check that they have an “x” over the correct eye, but I might get a strain in my eye stalks trying to check.
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BY Ivan the Terrible 06.20.09 AT 2:41 PM

Grand Children
US Open golf
;-( The sauna that was Orlando this past week
Glad to be back in dry AZ
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BY Ivan the Terrible 06.20.09 AT 2:42 PM

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BY montyfisherwoof 06.20.09 AT 3:45 PM

Just came in from checking the orchard. Looks like the man I hired to look after it is doing his job. And the house has been well kept. SO I am going to kick back and enjoy the view and catch up on some book reading and letter writing.
#9 Peter L, DTV is a mixed bag. You can get a ‘no signal’ if the signal is too weak and also if the signal is too strong. I encourage you to ‘fiddle around’ with your antenna.
Years ago I put satellite dishes on all of my properties. And I invested time in fiddling around with antennas signal boosters and the like. It’s a lot of fun even though the amount of time that I watch tv is small.
For emergencies I always keep a small radio on low volume in one of the rooms. When I hear an emergency signal I turn it up. As an amateur radio operator I have several Ham radios for the real emergencies.
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BY mumsee 06.20.09 AT 3:49 PM

Just came in from pulling two ticks off the fourth son. He is now Deeted. Not our Deet, of course. The kind that is supposed to help with ticks and mosquitoes.
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BY montyfisherwoof 06.20.09 AT 4:20 PM

#18, Donna J,
Water rationing always sucks. I assume that you are in Southern California which means that your water shortage is artificial. Which also sucks. (A judge decreed it. Google “Oliver Wanger” or “Delta Smelt” )
Once when neighbors complained that my yard was always green I made a list of ‘excuses’ . Left over dye from St Patrick’s Day in Chicago. A special grass imported from Africa. Left over radiation from when I irradiated and eradicated the weeds. An over abundance of stray dogs and cats crossing and ‘watering’ the property. Too many beer bashes. And well placed septic tanks.
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BY montyfisherwoof 06.20.09 AT 4:26 PM

#18 Donna J (continued)
Fortunately the aneurysm and lumpectomy people have partners. One thing which may help them considerably after the operations is a special bath. Have their partners take a gallon of water and dissolve ten aspirins in it. Then use that gallon to wash to wash their partners’ chests arms and back. The aspirin is particularly effective at suppressing itching and pain and is an especially good skin cleanser. Plus it does not need to be rinsed off as it is its own rinse.
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BY montyfisherwoof 06.20.09 AT 4:33 PM

#18 Donna J (still continued)
One idea you might consider is inviting your co worker to a “Coffee and a Prayer”. (Always asking God for the right words to say.) If she seems reluctant say that you could skip the coffee and just have the prayer OR skip the prayer and just have the coffee. Or perhaps a panini and a prayer. Or pork chops and a prayer. If you live close enough you can do this on a non work day. Then maybe have a picnic and a prayer.
I will be praying for the concerns you have mentioned.
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BY Allen Wrench 06.20.09 AT 4:41 PM

To those of you who are facing or contemplating cataract surgery: If your surgeon is as competent as mine was the surgery is a piece of cake. I suppose it depends somewhat on the nature of the cataract itself — if there are different kinds. I went from 20/80 in one eye to 20/40 in a week and to 20/20 a month later. The other eye, not as advanced didn’t get attention for another year or so but the results were almost identical. All this was between 12 and 14 years ago and I can read all but the very small print comfortably without glasses, although glasses improve distance vision a little. I checked into the clinic around 6 AM and walked out (with my eye covered) maybe two hours later. There were no complications whatever. The most painful thing I remember was one of the eye drops pre-surgery; I wondered at the time why two attendants were present to hold my arms down; they didn’t want an involuntary reaction. By the second surgery another technique and other eye drops were used. I have told people that it caused more anxiety than getting a haircut but not as much as going to a dentist.

Certainly I had an excellent surgeon; perhaps I was fortunate to find him. I do not believe he practices cataract surgery any longer.

Don’t speak to me of luck or coincidence. God’s hand was in this process all the way through and I would be unfaithful not to mention it.
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BY donna j 06.20.09 AT 4:57 PM

Thanks for all the great suggestions, monty. I think I may send my co-worker a personal email this weekend, maybe something generic just sort of a “how are you, we’re so busy these days there’s no time to catch up anymore at work.” We used to walk to a sandwich shop for lunch together when we worked in our old office (we moved into our new office 5 months ago), but now she gets to work later and I’ve been brown bagging it every day. But I might propose lunch out together on a day that might work for her in the future.

I feel at first I need to re-initiate the casual friendship we had a few years ago (but has slipped mostly due to busy-ness on both our parts). I don’t really understand some of the issues she’s apparently dealing with (in terms of the phobias or anxieties), but maybe if we can get back on at least a casual “how ya doin’” sort of friendship it could lay some groundwork to re-start that again.

Thanks for the prayers to whoever feels led to remember this.

As for the water rationing, yes, I’m in L.A. and the city has cracked down on water usage — not hard for me as a single, but it definitely puts a crimp in trying to keep the grass (such as it is) green.

I’m hearing we may be in for an El Nino extra-rainy season this coming fall and winter, however. Let’s hope ….
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BY donna j 06.20.09 AT 5:01 PM

Hey Random, I was perusing your blog and spotted Sylvie the cat, how pretty she is.
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BY donna j 06.20.09 AT 5:04 PM

Back into that “room” that needs more clearing out this weekend. Tossing, filing, trying to organize (some more). Gettin’ there……but s-l-o-w-l-y.

Ugh. Where does all this “stuff” come from???
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BY mumsee 06.20.09 AT 5:20 PM

We are going camping but I am not telling you when as I read a headline somewhere that we were not supposed to give that info over the internet. But it will be fun and hopefully somebody will take good care of any animals that cannot go. Pulling out old camping gear checking this and that, one likes to be prepared.
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BY donna j 06.20.09 AT 5:59 PM

You may need a toaster oven, being out in the wild like that. If you know what I mean.
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BY mumsee 06.20.09 AT 6:05 PM

Yes, I do believe I saw a currant bush last time I was out there.
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BY Harris 06.20.09 AT 7:22 PM

The climbing roses on the arbor are beginning to bloom.
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BY Random Name 06.20.09 AT 7:39 PM

#27 Allan Wrench

I have struggled with high blood pressure all my life, and a side effect is that it has damaged blood vessels to my eyes. My surgeon was cautious about recommending surgery until he examined my eyes very carefully.

He also said that he is cautious in making recommendations to operate or not because some people who really need it are quite frightened and reluctant and others who barely need it want it to be done in the next five minutes.

Also, I know someone who had serious problems with his cataract surgery because of interactions with other conditions. But the die is cast.
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BY Random Name 06.20.09 AT 7:42 PM

Donna,

Thanks for visiting my blog. My daughter’s cat, Sylvie, is indeed a lovely cat, who also has the most enticing personality I have ever met in a cat. Even when Random Granddaughter was a terrible two and pulled fur without scruple, Sylvie never scratched, bit, or even hissed. At most, she would get up and walk away with an expression that said, “I will visit you when you are a little more grown up and know how to mind your manners.”
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BY royclay 06.20.09 AT 8:45 PM

Buried my Dad today.

Knowing that he is safely home with God.

The kindness and love of our friends and family, our co-workers, my Dad’s co-workers. So many loved him.
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BY donna j 06.20.09 AT 9:17 PM

RoyClay: Praying for God’s comfort.
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BY montyfisherwoof 06.20.09 AT 9:32 PM

RoyClay, I am echoing Donna J’s post. Amen , brother.
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BY mumsee 06.20.09 AT 9:34 PM

RoyClay,

Father’s Day: a sad but sweet reminder of a life gone before. May you see God in this and His timing.
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BY montyfisherwoof 06.20.09 AT 9:35 PM

Donna J, I need a toaster oven. This old one here just bit the dust. It was only about 45 years old. I could repair it but if you deliver…. Currently I am at my orange farm about ninety miles north of Sacramento.
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BY mumsee 06.20.09 AT 9:44 PM

Well, just hold on there. How rude. Clearly, DonnaJ and I were in the process of negotiation, very nearly coming to a close on this whole toaster oven thing. And you just step in and try to steal my deal? Or is this one of those set ups? Donna thought I was not going to go for it so sent in a “competing bidder”?
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BY donna j 06.20.09 AT 9:57 PM

Ooo, competing bids. This is nice.

What’ll I hear, do I hear a-$70? $70-$70-$70-$70, Whatda I hear?
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BY Bob Buckles 06.20.09 AT 10:10 PM

#41 Monty

“Currently I am at my orange farm about ninety miles north of Sacramento.”

Hey, Monty, I will be driving up I-5 on Tuesday. I’d like to meet you. Which exit? I turn left at Redding to go over the mountains on CA 299. I will be 90 miles north of Sacrameno about 4:30 PM or so.

Bob Buckles

Wonderstump@hotmail.com
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BY montyfisherwoof 06.20.09 AT 10:11 PM

#31, Mumsee, unless someone is stalking you , I would think you should be able to tell us that you are going camping. When you do go camping though you should tell someone there that you can trust and let someone else know so that if for some reason you disappear they might know where to search for you.
And anytime you go boating or sailing you should definitely let someone on shore know what your plans are.
Currently my plans are to go camping along the Brazos River on the last weekend in August. I had made plans to go luxuriate on Catalina Island this weekend but I decided yesterday to fly up to my farm here.
I like Catalina and enjoy the buffalo burgers. But it sounded like there would be a lot of air traffic there this weekend. And since AVX is a tricky runway , I just decided to come up here.
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BY donna j 06.20.09 AT 10:30 PM

Yeah, Mumsee, where can I meet you to hand off the toaster oven???
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BY donna j 06.20.09 AT 10:33 PM

And a mighty fine toaster oven it is.

Sacramento is a bit of a drive, however, Monty. And I’m guessing Mumsee’s campsite might not be all that close to L.A.

Got the box, though, can ship!
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BY donna j 06.20.09 AT 10:34 PM

Mumsee may think I am stalking her mouse circus, toaster oven in hand.
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BY mumsee 06.20.09 AT 10:45 PM

That’s it, I’m out of here. And Montyfisherwoof has clearly not been on here long enough to know me and my situation or he would not have mentioned the stalkers. But, as I said, a toaster oven might be just the thing out there in the wilds, when the currant bushes are charged. I am not sure if they are supposed to be charged by a moose or by a range cow.
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BY mumsee 06.20.09 AT 10:45 PM

..and I don’t have a mouse circus…
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BY donna j 06.20.09 AT 10:58 PM

Mmm. Ah, that’s what you’d like us to think!
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BY montyfisherwoof 06.20.09 AT 11:07 PM

Bob Buckles, Sure, I would love to. But on Monday I will be in Salt Lake City. I will swap aircraft and then fly to Independence, Kansas. I will spend some time there in training and then fly to New Jersey to visit with my niece in New York City.
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BY montyfisherwoof 06.20.09 AT 11:11 PM

Mumsee, I apologize if I have said something wrong. I certainly did not mean to. My interest in the toaster oven was more in line with getting Donna away from all that trouble down in Los Angeles. A few good meals and some good country air, then she can bring the toaster to you.
Again,, if I said something to give offense, i am truly sorry. As you said I have not been on this blog long enough to know all the details.
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BY donna j 06.20.09 AT 11:11 PM

Ahhh, and a pilot>???
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BY mumsee 06.20.09 AT 11:17 PM

Nor long enough to know that I have a very odd sense of humor and do not get offended. All in fun, my friend.
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BY montyfisherwoof 06.20.09 AT 11:30 PM

Bob , when you are in Redding you will be about ninety miles north of my farm. Since you said turn left to get over the mountains I am assuming you are coming down from the north. So to get to my farm you would have to continue south to Red Bluff and get on 99. I will be in Kansas on Tuesday but wWe will work it out sometime.
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BY Bob Buckles 06.21.09 AT 12:07 AM

#56 Monty

I am building a house in Crescent City but live in LA (Downey, really). I drive from LA north on I-5, turn left at Redding and go west to US 101.

I will be going up a few times between now and the end of July- moving. The new house is almost finished. Hallelujah!!
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BY montyfisherwoof 06.21.09 AT 2:40 AM

Bob , It has been quite some while since I have been to Crescent City. I found it to be a small but very friendly place. It was a rainy day in January when I ate at the Denny’s on M street. One of the waitresses there was named Susan. It rains a lot there and reminds me more of Portland, Oregon in that respect. Susan also told me that they have tsunamis there. Considering how the rain was coming down, I believed her.
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BY Frank in Spokane 06.21.09 AT 11:37 AM

My sons gave me a Leon Redbone CD for Father’s Day! (With a little help from Momma … finding it, that is.) “Melancholy Baby” alone would be worth the price of admission!

A story: A friend turned me on to Pandora.com about a year ago, just before we left Phoenix. (And if you don’t know about it … just go there and try it out, is all I can say!) My brain is chock full of vague and obscure pop culture references that pop up every now and then (can something be both obscure and pop? Anyhow … ), and Leon Redbone was one of them. The only thing I knew about him was that he was in an old (mid-70s?) beer commercial, flying through an ice chest singing, “This Bud’s for you … ” (As only Leon Redbone can.)

So I was playing with Pandora several months ago, remembered the Budweiser commercial with Leon Redbone, and plugged his name in … and it was love at first sound! (I’m still hoping against hope that somebody comes across that Bud commercial on one of their dusty old Betamax tapes and throws it up on YouTube … )

Anyhow: Pandora.com, and Leon Redbone. If you’re not savvy to either, Frank says “Check ‘em out!” And if you’re savvy to neither … well, check ‘em out together!
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BY Frank in Spokane 06.21.09 AT 11:40 AM

Speaking of cataracts, a joke:

An older oriental lady has been having trouble seeing, so she goes in to the eye doctor. After examining her, he tells her, “Mrs. Lee, you have a cataract.”

“Oh no,” she chides him, “that not collect! I have Rincon!”

[rimshot]
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BY Chas 06.21.09 AT 12:46 PM

Frank: airball

Monty, if Mumsee took offense, I’d have been dead long ago.

We saw a video in church (early service) of last week’s baptisms. Our pastor baptised his 10 year old daughter. He got all choked up about it. I understand that. That’s one reason I posted on WV the Father’s Day thought:

3 Jn. 4 “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in the truth.”
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BY montyfisherwoof 06.21.09 AT 1:12 PM

Frank, almost as bad as telling someone not to have Lasix from a cheap eye surgeon…..because he might cut some corneas. ………
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BY Xion 06.21.09 AT 2:28 PM

I have cataracts too Random and Chas.

Let us know how your surgery goes Random. I have a few years to go yet before surgery. Doc says it’s a piece of cake.

In my right eye, the cataract is right in the middle. So while I am inside and my pupils are wide I can see fine. But outside when my pupil gets very small, it is like looking through a cloud. So I’ll need to wear shades always to be able to see.
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BY Xion 06.21.09 AT 2:31 PM

That should have been a sad face.
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BY donna j 06.21.09 AT 4:29 PM

It’s true that Mumsee doesn’t get offended. But I think she’s afraid of me and my toaster oven.

Bob: I have a friend in an assisted living facility in Downey, Country Inn on Myrtle — I’ve blogged a couple times about the dog walk the activities director holds there for the residents and community members. You’ll have to join us with your Mexican hairless next time!

(Also, that same friend has been attending a church down the street from them, Community Christian, I believe, which seems pretty good — they also have lots of Bible studies which she has been able to participate in. Are you familiar with the church at all?)
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BY Frank in Spokane 06.21.09 AT 5:41 PM

Frank (59): The only thing I knew about him was that he was in an old (mid-70s?) beer commercial, flying through an ice chest singing, “This Bud’s for you … ” (As only Leon Redbone can.)

Frank: Seek and ye shall find …

(Okay, so it’s not the ice-chest version that I remember, and it’s from 1984. May as well have been a million years ago!)

They don’t make ‘em like Leon no more …
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BY Amphipolis 06.21.09 AT 6:06 PM

Rant:
That’s right, with NO qualification–and no evidence, and no shame–CNN declares victory for Ahmadinejad by “a decisive margin” and makes it sound like the courageous people of Iran who are even now being murdered on the streets were just sore losers.

http://pajamasmedia.com/ronrosenbaum/2009/06/21/cnns-shocking-suck-up-to-irans-fascists/
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BY SteveG 06.21.09 AT 6:31 PM

Rant: Amphipolis apparently doesn’t actually watch CNN, which has been covering the revolution in Iran closely for days with no such bias. He would apparently prefer to believe his right-wing blog site that refers to one (1) CNN blog and even ignores most of it, in order to zero in on the one paragraph certain to fuel the “biased liberal media” meme.

Here’s an excerpt from the blog in question:

CNN: As you’ve seen the situation in Iran develop over the last week, what are your thoughts?

Fareed Zakaria: One of the first things that strikes me is we are watching the fall of Islamic theocracy.

CNN: Do you mean you think the regime will fall?

Zakaria: No, I don’t mean the Iranian regime will fall soon. It may — I certainly hope it will — but repressive regimes can stick around for a long time. I mean that this is the end of the ideology that lay at the basis of the Iranian regime.

The regime’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, laid out his special interpretation of political Islam in a series of lectures in 1970. In this interpretation of Shia Islam, Islamic jurists had divinely ordained powers to rule as guardians of the society, supreme arbiters not only on matters of morality but politics as well. When Khomeini established the Islamic Republic of Iran, this idea was at its heart. Last week, that ideology suffered a fatal wound.
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BY Allen Wrench 06.21.09 AT 7:06 PM

To: Random Name, No.35,

By all means, talk with the surgeon and follow his recommendations. Elevated blood pressure can cause numerous problems and complications. I have been assuming that you are not troubled with glaucoma or macular degeneration in addition to cataracts? These conditions would surely affect the doctor’s decision to perform cataract surgery. My comment referred solely to my experience and I know that follow-up treatment may, in some situations, be required to reposition the lens implant.

You are probably reluctant to ask me to pray for a successful outcome (and you really can’t prevent me from doing it) but I should like you to tell me it’s all right. I have forgotten the scheduled date; please remind me.
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BY Karen O 06.21.09 AT 7:06 PM

“They don’t make ‘em like Leon no more … “

Frank, my husband’s name is Leon (nickname is Lee), & you’re right – they don’t make ‘em like Leon no more!
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BY KI 06.21.09 AT 8:01 PM

I have the beginnings of cataracts also.

A wonderful weekend with my daughter and her two children. We went to a local parade and craft festival, which we have done for years and years. The kids are old enough and young enough to really enjoy the parade.

My husband and I were also able to take in a local bluegrass festival that has been going for twenty years now. It is always fun to get there, (even though we cannot spend too many hours there) because we get to see old acquaintances.

The many young people who are playing bluegrass with a vengence. Whole families have so much fun at these events. They are so wholesome and fun.
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BY Bob Buckles 06.21.09 AT 9:42 PM

#65 Donna J

The Counry Inn on Myrtle St. is about 2 miles from our house and the same distance from our church, First Baptist Church of Downey as from the First Christian Church of Downey

Almost everybody in SoCal has seen our church but few know it. Have you been to Knotts Berry farm? Have you seen the little White church by the little lake? We built it, sold it to the Episcopalians and then Walter Knott bought it for his farm/amusement park.

I will see if the Country Inn is going to have a dog walk in the next couple of weeks, if so maybe we could attend.
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BY mumsee 06.21.09 AT 10:01 PM

I have been to Knotts Berry farm, or so I was told. When I was very young, about fifty years ago.
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BY donna j 06.21.09 AT 10:46 PM

Bob: yes, I’ve been to Knott’s often, I think my parents told me I once “challenged” the robbers on the train when I was wearing my holster w/guns.

The dog walks are held 3 times a year — summer, fall & spring. So there should be one soon. I’ll post a link to my blog item…..

Would love to meet you and your wife & pup!
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BY donna j 06.21.09 AT 10:48 PM

Here’s the last dog walk (spring ‘09):

http://www.insidesocal.com/pets/2009/03/good-exercise-good-therapy.html
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BY donna j 06.21.09 AT 10:51 PM

And the one before it:

http://www.insidesocal.com/pets/2008/10/cowboy-tess-are-beat.html

Country Inn is very welcoming of visits by people with dogs, by the way, and I’ve also brought my friend’s former cat, Baby, in for visits.

Manuel is the activities director, I’m guessing their summer walk should be coming up soon ….
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BY donna j 06.21.09 AT 11:00 PM

Bob: I think your dog(s?) would be a big hit there — a friend of mine at the dog park, a retired L.A. special ed teacher, takes her Mexican hairless, Paris, to a San Pedro retirement home from time to time and it’s quite the occasion, she tells me.

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BY Bob Buckles 06.22.09 AT 1:35 AM

It woud be nice , but our two hairless are not very friendly. Snipes is scared all the time, and Lucy is very wary. They are both rescue dogs. We will never know about them, either.

Now Maggie… she likes everybody.
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BY Amphipolis 06.22.09 AT 2:55 PM

Rave – The NYT notices a broken Obama campaign promise!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/us/politics/22pledge.html?_r=1
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