I
think my new favorite flower may be the petunia, the wave petunia that
is. I've always planted impatiens in the window box on the kitchen
window but this year, I switched it up a little. I did plant some
impatiens here and there and even in the perennial garden which I still
have no idea what's going on in. I cut back the perennial garden that
the former occupant planted and cleaned it out promising a consorted
effort to keep it clean. In the last two weeks so much stuff has come up
in there and I have no idea what's a weed or what's a flower that will eventually
blossom. It basically looks like a weed
garden. Over all, the yard looks great. The rhododendrons are
blooming, the grass is green, and all the other shrubs I planted last
summer and this spring are looking luscious.
The first two summers we
lived here, we didn't need no dang air conditioner. We're from the
south. The third summer, we were at Wal-Mart in the middle of the night
and putting it in the bedroom window at 1AM. Last summer, we put in an
air conditioner for the downstairs. This summer, I decided to go ahead
and put them in before it got super-duper hot and may even buy a bigger
one to take care of the whole upstairs.
I see Rite Aid has completed it's purchase of Eckerd which I know
will mean a few empty buildings in the area but I think what bothers me
most, besides the fact that I don't have a soft side for Rite Aid, is
that the Eckerd in Park Road Shopping Center in Charlotte will become a
Rite Aid. That place has been there for almost 50 years. We used to go
to the Eckerd in Park Road Shopping Center, not the Rite Aid in Park
Road Shopping Center. We used to go ride bikes and we'd always end up at
Park Road Shopping Center. The Eckerd, like a lot of places had a grill
at that time and I think it may have even been called Eckerds instead of
Eckerd. I don't know when that changed but a lot of stores have dropped
the S over the years. Banks change names all the time and I guess kids
don't really have much of a relationship with them so there are no fond
memories, but it's sad to see the Eckerd go even though it'll still be
there.
I am so freaked out right now. Two girls just got struck by lighting
on a partly cloudy day. To hear the witness' accounts of what happened
it's amazing they're alive though one is in very critical condition. Her
hair was singed to her head and her socks were burnt to her feet as she
whole body smoked. I will never look at lightning the same again.
I'm all for giving
a new show a chance but MY GOD, I think I just watched 5 or 10 minutes
of the worst show I've ever seen. Tyler Perry's House of Payne,
it was so bad, I went to bang my head against the wall. How could
something so bad actually make it past the pilot? Much less, make it to
television.
"They’re falling to the ground like bags of wet
cement! Oh the horror!" From one of the best shows ever as Les
Nessman reports from the scene of WKRP's Thanksgiving Day event.
We
finally made a deep adventure into the Adirondack Mountains
today. So close yet so far. We adventured to The
Great Sacandaga Lake, Wells, Lake
Pleasant, Speculator, Indian
Lake, Tupper
Lake, Saranac
Lake, and Lake
Placid. You might guess it, but Lake Placid was packed full of
people because it was the most commercial town, The Gap Outlet and a
range of things like that downtown. The Olympic venues were cool though.
They're still used for training these days. Saranac Lake was my favorite
place even thought I know I could never live there during the winter,
they're brutal. In the summertime, it's a whole different beautiful
place. A small lake right beside an old quaint, yet not vacant downtown,
and a riverwalk, all with people.
Do
you ever just look up? Do it sometime, it's beautiful up there.
Duncan
says all I watch these days on TV is Scrubs and All In The Family.
Probably true. I've been recording All In The Family off TV Land lately
for later viewing. I am just realizing how gifted an actress Jean
Stapleton really is. She won three Emmys and three Golden Globes for All
In The Family with good reason. She had a brilliant stage career before
that and you see her every now and then in a movie or playing someone's
mother are eccentric aunt on TV. I don't think there is anybody who
plays that part these days because they can't. Most of the women have so
much plastic surgery done these days, they can't play that regular woman
part.
I
grew up watching The Price Is Right. I'm sure I spent a many of school
vacation mornings with The Price Is Right on. I noticed that Bob
Barker's last episode was on primetime so I recorded it last night and
just watched it. I can't believe how excited I was about some stupid
game show. My two favorites wound up in the showcase showdown but my
super favorite didn't win. He waited in line for five days and was
about to cry most of the time. Did I say super favorite?
And who could
forget Bob Barker and Adam Sandler in Happy
Gilmore.
Ethel: (barges in) Can I borrow some
cream?!!!!
Lucy: Shuhh, Not so loud. Ricky's in a big Cuban snit this morning.
Ethel: What cha do?
Lucy: Nothing! Something went wrong down at the club last night. Gwyneth
forgot to bring in his tuxedo, one act didn't show up, and right in the
middle of his big number, all the lights went out in the whole
neighborhood.
Ethel: Well how long did that last?
Lucy: For hours, everybody got up and went to the nightclub across the
street.
Ethel: How'd they manage without electricity?
Lucy: Liberace was playing there.
(a long pause with laughter)
Ethel: Huh?
Lucy: He does his show by candlelight...
In the morning paper:
An ad
for Metro Ford featured two salesmen who looked like they just stepped
off Brokeback Mountain claiming if they sell 400 cars this month,
everybody gets a 99 cent chicken dinner.
Who would've thought I'd be happy to pay $3.03 for a gallon of gas
but I've seen it for as low as $2.94. I want a new car by the way. I'm
not sure what I want, but I want one...Duncan's out of town this week, I
miss him....And Don't Ask Don't Tell just really sucks...and you know,
George Bush just really sucks, too. Did I mention, I want a new car. I
did get a new scanner though to replace my 1997 HP scanner. I really
have nothing to say as you can tell.
I actually like this. It's certainly better than the ending of the
real Sopranos. I don't really care for Celine Dion but the song You And
I really isn't so bad. My second public
declaration that maybe Celine Dion really isn't so bad. Nah. Did you
notice the two girls kissing in the booth?
A small step. The New York
State Assembly approved a gay marriage bill yesterday. And sure the
Senate will not even take up the issue before the session ends this
week, but like I said, a small step.
Democrat Dov Hikind, an Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn, warned the measure could lead to other proposals he found objectionable.
"Maybe we should include incest in the bill and sort of deal with the whole package at one time," said Hikind.
I heard it when it happened, I just didn't know it was so big as I
walked proudly through the store afterwards. But like I said, I didn't
know it was so big.
Someone bought the house a few down from here that an old couple (a
couple of what you ask) have lived in for years and seem to be putting
some money into it. It's exciting. One down, one to go on this block.
This
just shows Isaiah Washington
just doesn't get it. He's not only a loser but he blames his problems on
other people. He's like the black male version of Ann Coulter...bitch
My quandary today, I want a new car. I have never had a car
with more than 4 cylinders and automatic transmission. With gas prices
only getting higher, my quandary is whether to buy a more powerful car
with an automatic transmission or a less powerful car with straight
drive. The gas mileage, on otherwise identical cars, is staggering. I'm
glad buying this car isn't an emergency because I'd be pulling my hair
out. I've got time to make a good decision. Truthfully, I wouldn't mind
having a small SUV because I'm a tall guy and I've only had smaller
modes of transportation in the past.
Today I painted the front
porch and steps after doing some minor repairs. I think it may have been
dry enough before we got our five minute downpour. In a one in a million
chance, I just found where the mail guy left our mail in the milk
container we keep on the front porch which I put in the front yard
while I painted. I accidentally spilled it as I moved it. Tomorrow, I'll tackle
the back porch.
I'm not a big fan
of John Edwards but Elizabeth Edwards certainly has caught my attention
lately. First by splitting from her husband on the issue by endorsing
gay marriage at a Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club
breakfast last week and secondly, by calling
that crazy bitch Ann
Coulter on Hardball and telling her a thing or two after she called
her husband a faggot earlier and didn't even seem to understand or care
that that's a really bad thing to say and that she wished her husband
was killed by terrorists. Someday, something is going to come up and it
will be the end of Ann Coulter's career. Here's to you Elizabeth, I'm a
fan of yours.
Today is the 38th anniversary of beginning of The
Stonewall Riots which marked the beginning of The Gay Revolution.
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