Our RV Adventures

My first crush died today. In fact I think Annette was most guys my age’s first love. This picture from Facebook says it all.

I think it was the sweaters. Annette’s very tight sweaters. It was certainly noticeable that she was filling out her sweaters better than the other female Mouseketeers. In fact, the story goes that it was because Walt Disney was so cheap.

The Mickey Mouse Club was run on a very tight budget, especially for the wardrobe. A Mouseketeer would get in a lot of trouble if they damaged, or even got a costume dirty. So the wardrobe lady was very leery about replacing a costume, and as Annette continued to ‘blossom’ so to speak, the wardrobe lady tried to stretch/modify her old sweaters, rather than replace them with new, larger ones.

Walt, busy in trying to get Disneyland up and going, was not paying a lot of attention to the MMC until one day he showed up on the set and almost had a heart attack. He immediately ordered that Annette got larger sweaters as needed.

Party-Pooper!

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As the cold front came in last night, the high winds came along for the ride. A lot of debris was blown around the park, palm tree fronds,  potted plants, and even a satellite dish.

So of course Jan decided it was a good day to go shopping, so we headed out after lunch, first over to SanTan Village to the Bath and Body Works, then a clothing store and a couple of others before we finished up at a Fry’s Market for a few groceries and a Starbuck’s Cinnamon Dolce Latte.

The high winds didn’t cause any real problems, but it was raising a lot of dust in the area, enough to make it a real overcast afternoon.

Later, a little before 6, Jan and I drove over to Nick and Terry’s to meet up for supper. We ended up having a very good meal at a Golden Corral. We all agreed they have the best fried chicken around, and everything else was good also.

By the time we got home it was getting close to 9pm, and past Jan’s bedtime. It was also getting much cooler, in fact it dropped from 59 to 53 in just an hour or so.

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Don’t know if any of you watch the Mad Men series on AMC. It’s the story of a 1960’s Madison Avenue ad agency, and there’s been a lot of controversy about an fictional ad for a men’s slack’s line called Mr. Leggs.

Viewers are apparently outraged that the show would even think about depicting a ad like this, one so obviously false and unreal.

I can only assume that these ‘outraged’ viewers weren’t around in the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s. They would have really gotten an eyeful.

Check out these print ads from the time period in question.

Yep, I bet she’ll never buy stale coffee again

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Maybe she should try “VitaMeataVegamin”. I’ll bet that would really ‘pep’ her up.

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But he’s still upset that she burns the OJ every morning at breakfast.

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Maybe it was just a really hot day. She might have enjoyed it.

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Is this like having a tiger in your tank?

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So if you wear a really ugly tie, you’ll get ‘breakfast’ in bed? Or maybe you just need to wear a really ugly TO bed.

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This one is the top of the box for Milton-Bradley’s Battleship. Note the wife and daughter in the corner doing the dishes. Apparently playing Battleship is ‘men’s work’.

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This one is really more true than most husbands will admit. We just don’t like to see it actually written down. I know if Jan starts crying, I better do something even if it’s wrong.

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Maybe she’ll follow him after the coughing fit subsides.

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This one actually has a more modern version.

Somehow I don’t think a bath is going to fix things.

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Yep. A Hoover under the tree. Just what she wanted.

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Maybe that’s why they make ketchup in those pop top squeeze bottles now.
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And finally, from the WW1 time frame, just what every young man wanted.

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Thought for the Day:

Some people say that divorces are expensive because they’re worth it.

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I was up at my usual 10am, got the coffee started and then Jan and I headed out for a walk around the park. We did about 1/2 mile before coming back to the rig to a good cup of coffee.

I worked on a couple of projects, then about 1pm we did our first Skype call of this year with Brandi, Lowell, and Landon.

Landon never slowed down so all the pics are a little blurry.

Brandi said Landon is growing like a weed, a tall weed. He’s 26 months old and now wears 3T clothes. Looks like he’s going to be tall like his father, Lowell.

Kitty, their Black Lab is the only one that sat still for her photo.

After about 15 minutes we said our goodbyes for this time. We’ll try to do it again in a couple of weeks.

About 2:30 I headed out for a few errands. After dropping off the trash at the dumpster, I drove down to the Camping World to pick up some new Leveler Pads and then it was right down the road to a RadioShack to pick up an LED panel light to finish up my Taillight Test Box.

Getting back to the rig I worked on some website stuff until about 5 when Jan and I fixed a supper of Chili Taco Salads using Skyline Chili. Really good.

Then about 6 we headed out for another walk, this time for a mile, since it was cooler outside than this morning.

Hopefully we’ll be able to walk everyday unless it gets too hot. We’ll see how it goes.

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Thought for the Day:

“We are told not to judge Muslims by the actions of a few crazies. But, we are told to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few crazies.”

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