Monthly Archives: August 2016
Not Overly Impressed . . .
About 12:30 my cousins (2nd), Stahlie, Darby, Luke, and Harlan, came over to visit for a while.
Stahlie want to get my stories about the Calvin and Peagram families I had for a college paper she’s doing, and Darby is writing a book using the characters from from the original fairy tales and myths, many of which were pretty bloody until Walt Disney got a hold of them. She wanted some information about getting her book into Amazon Kindle format and online.
This is Stahlie and Darby. Luke and Harlan got bored and left.
She was kind of worried about the way her book was going. She said the characters seemed to be going off on their own. I laughed and told her not to worry, and that my New York Times Best Selling Author friend, Nick Russell, says the same thing, and not to worry. Let the characters tell the story they want to tell.
Stahlie wanted to know what I remembered about my Grandmother and Grandfather who lived on the farm right across US-31 from here. In fact this RV park is built on park of their original farm
This is me with them when I was about 8 months old.
We had a great time, and spent several hours talking
Around 4:30 Jan and I headed out to have dinner at a favorite local BBQ place, 306 BBQ, out on Hwy 72 E toward Huntsville. We’ve always enjoyed this place in the past, but maybe because we had just recently eaten at Sonny’s BBQ in Pensacola, it no longer measured up.
Jan had a jumbo pulled pork sandwich with Cole slaw.
Putting Cole slaw on a BBQ sandwich seems to be pretty much a regional North Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina thing. I know if you ask for Cole slaw on your BBQ in Texas, they look at you real funny.
I had the Two Meat Combo Plate with Ribs and Pulled Pork, as well as the Brown Sugar Green Beans and Turnip Greens.
And you know this is a southern BBQ place since they do have Turnip Greens, and the Pepper Sauce to put on them.
Although Jan liked her sandwich fine, I was disappointed with my BBQ. Both the ribs and pulled pork were bland and tasteless, and the pulled pork was dry.
If I could have slathered on some good BBQ sauce, it might have been saved. But the sauce here is vinegar-based with a lot of Tabasco in it, not my favorite. All I taste is vinegar with these type of sauces. Actually I think I enjoyed my Brown Sugar Green Beans and Turnip Greens better.
Tomorrow we’re getting together with my Aunt Virginia for lunch and a lot of catching up since last year. Really looking forward to it.
Jan and I went outside about midnight to take in the ‘magnificent’ Perseid meteor shower. But for us it wasn’t very magnificent, more of a Comet Kohoutek.
They said we should see 160 to 200 meteors per hour, which would be about 3 a minute. Well, in 55 minutes we saw 12, so it was kind of a letdown.
Maybe we just needed some middle-age school teachers in a VW bus to give us cookies and we wouldn’t have cared.
Thought for the Day:
A true friend always stabs you in the front.
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Shoney’s and Showers . . .
First up, for those of you with Yahoo email addresses, change your password.
A hacker recently put what he claims are 200 million Yahoo email usernames, hashed passwords, and birth dates on sale on the Dark Net, asking about $1,800 for the entire data dump.
Even if it’s not true, it never hurts to change your password. Here’s more about it.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/yahoo-email-data-breach-dump/
I spent the morning working on website stuff, while Jan read her Kindles. Yes, Kindles. She had 3 – a Fire, a PaperWhite, and a second PaperWhite, which is mine. She trades between them, with one or two of them charging while she’s reading the other one.
I don’t use my PaperWhite any more, doing all my Kindling on my Galaxy Tab 4.
A little later, Helen, my cousin Wes’ wife came by to say Hi and catch us up on all the family news. Between her kids, Stahlie, Darby, Luke, and Harlan, she’s got a lot to keep up with.
About 5pm Jan and I went next door to check in with my Aunt Jan and Uncle Ed whose home is right behind the RV park. And although they may not realize it, Jan and Ed have a lot to do with Jan and I being together.
In June of 1967 I left Athens and drove down to Florida to bum around for the summer. I ended up in Sanford, FL where my Uncle Ed had a veterinary practice. I stayed with them for a few days while I looked around for something to do.
Checking out the Florida Today paper, I saw an want ad for someone to do the shows and to take care of the animals at the Marine Life area of Florida Wonderland, an amusement park in Titusville, FL.
Yes, that’s me with hair.
A couple of days later, on July 5th, I started working there, and that afternoon I met Jan who was working as Saloon Girl in Miss Kitty’s Pleasure Palace, the western town’s soft drink saloon.
It took me a while to get her to go out with me. She said later she thought I was a just stuck-up college kid with a red sports car.
And this coming September we will have been married 49 years.
Leaving Ed and Jan’s, my Jan and I heading out for dinner. Jan had seen an ad for Hot Fudge Cake, and I wanted a big juicy hamburger. And we were able to get both at the local Shoney’s.
Although they weren’t really busy it took almost 30 minutes to get our food. But it was hot and delicious anyway.
Jan got a Mushroom-Cheddar Burger while I went with Double-Decker Burger.
Really, really good, hot and juicy, just like I wanted.
For dessert, Jan got her Hot Fudge Cake,
while I got the Hot Apple Crisp.
Well worth the wait.
Wrapping up, tomorrow night is the big night for the yearly Perseid Meteor Shower. And it’s supposed to be a doozy.
Where you would typically see 80 to 100 showers per hour, tomorrow night should be 160 to 200 per hour.
The Persids are actually remnants from the comet Swift-Tuttle that orbits the Sun every 133 years. As it rounds the Sun, it is constantly shedding small particles in its wake. And once a year the Earth sweeps through that trail giving us a spectacular show in the sky.
Hopefully our skies will be clear enough here to give us a chance to see the show.
Check it out where you are.
Thought for the Day:
You may have seen the story online about the service monkey getting loose on a Frontier airliner.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/airport-official-says-monkey-flight-was-certified-service-animal
But if you think that’s weird, how about a service turkey?
Well, I guess it’s better than ‘Snakes On A Plane”, anyway.
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