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Post by domeplease on May 11, 2023 16:27:37 GMT -5
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Post by inger on May 11, 2023 18:08:44 GMT -5
I told Elon he either stays off my back if he can hire somebody else. I learned to use the power play. He hired someone else… |
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Post by inger on May 12, 2023 11:47:56 GMT -5
Ah, game shows. Ruthie is watching “The Price is Right” as I pass through on my way to pick up after the dogs outside. So, this woman wins the opening bid and gets to go on stage.
I swear the closest thing I’ve ever seen and heard to her reaction is when Daffy Duck would excitedly skip over a lake… oh-Ho-woo-woo-ha-ha-hee-hee. She loses in her attempt to win a car. Same reaction. Then she loses at that giant wheel. Slightly muted but still similar reaction. Another lady wins at the big wheel. There SHE goes, skipping across the lake…
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Post by rizzuto on May 12, 2023 13:06:42 GMT -5
Ah, game shows. Ruthie is watching “The Price is Right” as I pass through on my way to pick up after the dogs outside. So, this woman wins the opening bid and gets to go on stage. I swear the closest thing I’ve ever seen and heard to her reaction is when Daffy Duck would excitedly skip over a lake… oh-Ho-woo-woo-ha-ha-hee-hee. She loses in her attempt to win a car. Same reaction. Then she loses at that giant wheel. Slightly muted but still similar reaction. Another lady wins at the big wheel. There SHE goes, skipping across the lake… I miss Carol Merrill. Oh wait, that was Let’s Make A Deal. |
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Post by domeplease on May 12, 2023 17:19:26 GMT -5
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Post by inger on May 12, 2023 17:48:33 GMT -5
Full cycle of life… I can’t wait to start wearing diapers to save some trips to the privy… |
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Post by rizzuto on May 14, 2023 9:16:06 GMT -5
www.mlb.com/news/meet-jackie-mitchell-the-girl-who-struck-out-babe-ruth"Like many young ballplayers, Mitchell learned her craft playing with her dad in the neighborhood park. But her neighborhood came with an advantage not exactly available to every young player. One of her neighbors in Memphis was none other than Dazzy Vance, the Hall of Fame pitcher who led the NL in strikeouts for seven seasons from 1922-28. From her neighbor, Mitchell learned how to throw a "drop ball," which we would call a sinker today."
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Post by inger on May 14, 2023 11:24:12 GMT -5
www.mlb.com/news/meet-jackie-mitchell-the-girl-who-struck-out-babe-ruth"Like many young ballplayers, Mitchell learned her craft playing with her dad in the neighborhood park. But her neighborhood came with an advantage not exactly available to every young player. One of her neighbors in Memphis was none other than Dazzy Vance, the Hall of Fame pitcher who led the NL in strikeouts for seven seasons from 1922-28. From her neighbor, Mitchell learned how to throw a "drop ball," which we would call a sinker today." A wonderful tale, isn’t it? I warmed up an American Legion fast pitch pitcher one time. He had a drop and and riser. I did do without having ever seen either pitch before and without a protective cup. I did surprisingly well on the drops, but one riser got away from the pitcher and sailed over my head, hitting a parked car on the driver’s door… 😙 I’m here to tell you, between the speed and the movement… and I was only 14 years old at the time, it was quite an experience… |
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Post by pippsheadache on May 14, 2023 18:59:38 GMT -5
Okay, responding to the Gulf Coast conversation over on Baseball Minutiae -- no Rizz, can't say I saw Lulu's, although it looks wonderful. We had a great time in that region, based in Pensacola, going as far west as Biloxi and as far east as Destin (tourist trap in my book, but not everyone would agree.) Gulf Islands National Seashore is especially beautiful -- white sand beaches and turquoise water like you would expect in some place like Grenada or the Virgin Islands. Coastal Alabama surprised us with its beauty and upscale towns, especially Orange Beach and Gulf Shores -- we went out to the end of the peninsula to Fort Morgan, a really interesting Civil War era fort right at the entrance to Mobile Bay.
Pensacola Beach is nice -- although we liked Orange Beach better -- Perdido Key is very tired-looking. Pensacola itself is a neat funky town, not glamorous like some of the west coast of Florida, but less crowded, more old school -- if the only things there were Joe Patti's Seafood Shop and McGuire's Pub it would be worth staying there. Yes, we did visit Ocean Springs after Biloxi -- another pleasant destination, but way too susceptible to hurricanes for me. We enjoyed the non-casino segment of Biloxi -- some great restaurants and shops -- but they are so overshadowed by the monster casinos that you just hope they can hang in there.
Fairhope was one of our four favorite small towns we dropped into on this trip -- the others being Cocoa Village FL, Edenton NC and especially Aiken SC. Shhh, don't tell anybody about this place. My brother is looking to retire there and it so far seems to have escaped the attention of the developer hordes -- in the midst of horse country, very upscale services, but not the least touristic. I don't know how they've pulled it off.
One last bit of Bamaiana -- on the literary portion of our travels, we stopped in the small town of Monroeville in southern Alabama. This is the hometown of lifelong friends and neighbors Harper Lee and Truman Capote. The courthouse there -- which Hollywood replicated piece by piece for the movie version of "To Kill A Mockingbird" -- houses an excellent exhibit on both Lee and Capote. Our impossibly knowledgeable guide turned out to be a cousin of Capote's -- a much more conventional person, to be sure -- and he had that sort of easy-flowing Southern raconteur style that always reels me in. He knew both of them very well and it was a privilege to listen to his insights. Classic red-clay Alabama piney woods outside the town.
In Montgomery we actually stayed in the home where F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived while he wrote "Tender Is The Night." The ground floor is an excellent Fitzgerald museum, but the two upstairs bedrooms are regular Airbnb rentals. The catch is that nothing has been updated in those rooms since the 1920s except for a modern shower. No AC, no TV -- it's great for us, but apparently not all guests are prepared for it! You get a private pre-opening tour of the museum when you stay there. The entire neighborhood is like a period piece. I would recommend for any Fitzgerald enthusiast.
Downtown Montgomery is very lively -- impossible to find a place to park on a Saturday night -- we visited the Hank Williams Museum, which is also outstanding. Everything you'd want to see about Hank, including the aircraft carrier-sized Cadillac he died in on his way to a gig, those spectacularly garish Nudy outfits he and many other C&W singers wore in the 1950s, rare clips of live performances -- everything Hank! His son is actively involved in maintaining it. Lots of other things in town, including a Rosa Parks exhibit, White House of the Confederacy, active restaurant scene. Easily worth a weekend of your time.
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Post by inger on May 15, 2023 9:54:52 GMT -5
Sitting at a dentists office. In the waiting room, first dental since COVID, but I have had an aching molar off and on for a couple weeks.
It got infected and I had a hell of a time getting a dental appointment out here in the boonies, so I went to a “Doc in The Box” clinic and a PA wrote me a script to get rid of the infection.
Should be a fun day…
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Post by kaybli on May 15, 2023 10:02:14 GMT -5
Sitting at a dentists office. In the waiting room, first dental since COVID, but I have had an aching molar off and on for a couple weeks. It got infected and I had a hell of a time getting a dental appointment out here in the boonies, so I went to a “Doc in The Box” clinic and a PA wrote me a script to get rid of the infection. Should be a fun day… Hope everything goes well and you feel better inger! |
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Post by kaybli on May 15, 2023 10:29:21 GMT -5
Okay, responding to the Gulf Coast conversation over on Baseball Minutiae -- no Rizz, can't say I saw Lulu's, although it looks wonderful. We had a great time in that region, based in Pensacola, going as far west as Biloxi and as far east as Destin (tourist trap in my book, but not everyone would agree.) Gulf Islands National Seashore is especially beautiful -- white sand beaches and turquoise water like you would expect in some place like Grenada or the Virgin Islands. Coastal Alabama surprised us with its beauty and upscale towns, especially Orange Beach and Gulf Shores -- we went out to the end of the peninsula to Fort Morgan, a really interesting Civil War era fort right at the entrance to Mobile Bay. Pensacola Beach is nice -- although we liked Orange Beach better -- Perdido Key is very tired-looking. Pensacola itself is a neat funky town, not glamorous like some of the west coast of Florida, but less crowded, more old school -- if the only things there were Joe Patti's Seafood Shop and McGuire's Pub it would be worth staying there. Yes, we did visit Ocean Springs after Biloxi -- another pleasant destination, but way too susceptible to hurricanes for me. We enjoyed the non-casino segment of Biloxi -- some great restaurants and shops -- but they are so overshadowed by the monster casinos that you just hope they can hang in there. Fairhope was one of our four favorite small towns we dropped into on this trip -- the others being Cocoa Village FL, Edenton NC and especially Aiken SC. Shhh, don't tell anybody about this place. My brother is looking to retire there and it so far seems to have escaped the attention of the developer hordes -- in the midst of horse country, very upscale services, but not the least touristic. I don't know how they've pulled it off. One last bit of Bamaiana -- on the literary portion of our travels, we stopped in the small town of Monroeville in southern Alabama. This is the hometown of lifelong friends and neighbors Harper Lee and Truman Capote. The courthouse there -- which Hollywood replicated piece by piece for the movie version of "To Kill A Mockingbird" -- houses an excellent exhibit on both Lee and Capote. Our impossibly knowledgeable guide turned out to be a cousin of Capote's -- a much more conventional person, to be sure -- and he had that sort of easy-flowing Southern raconteur style that always reels me in. He knew both of them very well and it was a privilege to listen to his insights. Classic red-clay Alabama piney woods outside the town. In Montgomery we actually stayed in the home where F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived while he wrote "Tender Is The Night." The ground floor is an excellent Fitzgerald museum, but the two upstairs bedrooms are regular Airbnb rentals. The catch is that nothing has been updated in those rooms since the 1920s except for a modern shower. No AC, no TV -- it's great for us, but apparently not all guests are prepared for it! You get a private pre-opening tour of the museum when you stay there. The entire neighborhood is like a period piece. I would recommend for any Fitzgerald enthusiast. Downtown Montgomery is very lively -- impossible to find a place to park on a Saturday night -- we visited the Hank Williams Museum, which is also outstanding. Everything you'd want to see about Hank, including the aircraft carrier-sized Cadillac he died in on his way to a gig, those spectacularly garish Nudy outfits he and many other C&W singers wore in the 1950s, rare clips of live performances -- everything Hank! His son is actively involved in maintaining it. Lots of other things in town, including a Rosa Parks exhibit, White House of the Confederacy, active restaurant scene. Easily worth a weekend of your time. Love hearing about your adventures and all the places you visit pipps! |
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Post by inger on May 15, 2023 12:08:15 GMT -5
Sitting at a dentists office. In the waiting room, first dental since COVID, but I have had an aching molar off and on for a couple weeks. It got infected and I had a hell of a time getting a dental appointment out here in the boonies, so I went to a “Doc in The Box” clinic and a PA wrote me a script to get rid of the infection. Should be a fun day… Hope everything goes well and you feel better inger! This valley has some real quirks. Dentist examined. Tooth 🦷 either needs to be pulled or a root canal, tooth beside it needs to be filled. Next available appointment is July 27. If the pain gets severe they can “try to work me in” sooner… Despite the quirks I really dig this crazy place and hope I can stay well enough to stay in our little shack for a long time. If I could just get Ruthie to help me keep the place clean. Hope the docs can help her. I’m not a great housekeeper. |
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Post by rizzuto on May 15, 2023 13:20:09 GMT -5
Okay, responding to the Gulf Coast conversation over on Baseball Minutiae -- no Rizz, can't say I saw Lulu's, although it looks wonderful. We had a great time in that region, based in Pensacola, going as far west as Biloxi and as far east as Destin (tourist trap in my book, but not everyone would agree.) Gulf Islands National Seashore is especially beautiful -- white sand beaches and turquoise water like you would expect in some place like Grenada or the Virgin Islands. Coastal Alabama surprised us with its beauty and upscale towns, especially Orange Beach and Gulf Shores -- we went out to the end of the peninsula to Fort Morgan, a really interesting Civil War era fort right at the entrance to Mobile Bay. Pensacola Beach is nice -- although we liked Orange Beach better -- Perdido Key is very tired-looking. Pensacola itself is a neat funky town, not glamorous like some of the west coast of Florida, but less crowded, more old school -- if the only things there were Joe Patti's Seafood Shop and McGuire's Pub it would be worth staying there. Yes, we did visit Ocean Springs after Biloxi -- another pleasant destination, but way too susceptible to hurricanes for me. We enjoyed the non-casino segment of Biloxi -- some great restaurants and shops -- but they are so overshadowed by the monster casinos that you just hope they can hang in there. Fairhope was one of our four favorite small towns we dropped into on this trip -- the others being Cocoa Village FL, Edenton NC and especially Aiken SC. Shhh, don't tell anybody about this place. My brother is looking to retire there and it so far seems to have escaped the attention of the developer hordes -- in the midst of horse country, very upscale services, but not the least touristic. I don't know how they've pulled it off. One last bit of Bamaiana -- on the literary portion of our travels, we stopped in the small town of Monroeville in southern Alabama. This is the hometown of lifelong friends and neighbors Harper Lee and Truman Capote. The courthouse there -- which Hollywood replicated piece by piece for the movie version of "To Kill A Mockingbird" -- houses an excellent exhibit on both Lee and Capote. Our impossibly knowledgeable guide turned out to be a cousin of Capote's -- a much more conventional person, to be sure -- and he had that sort of easy-flowing Southern raconteur style that always reels me in. He knew both of them very well and it was a privilege to listen to his insights. Classic red-clay Alabama piney woods outside the town. In Montgomery we actually stayed in the home where F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived while he wrote "Tender Is The Night." The ground floor is an excellent Fitzgerald museum, but the two upstairs bedrooms are regular Airbnb rentals. The catch is that nothing has been updated in those rooms since the 1920s except for a modern shower. No AC, no TV -- it's great for us, but apparently not all guests are prepared for it! You get a private pre-opening tour of the museum when you stay there. The entire neighborhood is like a period piece. I would recommend for any Fitzgerald enthusiast. Downtown Montgomery is very lively -- impossible to find a place to park on a Saturday night -- we visited the Hank Williams Museum, which is also outstanding. Everything you'd want to see about Hank, including the aircraft carrier-sized Cadillac he died in on his way to a gig, those spectacularly garish Nudy outfits he and many other C&W singers wore in the 1950s, rare clips of live performances -- everything Hank! His son is actively involved in maintaining it. Lots of other things in town, including a Rosa Parks exhibit, White House of the Confederacy, active restaurant scene. Easily worth a weekend of your time. "Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead!" No doubt you took a better route to Fort Morgan than Farragut. Sounds like a wonderful trip, Pipps! Joe Patti's Seafood Shop looks like my kind of place, as does McGuire's Irish Pub. You've unearthed a ton of memories with this post. As you probably know, the First White House of the Confederacy was built and owned by Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald's relatives. Poor Scott was awful at choosing the loves of his life. The first he never stopped loving despite her and her family's callous treatment and abject rejection of him. The second - Zelda - definitely drove him to an early alcoholic grave. Both debutants were Uber-wealthy, self-centered flappers, who viewed people of other social classes as different species. Zelda was especially cruel, once compelling Scott to ask his friend and confidant Hemingway to discretely evaluate him for any "short-comings." Papa reassured him that nothing seemed amiss or unusual, though he said it was difficult to determine "in repose." After Scott's death, Hemingway recalled the incident in print, comparing the sight to a 30.06 rifle shell. Unfortunately, like too any artists, Fitzgerald's works in death have attained a status and appreciation incommensurate with their financial returns when he was alive. The Great Gatsby probably sells more copies today. Though famous, Fitzgerald could not compete with the captains of industry and overcome the andogamy practiced by "those families" to keep and advance their power and status. As to staying in their home, no television is fine for me, but I must admit a weakness for air-conditioning - the greatest invention in history outside of electricity. As a boy, I heard lots of Hank Williams, Sr. My second oldest brother had a collection of cassette tapes with his entire works. Somewhere in Iowa, I have the same on compact discs. I remember cooking many times with that lonesome hillbilly cry helping me to stir a roux for an hour or more to get it black as tar without burning. Not an easy thing to accomplish without practice. Hank Williams, Jr. is not his father, but he is a fine artist in and of himself. I especially like his songs, "A County Boy Can Survive" and "Family Tradition." Good times, Pipps! Always a delight to hear of your travels and experiences! |
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Post by pippsheadache on May 15, 2023 15:08:27 GMT -5
Love hearing about your adventures and all the places you visit pipps! You are the world's nicest person, Kaybli. Thanks for your kind words. I suspect my topics are of limited interest, but on a Miscellaneous BS thread we're all a bit off the leash, aren't we? |
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