Our prayers are with you and we serve a healing God. Our faith extends to you and your family railroadkatGood morning D! Went for pre-op for back, have had many of these in the past, but ended up in the hospital with respiratory failure. Am fine and home now. Thank God I asked Him to guide my decision to have back surgery, he answered, and now it is canceled and may stay that way. That's all for now...………..
Yeah, I have one who is getting up in age and is beginning to act like it. She is a sweetheart of a dog.
What a sweet dog!Yeah, I have one who is getting up in age and is beginning to act like it. She is a sweetheart of a dog.
A lap dog.Yeah, I have one who is getting up in age and is beginning to act like it. She is a sweetheart of a dog.
"Big" Time.
I check out snakes a lot cause everybody is scared of them. I remove any poisonous ones. Alive preferably. Teach about Kings all the time.
Just a quick interesting fact. 21 of the 25 most venomous snakes in the world live in Australia. Now most of these snakes are not aggressive like a Cobra, black Mamba or a rattler it's still fascinating.
NeotenousYeah, I have one who is getting up in age and is beginning to act like it. She is a sweetheart of a dog.
Sorry to hear. Get well soon.Good morning D! Went for pre-op for back, have had many of these in the past, but ended up in the hospital with respiratory failure. Am fine and home now. Thank God I asked Him to guide my decision to have back surgery, he answered, and now it is canceled and may stay that way. That's all for now...………..
Louie Miller Barbecue. Opened 1949. I've visited once years ago. It's a local icon. Awesome eats.
Had to look that one up. Not sure which one of us (perhaps both) you were referring to.
Reading this thread while wearing a tee-shirt from the Cyclone Corral Bar B Que in Cyclone, Texas. I have a buddy, retired Army Lt. Colonel, who owned a little ranch near there.
Good morning D! Went for pre-op for back, have had many of these in the past, but ended up in the hospital with respiratory failure. Am fine and home now. Thank God I asked Him to guide my decision to have back surgery, he answered, and now it is canceled and may stay that way. That's all for now...………..
Thanks to all!
I failed to say the type of snake it was. It was what we call a black racer down here. Similar to a rat snake but the rat snake is known to coil and a racer just takes off. The racer is very fast for a snake (thus the name racer). It is about as harmless of a snake you can find and is very valuable to keep down rodents, etc. The only problem I have with them is they kill chameleons and I like having as many of these folks around as possible. They keep the bug population under control.
I love the Ashland area. I love Jesse Stuart. I love Jesse Stuart's wife. I knew them both, in passing.
When I was a freshman in college, a chemistry major, I knew little about Kentucky literature. My sister was a whiz kid in English Literature, I was a dumb ass.
To get a couple days off I was given the opportunity to take these three egg-heads “English Majors” around campus to make sure that they were where they should be at the appointed time. It was a wonderful time to get a little time off.
The three were Jesse Stuart, Harriett Simpson Arnow and Robert Penn Warren. I had never read a book by any of the three. I instantly fell in love with Jesse, he was just a wonderful person. I instantly did not like Harriett. I could not figure out Robert Penn Warren. At the end of the week I had two new uncles and a very strange aunt.
Now years later after having read all of their books I know that in my ignorance I wasted a wonderful opportunity to get an education from three literary giants, but I think that they actually understood my ignorance, being a chemistry major.
In 1987 I was calling on Ashland Petroleum in Ashland, KY. I took an extra half day on my trip and went to look up Jesse Stuart’s place because at the time I could not get the first book he wrote, “Beyond Dark Hills” *see note below (circa 1938) as it was not in publication at that time.
Being an ass hole, I walked up to his widows house and simply introduced myself. It was Naomi Stuart, his widow.
She was old and sweet. She gave me an old smelly copy of the book and refuse to let me pay for it. A few years later she was dead. If you believe in the Jewish tradition that good works gets you into heaven, then Naomi Stuart is there because she had no reason on earth to befriend me, but she offered me food, drink and gave me a book without knowing me from Adam. She is in heaven folks. What a sweetheart. She would not let me call her Mrs. Stuart, it had to be Naomi. God bless her soul.
I have been blessed by a girl and a guy from the Ashland, Kentucky area. Wonderful people.
*note:
Jesse wrote “Beyond Dark Hills” getting his masters at Vandy. His professor was Robert Penn Warren. It was supposed to be a few pages and Jesse’s book was over 100. So Robert Penn Warren gave him a bad grade. However, Jesse got enough money to get back the next semester. Robert Penn Warren told me, when I was stupid, that he had given Jesse a failing grade. Dumb Bert did not understand it.
My sister got a graduate degree from the same college in English Literature. She would have killed for the same opportunity that her science brother ignored.
May God bless those good people.
Great story, right down my line. I was required to read a few of Jesse Stuarts books in school and I loved them. They were the kind of book you couldn't put down and the books were about real "Americana". Same with Robert Penn Warren. Required reading and one of my favorites in school. I guess every child in America has read All The Kings Men. If not, they should. No one ever described in print a Southern politician any better.I love the Ashland area. I love Jesse Stuart. I love Jesse Stuart's wife. I knew them both, in passing.
When I was a freshman in college, a chemistry major, I knew little about Kentucky literature. My sister was a whiz kid in English Literature, I was a dumb ass.
To get a couple days off I was given the opportunity to take these three egg-heads “English Majors” around campus to make sure that they were where they should be at the appointed time. It was a wonderful time to get a little time off.
The three were Jesse Stuart, Harriett Simpson Arnow and Robert Penn Warren. I had never read a book by any of the three. I instantly fell in love with Jesse, he was just a wonderful person. I instantly did not like Harriett. I could not figure out Robert Penn Warren. At the end of the week I had two new uncles and a very strange aunt.
Now years later after having read all of their books I know that in my ignorance I wasted a wonderful opportunity to get an education from three literary giants, but I think that they actually understood my ignorance, being a chemistry major.
In 1987 I was calling on Ashland Petroleum in Ashland, KY. I took an extra half day on my trip and went to look up Jesse Stuart’s place because at the time I could not get the first book he wrote, “Beyond Dark Hills” *see note below (circa 1938) as it was not in publication at that time.
Being an ass hole, I walked up to his widows house and simply introduced myself. It was Naomi Stuart, his widow.
She was old and sweet. She gave me an old smelly copy of the book and refuse to let me pay for it. A few years later she was dead. If you believe in the Jewish tradition that good works gets you into heaven, then Naomi Stuart is there because she had no reason on earth to befriend me, but she offered me food, drink and gave me a book without knowing me from Adam. She is in heaven folks. What a sweetheart. She would not let me call her Mrs. Stuart, it had to be Naomi. God bless her soul.
I have been blessed by a girl and a guy from the Ashland, Kentucky area. Wonderful people.
*note:
Jesse wrote “Beyond Dark Hills” getting his masters at Vandy. His professor was Robert Penn Warren. It was supposed to be a few pages and Jesse’s book was over 100. So Robert Penn Warren gave him a bad grade. However, Jesse got enough money to get back the next semester. Robert Penn Warren told me, when I was stupid, that he had given Jesse a failing grade. Dumb Bert did not understand it.
My sister got a graduate degree from the same college in English Literature. She would have killed for the same opportunity that her science brother ignored.
May God bless those good people.
Being a native Floridian I'll bet you also like John MacDonald. I've read 4 of his Travis McGee books and thoroughly enjoyed them.
I have not read them but I am putting them on my bucket list. My cousin is an avid Travis McGee fan and has several of them.
Just finished my yard about 30 minutes ago, cleaned up and had my first beer and will be working on second.
Love the shot. First thought actually, common mammalian behavior. I chuckled. Exactly what I expect in the oasis pile of puppies.Not sure which one of us (perhaps both) you were referring to.
I'm having one
