D-League

[bertfan31]

Good morning! I'm getting out today in the fresh air and sunshine. Might go to the course and attempt to hook up my new stereo to the cart. If I take a notion, I might even play a few holes.

I noticed that the zags only beat memphis by 4 points. Swell.

SEC. You're not who we thought you were.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 44°F, clear and calm. Expecting 80°F for our high.

Murray State went down. Guess Saint Peter's, a school I never even knew existed until Selection Sunday, advances to the Sweet 16. Vols go down. Another classic Rick Barnes flame-out. We'll probably watch a few games later today.

Working more chores later this morning. May walk here in a bit.

Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.

 

[warrior-cat]

Morning Legionnaires!

80° for a high today with mid 50's tomorrow (lets swing). Fished for 4 1/2 hours in the kayak yesterday and had about 6 strikes with 2 being hooked and landed. About a pound each, nothing to write home about. Got more wind than expected so paddling was a little more difficult but manageable. Would just fish letting the wind push me to an area I wanted to go then dropped the anchor and fish there for awhile. After that, paddle up wind and let it push me along another spot. Not going today because the wind is much higher. I guess I will just couch potato and watch movies.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Good morning folks.

Busy, bittersweet day for me. Had a long talk with my father this morning on the occasion of his 91st birthday. I was home to KY last year for 90, but couldn't make it this year.

Then, just a few minutes ago, saw my son off as he heads back to Lexington for the last part of his next to last semester. Sad to see him go.

And now we're getting ready to head out for a lunch to celebrate my daughter's 25th birthday a day early - yes, she was born the day after my father. It looked like it was going to be a dead-on match, but the labor dragged on into the 21st. So my father and daughter straddle the line between the last day of winter and first day of spring.

I remember the night my daughter was born, after she went off to the nursery and my wife fell into a deep sleep, I walked outside, and the Hale-Bopp Comet was blazing at its absolute peak. Remember that? Weirdly, enough, I then walked out to my car, turned it on, and heard Mary Matlin, who then had a radio show, say my name as the very clearly first words once the radio came on. It turns out she was reading one of my stories on some sort of Bill Clinton outrage or other. Anyway, those are my most vivid recollections of that memorable night.

Hope its a good day for all of you.

 

[vhcat70]

My last trip to Murray State happened on April 27, 1982 for a Joan Jett and the Blackhearts concert at Racer Arena.

Go Racers!

Well at least the Racers are still in it.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Well at least the Racers are still in it.

What Racers are in it. Excuse me for asking but I have not watched a second of basketball since Thursday night

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

What Racers are in it. Excuse me for asking but I have not watched a second of basketball since Thursday night

I don't know. I do know that Murray got beat by St. Peter's last night.

 

[UK82]

Good morning folks.

Busy, bittersweet day for me. Had a long talk with my father this morning on the occasion of his 91st birthday. I was home to KY last year for 90, but couldn't make it this year.

Then, just a few minutes ago, saw my son off as he heads back to Lexington for the last part of his next to last semester. Sad to see him go.

And now we're getting ready to head out for a lunch to celebrate my daughter's 25th birthday a day early - yes, she was born the day after my father. It looked like it was going to be a dead-on match, but the labor dragged on into the 21st. So my father and daughter straddle the line between the last day of winter and first day of spring.

I remember the night my daughter was born, after she went off to the nursery and my wife fell into a deep sleep, I walked outside, and the Hale-Bopp Comet was blazing at its absolute peak. Remember that? Weirdly, enough, I then walked out to my car, turned it on, and heard Mary Matlin, who then had a radio show, say my name as the very clearly first words once the radio came on. It turns out she was reading one of my stories on some sort of Bill Clinton outrage or other. Anyway, those are my most vivid recollections of that memorable night.

Hope its a good day for all of you.

Happy Birthdays all around!!

 

[UK82]

Kind of a sad day here. Our next door neighbor moved out and the new one will move in this week. Nice folks. Hate to see them leave but they bought a huge house in Cherokee Triangle. I really hope the new gal that moves in is a stunner. hahahaha

 

[AustinTXCat]

Never a huge fan of Mark Story, but he brings up some good points.

 

[bertfan31]

4) No UK team has ever made a Final 4 with a player named Roscoe.

Coincidence? You decide.

 

[UK_fan_41102]

 

[_Rooster]

the best weather report

There's low pressure located in central arizona headed towards the colorado plateau. Likely bringing windy conditions over the next couple of days as this spins across the continental divide and high plains of Texas. I suspect this to draw plenty of moisture from the gulf and sky to continue falling this coming weekend.
GOES-East CONUS​

 

[bertfan31]

 

[Girthang]

Good evening, D-League!

New puppy in the house. Gift for our daughter. Will contact when house training is complete. Do not attempt extraction at this time. Could be a trap. Poop and pee everywhere. Mass hysteria. Only thing that keeps me sane is the cornbread and beans I'm cookin!

Hope y'all are doing great. Praying for the D-L!

 

[Girthang]

Brings back a nightmare roommate situation from college... aw man... Won't be no sleepin tonight with that memory coming back... ewww.... shudder....

 

[Girthang]

Never a huge fan of Mark Story, but he brings up some good points.

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Now he tells us

 

[Girthang]

"Now let's take a look at the radar................ looks like the radar is trackin a group of Russian icbms.... " -hippy dippy weather man skit by George Carlin.

 

[bertfan31]

Loved George Carlin. hippy dippy weatherman goes waay back.

 

[UK82]

Damn Duke won. This has been a really bad weekend. Lady Cats lose. UNC, Duke, Kansas and UCLA advance to the Sweet 16. Murray State loses. The SEC is shatting the bed. Wife is staying the night with her psycho mother. Ugh! At least my scrambled eggs and bacon turned out GREAT! I'll be watching Dunkirk in 4K.

 

[warrior-cat]

Wow, before SJW rules making it hate speech I thought fruit sex was between two gay guys.😁

 

[Girthang]

Damn Duke won. This has been a really bad weekend. Lady Cats lose. UNC, Duke, Kansas and UCLA advance to the Sweet 16. Murray State loses. The SEC is shatting the bed. Wife is staying the night with her psycho mother. Ugh! At least my scrambled eggs and bacon turned out GREAT! I'll be watching Dunkirk in 4K.

Cal sure has freed up my March and early April weekends these past 6 years or so. Getting a lot more done. Even during Tubbys last 6 I was watching every game. Seems I care less and less about basketball each year. I keep expecting him to say, "We don't care about ANY tournaments. Just the draft." This is the next slide down the slippery slope of low expectations he's setting here.

We should be playing the best competition, home and away, not dodging travel tournaments that players and fans love, recruiting AND developing players, and caring about conference titles and tournaments, as well as records and reputations of the University of Kentucky basketball program.

Those things need to be written into the employee and coaches handbook. Not caring about them and not performing up to standards should be grounds for termination. All basketball coaching contracts should be written as incentivized contracts with the potential for millions if milestones are achieved. We keep guaranteeing money to coaches only to see them slack off after titles, and it shouldn't be surprising to anyone. There is NO INCENTIVE for Cal to do anything except recruit

 

[starchief5]

Sawnee - wondering why he was being ordered to report to the CO.

 

[_Rooster]

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[_Rooster]

Love birds are again nesting in my untidy 25' fan palm. It's the first time in about 5 years in this palm. These ornamental birds really like sunflower seeds and ornamental flowers. I see them everyday at the the 2 sunflower seed feeders. They shred palm fronds and pack them to the nest site tucked in their feathers. These are subsidized LGBs (Little Green Birds).
Actually my first experience with old world parrots of any species and I find their family life interesting.. Glad to have the nesting back. I can now tell adults from fledglings and know what I'm looking at. Adults bring their young to the sunflower seeds. Hang out with the young until they start eating and they join others their age as a flock of the adolescent rosy-faced love birds. As young mature rapidly with mortality likely high, the flock consists of immatures of all levels of maturity. The adult birds continue to bring the young birds to feeders in the morning. Adults feed their immature young until they know what and where.
Pecking order recognition via intensity of redness of head levels? I don't know this but hormone control eye color is believed associated with recognition of maturity/hormone rage for accipiters. Being green these suckers vanish in foliage. When the these adolescents without this rosy faceness show up, flocking hell breaks out. The rosy-faced adults quickly restore order . . . . with their beak. These birds do not segregate by color they segregate by what appears hormone maturity creation of super flock behaviors governed by these hormones. These birds socialize and pair off in their respective mixed family flocks of immatures. They are pairing and breeding as sub-adult. Also observed in other species of birds.
First time I've ever observed some kind of lovebird response I can only describe as some kind of a bird funeral. One morning several years ago a small flock was making huge racket so I went outside to see what was going on. I saw that one got itself hung up (scissored) between 2 lodged palm fronds in my palm and by the time I could rescue the little thing died. I placed it on a stump and small flocks of 2 -4 birds took turns flying down and vocalizing. Dozens did this over at least 30 mins. I feel this to be anthropomorphic nonsense but what I saw.​

Maybe nothing has changed since Chicxulub except no thunder dragons and lots of mammals.

 

[vhcat70]

nm

 

[UK82]

Love birds are again nesting in my untidy 25' fan palm. It's the first time in about 5 years in this palm. These ornamental birds really like sunflower seeds and ornamental flowers. I see them everyday at the the 2 sunflower seed feeders. They shred palm fronds and pack them to the nest site tucked in their feathers. These are subsidized LGBs (Little Green Birds).
Actually my first experience with old world parrots of any species and I find their family life interesting.. Glad to have the nesting back. I can now tell adults from fledglings and know what I'm looking at. Adults bring their young to the sunflower seeds. Hang out with the young until they start eating and they join others their age as a flock of the adolescent rosy-faced love birds. As young mature rapidly with mortality likely high, the flock consists of immatures of all levels of maturity. The adult birds continue to bring the young birds to feeders in the morning. Adults feed their immature young until they know what and where. Pecking order and recognized by intensity of redness of head levels? I don't know this but the hormones control eye color is beleived associated with recognition of maturity for Accipiters. Being green these suckers vanish in foliage. When the these adolescents without this rosy faceness show up, flocking hell breaks out. The rosy-faced adults quickly restore order . . . . with their beak. These birds do not segregate by color they segregate by what appears hormone maturity creation of super flock behaviors governed by these hormones. These birds socialize and pair off in their respective mixed family flocks of immatures. They are pairing and breeding as sub-adult. Also observed in other species of birds.
First time I've ever observed some kind of lovebird response I can only describe as some kind of a bird funeral. One morning several years ago a small flock was making huge racket so I went outside to see what was going on. I saw that one got itself hung up (scissored) between 2 lodged palm fronds in my palm and by the time I could rescue the little thing died. I placed it on a stump and small flocks of 2 -4 birds took turns flying down and vocalizing. Dozens did this over at least 30 mins.​

Maybe nothing has changed since Chicxulub except no thunder dragons and lots of mammals.

We bought lovebirds when we got married back in 1989. One bird pecked the other bird to death. Literally. Not much love.

 

[_Rooster]

Not much love.

Likely because they're glorified lizards with gizzards.

 

[UK82]

Only one SEC team makes the Sweet 16, Arkansas. Pitiful. I'd like to hear what Jimmy Dykes says now. This wasn't just a flame out it was an embarrassment. Bad 4 days of basketball. Worst case scenario.

 

[bertfan31]

I was right about the Big 10. They only have 2 teams left after the first weekend. Never thought the SEC would do so badly though.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 59°F and raining. Chance for rain most of the day. We may top our around 78°F for our high.

And then there were Sixteen. Quite a weekend for college basketball. SEC disappointed everyone. Big XII has 3 teams playing next weekend.

Power just went off here twice earlier for about one minute each time. Cable box still trying to come back on. Modern problems.

Monday, Monday....

Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Sawnee - wondering why he was being ordered to report to the CO.

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I'm a loving this, sign me up

 

[warrior-cat]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 59°F and raining. Chance for rain most of the day. We may top our around 78°F for our high.

And then there were Sixteen. Quite a weekend for college basketball. SEC disappointed everyone. Big XII has 3 teams playing next weekend.

Power just went off here twice earlier for about one minute each time. Cable box still trying to come back on. Modern problems.

Monday, Monday....

Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.

Speaking of Modern Problems.

 

[Girthang]

Good morning, D-League!

Puppy free minute. 46° out on its way to a non-florida-balmy 70°. Rain coming in tomorrow night or Wednesday.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

36.9°F and sunny. We are on our way to 73°. I look forward to that.

Ritchie leaves today. I had a fun weekend, I just wish that UK could have make it a great weekend. Auburn stunk really bad in their second game. They got it handed to them by Miami. I never expected that.

Work on taxes today. I hate it.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Last Thursday and Saturday shall live infamously with regards to Kentucky Basketball history.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

70° and sunny not a cloud in the sky. Our high will be a breezy 82° with 0% chance of rain.

I have the 2022 basketball season on the bottom shelf and will move forward. So much to do and my candle is burning at both ends so to speak. I have a whole lot of yard work to do and then get ready for planting. Our landscape had severe damage over the winter months but l have a plan.

 

[_Rooster]

 

[_Rooster]

Loved George Carlin.

Germs! (explicit language)

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Strange things are happening at the gas pump around America. In our area gasoline for regular is down 5 cents a gallon from last week but diesel fuel is up $1.00 a gallon. Truckers have to be upset about this.