I knew the Boxer's that I've personally come in contact with to be friendly, that is why I reacted that way. Thanks though, extremely interesting. (I do laugh at the snorting that the pug-noses seem to have.)
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I knew the Boxer's that I've personally come in contact with to be friendly, that is why I reacted that way. Thanks though, extremely interesting. (I do laugh at the snorting that the pug-noses seem to have.)
I'm wit ya. I will do some ocean swimming but if I cannot see the entire area and I mean everything in fresh or brackish water, I am not swimming in the southern most areas of the U.S. ... In my brief few years of experiences on the coasts (Atlantic and Gulf coasts I have seen some, how do you say... varmints....
Glad to see you back. Wishing you a speedy recovery and good health.
Congratulations to your granddaughter. That's definitely something to be proud of.Acceptance Day had beautiful weather to hold their festivities. My son emailed me some photos of our granddaughter being accepted as a Fourth Year Cadet at the USAF Academy. The CBT is behind and the hard work has paid off. This is a day she will remember the rest of her life.
My son had a little over an hour with her before they had to say goodbye. He returns home tomorrow. Enjoy the weekend young lady because Monday morning classes begin. Squadron Viking 9 report. Just keep smiling and trust in God. All is well.
A couple of interesting things about Roger. To get him to play his two years in St Louis, Auggie Busch set him up with a large beer distributorship in Florida. Jacksonville I think.
Roger and Whitey Herzog had been teammates in Kansas City at one time and were friends. They lived in the same town in 1961 when Roger hit 61 homers. Whitey was building a new home after the season, actually physically building it himself. Whitey said first thing every morning Roger showed up with his lunch box and tools. He and Roger built the house and Roger would not take a penny for his help.
Moon went to college and was friends with the son of Musial. He was a star football player. Moon actually started as an outfielder. When the Cards got Maris, they moved Moon to third to make room for Maris.
Last year about the middle of August we transplanted a Maple seedling (in honor of JP) that had taken root in Mrs. M flower bed and asked the D how to protect it during the winter. I think it was Mr. Rooster who told us to try to protect it by putting something around it. It made it through the winter just fine, it was about 6" tall and now one year later JP's tree is 8' tall!!!!! Why ask Siri when I can ask the D!!!!
65 years ago today, AB went national, and made Dick Clark a household name. Loved the 70s broadcasts.
Me and the BB got our ears lowered this afternoon. My darling cuts our hair. One thing that has been a serious challenge is cutting the BB's hair. Been a war ever since we started. (My Darling was a Barber for several years and a good one. When we lived in SA she made a heck of a living.) Anyway the last few haircuts the BB has settled down in bunches. He even suggested the haircut this evening to My darlings and my complete shock. (He did change his mind later but they are tons easier than they have been.)
Anyway, it has been a while. Have a peaceful evening.... John Wayne may actually be calling. (The Quiet Man... unless I change me mind...)
(Been a long while since I watched a John Wayne movie...)
Anyway, it has been a while. Have a peaceful evening.... John Wayne may actually be calling. (The Quiet Man... unless I change me mind...)
(Been a long while since I watched a John Wayne movie...)
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Which one is you in the picture Warrior?
Which one is you in the picture Warrior?
Not Warrior but the one with the Meanest Mug in that group of Mean Mugs...
(Easily spotted in my way of thinking...)Another Roger Maris tidbit. Roger holds the national high school record for most return touchdowns in one game. Two kickoff, one punt and one interception. He scored a fifth touchdown rushing.
Bernie, I love your St Louis Cardinal stories, keep them coming. When I was a boy the Cards and Yankees both held Spring Training in St Petersburg, FL. I attended many exhibition games to watch them play. Musial was a huge part of my youth and I admired him and his batting stance that was so different from everybody else. Another of one my favorite Cards was Red Schoendienst. He played a mean second base with his sure hands and quick throw to first. Hall of Famer.
Roger Maris had the Budweiser distributorship in Gainesville, FL. right off of I-75. He built it into one of the best in the country (I guess Gator fans love their beer) and it became the subject of a high profile court case when Budweiser tried to swindle the family out of it by making false accusations. The family filed a $250 million dollar lawsuit and the Maris family settled for $125 million. Some say they actually got more than that because some other financial matters.
Here is a short clip of Red. You could always count on him for a clutch hit. I really do love the old baseball stories the D League posts. Good stuff and fond memories for me because I grew up with the greats of the game.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=red+schoendienst&&view=detail&mid=8D886C4D0AC6E2CC7F668D886C4D0AC6E2CC7F66&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=/videos/search?q=red+schoendienst&FORM=HDRSC3
Good morning from ATX. Currently 79°F and clear with a few clouds. Slight rain chance. We may keep it in double-digits for a change. Stay tuned.
Found a slightly ripped $1 bill while out walking by auto repair shops near end of our street yesterday. Some lady strolled right past the money just before me and failed to see it. Crazy.
Service appointments scheduled today. Must take Rogue to dealer at 9:30 am and truck at 12:30 pm. Considering Rudy's BBQ for dinner.
Heading out for a hike soon.
Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.
Found a slightly ripped $1 bill while out walking by auto repair shops near end of our street yesterday. Some lady strolled right past the money just before me and failed to see it. Crazy.
Service appointments scheduled today. Must take Rogue to dealer at 9:30 am and truck at 12:30 pm. Considering Rudy's BBQ for dinner.
Heading out for a hike soon.
Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.
Good Morning D
Another nice August day in these parts. We will have plenty of sunshine coming our way as we hit a high of 90°. Currently we are 73° as the sun rises and starts to warm us up. Our chance of rain this afternoon is the usual 40%.
I have an important meeting this morning at 9:00 AM down in Dade City, so I best get going. I wish all a healthy day with sunshine and good tidings. Prayers for all in need.
I love the Coast of Scotland
Another nice August day in these parts. We will have plenty of sunshine coming our way as we hit a high of 90°. Currently we are 73° as the sun rises and starts to warm us up. Our chance of rain this afternoon is the usual 40%.
I have an important meeting this morning at 9:00 AM down in Dade City, so I best get going. I wish all a healthy day with sunshine and good tidings. Prayers for all in need.
I love the Coast of Scotland
Thanks for the earworm @AustinTXCat now I have the bandstand music in my head.
The cool one.
Which one is you in the picture Warrior?
That was my biggest smile ever in a picture.Not Warrior but the one with the Meanest Mug in that group of Mean Mugs...
Going out this morning to have new tires put on the Sportage. More money spent to bring it up to safer conditions and road worthy.Good morning from ATX. Currently 79°F and clear with a few clouds. Slight rain chance. We may keep it in double-digits for a change. Stay tuned.
Found a slightly ripped $1 bill while out walking by auto repair shops near end of our street yesterday. Some lady strolled right past the money just before me and failed to see it. Crazy.
Service appointments scheduled today. Must take Rogue to dealer at 9:30 am and truck at 12:30 pm. Considering Rudy's BBQ for dinner.
Heading out for a hike soon.
Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.
Good morning folks. A beautiful day but already a bit muggy. Some of you may recall that a couple months ago I got a cortisone shot in my knee and had a pint or so of fluid drained off it Yesterday was the day the cortisone completely wore off, and my knee is back to cantaloupe size.
So, I’m back to a subtle but noticeable limp. In a few weeks I’ll be back to Deputy Chester limp, and I’ll have to go back for another round.
But I can still get around and the woods are full of interesting things, so back to my hike.
I hope you all have a good day.
So, I’m back to a subtle but noticeable limp. In a few weeks I’ll be back to Deputy Chester limp, and I’ll have to go back for another round.
But I can still get around and the woods are full of interesting things, so back to my hike.
I hope you all have a good day.
Good morning D-League. It's currently 72° and rainy here in Eastern Kentucky. This afternoon will bring a chance of isolated thunderstorms and a high of 84°.
Here's to good health for all in the D-League. Stay safe on this Saturday.
Here's to good health for all in the D-League. Stay safe on this Saturday.
I have seen cotton mouths in the Green and Barren rivers in my part of Kentucky; however, the lake that my house was on in Jacksonville, FL was full of moccasin's. We even had one in the den one night. Sherry went ballistic.
So I would say that it is best to watch where you swim in any southern state. Plus my dad always said that a copper head was nothing but a dry land cotton mouth. The area I grew up in is copper head and rattle snake country.
Good morning. It is a sunny 80.4°F and we are supposed to get to 87° with a 50% chance of rain. I bet we make 90!
May start a rack of ribs today if I get to feeling squirrely.
You all have a good Saturday.
May start a rack of ribs today if I get to feeling squirrely.
You all have a good Saturday.
I did know him casually as he was a top dog and I was down in the middle. However, I did not come into contact with him until we merged with the B&O/C&O side of the house.
In 1983 the B&O/C&O offered me a job in Cincinnati for their automotive team and Hays was in the office the day of my interview. I stuck with the Family Lines side and now I am glad I did as my retirement was better on that side of the house.
Hays always looked like Cawood Ledford to me.
Did you know he just passed? Long obit in WSJ today.
Not until you posted.
Sir, (Good afternoon all...)
My Dad used to say.."A rattlesnake will kill you, a copperhead would make you wish you were dead." (Not sure of the entire truth in that area but it sounded about right.)
I cannot tell you how many times I should have been rattlesnake and copperhead bitten. At least six times off the top of my head.
That is one of many reasons I KNOW God protects me personally. God intervened saving my life so many times.
Snakes, knives, guns, ... My prayer and desire is, I will fulfill God's plan for me ...There must be something he has in store for me in that area. I know this, without a doubt.
Here's the obit:
"When Hays T. Watkins was 4, his parents noticed that he had memorized at least two dozen license-plate numbers and could match them with names of the cars’ owners. A newspaper in Jefferson County, Ky., described him as a “perfectly normal boy” with “an abnormal love for reading numbers.”
True to form, the numbers prodigy grew up to be an accountant. Less predictable was his ascent from a junior staff job at the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway to the chief executive’s post at the rail giant CSX Corp.
Mr. Watkins, who described himself as a country boy, negotiated the 1980 merger of Chessie System Inc., owner of the C&O, with Seaboard Coast Line Industries Inc., creating CSX. Mr. Watkins ran CSX—variously as president, CEO and chairman—until he retired in 1991.
Eager to create one-stop shipping, Mr. Watkins launched a trucking business and acquired Sea-Land Corp., an operator of container ships. CSX also bought barge and gas-pipeline operations. The company later sold most of those assets to focus on rail services. Customers relied on logistics companies to find the most efficient ways to move freight.
Mr. Watkins died July 29 at the age of 96.
He never had a career plan. “Everyone would be better off, I believe, if they simply concentrated on doing their very best and then basically let nature take its course,” he wrote.
As a rail CEO, Mr. Watkins inherited an unusual asset—the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia, which came with three golf courses, riding stables and a bunker designed to serve as a secret nuclear-bomb shelter for members of Congress. It had been purchased in 1910 by the C&O railroad.
Mr. Watkins loved the Greenbrier and decided to add other resorts. In 1986, CSX bought two Caribbean resorts and a third in Jackson Hole, Wyo., from Laurance S. Rockefeller. Two years later, under pressure from investors to stick to the core business, CSX sold those resorts for a sizable profit.
The Greenbrier, in bankruptcy proceedings, was sold in 2009 to Jim Justice, now governor of West Virginia.
Hays Thomas Watkins Jr. was born Jan. 26, 1926, near Louisville, Ky. The family moved to a farm, where they grew tobacco and corn, after his father lost his job as a bank cashier during the Depression. Young Hays learned to steer a horse-drawn plow and graduated as the valedictorian of his high-school class in New Castle, Ky., at age 16.
Determined to escape farming life, he enrolled at what is now Western Kentucky University, where he supported himself by waiting on tables at a boarding house. He joined the Army near the end of World War II, learned Japanese as part of preparations for a planned invasion, and then was sent to the Panama Canal Zone after Japan surrendered.
Mr. Watkins resumed his studies and earned a degree in accounting. He followed that up with an M.B.A. degree from Northwestern University, where his thesis was on “the separation of railroad operating expenses between freight and passenger services.”
The C&O hired him in early 1949, only to lay him off two months later when a coal strike slashed revenue. He briefly returned to the farm and hitched himself to the plow before being rehired by the C&O.
He met Betty Jean Wright on a blind date. They married a year later, in 1950.
He worked for a spell as an internal auditor at the railroad company. “One of our more interesting findings,” he wrote later, “was the lack of basic accounting knowledge by officers and key employees of the accounting department.” He created a course to teach them the basics.
Eventually he caught the eye of Cyrus S. Eaton, chairman of the rail company, and began attending board meetings to provide financial data. In early 1971, to his own surprise, he was named chief executive of what became Chessie System. During his first year as CEO, another coal strike cut deeply into revenue. The company skipped dividend payments for the first time since 1922. Mr. Watkins endured calls from furious investors.
As railroads lost freight business to trucking rivals, Mr. Watkins wanted to diversify and combine various means of moving freight under one corporate umbrella, he wrote in a 2001 memoir, “Just Call Me Hays.” The company in 1981 advertised “a truck-rail-truck combo providing door-to-door, single-system freight service at money-saving prices.”
Customers, however, were accustomed to working with a variety of transport companies, and most didn’t feel the need for a single provider. “They just were not going to change,” Mr. Watkins concluded later.
Diversification into energy and resorts didn’t pan out. Wall Street analysts “still looked at us as a railroad,” he wrote. “Everything else was extraneous.” As the company ventured into new realms, some of the railroad equipment deteriorated, and CSX lost market share. By the late 1980s, CSX had begun selling off peripheral activities and concentrating on its core.
Today, CSX doesn’t own barges or ships. About 93% of revenue comes from railroad operations, though the company also has a modest position in trucking. Last year it acquired a trucking company specializing in transport of bulk liquid chemicals.
Mr. Watkins, who lived near Richmond, Va., is survived by his wife of 72 years, Betty Watkins, along with a son, three grandchildren and a great grandson.
He hated sloppy desks and was eager to toss unessential papers. A neat desk, he wrote, is “the sign of a neat, quick mind.” He worked on the New York Times crossword puzzle daily, in ink. In his retirement, he researched his family roots in England, Ireland and Germany. His genealogical database, stored in large ringed binders, contained about 30,000 names—another memorable number."
The wife is having the front windshield re-tinted on her Q5. They will remove the old and put on a new one. It is legal in Florida to tint you front windows but there is a limit as to how dark you can get it.
Tinted windows are a must down here.
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Good advice. Be aware of your environment. The most venomous snakes down here are
- Cottonmouth or "water moccasin"
- Timber rattlesnake
- Dusky pygmy rattlesnake
- Eastern diamondback
- Eastern coral snake
- Copperhead. It is very rare around here so not much of a threat.
Sir,
My commuter car. (A 2012 Mazda 3) has tinted windows where the tint is bubbling off the glass in several areas. I have a utility razor that I was going to attempt to remove the tint but haven't tried yet. (The tint is on the side glasses (all of them)). It is unsightly. (It is the car I bought my youngest daughter new when we went to Korea in 2012. (She lived in Texas in SA then. (That heat and sun is brutal.) (She never used the sun shield I bought her and the dash warped but just a little.) Yeah it is a hand me down back to me.
I'd drive that car to Colorado and all I'd do is check the tire pressure and clean the front glass. 70k miles now. (I'd buy a new car but the darned taxes are so stupid here ANNUALLY. (Just got my annual tax bill on this one. $62.00. My other car a 2015 Camry tax bill is: $380.00 in comparison. My daughter owns a 2019 Rav4 and that bill was $980.00 , yes ANNUALLY.) This Mazda has a salvage title due to hail damage from a SA hail storm.) Just perfect as a commuter car. I could sell it any time here and have had several offers.
I wanted to try to put new tint on but was concerned about doing that part myself. I think I will attempt that today or tomorrow. (Taking off the old tint.) May look for a youtube video first.
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I was in Sales and Marketing and we were assigned an attorney to keep us out of jail. My assigned attorney was Fred. Fred lived down in the Mandarin, FL area. He ended up catching two Coral snakes in his yard. They are little but deadly.
Sir, I have never ran into or seen one of those in real life. I can pass on that experience. I will take your word on it.
Z
Now, the bad boys below you want to avoid. Took this photo in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, in the old Northwest Frontier Province of what was once India, in 2001, of a roadside attraction. My guide told me the secret is that as long as the snake is curled in the basket, it can't strike very far.
Fair enough, but somehow about 9,000 people in Pakistan are killed by snakes every year. Of course, that's a fraction of India's toll. Wrap your mind around this: Between the year 2000 and 2019, an estimated 1.2 MILLION people in India died of snakebite - an average of about 58,000 a year. Mind blowing.
Poisonous snakes are not much of a threat around Maryland. In theory the Cottonmouth extends to this area but I've never seen one. Oddly enough, we've had a run of Copperhead sightings - including by me - in the forested area not that far from my house. They are not an aggressive snake and it would be bad luck if you stumbled on one in a place where it had no choice but to bite you.
Now, the bad boys below you want to avoid. Took this photo in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, in the old Northwest Frontier Province of what was once India, in 2001, of a roadside attraction. My guide told me the secret is that as long as the snake is curled in the basket, it can't strike very far.
Fair enough, but somehow about 9,000 people in Pakistan are killed by snakes every year. Of course, that's a fraction of India's toll. Wrap your mind around this: Between the year 2000 and 2019, an estimated 1.2 MILLION people in India died of snakebite - an average of about 58,000 a year. Mind blowing.
They are ALL Cobra's to me, and I never have ever seen or "heared" of one of those non-aggressive copperheads. I had a copperhead strike at me six or seven times hitting my gear twice but not piercing skin before I could get away.
Had a copperhead on a porch step strike at a leaf that passed by it during an inspection at a home in Cox's Creek years ago. He saw me then and dropped off that step straight toward me BUT, I had an inspection tool in my hand that was about five feet long and that copperhead died a grizzly death that day. (I have pics somewhere.)
May have been the temperature as it does have to be warm consistently for snakes to become highly active and aggressive. Copperheads in my encounters are mean and nasty. (Of course a garden snake is a Cobra to me.)
The summer I was 19 I worked a pipeline job in eastern Montana outside the town of Wibaux. The local paper had articles about how conditions had conspired (too much rain or not enough, too hot or not hot enough, I can’t remember) to create conditions for a prairie rattlesnake infestation. There’s a job on the pipeline to be at the very front of the crew turning the seams in the pipe so they didn’t line up. The two guys doing that said every morning a bunch of small rattlers would crawl up by the steel pipe to absorb the heat radiating off.
So those two young guys killed an untold number of snakes that summer. The crew boss gave them time to skin them and put the meat on ice. They’d grill it up out on the right-of-way on Saturday evening. I tried a bite, don’t remember it being anything special. But those guys also had figured out how to stretch the skins on boards and brush some sort of clear laquer on them to turn them into belts and hatbands. I do wish I’d bought one of those.
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I also hate snakes. The first time I was old enough to go hunting with dad, we came upon a copperhead. I had a single shot 410. He said shoot it and I did.
Those little bastards.
We lived in Vero Beach back in 1953 and it was still pretty much of a wilderness then. My best friend was a boy name David Connell and he was raised in the backwoods swamps. I spent many hours in the swamp with him but I never was quite as daring as he was. He had no fear. Once we spotted a cotton mouth dashing under a rotten log next to a canal and he took his stick and chased after it. It got into a nest of them but still would not back down. Barefoot and all. Now this kid was about 10 years old. He managed to run a stick down the throat of one of them and slung it as hard as he could and it landed about 50 feet away from me. It started toward me and I got on my bike and said good-bye cruel world. David kept fighting them.
He grew up to be an Army Ranger, Airborne and crazy. His 9 year old sister was my first love and she was a swamp girl too. She ended up living in Colorado Springs and ran a coffee house for wayward skiers. Strange how things happen in life.
But David never got bit and it was only by the Grace of God. He had a praying mother.
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