Not having running lights can sometimes be a good thing. Running lights are not really necessary on a bright sunny day. Having your lights on constantly can shorten bulb life and having a mechanic change the bulb can be expensive if you can't change the bulb yourself.

Polish sausage is a big part of WAJ's life too, that and claiming TC is rigged.

KK, the movie is not showing in theaters. It's currently in your local cable/ satellite provider in the On Demand/ pay-per-view section. Notes On A Scandal is on my to see list for sure. Saving Private Ryan was an emotional experience for my grandpa when my brother took him to see it. He was unable to finish the movie because it was too real for him. He was in WWII in the Philippines and was actually in the Bataan Death March and survived it. He received a purple heart from the US govt when he immigrated here in the US.

And before I retire to my boudoir John.. this one is for you....After the string hanging out of your ear comment I think this is apropos and very cute......Siz just sent it.


GOTTA LOVE LITTLE BOYS



Two young boys walked into a pharmacy one day, picked out a box of tampons and proceeded to the checkout counter. The man at the counter asked the older boy, 'Son, how old are you?' Eight,' the boy replied. The man continued, 'Do you know what these are used for?' The boy replied, 'Not exactly, but they aren't for me. They're for him. He's my brother. He's four. We saw on TV that if you use these you would be able to swim and ride a bike. Right now, he can't do either one.'

About 4 winters ago our garage was infested with mice and their larger cousins. It seems that the wife was storing extra cat food(dry) in the garage and the rodents were surviving very nicely on the cat food - ironic! We have a bunch of chicken-cats. When we put our cats in the garage and told them to "go sic em", our cats turned tail and ran back into the house. It took over a month for me to get rid of the mice/rats using traditional and sticky rodent traps. The next summer I plugged up all access holes to our garage with concrete.

"Squirrels are just rats with bushy tails" ---that's what an opinionated stranger yelled at the wife and me when we were feeding the squirrels down in Washington DC. My daughter was among those who had won an art award and it was on display in a tunnel leading to the capital bldg. Newt Gingrich spoke to the awardees. So now we have our own squirrel zoo in our backyard. I had to solder extra bars on our bird feeder to keep the squirrels out.

There are no musicians in my family - no one can play an instrument or sing either. One really can't tell if they have a singing voice until they actually hear themselves. I found out when I was in high school and a neighbor lent me his tape recorder that I could not sing on key. My daughter grew up when Madonna was the 'Material Girl'. She paid money to record her voice to the proper accompanyment in the local shopping mall. She made a valiant effort but it just wasn't there - family genes. Somehow her brother got hold of the recording and played it over the high school PA system - sibling rivalry at work.

OHMG we caught one in the sticky trap and mum and I were screaming.
I had to call this wildlife rescuer guy to come and get it in the middle of the night... He only charged 20 dollars. He was used to alligators..lol..It was horrible.
I didn't want to see it suffer... Even a rat.
So from them on I did peanut butter and the regular old traps and they worked 'cept for that one smart one.
BUT I finally got him....BUT by the time I got to him the possum that visits every night had eaten it.lol
Oyyy Wild kingdom down here..I had to put mesh on my dryer vent thing and that stopped them. RATS stay outside..puuuuuulese.
Now good night you little devil you.
You and Simon...Still waters run deep

Hey... can you post some of your mom's art????
I would love to see it????If not I understand but I am very demanding... so I have been told.lol

I've only seen one of Lee's films - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I'll try and see his latest effort - my mother-in-law lived through the Japanese occupation.

I missed this one as we both posted at the same time.
Eeeek.....Hugs for your grandpa
My Uncle Joe was *shell shocked* from it.
That was honestly too much for me...I've
never watched it again and never
will.
We should make peeps watch who send our
kids to war....It was *Atonement * the movie
btw......Which is why I'm still up.
It was driving me nuts as I knew it was wrong and couldn't think of the name to even look it up..I got confused as I will do..lol
BUT I saw *Notes* and that was awesome also...*Atonement* was breathtaking cinematically...Disturbing story but so well done.

The artwork was my daughter's. This was a nationwide high school competition. I'm afraid it wasn't very interesting - just a bowl of fruit. There were pictures on display in the tunnel done by other high schoolers that were more interesting, at least to my eyes. Not to take anything away from my daughter but she sketched her bowl of fruit while stretched out on the livingroom floor watching tv. I have no idea whatever happened to that picture. It was done 15 years ago and she no longer lives with us.

Alligator rescuer guy? You mean the guy who got killed by a manta ray? Just kidding.

So you are saying that rodents are not welcome but marsupials are.

Can't wait to see Mama Mia. I wanted to see the play, but at 100.00 a pop, I couldn't really see the expense, especially since it was in Cincinnati and didn't have any "stars" in it.

I saw Crouching Tiger and loved that movie, but was quite disturbed at the ending. Me likes "happy endings"

I can't watch movies about the Viet Nam War, the Holocost or anything having to do with 9/11. I've tried but just get too emotional. I did see Apocolypse Now many years ago, but couldn't sleep for days afterwards.

I only cook minute rice

A few years ago, I was washing clothes and noticed water gushing out all over everything. Yep, a mouse had chewed through the wiring in the switches so it didn't know to switch off. What a mess!

And, my 94 GMC Safari doesn't have a dinger and I have left my lights on so many times it's rediculous. However it has a battery buddy on it, so it always starts.

And me I'm a Dodge girl. We have two.

I think I've addressed everything except oh yea! Nothin better than 60's & 70's music. Country Joe...Gimme an "F"

lol
Girl whatchyou doon up????
I godda' be up as my brother's ex in laws are coming over soon to get the patio furniture
here and other stuff as I think we are gonna' rent this place seasonally till the market gets better and this stuff is too good to leave to renters.

OF course they are old and have to come at
7 and they get up with the roosters anyway....Because of COURSE there was no other time and no other day as they have to golf and lunch and kabitz and stuff..THEY are a long family history....You don't wanna' know.
BUT I'll tell ya' anyway...lol

My younger bro the fireman almost hit an old lady one night at the club house because she said something REALLY bad about my father who had just died...My father was the president of the committees or whatever for awhile and
or association and these peeps are like
condo Nazi's....IF you knew...So my father who
was less than a smooth tawker shall
we say ...made the Nazi's angry as all they did
was b*tch 24/7!!
Every time my brother comes we say.....
Hey Bill you gonna' beat up any old ladies this time??

YES our family is full of the family jokes.
We all had to hold him back... YES he was
REALLY drunk and YES they called the cops.
Peeps were holding her back too.
That lady coulda' beat him up!

BUT suffice it to say... they weren't too happy with him after that....BUT we have made up as his ex wife did pass away a few years ago..SHE was grrr...Sorry to say.NO really BIG time.
No like really...Mean girl......BUT she did have her ok moments but rarely and her family are all so sweet. Go figure....They were all scared of her..Oh Lawd familes are the stuff of novels and I just wrote one... I'll be back with cawwffee and music..... We gonna' 70s out.

Hey you pulled Psh and filtted.

Well anyhow take these John.
OK Al Green......Need I say more???
My mother took us to see him at the theater
in the round which was a big new thing
then...Like some kind of new high tech discovery... We were real little but how sweet.
AND AI were talking about our songs that we love to sing out loud to..SO... YES the Stylistics are one!!!!YES Betcha by golly wow.lol

Oh yeah Elvis Costello stole the wow for
Flutter and Wow(my new favorite song)
that plagiarist.
And of course the Boy himself....George
by George and feel free to sing out loud!!!



Oh dear Gawd how could I???


Yes let's



Let's hear it for the boy

I used to pick parts for Chrysler/Mopar for a year.OHMG WHAT an experience.THAT'S the other book...150 men to 10 women.
Oh LAWD!!!
Uhhhh oh dear.
Really WHAT a story it could be a movie.
The things those guys did.
UAW....They actually plotted to kill a manager
lol...NO LIE
I always thought it was a joke but I found out later....NO JOKE..They were serious but never did it thank GAWD!
YES he was a pr*ck ...A REAL one...but geeeeeeeezuz..they didn't play those guys.
THAT'S not even the worst of it..lol
And you wonder why your car parts are soooo expensive....I know why.

Speaking as a "ex" Ford mechanic I have to let you know that the Contour was one of Fords worst ideas ever....it was a "transition "vehicle"... something to sell since we don't have the planned line ready. Contours had a ton of recalls for dumb stuff and if it has been reliable for you , you have been lucky. Also, if you have a trans go out get ready for a $3000.00 bill (which is more than the car is worth). My reccomendation...drive it till it quits then haul it to the wrecking yard.....do not invest any "real" money in it. Please note ,I do like Ford products... all cars in my family are Fords... I drive a 93 Aerostar with 210,000 miles on it.

Rodent damage is actually a common occurance...what is really nasty is when a critter crawls into the heater/ a/c system and dies.... getting the smell out can be costly ...as much as a $1000.00 on some cars.

Who would have thought that you were just a senior hippie..... Country Joe???? Actually, all of the groups from that era were and are great. Just a note on Tony Snow.... I saw on the news that one of his hobbies was music.... he self taught himself to play flute listening to Jethro Tull and actually got to be friends with Ian Anderson to the point that Ian let him play with Tull in a few gigs.

One accronym explains car part price......UAW. I will not deny unions were important to workers in thier day but unions today spend more money trying to stay in power than they do trying to help thier members.

Being a daughter of a union man,UMWA,I say Amen Brother!

Yea, just an old hippie me. Actually I was quite young for Woodstock, but was really mature for my age Hitched hike to Oxford (Miami University) once to see Timothy Leary, and got my butt beat when I got back home. Used to sit under the "fever tree"AND MEDITATE ABOUT THE VIET NAM WAR FOR HOURS (sorry caps were locked darn computer) I was politically aware at a very young age and a staunch LIBERAL. Can you believe that? Cause you know my polictical views now. Tony Snow was great,saw some video of him playing too! Jethro Tull Rocks! Do you realize some people still think Jethro is a person. The band not the poet.

Next month our little hometown fair is having a cooking contest. You are allowed to bring three "condiments" (assuming salt & pepper are gimmies). You bring your condiments and an eletric skillet. They supply you with five mystery ingredients and we're off. I thought about mayo (just in case). Any suggestions on the other two. Not having a clue about the ingredients is a little off putting. It feels like a QF challenge.
Made mojito marinated chicken kabobs wrapped in bacon yesterday. They were a hit.

Garlic, always garlic in everything I cook. (bring the mints)

R U on the phone?

How about the Festiva, and Pinto and how can we forget the Edsel?

We drive 4 cars between the two of us, depending on what we're doing. 94 GMC Safari 232,000, 2002 Hyundai 207,000, 2003 Dodge 2500 diesel 48,000 and 2007 Dodge Caliber 12,000. We drive em till they drop or are too expensive to fix. All of these were bought new, synthetic oil and premium filter every 3000. The best mechanical one has been the Hyundai. We've done nothing except oil changes, tires, brakes, headlights and batteries on this. By the way, we get 20+mpg on our truck.

lol

OFF the hook as it never stops ringing anymore..Please I have call waiting baby.lol
I guess you mean me...They won't leave...If you
want call me in about 10 minutes.You will be the reason I can get them to go.
They are outside looking at EVERYTHING...I'm like...No.. you can't have the grill too...lol
Peeps kill me.

Pick up the receiver and place on cradle. Yes that's the way you do it. Still OFF KK. and get a Hibatchi.

I fixed my EVRYTHING on that post cause they sho be looking.. I'm trying to wake up my son as he has their friends computer he fixed..Lawd that kid can sleep and he has to go to work.
AND they can tawk...lololol
They are very sweet but I got stuff to do damnit....OK I'm hanging it up now.

Repeat instructions for hanging up phone.

LOL...about your fraidy cats!!! They sound like my dog. She is a min pin and she weighs about 6 or 7 pounds. She thinks she is tough, and is always chasing cow birds outside. If she ever catches one she won't know what to do.

I would say mustard... ketchup of course and the mojo maybe??How did you like it??
Isn't it delicious???I put it in my black beans the other day...it's so good on just about everything.......Look up ropo vejo?(sp) Flank steak and marinate it in that.
mmmmmmmm

OK John... Shy and AI got me into the 70s
and we used to go to NH a lot as my brother's wife and all and we would just play these songs REAL loud and SING our arses off...years later
all the way up to NH..Now I TRIED to sing and they didn't even kick me out on the highway...........Now THAT'S LOVE!!
Our BIG hit though was John Denver
*Country Roads*as we were sho' on some.

So sing it loud and proud and wow this is
sure a memory lane moment for moi.

My mother took us to see her too
awww....Miss Gladys Knight and her
ever lovin' pips.

What exactly are Pips ????



The Queen of songs....Ms. Carol King
I LOVE this song.

Miles are only thoughts really


This one too...lol


It is is MAGIC!!!


YES Air Supply..How could we not???


Come on it's a great song!!!


And Mister Rod [expletive deleted] Stewart.
The second song should be in my top 10...*Reason to Believe.*
swooon...to die for swooon
and *Maggie May* of course didn't everyone
sing that at the top of your lungs!!!

I am serious music heaven right now.
Thanks guys for heading me down this path.
(Shhhhh John will think it's boring..lol)

Wake up stoooonad!



Give me reasons baby


Oh GAWD Gary Wright... *Dream Weaver*
going there now.

OMG....had to delurk on this! I had a 1975 gremlin!

Welcome to this crazy board! I had a VERY GOOD experience in a Gremlin. I mean the car had ROOM! I had forgotten all about it until you reminded me. thanks for the memories Is this a blush!

I rhink I've finally come to the realization
that I'm NOT a big Tull fan.I saw them at Shea Stadium in cool box press seats as one of my friend's progressive parents took us when we were like really young to see them and we felt like royalty.
We had room service.
YES .....we did get a contact high on the way to the bathroom.
UAW......Hmm ....unions are
good and bad to me..Even still.
BUT I saw them in action.
It is AMAZING..I mean it really is.
What those guys did and what they got away
with..I could write a book.. I also live in a right to work state... NO protection..NONE and can't WAIT to be in NY where they cannot treat you like dirt for no reason...NY don't play.
Unions in theory are the way to go
JMVNSHO

I saw Otis Redding the year before he died. He was playing in some theater in the Bedford-Stuyvestant area of NY City. I had to walk over broken glass to get to the theater. I tried to see James Brown that same year at the Apollo Theater but the triple line to the ticket window stretched around the block so I gave up. A few years ago when I was still working the wife asked me to change the CD I had in my CD/FM clock radio. The opening song on the CD was "In The Midnight Hour" by Wilson Pickett - funny song to get up from.

Theater in the round - I mentioned in an earlier post that my daughter was one of the children in "The King and I" put on by a touring troupe. That was in a theater in the round. Over the years we attended many shows in that theater - Dionne Warwick, Joan Baez, Tony Bennett and many more that I can't remember.

My son is now working in NH after moving from Framingham Ma, Tiffani Faison's hometown. Working in those two states have ruined him - he's now an ultra-liberal - repeats everything the far left media prints and has photoshopped all of the pictures of me taken on our USA tour where I have on my Yankee baseball hat with a red "B".

Gladys Knight and her Pips - should have been renamed Gladys knight and her Raisins. I still play her "Midnight Train To Georgia". What are Pips you ask - there are many definitions - one of them is a small fruit seed which fits in with raisins.

Take Me Home - Country Roads. I grew up on a country road - it was rough trying to learn to ride a bicycle on a dirt road with pot holes all over.

Carole King - wrote my favorite Aretha Franklin song -"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman"

John...... you a cool dude
I would have KILLED to see them......OK maybe NOT really kill but maim..GOD you are one lucky man.Otis Redding sings one of my MOST
favorite songs of all time
*Try A Little Tenderness*
It's so get down and dirty and sweet and it's just got it all.
I'm going now and to Otis yeah my parents saw all them at that theatre in the round.lol
My parents had a very active social life really now that I think of it...AND my parents loved music....hmmm never even realized that.
They did....They just never really talked about it.

You know THOSE kinds if parents...I didn't
even know what my father did for a living for years really I know he went SOMEWHERE every day...He would mumble if we asked him.

They said Tony Bennet was boring actually.BUT after old swivel hips Tom Jones what did they excpect???
Tom is REALLY great too... I had a poster
of him on my wall in grade school then
I became too hip for him... Now I'm back full circle...Elvis Presley too.... I thought he was a dork in my teens ..Mum threw her undies to him and my Aunt Carol.... GAWD I godda' call her....The punkers are gonna' stop and see her in Charlotte and I think she may have left town.
NO ...she can't be reached my brother
said
Well she had a thing for Englebert so mum and AC would always fight over who was better.
I say Tom...AC sorry and I'm going to get me some Tom right now...And Otis and all of the above.Thanks!

Oh your daughter and I share the same delusions of grandeur
I can't sing either and played Mrs. Hale in 3rd grade... my claim to fame to a standing ovation and the reviews were stellar.
I was REALLY LOUD.. They said I was the only one who could be heard all the way in the
back.....Comes in handy if there is a fire.lol

Well kids the bios are up for Season 5 of PR and not only that they tell you every challenge and who the guest judges is on every epi...

During the 60's I spent a lot of weekends in a nightclub situated in the middle of a black ghetto area. There was a local band that played soul music and customers like myself would crowd up in front of the stage area and dance ( I was pretty lousy compared to the other couples). When I first took a date there she wouldn't take her coat off - all those ominous black dudes. But then she went with me to that nightclub on a very regular basis - the band and the lead singer was that good. Beer was a buck a bottle. I used to stay till the place closed which was around 2 am. I used to drive home with the moonroof in my '66 Beetle open - in the winter the incoming air would sober me right up.

Tony Bennett - Besides the theater in the round we also saw him twice in a large indoor theater setting while paying good money. The best deal we got was when we attended a festival in the Catskill Mts and got to see and hear him for free. My wife is his biggest fan.

My cousin Janet was TB and wife's nanny for
awhile. I gots the scoop

My cousin Tommy..yes MoHub my Aunt Carol the Scrabble whiz's son lives in Tribeca
and I haven't been to the Village in
YEARS and... I'll be going to the little gritty clubs once more...Some of my most wonderful times in my life were spent in the Village.
The best music in the world there.
Bob Dylan's tattered ghost on every corner.
I didn't spend much time in Harlem.
Got lost there one night.lol
But things sure are different now than back then..Thank GAWD
Very sad and I'm just now reading about Josephine Baker..That's why I say... never forget.

Oh and my brother had a Beetle to that he gave me one summer when he went to live in England and when he got back he and his friends drove it to college.....Oswego btw.. and on the way the engine seized.. I never put oil in it.lol.. Oh LAWD he's still mad at me for that one.I still love a Beetle.
AND the good Beatles of course.
I'm stuck here with no car as my battery needs tweaking or something don't ask and my son didn't have the right tools and now he's at work
and I need to go OUT and get stuff...ahhhh.
Geico will only jump me.
I'm caught in a trap... I can't walk out
'cause it's raining really hard.
Yeah I'll go Elvis and wait.

Gotcha beat! I had a 1966 Corvair!

Someday I am going to have to tell you about my cousin(s): 1st degrees of separation. My daughter got to rub elbows with famous people at a very young age. My hobby is bowling - I took my kids to a demo by [expletive deleted] Weber and his son Pete. [expletive deleted] did trick shots before bowling his son in a head-to-head match. One of the trick shots [expletive deleted] did was to shoot the 7-10 split using two bowling balls at the same time. During the match against son Pete he got a real 7-10 split. my daughter, who must have been 5 or 6 years old at the time, went up to [expletive deleted] and suggested that he use two balls to make the split. About the same time we attended a talent show hosted by Ben Vereen and had front row seats. I don't remember the circumstances but Ben called my daughter up on stage with him.

I used to visit the Village (Greenwich) occasionally back in the 1960's. I really wasn't into the hippie movement and have always been pretty conventional. My brother was into it and attended and graduated from one of the most liberal colleges of that era - Antioch College, Yellow Springs Ohio.

Harlem: I haven't been there in years. I used to date a girl that lived on 125th street. Bill Clinton has his office in Harlem.

If you go back John you can see my post about Ben Vereen and Benny Hinn.On the other board..I'm way too tired to type all that now but OHMG I couldn't believe my eyes.
I'l go get it tomox if you can't find it.
The Village is where I would live if I could.
It's as George Carlin said..a possibilty all the time..Well he said it of NY in general.
Something like that..lol
It electrifies me....the Village.

I'm SERIOUSLY getting excited.
No more trepidation here. I'm so homesick.
We are so very lucky to be NYer's.
I do so love NY!
Here's some Sinead ..'Cause nothing compares.
Play really loud and sing!!!

No can't think of nothing

Psh's third birthday month present.
Since it's Bastille Day..Some thing French of course and something that tickles?????










I dunno' they look French to moi????
You know those French..Wee wee.
Don't you say it.

I am so happy for you, KK. When you get to NY, I sure hope you will not be so busy that you quit posting. I would never want to live in the city limits of even a small town. I love the country and value my privacy....but, I do like hearing about bright lights and big cities.

The 1966 Beetle was the first car I ever owned. I bought it the year my father retired. Up to that point he would drop me off at college on the way to his workplace.

It was a great little car but had its drawbacks such as being underpowered on hills (only 50 hp). Dangerous to drive in a crosswind or when a tractor trailer went by.

I am very familiar with Beetles. My uncle (the political one) gave me my first ride in a Beetle (1953) which was his first car - 30 hp. Then my best friend (and best man at my wedding) had a different Beetle every month during the 1960's. His father was a partner in a New Rochelle VW dealership. The most memorable trip in one of his Beetles was when we went up to Maine to spend a week on Monhegan Island, an artist and birdwatcher magnet. I had just had surgery on my left ear(artificial stapli installed) and was draining. We also had a neighbor girl with us whose sister was working on the island. Before taking the mailboat out to the island we spent the night in the woods trying to catch some sleep. My friend took the driver's seat with his legs hanging out the door (he's 6'4"), the neighbor girl got the back seat, while I got the luggage area behind the back seat. Many adventure on that island.

The last Beetle I bought was a 1999 turbocharged New Beetle - great engine. I traded it in at 60,000 miles because it was too expensive to service. It had to be taken apart to change parts I would ordinarily do myself like changing a light bulb or battery - $75 to change a $5 light bulb or $225 to install a new battery. I used to change my own oil but gave up on the Beetle as you needed a special wrench to operate in the Beetle's extremely tight quarters.

The car I drive now, a 2005 Mazda 3 hatchback is nothing to get excited about as it is very boring to drive but reliability is top notch.

I thought that the new battery was installed in your Maxima.

Chuc,
How did your crab rangoon/ eggroll debacle go?

For the cook-off ingredients I will suggest: apple cider vinegar, mustard, and honey

Dangnabit chafing dishes. Thankfully everything went really fast so they didn't have time to get too uncrunchy.
I was thinking about cider vinegar too. Maybe some green chilies or the mojo KK suggested. Still thinking about the mayo. I wish I could have a clue to what the secret ingredients are but I guess that would defeat the purpose. Darn it anyway.

I think I'm gonna' be really busy.And for that I'm grateful.It depends on whether my brother moves in with his finance ' or not..Oy that story but it seems on again.lol Those two.
IF he stays I 'll help with the kids too.
BUT I don't care either way...I'll be outta' here and where I want to be.

There is so much to do there and I won't be in the city at all TT..I'll be where we used to consider the boon docks growing up.lol It's about 40 minutes to the GW Bridge and 10 minutes to Bear Mt. my favorite place around there...Here's some pix. the town..I love it there..Paige my friend since I was 18 who plays trivia used to live there for awhile..It's old and historic with battle grounds and RIGHT on the Hudson. You can see the Hudson from my brother's front window...So you get it all ...City and country. Perfectumundo. I'll be here TT for TC for sure.NOT even NY can keep me from
TC.


Main Street and YES A Bob Seeger song.