My Pool is a Money Pit

Pool                          230
Chemicals                 130
Stronger pump          220
Pool Vacuum            120
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Total so far               600

Water bill to come:    ??????

Ack!!

Hot Hot Hot

Its June 17 and it was 107 today.   Gonna be a long summer!!

Turtle, passing through

I saw this little guy walking through my backyard a few days ago.  Alas, he just stopped for a photo op and moved on.   He was probably a celebrity turtle even though he was not wearing sunglasses and did not have a body guard.

Well, the Weiner resigned

His wife came home yesterday and today he resigned.  Can you just imagine that conversation?   Oh, the groveling, the I'm sorrys, the tears.  It would have been a sight to behold.    Oh, to be a fly on the wall at their house.

I realize I have posted about this a lot but it just touched a big nerve.  If we don't have integrity, honesty, morals, what are we?  I'll never meet the Weiner so it really does not affect me other than to make me mad.  Not just the above but he's stupid and only sorry because he got caught.  What suckers he has played his wife and family and district for.  Asshole.

I think Casey Anthony will be found not guilty...

She is guilty...no doubt about that.    I have not watched every word but this is a circumstantial case.  Casey is a horrible mom, a liar of the first degree, cold as ice.   If you asked her how many pennies were in a nickel she would lie to you.  How a human being leaves HER CHILD in a bag in a field to be chewed on by animals is beyond my brain.  She deserves to be found guilty because she is.   But....I'm not sure I could find her guilty knowing the death penalty is on the table with the evidence in front of me.  If it were just life in prison I would ring her up without a doubt.    See, the thing is, I don't believe in the death penalty.  It's too easy.   She should be in prison for the rest of her life, no doubt.   And I don't mean air conditioned, cable and internet prison.  I mean chain gang.  She should spend 12 hours a day, 6 days a week digging a hole in the hot sun, only to refill it and then dig it again.  She should eat bologna and grits and tuna casserole.  She should have a roommate named Bertha who hates child killers.  And if she did something to abuse Caylee then that should be done to her everyday.  Burn a kid with an iron?   At 2pm everyday someone comes to your cell to burn you with an iron.    I'm not soft on crime.  I just am not sure I could make a decision to put someone to death on the evidence.

We'll see what happens but I'm glad I'm not on the jury.

The first Chef I loved

I love the food network.  Love Guy.  Love Bobby Flay.  Love, love, love Paula Deen.   But the first chef to win my heart was this one:

The Chef of my Dreams

The first time we met was in about 1964...I remember this because Cathy was still living at home and we lived on Davis street in Bagdad.  It was a party of some kind....birthday, graduation...something.  I remember mom making a few pizzas and there was a case of cokes in bottles.  You have to understand that the reason this made such an impression was that we did not eat this food or drink cokes.  And I remember it being the best thing I'd ever tasted.  I only got a slice or 2 because I was 7 and Cathy & Jo were 18 & 17 so I really was not invited to the party.  I had to eat and go.   

Later, when I had my own apartment, I could buy this and add stuff to it and it was even better.  Even back then this was marketed as a pizza, not a pizza maker or a pizza kit (the stage between pizza and pizza maker).    I don't make them much but I did today:

My Pizza Today

Thanks Chef!!!    It's lunch time!!

Weiner update

Now we find out that the BIG WEINER tweeted all his body parts, not just the underwear covered ones.  Ugh.
 
Oh, and his beautiful wife is 3 months pregnant!!  And it appears she is turning to her boss Hilary Clinton for advice on the Weiner.   Oy.   Give me a call Mrs and I'm sure I'll give you a different answer.   Heck, I'll give it to you without a call.  Run!!   Take the BIG WEINER for all he's got.  And tell him to resign.

White Collar line

Best line of the series so far:

Mozzy, discussing their escape plane, to Neil:   "Think of it as a Kardashian.  What it lacks in refinement, it makes up for in cargo space"

Weiner is a weiner

NY Congressman Anthony Weiner has had a hell of a week.   First, he sent out a picture of himself in his underwear to a young woman he followed on Twitter.  Then he claimed it was not him, his Twitter account was hacked.  Then after he was literally tracked down like the horn dog he is, he finally admitted it today.  He cried--yep, cried--as he apologized to his wife and their families and his constituents--but refused to resign.  Just one more person that was elected by the people of our country with no morals,no judgement and the mistaken belief that decency doesn't matter anymore....he is a congressman and he can do what he wants and then cry when he gets caught.  Empty apologies.   Not at all sorry he did it, just sorry he got caught.

Weiner!!!!

RIP James Arness

I bet you've never heard ole Marshall Dillon say
Miss Kitty have you ever thought of running away
Settling down would you marry me
If I ask you twice and beg you pretty please
She'd of said Yes in a New York minute
They never tied the knot
His heart wasn't in it
He just stole a kiss as he road away
He never hung his hat up, at Kitty's place  ---Toby Keith


'Gunsmoke' was a large part of my growing up years.  From the late 50's through the early 70's, CBS on Monday night was tuned into 'Gunsmoke'.   Our hero was United States Marshall Matt Dillon from Dodge City Ks.  He had a couple of deputies over the years, Chester, played by Dennis Weaver and Festus played by Ken Curtis.   His closest friend was Doc Adams, played by Milburn Stone and his girl was Miss Kitty, the owner of the Longbranch Saloon, played by Amanda Blake.   At the beginning of the show, they said their names when they showed the stars' pictures and the last was always "And James Arness as Matt Dillon".    It's not important now but I still hear the voice when I think about it.  I don't hear voices all the time by the way.  


Marshall Dillon had an amazing sense of what was right and what was wrong.  He had compassion for his prisoners too, he saw them as people first.  He did not tolerate injustice or lynch mobs.  If a person was guilty, he did his duty.  He was someone who would be a good friend I think.  He was a lousy boyfriend...he strung Kitty along for all those years but I guess he was just afraid of commitment.  


He was 6'7" !!!    And his brother was Peter Graves from 'Mission Impossible'


I guess James Arness must have known his days were coming to an end because he posted on his website this letter:                                (source www.jamesarness.com)




Hi friends,

I decided to write a letter to you for Janet to post on our website in the event I was no longer here.

I had a wonderful life and was blessed with some many loving people and great friends. The best part of my life was my family, especially my wife Janet. Many of you met her at Dodge City so you understand what a special person she is.

I wanted to take this time to thank all of you for the many years of being a fan of Gunsmoke, The Thing, How the West Was Won and all the other fun projects I was lucky enough to have been allowed to be a part of. I had the privilege of working with so many great actors over the years.

I was honored to have served in the army for my country. I was at Anzio during WWII and it makes you realize how very precious life is.

Thank you again for all the many letters, cards, emails and gifts we received from you over the years. You are and always have been truly appreciated.

Sincerely,
Jim Arness




Mr Arness, sir, you too are and always have been appreciated.   May you rest in peace.

Casey Anthony Trial

Well, I'm home for the summer and HLN has the trial on all day and I've watched some of it today.  The prosecution is still presenting it's case.  They have played tapes where Casey has lied over and over while being interview by police about her missing little girl, precious Caylee.  We have Casey's  mom cry on the stand about her missing granddaughter.

 Today, we saw the lead investigator on the stand and he's doing pretty good.  The defense attorney's first question is whether the detective went by another name.  What???   Then they escorted the jury out and discussed that there is a website devoted to the detective where he had responded to posts.  Even though he really said nothing about the actual case, he responded that Caylee needed to be in everyone's prayers.  The defense wanted it to appear that he had been blogging about the case.  Wrong.   His "alias" was his screen name. Ok, this is shot one?      Fire up old sparky.    Second?   Did the detective ask about the pool or the smelly car? Why?   Now, for the 1st time, Casey is not claiming a kidnapping, etc...now Caylee drowned in the pool and her dad covered it up.   Huh?   Uh, no, the detective did not check the pool.   Why would he?  He did not look for a link to Jack the Ripper or  check for alligator footprints because it was never implied that they were problems either.   Defense attorneys are the scum of the earth.  Let's just make stuff up, true or not.  This story doesn't work, lets try another.   Her defense attorney is a liar.   Liar, liar, pants on fire.  As an old coworker would say, her underoos are ablaze.

I've found it.

My place of complete bliss.  The middle of my pool.   Hmmmmmmmm.   Big sigh.