Category: Language
No Stinkin’ Badges
The Douglas County Law Library has a film series, presents a movie at the public library every couple of months about a trial or something of legal interest. I plug them with announcements on the Bar Association website. Recently, the feature was In Cold Blood, one of the stars of which is Robert Blake. He was a “Little Rascal” and was the kid who sold Humphrey Bogart the lottery ticket in Treasure of the Sierra Madre. I wanted to quote his line from the movie. I thought it was something like “Hey Mister, you wanna buy a ticket?” but I didn’t want to get it wrong. So, I was researching it (I never found it) and ended up at You Tube watching the infamous “No Stinkin’ Badges” scene. Figured I was obliged to share it with the family. Enjoy.
Mothers Day and More
Usually, when I get home from the office, Becky is pretty much knocked out from another day on the house clutter project. This involves hauling out boxes full of accumulated stuff, going through it, deciding what’s to be trashed and what’s to be kept. It’s tough work, and takes a toll on Becky by the end of the day. The Friday before Mother’s Day, though, I got home from the office, and coming up the stairs was greeted by my sweetie, all animated with sparkling eyes and big smile, saying “Look what the kids sent me!”
The following weekend we visited Evelyn at the nursing home in Wellsville for a Mothers Day Muffin Party. Jeff and Paula were there, as well. Evelyn was pretty happy to see everybody. I skipped the muffins, but I heard they were good.
This weekend was perfect weather and we spent part of it doing yard work.
So, check out the Flickr account for Mother’s Day photos, New Year kiss photos, a birthday photo, and a couple hotties doing yard work. You can see them as a slide presentation if you want. :jesors1:
Cold Enough to Freeze the…
February 20, 2025
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John Chappell
Thanksgiving and Christmas 2024 and New Year and Valentines Day 2025 have come and gone. We’ve been sick here in Kansas since a week or two into January. Not just the old rhinovirus (bad cold) but that godawful Norovirus and then type A flu although I avoided the flu so far but suspect rhinovirus has taken hold. I’m hitting it with lots of echinacea and zinc and we’ll see how it goes. I have a physical therapy session scheduled for Friday. It was prescribed ostensibly for lower back pain, but it’s actually bursitis in the right hip/leg. And then there’s the weather. We had a blizzard a couple weeks ago with near zero temps, and this week it’s snow again but less of it, but colder, not just near zero but below zero. As I’m writing this the device on my wrist says the temp is -2 with “feels like” of -13. Just going out to check the mailbox (empty!) was enough to numb my fingers, wearing gloves. Supposed to be colder tomorrow and Friday. Which reminds me… In answer to the question, “How cold was it?” our friends at GasKan explain the source of the answer, “It was cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey!” I’m afraid I have no pictures of brass monkeys, but may have some depicting examples of our new year so far. If I have the time and/or the energy, I’ll add a couple of them here, but I don’t have at the moment. For now, g’night, and watch out for them brass monkeys!