recap of some of the snake show pictures.

Herzog, one of my bestest buddies Mike Adamson(Inky's brother), and the kid...Tanner Adamson, Mike's son.

Yes that's a cobra..they do this thing where they kiss the cobra on top of the head, the dumbshits...lay in a sleeping bag, while they pile snakes on you..zip it up and then you crawl out of it..dumbshits.

POST #1580

This is one of those 'a little bit of every thing posts'...First up

Sidewalks...I found this in my DAM News yesterday.."People walk in hotter places and in colder places (than Dallas). There are more walkable streets in four cities in Canada than the entire United States. "It's not the climate; it's the (city's) physical design." Architect Andres Duany, founder of the New Urbanism movement, telling a Dallas audience to quit blaming the climate for the city's lack of walkability...

That and the fact that we're fucking lazy...I live in a town that end to end can't be more than 4 miles if that..I'll have to drive it one day and see for sure. But the only ones that walk to town are the ones that just don't have a car..I could walk to town..I could walk to the library..Hell I can damn near hit the library with a rock from my apartment. Do I walk? Hell no..But I think about it all the time..ha..sigh*

Something else from my DAM News..."I think it's significant because Iowa is considered a Midwest state in the mainstream of American thought..As they say during the presidential caucuses, 'As Iowa goes, so goes the nation.'...Richard Socarides, former White House gay rights adviser, on the broader meaning of the Iowa Supreme Court overturning the state's ban on same-sex marriage. First of all...I agree...now the rest of us Buttroy States need to follow through, and do the same. Second of all..when was Richard Socarides the White House gay rights adviser? Certainly not during the Bush administration....Did Bush even say the word Gay during his entire 8 years in office?...Buttroy.

Sunday DAM News had a lot of interesting stuff..They had a great article on Left Handed people..Pretty interesting..Some notable people that are left handed are Albert Einstein, Charlie Chaplin, Jimi Hendrix, Babe Ruth and the Olsen Twins. Five of the last seven presidents have been left-handed: Ford, Reagan, Bush the elder, Clinton and now Obama. Carter and Bush the Buttroy are not..So what does this mean? No one knows, could be a fluke it could be that left handed people are smarter..New research shows that left-handers tend to be more intelligent, and have better vocabularies(that definitely leaves Buttory Bush out) Lefy's are better problem-solvers, more forgetful and live an average of nine fewer years..Wow.

Even the animal world have lefties. Chimps, marmosets, cats, chickens, toads(now how the fuck did they figure THAT out), mice, rats and other species. It is also present in animals that don't have hands (fish) and in some that don't have backbones(honeybees). In biology, this phenomenon is known as "lateralization." It is the preference for doing or perceiving thins more with one side of the body than the other. It appears to be an important consequence of having a brain. (thus explaining why Bush is right handed).

About 27 percent of sons of left-handed parents are left-handed, compared to 10 percent of sons of right-handed parents.However, about 20 percent of identical twins have different handedness. So...genes count for something but not everything. The word 'left' comes from Anglo-Saxon word lyft, meaning weak, broken. The word 'sinister' means left in Latin.

People also use one foot, eye, ear more than the other. One of my beast is bigger than the other..The right one is bigger. Think it's from being right handed and built up the right breast more.???? But..I bat left -handed, golf(if I did golf) left-handed, but fish and play tennis with right hand. Lefties have a competitive advantage in one-on-one sports such as baseball, tennis and fencing. Right-handers are not used to playing against someone who favors the left side. This is the piece of information that I really find interesting. The more violent a culture, the greater chance left-handed inhabitants have of surviving. Left-handed combatants are familiar with fighting right-handers, but right-handers are much less familiar with battling a lefty. Remember that when you want to punch some one.

(article written by David Brown The Washington Post, with ad libs by moi)..

Ok..for the home town news...I should NOT have bragged on the 80 degree weather and all the sun shine.It's in the 50's now during the day and down to the 30's at night. It's still sunny out but it's windy...Which makes it seem like it's a lot colder. Plus it will be fecking freezing tonight and in the morning..so now I have to drag all my pots of veggies in the house..judas priest.

Its spring time dammit..But at least it won't be snowing like it did 2 years ago. First time in my life to see bluebonnets with snow on them. That was plum freaky.

Jennifer and Jason came over for lunch yesterday. Was going to make home made chicken pot pies, but Community Grocery had smoked turkeys (regular $1.79lb) on sale for .59cents a pound. So I bought one and baked in the oven and made chicken soup, baked potatoes and the turkey..Garlic bread and Spinach Dip. It was really great..Her dippy mother didn't give her all of the birthday present I had for her..I swear Kathy's not to be trusted with anything..She either loses it or leaves it in the car and 3 months later will find it(there is a family from India living in the back seat of her car).I'm going to go to her house next Friday and help her do some re potting ...and help her with her plants. Plus I want to go to Lowe's or Home Depot and see their knobs for my dresser in the bathroom..

Annie got up in my lap last night while I was reading emails(she never does that) and I petted her and loved on her one handed ) and how does she thank me for all my love and attention?..She deposited a giant tootsie roll size turd in my lap.Tell me that's not intentional... Plus this a.m. while reading the DAM News I heard this thunk, thump noise...Got up and she had tipped the garbage can over and was attacking the turkey carcase. When I went to take it from her she made a 'aaaath' noise at me.. She just stiff legged walked by me to go outside.

My friend Michael (Snake, from the Heart of Texas Snake Handlers) (Inky's brother) came over too..Nice visit with him...I've known him longer than anyone in West. His birthday is Nov. 1st and mine is the 12th and we used to go get drunk and celebrate our birthday's together. Some of those stories can't be told till the statue of limitations run out on the crimes..Like the number 6 we kept stealing from the ...well, never mind.

I have to go get gas in the truck today..The last time I put gas in the truck was 1-22..I had less than a 1/2 tank of gas..put $20 in and it almost filled it up ....and I have been running around town for a week on a empty tank ...I fucking love my truck.

Well...I'm off..I'm officially in mourning...ER. is gone...and because JayfuckingLeno is taking over the 9pm slot M-F they are going to cancel Life. I love that show...well, I love Damian Lewis...who has the greatest mouth in male history. He was in Band of Brothers also. Plus..motherfucker..they are canceling Guiding Life. Well, they didn't have to kill it..it committed suicide...But it's the longest running show in TV history. It started out as a 15 minute show on Radio...and now, because the soap industry hasn't moved with the flow and realized that this is the day of twitter and 30 second shots of information, and are still taking 6 months to close up a story line...they are going to be shut down. Serves them fucking right..and I hope they kill Reva Shane Lewis off at the end of the show. Sigh..Yeah, I know no one cares about soaps...my point exactly.
I had some killer pictures to go with this post, but blogger is being a Buttroy.

fuckme I'll never smile again.

LIFE IS GOOD!

Babs emailed me this morning to remind me that it was THE DAY. Yupper, the day the ladies of Bold Springs Baptist Church make their cheesebugga's...So I zipped by Community Grocery and snagged me 2 Dublin Dr Peppers and then drove the 5 blocks or so to BSBC and parked in front of the No Dogs Allowed sign and chuggged my ass into the Church's center. Was in such a rush I rushed right by the lady that takes the money...She laughed and said I don't think I've ever seen anyone in such a hurry...since the last time you were here. $7 for 2 great cheesebugga's...Mine with the works and Babs dry with lettuce..Took it over to Babs and we had lunch together then sat out in front of her apt. and watched Bandit silently beg for bones, treats, scraps, etc. Fattest little beggar you've ever seen. Then we watched Tina T. ...she is a character..Babs didn't let her out for the longest time, and now that she's had a taste of freedom, she's all over the place...when Babs was walking me back to the truck Tina went up the tree in the front by the roof and yes...she got on the roof and went from one end of the apts. to the other...I thought for sure we were going to have to get a ladder to get her down, but she figured out (with some coaching by Babs) how to get back to the tree and come down. I'm telling you...she has no fear..She was named well..Tina Turner would be proud.

This morning I planted seeds in my little pots..2 rows of parsley, 2 rows of yellow squash, 2 rows of zucinni and 2 rows of eggplants. I also planted about 8 okra seeds too. I was over at BuzzardBilly's and she was showing all the seeds of 'maters she was going to plant..Oh my Goddess, what a treasure hold of tomatoes...I've never seen such terrific tomatoes...I mean really..unfecking believable..

So what else..oh..had a cool weekend..One of the kids that used to hang with my kids when they were teens and is like one of my own kids just got out of Federal Prison..seems like they frown on making your own speed...or at least being in possession of 532 packages of sudafeds...ha..I say kid, but he's not a kid any more..He's 39..and has learned his lesson. He'll be officially out of the half way house on Juneteenth..Which if you live in Texas is a African American Holiday. It's when the white folk of Texas decided to tell the black folk of Texas 'oh incidentally...y'all is free now'...2 years after they were actually set free..So on June 19th, it's a big celebration ...Lots of Big Red's are consumed..So Mike will be able to go about and be a free person, except for 3 years of probation. This past weekend is the first weekend he got to spend at home here in West at his Dad's house. So I made him a pecan pie to take back with him to the half way house..Got to spend some great quality time with him. He's a good person...just made a mistake and paid for it..His birthday and my daughter MOJO's birthday are on the same day and for years and years they have celebrated their birthday's together. Mojo said when she moved to San Francisco that celebrating her birthday was just not the same with out Mike there to celebrate it with her.

Saturday while I was out finding boxes for the books at the library and trying to unload all them fecking Texas Highway magazines I ran into Inky's big brother Mike..you remember, the Heart of Texas Snake Handler? The one that kisses cobras? Any how he's back from Arizona and I got to see him, and that was terrific..Hadn't seen him in a year...So got to see 2 friends I haven't seen in over a year and that's a good thing. Also got to see Inky's wife Anessa and kid Devin...I haven't seen Devin in about 4 months and holy shit..The kid is damn near 6 feet tall and he's only 14 years old...I asked Anessa how the other two boys were and she said one's in trouble and one's in jail...So things haven't changed on that front...sigh*..Damn I'm glad I don't have to raise a kid today. There is nothing for them to do but get into trouble..Especially in West.

Well, I've run out of bullshit, so guess it's time to go finish reading my Scarpetta book...It's hard reading..usually I really enjoy her books, but this one is not doing it for me. Besides I think I'm ready for a nap after the BSBC cheesebugga...y'all come back and see me y'hea?

I tried to down load some pictures of the snake round up but blogger is fucking with me..so will do them at a later date..

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