Full of Hot Air
The Highland Village Lions Club Hot Air Balloon Festival on a hot Sunday morning.
Tag: postaday2011
Saturday weird and randoms
It’s been a day. Balloons in the morning, worked a Nursery/Landscape Expo convention in downtown Dallas (and rode the light rail to and from).
Yup, is half fine
Trou down three. Two less belly blanket. Steppin’ lively. Mile marker search next. Belted. Doctor or not FeelGood. Continue reading Yup, is half fine
Weekly Photo Challenge: Entrance
Several ideas on this one….
Pay me, or else
That’s right. I’m taking any payments from any of yuze guys to stop my “postaday2011” blogging. I figured I too might be able to cash in on getting paid not to do something. It seems today a certain retailer (Abercrombie + Fitch) has offered to pay “The Situation” and the “Jersey Shore” cast not to wear their apparel. Huh? WUWT?
EHR: Shall we retire?
Email Humor Received (EHR): It is never too early to start thinking about retirement. Here are some ideas, traits, facts, conditions, requirements, and necessities regarding where to live and what it’s going to take when that time comes.
Please know I not near clever enough to write this – it came in an email and I simply pass it on without authorship expressed or implied. But…it should cause you to smile at least once.
You may live in Phoenix, Arizona where…
- You are willing to park 3 blocks away because you found shade.
- You’ve experienced condensation on your butt from the hot water in the toilet bowl.
- You can drive for 4 hours in one direction and never leave town.
- You have over 100 recipes for Mexican food
- You know that “dry heat” is comparable to what hits you in the face when you open your oven door.
- The 4 seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!!
A mixed bag of Sunday
So many happenings today….
Even though Tommy wasn’t in the pulpit this morning, DBC was nonetheless humbling.
Even though oversized but wearable clothes were in the closet, Bass Pro got a bunch of my money (and the smaller sizes purchased brought a proud grin to my face).
Even though my tonnage-loss program is strict in the “oh-no-you-don’ts”, the three pulled pork nachos, 6 rooster tails (fried onion strips), chopped salad, and a couple bites of fried peach pie with homemade ice cream was absolutely divine.
Even though it was a cloudless, hot summer day, the sunset tonight was pretty…cool.
But it was my internet find with a Yahoo.com article this evening that caught my attention. Having just been involved with a pro bono design for a Veterans Memorial in my hometown, an article read (and heard) on the controversial 9/11 Memorial quickly drew my interest.
Life is good today
The high temperature was under 100°, I have 0.95″ of rain in my gauge, and the first intrasquad scrimmage was played this morning at Falcon Stadium.
Life is good today….
A guy by the name “Feelgood”
So it has been each time I see my massage therapist – whom I call Dr. Feelgood to my friends because of what Tony does to this aging body of mine – I have another story.
I’m free to be me
I’ve got a couple dents in my fender, got a couple rips in my jeans
Try to put the pieces together, but perfection is my enemy
On my own I’m so clumsy, but on your shoulders I can see
I’m free to be me, you’re free to be you
Continue reading “I’m free to be me”
Faith standards
Bluesy, standards of the faith gospel was sung at DBC Sunday morning.
It has been awhile since I last heard these songs. And when they start playing, you cannot help but to join in…come on now…you all know the words.
It was definitely toe-tapping, hand-slapping-the-thigh, God-is-good, get-to-the-church-on-time gospel music.
50 more dropped in the bucket
After thinking I was way behind on my travels yesterday, “they” come up with another 50 More of the Most Famous Landmarks on Earth (Part 2). So you add the latter fifty to the first fifty from yesterday’s post, and it becomes glaringly obvious I simply don’t get out much.
In this second set of places, I’ve got 47 trips yet to happen. So combining both lists, 93 worldly landmarks still await my arrival (and photography attempts).
Now if we were to take a deep breath and consider landmarks more local (instead of global), my attendance is much better when the “have-you-been-there” conversation turns to the National Parks of the U.S. Continue reading “50 more dropped in the bucket”
50 Landmarks for the bucket list
46 of which I have yet to see in person.
Hmmmm, I think I need a limit increase on the credit card if I decide to embark on some Waldo adventure any time soon.
of sorts
And so it is that I boldly claim a small victory (as of yesterday). That tonnage-loss program…you know…that one that has occupied many a side comment in my postings of late has given reason to indulge in a DQ Blizzard or something (not really).
Well, my victory is the tonnage I’ve managed to lose off these weary bones and joints now equals my age (that’s my biological age, not the mental one).
Can you tell?
Continue reading “of sorts”
SD odds and ends
Just a few random pictures to peruse of the left coast (San Diego) trip this week: Continue reading SD odds and ends
I could live here-there
I’m headed back from the left coast! The Royals impatiently await my returned…I think, I hope. They will most likely hop around for a couple minutes performing smile-making antics until they realized “Oops, we’re Scotties”, and go back to their high-brow intolerance of all things human.
Writing this on the flight back to Dallas, I look back and know a grand time was had in San Diego. I had not been to SD since I was a then-chubby kid of barely double digits old. I cannot remember much except “The Zoo”. Bummer! So this time I had my cameras (3 of them) to well-document the trip. This morning we huffed-it around Balboa Park, home of the world famous San Diego Zoo. We had no time to take in the zoo, put the Park was pretty cool.
Should I be concerned?
Lately, I’ve been fortunate to visit both the right and left coasts – all within the last two weeks. And each time…well, the trip has been…let’s just say “eventful” and that’s not because of the purpose of each excursion.
A couple weeks ago I blogged about my travels to Alexandria,VA. That trip started out with a plane navigation problem that resulted in a cooling fan replacement, then an entire computer sensor thingy switcharoo. All was well…after a 90 minute departure delay.
So today I find myself in San Diego.
Happy Wedding
Long time, dear friends married off their oldest daughter tonight in an American ceremony laced beautifully with Japanese influences. We enjoyed the evening with the families at the Trammel and Margaret Crow Museum of Asian Art in Dallas.
Movie eats
I did a solo date last night…well sort of; it was me and Harry Potter. The movie was actually pretty good, if you’ve been at least following the stories either by book and/or on the big screen. Based on the attendance, I may have been in a definite minority of those having not seen the last HP movie. Regardless, I won’t snap the wand, but I will say this: teenagers are annoying and quite bothersome at movie theaters, especially when the genders are mixed…how and why they move around the theatre so much is beyond me…and they think that’s “cool”. Oh yeah, they use the flashlight app on their phone to do so. Arrrggghhhh.
But better yet, no movie theatre food was consumed!
OK, here’s my sign
As you may have noticed from an earlier-in-the-day post, I stopped at the In N Out Burger in Allen Texas for lunch today. It truly is a treat to indulge in this, a favorite fast food burger place of mine (I’ve been munching on those since the mid-80’s whenever I traveled to California and the opportunity presented itself).
I had the Double-Double (aka as the #1) today. Delicious, right?
Dang right! If I’m eating fast, I love my In N Out Burger burgers!
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