Blog BNB

Members of Easy Company from Band of Brothers

Last night I watched quite a bit of Band of Brothers. I have seen the entire series a couple of times. I can only comment on the things that I have seen but for all I have seen in movies and television shows Band of Brothers and Deadwood are among the best that there are.

I cannot believe it is almost 13:00. After I weighed-in today I went to Lowe's and got some more mulch. I spread three of the four bags of black mulch in the front yard and then the sky let loose (rain). I have one more bag for the front and I unloaded the four bags of brown into the garage. They may get done some time this week depending upon how accurate our weather reports are. They are calling for rain for, pretty much, the rest of the week.

Well, I did crack the 50 pounds lost mark by losing 1.2 pounds to making the total lost 50.2 this year. I still want to lost about another 30 but I am fine where I am if I even stop right here (remember the Al Sharpton discussion from yesterday?).

I am pretty sick today. I have a sore throat and a stuffed-up nose and I have aches in pretty much my entire torso. I think the sore thing may just be from the damn constant aging my body is doing. I guess the only way that is going to stop is by my body stopping all together (did you all just say that at the same time?). I guess aches and pains and stuffed-up noses and coughs just remind us that we are alive. I might take a nap after I get done writing this as Cha Cha won;t be home for another three hours or so and it is a nice rainy day on my last day of a three-day weekend. I fear, though, if I do that I will not answer the 05:00 wake-up bell on the morrow. I have always been a pretty good waker-upper and a light sleeper so I doubt that would really be an issue.

I saw a report today that we (you and I and whomever) can rent celebrity's homes through Airbnb. Airbnb is what we used for the condo we stayed in when we went to Puerto Rico a month or so ago. We were very pleased. Ironically, one of the people's homes you can rent is Aaron Paul (Jessie Pinkman from Breaking Bad that I blogged about just yesterday, I believe).  You could also rent: Kevin Jonas' New Jersey home, Denzel Washington's Malibu home, Elizabeth Taylor's Palm Springs house for a mere $598 per night,  Mickey Rooney's home in Toanga Canyon for only $220 per night, Charles Dickens' London flat (apartment) for only $134 per night (you cannot even get a hotel room for that usually), Ava Gardner / Artie Shaw's house in L.A. for just $85 per night, Bing Crosby's house in Palm Springs for $675 and John Steinbeck's writing studio in Pacific Grove, Cali for only $175 per night. There are many, many more too. For me it is all about location, location, location though it would be cool to swim in Bing's swimming pool. I am totally sold on the Airbnb thing and, on our next trip I will check and see which celebs are renting their homes at that time.

I have more to write about but I feel like even more dog doo doo than when I started writing this so I am going to lie down for a bit before Cha Cha gets home. Thank you so much for dropping by today's Airbnb (blog and bologna). If you do want to write one of the blogs I would gladly give you a great rate - do you think Blogbnb (patent/copyright/trademark... pending) would take off? Have a great week of rain in the MIDDLEwest but make the best out of whatever Mother Nature bring you. TTTSunday?...MITM (out) TA! Here comes the rain again (now you have the Eurythmics song stuck in your head don't you or is that just me?) I linked the video there for you, just in case you need a fix.

Happy Memorial Blog

I didn't think I would write today because I feel like poop. But, if military men and women can put their lives at risk 24/7 for you and I perhaps I can fight through a sore throat and a cough for 30 minutes or so to figure out what to write about and then write something.

Cha Cha and I rented the movie Trumbo from Redbox the other night. I have always been a fan of Dalton Trumbo's work and, with Bryan Cranston playing him, it was even an easier sell. It was a really good movie. I am not sure if I wrote about it here but I also watched the HBO original film All The Way a week ago or so. It is about Lyndon Johnson's presidency and the things he was faced-with following the assassination of JFK. I suppose his greatest thing was to get the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 passed. He appointed Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court (first African American justice). He signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the Higher Education Act to improve funding for schools. He did many things to try to battle poverty in America. Was at the helm during the Apollo 8 program (first manned space flight), signed the Immigration Act of 1965, increased our involvement in Vietnam ... He did many great things and some not so great, as everyone who has ever lived has done. Fortunately, most of us are not in the public spotlight with our foibles. I recommend Trumbo greatly and All The Way goodly. Cranston has come a long way since Malcolm In The Middle though he was awesome in that show too. I just looked and he has eight films in post-production right now. I am curious about The Untouchables - he is supposed to play Al Capone. I hope he makes an appearance as Walter White in Better Call Saul before the series ends. I think it would be cool to even see Jessie Pinkman (Aaron Paul). My college radio station (WIDB) co-worker, Bob Odenkirk, says it will not happen but I don't believe him - IT WILL HAPPEN!

I think I'd like to go back to D.C. again (been 3 or 4 times)

It is Memorial Day here in the U.S. and A.. It is nice that we have days like this to pay respect to the memories of the peoplewho have given their service and lives to us so we can have many of the freedoms that have been fought-for by these people. I will not bore you with the story about how I was sworn into the U.S. Army as a military police officer until fate changed my path so I could meet Cha Cha and we could create two wonderful humans to carry-on after we are gone. There is always a silver lining but this was an easy lining to find; they are not always that easy. I consider the day of that path-change as one of the greatest days of my life in retrospect.

I like days like today. Cha Cha is off of work and we are both at home and getting paid to be here. We went out yesterday and bought a whole bunch of plants and flowers and a bunch of mulch. Our yard already looks like a botanical garden because of her green phalanges (not only her thumbs). She did some planting yesterday while I did the mowing. There is more planting and mulching that needs to be done so I am sure that is on the docket for today. I think she is spreading some mulch right now actually.

Maybe it is just the haircut?

I am kind of worried that I will not have lost the ONE pound I need to lose tomorrow to make the 50-pounds-lost mark. It will happen and, hopefully, it will be this week. If not, I will continue on my journey. I would like to lose another 30 or so so I can look like Mr. Potato Head as Al Sharpton does now. He probably wouldn't looks so weird if we didn't remember seeing him as heavy. I don't think I saw him while he was losing the weight so, seeing the beginning and then the final result makes the contrast stark.

Okay, I am gonna take some medicine for this cold that is trying to take over my body and then go out and haul some mulch around. Thank you for stopping by and thank you to everyone who has served our country so we could have our own yards to mulch. Have a great day and, most likely, I will blog tomorrow. TTTT...MITM (out) TA!

You Zip in, You Zip Out. It's Like Blogging in Wisconsin!

Yesterday I mowed the lawn and right now I have a sprinkler on in the front yard. I always thought it was stupid to mow and then water so I keep doing it anyway. The watering is mainly for all of the flora and fauna that reside and/or hangout there but it is just creating more work for me for next week. I suppose it is all done so things look nice and I need the lawn mowing exercise anyway.

I was happy to see the Cardinals win last night. I hope I can have a rerun of that outcome tonight. I would have preferred a day game today and a night game tomorrow rather than the night game tonight and a day game tomorrow so I could have watched them both. I will be able to see the game tonight and maybe I will just record tomorrow's game and watch it when I get home in the afternoon. The trick is not hearing a score on the radio or having someone say something before I watch the recording. The DVR version also makes watching all of the beer and food commercials optional (I opt out).

Did you know that the first spam (not the pseudo-food meat rather the unwanted message) was sent by telegraph in 1864 via Western Union? Well, it was whether you knew it or not but now you know it even if you didn't or even if you did.

 No, it was not this movie (but I like this one too) 

This morning while I rode the stationary bike for 15 miles (it took 52 minutes which probably is kinda slow maybe but remember a stationary only measure peddling and doesn't count coasting) I watched one of my very favorite movies. I am sure it would not make many people's top ten lists but we are all the same and I think people will agree that they like it if they are near my age or have a similar sense of comedy. The cast is pretty good. It has, as actors: John Candy, Harold Ramis (who also co-wrote it), Joe Flaherty, Sean Young, Timothy Busfield, P.J. Soles, Bill Paxton, Warren Oates, Dennis Quade, John Larroquette... It was directed by Ivan Reiman. I know I am forgetting somebody.. oh yeah, Bill Murray who I like in just about everything he has ever done. I am sure you know the movie I am talking about by now, right? Great movie in my warped humble opinion. I don't even to put the title here do I? Now I am really thinking about what a great actor/writer/comic genius Ramis was.

After that I went over and weighed-in and found that I have lost another 3.4 pounds over this past week. I have lost exactly 49 pounds since December 29th. If I can lose 3.0 pounds one week and 3.4 the following week I sure hope to Helser that I can lose one stinking, measly pound before next Tuesday to make a cool 50 pounds lost in just about five months. Ten pounds per month (average) seems pretty healthy I think? I will not stop at 50 but that will put some nitrous oxide back in my tank.

I have a few things to get done before I watch Cardinals' game tonight; I am sure hoping for a series sweep though I do not have tremendously high hopes of that happening. Thank you so very much for stopping by on this gorgeous MIDDLEwestern day. I wish you a pleasant rest of you day and a great night. I will probably not blog tomorrow but who knows tomorrow will bring until it arrives? TTT? (Sunday at the latest)...MITM (out) TA!

Oh yeah, in case you didn't/don't know - the answer is Stripes!

Be well. Be Happy, Be Peaceful.

I Am Bushed - What in the Helser Does that Even Mean?

  So now I have to be mindful to be mindful, ARRGGHH  

I HAVE NO IDEA WHY SOME OF THE WRITING IS IN RED AND IT WILL NOT LET ME CHANGE IT!

My friend of 40+ years, Ed (you know who you are), posted something on Facebook about how 58-year-olds shouldn't spend all day fixing lawn sprinklers... I can so associate with this even at a mere 52. I am so sore this morning from quite a few things that I have done over the past few weeks. I also had a very stressful nightmare last night. It was one of those dreams that repeats itself infinitum which did not end until I woke up with an extremely dry mouth and crusty eyes. I have not had one of those kinds of dreams in a very long time. I am a worrier, always have been always will be, and I am sure that is the root of this nightmare. I really have nothing to be worried about but I imagine this is our mind's and/or body's way of working things out so our issues either don't carry over to our days or so we can work them out in a blog or by talking to someone about them and letting them go. I thank you for helping me to let this one go and I especially thank Ed for helping me to help myself in letting this go. We never really know what we are going to do or say that might impact someone else in a small or even a sever way. I will try to remain mindful of that today and, hopefully, beyond. I will probably also have to take a nap today after mowing and building another section or fence and grocery shopping and whatever else I wrote on that list yesterday. Yes, there will be a nap in there somewhere even if it doesn't come until 22:00 tonight.

Since the last paragraph I have mowed the yard, reworked the fire pit a bit per Cha Cha's specifications / recommendation (and, as usual, her vision was 100% spot-on), I reattached the vines above the garage door that had been beaten-up a bit my Old Man and Young Woman Winter (never refer to any women as old - NOT ANY!). I think it is really cool that we have two birds' nests in those vines now and the one is actually currently being used as I saw the birds exiting it when I began their remodel. It is a very wise place for nests (and they aren't even owls): pretty much blocked from the wind, just about six wing-flaps away from daily food supply by the Tiki Room, near people who would never harm them intentionally and would even defend them from predators, about six escape routes from trouble... Birds are pretty damn smart; they have evolved quite a bit from when they were dinosaurs (especially in size). I cannot even imagine having to rework dinosaur nests.

It looks much better installed and with a gate

It is just now 11:01 and I have a few other things I need to attend to: I need to go get two more sections of three-foot tall decorative fence and one gate so Jeff doesn't bother the neighbors as much this summer as they have their pool open now. It will also save some of our yard from his constant, destructive digging. I wish I could get him to use his digging more constructively to help put in those gate sections and plant flowers and bushes. He loves to herd things like water mist and smoke... So, Cha Cha bought him a battery-powered bubble maker that we have on a hammock post in the backyard. Splenda video taped him attacking the bubbles yesterday - you can see it on Jeff's Facebook page (that red underlined part is a link to his page). Splenda also tied to teach him how to turn it on and off by himself but he is not that mechanical; perhaps he is still sore about evolution over-looking canines in the opposable thumb department. I would hold a grudge about that one too I suppose.

I am gonna break again now to do some of my errands. I will be back soon to wrap today's blog up. It will seem like only seconds to you as I am like greased lighting. BRB...

Well, my goodness it is now 16:47. I went to Target and Lowe's and Menard's and then I came home and put in the new section of fence that I bought at Menard's. It was not as easy as I had hoped. Since the sections I added are on the swail the ground was not level I had to did a few trenches so the fence would work and the water would have to problem reaching the storm sewer. My back hurts quite a bit but it has for quite some time. Cha Cha says it is from texting and typing so much but I think it is from the work that I have been doing in the yard and elsewhere for the past few weeks. 

Walter White, Hal or Lyndon Baines Johnson?

I have on the HBO movie All The Way starring Bryan Cranston as President Lyndon Baines Johnson working on the Civil Rights Bill following John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination. I guess Cranston played LBJ on Broadway too. He is very convincing as President Johnson. I have always been interested in this era as Kennedy was President for a couple of months at the beginning of my life. Quite a bit happened during Johnson's presidency. No matter his reasons for pushing civil rights through it was a great things. Unfortunately, there are still many narrow-minded people in the world who think that their race or gender or political views or any one of hundreds of different things that people can disagree about are more valid than any other person's opinion. We all know we are right about everything but that is not possible if we disagree on things. We can believe what we believe and we can let other people what they believe and we can just get along knowing that our differences are what makes us who we are. 

I have loved Brian Cranston in just about everything I have ever seen him in. Did you know that, in the television show Malcolm In The Middle where he played the dad
(Hal) they never said what their last name was. There was one episode, however, when Francis wore a shirt with the last name, Wilkerson, on it. But, since it was Francis, it may have been a stolen shirt or a stolen name badge. Anybody who knows me well knows that I love trivia. That is a bit of Matt In The Middle trivia for you.

Okay, I am going to end this and hit the play button on the DVR because the DIRECTV loco is just floating aimlessly across the screen ever since I paused it to write unencumbered. Thanks for stopping by. I will blog again tomorrow after I weigh-in. I think I lost weight again this week so I will probably keep it that way until right after I weigh-in. Have a great night sleeping with the windows open again. Blog to you tomorrow... MITM (out) TA!

Be Well, Be Happy, Be Peaceful (now you know what that is all about too don't you?) TA!

BIG ASS BLOG

 I have been thinking like a Buddhist all my life if this is Buddhism 

It's Sunday morning at 08:33 and Cha Cha and I have been sitting on the patio for about an hour or so. It is already 70 degrees out and it is supposed to be around 80 degrees later on. We will be going to Geneva again this afternoon so it will be nice weather to take a longer walk in Wheeler Park this week with a picnic lunch. Th lunch will not walk, you understand, unless we eat that before we begin strolling. Then, of course, the salad will be inside of us and, of course, the salad will walk-along by circumstance.

If you have been following the blog for while you know that Jill and I had been going to Woodstock, IL every Saturday morning for quite some time. Then, when my life's schedule changed, we started going to Geneva last week. We will go there every Sunday no until who knows when? I never revealed why we went to Woodstock every week. I was ready to tell everyone right away but I respected Cha Cha's wishes and waited until she was ready to let the cat out of the bag. Well, she told some of the people at her work on Friday and now I have been given toe green light to spill-it too. She says that almost all the people she told thought it was pretty cool and there were one or two that gave disapproving looks. I know this build-up is making it seem ominous or foreboding or something but it is not. We started going to The Blue Lotus Buddhist Temple for meditation. I think it has really
helped both of us a great deal. For me, it has helped me let the little things go and let me let other people be in charge of their own journeys and let me focus on mine alone. I believe I am calmer now, I believe I am more quite and introspective, I don't judge people or things or situations nearly as much as I did before, I am far less materialistic... I feel that I am a better person and I feel I get better each day. Buddhism isn't really a religion in the sense that many people are used to but, I guess, anything that we do can become "religious" can't it? I have learned, just recently, that there are quite a few famous people that are Buddhists. Of course, we all know about Richard Gere but there is also: Jerry Seinfeld, Orlando Bloom, David Bowie, Uma Thurman, Rosa Parks, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Alex Rodriguez, Dennis Weaver, Herbie Hancock, Tiger Woods, Keanu Reeves, Leonard Cohen, Oliver Stone, Sting (Gordon Matthew Sumner), Marcia Wallace,Tina Turner, Bill Clinton... I could go on for a long time but you get the idea. Incidentally, I did not know these people were all practicing Buddhism until I researched it - I am not meditating to be like the rich and famous. Even if I stop practicing in a brick and mortar facility I will continue to meditate and try to become better and better each day. The breathing techniques I have learned have helped me in many, many ways.

 This one is not even as big as many BIG ASS FANS as I have seen 

Within the past few weeks I became aware of one of my favorite companies ever -  Big Ass Solutions. I love the Big Ass Fans especially. They really call a spade a spade. These fans could turn our Fiat into a helicopter I believe. That makes me think that we have been thinking Buddhist much longer than we have been meditating - the Fiat has ecology plates with the tag reading EXIST. I am so easily entertained and amused I guess. I am like a ten-year-old when I see the words BIG ASS FAN written on the blades of a big-ass fan.

Tomorrow I have to mow the lawn and change a natural gas line for the drier. Cha Cha says she smells gas in the laundry room and, though I do not, I will switch-out the line. When I checked the line is pretty taught since I stacked the washer and drier and I certainly would like to err on the side of caution. I will get a longer line and that should be a pretty easy thing to do. I hope those don't turn-out to be famous last blog words. I also have to fix the vine above the overhead garage door. The wind and the winter did quite a number on it and the fines are starting to grow pretty well and we don't want our garage door to look like a briar patch though it would be a cool driving through vines to get to the hidden Matt Cave in The Black Maria (I never understood why that was spelled Maria but pronounced Mariah).

It is now 10:29. My services were required in the backyard for some of the heavy lifting and rusted screw removal. I am glad I have the talents of being able to lift heavy things unscrew tight screws or I might be put on the curb some Thursday night for a Friday morning pick-up for a free right to Mount Trashmore.

I am happy to see that the St. Louis Cardinals seem to be coming-around. They are still in the toughest division in baseball so far this season with the Chicago Cubs jumping out of the starting gates pretty well and the Pittsburgh Pirates playing well too. I may try to get to a Sunday. Monday or Tuesday game at Wrigley Field this season when the Cards are in town. I must say that I like just watching games in my living room. The Cubs and the Cardinals start a three-game series tomorrow in St. Louis. The first two are night games and the one on Wednesday is a day game that I will be unable to watch live. I guess I will DVR it and watch it when I get home that night. It may still be gong by the time I get home? The birds are seven games being the baby bears so a sweep would be very helpful. No MATTer what these two teams always come to play when the meet-up.

Okay, I am going to wrap-up and head back out to see where my might needs to be used. I hope you have a great Sunday and the weather is good for you wherever you may roam. Thank you for stopping by and I look forward to blogging to you again tomorrow between my honeydews. TTTT...MITM (out) TA!

Bloggering Succotash!

It is 10:19 and Butkus Jeff and I just got back from our 4.35 mile jog. It was not all jog as there were too many fire hydrants on our journey; I am going to have to find a more fire hydrant-free route next time I take him with me.We just went out of the back of our subdivision and thorough our old subdivision, past our previous house, and then down the bike path back to where we started. I would have liked to have done more pavement but he did not seem interested. I will write here for a few minutes and then I will head down to the basement to ride the stationary bike for five - ten miles before I head-over to weigh-in. Supposedly I have burned 583 calories so far today according to my watch. When did our watches replace Richard Simmons, Jack LaLanne and the 20-Minute Workout?

Okay, it is 10:30 and I am heading down to do some spinning. Why did riding a stationary have to become "spinning" for awhile? Spinning makes me dizzy but riding a bike in place does not have that effect on me. Oh. well... I will be back to write more in a few hours but it should feel like nanoseconds to you. Incidentally, one nanosecond equals 1e-9 seconds but I do not know what that means. Now I am really gonna be back or I will not have time to shower before weigh-in.

I'm back like magic (not Johnson). It's 13:43 and I: weighed-in, went to the grocery store, came home, folded another load of towels and ate lunch (a salad, of course). I lost three pounds over this last week which makes just over 47 total pounds lost on this go 'round. I think I will have a parade when I have lost 50 pounds. Sadly, losing 50 won't even be quite enough for me to be happy that I have crossed the finish line but it will be on sight from there. Man, I was really quite robust - more than just pleasantly plump. Now I am really tired; I did eight miles on the bike at a pretty good pace after writing those last two paragraphs. I may take a nap though I still have many things I want to get done today.

 Sylvester Popeye or Popeye Sylvester? That is the question 

I am not hungry and I am already thinking about what I will have for dinner. I think I will have - wait for it - SALAD! I, seriously, cannot get too much salad. I realize that I would not feel the same if it weren't for giardeniera but "if it works go with it" has always been one of my mantras. I think I may try to duplicate the spinach corn succotash that I had at California Pizza Kitchen this past Sunday. I bought all of the ingredients yesterday when I was shopping and now I just have to whip them all together. I will cut a few corners to make it even more healthy: I will use olive oil instead of butter and I will used reduced-fat Feta rather than the full-fat version. I will probably work celery salt in there somewhere too I suppose. I love cooking and experimenting in the kitchen and, once I have this perfected I will share it here if I remember to do that. I cannot hear the word succotash without thinking about Sylvester (the cat) and I cannot think about spinach without thinking of Popeye the Sailor Man. Maybe I will call mine just Popeye Sylvester or is Sylvester Popeye a better name? I suppose the corn is the color of Tweety Bird too isn't it? I bet giardeniera

I have to get a few more things done now before my new four-day week begins. Thank you so very much for stopping by and letting be blather-on. I hope you have a great rest of your day though it seems a but chilly again here in the area of the MIDDLEwest. I may sneak a blog in here or there before Sunday but, if not, I will blog Sun, Mon, Tues. TTTWhenever I have blogging time...MITH (out) TA!

Be well. Be Happy. Be Peaceful.

Go Ahead, Make My Blog!

Good thing he was wearing a batting helmet (hardhat)

Happy Monday to many of you and Happy Hump Weekend Day to many of my new friends who don't even know my name and, therefore, do not know I have a blog and they are not reading this. I believe that telekinetic energy will reach them, however, and they will get the message and think they just thought of it themselves. here.

I ended-up mowing the front and back yards yesterday so I have that out of the way. I also trimmed one of the trees in the backyard of dead branches, At one point I had to take an ax and chop one of the trunks or whatever the large off-shoots of the main trunk are called. It took about 40 whacks so I called it Lizzy Borden's Mom. I was very impressed with my accuracy in the swings - I knew I played baseball for a reason. I was also very happy that I used to work in the construction industry and I was wearing a hardhat as branches were Henny Pennying all over my head. I also was smart enough to tie the branch being chopped to the tree further away from the house so said branch would not cause State Farm to up our monthly payments. I have found lately that State Farm is not as good a neighbor as they claim to be. It was not anything that caused us to lose any money or property... but I realize they are not either the Hatfield or McCoys depending on which one we are.

Tomorrow is weigh-in day and I am right where I was last week according to the scale up in this hizzy. If one pound is lost by late tomorrow morning I will have reached another lower decade in the weight world. If that happens it is only ten more pounds until a lower decade. Yesterday I mowed the lawn (front and back), Cha Cha and I walked around Wheeler Park in Geneva, we went to Menard's and did some shopping and then we came home and worked on the yard, and I trimmed a lot of dead branches off of one of our trees in the backyard and chopped one of the dead offshoots down. I loved chopping that tree. I felt like I was hitting home runs in The Polo Grounds. When I began some of the bark started raining down around me so I went into the garage and got a hardhat. Now I was the Mighty Casey (Matty Casey) at the bat (an ax) wearing a batting helmet (hardhat). I am really happy that I put that hardhat on because I would have had my bell rung at least eight or nine times. See, the past does come back to save us sometimes; had I not worked in the construction industry I would not have had a hardhat and I would have had some sense knocked into me yesterday. Incidentally, I did also tie-off the trunk I was chopping to another tree so it would not have a chance to falling into our house. SAFETY FIRST! I was really happy that I still have a pretty good swing and I could hit the sweet-spot over and over again.

Girl oh girl the day sure did get away from me. Those last two paragraphs were written at about 09:00 and it is now 17:01. In that time I shopped at four stores for various things - mainly groceries and items for the projects I have been doing for the past six hours or so. I put up a section of three foot high fence between the Tiki Room and the privacy fence. That totally encloses the area where I feed the squirrels and the birds. Jill is planting a lot more flowers and vegetation in there too and Jeff likes to dig stuff up. He was helping her dig-up and dividing her plants for this new area. I cleared away some more brush from the tree tree that I chopped down a section of. While Cha Cha and I were in Geneva yesterday Fabio cut down some more dead branches up high in that tree and tomorrow, weather permitting I may do some more batting practice and try to cut down the other dead section. It is leaning away from the house which is good. This is a much taller trunk and the girth is greater than yesterday's too. Gravity will do most of the work after I get done with my batting practice. Maybe a lightning bolt will hit it tonight and I can make my own Wonder Boy. I thought I had written about the chopping of the tree yesterday but when I added the WONDERBOY photo I realize it was from this morning writing and it is just above here. Thank goodness I have one more weekend day left to get my mind back together.

While I ate lunch (yes, it was a salad if you must know) I watched a bit of Dirty Harry, I have not seen that movie for many years and it is still a great movie. Harry Callahan has to be one of the best movie police officers ever. I have not seen many thing with Clint Eastwood that I have not liked. The westerns, Gran Torino, all the Dirty Harry films, Million Dollar Baby, Escape From Alcatraz, In the Line of Fire, Flags of Our Fathers, Every Which Way But Loose, Unforgiven, Trouble With The Curve, A Perfect World, Heartbreak Ridge... I am sure if I consulted that thing on the computer than lists stuff for us I would be able to add several others. He's almost always a bad asterisk in his movies - what we'd use to call a guy's guy. Those movies don;t even include the ones that he directed and produced and didn't act in.

Okay, I am going to quit for now. I am pooped and my hump weekend day is almost over. I am going to go shower and put some clean clothes on (maybe even pajamas; it's okay to sit around in my Hugh Hefner pajamas and eat a salad for dinner if I want to, right? My Playboy Bunny Cha Cha will be headed home soon too. Thank you so much for stopping by: you do a good deed every time you do because you make a fellow human being (or something relatively close to that) happy. I hope you have a great night and I will blog again Sunday which for me is tomorrow though it is difficult to figure which days are which when there are three days off. I do know that it is weigh-in day tomorrow and I am going to have lost three pounds this week (positive thinking). TTTT...MITM (out) TA!

Be well, happy and peaceful!!!