The Byrds - I Wasn't Born To Follow

No Funny Friday today. There's no stomach for humour at this time since, thanks to our lack of law's in America, I realize we are living under a Marxist regime. As one can feel the air heavy with moisture before a rain storm, I can feel an armed insurrection is in the air.

As I stated at Simply Linda's blog a moment ago:

Banning the Confederate flag is a further assault on the South perpetrated by a man who was possibly born, and definitely raised, in Indonesia. He is not an American in his heart. I am a born and bred Southerner, who not only grew up with Confederate flags everywhere but owned some. There was no racism expressed by any of the people I knew that owned them. It's our culture. It pertains to a time in our history when we where all fighting for our sovereignty. I am deeply saddened in my heart about the killings in Charleston. What exacerbated the event was our alleged "President" on National News stated that the flag was racist and "it's in our DNA". He is truly evil and so are any of his followers / voters. I truly believe that The Left wants a race war. This is their desire so they can impose Martial Law with the goal to compensate guns. Then, all hell will break lose. As the Bible says, the earth is the Devil's domain. In our country, this all started when the government removed Christ from the Public Schools. We are empty clay vessels, created that way to hold God within us. When God is removed, the devil steps in. We've gone downhill from there. May God have mercy on us even though we (and that includes silent Christians) are undeserving."He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus." [Rev. 22:20]

Here's a little blast from the past.



I think it's time for road trip.

Very Cool Pizza

Fox Trot

Gosh, it's been hot! The heat index has been well over 100* now for several days. And our area needs rain desperately, not California desperate, but badly nonetheless.

A few days ago, a dear lady at A Haven For Vee, posted a recipe for Very Cool Pizza by The Pampered Chef. Hubby and I tried it this past weekend, and this is what we ended up with:

It's quite good! Served up with beer, it's just like regular pizza only doesn't add to the heat index. What's really fun about this recipe is one can take it's liberties with the ingredients. One secret we learned is to make the bread part at least an hour before wishing to dine. That way the bread is nice and cool. Oh, and also, next time Hubby said he wants to make four small pastry's instead of one large one and cut the cream cheese part in half. It might be less messy that way.

Enjoy!

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

... how does my garden grow? The vegetables all been harvested. The new ones are planted. The flower garden next to my office is doing splendidly! This is where the five trunk Oak was growing earlier this Spring.

16 May 2015

22 June 2015

It's difficult to see in such bright daylight but this once wooded area is an amazing profusion of color. The flowers are attracting butterflies, skippers, Hummingbirds, and other critters. It's nice having all this "free" entertainment right outside my window.

Punography ~ Funny Friday

It's still dull as dish water this week. (Maybe that's a good thing?) Here's something for the funny bone.

Hawaii, Hawaii, Hawaii #tbt

"Hawaii, Hawaii, Hawaii". Remember when Arthur Godfrey used to say that on his show? I know, I'm dating myself. *giggle*

In 2008, my husband, me and three other couples that are friends/former coworkers, traveled from here in the Southeast to Hawaii. We spent 5 very long boring days on a cruise through Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL), island hopping all along the way.

Sparky And Da Man

Why am I smiling? Because the Cruise is almost over!

More Photos Here

NCL's cruise are, or where, notorious, which we didn't know at the time. The ship was dirty, the crew surly & lazy, there wasn't enough food, the entertainment lacking and the itinerary was badly done. Upon disembarking at the end of the cruise, NCL forced us to give that worthless crew a tip on our bill from our credit card! (Don't worry, I pitched a Sparky fit worthy of YouTube.) We seemed to spend all our time trying to get from one place to another rather than enjoy the scenery. I will N-E-V-E-R go on a cruise again. Neither of us where greatly enamored by the Islands or their culture any way. But some of it was happy memories too. Like the one above of us at a luau. It was different. One of the days the whole group also lunched at a quirky restaurant, can't remember it's name, where we had huge sandwiches and local beer. The rest of the afternoon was more pleasant. *wink*

All-in-all it was an expensive lesson to learn that we have it really good here in the States. (Personally, I don't consider Hawaii America, just my never-to-be-humble opinion.)

And I plan to stick to two wheels for any future vacations.

With A Snip Snip Here, And A Snip Snip There

I'm not in the Land Of Oz, but I did get a new "do" yesterday.

Before

After

Whaddya think? I know it's very '80s but so am I. Now I'm off to see the Wizard ... *lol*

Everybody Dance Now

Ripley's Believe It Or Not

I enjoy reading about medieval times, so, the little ditty in the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not cartoon the other day caught my attention. Imagine my delight that there is more ancient history new to me to investigate.

Brains much more disciplined than mine have researched the dancing mania of 1518 in Strasbourg, France. There are a number of articles on the internet if one is so inclined. I read one article that said it could have been a disease caused by a mold on their bread that caused hallucinations. Another stated it was the grinding poverty combined with a practice of worshipping “saints”, especially one that was a god of dance, then a mass hysteria ensued. There's probably a multitude of other theories floating around. But no one really seems to know for sure what happened except that hundreds died dancing.

It’s a fascinating read. Has anyone else ever heard of this strange event?

A Few Articles Of Note:

Dancing Plague of 1518 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Dancing Plague of 1518 - Historic Mysteries

Dancing death - BBC - Today