It astonishes me how many people seem to view events as one disconnected episode after another rather than as a journey in which each step leads to the next which leads to the next to some unknown destination.
It astonishes me how many people seem to view events as one disconnected episode after another rather than as a journey in which each step leads to the next which leads to the next to some unknown destination.
http://youtu.be/pA7V68w5hiA
http://youtu.be/_zfgoJzOCgg
Stick that in your Harmon Kardon, Drew.
Boy was overprotected, is all I can say.
Music really was better in the ’60s, Michael.
Indiana boys. What DO you do with ’em?
Put ’em in Arizona, I guess. What else? Baja?
I have read Ambrose Bierce, you know.
http://youtu.be/hmejo2uyNlI
This individual student attention is wearing me down.
You don’t have to write an essay, you don’t have to take a quiz. Just tell me what you learned, Drew.
After a few weeks with me, your bird might be more cynical, but he would be a great watch bird. I would see about getting him fitted for a pair of spurs. Just a little something to let the cats know that they would do best to keep moving.
If you don’t know what to say, it’s OK. You can tell us later.
Next.
He lives with his vet now. She has a larger family and gives him the attention he deserves.
I understand he’s working out on the treadmill with Tony and has taken on Debbie’s accent.
I don’t interfere. That’s not fair to the family. Besides, she’s a barrel racer.
YeeHaw!
Daughter’s a vet, too. Sort of legendary at LSU. Veronica Duncan is the girl’s name.
They have inroads to Thomas Tulley at LSU, who is one of the foremost avian experts in the US.
He’s plenty fine.
Lucy, on the other hand, is an excellent traveler. She’s my precious jewel.
She says Apple? like Eve.
http://youtu.be/3WAbsfUicZc
Shhh. Keep this under your hat. Some would call this, ahem, “community organizing.”
Never mind me. I just keep myself “well-amused.”
File date: August 13, 2014
“I’ll do this like a pro-fessional.”
Jeez. I sound like a speed freak, don’t I? I’m so sorry for disrupting your forum Mr. Dave.
Regards to Janice and the rest of your family.
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Janis: Dr. Tulley was my Avian and Exotics professor. Small world.
Dr. Tulley supervised the amputation of Lucy’s right leg after she had a severe collision with a mantelpiece.
Girl’s so pretty she got a boy friend in the hospital. A male Solomon named Joe as I remember.
One day after surgery:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gonesouth/3932555479/in/set-72157594380561159
Do you know Robbie Savant? He was my brother-in-law.
This all just Southern chatter, y’all. Don’t listen.
http://youtu.be/hUFL2GT1-2g
She’s quite beautiful.
You might appreciate my favorite pet trick. Years ago one of my favorite clients had trained her bird and dog to perform together. There were a few stunts in the repertoire but my favorite was when the bird said “Bang, bang!” and the dog (a sweet retriever mix named Lucy too- can’t remember the parrot’s name though) rolled over to play dead.
I wish I had that on film; it still brings a smile to my face when I remember it.
Don’t know Robbie Savant. I graduated in ’88 and left LA the following year. I do miss it but life has swept me along in other directions.
We didn’t have roots there anyway…we were Polish Yankees. Mom with her Brooklyn accent was sometimes mistaken for a N’Awlins native though.
It is striking, the similarities between the accent of Brooklyn and the Ninth Ward.
I am now officially a Warhawk. Yep, that’s my school team at ULM. And I promised the boys in my English class that I would go to their games.
Irony abounds.
http://youtu.be/chrEsZffie8
http://youtu.be/FBnaw1-1fTg
http://youtu.be/lNWt6Wd9gXU
No, y’all. The world is not coming to an end. Not that way, anyway.
Hell, Lucy has more doctors than I do.
Good kids, those freshman football players. Horrible schedules.
Go War hawks! Kind of makes your skin crawl, don’t it?
I told them I would come to their games. Reed, was, well, Reed.
SMU was under suspension when I went there. Jackie Sherrill and all that. I see that the wiki conveniently deletes that episode.
Sat next to the sweetest mountain of a black linebacker in class. Ahem, 19th C English poetry. John Lewis taught him how to read Tennyson without embarrassment. Great man, John Lewis. And a fine young man, too.
It’s my team. (Can’t we call them the Panthers, or something? Oregon has the Ducks, for goodness sake.)
I guess I work for the bereft.
I know! We’ll call them the Solomon Island Eclecti!
Lucy can be one fierce bird when she’s riled. I wore two pairs of gloves, one leather, when I was medicating her. The vet was more practical. She wore roofer’s gloves.
Blue Hens got nothing on us, brother.
Now to answer your statement at the top of this post, I’ll borrow a quote from my snotwad stepson:
“So, even?”
Lucy sounds like my kind of bird. I would definitely get her a spur. I would not expect there to be more than a couple of one-eyed cats before word got out to leave her alone.
She would speak grammatically correct with occasional slang strategically thrown in. She needs to be able to mingle with the social upper crust and run with the ne’er-do-wells.
Camille Paglia meets Hunter S. Thompson with a little Truman Capote thrown in.
She and I can rise and descend to any occasion.
(My husband used to say that about us as a couple.)
That damn newspaper down in Natchez got my brother’s obit wrong twice!
http://youtu.be/H04TJgWcVvU