Sometimes, Sharing Is Enough

Enough said.

Another "Here's Your Sign" Moment

In February, we had a tremendous ice storm. Our power was off for just three days, many others lost power longer. We were fortunate because trees were laying on our power lines, but both the lines and the trees stayed up. Anyway, I called our local electric cooperative yesterday to come and trim the trees over the lines.

The woman taking the order asked: "Will it be obvious which trees will need to be trimmed?"

I paused and said: "Yes, there is only one line from the pole to the house and the branches are over it."

Yes, this is a true story.

Here's your sign.

Welcome Back La Luna

Berryville's very own street corner taqueria is open again. After a two year absence, La Luna has left its food wagon and gone into what was once a gas station. If you are ever in Berryville at lunchtime, check it out.

Their burritos make Chipotle turn away saying, "we're not worthy."

Yes, Another Gopher Story

Believe it or not, I actually have another gopher story from Lamar. One summer day nearly 20 years ago, I was on my way to a meeting. Leaving my office in the College Residence Hall, I saw one of the groundskeepers, Tony, stomping down the gopher holes. Weird enough, but hey, I used to manage a bar. I've seen dumber things than a guy stomping down gopher holes...that was until I saw what his partner Burt was doing.

Burt was sitting on the tailgate of their running pickup with a hose going from the exhaust to a gopher hole. Yes, they were gassing gophers.

Considering how porous the soil was, I don't think they killed any gophers, but I am sure that they had some really nasty headaches.

Gophers and Whatever Else

AMC has just finished showing Caddyshack for the umpteenth million time. If you don't want to see the spoiler, don't play the video.

When I was living in Lamar, Colorado, there were a billion gophers. One day, a friend's brother hit a worm burner (low golf shot, just at the top of the grass) as a gopher was coming out of his hole. I was told the impact looked like the Zaprudder footage. Swat! Splat! Blood and gopher guts all over his ball. I often wondered if he got to clean his ball before the next shot.

Sign of the Times

It's now 12:34:56 on 7/8/9.

Yep.

More Love Songs Without Love

This one was huge when I was in college. It is still popular on Adult Contemporary stations today. And I am so sorry...



What was weird was hearing my mother-in-law sing along to this on the radio. The Twilight Zone had nothing on that moment.

Rupert Holmes said that he wanted to imagine the meeting of two lovers who, while seeking someone new, find each other after placing personal ads. Yeah, that's love.

This is my favorite of the comments on this video from youtube:

and the bar fight that ensued after he called her a whore for taking out a personal ad for some side ***k...

To me, the only question is who takes the first swing, the "whore" who took out the first ad or the "side ***k" who answered it.

Another Bar Story...

Once upon a time... it was a slow, slow night at the bar. It was getting near closing time and there was one guy hitting on a woman who was a regular customer. She was not amused. She asked me if there was anything I could do to get him to stop.

Well, I was having a hard time coming up with anything that would end his amorous advances without the possibility of escalating into a physical confrontation. She was getting upset too. She would have just assumed the guy took a quick powder on the evening. That's when it came to me...

So she's sitting at the bar, she's frustrated, he's coming up along side her to work a little of his smooth magic, I think she's about to start crying.

I come around the end of the bar. I give her a big hug from behind and say, "We'll talk about it when we get home."

You should have seen the guy run. True story!