September 21, 2008
Here are some hurricane Ike pictures from my neighborhood in West Houston. For the most part, the houses fared well.
There were many damaged trees. Water and electricity were restored after 1 1/2 days.
The Walmarts, grocery stores and gas stations are incredibly busy. A significant part of Houston should be functioning by this weekend.
And I always thought
prison was for punishment.!!!!!
Just in case you ever get these two environments mixed up, this comparison
chart should make things a little bit clearer:
@ PRISON
You spend most of your time in a 10X10 cell
@ WORK
You spend most of your time in a 6X6 cubicle
@ PRISON
You get three fully paid for meals a day
@ WORK
You get a break for one meal, and you have to pay for it
@ PRISON
For good behavior, you get time off
@ WORK
For good behavior, you get more work
@ PRISON
The guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you
@ WORK
You must carry a security card and open all the doors yourself
@ PRISON
You can watch TV and play games
@ WORK
You could get fired for watching
TV and playing games
@ PRISON
You get your own toilet
@ WORK
You have to share the toilet with
people
@ PRISON
They allow your family and friends to visit
@ WORK
You aren't even supposed
to speak to your family
@ PRISON
All expenses are paid by the taxpayers with no work required on your part
@ WORK
You must pay all your expenses to go
to work, and they deduct taxes from
your salary to pay for prisoners
@ PRISON
You spend most of your life inside bars wanting to get out
@ WORK
You spend most of your time wanting
to get out and go inside bars
@ PRISON
You must deal with sadistic wardens
@ WORK
They are called 'managers'
A rare upside down rainbow in England.
Mary is near this pumpkin at Jack and Bibby's that is suspended from its vine!
That is Mom and Mary at the new retention pond next to Mom and Dad's.
I had good pictures of the rebuilt stone wall and Jim's 4' Big Tree model.
But I lost them.
Here's why:
My SONY Camera is so beat up on the job that the eye doesn't move out to take
pix any more.
So I went to Walmart to buy another one. They were sold out of both types of SONY's.
The busy Camera Dept. guy sold me a cheap Samsung instead.
I used it to take pix an hour later. The smallest size is 1 meg, too big for Best emails,
even though I told the camera guy I needed small pixels.
But when I went to download it now, the opened box had the wrong wires to connect to my computer.
So I used my camera phone to shoot the back display screen of the wall and big tree.
Then I deleted the pix in the Samsung and repackaged it to take back within 30 days.
As I went to upload the pictures of the pictures, somehow instead of uploading, I deleted the pictures in my phone instead.
What a knuckle head I am!
Will try to get those pix some other time! :)
OK Here's the tree in Mom and Dad's living room.
Subject: Hauling a prize bull in OK
For Football?
Vincent Van Gogh, Still Life with Flowers II, 1886 (Ottawa)
Renoir, Chrysanthemums, 1881 (Met)
Claude Monet, Chrysanthemums, 1882 (Met)
This picture reminds me of Grandma's apartment in the Bronx, a half century ago.
A story I just heard concerned the recipe for fresh sardines served over spaghetti popular today in Sicily.
Aunt Angie also makes this with anchovies instead by mixing it into the tomato sauce.
But the delicate anchovies break up as they are stirred in.
When Grandma was a 16 year old bride in the US she made the anchovies for Grandpa for the first time.
She was horrified when she blended them in and they disappeared.
She was afraid Grandpa would think she ate them!
But her explanation convinced him of the truth.
Pete
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