February 21, 2015 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Guys, I am blissfully on the beach in Bolivar for the weekend and early next week. Unbeknownced to me, there is no wifi or cell phone at the beach house.
Not that I’m complaining, mind you.
Chat amongst yourselves and I will go approve comments a couple times a day when we leave to sightsee in the area.
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Time to play Boss is away Monte. Take all the money out of the til,throw it in the air and whatever comes down we split. Whatever doesn’t come down goes back into the til. Who wants to play with me?
1http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/2/19/michigan-doctor-refuses-to-treat-baby-of-lesbians.html
Sent this to JJ this morning. Maybe we can get a discussion going about religious rights versus the Hippocratic Oath of First,do no harm.
2e platypus, I threw up in my mouth a little when I read about this mouth-breathing “Dr.”, how “Christian” of her to deny care to anyone.
3Where’s Bolivar? Glad you’re busy getting sand in your toes. Life is not going to be boring. I’ll go make popcorn.
4OH. Bolivar’s in TEXaS. Texas has a little of everything. Let’s all go surprise JJ! Evil grin.
5Dear Platypus,
6It’s not the baby’s fault that the parents are lesbians or green and purple or are Libertarians or aNything. Babies need to be loved and cared for. I hope that couple found a doctor who cared more about the baby than anything else.
There is a Bolivar in Missouri. Maybe we need to put out an APB before everyone rushes down to Texas.
Marge Wood you are right. Now please explain,if possible,how some uncaring freaking jerk can refuse to treat a newborn and still call himself a human. I get so damn sick and tired of morally reprehensible immoral people on the right telling everyone else they are moral enough.
7Right on, Marge. The baby is the patient. That doctor should not be practicing medicine if he can’t see past his prejudice and care for the child. And then there’s that little matter of the hippo oath. The family will be better off with a REAL physician.
8My last sentence should say not moral enough.
9I read somewhere that another doctor in the same practice took the baby as a patient. BTW, the first doctor is a woman.
At first I was thinking JJ went to Bolivia, and was going to say, wait a minute, it’s a landlocked country, it doesn’t have any beaches.
10Maybe we could make a caravan of cars and trucks and old buses and hunt down JJ. I’ll let y’all figure out the route while I make PBJ sandwiches.
11Dear Miss Juanita,
You are vacationing in a place named for a COMMIE! Immediately put on your American Flag swim wrap and go back to real ‘Merka.
12The first doctor has her own demons to fight. I’m glad someone else is taking care of Baby Darlin’.
13I’m guessing that first doctor is a wingnut which would provesthe theory that they don’t care about a fetus after it is born.
14From what I read, the doctor refused to accept the baby as a patient. It wasn’t a case of refusing to treat a sick infant right there.
JJ, fond though I am of you, with new snow on the ground and sleet still falling, and yesterday’s high being about 12°, I really didn’t need to hear about anybody’s frigging beach trip….
Could be worse. In the winter of 1994 (aka The Ice Age) I had one of my catsitting clients leave me a note with her emergency contact phone number “in Honolulu.” Not what I wanted to know after I’d risked my vehicle and my life getting there and then nearly had to crawl on my knees up her skating rink of a driveway to the door. I liked her cats; I didn’t hold it against them. But I consoled myself with the idea that, as she was basking on the beach watching all the gorgeous multiracial studs stroll by in their Speedos, she would choke on the little umbrella in her mai tai until it had to be surgically removed. This mental image was further elaborated as the week went on (and the ice I was dealing with did NOT do any melting) until it culminated in her arriving home after a variously miserable flight only to break her leg on the remaining ice on her doorstep.
As Kacey Jones sang, “(I Hate Your Lousy Stinkin’ Rotten Guts) But I’m Not Bitter.”
Not that this applies to you, JJ. I withhold the whammy.
15Rhea, honey, where in tarnation do you live? Just wait; Texas will be about 110 degrees any day now (spring lasts about two hours in Texas) and we’ll be whining and glugging iced tea by the gallon and you’ll be enjoying moderate temperatures.
16I fail to understand how JJ can be blissful if she’s still in Texas. Are you people sure that Bolivar is in Texas or are you just making stuff up cuz the boss is gone? Even if Marge makes PBJs, I’m not interested in going to Texas — uh-uh, nope, no thanks.
17Ahh … the sand, the water, the clear blue sky, the ocean breeze … and nary a whiff of Tom deLay’s squirrel poop!
18I think JJ means on the Bolivar Peninsula – which is Crystal Beach. I drove there (Galveston) from Beaumont on Friday and went through Crystal Beach and across on the ferry to Galveston Island. It’s nice and relaxing, although I wouldn’t call the beach itself anything to write home about. Muddy Gulf water. Lots of cool houses built up on 15′ pylons to escape and tidal surge from a hurricane. Ike blew away all the houses but one – a yellow one. There’s an aerial photo of it floating around on the internet. But you get the ocean breeze and sound of the surf. Better than what the Northeast is dealing with for sure!!
19I mind the time back nearly a hunnert years ago when middle ‘murrica had sandy beaches all over the place caused by removing all the vegetation for farming and drought. The “Dust Bowl” I believe it was called. I wasn’t alive then and I prefer a four cycle weather pattern so I can “beach” about the weather all year round in iowa. It is 4 degrees @ 4:33 AM and the high today is supposed to be single digits.
Ain’t nothing like corn or soybean or alfalfa or grass green for 6-8 months of the year.
20Turns out the doctor who refused to treat the baby of a lesbian couple is a female. Her written response still boggles the mind. Something about have a doctor-patient relationship with all her patients’ caregivers and how she couldn’t do it in this case. She “regrets” that she didn’t or couldn’t make this clear at the time and anyhow she referred the baby and parents to another “just as good” doctor. I know that doctors do stop taking patients when they have reached maximum load, but this is totally NUTSO!! She is going to have to prove that she has not practiced out and out discrimination, such as proving that she has also rejected alcoholic or otherwise addicted parents, etc. etc.
And JJ, enjoy yourself out on that beach! We had more snow here in the D.C. area yesterday and it continued for some hours. A “thaw” is due today followed by freezing everything that melted followed by yet more freezing temps through the week before the next knockout round! But, hey, who’s complaining!
21Yeah, while JJ is on a beach with sand between her toes, we in DC are listening to the sounds of dripping water everywhere. After yesterday’s snow and freezing rain, we are getting a bit of a warm up today. I’ve got to pack a bunch of errands into a relatively small time span before hunkering down again.
Spring can not get here soon enough!
22A friend’s family owns that house on Bolivar pen. They were the only ones in the area that had not enclosed the lower “floor” as extra bedrooms to rent or a bigger util room, etc, etc. Thus, when Ike came calling, that house functioned properly and was not pushed into Anahuac and East Bay like the others with flat front profiles and no stilts to speak of!
23Have a great time! Have a drink for me.
It’s reading 41 on my deck and the sun makes an occasional appearance, I am in 7th heaven!!!
24I’d say we all go a little nuts when you leave JJ. Better get back soon, but enjoy your break.
25Sigh. As I scrape ice off the sidewalk and snow off the car, I will think of you relaxing on the beach in the sun. I cannot promise to think of you fondly, but I will try.
26Marge Wood, I live in the Maryland suburbs of DC, apparently not far from maggie and BarbinDC. Today it’s over 40°, which will be about the last time this week. Yes, I do shudder at the weather map when it’s 90° in April in Texas, but we get our share of the hot swampy muggies here too. And I’d pause for a few deep breaths if a client gratuitously told me they were in Vermont in August.
Can’t point too many fingers– we did once go on a Caribbean cruise in February because my husband wanted to see the solar total eclipse. I said, “What if it’s cloudy?” He said, “We’re still in Aruba in February.”
27Yeah I’m pretty sure it’s cloudy-rainy (but 60s!) at Bolivar too y’all. OTOH, the Gulf of Mexico is right there, crashing away – the coastal currents make it turbid and green, but if you grew up with it you love it 🙂 And the fishing is great, and despite scads of barge traffic and heavy industry we haven’t rendered Galveston bay sterile just yet!
28Been to Bolivar many times before Ike. Bolivar is one of those places that people go to disappear. Literally. Hannah Graham’s alleged murderer hid there. Interesting place though. Here’s an Ike story:
A guy kept a lion & tiger in his yard in Crystal Beach. Once Ike hit, they had to leave the property so they sheltered in a church on Bolivar. Other people came for shelter too and freaked when they saw the cats. Someone called KPRC, live on air, yelling for rescue from the 2 big cats in the middle of a hurricane. The cats were harmless, though. They lived next door to my friends who were staying with us for the hurricane. We knew exactly what was going on down there & couldn’t stop laughing.
Here’s a book about Boliver:
http://www.amazon.com/They-Made-Their-Own-Law/dp/0595141919
Hope JJ comes back!
29In NW iowa we got bright blue skies and a yaller sun with no heat. Doesn’t appear to be a breath of air stirring and still no heat. There must have been a couple of BTUs floating around because I just now saw a few tree branches wiggle in an errant breeze that swept away the last of the heat.
30Before I duck out,again-anyone besides me planning a garden for spring? Do you garden for fun or food or what? I grow extra potatoes and onions and give to my rural neighbors and family members. How about youse guys?
31Hope you’re enjoying your time on the beach JJ. Probably hard to relax completely watching all those windblown, sun-fritzed hairdos walking by.
32Lorraine, I looked for Bolivar on MapQuest and it gave me a little podunk in Denton County north of Fort Worth. I had to Goodsearch the name to get Crystal Beach on the Bolivar peninsula.
JanK, I saw that photo of the one house left standing on a completely flattened strand, including a version captioned, “What the (samhill) was THAT…?”
33Enjoy the sun, sand and much deserved rest, Mrs. B.!
e platypus onion, here on the ranch in addition to the standard crops, we do raise vegetables. We even planned for future children should they be daughters and planted rose bushes under what will be their bedroom windows. The elevation is too high here and it’s cold, or would have planted cacti instead of roses.
34Since JJ isn’t here to pass it on, I’ll mention that a woman from (you’ll never guess where) Wasilla, Alaska, home of the Palins, dropped her .357 handgun out of the holster and when it hit the ground and went off, shot her 4-year-old through the leg.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/22/four-year-old-alaska-boy-shot-mothers-gun-holster
35Rhea-no one has been charged because gross,negligent stoopidity isn’t a crime-yet. Alaska already has one of the highest death by gun rates in America. In iowa if that kid was nobody and the building the bullet lodged in was a gubmint office,the building would have been taken by helicopter to be repaired and the child left to his own devices.
36PKM-elevation is over-rated. Here in the flat land of gently rolling hills I can see the Milky Way on a clear evening.Unless I’m in the middle of a cornfield in August.
37e platypus onion, when the Koch Birch Brothers have beach front property without leaving Kansas, we’ll be hoping we still have air to breath and water to drink.
Of course, if I ever have daughters of a dating age, will probably be considering digging a moat around the ranch.
38Speaking of the koch roaches-here is Chuck Coke,comedian extraordinaire-
harles Koch, the 78-year-old CEO and chairman of the board of Koch Industries, is inarguably a business savant. He presents himself as a man of moral clarity and high integrity. “The role of business is to produce products and services in a way that makes people’s lives better,” he said recently. “It cannot do so if it is injuring people and harming the environment in the process.”
Says the owner of the largest polluter on US soil.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/inside-the-koch-brothers-toxic-empire-20140924#ixzz3SWVGDUaI
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PKM-I hope you’ll see fit to have children before I’m dust in the wind. That would be the decent thing to do as I will be 62 in about 48 hours-give or take a few. Should get my last disability check or first SS check Wednesday.
40Like Molly Ivins once said-if chutzpah was a word in Texas you would use it for the Charles koch quote above.
41@EPO – is it congrats or condolences that are in order here? Best wishes in any event 🙂 and here’s to the sun warming up too! It is 4 weeks until the Vernal Equinox y’all! Have something to celebrate. Like a hot toddy? We’re killing a bottle of Greune Veltliner here in lovely RoCo TX :).
I added rocks around my 7 yr waterfall project today until it dropped below 50 and started raining again. I’m about to go harvest some more broccoli to share w my brother. We are going to plant a more serious herb garden this spring and move the asparagus to a new, bigger veggie section.
I’m planting potatoes this week and watching for bulbs I planted a while back. The roses and daylilies are waking up and peeking out again and I need to get more mulch. The plum trees I planted 2 falls ago are blooming; they got ko’d last spring when it was 22 on March 10 and below 32 for about 26 hrs. Unusual here! The peach tree is less optimistic; buds still tightly closed!
Is it too early to start dreading August?
42e platypus onion, hope you are available to join us for some star gazing and plugging young varmints in the britches with rock salt, if needed.
43Aggieland Liz-I can’t plant spuds until April at the earliest. Onion plants from Texas will be here around April 7th and I have celery,carrots and lettuce seeds on hand. Asparagus comes up in early to Mid April. Got several patches around the garden site and they seem to spread out some each year. Tomatoes can’t be planted around here much before May-too cold and unpredictable weather. Could plant sweetcorn early,many neighboring farmes plant it alongside field corn.That hides it from two-legged thieves,but a raccoon will find it if you grew it in your basement.
PKM I’m thinking cactii spines would teach em just as well as rock salt and prolly save you a lawsuit or two.
44e platypus, thanks for the Koch article link. A lot of ugly reading. Those are scary, nasty, smug, “entitled” little SOBs who are working real hard at buying the rest of our government so they can make sure that *none* of the laws apply to them, instead of just most. What they think they need with more than $40 billion apiece I can’t imagine.
45Speaking of Kbros, I read the other day that they have been getting considerable amounts of subsidies from your $ and mine via biofuels programs. Keep that in mind when they are being hyper-virtuous about gummint.
And yesterday I had some kind of circadian rhythm thing and HAD to go buy a few plants. We now have four tomato plants and one basil in the garage plus a few snapdragons and bluebonnets in the garden.
What we had for supper: sloppy joes and waldorf salad. My friends up in Abilene have been eating all sorts of greens from their garden just about year round. I’m jealous.
46Oh, and we have a few potatos to plant plus seeds for beets and radishes. I want some seeds for good climbing beans. Suggestions?
47We’ll be lucky to see snowdrops when the snow melts. Our friends outside Boston will be lucky IF the snow melts.
48OK
6:15 am Monday and -13 degrees!!!
From 41 to minus 13 in less then 24 hours
Wind chill advisory tonight possible – 28
Move over JJ I’m coming to visit.
I need coffee first.
49Minus 5 now in iowa. Supposed to be mid thirties tomorrow and then below zero again. Diane that sounds like iowa weather. Alaska has been generally warmer than iowa this winter.
Marge Wood,I have had good luck with Kentucky Pole Beans. They are sturdy and nice size. Firm pods and grow fairly straight when hanging. Planted some last spring and they climbed right up an 8 foot trellis. A friend of mine in Alaska started growing spinach under a row cover a month or more ago.
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