Here’s the Deal
I am outta here for a couple of weeks. If you need me, I will be in the Ozark mountains breathing invisible air.
I generally never mention when I’m on vacation because I don’t want somebody to come break into my house. This time is different because Marsha, the retired parole officer, and her big ole dog are coming to housesit and keep Truman company. Seriously, Marsha will take you down and then call her dog for dinner. Marsha don’t take crap off nobody. I’m scared to death of her.
So, I’ve asked a few friends to keep the ball rolling. I will check in very now and then and post a free-for-all every day in case something big breaks and you wanna talk about it with the cool kids and internet’s wittiest commenters.
I’ll post when I have an internet connection.
Y’all behave, ya hear?
Have a great time and recharge your batteries for the next round, Susan! We’ll keep a light in the window so you can find your way home.
1Have a wonderful vacation and Thanksgiving! Enjoy and relax!
2Hope you can visit the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville. It will refresh your spirit and love of country!
3Uh, JJ. Tell me again. Where do you hide the bucket of Kuggerands? (Have a wunnerful time.)
4Enjoy your time away and wishing you and your entire family a happy Thanksgiving! Be safe in your travels there and back!!
5If y’all are sittin’ there after a few days o’breathing clear air and you hear the dulcet strains of Dueling Banjoes, that may just be God telling you “vacation’s over!” But do enjoy!
6Aren’t you afraid of catching whatever’s in the Missouri air that makes them Stoopid? 🙂
7I couldn’t agree with you more, Micr. Juanita, I am, unfortunately, living in the Ozarks. Bring all of the warm clothes that you’ve got and be prepared to still freeze your butt off. Then there’s the fact that this time of year the air is so damned dry it will completely dry out your gills. I spent 33 years in Houston and I loved it. But like a lot of people who do, I grew gills. Back when I only visited here at Christmas, when I got back and got off the plane in Houston and went outside, I’d take great big lungfuls of that lovely warm, wet air and it would feel SO GOOD! Just be thankful that you live in the Houston area and only have to visit here. IMO, it’s a horrible place to live. So have a good time with your relatives and do your best to stay warm!!! ;-}
8Enjoy the fresh air and a well deserved vacation!
9Have a great time JJ. This “down” time is just the ticket for cleaning out your brain from all the stupid that is around us these days.
10We gotta behave? Sheesh. Well, just for that I’ll send you a pair of old worn out SMART WOOL socks complete with darned spots. I mean, the kind that are sewed up, you know. But boy are they warm. Them over silk socks will keep your tootsies warm. It’s up to you to get all that longjohns stuff.
11We’ll miss you while you’re en route. When you arrive, enjoy lots of relaxing & deep breathing. Let us worry about Texas for you. Happy holiday!
12Is this true? A friend sent this to me.
Did you hear all 3 major networks refused to air Obama’s speech on immigration tomorrow? It’s at 8pm. It is being live streamed on the internet at white house.gov. I am trying to see if Al Jaz is covering it. MSNBC news, cable, is covering it. Ain’t it something that the major networks are in effect helping the GOP to lie, distort, and terrify people about what they’ll claim the immigration policy does? It will be the ACA all over again only instead of death panels,we’ll have Ebola carrying terrorists voting and taking jobs and lowering the gene pool and making Spanish the national language. It makes me sick the networks won’t cover the president explaining something this important.
13Once a president could request time and come on to say he wasn’t a crook. Now, we can’t get an explanation of something impacting the country because these stupid shows can’t not run.They let football games run time into programs, but not a speech by the president on an important issue.
I’m pissed.
Correction: correct time for those of you who want to watch somewhere: It is outrageous. It’s 7 pm central / 8 pm eastern.
14JJ, Arriba may have local knowledge but don’t forget to pack a few t-shirts just in case. The other night in Maryland we broke a cold record, and next Monday we may break a warm record. Life is uncertain, so pack layers. And have a great time!
15I’ll begrudgingly grant that breathing Ozarka air that can’t be seen might be treat. I’ll be visiting my brother and sister-in-law south of San Francisco next week, praying that their house, which appears to have a tentative attachment to the hillside, continues to be attached to said hillside. beautiful views, by the way. My sweet Twyla and Apache, both yappers and deadly lickers, will stay home in the company of my tenant. They’ll also receive regular visits from Mary and Jim, good friends who willingly subject themselves to vicious yaps and licks.
Happy thanksgiving, y’all!
16Safe Travels and Happy Thanksgiving, JJ.
I already had my post election R&R. I needed some invisible air too to purify my brain so I could refill my outrage tank and yell at the tv stations not broadcasting President Obama’s announcement tonight.
17Have fun, enjoy Thanksgiving, and come home safe and sound. Breathe deeply to chase all the goblins out of your brain and get ready for the next round. If weather here is anything like weather there, don’t forget to pack your winter woolies.
18Have fun, enjoy Thanksgiving, and come home safe and sound. Breathe deeply to chase all the goblins out of your brain and get ready for the next round. And if weather here is anything like weather there, don’t forget to pack your winter woolies.
19Oh … hell… J.J.
Some of us will behave…. and some of us will not.
Stay safe.
20My progressive cousin in Utah said just get the speech off the internet, nobody watches the president’s speeches on TV any more. Y’all better drop by here and have a piece of chocolate pound cake.
21Behave yourself not!!!
22Marge – Let us not forget the other networks that ARE covering it: Telemundo and Univision. Which is kind of the point, right?
The White House did not ask for the time, because it was likely at least some of the major networks would say no, and that would have been embarassing.
As it is, the people watching network TV at that time would be very upset to be interrupted in the middle of two broke girls dancing with the voice of csi idols.
23Have fun and get rested
24Have fun and get rested
25No way I am behaving, with or without you. Have a great trip, have fun daily, and if you are anywhere nearby, Crystal Bridges American Art Museum – gasp! Alice Walton’s collection – is amazing. And FREE! In the belly of the beast, Bentonville, where there are lots of great restaurants, a multi-cultural small community (the evil W-M does make vendors move there after all), and where it really is OK to stay.
xoxoxo
26Remember when there was an Ozark Airlines? I sometimes flew it between Chicago and Springfield, Illinois. We always used to call it Krazo!
27have a great trip. We will try not to break the internets while you’re gone.
28Have fun! Post fotos on FB xoxo
29Happy Turkey day from your damn yankee (that’s 2 words) fan in Beantown. Be safe, eat too much, and enjoy yourself.
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