Father's Day

Cross-posted at Clark County Chatter:




When my sisters and I were little my dad loved to drive (still does) and would regularly take us out on "road trips" on the weekends.  We always loved it and got very excited when he would say, "All right, everybody, let's go for a ride."  Sometimes we knew what our destination was going to be...a lot of times we just got in the car and headed out...

We had a red 1965 Mustang like the one above when I was a little girl and mom, dad and the three of us girls traveled endless miles in that little car.  We went to state parks and nature preserves.  We grew up in Louisville and he took us to Frankfort to see the capitol building and historic sites like Perryville Battlefield Park.  Sometimes we just drove out into the country, stopping at little stands/restaurants to catch a bite to eat.

Later on dad bought a Plymouth Gran Coupe.  It was HUGE and had AIR CONDITIONING!!!  I found a picture of one that looks just like ours did:

With that car we went on a road trip out west and crammed in every site we could - we took a northwest course first to California and then took a southerly route back home.  Some of the things we saw/visited: The Corn Palace, Hoover Dam, the Badlands, Mount Rushmore, Yellowstone, Yosemite, San Francisco, Sequoia, Death Valley, Las Vegas, the great Meteor Crater in Arizona, the Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, Painted Desert - and more.

I'll always be grateful to my parents for that trip, and to my dad for all the other weekend road trip adventures he took us on.  They left me with some of the best, sweetest memories of my life.

Changes

It's been pointed out in the comments that allowing anonymous commenting has resulted in a confused mess when readers try to follow the conversations.  I initially allowed anonymous commenting to make it easier for people who didn't understand how to "sign up" to publish their comments without difficulty and to provide them with a sense of confidentiality and safety.  

Unfortunately, the anonymous commenting here has gotten completely out of hand and I am going to have to switch back to allowing only registered users (Google, Open ID, Blogger, etc.) to comment.  For those who don’t know how to get an ID (you may actually already have one and just don’t realize it), here’s a link to explain:

http://openid.net/get-an-openid/

If you're a Chatter member you can send me a PM for more information if you need it.

I'm also going to have to start deleting some comments, which I really hate to do, but can't see any way around it.  If you attempt to "out" someone by addressing them by what you suspect is their real name when they haven't previously done so themselves, your comment will be deleted.  If you call another poster names like bitch (or any other spelling of that), ho, skank, etc., your comment will be deleted.  If you post a comment that accuses someone of a crime based upon hearsay, your comment will be deleted.  If you feel that someone has committed a crime and have evidence of such, I strongly advise and encourage you to contact the authorities - but this is not the place to make those kinds of accusations.  

I hope these changes will be welcomed by my readers, most of them anyway, and I'm sorry for any inconvenience they may cause, but I simply feel that I have no other choice, considering what has been happening in the comments.    

Beauty and the Beast - A True Life Scary Fairy Tale

A monstrous alien queen gives her marching orders to her crazed underlings...and they obey.

"Palin referred to the crosshairs website when she tweeted supporters last year, urging "commonsense conservatives and lovers of America" to "RELOAD."

Beauty...

...and the Beast...

"My mommy always said there were no monsters...no real ones...but there are."

Fraidy Cat

Once again Nana has deleted/edited one of her own posts in a vain effort to try to "erase all trace," of her, "scat."

What's the matter, AN?  Are you really, for all your spit and vinegar, just a "fraidy cat," after all?

Nana Covers Her Ass (Tri-State Textile Mills Depleted of Inventory!)

Life has been VERY full for me lately with my two jobs and a few unexpected problems and illnesses suffered by family members, friends and one of my dogs, so I haven't had much time lately to do anything but quickly scan the local forums and blogs, but a couple of things caught my attention in the last forty eight hours that I had been meaning to address.  

On the CCC, Kelley had posted about the hit-and-run damage to her little green Neon car.  Nana had subsequently posted on her forum, under the thread titled "Kelley," a picture of a little green car with obvious crash-related damage, accompanied by the words, "Karma is a Beyotch!"   But she must have decided, for some reason, that her little, "victory dance/stomp," wasn't quite appropriate, so she deleted it.  Poof!  In fact, it appears that she has deleted the entire topic!  

Oh my.

Try as I might, I can only think of two reasons for Nana to take such a drastic action:

1.  She realizes, somewhat belatedly, as usual, that she has yet again made a complete and total ass of herself by publicly crowing, cawing and cackling about the misfortune of an internet opponent, regardless of the fact that such misfortune likely has had a very negative impact upon innocent family members of said opponent, including innocent children - which doesn't really do much for Nana's supposed and continually self-ballyhooed stance of being all about, "protecting the children."  

2.  The picture she posted was an actual picture of Kelley's car after the hit-and-run damage.  This would lead one to speculate, of course, how Nana would come to have possession of such a picture, since I can't seem to find any instance of Kelley posting a picture of the damage her car sustained in the incident.  

I really can't seem to come up with any other reasons why Nana might scrub her post.  

If any of my readers have any other theories, I'd love to hear them.  Inquiring minds want to know!

P.S. 

Nana, if you truly believe in Karma and you truly think that Kelley is suffering from the wrath of that "Beyotch," does that mean that you also believe that YOU have personally suffered her "wrath," as well, as demonstrated by the fact that your son has such a serious, life-long, life-threatening illness?  

Just something to think about.

Sarah Palin's Tragical History Tour

Listen, my children, and you shall hear
A whistling sound 'twixt Sarah's ears...



I look forward to her edumacatin' us all on that whole "statute of Liberty" thing, too.  Thank goodness she brought it to everyone's attention.  Sheesh! Any of us may have been breaking the law without evening knowing it!  But you know what they say...ignorance of the law is no excuse!

Right, Sarah?