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Playing with the new 'point and shoot' this morning while feeding.

One of my twin grandsons just because he is so stinking cute. They are almost one year old now. He doesn't have to wear his helmet anymore.

There go your chances at the Presidency

A clip from "Toy Story" in Acadian. When I sent this to my mom and her sisters, one of my Aunts completely missed it was a joke and asked if I knew when it was going to be playing in Bathurst.

It's a proven fact that wearing only a speedo in sub freezing weather will help you stay thin. You should do it.

K.D.Lang has an excellent voice. He should sing more.

That is fowl.

Sorta similar. I will call that "sormilar"

I’m just now getting rid of the socialist

They act and sound like a bunch of pubescent girls fawning over a boy band

A herd of them...just off my deck enjoying the sunshine before the snow moves in!! Spring is coming....Spring is Coming

Well, the first time I drove through South Dakota I got a Beefalo Burger at Wall Drug, where I also saw the stuffed Jackalope. Then, when I was a workaholic I often had cafeteria duty, so I only had enough time to each school liunches with a spork at 10 am, so it was actually my brunch. But I think my favorite portmanteau is the tomacco that Homer Simpson grew on one of his show's episodes.

Is the flooring guy one of them?

My cooking is a combination of what my mom cooked when I was growing up and what my wife cooked when I was working long hours and she was doing most of the cooking. She has added a lot of steamed vegetables over the years because she knows I like them and she knows they are good for you. When my wife started working full time I took over all the clean up/doing dishes, etc. When I retired I took over most of the cooking. I don't experiment as much as I used to because my wife sometimes doesn't like anything too weird.

You Basquetard!

Maybe more micro wave.

...so I attended a meeting of the River Park Neighborhood Association last night at my wife's request. She did not want to go alone. I'm not nearly as hooked into the local bike bureaucracy as I once was, having quit the management board of the bike co-op. So the first news I got about this "proposed" new paved trail on my side of the river was from a handout she brought home, depicting a homeless encampment on the river bank, and suggesting (very skillfully, and without actually saying the words), that paving this area (which is already a public unpaved trail along the toe of the levee) would result in a massive influx of criminals and homeless drug addicts, because pavement. So I told her I would go along with her, even though she was telling me that paving this trail would ruin it for her as a natural walking area, and she were agin' it. *ptoo* I, of course, being generally in favor of bike trails, felt remarkably neutral about this one. I feel I'm already well served in that regard in my location. And it's not a big deal for me to ride up to the pedestrian bridge at the college nearby and cross to the other side to use the paved 40 mile trail that's there. But I was curious, and you know what curiosity can do to a cat. The meeting itself was your typical small volunteer assn monthly meeting: i.e. dreadfully dull and so boring you want to stand up five minutes into it and shout "Kill me now !!!" But I sat there patiently with my hat pulled over my eyes waiting for the trail issue to come up, which because the guy running the meeting knew was gonna be awful, he held until the end. there were probably 25-30 residents in attendance, at a monthly meeting that rarely draws more than one or two (besides the actual board members). The vast majority of them were there to stop this intrusion into their previously "safe" neighborhood. At the beginning of the public questions and input period, I asked for an explanation of what was currently known with regard to the project. There had been a marked reluctance to share anything up until that point because (I surmise) the board president did not want to set off the crowd. It was pretty obvious that the majority of them were carrying torches and looking for someone to lynch. The one guy in there who knew the most about it turned out to be the guy who is against it and printed up those flyers. Turns out it's been in the works as part of the city's bike infrastructure plan for about 15 years. And it's in the environmental impact statement and design phase, having already had the funding approved for both of these things. So it's gonna happen. However, at the very end, when the board was putting together a committee for a public presentation at the April general membership meeting, and they wanted one community (not on the board) volunteer who was anti, one who was neutral, and one who was pro. When nobody volunteered as pro, I raised my hand and asked if I was "the only person in the room who rides a bike ?" Thank god some younger guy across the room who had been holding back raised his hand and blurted out he's a bike commuter, and the new trail would save him ten minutes daily each way on his five day a week commute. So they asked him and he volunteered. I felt like this: Anyway, as punishment I had a very realistic dream where I was back working for the fire department. That was unpleasant.

He does. Just not out loud.

A comment by @Longjohn brought me back here. We were served lots of vegetables when we were kids. Many fresh from the garden. There was very little processed foods in our diet. Yes, meat was fat but portions were small. Like we had chili mac but the hamburger was definitely the least part of the dish. I think that basic mix has stayed with me. A po' boy diet but pretty healthy.

I have always been conscious of what I eat. My mom loved vegetables and we normally had at least three vegetables at each bigger meal (supper during the week and lunch on Sunday). I never liked the way fat people looked and determined at a young age I was not going to let that happen. When I was raising kids I didn't have time or money for the gym but always did physical work except for the truck driving years. Driving truck it was difficult to find healthy food on the road while driving a big rig. You can't just park them anywhere. I tried to find truck stops with salad bars and I carried food from home when I could. Once the kids were bigger my wife started working outside the home and I started going to the gym and bought a real bike. My body has held up well over the years, I think my decisions have helped that happen. My brother thinks I'm crazy health and fitness nut. He has actually been very healthy as well but is not a model of fitness.

The Two Rivers Trail runs adjacent to the American River and connects Jibboom Street and State Route 160 in the redeveloping northern reaches of downtown Sacramento. It provides a connection to the longer Sacramento River Parkway Trail at its western end. Scenic views of the American River await at every turn. Eventually the trail will be extended farther east along the southern bank of the American River to California State University, Sacramento. https://www.traillink.com/trail/two-rivers-trail/

And that's the male commentators.

Strangest thing that I ever saw was a friends house. He bought it new and frequently had problems with electrical appliances going bad. He had the water pipe going into his house burst. The plumber found that the main ground wire was connected to a plastic water pipe!

Gesundheit!

This Stonehenge/circle thing is more than curious. There's an almost ominous pattern here. If you were to measure the circumference of the stone circle at Stonehenge, and divide that by the diameter, you get a number. And if you do the same calculation with the measurements of the earth, you get the same exact number! What's more, you do the same calculation for a circle, any circle, you get the same exact number!!! This can't be a mere coincidence, it just can't be! How did the ancients know how to build Stonehenge, setting such huge stones with primitive construction methods, in an exact circular pattern as to place them so the circumference and diameter would yield a number of 3.1415926535897932384626433832795 etc. etc. etc? It's both astounding and confounding, and I fear the real answers to this Stonehenge mystery are lost to us forever.

Uh oh.

It's kinda, like, when you cut up a hedge to look like a chicken.

Well, stop flying around so much and give them a rest, already!

It's a new place and bought freshly baked sour cherry pie with a butter crust. It will be for our delayed Valentine's dinner tomorrow. Yummers! With braised yak meat, leek-fennel on side, glass of red wine.. Pie shop-baker seems to produce some interesting savoury pies --lamb curry, Jamaican spicy chicken, etc.

I used to work with a guy who looked like Joe Bonamassa.

I've been pretty consistent with the riding and gym work outs the past few months but my body is telling me to rest right now. Just not inspired these past few days so I've laid off. Evening out with the missus and no workouts planned for the evening.