kevin and goofus, i guess this is where i punch you both on the arm...WHATEVER!!! :) (not too hard though)

...okay so i was checking out some titles from sherman alexie (thanks wyld) and i would like to browse
my local bookstore for some titles (if it is still there) :( (i don't know about you, but i like to hold a book in my hands,,,and if there are pictures, all the better!) but anyway, the title first indian on the moon sounded funny to me :) but i have no expectation, i will just wait to read. i agree wyld, i think hearing others perspective can be a good thing.

was sorry to hear about mike flanagan :(

Traditional Knowledge
It is late fall, and the Indians on a remote reservation in South Dakota asked their new chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild. Since he was a chief in a modern society, he had never been taught the old secrets. When he looked at the sky, he could not tell what the coming winter was going to be like. Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he told his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold, and directed the members of his village to begin collecting firewood in preparation.
But, being a practical leader, he also called the National Weather Service and asked, “Is the coming winter going to be cold or mild?” “It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold,” the meteorologist at the weather service responded. So the chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more firewood.
A week later, he called the National Weather Service again and asked, “Does it still look like it is going to be a very cold winter?” “Yes, the man at the National Weather Service again replied, “it’s going to be a very cold winter.” The chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of firewood they could find.
Two weeks later, the chief called the National Weather Service again. “Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?” “Absolutely,” the man replied. “It’s looking more and more like it is going to be one of the coldest winters we’ve ever seen.”
“How can you be so sure?” the chief asked. The weatherman replied, “The Indians are collecting firewood like crazy!”
{Remember this the next time you get advice from a government official!}

i sure hope texas and oklahoma get some much needed rain soon!

where is heraclitis anyway...i know i know for cryin' out loud...but, 'what's in a name' and all that...'a rose by any other name would smell as sweet'...and be every bit as cantankerous too i might add!!!!...and where is captain zap?
i can't help it if i miss people!...why should i even care!...i don't know!

dang-it!

For you agnes.......i know i know it's not exactly the same question you asked.....but what the hay, it's a good question!!!

http://youtu.be/7pZa3KtkVpQ

yeah... :( i miss them...

that is a great clip! thanks kevin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbJ-A9qE ... 1A2ED14E67

or perhaps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSnHTRZ6PSg

or possibly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u3WpbFB ... re=related

and just because i have been listening to that steve cropper thing that just came out everyday for a month

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epcl2KopdD0

these guys are right next to my steve cropper in the old cd player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCBueNRy5A4&feature=fvst

and i just saw these guys, the house was empty? I dont get it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYDdsADoNao

:) !! heraclitis!!!

that is a great assortment of rain related songs...considering the range of circumstances!

i heard oklahoma got some rain but then lightning was an issue!

i was trying to resist posting another version of this song but once i heard it again i figured why not?
(god i love that piano)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7fi9G0B ... re=related

besides, it is pretty cool finding out where some of these songs came from

Wow! I am younger than everybody in the list.

Birthdays
Birthdays

Congratulations to: LROSS, mgrover (63)
Users with a birthday within the next 7 days: JohnC (54), dkstott (56), cliffite, draz54 (54), maggieb (64), snotsucker (101)

Happy BD to them all. I'm younger than they are too. I noticed: snotsucker (101) They could qualify as the oldest blunderite. <g>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS_sLUVuKTs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L48SESjQN50

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEdk5nq-iBk

will it ever stop raining?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B3lfqbiwX0

heraclitis, i am beginning to think sure enough that you may know every song in the world!
even if maybe you do feel like you might be gonna sprout gills :)

goofus, birthdays? cliffite? is it that time of year again??

goofus give me that lampshade, that is mine!!

happy birthday you-all! whee!

you know those giant pot holes in the road sometimes? (i felt like andy rooney just then) (?) (but anyway...) the crater that has actually become a landmark that you need to not fall into?,,,,,,,recently someone got the idea to go and get a stock flowering plant from a nursery, stick it in the hole surrounding it with dirt, filling the hole...
soon after that the hole was repaired.

them flowers were the cutest thing