Riding For The Brand

My sister and I were raised with a strong work ethic. For better or worse, we passed it on to our offspring.

Yesterday she and her assistant were hit by another vehicle. Her truck is a total loss. She and her assistant went to the hospital to be checked out. Nothing critical, but who knows long term? Both are hurting.

Then my sister arranged for another vehicle. Tomorrow she is off to Wyoming to work five claims. She may be hurting but she rides for the brand.

One claim is interesting. Sumdude managed to shoot his steering column. No other details available.

Fun times ahead for someone. If you must hit someone's vehicle, do not choose an insurance adjuster.

A Woman President In My Lifetime

Had coffee today with a high school classmate who was a feminist even in high school. While I don’t agree with her on scores of issues, I respect her guts and commitment to what she believes. She has lived for decades with death threats.

I’m not breaking any new ground here when I report she said, “As a feminist I want to see a woman President in my lifetime”.

I started detailing the corruption of Shillary and Bubba; the Clinton Global Initiative and the Clinton Foundation, etc. She wasn’t having any of it.

Then I mentioned Carly  Fiorina. “No, no no, but she is better than Sarah Palin.” Of course, me being me, I had to point out how “hot” Sarah Palin is. Pushed that feminist button hard, then just grinned at her. Good thing we are friends.

Then we started talking about our adult children and some of the people in our mutual past.

Back to politics, I pointed out 49% of the population are men and Shillery is doing a good job of pissing men off. My friend didn’t see that as a problem. “Lots of men will vote for her”. She assumes all women will vote for her.

It saddens me to see an intelligent person like her so committed to an ideology that no distractions are allowed. It scares the hell out of me. I never expected the Lightbringer to get a second term but he did.  What if she is right and Shillery is elected?

Perhaps we should be concerned about who becomes her running mate. Lots of speculation about her health.

As to the GOP, I expect they will once again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by riding the Planned Parenthood mule into the ground. If they were halfway smart they would be talking about reforming Planned Parenthood, not destroying it. YMMV.

Professional Wrestlers

LL at Virtual Mirage

 http://symbolic-mirage.blogspot.com/2015/10/ll-younger-years.html?showComment=1444683448241#c1654538152045682569

mentioned a professional wrestler he knew as a youngster. Started a trip down memory lane.

Downtown Denver once had the Stockmans Hotel, a large place that took up a city block. The “ballroom” was huge and was the venue for wrestling and boxing. It would seat upwards of 3,500.  Off and on during the 1960’s I worked security. Our job was mainly tossing out drunks.

One night two wrestlers who hated each other threw away the script and went at it for real. I think wives/girlfriends/mitresses were the cause of the hard feelings. They were pounding the shit out of each other. The promoter came running up to my partner and I.

“Get up there and stop them”, he ordered.

“Uh, hell no”, was our reply.

Finally there was a winner. After he left the ring, we willingly got in the ring and assisted the loser out to an ambulance. Weren’t we nice guys?

The only wrestler I remember from those days was Wahoo McDaniels, who also played for the Denver Broncos. A very nice gentleman but I wouldn’t have wanted to irritate him.

Aunt Nancy's 80th

Two weeks ago we attended our maternal aunt’s 100^th birthday. Today was a gathering in honor of a paternal aunt’s 80^th birthday. This post is for those family members who couldn’t attend but anyone is free to read it.

Wheatridge lies WNW of downtown Denver about twelve miles and is near Golden. Starting in the early 1900’s it was farmed in small parcels as truck gardens to supply Denver. Later, the area raised carnations. Today it is part of the urban sprawl.

My great grandfather bought land with an existing sod house and then built a fine brick house next door for his parents.

My grandfather homesteaded land West of Maybell, CO (Moffat County) around 1913 and there was a steady migrating back and forth between the soddy and the homestead.

These are photographs taken of the family gathering and the Cider Festival, an annual event put on by the Wheatridge Historical Society.

Here are some pictures of the ongoing development  by  cousins of another 100 year old house on what was once a truck garden. As you can see they are using shipping containers. Progress has been slow as they have paid as they built while upgrading the original house.

 For all you who couldn’t attend, know we had a grand time gossiping about you and telling lies. You should have come to defend yourselves.

Nuff Said

Reliable Renewable Energy, My Ass

For what this 100+ windmill project cost, four state of the art coal or natural gas could be built. Or, gasp! Nuclear.

Over the Top?

A comment I made on a Facebook posting today. She had put up something from the New York Times.

So sick of the high priests and priestess of the Church of Assumed Moral High Ground bloviating their opinions as facts and using "sources" who's research methodology is crap by any accepted standard. Sorry *****, we will never agree.