The world gets weider and weider.

Yes its a peacock.   I have been frustrated lately with little dogs in airports, on airplanes, shops etc wearing 'comfort dog,'  uniforms.  Not 'service dog' but 'comfort dog.'  What the hell is a comfort dog? All my dogs have been comfort dogs.  Sounds like a hustle to me.  United Airlines agrees, refusing to allow a passenger to bring her 'comfort peacok' on board her flight.    Just wondering, IS THERE ANY SANITY LEFT ANYWHERE?

The Swiss are always so logical.

Yodellers in Switzerland have something to sing about after a university revealed it will offer degrees in the alpine art-form.  The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Luasa) will run a three-year bachelor's degree and a two-year master's.  The courses will begin in the 2018-19 academic year. Let me think, shall I major in medicine or yooodaloooing?

protecting children with flu

If a child is listless not eating and not drinking for the second day..TAKE the child to the emergency room ASAP! There may be no further signs before the child goes into crisis


http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/01/29/dr-marc-siegel-flu-fears-and-facts.html

West Virginia leads the nation in the drug overdose death rate, at 52 deaths per 100,000 people.

Drug distributors poured 20.8 million pain pills into a West Virginia town of 3,000, to two pharmacies four blocks apart in Williamson, W.Va., from 2006 to 2016. In the same period 4 million pain pills went to another pharmacy in Oceana, W.Va., a town of 1,390 people, that’s  689 pills for every man, woman and child in Oceana.  The same company sent 7 million pain pills to a pharmacy in Beckley, a town of 16,000, and 6.3 million pain pills to two pharmacies in Kermit, a town of 400 people.  One million hydrocodone pills in 2008 alone went to a pharmacy in Mount Gay-Shamrock, a town of about 1,779 people. Gee wonder what the problem is?

Irish road block.

Nothing more to say!!!!

Opus dei...for those with needs

known as the Liturgy of the Hours...long used to gain comfort, joy and hope for the hours in the day.
Lost is loneliness, pain, bitterness, anger, resentment, and depression.

pod|fanatic | Podcast: Divine Office – Liturgy of the Hours of the ...

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InspirationaL? Maybe

U decide!

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." C S Lewis

Spy by sea

 Hamas 
“arrested” a dolphin for being an 
Israeli spy. Readers of Reason 
magazine came up with titles for
 the film this action might inspire:

• Orcapussy
• Free Schmuelly
• Goldflipper
• The Porpoise-Driven Life
• Dolphinfidel

Consecrated hosts defilement by satanic rites

Catholic Churches are using guards at communion to insure recipients consume the consecrated host or surrender it so no host is removed from the church. Such has been reported recently to be used in satanic rites'.

christina chiabotto

Cristina Chiabotto is an Italian TV presenter, model and show girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsNEkELTx_4

courage

Championship game for the International Federation of Skateboard Soccer in Ghana this week.  Disabled players use their 'shoed'  hands to play the game. 

Laugh!

this should help  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLmd0100T9g

Happy puppy

time to lighten up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC9z-J8ipAA

Blowpig's Creek

Near our house, where JP walks the dogs, is a small often nearly dry creek. Our beast Blowpig loved to lie in the water and mud.  We've had some snow and some rain and Blowpig's creek is ragging.  She still go in if she was with us. 

Generations in appalachia

1950s

1930s

1940s


jpr: best indicator of any increase of income is the footwear of the children

                                                                 

1950s

red on the head like a .... on a dog

robert taylor from the 1950s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dRo-NWK-zY


jpr: accidentally encountered a most delightful movie... 5 stars

Coca-Cola was named back in 1885 for its two “medicinal” ingredients: extract of coca leaves and kola nuts.

Survival for a couple hours

This is me going home after traipsing around the woods for awhile. It was really cold. I think I stayed outside too long. I was becoming confused and disoriented. I stopped at the bank to ask directions, as I was a little lost. They acted very rude and chased me off. The Kwik and Go And/or Stop and Shop folks made up for it though. They gave me money and cigarettes without me even asking. It was a pretty good day after all.

The good ol days, when life was simpler and happier. Ever wonder Why?

7 up - introduced in 1929.  Ingredients included water, sugar, citric acid, LITHIUM CITRATE, SODIUM CITRATE, and some flavoring.  Lithium Citrate is a compound of lithium and citrate that was used as a mood stabilizer in treatment of manic states and bipolar disorder.  They stopped using it in 7UP in 1948.  The empire has declined ever since.l

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Genealogy 3 ...jpr

                               son Master John, granddaughter Ellie

Genealogy 2 ...jpr

Jpr with  mother Mary Ann, Dr Billy with da William S,
insert upper right Rita M
insert upper left  Martin K,
insert lower left Master Michael X

Geneaology 1.....jpr

Aunt Agnes K, grandfather  Hugh C, uncle Dr John J, grandmother Elizabeth, mother Mary A, aunt Sr Helen E

Judy Hehr

The woman is wife, mother of four, and a self made millionaire. She "graduated twice", from drug rehabilitation, and from Catholic seminary!

She found all her success as hollow and she-centered until her full return to Catholicism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdziB_mYsbc

Ya gotta love the English.

Sir, that's SIR, Desmond Swayne, attentive to an important Parlimentarey discussion.  And these guys used to rule the world.

A New VanGogh

In early 1886, Vincent van Gogh moved from Brussels to Paris, where he lived for two years with his brother Theo. Their apartment was located just a few minutes from Montmartre, the famous hill in the city’s 18th arrondissement. Titled “The Hill of Montmartre with Stone Quarry,” the work is a dusky sketch that shows a cluster of buildings and windmills on the top of Montmartre, with a quarry further down the hill.  Discovered in 2014, verified in 2017.

Snow Drifts

jpr: not this bad but oh what 6-10 inches can do on a windy day!

Heading to Jefferson St. for a Sledding Thrill

Emily - being irritable.

There's a certain Slant of light
Winter Afternoons -
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes   -  Emily Dickinson

Civil war ,..praying

Lord, Remember Me

O Thou, from Whom all goodness flows,
I lift my soul to Thee;
In all my sorrows, conflicts, woes,
Good Lord, remember me.

If on my aching, burdened heart,
My sins lie heavily,
Thy pardon grant, Thy peace impart;
Good Lord, remember me.

If trials sore obstruct my way,
And ills I can not flee,
Then let my strength be as my day;
Good Lord, remember me.

If, worn with pain, disease, and grief,
This feeble frame should be,
Grant patience, rest, and kind relief;
Good Lord remember me.

And oh! when, in the hour of death,
I bow to Thy decree,
Jesu, receive my parting breath;
Good Lord, remember me.

—Amen.

This prayer was included in “Balm for the Weary and the Wounded,” a prayer manual for Confederate soldiers, published in 1864 by Evans & Cogswell. 

Is this too cute?

Too bad fisher price doesn't send the child for the holidays as well...don't tell Amazon!

radio maria

in Burundi

In January 1987 the Radio Maria Association was set up in Italy, (a project launched in 1983 in a parish in the province of Como, in Italy), comprises lay people and priests. The goal of the association is to make the radio independent from the parish and involve it in a work of evangelization at a large-scale.  This global association is currently on 5 continents with 9 station in USA  

jpr Who knew....i understand many conversions to the faith are occurring.

Where s ur dinasour?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/12117187/A-man-dressed-as-a-T.-Rex-attempted-to-shovel-snow-during-storm-Jonas.html

My favorite crazy thinker, I think

Jordan Peterson, Existential Psychologist

H3N2 flu virus

Filling hospitals and grave yards. Every 12 minutes a senior dies from complications. Stay in, stay warm, stay quiet. Watch your children and each other for symptoms that persist or worsen.

n most cases people feel better after a week.

The NHS explains that the main symptoms include a fever,, a chesty cough, headache, tiredness and aching muscles as well as a sore throat, runny nose and sneezing.

Some people can also experience nausea and vomiting, diarrhoea or joint and limb pain.

The German edition of Playboy magazine will feature a transgender model on its cover for the first time.

Giuliana Farfalla, 21, will be topless, a tradition for such magazines in Germany.  Farfalla, born Pascal Radermacher in the south-western German city of Breisgau, said that early in her childhood she felt she was in the wrong body. She underwent gender reassignment surgery at the age of 16.

melancholia from years ago

https://www.facebook.com/GoodOleCountry/videos/574883939516109/

listen to that crying steel geetar

Emer Fudd s inheritance

Thanks jpm vs 2....very funny

Seems too real even for a cartoon!

Lost novel found

written by Irish for Irish

Jpr: eight years ago I was chasing a beauty, had loads of fun together. Unfortunately I put down a novel short of a last chapter. More the worst I not only forgot the name of the thing but misplaced it. Found this christmass tide...in process of composing an ending. Will be available on internet by spring.

It's all good in the end

Shoe glue...works on people's shoes too!

flowers in ice

Flower-Gathering by Robert Frost

I LEFT you in the morning,
And in the morning glow,
You walked a way beside me
To make me sad to go.
Do you know me in the gloaming,
Gaunt and dusty gray with roaming?
Are you dumb because you know me not,
Or dumb because you know?

Childhood memories.

"Put somme cardboard in it boys.'

The Irish have entered the world of strange sports.

          

The season of goodwill was firmly put to one side in the Republic of Ireland earlier after hundreds took part in an annual Christmas Tree throwing competition. the 'sport' is very popular in the Scandinavian countries of northern Europe.  Held in Ennis, County Clare since 2012, it's a simple contest. Who can throw a 5ft Christmas tree the furthest?  The traditional trophy is an old badminton trophy with a badminton racket hanging out of it and a Christmas tree on top.

Bald Knob, Cold Knob

  

About 30 years or so ago, the family (me, wife, 2 young boys) took a trip on the Cass Railroad in WVa.  It was a nice fall day, about 70 degrees at the departure point.  As the train ambled up the ridiculously beautiful mountain, the temperature kept falling.  By the time we made it to the mountain top it was well below freezing with a fierce wind to boot.  The train was not heated.  I took off my long sleeve shirt to give one of my kids some warmth.  I still had a t-shirt on but was as cold as I could be.  My wife had a light jacket that she wrapped around the other child, leaving her like me wearing a short sleeve t-shirt.  We were all shivering with no recourse.  An hour and a half up the mountain;  an hour and a half return.  Someone, a sympathetic woman gave us a chocolate bar that we split and tasted so comforting..

I love W.Va but that day we were unprepared.
By the way, near the top of the mountain was the remnants of a small town tucked in a small hollow.  I don't remember the name but at the time it was recognized has having the coldest temp ever recorded in the Continental US.

Cows on ice

This winter is ruff on all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZP60-syBeY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZU-owLWV3Q

Will we ever understand the English?

On New Year's Eve in Allendale, England, villagers carry burning barrels of tar on their heads. The 45 barrel carriers - called Guisers - parade through the town and the whisky barrels are used to light a bonfire at midnight in the town center while spectators and participants shout "Be damned to he who throws last." Hey sounds good to me, burning tar on my head.

Loyalty

A dog had been faithfully lying beside the body of its 67 year old deceased owner for several weeks when the pair were discovered in a flat in Hungary.  She was severely malnourished when found, could not stand, and had to be dragged away.  She's doing well.