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Category: Everyday Stories

  • Benadryl and Juliette of the Spirits doesn’t mix well

    One reason I’m slogging through mud around here is because I’ve been doing Benadryl round the clock for allergies the past couple of weeks, which I hate as sometimes it makes me feel quite doped. Had just taken some last night when I sat down to watch “Juliette of the Spirits”, which I’ve not seen…

  • "There are no small roles…"

    "There are no small roles…"

    Bon Air Hotel View On White Out of nowhere, H.o.p. said, “There are no small roles, only small actors, right?” I don’t know what he had been thinking about that led up to this question/announcement this afternoon. But he was checking with me to make sure this philosophy was right, which one could tell from…

  • Friday cat food blogging

    Friday cat food blogging

    Let me know if this works…if you get audio and video. My Sony digital still camera muxes video so that audio and video are separate. I used a trial conversion software to deal with this. Click on the image for the video. Anyway, if it works out for you then you get to hear me…

  • "It’s a protist, not a plant!" (H.o.p.’s indignant)

    H.o.p. is furious. It has become a major source of contention for H.o.p. that so many children’s PBS shows and computer learning programs refer to algae as a plant. “Algae is not a plant, it’s a protist!” he says. “It’s a Big Big World” called algae a plant. H.o.p. yelled, “Algae is not a plant,…

  • Summer (almost)

    Summer isn’t official in my book until the solstice. But I just made myself iced coffee so it’s kind of here. I would have made iced green tea but I guzzle iced green tea and I was still full from dinner of fried tofu and chili bean paste (doesn’t heat up the kitchen). Marty went…

  • More tributes to Rick

    Nick at The Scratching Post writes: Most of all he was a nice guy, and I’m not just saying that to be polite. He’s another reminder that it’s not the things we leave behind that we’ll be remembered for; it’s the way we treat other people.

  • "Folks Behind the Faces"

    The fire that ate Rick’s house will have eaten his old Martin D28. Will have eaten his old Telecaster. May have left untouched the Graphite that George Coates talked Rick into buying, just like Rick should have left it on the music store wall, so Marty told him. The fire will have eaten his “Come…

  • Article on Rick Huff’s death

    Folly singer killed in fire Rick Huff recorded 2 CDs chronicling life at the beach BY NITA BIRMINGHAM AND PRENTISS FINDLAY The Post and Courier FOLLY BEACH – Singer Rick Huff, who penned songs that captured the soul of this Mayberry by the Sea, died Thursday in a fire at his house. Huff’s death in…

  • Rick Huff crossing over

    Rick Huff used to live in Atlanta but a while back moved to Folly Beach SC, which he loved. We don’t know the details but his house caught fire sometime Wednesday night/Thursday early and he died. He was a good friend of Marty’s and a friend of mine. But I think Rick was friends with…

  • Grassfire billboard

    Noticed this Grassfire billboard the other day on I-85 near the N. Druid Hills exit. Was passing by again and this time had the camera. Duct tape is good for everything. I’m sure if every Texan took the duct tape in their post 9/11 survival kit and headed down to the border with it, they…

  • Flamingo pic (the dining Horned Bills made themselves no friends)

    Flamingo pic (the dining Horned Bills made themselves no friends)

    Took this photo at the zoo a couple of weeks ago before the computer went down. Click on it for the larger version. Love the bird 4th from the left. I don’t know what was up, don’t know that much about flamingos, but every few minutes they would all suddenly start doing flamingo squawks and…

  • Unamazing Confessions – the hospital and Poppinsville

    Unamazing Confessions – the hospital and Poppinsville

    The lot behind the hospital, between the hospital and Poppinsville, got quite a facelift with the finishing of Poppinsville. Loading docks are back there. The lot was kind of scruffy and its fence was chain link. About the time Poppinsville went seriously on the market, a nice little security station appeared behind the hospital and…