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Congrats to Mickey on reaching this milestone birthday. It seems so short a time since he was 14 and diving into unsafe waters and now a mostly adult. How long have Mickey and Remy been together? I know it been a few years.

You sound like my mum.

Uhm ... There was the year my mum thought it would be great to dress me in drag for Halloween. I might have been 10 or 11, still in elementary school. I wore my own underpants but from there it was all female clothes. This was the 60's so women still wore girdles with the little tabs to hold nylons up. Fortunately being so young I wasn't developed enough for things to be too cramped. I wore a little pencil skirt, blouse and cardigan. Then there was the makeup and the wig a neighbor lent. I was frighteningly pretty. My dad wasn't too thrilled. He took me to trick or treat in another neighborhood than ours where we had family friends with a boy my age. No one mocked or made fun of me and it was all in fun. There was though one creepy guy who didn't "believe" I was a boy and wanted me to prove it by showing him what was under my skirt. Tim, the boy I was with, and I both told him no. When we got back to Tim's he told his two older brothers about the guy who was a jerk. They asked what happened. Tom and Terry were both big guys and on the high school football team. They told us we did right telling him no and soon left on an "errand". I was too young and innocent to know about pedophiles and guess I was lucky. Anyway, yeah, I've worn a bra.

I remember them. My question for you Albert is, which hairstyle did you sport in the 70's?

Thanks. He seems better. Ate three small serings of chicken and rice, with a scrambled egg stirred into the evening portion and had a quiet night.

Wait!?! You haven't worn a yellow bow in your hair?

It's a young lady. Look closely and you might notice the shadow of a bra. What you imagine to be jeans is actually the counter stool she's sitting on.

Hi Page. Hope all is well at your house.

It's been an interesting morning beginning in the wee dark hours. Thistle has been out of sorts lately. Not being much interested in eating his usual food he's only eaten small amounts. Yesterday his appetit returned and he ate well at both morning and evening meals. The local independent pet store gave us small sample packs of food for him to try. There was one he seemed to really like so yesterday I bought a 4lb bag. He had that mixed with his other food and cleaned his bowl. About 1:15am he woke me needing to go out. He had a larger than normal doopy. Then we went back to bed. I had difficulty going back to sleep as my head ached. After about 45 minutes I dozed off. At 3am Thistle woke me again needing to go out. He had a second looser doopy then back to bed. At 5am when the alarm went off I thought no it's the weekend we'll sleep another hour. It took 20 minutes of that hour until I dozed off. At 6am we got up. Thistle wanted to go out immediately. He walked to the far side of the yard and promptly threw up. Over the course of the next two hours he had two additional very loose doops. He isn't lethargic, no fever, has an appetite (I fed him 3/4C of rice mixed with chicken which he ate with no adverse effects, he had another 3/4C at noon). Other than the gastrointestinal upset he seems fine. I'm chalking it up to overeating and a new food. We are expecting rain and have been waiting for it to arrive. Both mum's knees and my head are aching. I made a chocolate creme pie. Because I have a headache I chose to use a Pillsbury readymade crust instead of making one from scratch. I was amazed/disappointed/annoyed by how much the crust shrank when blind baked. I started with the crimped edge standing above the pie plate all around only to end up with it about a half-inch below the rim. I couldn't fit all the filling in the crust even with mounding it in the center. Fortunately it's a really good filling, it uses three types of chocolate, and I'll top it with freshly made whipped cream so the finished pie will be good. Oh, I picked my first snowpeas this morning. I got two pods, one for me and one for mum. We're livin' large.

While they share common values they are distinct individuals. CJ being older has maturity and life experience Ritch has yet to gain. Their worldviews are likely to always differ since the lives they've chosen differ.

Do regulations preclude him from flying after transferring to the Pentagon? While he wouldn't be part of a combat group would he be allowed to fly just to maintain his skills?

I just read that Kimberly-Clark is coping with the biggest downturn in sales in decades. Everyone bought masses of toilet paper, production was increased and now no one is buying.

I wouldn't have thought your hearing would go so quickly. I repeat ... NO, NO, NO!

NO!

Yeah CJ didn't begin to attract real attention until he decked the biker at Rolling Thunder.

I have to admit I chose the wrong Squad member to highlight the fundraising event by going with one of my favorites. Knowing it was a fundraiser for Heros Haven made Brad seem a natural though giving additional thought his rendition of the national anthem wouldn't be on par with a Voice finalist. My other fav choice would have been Harley but no matter how entertaining his talk on motorcycle mechanics might have been it wouldn't create the draw of a Grammy winner. I guess Chipper made the most sense under the circunstances.

I've encountered a serious issue with this story. I was chatting with a friend the other day and was about to tell him what Ritch was up to at the Academy when I remembered two important facts ... first, he would have no idea who Ritch was and more importantly Ritch isn't a breathing person. Note I didn't say living because the individuals you've peopled your stories with do live lives in our minds. I suppose that's a compliment or a statement on my mental faculties. BTW ... HAPPY 63rd BIRTHDAY!

That wouldn't work for young Miss Clo why would you expect any success?

Is that a young Josh Hartnett? I had/have a crush on that fella plaid or no.

I'm hoping that someday I'll see these stories in book form in the kids section of bookstores. Nicely done.

It's downright chilly this morning. It was 42/5° at dawn. It's now up to 44/6° but the wind makes it feel like 37/3°. Fortunately it's sunny but forecast is for unseasonably cool weather for the next 48 hours.

WHAT!?! Me?

Yeah, as Marty said it all started with Albert waving his meat ...

Today is Steve's birthday ... HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEVE!

Back home we would call that an "onion snow". It's just shy of 80/26° and sunny here today. Spent about an hour outside working on the stones bordering one of mum's flowerbeds. Managed to finish before the neighbors were ready to cut the grass. We're expecting a strong cold front later.