WE’RE KINDA GETTING LOCALIZED HERE

 

Sometimes I just don't pay enough attention to my own photos.  In recent posts I have been calling that old yellow car on Erie Street in Bisbee, a Chevy.  A few minutes ago while looking for some photos for to-night's blog & happened to click on a close up of the that car's hood ornament.  It clearly says......Chrysler!!  I remember taking that photo a few days ago & I was concentrating on the composition & failed to read the word Chrysler.  Probably remembered seeing the 'Ch' & my mind processed that into.....Chevy.   Just goes to show how fallible the brain can be in it's observations & memories.  Another mistake I have been making is in calling a group of mountains northwest of here, The Gleeson Mountains.  The town of Gleeson is over there but there are no Gleeson Mountains.  Jean from Gleeson set me straight on that to-day at the photo group & it is actually the south end of the Dragoon mountains I have been mistakenly calling the Gleeson Mountain.  Anybody remember, Wolverton Mountain??

It was Kelly's exercise class this morning & my photography group this afternoon so we are pretty well ensconced in some of the local community's activities for the next little while.  Only 4 people with photography interests to-day but we managed to keep ourselves sometimes focused on various photography subjects.  Haven't taken any photos for a couple days so will feature more Bisbee photos to-night from a few days ago.

And about that Abyssinian Ass Scratcher bird in yesterday's blog.  It was just a story I made up folks....no such bird, well none that I know of that can read a newspaper anyway.  It helps to have a good imagination & sense of humor if your going to be a blogger ya know:))  And about milking those chickens........well, not everything is a story!!  Oh, & about that joke I told the donkeys regarding the preacher.......it was not XX rated despite the big jackass laugh I got:))

   

A FEW OF BISBEE’S CHARACTERS

Had a chicken egg temporarily disappear on me yesterday.  The ladies laid a total of 4 eggs & that is what I gathered up & carefully placed on the ground outside the pen while closing the chicken pen door.   Turning around seconds later to pick up the 4 eggs I saw only 3.  I was positive I had just set down 4 eggs, but also knowing my mind it could have been 3 or 1 or??  Didn't quite seem right though & I pondered that thought a few more seconds before noticing ranch dog Pearce laying in the grass about 5 feet to my left......with a nice new shiny oval shaped chicken egg between his paws.  He must have been standing right behind me when I put the eggs down & just up & snitched one.  Despite Pearce's sharp teeth the egg was totally intact & not damaged in any way.  He's a good boy:))

CHATTING IT UP WITH THE LOCALS

One year ago to-day we were in Oliver Lee State Park just south of Alamogordo, New Mexico with a stuck down rear jack on the motorhome.  Ended up having to dig a hole in the ground with a hammer & you can read about that ordeal here....OLIVER LEE  http://thebayfieldbunch.com/2008/11/busy-problem-solving-day.html

ARTWORK EVERYWHERE IN BISBEE

The Moon & planet Jupiter were fairly close to-night so I managed to catch them both to-gether although it was a bit of a stretch & you will have to strain a tad to see Jupiter in the bottom of the photo.  Appears as a pin prick of light.  Did you know Jupiter has 63 known moons but only Lo, Europa, Gannymede, & Callisto are visible.  Lo & Europa are about the size of our moon with Callisto & Gannymede about half that size.

Kelly also took a picture of me & my little Astronomy  assistant, Motormouse, or as I have been affectionately calling her for the past 3 or 4 months, 'Beans' because every morning when she wakes up she's into the toy box & racing around the place like she's full of beans.  Mexican jumping beans that is:))

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GROANER'S CORNER:((  A panda walks into a bar, sits down and orders a meal. He eats his meal, gets up, pulls out a gun and fires one shot into the ceiling, then turns to leave. The bartender asks where he's going.  The panda replies, "I'm a panda, look it up," then leaves.  The bartender goes down to the library, opens up the Encyclopedia Britannica to "panda" and reads: ... eats shoots and leaves.

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A QUIET SNOOZY KIND OF SUNDAY

 

 SAY, DID YOU GUYS HEAR THE ONE ABOUT TWO DONKEYS & A PREACHER

“HEY THAT’S HILARIOUS AL”…….HE HAW HE HAWWWWWWW:))))

It's been a very quiet Sunday around the old Ranch-erroo to-day & we didn't end up going anywhere.  I never did go back to bed this morning since getting up at 3:15 to re-write the blog but I did however doze off in my chair this morning around 10 with a half full cup of hot coffee sitting on my lap.  No spills & it was still there waiting for me about 20 minutes later when I emerged from my dozy coma.

HAVE I MENTIONED THE COLD ARIZONA NIGHTS YET!!

Our temps dropped to 24F overnight according to our outside digital thermometer so I stayed inside until about 8 before heading out.  Although the sun was up it was still cold & I still had to wear gloves while milking all 8 of the chickens.  I don't like that & the chickens don't either.  It's just too hard to get a feel for things when you have to wear gloves for that sort of thing. 

EVEN THE BIRDS HAVE TO GET THEIR BATTERIES CHARGED BEFORE BED TIME ON A COLD NIGHT

Being it's the week-end we always notice increased traffic on the dusty road out front because of people driving down to the White Water Draw to view the Sand Hill Cranes.  Sometimes the cars come in convoys & stop outside the gate while people pour out onto the road with binoculars & cameras.  I remember this from last March as well & could never figure out what the people were looking at across the fields.  I would train my binoculars in that direction as well & see absolutely nothing.  Wasn't until I got talking to one of the birders one morning that I learned they were all out in search of the rare Abyssinian Ass Scratcher bird that has been known to frequent these parts.  I told him we had a couple Ass Scratchers in the motorhome who could do tricks & read the morning newspaper.  Of course he didn't believe me but when I told him they could even speak Chinese while standing on their heads he hurried back to his car & headed off down the road in a big dusty cloud of heifer dust.

BISBEE’S LAVENDER PIT MINE

And here is how I carelessly lost my blog post last night.  I am still in the old habit of writing the blog in email form with Outlook Express.  I like the spellchecker & it's an old reliable format for me.  I then copy & paste it into Live Writer, add the links & photos & that's it.  While writing the blog in Outlook I am in the habit of hitting 'File' & 'Save' every few paragraphs but for some unknown reason I failed to do that last night.  I copied the blog & pasted it into Live Writer & then immediately headed off to select the first photo.   When I clicked on the photo the computer totally seized up.  Even Control-Alternate-Delete wouldn't move it.  No problem I thought because of my habit of saving the the Outlook to draft plus I was sure Live Writer would have saved the blog to draft as well when I pasted it in there.  So, I hit the kill switch on the computer shutting it down.  Re-started & went to retrieve the post from Outlook.  Well, that's when I discovered it wasn't there because I had failed to save it.  Ok, no problem because Live Writer will have saved it.  Wrong again!!  Live Writer did not save it because I don't think it had time to save it.  From the time I pasted it in & clicked on the first picture might have been less than 10 seconds.  Not enough time for LW to gather it all up & save it I guess.  So, what is the lesson here??  Answer:  Type the whole blog in Live Writer in the first place where it is automatically saved every 20 seconds or so.  Ok, so that should be easy enough & sounds like a very logical decision.  So, what am I typing this post in right now...........Outlook Express of course!!  And like I've said before, "I'm not known for my smarts ya know."  Sometimes old habits for older folks is hard to break.......10-4:))

CURVED BILL THRASHER >>>>>>>>>

We had a bit of a tussle with Verizon this morning.  Six months ago they lowered their penalty for going beyond the 5 Gig limit to .5 cents a megabyte from .25 cents a megabyte.  Of course when we re-newed our seasonal contract a month ago it was at the old penalty rate.  Kelly made two separate phone calls to make sure our account was changed to the new limit.  "No problem" they said & would make the change to our account.  Some of you may remember we were over our limit last week so to-day we received a Verizon email bill stating we owed over $74 in a penalty fee.  That of course was based on the old .25 cent penalty rate.  Didn't take Kelly long to get on the phone & get some ears ringing at Verizon.  They finally reduced the bill to $14 based on the .5 cent penalty rate.  They tried to give her some lame duck excuse about not being able to go into our account & make the necessary changes.  BS!!!!  They can go into the account & make other changes any time they like so it was just another case of a large company taking advantage of the consumer once again.  As I have mentioned many times before, I have absolutely no trust whatsoever anymore in large companies whether they be cable TV, telephone companies, credit card companies, TV evangelists or religious scams, insurance & electric companies, or whatever.  They are all cut from the same cloth nowadays & their bottom line is out & out greed.  They will do anything possible to deceive their customers (or flocks) one way or another.  The fat cats at the top want their BMW's, 5 car garages, mansions in Hawaii & California & they are going to see to it that we the public give them that lifestyle.....one way or another!!!!

LOOKING TO-WARDS THE TOMBSTONE HILLS, DRAGOON & GLEESON MOUNTAINS FROM THE RANCH

Forgot to mention in yesterday's Bisbee blog that there are various tours in Bisbee for folks who don't want to drive their cars up into the narrow streets or cannot climb the steep roads & steps.  Check out this website for some of the various types of tours.  BISBEE TOURS.   We did the Queen Mine tour last spring & would recommend that one.  You can see our Queen Mine tour here....QUEEN MINE TOUR .   By taking the walking tour or one of the Lavender jeep tours I'm sure you will find out more about Bisbee than we have so far.  In fact I think we better hustle our butts back to Bisbee soon & get signed up for some of those very tours ourselves.  On the Lavender Jeep tour site you can read about the history of those narrow alleyway roads I was talking about in yesterday's blog.  Check out the short HISTORY OF THE STREETS here.  And one last amendment to yesterday’s post......Kelly wants it known that her Santa Fe Shrimp was in fact a Santa Fe Shrimp SALAD!!!!

ON OLD ERIE STREET…………. BISBEE, ARIZONA

Remember to use the 'Search' bar in the right hand column of our blog to find things I have blogged about.  I just went there & typed in 'Queen Mine Tour Bisbee' & the search engine brought that blog up right away & I was able to include the link here in this post to-day.  I recommend all bloggers use that feature for finding things long buried in their archives.  It was RICK who first brought this 'Search' feature to my attention about a month ago or so.

Check out RAY'S QCC BLOG  if you want to know how to get rid of facial wrinkles or his thoughts about re-touching & altering photos with photo editing programs.  To do or not to do.  Should it be done or should we just go with 'what you see is what you get!!'  I happen to agree with Ray & will write my own take on it shortly.  As far as getting rid of facial wrinkles through re-touching.........aw what the heck.  I are what I are matey.  Aaarrrggghhhhhhhhh!!

THIS PHOTO’S FOR YOU ROD & LOYCE……:))

GROANER'S CORNER:((  This guy goes into his dentist's office, because something is wrong with his mouth. After a brief examination, the dentist exclaims, "Holy Smoke! That plate I installed in your mouth about six months ago has nearly completely corroded! What on earth have you been eating?"  "Well... the only thing I can think of is this... my wife made me some asparagus about four months ago with this stuff on it... Hollandaise sauce she called it... and doctor, I'm talking DELICIOUS! I've never tasted anything like it, and ever since then I've been putting it on everything... meat, fish, toast, vegetables... you name it!"  "That's probably it," replied the dentist "Hollandaise sauce is made with lemon juice, which is acidic and highly corrosive. It seems as though I'll have to install a new plate, but made out of chrome this time."  "Why chrome?" the man asked.  "Well, everyone knows that there's no plate like chrome for the Hollandaise!"

The American Music Awards are on television right now.  What a pile of @#**!!!^) garbage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Whatever happened to the days when music was music.  Whatever happened to the talent:((  What a sad musical society this has become.  Do not associate the word music with this crap.  Call it what it truly is……………..GARBAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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