the duke had a good singing voice

Now here is a pleasant surprise.  Dean Martin and the duke John Wayne decide to sing a duet.  Now tell me after listening if you were not surprised also.

I got a new toy, a IPOD.  It's a little bit of a challenge reading the small print with old eyes, but I love it.  I hope to take some pics with the camera.  If I do, I will post them in the IMAGES blog.  Here is the address: http://jimkitt-images.blogspot.com/

The girls and boys of summer

 

Try this to enlarge it enough to enjoy what the author has to sayhttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/08/03/books/review/05meyerowitz.html?nl=books&emc=edit_bk_20120803


I don't know if these illustrious literary bunch really had a love for the game, but the picture and the article from the New York Times Book section is amusing and they probably could play baseball better than my local favorites the Indians.  Sorry guys, I love you but get real you need more talent at half the positions.  I'll continue watching you and yelling at the television set, but it really is not much fun when all chance of October play is out of reach at the end of July.

So it looks like my favorite nine have decided that playing well for half a season is good enough.  Except for my fav two tribesmen up the middle, Jason Kipnis at second and Michael Brantley out in center the rest can mail it in.  The journeymen they hired as tempo's, Damon and Lowe could not get it cranked up enough and have been sent packing.  Our interests on the north  coast now turn, ahead of its proper season to our football team.  We can brag that our gridiron group is the costliest bunch to play anywhere, one Billion dollars.  They say that the new owner is a hands on kind of guy.  For the amount of bucks he anted up I hope he is.  Lack of money has always been a Cleveland problem whatever the season.

Trying to finding a cool breeze

This summer has been a scorcher we will all agree I think.  It is also afleeting (is that a good word?)  Hazel's gardens have ended up some good and some not.  The farmers in our part of the country were expecting good crops, but the heat has put it to them also.  The lot of a farmer has to be bad on their stomachs being so reliant on what the weather throws their way.  A tough lot they all are.

Here is what has turned out well in Hazels flower gardens, she takes a good pic also.

Big Soda and in our faces government

I know I must be getting old, I seem to take current events with a shrug and a oh well.  Hazel, the woman I live with, is another matter all together.  She still has some fire that can generate anger when certain things happen that seem stupid to her.  For instance, the latest brouhaha taking place in NYC concerning our right to drink as much sugared soda as we want.  Hazel believes vehemently that we have the right to guzzle it until it gushes out of our ears if we so wish.  I do too actually, but about all I can generate in the way of anger is not much.  I can generate a smile over the stupidity of it all, but not enough to think of marching or picketing the mayors house.  This cover of the New Yorker by Owen Smith is great.  It took me a moment to to get it, but it's great.

thinking is sometimes hard

It hurts my head thinking about the health dilemma. If only we could hire someone to think for us and decide what is best for the country. Oh wait, we already do that don't we? It's something called a congress. We voted them in. We picked the best thinkers in the country. Oh jeeze, did we? I certainly don't know what is the right thing to do. But is it conceivable that this finagling with the medicare plan is causing, or has caused all our economic woes? Perhaps the president could just recall all his proposed changes and forget it for a while, and try again another day or year.

Garrison Keillor and one of his cat songs

Garrison Keillor has a whole album with cat songs. If you've ever been 'owned' by a cat, you will find the cat that allows you to feed him and let him spend most nights in your house among the songs.

I guess we really need a president, but sometimes....

Not meant as a political knock against the president, BUT like most of Washington and New York pols they really don't breath the same air as most of us do. Of course I thought that Obama would have a better feel for the average citizen. Naw he seems to have the same concern for Mr. John Doe as does Mr. Romney of the 250 million dollar net worth.