Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[gtmalone]

Yes, being in California, I most times find it best not to telegraph you intent...

The standard procedure in TX is to blink no more than three times and only after you have started the lane change. Sort of like letting you know after the fact.

 

[SoulReflection]

The standard procedure in TX is to blink no more than three times and only after you have started the lane change. Sort of like letting you know after the fact.

Good plan. At least no one can accuse you of not signaling. Got to practice that .

 

[12BitSlab]

I caught myself on the freeway with the blinker on the other day for who knows how long. I don't hear it clicking much anymore.

My blinker only clicks on 2 & 4.

 

[notJaco]

And you accelerate on 1&3.

 

[GwenOnBass]

 

[SoulReflection]

My blinker only clicks on 2 & 4.

And you accelerate on 1&3.

I believe this demonstrates how easily we can be distracted .

 

[beans-on-toast]

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[SoulReflection]

Beautiful...thanks for sharing. There is some beauty in this world. You dug down and found some. Again, thank you.

 

[gtmalone]

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My all time favorite painting! I'm partial to the impressionists particularly Monet and Van Gogh.

In the 5th grade we did a class project to replicate the painting by making the church and houses from cutouts and using pastel chalks and piece of tree bark for the tree/bush in the foreground.

I like this guy, too. He's my ex-boss's husband (and good friends). We have one of his works I commissioned for my wife on an anniversary. He retired from teaching middle school art a few years ago. They are also the reason our beverage choices have increased in cost.

Art Work by Delbert Park

The work he did for us:

 

[gtmalone]

I believe this demonstrates how easily we can be distracted .

Like when a bass player drops a note?

 

[notJaco]

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Were you just in Toon Town?

 

[beans-on-toast]

Beautiful...thanks for sharing. There is some beauty in this world. You dug down and found some. Again, thank you.

I think that he does it better than Don McLean.

 

[notJaco]

 

[Charlie Tango]

For all of you booze afficianados out there, check out this bottle of whiskey coming up for auction!

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The auction world is filled with rare bottles and casks of aged spirits. Few, though, can compare to a bottle of Old Ingledew Whiskey scheduled to go up for grabs this summer.

That’s because this bottle of the American whiskey—which will be sold by Skinner Auctioneers in June—is believed to be the world’s oldest. A recent laboratory test showed that the Old Ingledew, which originally was thought to date back to the 1850s, was instead likely bottled between 1763 and 1803.

Joseph Hyman, a spirit specialist with the auction house, teamed up with scientists from the University of Georgia and University of Glasgow to analyze the spirit earlier this year, according to a release. A sample of the liquid was taken and then tested using Carbon-14 dating, which analyzes the amount of radio carbon in an object (a similar process is being used to combat counterfeiting).

The test showed that there was an 81.1 percent probability that the whiskey was actually bottled between 1763 and 1803, putting it in the historical context of the Revolutionary War and Whiskey Rebellion. It’s also possible that the whiskey is even older, since it was aged in oak barrels then stored for several decades in large glass demijohns before it was bottled.

The Old Ingledew, which was bottled by Evans & Ragland, Grocers and Commission Merchants of LaGrange, Georgia, once belonged to Wall Street financier John Pierpont Morgan, who obtained it during a bustiness trip to the state, according to Barron’s. “It is a fascinating story,” Hyman told the publication. “The whiskey was not bottled at a distillery destroyed in the war, it is actually bottled by a general store, which is the same way the Scottish whisky Johnnie Walker started.”

Morgan’s son Jack gifted the bottle to future US Supreme Court justice and South Carolina governor James Byrnes in the early 1940s. Two other bottles of the whiskey went to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, though this is the only one that survives.

The bottle of Old Ingledew Whiskey will highlight Skinner’s online-only spirits auction during the last week of June. It’s estimated to sell for somewhere between $20,000 and $40,000, but with the whiskey’s history, don’t be surprised if it ends up selling for more.

Old Ingledew is too expensive. I think I've got a bottle of Old Overcoat around here someplace. I can let you have that for two-three fiddy.

 

[gtmalone]

The neighbor's lawn service is working today with the mower that sounds like a low flying airplane. From the sound of it, it may not make it back to the airport.

Today is also one of those days where there is a fine line between boredom and hunger. Hunger is winning. Haven't been in the mood to do much of anything today and I need to put some polish on a bass part for the school gig on Fri night. It's a medium swing (How High The Moon changes) and I'm playing it well but would like a couple of places to be more outside the box.

The gig is part of the school jazz festival which will be virtual. The performance will be on Zoom Fri night at 7pm. I'll post a link here when I get the details. We have five tunes and will have the worldwide premier of my original tune "Private Eye". We're the opening act for the faculty band and guest artist trombonist Andre Hayward.

Saturday has local middle and high school bands playing over Zoom to adjucators who will give a short clinic to each band. It's surprising how good some of these bands are. I'm usually an MC in one of the performance halls but since it's virtual, I'm out of a job.

 

[gtmalone]

Were you just in Toon Town?

Jessica Rabbit......

 

[Winslow]

Jessica Rabbit......

Holli Would > Jessica Rabbit

 

[GwenOnBass]

Holli Would > Jessica Rabbit

Uncertain if just not all that many people have seen Cool World, or just not all that many people admit to having seen Cool World. I like it!

 

[Winslow]

Uncertain if just not all that many people have seen Cool World, or just not all that many people admit to haveing seen Cool World. I like it!

Yeah, it was the live-action-cartoon-mix for grown-ups.

Not to mention, theme song by Bowie, for even extra cool.

 

[gtmalone]

Oh boy, oh boy! The Weather Channel has us in dark red again and a flash flood watch has been posted. A tornado watch is about an hour west of us.