Who feels like a Thread-Killer?

[KimRaye]

I would think Princess Ariel wants to make those CLOWNS disappear!

How's the elbow? (OUCH)

 

[Brer_Papa]

Originally posted by KimRaye


How's the elbow? (OUCH)

COLD!! (OUCH).....

thank you for asking..... (OUCH)

 

[Brer_Papa]

(OUCH) Gee...that elbow is on my banjo picking, accordian keyboard plunking, gartered cel phone hanging and xylophone stick wizardry side too...(OUCH)

I don't believe Ill be "one-man-banding" it for a day or two...

(OUCH)

 

[Cruisin]

Well you better make sure you rest that elbow up really well so you can get back to making music again.

I gave myself tendonitis in my arm a few years back because I decided I wanted to try bottle flipping. I used a smaller size plastic Pepsi bottle and filled it partway with water to give it weight and started practicing.

It seems I have a natural talent for bottle flipping, unfortunately my right arm tendons are in severe disagreement with my natural talent.

I had a very short bottle flipping career and a very long physio therapy, chiropractic visitation career

 

[Stepharoonie!]

We're going to a doll show today. My bf's mom sells dolls at them, so we said we'd come up and check it out. Hmm...dolls are scary....

 

[Cruisin]

I hope you have fun looking at the dolls Steph. Are they all kinds of dolls or just a particular kind?

I am going out to dinner tonight with my IL's. Woohoo, I haven't seen my mother in law since Christmas Day and they live 10 minutes away. Should be a fun evening. At least it is in a restaurant, easier to pretend you don't hear certain things that way

Hope everyone has had a day, not too here today.

 

[Stepharoonie!]

They were all kinds of dolls....Barbies, creepy looking dolls, etc. It gave my boyfriend the heebie jeebies! He hates dolls.

 

[Cruisin]

What did a doll ever do to him?????

Does Maddy torment him with her dolls

"Stand back, I have a dolly and I know how to use it "

 

[Brer_Papa]

Originally posted by Cruisin'Kroezes
Well you better make sure you rest that elbow up really well so you can get back to making music again.

I gave myself tendonitis in my arm a few years back because I decided I wanted to try bottle flipping. I used a smaller size plastic Pepsi bottle and filled it partway with water to give it weight and started practicing.

It seems I have a natural talent for bottle flipping, unfortunately my right arm tendons are in severe disagreement with my natural talent.

I had a very short bottle flipping career and a very long physio therapy, chiropractic visitation career

Ahoy Cruisin' !

My Grampa used to say that sometimes the path you are on takes a curve....

so...it seems to me that while flipping plastic bottles didn't work out that all is lost...try using glass bottles with different levels of water, beer or your hooch of choice....

get some xylophone sticks...and you are on the way to your own one-man/woman/person-band...

tendons huh?...i hear they can be ornery...

well...the day here was pretty ok....how was dinner Cruisin?

 

[Cruisin]

Dinner went okay. We went to a noisy restaurant. We talked a little bit about our company that is coming from Holland to stay (these ladies are their nieces) and we went home. About 1 1/2 hours from start to finish.

I am sure that my mother in law thinks my daughter is STILL unfriendly, but she is 17 and wasn't in the greatest of moods today so she didn't say much at dinner. A young guy she knows at school tried to commit suicide on Thursday by overdosing on something. He told a friend yesterday that he would do it again. He has been moved to a rehab place, since he needs suicide watching. So my daughter wasn't in a very friendly mood. She wasn't rude just non-communicative as only teenagers can be.

Food was great though

Maybe I can talk my nephew out of some drumsticks to practice with (the wooden kind, not the turkey kind )

My hooch of choice would be Pepsi!!

 

[Brer_Papa]

A 17 year old not communcating at a dinner woud not seem so strage to me....especially with the weight of a school chum that attempted suicide on her mind...

I hope the young man finds some solace and chooses to find the joys that there in life...

non-turkey drum sticks should work just fine...

my hooch of choice is unsweetened iced tea ...DD shudders at the thought....

i did have one bout with the demon rum....a while back...if you don't mind a story....

 

[Cruisin]

Ice tea is one of the very few beverages that I just can not stand to drink. YUCK.

Sure stories are always welcome here....

 

[Brer_Papa]

well....a while back....not all the way back to once upon a time...and not yesterday....just a while back...

i was glancing in the newspaper to see what activities were happening around the area...when lo & behold...i see that a Scottish organization was having a "Highland Games" ...

it wasn't too far away...and being of German/Irish/SCOTTISH heritage....i say to Princess Ariel...wanna go?

so...very early in the AM...we load up the RV....i put on a freshly laundered/ironed kilt....and down the road we go...

my thinking was...the earlier we et there...the better the parking place...the better the seats...

well..we do get there early...soearly, that when the folks there see me get out of the RV...they mistakenly think i am there to compete...

in fact..i got introduced to the man running the event...one Angus _______
. a huge bear of a man....bright red hair with the flowing beard to match....

they were all quite the jovial bunch...and after many futile attempts to get me to sign up to compete........they finally accepted i was just there in the role of a spectator...

I was not as successful in refusing their offers of sharing in their home brewed hooch....i seem to remember hearing Angus saying ..."well, if the wee lad wants to be a Nancy boy....."

so, despite knowing better....i chugged back a few....

well....before I knew it...the stands filled up....the pipers piped....and the games were underway....

1st event...sheep-shearing....and blind drunk or sober.... it was easy to see Angus won the event hands down....a shearing display of which legends are made of....

so...in my drunken rum-sotted enthusiasm and in tribute to my new found friend...
i got caught up in the moment...

I yelled out:

great job AGNES!!!

it went downhill from there...


to be continued...

 

[Cruisin]

uhh, ooohhhh, not a good idea

We have Highland Games here in Chatham every summer. It is interesting to watch some of that stuff for awhile. I really do like the sound of the bagpipes. Most people just hate them but not me.

 

[Brer_Papa]

well....I watched Angus turn red at me saying Agnes....like a thermometer...

the red started at the top of the beard and went up his face until you couldn't tell what was beard, face or hair....

the crowd got quiet....and i see Angus heading myway....I'm loking around to see what the fuss is all about...

i look at Princess Ariel...she's looking back at me shaking her head from side to side....

i look back at the games area...and Angus is right in front of me...

so...i says..."Gee Agnes...that was awesome"

i didn't think he could get any redder...but he did...

then he starts shaking..and he growls at me..."maybe you should come in and play..."

well, by now...i was full of liquid courage....so i turn to Princess Ariel and ask..."whaddya think?"

i took her shaking her head from side to side as an "OK!!" and i jump from the stands onto the playing field....

Angus says..."perhaps the lad would try his hand at sheep-shearing"....

so...i yell:

GIMME A EWE!

the crowd yells back:

" U! "

well...i'm thinking...I know where all the Village People fans are now...and i was thinking of yodeling out a version of "YMCA"...but...this wasn't my gig...

anyway....some kid brought me a sheep...

now.... i do admit i'd never sheared a sheep before...but this sheep was particularly squirmy....and sad to tell...the sheep looked like it had multiple mohawks when i was done...

and my shearing time wasn't so great...

but they didn't have to boo...

so...i yell out:

" GIMME ANOTHER EWE! "

they dutifully yell back:

" U! "

oh ha ha....this crowd is a riot...they should be on tv....

to be continued....

 

[Cruisin]

I don't mind mohawks, but I don't think I have ever seen them on a sheep before.

My niece sometimes sports a pretty cool mohawk. It stands up so high that she can't sit in the car without turning her head sideways.

I told her she is going to need a chiropractor soon for the kink in her neck

 

[Brer_Papa]

well...after bein admonished...and advised "only one ewe you"
(see?...they are a riot...)

it's off to the pole tossing competition....

they decided i should start off with one of the smaller poles...which by the way seemed about the size of your standard telephone pole...

i couldn't lift it....so...they sent some lads to help me get the pole to the tossing area...and even helped me get it ready to toss....

so...there i am...trying to balance this thing so i coud throw it before it smooshes me....

i go about 6 steps to the left....8 steps to the right...5 steps backwards....6 more steps to the left...and...

i dropped it....right across the fence of the sheep pen..

which allowed the sheeps to escape...

some called it a stampede...and in fact, at first, the wooly beasts seemd happy to be free...running, jumping, farting and frolicing all over the field...

but...and even though no one has admitted it...sheeps escaping must have happened before...

none of the sheeps got too far away...because these little black & white dogs rounded them up pretty quick...

of course, by that time...i watched the round up from the safety of my RV...

where I passed out...and where i woke up the next morning ....with a post it note on the refrigerator "Coffee's in the house - - went shopping" from Princess Ariel...

well...I am happy to report...that was the end of my sheep-shearing...pole tossing...and the last time i shook hands with the demon rum...

oh.....and the last time icalled Angus Agnes....who i still keep in contact with...good people...

 

[Cruisin]

You sure do live an exciting life Brer_Papa.

Nothing near to that exciting ever happens in my part of the world

I'm pretty sure they don't have sheep at our Highland Games, no little black and white dogs either.

Just lots of tossing things, bagpipe blowing and dancing kilted people

Maybe you should have signed up for the Highland Dance competitions instead.

 

[Brer_Papa]

Originally posted by Cruisin'Kroezes
uhh, ooohhhh, not a good idea

We have Highland Games here in Chatham every summer. It is interesting to watch some of that stuff for awhile. I really do like the sound of the bagpipes. Most people just hate them but not me.

I like the bagpipes too....never tried playing one...yet....

You've seen the Highland gGames/

Cool...they shear sheeps in Chatham?

 

[Cruisin]

Yes every year I believe the 2nd week in July there are Highland Game competitions held in Chatham. No sheep though, not that I have ever recalled seeing.

Caber tossing, the ball on the chain thingey, I don't know what else in that line, bagpipe competitions, tons of Highland Dance competitions too. Vendors selling stuff, etc.

My son used to help out with traffic control and garbage pick up when he was a Boy Scout, up until maybe last year. He is 20 now and still registered with the Boy Scouts, even though he doesn't really go to the meetings this year. Therefore, I, of course, had to help with garbage pickup.

What are moms for anyways