post 57

 Here is an experiment using some new software called Manga Studio.

day 41

Got too hot today mowing the yard and almost didn't post tonight! It was the Madeline show last night at the graduation! She got a ton of awards and seemed to be up on stage every five minutes! The boy got a little jealous and showed out some! We survived. Different style tonight, loose pen work, mainly due to running out of time, but I will deny that if cornered!

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day 40

Our daughter graduates the sixth grade tonight (and they said she would never go far,,,,well, maybe I said she would never go far!). She is a beautiful and bright girl and will go far in this world if she can successfully walk the minefield that is the teenage years! So far she has shown good taste in friends and activities which we survivors know is half the battle. Last night the Boy got the dogs all stirred up late. I told him not to do it, but, does he listen? No! So, at eleven last night we can still hear the dogs fighting/playing and the Boy screaming "Shut up, you stupid dogs!" I just smiled and rolled over.....such is life!

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day 34

All is well here, the weather is good, the soccer team played a good team  last night to a tie and we feel great about that! Bruce is getting around better after his surgery and I was thinking about what dogs must  think about the whole "getting fixed" process....

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day 32

We had the dog fixed today. I know it was the right thing to do, Bob Barker tells me so!  Still, getting the old stones chopped off is not something a self respecting dude does without forethought! He seems ok, a little pissed off, but ok. Today is the one year anniversary of my father's death, that was not one of my best days on the planet, but we survive and hopefully thrive....such is life!



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day 28

Haven't had the time to cartoon yet due to my serious housecleaning duties! No, really, got family coming in this weekend and need the house to look like at least Cro-Magnon people live here! As a treat, I thought I would throw out a bone to you readers and let you see what the "Hounds from Heck" really look like, cartoon to follow later....hopefully!


L to R: Zoe, Bruce and Minnie Pearl



I talked the 5th grade class about the oil disaster in the Gulf while Sub'ing the other day and explained what I remembered about drilling and well control. All those years in the Gulf on the rigs and that degree in Geology weren't a total waste. The kids really got into it and calmed down, listened and asked some very interesting questions! The more we hear about what happened, the more it looks like shortcuts and stupid decisions were made. The subsea engineers I worked with would never let a BOP go down with dead batteries and faulty Ram's in place. More is coming out daily, I just hope they do not take a business as usual attitude and think outside the box to shut the well down and get this mess cleaned up before it finishes off one of the most beautiful parts of this country!

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day 27

I am beat, had to sub again today and this time got a whole fifth grade class all to myself.  The day finished up OK, just wore me down.  Now I promised you a cartoon everyday.  I did not promise a funny or even a quality one!!! If you have been following the blog by now you may have noticed that I will go back and tweak old cartoons to make them funnier or correct glaring mistakes in spelling or composition. Today's cartoon was drawn a week ago. Never came up with a good line, still haven't! But, in the need for continuity, I will post, but be warned, I think this puppy will be worked on plenty in the next few days!  The gag revolves around Bruce's first trip in our backyard.  He looked around and immediately jumped in the Koi pond and was drug out a  green furball from the algae!



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day 26

Well, I went out and bought a new fridge yesterday and it's coming today about 11 am.  The funny thing is this morning I opened the old one and low and behold the damn thing was working!! We are thinking about putting it in the garage for drinks and stuff, but I'm not sure I  trust it, it let me down and that spark is just not there, it's out of my circle of trust!  Another rainy day here, won't be able to ride the bike (and my new gel seat cover is on that sucker, so hopefully my ass won't fall asleep on the trail again).  I need to clean anyway, got in-laws coming in this weekend and want this "house-bitch" to prove he's on the job!!).  



 
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day 20

Another day of blessed sunshine and drying! The scene in Nashville is still pretty bad and the national news is finally getting it that something major went down here while they were concentrating on a Pakistani too stupid to figure out how to get gasoline to explode in the back of a closed car!! They say the damage to the trucking industry and the interstate infrastructure alone could be in the countless millions. We are still dry and reasonably unaffected but many of our friends living in Nashville are homeless or living in damaged homes. So with that, enjoy a funny cartoon about dogs.....


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day 18

What a weekend! Over 13 inches of rain fell this weekend, whole neighborhoods flooded out, interstates shut down indefinitely, houses floating down the road and other than the weather channel, almost no national news coverage!! Is this a Katrina-like disaster? Time will tell. The big story the talking heads were going on about all weekend was the Time Square potential bombing. Didn't those idiots know that anyone with a 3rd grade reading level in English, Internet access and the ability to find a Home Depot could make a jury-rigged explosive large enough to take out the average American high school gym? The only really shocking thing is that it hasn't happened before!
Crap, I'm up on my soap-box now! Have a good day and stay dry.....such is life.


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day 15

Now, one of my major passions is cooking and southern/Cajun cooking at that. I love me some bar-b-Que too! and have been trying to get rid of the propane grill and back to charcoal for years.
well I got me a little Cajun smoker the other day and am rockin' that sucker! I forgot what a difference it really makes. No, I haven't cooked a whole pig, but only cause I really can't find one up here!



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day 7

off to Sub this morning, good thing I did this yesterday!


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day 6

Good news! We won last night, 6-2 and the Tan "Cougars" (I named them last night to stop all the Andrew induced "Spitting Llamas" suggestions!) are now 3-1 and looking good. Now Andrew got this dog the other day, a Jack Russell Terrier aptly named "Bruce Wayne". Guess who's job it is to get up sometime between 3 and 5 am and take the puppy out to the yard for a bathroom break, correct, that would be me! How do I do it, you ask, simple...I drink a diet coke or beer (if I'm feeling sassy) at bedtime and at my age, nature will do the waking up for me.....


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