Happy 4th of July. In celebration of the day, I have reprised and enhanced my digital fireworks display.*
The major enhancement is that I have added audio to the fireworks, so turn on the sound and hear the booms.
*No actual fireworks were harmed in the making of this video. All of this is digitally simulated.
DG is protesting again. It looks like he wasn’t happy with all that yardwork I put him through last time.
There’s a lot of words on that sign. What does it say?
“Cartoons Against Mandatory Egregious Labor”.
Um. CAMEL?
Camel? What the heck kind of movement is “Camel”?
Ans: Slow.
Bwaaahaahaaa.
Hey, DG, if you’re going to have a movement, you need a logo. How about this
one?
Haaahaahaaa.
OK. Well, maybe that isn’t the very best logo, but it will get you over the hump until you get a better one.
Ha ha ha haaaaa…
Hey! DG! That logo looks a little bit like you!
Haaaaa haaa
Don’t get mad. Water you want from me? I’m dune the best I can.
Wait! Don’t desert me! I’m not done. We haven’t decided hooves at fault yet.
Haaa haaaa haaaa.
Hey, DG! What’s the difference between a camel with one hump and a camel with two
humps?
DG: Sigh. I don’t know. What?
Me: One hump. Duh
Haaa ha haaaa.
DG: Sigh
Me: Hey! DG! What did the camel say to the ostrich?
DG: Sigh. I don’t know, what?
Me: Nothing. Camels can’t talk. Duh.
Hahaaa haah haaaaa.
DG: Sigh
Hey! DG!
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Hey! DG!
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Hey! …. DG?
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Now where did he go?
DG has been goofing off again, so I rousted him out to get some of that yardwork done.
“Hey, DG! Get up and get after that yardwork. It’s starting to look ratty.”
Oh yeah? You are a cartoon character, and I can draw you doing anything I want.
Check this out!
There! All done. Now, that wasn’t so bad, was it?
You are such a drama queen.
I declare that summer has officially arrived.
The air is warm, the sun is out, the flowers are all blooming….
The arbor is covered with roses.
DG is out doing his yard work.
OK. We’ll have to work on that later.
I found DG goofing off again now that the weather is nice.
“Hey, DG, enough goofing off! Do something useful, like mow the lawn.”
He wasn’t happy with that, but I did convince him to get up out of his chair and push the lawnmower around. Check it out.*
*Go ahead and turn on the sound. I am making talkies now.
Remember way back when our old Snapper mower snapped and quit working? Here is a link to that post in case you have forgotten.
Well, the Snapper has snapped back.
Yep. It’s true. You can see it for yourself in the video below. Turn on the sound if you want to hear it purring away.
So what is that all about? I thought that the Snapper had been retired?
Nope. Even though we now have that awesome new all electric mower, I could not make myself simply give up on the old girl for something as simple as a broken rope. I mean…. years of dedicated service …. always there when we needed her….. to be left pining away in the garage…..
So I tootled on down to the Big Box Home Improvement Store (BBHIS …. emphasis on the hisss) and bought a generic replacement rope.
Then I took off the necessary pieces parts from the mower and laid ’em out.
Using the old, broken rope, which I had kept because I never throw anything away (sigh) I measured the proper length of the new rope.
I put the new rope on the pulley, and it was ready to rock n’ roll.
After putting the shroud back on the mower and treating it to some fresh new gasoline and a few shots of starting fluid,
the Snapper started up and we are good to go.
I am looking forward to another 37 years of service out of this appliance. But I doubt I will do this service again next time…. after all, I will be 112 years old then and will probably stick with the lighter electric mower.
Oh, and Happy Memorial Day everybody. Never forget those who sacrificed so much so we can run our Snappers and mow our lawns.
No I didn’t. I made a nice card for my wife, who is the Mother of our children.
Why would I do that? You aren’t my Mother.
OK then, you win. Happy Mother’s Day, DG.
Sigh.
I have been working on my latest woodworking project. Here is a picture.
Well…. I didn’t time it…. but I think it might have been 50 or 60 hours of work.
Well, I work only with hand tools, you know…. it takes a bit longer with hand tools.
Here is one of my favorite quotations from Ambrose Bierce.
A Causeway
A Rich Woman having returned from abroad disembarked at the foot of Knee-
deep Street, and was about to walk to her hotel through the mud.
“Madam,” said a Policeman, “I cannot permit you to do that; you would
soil your shoes and stockings.”
“Oh, that is of no importance, really,” replied the Rich Woman, with a
cheerful smile.
“But, madam, it is needless; from the wharf to the hotel, as you observe,
extends an unbroken line of prostrate newspaper men who crave the honour
of having you walk upon them.”
“In that case,” she said, seating herself in a doorway and unlocking her
satchel, “I shall have to put on my rubber boots.”
Ambrose Bierce, Fantastic Fables
It is not political. It’s making fun of the media. Everybody makes fun of the media.
Besides it was published in 1899.
OK. You win. You got me on a technicality.
Honestly, DG, that is the lamest April Fools gag I have ever seen.
