ROI Results 1/28 @ Gulfstream

[DonGuido]

JB, I'm right there with ya on having this ground hog shadow thingy backwords but hey, "when you'fre up you're up and when you're down you're down but when you're only half way up your neither up nor down."

The above is credited to an old English Nursery rhyme ans song. Not many things ake this much sense anymore . . . and I must say one of my 7th grade educated father's favorite sayings to me when i was young . . . Another was "ya don't want to be dumb unless ya show it". Each presented in light of the basis of Grounhog Day!

[RUFFIAN]

RQ
“ It's been a weird winter here in NJ.“

I’LL SEE YOUR “ WEIRD “
AND RAISE YA WITH BIZARRE

ONE DAY SNOW ⛄️
2 DAYS LATER 60°

COLORADO HAS AVERAGE 300 DAYS OF SUNSHINE 🌞
AS FLORIDA HAS OVER 100 DAYS OF RAIN ☔️

SO WHO REALLY IS
THE SUNSHINE 🌞 STATE 🤫🙄😼

[cal828]

Wow, my Dad was down right educated compared to yours. Mine made it to the 8th grade then went to work in the oil fields at 14. I'm not sure that would even be legal today. I wonder whether that falls under laws that prohibit child labor. At any rate, it was good for my Dad as he was employed and even prosperous right through the Depression and when World War two came along, he didn't have to go to the military because the production of oil was an essential industry.

As for early signs of Spring, I think of it as vegetable and not animal. First signs of Spring in the South are some sort of blooming white trees. I've always wondered what they really are. It occured to me that they might be some sort of wild apple or plum, but internet says they are called Serviceberry trees which I have never heard before. Learn something new every day even when you're an old curmudgeon like me.

[RUFFIAN]

CAL
Serviceberry ( Amelanchier spp.) are large shrubs or single- or multi-stemmed small trees. They are used as specimen and key plants in landscapes as well as in group plantings as borders, backdrops and screens. Serviceberry provides year-round interest in white spring flowers, yellow to red fall foliage, smooth gray bark, and edible purple fruit.
Serviceberry | UMN Extension


MY DAD WAS A PRIVATE DETECTIVE 🕵️*♂️

KILLED BY MAN RUNNING STOP SIGN 🛑 💔

[cal828]

Originally Posted by RUFFIAN

CAL
Serviceberry ( Amelanchier spp.) are large shrubs or single- or multi-stemmed small trees. They are used as specimen and key plants in landscapes as well as in group plantings as borders, backdrops and screens. Serviceberry provides year-round interest in white spring flowers, yellow to red fall foliage, smooth gray bark, and edible purple fruit.
Serviceberry | UMN Extension


MY DAD WAS A PRIVATE DETECTIVE ��️*♂️

KILLED BY MAN RUNNING STOP SIGN �� ��

Yes ma'am, I read about a paragraph about the Serviceberry plants. I've never seen so many words in one paragraph that I had no clue of the meaning. Obviously, meant for persons far more acquainted with Botany than I, but I did find it interesting that Serviceberry plants had about a half a dozen other names and among them Saskatoon. I knew that to be the name of a town in either Alaska or Canada and sounded like it might be Native American in origin which led to another internet search which revealed it to be in Alberta and to have come from a Cree word for the Serviceberry plant.

I have entirely too much time on my hands.

Sorry, about your Dad. I was once T-boned by an old guy running a stop sign. I wasn't hurt. I was driving a used Cadillac which was a very heavy almost tank like car. Probably saved me from serious injury. Force of the impact which struck my car in the rear side panel turned my car in the opposite direction to that I had been travelling and broke the rear axle of my car.

[JolyB]

The papers are full of news about bad weather in Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. I'm hoping that the snow, sleet, freezing rain and ice storms haven't affected our friends who live in that area, although the number of power outages has been alarming. Hope all of you stay warm and safe through this spell of bad weather.

[DonGuido]

Just like the great song in "Annie" . . . "The sun'll come out tomorrow", it's tomorrow today and the beautiful warmimg sun is out in all its glory!!! YEA!!!!!!! I hope the deep freezze looming in the north and northeast does not cause any discomfort or harm to anyone.

[cal828]

Originally Posted by JolyB

The papers are full of news about bad weather in Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. I'm hoping that the snow, sleet, freezing rain and ice storms haven't affected our friends who live in that area, although the number of power outages has been alarming. Hope all of you stay warm and safe through this spell of bad weather.

For me personally, it was ok. Didn't seem nearly as bad as the ice storms of the past when we lost power for days at a time. In my neighborhood the power company might have anticipated bad things. They had crews out trimming the overgrowth around the power lines so that falling limbs wouldn't bring the lines down. Still, in really bad ice storms whole trees will come down and knock out the power. Don't know how the roads were. I didn't venture out.

[DonGuido]

Originally Posted by cal828

Wow, my Dad was down right educated compared to yours. Mine made it to the 8th grade then went to work in the oil fields at 14. I'm not sure that would even be legal today. I wonder whether that falls under laws that prohibit child labor. At any rate, it was good for my Dad as he was employed and even prosperous right through the Depression and when World War two came along, he didn't have to go to the military because the production of oil was an essential industry.

As for early signs of Spring, I think of it as vegetable and not animal. First signs of Spring in the South are some sort of blooming white trees. I've always wondered what they really are. It occured to me that they might be some sort of wild apple or plum, but internet says they are called Serviceberry trees which I have never heard before. Learn something new every day even when you're an old curmudgeon like me.

My dad went to work in his father's barbershop and later had his own shop, making enough to provide but not much more. He served in the Navy in WWII and the Korean War as the ships barber and was a "dfamage Control" team leader. He cut hair for just over 50 years, that's a lot of standing on your feet and talking and he loved to talk to his customers. He used to brag about my baseball playing years growing up to the point of annoyance I'm sure. After he quit, age 65, he moved from Endicott, NY to Clemson to be near us. I was happy thay he lived long enouhg to see me graduate from Clemson and go on to Rice University for my Masters. He passed away halfway through my second year at Rice, smoking all his life and cancer finally got him. My mother died when I was 10. Most importantly everyone that new Al the barber loved him. That in itself is special and something for me to be proud of.

[RUFFIAN]

DAD WAS A DETECTIVE
The Police Force Led His Funeral Procession

The man who Killed him by running Stop Sign
Committed Suicide after he killed Dad

His wife had the Audacity
To Call my Grieving Mother
Furious because we didn’t attend her husbands Funeral

The Trucker who Killed my Husband
Wound up in Mental Institution

[cal828]

Originally Posted by DonGuido

My dad went to work in his father's barbershop and later had his own shop, making enough to provide but not much more. He served in the Navy in WWII and the Korean War as the ships barber and was a "dfamage Control" team leader. He cut hair for just over 50 years, that's a lot of standing on your feet and talking and he loved to talk to his customers. He used to brag about my baseball playing years growing up to the point of annoyance I'm sure. After he quit, age 65, he moved from Endicott, NY to Clemson to be near us. I was happy thay he lived long enouhg to see me graduate from Clemson and go on to Rice University for my Masters. He passed away halfway through my second year at Rice, smoking all his life and cancer finally got him. My mother died when I was 10. Most importantly everyone that new Al the barber loved him. That in itself is special and something for me to be proud of.

I can't say that my Dad was a war hero, but I guess he did his part as all those planes and ships and tanks and trucks, etc. would have been useless without the oil and fuel that they ran on. Also my Dad contributed in another way to the military in that he had four sons and they all spent some time in the military; however only one was in a combat situation. One of my older brothers is a veteran of Korea. He served as a munitions specialist which means he loaded B-26s with 50 caliber machine gun rounds and with bombs. He also served another tour in Korea much later during the Pueblo Crisis.

I guess, it would be easy to overlook the sort of ordinary heroism of a parent. My Dad worked for 50 years in a dangerous dirty job. He was always out in whatever weather situation presented itself. Whether it was the burning heat of Summer in the South or the sometimes sub-freezing cold, rain or snow of the Winter, he was out in it and I know that he worked long hours. Drilling rigs go 24/7 for as long as it takes to either get a producing well or give it up as a "dry" hole. He was in charge of one shift on a rig. Not sure whether it was all that physically taxing as he was the guy that operated a pair of twin
diesel engines that were I guess about the same size as those in a locomotive.

In contrast to your Dad, mine didn't have much to be proud of on the educational side. Three of his four sons didn't graduate from High School including myself, but I later had the G.I. Bill courtesy of Uncle Sam so took a test for the GED and passed so I guess I must have gotten more than I thought out of my short stay in High School. Went to college and became the sole college graduate in my family, but on a more positive note, both my kids are college graduates and of course my daughter has a medical degree and all three of my grandchildren are on their way to a college education and probably post graduate too.