- A picture like this is never a good thing...
Stolen from WLUK FOX 11
Good Morning Everyone...
Last week I had blogged about Miss Polly. Polly and her husband Rich were our neighbors back when we all lived NE of Pulaski on Jaworski Road- They now live in Wyoming. - Miss Polly had come to Green Bay to visit last week
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Casey and Polly at the hotel.
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Before moving back to the homestead here, I'd raised my daughters on Jaworski Road near Pulaski.
While our neighbors AFTER Polly and Rich were nothing to write home about, this is still very awful and sickening news, and one would never wish for anything so terrible to happen to anyone.
CLICK HERE.
What news to wake up to.
I am not sure, (having had no reason to keep in touch), I do believe that the home is still owned by the same man who lived there after Rich and Polly moved.
I have heard that he has since remarried. (It was his previous "woman" that had been responsible for me obtaining a retraining order against the lot of them).
His new lady had moved in shortly before we had sold our home.
I never met her, nor knew her.
That house burned this morning- By the time the fire department got there, the entire back of the home was engulfed in flames.
The children ages, 11, 7, and 3, taking their pets, got out and went to the neighbors across the street. - Their mother died in the fire.
- I pray that if she had to die, that she never woke to begin with.But then what, or who, would have woken the children?
- When we lived there, the man would go in to work very early, so he had probably already left for the day.
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Our home, (1988-1998) is on the left.
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The farm was originally owned by Andrew Jaworski himself, and built in the early 1930's. The house (ours) is concrete, poured from silo staves.
In its day, this was a very productive and active farm. But there came a time for Andrew to retire and for the eldest son to take over running the family farm. At that point, Andrew Jaworski erected the modular home next door to his.
*This arrangement did not last past Andrews death. I believe he passed on shortly before we bought the home from his son. 1988.
In the shot above, with the reporter blocking the view, (& to the left of the driveway), is a row of maple trees that I had planted as teeny tiny saplings the summer we had moved in. All the girls carried many pails of water to these little trees those first two years. I also planted a row of red cedars along the north end of our property.
Also blocked from view is a privacy fence installed by my buyer- between the two houses. (I am thinking they may have also had problems with these neighbors as well).
Be that as it may, again, no one ever wishes this on anyone for any reason. I am sure I will learn more about everything as the day goes on.
With respect to my back, I am still not moving well at all. I have made yet another appointment for tomorrow afternoon. - (If offered, I promise not to refuse xrays this time). Grrr
In the meanwhile, it is quite painful to even take a shower and get dressed.
hehehe (No worries, I shower and dress anyway).
In addition to my own vitamins and supplements, know that I am very tempted to begin taking Punks pills too!
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Hey!
...It helps Punks back, why not mine?
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I do not know what has happened to my robins nest. Casey and I checked it on Tuesday- and this is what we found...
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I shall recheck today or tomorrow,.
but I know something awful must have happened
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Casey took my garbage out for me on Tuesday also.
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Still cute as a bugs ear!
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Kelli had also stopped by that evening, offering to roll my dumpster to the end of the driveway for me too. What on earth do people do without family and friends?- (Personally, I cannot think of a worse way to live than to choose to live without).
While unable to really 'help' me out, Punk has been the epitome of compassion. When I go outside she will bring me her toys; and instead of laying them at my feet, she lifts them up for me.
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Holy Bugs Ears!
She's kind of cute too!
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And what does Mr. Sputnik do???
Absolutely nothing!
But he does dream of catching the wren in the box outside the kitchen window..
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He would care less if I fell over and died.
(Methinks I know people like that too).
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Heck, he's probably waiting for me to keel over so he can have lunch.
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So... speaking of that dreaded shower, it is time for me to get in there.
Hope you all are having a good day; and that you always make a bit of time to pray for your families, your friends, and your neighbors too.
XOXO
Me
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Special note to my main troublemakers, Casey and Jenné;
Take a close look...
Perhaps obscured, hmmm?... But it does seem as though the darn silo is gone?
I'm thinking Chris and Cheryl might not care to die of early and untimely heart failure.
Anna~Anna
"Flintville Annie"
© 2006-2015
Animals. Bugs Ears. And Death.
May 12, 2009 "SHOTS"
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Bug "Parking"
in broad daylight!
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Good Morning Everyone;
I am still more than a bit 'hurting' here. Contrary to what my doctor offered, without an xray, I do believe my back is more than sprained. This is some nasty stuff going on. Raunchy too that I cannot get comfortable any which way.
I caught this shot of Mrs. Robin RedBreast sitting on her eggs.
(You will have to look closely- I didn't get too close).
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Her beak is pointing to the left..
(I'll do better next time).
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Casey will be coming out today to help me out a bit. Gravity is my enemy, and there are a few things that have found their way to the floor that I cannot pick up. Add to that the litterbox, Punks food, and a few other things that my back is preventing me from doing. (Thank you Casey, in advance, for all your help).
We were to go to Minnesota today- Her recheck scheduled for tomorrow. Not going to happen. There is no way I am going to be sitting in the car for 4+ hours and care to live through it.
(Not to mention this Goldilocks trying to get comfortable in yet another bed).
Casey emailed U of Minnesota, Dr. Sutherland- She can reschedule for next month or have some of the tests done here and results faxed over.
When she was out last week Tuesday, (while I was still able to bend, dig and plant a few things), she looked very good!
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I took this shot of her and Punk last Tuesday - They both look pretty good!
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She took this shot of the rain gauge.
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Then she shot me...
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Then she even shot Punk!
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Later, I shot her.
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Then we shot the messy back yard...
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And a few little flowers out front...
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Kelli stopped by last Friday after work....
Nice to sit in the sunshine, even if it was only in the low 60's
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Kelli and Casey
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Punk and Miller chose to lay in the shade while we chatted.
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Jenné had asked about the bees....
Yes, they are back!
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Casey thought she was zooming in on one wasp.
Check it out, there are 3 in that shot!
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As she walked around, she saw this guy back by the woods.
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And his lady friend in the field...
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- Bet they were "parking" at some point too.
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Not sure if any of you know about airplanes....
When I had gone to the doctor for my back, this plane was flying really low by the airport.
I didn't give that another thought until I came back out of the office, and he was still flying all around.
He would seem to land. And not. Then circle again, barely above the trees.
Just quite odd.
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Know that the doctor was backed up that day
and I was inside for over an hour.
When I came out, Punk had to go potty-
Hearing a loud noise, looking up,
I see that plane still circling around...
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Any ideas why? - Strange, no?
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I have about 10 of these Hosta plants that need separating
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Some bigger. Some smaller. But all need some TLC. - So close together. Time for a replant.
Just not today.
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I won't be needing to transplant any of the bleeding hearts though-
They have come up ALL OVER this year!
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I shall end with a couple of tulips for you!
Spring HAS sprung
...and if you ask me, in a very beautiful way!!
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Have a sunny and "wunnaful" Tuesday!
Love to all
XOXO
Me
Any Words of Wisdom?
- Blossoms....
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Good Evening Everyone;
I am not sure how long this will be- I have lots to share, given that I haven't blogged for quite a while...
Nor have I been around to your own blogs, barely even getting to any emails I might have in my inbox.
I threw my back out, and just want to go lie down and cry... - But it hurts too much to lie down, or sit up in this chair, or, or, or, or...
- Standing and walking, (baby steps), is a bit easier than anything.
- Standing still is not an option unless I have something to lean on.
- Bending is out of the question unless I have a really comfy place to remain for a month or so.
That said I have a zillion unplanted seeds, and 2 acres of unmown lawn.
Rainy today... An excuse to do a few dishes and to take it relatively easy. - Which is exactly what I did.
On Wednesday evening my phone rang- Polly, a dear friend of mine from Wyoming, come to Wisconsin on her way to Rockford, Illinois to work on their house there. At one point years back we lived next door to each other on Jaworski Road in Pulaski.
Would it be possible to meet with her while she was in town?
(Don't ask next time Sweetie, just tell me where to go to see you).
I called Casey too. Would she be willing to come with me to see Miss Polly too? She was very excited to do so. Needless to say I don't get to Wyoming much. Always wanted to. Never did.
I picked Casey up Thursday morning-
Punk gets so excited to see her Casey that she sees Casey's front door and almost chokes herself hanging out the window as she waits...
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I think I have pretty much freaked everybody out with my own little fears for Casey about the Swine Flu virus. So much so that Miss Polly brought sanitizer and wipes as well. We decided to walk to Denny's Restaurant. It was about 10:30.
Perfect timing too as there were very few people dining at that point.
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Casey, Punk and Polly!
Such wonderful company! I was SO happy to see her- We talk on the phone sometimes, mostly by email, but there is nothing as wonderful as seeing her in person!- We chatted until after noon- More people were coming in at that point, and time for us to leave anyway.
One question with respect to this H1N1 virus-
Why is Wisconsin the second highest in the nation with #'s of confirmed Swine Flu cases?
CLICK HERE for the map of the entire US from the CDC.
Casey came out here afterward, and I did plant a few more seeds in the old flower bed. (Until my backside and legs felt as they were completely on fire, and didn't work right anyway). - Casey left.
- I came in to rest.
~I have been quite like Goldilocks this past week- I sleep in one bed, another, even a third, or I sleep on the couch. Mostly I just nap. Even doubling up on the meds the doctor gave me on Wednesday doesn't help. And since I am not a horse, I cannot sleep standing up. My doctor gave me an new MS drug that should be helping, "Baclofen" (and no, I have not doubled up on that).
I also have my brace on, which does help a bit too. God, what awful timing! I have too much to do to be this laid up right now.
Having grown almost dead of boredom, Casey and I went for a little drive yesterday- I had a few bills to pay, (thank God for drive-up windows), and had to pick up a few things too.
After that, she suggested a stop at The Humane Society. A tough stop for us both as we always wish to bring all the animals home.
There were very few people visiting... - ...Even fewer dogs and cats. 4 dogs, and maybe 10 cats. I imagine they are putting them down almost as fast as they come in, and that breaks my heart! When questioned, the lady told me that they were all taken to get spayed and neutered.
I doubt that. Not too many vets have time like that to take care of a whole bunch of animals in one day.
Back home again... To drive in the yard to see the most wonderful presents!
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.As I took those pictures, I heard a curious rata~ta~ta~tapping behind me.
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Makes all that snow shoveling a bit easier to stomach...
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It was this little guy, mad at his reflection!
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He was SO funny to watch!
He would take a seed or two; and then rap at his reflection.
Happy I have a good zoom on my camera!
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I shall write more later, know that sitting is not working too well right now.
May you all have a grand Mothers Day!
Hmmm... - While I am on the subject...
- What most memorable piece of advice ~or words to the wise, did your mother give to you?
- And... have you turned into your mother?
My love to all.
XOXO
Me
Japanese scientist claims breakthrough with organ grown in sheep - Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6222361.ece
May 5, 2009
Japanese scientist claims breakthrough with organ grown in sheep
Huddled at the back of her shed, bleating under a magnificent winter coat and tearing cheerfully at a bale of hay, she is possibly the answer to Japan’s chronic national shortage of organ donors: a sheep with a revolutionary secret.
Guided by one of the animal’s lab-coated creators, the visitor’s hand is led to the creature’s underbelly and towards a spot in the middle under eight inches of greasy wool. Lurking there is a spare pancreas.
If the science that put it there can be pushed further forward, Japan may be spared an ethical and practical crisis that has split medical and political opinion.
As the sheep-based chimera organ technology stands at the moment, says the man who is pioneering it, the only viable destination for the pancreas underneath his sheep would be a diabetic chimpanzee.
The organ growing on the sheep was generated from monkey stem cells but the man behind the science, Yutaka Hanazono, believes that the technology could be developed eventually to make sheep into walking organ banks for human livers, hearts, pancreases and skin.
It could happen within a decade, he guesses, perhaps two.
“We have made some very big advances here. There has historically been work on the potential of sheep as producers of human blood, but we are only slowly coming closer to the point where we can harvest sheep for human organs,” Professor Hanazono told The Times.
“We have shown that in vivo (in a living animal) creation of organs is more efficient than making them in vitro (in a test tube) but now we really need to hurry.”
The reason for Professor Hanazono’s sense of urgency — and for the entire organ harvest project being undertaken at the Jichi Medical University — lies many miles away in Tokyo and with a historical peculiarity of the Japanese legal system.
Japan defines death as the point when the heart permanently stops. The concept of brain death — the phase at which organs can most effectively be harvested from donors — does exist, but organs cannot be extracted at that point.
The long-term effect of the legal definition has been striking: organ donation in Japan is virtually nonexistent, forcing many people to travel abroad in search of transplants. In the United States, the rate of organ donors per million people is about 27; in Japan it is under 0.8.
The effect, say pediatricians, has been especially severe for children. The same law that discounts brain death as suitable circumstances for organ donation broadly prevents children under 15 from allowing their organs to be harvested.
To make matters worse, international restrictions on transplant tourism are becoming ever tougher, making Japan’s position even more untenable. To avert disaster, say doctors, Japan either needs the science of synthetic organ generation to advance faster than seems possible, or it needs a complete rethink on the Japanese definition of death.
In response to the impending crisis, and with Professor Hanazono’s sheep still very much at the experimental stage, a series of revisions to the transplant law have been proposed, but the debate has been divisive.
Taro Nakayama, the MP behind the most liberal revision — a change that would allow organs to be harvested from the brain-dead — is a former paediatrician. “Organ tourism is finished and Japan has to change its ways very quickly,” he said.
Gene genies
— In 1997 US scientist Dr Jay Vacanti grew a human ear from cartilage cells on the back of a mouse. He said he believed that it might be possible to grow knee cartilage and even a human liver
— In 2007 two scientists at the University of Nevada created a sheep with 15 per cent human cells as part of research into farming human organs from animals. Human cells were injected into a sheep’s foetus
— Last month Stelios Arcadiou, an Australian artist, unveiled an ear implanted on his arm. He planned to broadcast the sounds it would “hear” on the internet
— Last week Korean scientists said they had cloned beagles that glowed in the dark. Four puppies were created from cells injected with a gene that made them glow red under UV light
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Tuesdays Ten
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Good Morning All;
Another fine day ahead, and will be typing fast so's I can get my backside outside.
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I finally have my 1st tulip!
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Did you have breakfast yet?
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There might be another miracle in the making. John Pryes came yesterday afternoon to look at the Simplicity tractor. (This is the one with the tiller on it).
Maybe, just maybe, I might have that garden yet. He ended up taking it home so he can work on it there.
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Brandy came along too. She helped me out a lot, even crawling down into the water pit for me to get the hose turned on. I have to get another shut off valve for it though, it is dripping as I type.
I especially loved her shirt.
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Also quite funny is this- Received in an email from my daughter Jennifer.
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I firmly believe this kid should have gotten a higher score.
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Confession... .............(Maybe).
Last year 'someone' might have stolen some lilacs from Kelli and Tim's place. And 'someone' might have then planted them along the east side of my garden...
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And now there might be a few blooms on my side of Flintville too!.
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I am in the process of digging out the west side of the old garage.
This has not been cleared for...
Hmmmmm............ (thinking now)...
Well, it probably has never been done.
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Methinks the weather people are overworked when they issue a statement like this:
Many clumps of quack grass and nettles
(aka "itchweed" among others).
These are so easy to dig out too. With their runners for roots I just loosen the soil with a fork, (that's the hardest part), and keep on pulling the roots out. Bet some of those shoots were 3' long!
I hope to throw a few flower seeds in the ground there.
After I get rid of the nettles.
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Makes me itch to even look at them
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I quit digging when I could no longer keep standing and stooping without shooting pain down my back and legs.
Quite like the mark of Zorro I had to leave hand prints on the side of the garage when that pain threatened to put me down to the dirt.
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Come hell or high water, I shall resume my project today-
Rain coming tomorrow
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I copied this from Newsweek. CLICK for the whole story.
"The Path of a Pandemic"
Around Thanksgiving 2005 a teenage boy helped his brother-in-law butcher 31 pigs at a local Wisconsin slaughterhouse, and a week later the 17-year-old pinned down another pig while it was gutted. In the lead-up to the holidays the boy's family bought a chicken and kept the animal in their home, out of the harsh Sheboygan autumn. On Dec. 7, the teenager came down with the flu, suffering an illness that lasted three days. He visited a local clinic, then fully recovered, and nobody else in his family took ill.
This incident would hardly seem worth mentioning except that the influenza virus that infected the Wisconsin lad was unlike any previously seen. It appeared to be a mosaic of a wild-bird form of flu, a human type and a strain found in pigs.
It was an H1N1 swine influenza. Largely ignored at the time, the Wisconsin virus was a step along the evolutionary tree, leading to a virus that four years later would stun the world.
Flash-forward to April 2009, and young Édgar Enrique Hernández in faraway La Gloria, Mexico, suffers a bout of flu, found to be caused by a similar mosaic of swine/bird/human flu, also H1N1. And thousands of miles away in Cairo, the Egyptian government decides pigs are the source of disease, and orders 300,000 animals in the predominantly Muslim (therefore not pork-consuming) society slaughtered.
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Each of these three incidents is related to the unfolding influenza crisis.
It is the manner of human beings to seek blame during times of fear.
Fingers are now pointing, either at the entire pig species Sus domestica, or at the nation of Mexico.
Such exercises in blame are not only scientifically ill founded, but are likely to prompt government actions that, at the very least, are useless and, at worst, harmful for efforts to control a pandemic.
Would somebody please tell me if this is true WHY there is NO vaccine?
Forget for a moment that this happened in Wisconsin...(If I wasn't mad before, I sure as hell am now).
After all, this is 3 and a half years later!?!?
wth?
Then this article, click here. Maybe horses can help?
"horses with the flu have antibodies for the human H1N1."
That was 1918! Again I ask, WHY is there no vaccine???
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"Parts of the South will see plenty of showers and thunderstorms on Tuesday as a cold front slips eastward. The main precipitation threat will be on either side of the Mississippi River."
Hmmm... Really? Ya think?
Have a great Tuesday! Must get my backside outside now.
XOXO
Me
Drop Your Pants. *No peeing. *No Drinking
http://weirdnews.about.com/b/2009/05/04/10000-expected-to-moon-amtrak.htm?nl=1
10,000 Expected to Moon Amtrak
Monday May 4, 2009
Let's Move Amtrak
Does pulling down your pants and going loco in front of a locomotive sound like fun to you?
A crowd of 10,000 is exptect to be dropping trou in Laguna Niguel as the California town celebrates the 30th anniversary of the "Mooning of Amtrak."
This tradition started at the Mugs Away Saloon as an alternative to darts, quarters and other lame bar games. And now, every year, on the second Saturday in July, revelers gather before a chain link fence, and pull down their pants as the train passes.
Unfortunately, local officials threatened to call off what some call, "Orange County's Mardi Gras" after some local residents complained of public drunkenness.
After a bit of negotiations, however, the city council has relented. The event will go forward, but with new rules: No more public consumption of alcohol and no more urinating outdoors.
Strangely, no one complained about the bare butts, not even the folks riding the trains. It seems some Amtrak riders even moon back.
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OMG... This is so funny!
(Although I do take issue with darts being called a lame bar game)...
Mark your calendars- 2nd 'SAT'urday in July!
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XOXO
Me
Wonders if there really IS a full moon that day?
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