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Michael Holmes, Chair of the National Custom and Self Build Association, said:
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Richard Bacon, MP for South Norfolk and Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Self-Build, Custom Build and Independent House building, said:
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15 comments:
- Maija said...
Happy Anniversary!!!!! oxox
- June 14, 2010 at 12:07 PM
- Honey Lamb and I said...
That is a lot of DQ time!! lol Happy anniversary! Ryan and I will celebrate 10 years on the 17th! ~Shelley
- June 14, 2010 at 1:37 PM
- Stephanie ~ Angelic Accents said...
Oh, Happy Anniversary, Jessi and Chris! Love that picture of ya'll!
Today is mine and my DH's!!
Stop by my blog and read about the WEDDING BLOG PARTY coming up on the 25th ~ I'd love to have you join us ~ and there will be a sweet giveaway, toO!
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- June 14, 2010 at 2:34 PM
- Jennifer Hayslip said...
Oh honey what a MAJOR bummer that the river flooded!!! Well, guess that means more eating and drinking and hitting the ole summer hot spot DQ. LOL!!!
Happy Anniversary sweetie!!! Bunches of Love! >3 XO,Jenn
- June 14, 2010 at 2:39 PM
- Lori said...
Happy Anniversary Jessi...that picture of the two of you just married is adorable!!!
- June 14, 2010 at 4:45 PM
- Michelle Ann said...
Happy Anniversary!! You were (are) a great looking couple.
Michelle Ann
- June 14, 2010 at 7:41 PM
- kayellen said...
Happy Anniversary!!
Are you going to Lake Okeboji? We have friends that live there..such a fun place to be in the summer time:))
- June 14, 2010 at 7:56 PM
- Sue said...
Such a cute wedding photo! Happy anniversary!!!!
- June 14, 2010 at 8:25 PM
- luckygirlgifts said...
Happy Anniversary!! Time sure does fly. You still look just as young.
cari B.
- June 15, 2010 at 2:45 AM
- Home and Heart said...
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!! I hope you have at least 50 more!
- June 15, 2010 at 5:54 PM
- Dianne said...
Hope you had fun on your anniversary! Very sweet photo!
Sorry about all the flooding-please send rain to Penna!
- June 16, 2010 at 12:27 AM
Happy Anniversary!
You are a cute couple
- June 16, 2010 at 12:37 AM
- Kateyed said...
I haven't been here for awhile and I love your new look. Come over and see mine, Jessi!
I understand that Dairy Queen craving. I wanted a dip top so badly yesterday that I drove twenty miles out of the city...for some reason they can't be within the limits here. Whew, craving overcome!!!
- June 16, 2010 at 7:49 AM
- Something Special said...
What a fun blog you have. I found you from another blog. I used to have that barbie that you have on your header. Come say hi, as I am having a sweet giveaway in honor of my newest grandchild. Come say hi if you have the time.
- June 17, 2010 at 10:00 PM
- Diane Mars said...
Jessi, Hi there I sure had a lot to update myself with over here! You are a busy girl! I love that wedding picture of the two of you how sweet! Happy belated. We just had ours May 20th.. Have a great road trip I hope you score lot's of goodies. I will be off to Utah the 23rd so I hope to hit some fun junk shops there! Breezy will be having Baby Knox! Hugs and Kisses, Diane
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Origins: Windy Bill
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Subject: Origins: Windy Bill
From: Rex
Date: 19 Jan 04 - 03:04 PM
Mark Gardner and I are doing another CD on early cowboy songs based on Howard "Jack" Thorp's book: Songs of the Cowboys, first published in 1908. We want to include "Windy Bill". The first question is does anyone know just when or where this song first appeared? The next one then is the kind of question that just drives normal people up the wall. Real picky details. You'll find in the songbooks that this song often comes with its own glossary to nail down those cowboy terms. But it's not that simple. They will say that the "Sand_Stacked" is a well known type of tree, yes, rawhide over wood, or the whole saddle. Well the tree is just the framework if you will. I've been in touch with historians who insist that it was a "Sam Stagg" tree. There were saddles in Texas in the 1860's that had a particular exposed rigging and were identified as having a Sam Stagg tree. (See the Smithsonian's "Man Made Mobile"). So then, why does Thorp who was acquainted with cowboys and their truck, call it "Sand-Stacked"? He also stays with that term in his reprinting of the book in 1921. Was it a running joke? Or did he just hear it wrong and never worried about it? I'm hoping that someone out there can help with this one. Thankee,
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 19 Jan 04 - 03:42 PM
Fife and Fife remarked in the Lexicon on sand stacked tree in "Songs of the Cowboys", N. Howard (Jack) Thorp, Variants, Commentary, Notes and Lexicon, 1966- "Probably a willful corruption of "Sam Stack," well-known saddle maker," p. 316.
In their "Cowboy and Western Songs," 1969, they changed it to "Sam Stack tree."
I seem to remember that this saddle had some open areas, (think McClellan) that just might have collected sand or other debris. Could be the basis for the corruption.
Not the only word in the original that needs explanation. Thorp refers to withers as 'weathers," still heard as often as withers in the southwest.
Maguey, the rope made of maguey fiber, is sometimes called a 'McGay'.
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 19 Jan 04 - 04:07 PM
I had always heard Sam Stack, but that could be wrong. Just phoned my daughter, who collects old western gear, and has a couple of pre-1900 saddles. She says it is Sam Stagg, and that the saddles were notorious for collecting garbage, sand, etc. She knows of one auctioned recently, with an 1880s date affixed to it.
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 19 Jan 04 - 04:22 PM
Finally, the straight of it, thanks to my daughter's library.
The rig was made as the Sam Stagg. The maker (originator) was Joseph Alexander Samstag, from New York, but he went west in the Gold Rush days, to Visalia, CA.
The design was copied by others.
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 20 Jan 04 - 12:40 PM
Lomax gave no data for "Windy Bill" in the 1910-1925 editions, but Lomax and Lomax in the 1938 revision said that they got their version from a Birdsall Briscoe, Houston, TX, "who said he learned it in New Mexico" (no other information). No mention of Thorp, 1908 in their editions.
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 20 Jan 04 - 02:26 PM
Another interesting question is where the well-known tune came from, since neither of Thorp's editions (1908, 1921) contains a tune.
The song was recorded in the late '20s or early '30s - I forget by whom.
Slim Critchlow, a well-known radio cowboy in Utah, I believe, used the same song on his 1960s album, "The Crooked Trail to Holbrook." Critchlow, who supplied a few texts and tunes to Lomax in the '30s, tried to be truer to the old songs than most radio cowboys, but he probably got this one second-hand.
The first and fourth lines of the tune resemble a 4/4 version of "Son of a Gamboleer."
Subject: Lyr Add: WINDY BILL
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 20 Jan 04 - 04:21 PM
Fife and Fife say "there are several musical settings available, but the one which seems to match the humor of the text is the Larkin version (2/4). It possesses a light jaunty air, with the rhythm and melodic line carrying an undercurrent of good-humored laughter befitting the text. One interesting rhythmic variation is given by Kitty Lee, where it has a 6/8 rhythm that gives the song another humorous twist, although the standard setting seems to be a 2/4 rhythm. It is sung by Frank Goodwyn to the well-known tune "Polly Wolly Doodle"."
Fife and Fife reproduce the Margaret Larkin sheet music.
The Lomax tune is 4/4 (sheet music in the 1938 edition, Lomax and Lomax, "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads," pp. 113-115), quite different from the Larkin tune, and requiring a slight adjustment in the words. Lighter, I think this is the one to which you refer.
All versions are closely similar, possibly suggesting that the original was published as a poem in some small western (California?) paper ca. 1890s.
The DT-Forum doesn't have Thorp's words to "Windy Bill," so here they are:
Lyr. Add: WINDY BILL (Thorp 1908 version)
Windy Bill was a Texas man
And he could rope you bet,
Talk of the steer he couldn't tie down
Had'nt sort'er been born yet;
The boys they knew of an old black steer
A sort of an old outlaw,
Who ran down in the bottom
Just at the foot of the draw.
This slim black steer had stood his ground
With punchers from everywhere
The boys bet Bill two to one
He couldn't quite get there
So Bill brought up his old cow horse
His weathers and back were sore
Prepared to tackle this old black steer
Who ran down in the draw.
With his grazin' bits and sand stacked tree,
His chaps and taps to boot,
His old maguey tied hard and fast,
Went out to tackle the brute.
Bill sorter sauntered around him first;
The steer began to paw
Poked up his tail high in the air
And lit down in the draw.
The old cow horse flew at him like
He'd been eatin' corn
And Bill he landed his old Maguey
Around old blackies horns.
The old time cow horse he stopped dead still,
The cinches broke like straw
Both the sand stacked tree and old maguey,
Went driftin' down the draw.
Bill landed in a big rock pile
His face and hands were scratched;
He 'lowed he always could tie a steer
But guessed he'd found his match.
Paid up his bet like a little man
Without a bit of jaw
And said old blackie was the boss
Of all down in the draw.
There's a moral to my song, boys,
Which I hope that you can see
Whenever you start to tackle a steer
Never tie hard your maguey.
Put on your dalebueltas
'Cordin' to California law
And you will never see your old rim-fires
Driftin' down the draw.
Taken without change from the facsimile of "Songs of the Cowboys," 1908, N. Howard Thorp, News Print Shop, Estancia, New Mexico. The facsimile is reproduced in full in "Songs of the Cowboys," N. Howard ("Jack") Thorp, "Variants, Commentary, Notes and Lexicon" by Austin E. and Alta S. Fife, 1966, following p. 257, Clarkson N. Potter Inc. publisher.
Margaret Larkin, "Singing Cowboy, a Book of Western Songs," 1931 (1963 Oak Publications Edition), pp. 68-71.
WINDY BILL (Larkin version)
Windy Bill was a Texas boy,
Said he could rope, you bet,
Said the steer he couldn't tie
He hadn't met up with yet.
Us boys we knew of an old black steer,
A sort of an old outlaw,
That ran down in the Mal País
At the bottom of the draw.
This old black steer had stood his ground
With punchers from everywhere,
So we bet old Windy two to one
That he couldn't tie that steer.
Then Bill saddled up his old gray hoss,
His withers and back were raw,
Prepared to tackle this old black steer
That ran down in the draw.
With his grazing bits and his Sam Stack tree,
His chaps and taps to boot,
And his old maguey tied hard and fast,
Bill swore he'd get that brute.
Bill sorta sauntered 'round him first,
The steer began to paw,
Threw his tail up skyward,
And went drifting don the draw.
The old cow hoss flew after him
Like he'd been eating corn,
And Bill, he piled his old maguey
Around old Blackie's horns.
The old time hoss he set right down,
The cinches broke like straw,
The Sam Stack tree and the old maguey
Went drifting down the draw.
Bill he lit in a pile of flint,
He got his face some scratched,
He said he always could tie a steer
But this one was his mach.
He paid his debts like a gentleman,
Without a bit of jaw,
And said old Blackie was the boss
Of everything down that draw.
There's a moral to my story, boys,
And that you all must see,
Whenever you go to tie a steer,
Don't tie him to your tree;
But take your dally weltas,
That's the California law,
And you'll never see your Sam Stack tree
Go drifting down the draw.
Original Vaquero Spanish "'dale vuleta', or give it a turnaround (tie it down). Original vaqueros developed the technique of tying the rope to the saddle horn by giving it a couple of turns to stop the animal at the other end." "Cowboys- Vaqueros," D. Gilbert y Chavez, Chap. 9, Lingo and Definitions, Univ. New Mexico; also on line at Vaqueros
Larkin remarks that it is a Texas practice to tie hard and fast.
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 20 Jan 04 - 04:34 PM
Q, you are on the ball at all times.
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: Rex
Date: 20 Jan 04 - 04:53 PM
I sure do appreciate the input here. Just what I had hoped for.
Thorp says he first heard sung by John Collier, Cornudas Mountain, New Mexico, July 1899. I was wondering if there might be an earlier mention of it. I don't know about singing it to Polly Wolly Doodle but will look into Son of a Gamboleer.
So there's this saddle rig that picks up all sorts of brush and such. It's gets packed with that and sand too. Sand packed... Sand Stacked. OK I'm reaching.
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 20 Jan 04 - 06:09 PM
Rex, you are probably correct about the reason Thorp used 'sand stacked', which most likely was just an occasional, or rare problem. Like most workers, cowboys often used 'in' names for their gear.
But the saddle was light and easily rigged, hence its widespread use.
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 20 Jan 04 - 11:27 PM
Note- the line in the first verse of the Larkin version mentioning mal país probably was introduced into the song by Powder River Jack Lee.
(Mal país, bad lands: in Arizona and western New Mexico often referring to areas of rough and broken volcanic rock.
Subject: Lyr Add: WINDY BILL
From: Stewie
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 01:32 AM
Slim Critchlow's version is similar to the Larkin one posted by Q, but there are significant differences. Slim gives no information about his source, but has an extensive note on technical terms which I have reproduced below.
WINDY BILL [Slim Critchlow's version]
Windy Bill was a Texas boy,
And he could rope, you bet,
He swore the steer he couldn't tie
He hadn't met up with yet.
But us boys we knew of an old black steer,
A regular old outlaw,
That ran down in the mal país
At the foot of Rocky Draw
This old black steer had stood his ground
With the cowboys from everywhere,
So the boys bet Billy two to one
He couldn't quite get there
So Billy brought out his old grey horse
His withers and back were raw,
Prepared to tackle the big, black steer
That ran down in the draw.
With his Brazos bit and his Sam Stack tree,
And his chaps and taps to boot,
And his old maguey tied hard and fast,
Bill swore he'd get that brute.
First, Billy sort of sauntered round
Blackie began to paw,
Then he twirled his tail up skyward,
And went a-driftin' down the draw.
The old grey horse flew after him
Like he'd been eating corn,
And Billy hung his old maguey
Right round old Blacky's horns.
The old grey horse he stopped right still,
The cinches broke like straw,
And the Sam Stack tree and the old maguey
Went a-driftin' down the draw.
Billy lit in a pile of rocks
And his face and hands were scratched,
He said he thought he could rope a snake
But he guessed he'd met his match
He paid his bets like a gentleman,
Without a bit of jaw,
And he 'llowed Old Blacky was the boss
Of anything down that draw.
There's a moral to my story, boys,
And this you all must see,
When you go to rope a snake
Don't tie it to your tree
But take your dally weltas, [dar la vueltas]
'Cordin' to California law,
And you'll never see your old rim fire
Go a-driftin' down the draw
Source: Slim Critchlow 'Cowboy Songs: The Crooked Road to Holbrook' Arhoolie CD 479.
Slim's note to this song is as follows:
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: GUEST,LIGHTER
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 10:22 AM
Thanks for the post, Stewie. My copy of that excellent album (with its great notes) is long gone.
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: Rex
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 11:12 AM
It's good to have Stewie join in here. Thanks for the notes from Critchlow.
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 02:01 PM
Thanks for the Critchlow version.
The 'grazin' bit' in Thorp and Larkin is changed to 'Brazos bit' in his version. The 'grazin' bit' is a "small bit with a curb in the mouthpiece. It is a good all-round light-weight bit, does not punish a horse, and is used now in most states east of the Rockies" (Ramon F. Adams, "Western Words").
Critchlow's explanations are valid, except for a couple of errors. The Maguey (pronounced McGee in the song) is not a grass, but an agave, 'century plant', and is noted for the stiff, useful fibers in its leaves. The species A. sisalana, from Mexico, produces fibers made into rope and twine; it is not the only useful member of the plant genus. The family is known only from America and Australia.
'Dar la vuelta' is one of the many forms and mis-spellings of the Spanish term, probably already corrupted by the Vaqueros themselves; known to most cowboys as 'dally' or 'dolly'. The variant 'dolly welter' is used in a tale by Omar Barker about a tenderfoot roper who made a lucky catch and was advised from all sides "to take your dolly welter," but he retorted that he "didn't even know the gal" (Retold by Ramon F. Adams in "Western Words").
In the article by Gilbert y Chavez (link in previous post, 'Vaqueros'), are illustrations of common saddle types including the vaquero saddle.
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 06:42 PM
Q, what I said goes double.
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: Rex
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 11:42 AM
Yes, what Lighter said. Thanks to Q for pointing out a great bit of work on the Vaqueros.
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: Rex
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 11:58 AM
Say Q, you had mentioned your daughter being savvy to these Sam Stagg rigs. Well one has turned up right under my nose. In the musuem collection of the folks that are doing the book that our recording goes with. And it is a rim fire! Would you kindly ask if she knows where on the beastie we might find anything like a name or a date? Thankee,
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 01:19 PM
Rex, I will PM my email address.
This type of saddle was copied by a number of small saddlemakers, scattered over the west. Often the saddle was not marked. Usually the mark was visible on saddles if it was applied, but sometimes a part was marked in some way, so the saddle should be examined in detail. The shape, style, etc., used by a saddlemaker could be distinctive, identifying the maker or narrowing it down.
A couple of ranchers here collect old catalogues and advertisements of western gear, and my daughter was able to get one of her old saddles (not a Sam Stagg) identified. (Prices for these old lists are scary)
Send a couple of photos by email, taken with a scale in the image, and she will send them to these collectors. There may be some collector in your area as well.
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: GUEST,Rex on the work 'puter
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 02:17 PM
Q, I'm beginning to see that I can surely depend on you. I'll be looking forward to getting a PM from you. Thankee,
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: GUEST,ed dixon
Date: 22 Jun 10 - 02:30 AM
well I heard it to be "sand slick" tree
as in worn smooth from the abrasion of sand
not really, i just made that up
but I honestly did hear it to be "Sam Slick"
who was supposed to be a famous saddle maker
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: GUEST,Donjo
Date: 01 Jul 10 - 11:01 AM
Ian Tyson's version in his album "Old Corrals and Sagebrush" mentions "Sam Slick tree," "Brazos bits," "take your dallies," and "Rimfire." Guess they talk a little different up there in Canada.
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: GUEST,lisa
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 02:26 PM
i have a orignail n.howard thorp songs of the cowboys 1809 and it does say stacked tree
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 09:02 PM
Date 1908, but yes, it is 'stacked tree.'
The verse:
With his grazin' bits and sand stacked tree,
His chaps and taps to boot,
His old maguey tied hard and fast,
Went out to tackle the brute.
See my post of 20 Jan 04 for the complete N. Howard Thorp "Windy Bill," Songs of the Cowboys, News Print Shop, Estancia, New Mexico; Copyright 1908 N. Howard Thorp.
A common variant of the name of the saddle maker, Sam Stagg.
See illus. 13 and links, http://www.schradersaddles.com/ld%20Style%20Saddles.htm
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: GUEST,Guest, john B
Date: 05 Feb 14 - 10:21 PM
So does anyone know for sure if Windy Bill is Copyrighted? I would like to include it on one of my CD's.
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Feb 14 - 03:03 AM
Hi, John -
The "Tharp" version of "Windy Bill" above was published in 1908, although the song may be older than that - so the copyright has expired in the U.S. and almost every country. In the United States, songs published before 1923 are safely in the public domain - but songs published after that are subject to a more recent law and most of them will enter public domain sometime after I'm dead.
Good luck with your recording.
-Joe Offer-
The Traditional Ballad Index has three entries on this song:
Windy Bill (I)DESCRIPTION: "When Joshua camped at pore Jericho's town, He blew his horn till the walls tumbled down... I blow my own horn... That's why they call me Windy Bill." Assorted tall tales, many Biblical, and often offered as explanations for the name "Windy Bill"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1942 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: talltale humorous religious Bible
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Randolph 430, "Windy Bill" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7611
cf. "Walkin' in the Parlor" (theme)
NOTES: Among the Biblical incidents related in this story are:
* Jericho destroyed by Joshua: Josh. 6:15-21 (the preliminaries occupy Josh. 2 and the rest of Josh. 6)
* "David went round with a stone and a sling, And he beaned old Goliath and later was king, He ran with the wild bunch while Saul was alive" (David and Goliath: 1 Samuel 17; David's anointing: 1 Samuel 16; David flees into the Wilderness: 1 Sam. 19:10 to the end of the book, with preliminaries beginning in 18:9)
* "Esau was a farmer of the wild wooly kind, That could not stand work and being confined, He did not think titles to his land was quite clear, So he traded his farm for a sandwich and beer" (Esau the"hairy man": Gen. 27:11f.; Esau sells his birthright for a meal of bread and lentil stew: Gen. 25:29f.)
* "Sampson, that big boy, wore his hair long, Till he met with a jane and she got him in wrong, He slung a wicked jawbone, I do the same, That's how I got Windy Bill for a name" (Samson, his hair, and Delilah: Judges 16:4f.; Samson and the jawbone: Judges 15:14f.) - RBW
File: R430
Windy Bill (II)DESCRIPTION: Windy Bill is convinced he can handle any steer. He and his mates place a wager on the matter, and they give him the worst bull available. Bill's rope technique is imperfect; he is thrown onto a rock pile. He pays up. Listeners are warned against bragging
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1908 (Thorp)
KEYWORDS: cowboy gambling contest
FOUND IN: US(MA,So,SW)
REFERENCES (7 citations):
Thorp/Fife II, pp. 38-43 (11-12), "Windy Bill" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
Fife-Cowboy/West 75, "Windy Bill" (1 text, 1 tune)
Larkin, pp. 68-71, "Windy Bill" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ohrlin-HBT 5, "Windy Bill" (1 text, 1 tune)
Logsdon 18, pp. 123-126, "The Old Black Steer" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Hal Cannon, editor, _Cowboy Poetry: A Gathering_, Giles M. Smith, 1985, pp. 26-27, "Windy Bill" (1 text)
Roud #4044
J. D. Farley, "Bill Was a Texas Lad" (Victor V-40269, 1930; Montgomery Ward M-4300, 1933; rec. 1929; on AuthCowboys, WhenIWas1)
Harry Jackson, "Windy Bill" (on HJackson1)
Powder River Jack Lee, "The Old Black Steer" (probably Bluebird B-5298, 1934; on MakeMe)
NOTES: This song is item dB41 in Laws's Appendix II. It has been claimed by Ray Reed, and credited to George B. German. I know of no supporting evidence for the former claim, and the latter appears to refer instead to "Windy Bill's Famous Ride." Thorp claimed in 1921 to have heard the song in 1899, but the claim is not found in his 1908 edition.
Logsdon notes that there are distinct roping styles in Texas and California, and the difference accounts for the Windy Bill's result in the song. Logsdon quotes, seemingly with some approval, Ohrlin's suggestion that the song originated in Arizona where the two roping styles overlapped. - RBW
File: TF02
Windy Bill's Famous RideDESCRIPTION: A stranger comes up to Windy Bill. Bill boasts of his riding skill, and the stranger challenges him to come ride a difficult horse They take a long, wild ride in a car. When Bill asks where the horse is, the stranger tells him they just won a car contest
AUTHOR: George B. German
KEYWORDS: cowboy technology trick travel recitation
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Ohrlin-HBT 70, "Windy Bill's Famous Ride" (1 text)
File: Ohr070
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Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 06 Feb 14 - 02:11 PM
Lyr. Add: WINDY BILL'S FAMOUS RIDE
Written by George B. German
Windy Bill was loafin' round town one sunny day,
He was nigh out of terbacker an' not drawin' any pay,
When a feller steps up gently, and he says, "well, how-de-do,
You look like one rough-ridin', bronc-bustin' buckaroo,"
Then Windy, he looks up with that curt, satirical grin,
And he says, "Well, holy moses, who in blazes left you in?
An' speaking of my ridin', now say, what do you mean?
I'm the roughest ridin' buckaroo that you have ever seen.
"I've rode the Spanish ponies, and I've rode the wild mustang,
And I've rode these western broncos till their nerve just went kerbing.
I've rode elephants and camels, and I've rode all kinds of fish,
And when it comes to bears and lions, why shucks, they're just my dish.
I can ride those alligators that swim around the lakes,
And way down south in Africa I've rode them cobra snakes.
I can ride these bucking mules that old Barnum raves about,
And once I rode a boxcar when my pocketbook got out."
While Windy's gettin' breath the feller says, "Well, I don't know,
This outlaw that I've got to ride, I'm telling you, ain't slow."
"Oh ho! says Windy Bill, "git them thoughts out of your head,
For I'll surely ride the critter till he's either broke or dead."
So the feller says, "All right, step up into this machine,
It's a big twelve-cylinder giant high-powered limousine.
Windy takes a chaw of ternacker, then he gits up in the seat,
And the feller starts the motor and they're headin' down the street.
Next they're goin' 'cross the prairie making more than a mile a minute,
And Windy begins to cuss himself for ever gettin' in it.
Then they're a-runnin' into chuckholes and they hit a million bumps,
And once they go through water, and Windy nearly jumps.
Then they're headed round toward town again, and Windy wonders why:
"Lord, the feller must be crazy, and here's where I must die."
Then they pull up where they started from, and the driver he gets out,
And Windy starts to roarin', asking what it's all about.
"Where is that horse, you crazy loon, that I'm supposed to ride?
Come clean, you ugly sinner, or I'll tan your measly hide!"
But the feller he just grins as a guy hands him some bills.
Then he turns and speaks to Windy, who's a-boilin' to the gills;
"Take the money, my dear Windy, and tuck it in your vest.
We just won five thousand dollars in a car endurance test!"
No. 70, pp. 174-175, lyrics only.
Glenn Ohrlin, 1973, "The Hell-Bound Train, a Cowboy Songbook," University of Illinois Press.
Subject: RE: Origins: Windy Bill
From: Bert
Date: 06 Feb 14 - 05:58 PM
Years ago, in the Fifties and Sixties Sets in Order square dance magazine ran a series called Americana by Terry Golden.
Each month he would take a folk song and research its origins. One of these songs was Windy Bill. There is an archive of Sets in Order here
Good luck in finding Windy Bill though 'cos they don't have the indices searchable.
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Brandished without warning and enveloped in ear splitting sound, a little wild creature can be stunned by the noise of machinery, frozen with fear and unable to escape. A tiny whip of nylon line from a trimmer can wreak havoc on a small creature like the hedgehog and the hideous wounds from a brushcutter can carve the little body into pieces in seconds.
It happens, I've seen the effects of trimmer on a little hog, and believe you me I am still haunted by the sight.
For the last fifteen years I have carefully cared for dozens of hedgehogs, preparing them for release into my garden and the adjoining nature reserve. It's a real privilege to work with these beautiful, gentle, sentient creatures. Once released they are rarely seen in the garden and with 200 acres of wild space to explore I don't blame them. I'm always excited in spring when I see the tell tale signs of hog poo in the garden, confirming that at least a few of them still return to my patch. A chance glimpse of one at night foraging under the trees in the woodland, or running across the lawn is a joy.
Last week, my well-trained neighbour alerted me to a hog out in the daylight. It was a startling reminder that a hog in daylight is a hog in need of care.
On first sight, it seemed quiet but head down and trying to eat. I wasn't fooled, I knew that it needed some help. A quick call to the rescue centre I work with confirmed they were in and could check him over, so I prepared a basket and picked him up. Pleased that he seemed a good weight for early spring I held him high and looked closer and was met with the most horrific sight. A hideous wound on his face confirmed that this little hedgehog was in trouble and I needed to act fast.
I'm twenty miles from my rescue centre but they were ready and waiting when I arrived and quickly checked him over. My worst fears were confirmed. This poor little hog had been maimed by a nylon line trimmer (strimmer) and was in such a bad way that he was put to sleep. I didn't sleep for days, my only consolation was that the little chap was no longer suffering.
Check first
We are all in a hurry but believe you me if you had seen what I saw that awful night you would cast out your power tools and cut the grass by hand. It could so easily have been prevented. A tour around the work site, ruffling the area to be cut should have given the little hog some warning.
A good look first could have saved this hog's life. Log piles and heaps of overgrown material are nesting sites for hogs, keep away with your power tools and leave the hogs in peace.
If you have to strim, trim and brush cut with noisy machines then start them up and make some noise before you start cutting.
My little hog was chipped, so we know it was a male that was released last autumn. He'd done very well, still weighing 520g after the winter. That at least was reassuring. But Will, as we named him met a garden power tool and lost. That was the end of his story.
If any good comes out of his demise it is that I am determined to spread the word and warn gardeners everywhere to PLEASE take care in the garden. Hedgehogs have enough to deal with as it is and no one wants to deal with a maimed creature in agony, it's simply heartbreaking.
Jean Vernon, Garden Writer.
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Honor roll: Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel
Each of these books has been nominated for a Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel. They are ranked by honors received.
Rogue Island: A Novel
Liam Mulligan is as old school as a newspaper man gets. His beat is Providence, Rhode Island, and he knows every street and alley. He knows the priests and prostitutes, the cops and street thugs. He knows the mobsters and politicians—who are pretty much one and the same.
Someone is systematically burning down the neighborhood Mulligan grew up in, people he knows and loves are perishing in the flames, and the public is on the verge of panic. With the whole city of Providence on his back, Mulligan must weed through a wildly colorful array of characters to find the truth.
Black Fridays: A Novel
Sometimes a man can be redeemed. But not in the way he expects.
Jason Stafford is a former Wall Street hotshot who made some bad moves, paid the price with two years in prison, and is now trying to put his life back together. He's unemployable, until an investment firm asks him to look into possible problems left by a junior trader who died recently in an accident. What he discovers is big—there are problems, all right, the kind that get you killed.
But it's not his only concern. Stafford has another quest as well: to reclaim his five-year-old son, "the Kid," from his unstable ex-wife, and then learn just what it means to make a life with him. The things Stafford discovers about himself in the process are every bit as gripping as his investigation, and when the two threads of his life come together—the results are unforgettable.
Black Fridays marks the arrival of a remarkable new A Novel writer.
The Distance: A Billy Nichols Novel
Morris White is a Sous Chef at a first-rate Philadelphia French restaurant. All he wants is to leave behind his past—the poor neighborhood and petty crime he knew as a kid—and open his own restaurant. His dream comes one step closer to reality when the affair he's having with Vicky Ward heats up. Not only is she the manager of the restaurant, but she comes from money and a privileged background. The only thing that could stop them from turning their dream into a reality, is Morris's half-brother, Vince Kammer, who is about to get out of Graterford Prison.
Vince may have done the time, but the crime is far from behind him. Soon poor Morris is stuck in the middle. His job is in jeopardy, his new relationship is in jeopardy, his dream is in jeopardy, all because he's finding it harder and harder to escape his hometown roots, which, unlike the crisp, bright white linens of the restaurant, are black as hell and dark as night.
One for the Money: A Stephanie Plum Novel
Watch out, world. Here comes Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. In Stephanie's opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed schizophrenics, and August heat, humidity, and hydrocarbons are all part of the great adventure of living in Jersey. She's a product of the "burg," a blue-collar pocket of Trenton where houses are attached and narrow, cars are American, windows are clean, and (God forbid you should be late) dinner is served at six. Now Stephanie's all grown up and out on her own, living five miles from Mom and Dad's, doing her best to sever the world's longest umbilical cord. Her mother is a meddler, and her grandmother is a few cans short of a case.
Out of work and out of money, with her Miata repossessed and her refrigerator empty, Stephanie blackmails her bail bondsman cousin, Vinnie, into giving her a try as an apprehension agent. Stephanie knows zilch about the job requirements, but she figures…[more]
A Cold Day in Paradise: An Alex McKnight Mystery
Other than the bullet lodged less than a centimeter from his heart, former Detroit police officer Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner's death and his own near-fatal injury behind him. After all, Maximilian Rose, convicted of the crimes, has been locked in the state pen for years, But in the small town of Paradise, Michigan, where McKnight has traded his badge for a cozy cabin in the woods, a murderer with Rose's unmistakable trademarks appears to be back to his killing ways. With Rose locked away, McKnight can't understand who else would know the intimate details of the old murders—not to mention the signature blood-red rose left on his doorstep. And it seems like it'll be a frozen day in Hell before McKnight can unravel the cold truth from a deadly deception in a town that's anything but Paradise.
Big Red Tequila
Everything in Texas is bigger…even murder.
Meet Tres Navarre…tequila drinker, Tai Chi master, unlicensed P.I., with a penchant for Texas-size trouble.
Jackson "Tres" Navarre and his enchilada-eating cat, Robert Johnson, pull into San Antonio and find nothing waiting but trouble. Ten years ago Navarre left town and the memory of his father's murder behind him. Now he's back, looking for answers. Yet the more Tres digs, trying to put his suspicions to rest, the fresher the decade-old crime looks: Mafia connections, construction site payoffs, and slick politicians' games all conspire to ruin his homecoming. It's obvious Tres has stirred up a hornet's nest of trouble. He gets attacked, shot at, run over by a big blue Thunderbird—and his old girlfriend, the one he wants back, turns up missing. Tres has to rescue the woman, nail his father's murderer, and get the hell out of Dodge before mob-style Texas justice catches up to him. The chances of staying alive looked better for the defenders of the Alamo….
Devil in a Blue Dress: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs….
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead: A Mystery
Claire DeWitt is not your average private investigator. She has brilliant deductive skills and is an ace at discovering evidence. But Claire also uses her dreams, omens, and mind-expanding herbs to help her solve mysteries, and relies on Détection—the only book published by the late, great, and mysterious French detective Jacques Silette.
The tattooed, pot-smoking Claire has just arrived in post-Katrina New Orleans, the city she's avoided since her mentor, Silette's student Constance Darling, was murdered there. Claire is investigating the disappearance of Vic Willing, a prosecutor known for winning convictions in a homicide- plagued city. Has an angry criminal enacted revenge on Vic? Or did he use the storm as a means to disappear? Claire follows the clues, finding old friends and making new enemies—foremost among them Andray Fairview, a young gang member who just might hold the key to the mystery.
Littered with memories of Claire's years as a girl detective in 1980s Brooklyn, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead is a knockout start to a bracingly original new series.
Big City, Bad Blood: A Novel
Disillusioned newspaper reporter-turned-private detective Ray Dudgeon doesn't want to save the world; he just wants to do an honest job well. But when doing an honest job threatens society's most powerful and corrupt, Ray's odds of survival make for a sucker's bet…
A simple bodyguard job for a Hollywood locations manager uncovers a rats' nest of sexual blackmail, murder, and high-level political corruption…and Ray Dudgeon is caught in a war between the FBI, the Chicago police, and the mob. With the line between good and bad blurring, Ray doesn't know who he can trust—or if he can even trust himself.
Chasing the Devil's Tail: A Mystery of Storyville, New Orleans
Not New Orleans—but Storyville—noir…and all that jazz! 1907 Storyville. Cultures, races, and religions more often blend than clash in a rich gumbo only New Orleans could serve up. But trouble brews. In this red light district, prostitutes ply their trade whether in cramped cribs or elegant houses of French ancestry, while music surges through its streets and helps harmonize the light and dark elements. King Bolden rules the Storyville brass with his golden coronet and his gift—jasser—to blow a riff on the city's music that pulses with new rhythms and notes. But the real King of Storyville is Tom Anderson, the district's powerful property owner and political fixer, who employs Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr to dig into the deaths of a string of prostitutes. Each victim is found with a black rose. Is a serial killer leaving a calling card? Is King Bolden losing his mind as he stretches his genius to its limits? Why is an elderly priest sent away under care?


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|The Secret Disciplinary Committee
|Chapter 160
|Next →
|Himitsu no chōbatsuiinkai
|Bossun, Himeko, Switch, Tsubaki, Board Director, School Principal, Shinzo, Captain, Reiko, Junichi Son, Kunio Yamanobe
After the events of the previous chapter where the clubroom was burnt down, Tsubaki finds the Sket Dan and passes on a message - they've been summoned by the Disciplinary Committee - Bossun jokes that he'll be find but Tsubaki apologises that there is nothing he can do to help them...
In a dark room the Trio are surrounded by masked figures, Switch works out form their voices they are a collection of the School Board, the Principal and Head Year Teachers and the mysterious Board Director. The Trio have been summoned under the accusation of Arson and they are there to decide on their punishment. Although they considered most of Yamanobe's report on the incident to be nonsense, they were able to conclude that the Sket Dan were responsible. The Sket Dan themselves try to explain how it happened - Bossun used a strange hand gesture that caused a card to burst into flame - but the committee aren't impressed with this explanation (although they do remark that it followed Yamanobe's report) and decide that if they won't admit responsibility are give them cause to write it off as an accident then the Trio are to be Expelled.
Luckily, at this moment, various people who the Sket Dan have helped - including teachers such as J-Son and Yamanobe - burst in and plead with the council to spare them. The Board Director, reminded of his youth as leader of a similar group (The Otasuke-Gumi), instead punishes them to 10 hours Community Service each and to be under the watch of the Student Council until the Clubroom is rebuilt.
- There are joking references to make it appear to be the final chapter
- Bossun and Himeko both show awareness that they are in a gag manga which confuses other characters like Tsubaki and the Board Director.


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Police violence has dominated headlines, in part because of high-profile police shootings. Now, a national health group, with tens of thousands of members, is calling police violence a public health issue.
The American Public Health Association plans to put out a comprehensive policy statement next year. But the organization's executive director said, "If something hurts or kills people, it's a public health issue. So if police actions cause death or are violent, it's a public health problem. ... And we know that like other violence, police violence is preventable."
We don't yet know why the APHA decided to call police violence a public health issue, but we do know that there currently isn't a comprehensive national database detailing police use of force. And that can be a problem in developing evidence-based solutions.
As of now, the numbers have come from media outlets and organizations like Mapping Police Violence. The stats show that persons of color, LGBTQ and people with disabilities are often harmed. In 2015, unarmed black people were five times more likely to be killed than unarmed whites. In 2016, 1,093 people were killed by police. In 2018, it's more than 800 people so far.
According to the American Journal of Public Health, there is direct pathway between police brutality and health through injury and death. Those pathways include: 1) fatal injuries, 2) psychological stress, 3) stress from racist public reaction, 4) economic and financial strain like medical and funerals bills and 5) systematic disempowerment in the community.
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, a bipartisan government agency, has called on Congress to provide more funds for research into how police violence affects marginalized communities. Additionally, the CCR and the APHA have called for building community trust and improving police practices to reduce police violence.


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Sockbaby (2004-2008)
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Bits of culture seem destined to become in-jokes for a select few. This isn't (entirely) out of privilege, but the sheer luck of being in the right place to receive the good just as they're delivered. The Adventures of Pete and Pete is one of those gems, a surreal and magnificently directed comedy for kids which only seemed to air in the hours kids aren't awake. You can also put MTV's Liquid Television in this category, which helped acquaint me to the likes of Aeon Flux and the works of Bill Plympton.
The only reason I know about Sockbaby is through one sentence my friend Kristen uttered when I worked at University Cinemas in Normal, IL. Sockbaby wasn't nearly as prominent as Fensler Films' G.I. Joe shorts or "Numa Numa", but it was the most important in forming my sense of humor and finding short films to watch. I revisit it every few months and it's every bit as fresh and fun as it was when I was a lad of 20.
Sockbaby fueled much of my waking existence for a significant period of life. Jacob, similarly infected with the Sockbaby bug, and I would quote from it constantly. Our days at the movie theater transcended to, "Hello Jacob," "Hello Andrew," "How we doin' today?" "Hello, what's with no hello," "We're un-Hello now." My love of Sockbaby transitioned to the most obscure Halloween costume I've ever put together. Folks I came across thought I was dressed as a pimp and never questioned the stuffed sock with drawn features I had cradled in my arms. I adore Sockbaby more than most major films of the last few years.My love for Sockbaby endures while so many of the other hot bits of internet entertainment have fallen by the wayside. The biggest reason for this is directors Douglas TenNapel and John Soares determination to create their own world budget be damned. Few of the props and costumes in Sockbaby would be difficult to recreate, and when the more elaborate special effects shine through in part 2 and 3, they're integrated into this world that's set up its own form of kooky internal logic. Sockbaby is no-budget filmmaking at its best, showing how firm dedication to a concept is more than enough to overcome financial limitations.
Another ace in Sockbaby's deck comes from the fantastic fight choreography courtesy of Soares. It still comes as a shock to see Ronnie Cordova (Soares) bust into some serious martial arts shenanigans so soon after an absurd conversation about the need to take care of Sockbaby with Ronnie's cyborg friend Burger (Cody Spurlock). As Ronnie does battle with the underwhelmingly named Davis (Uriel Padilla) the editing and sound effects mesh together with Soares' choreography to create fights that recall the cartoonish intensity of Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle, Journey to the West). The high point for these fights comes in part 2 when Ronnie is overwhelmed by a group of alien greys and the action shifts effortlessly around and in an automobile Ronnie's defending. My favorite is the close-up of Ronnie's face as he utters, "Oh criminey" and is dragged out of the car to fight.
Even the dialogue is great fun. Soares puts a lot of energy into Ronnie's boasts, "Go tell your alien brothers - that Ronnie Cordova says they're gay!" Lines like that could be read negatively, but in context they're amusingly limp retorts that aren't as cool as Ronnie's style and fighting abilities. This is reinforced later when the uber-cool Ronnie struts off triumphantly only to step in dog doo. Burger's lines are funny because of how nonplussed Spurlock makes the cyborg, and there's the added fun touch of how all Burger's movements - no matter how small - are synced with mechanical sounds.A few years after Sockbaby wrapped a fourth entry was made and it just wasn't quite the same. There's a lot to like about it from an expanded role for Burger to play and Doug Jones (one of Guillermo del Toro's favorites) as a villainous version of himself. But those fights, while still excellent choreographed, lost something when blood starts splurting out of the opponents Ronnie eviscerates, going so far as to stick one opponent's hand in a blender. At the same time, I am the one who compares Sockbaby to Stephen Chow's work, and there is a significant uptick in menace while keeping the cartoony vibe from Shaolin Soccer to Kung Fu Hustle. It's natural part 4 of Sockbaby would do the same.
After Sockbaby, Soares went on to reteam with Jones for the excellent Danger Element, and now works at DreamWorks Animation. TenNapel is employed at the same after a career of other awesome works like Earthworm Jim and The Neverhood. Much like how it felt I was one of a handful of people who knew what Sockbaby was, I also seemed to be the sole owner of every Earthworm Jim action figure I could get my hands on.
But those are just objects, and nothing compares to the enthusiasm I feel when I get to introduce Sockbaby to someone new. I wanted to start writing about short films because of how disillusioned I've become with feature-length reviews. By revisiting my love of Sockbaby and, hopefully, inspiring a few of you to give it a watch I'm recharged by the power of a tight entertainment that makes me as happy now as it did a decade ago.
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Since July 1, 2009, the Home Improvement Consumer Protection Act (HICPA) has been in effect in Pennsylvania. In short, it covers and governs the behavior of non "Big Box" (eg Home Depot) home improvement contractors toward Pennsylvania consumers. The definition of a contractor is fairly broad and the enforcement of the law is through the Bureau of Consumer Protection of the Pennsylvania Attorney General (Bureau).
Perhaps the most critical aspect of the law is the establishment of the requirement of a written contract between the contractor and the consumer. Further, not only MUST there be a written contract, there are certain elements each contract MUST contain. There are certain items the contract must NOT contain, as well.
Yet, even with almost 6 years for the home improvement profession to have acclimated itself to the law's provisions, we continue to have clients come to us with home improvement "contracts" that fall well below the required elements which HICPA demands.
Unfortunately, our office usually sees these improper "contracts" AFTER the work is done, money has been paid, yet with such work done much to the client's dissatisfaction. In most cases, shoddy work has gone hand in hand with improper "contracts".
Had the client known a) what the mandatory elements are relative to a HICPA compliant contract and b) found the presented "contracts" as failing to contain those items, a RED flag would have been raised that may have stopped the client from ever having engaged the services of that particular contractor.
The entire law is linked here:
In short, there are certain ESSENTIAL elements a home improvement contract must have in order to be valid. The failure of the "contract" to contain even one of the following elements renders the contract VOID.
Among other items, each contact must:
- Include an approximate start date and ending date
- Include a description of the work; materials to be use as well as specifications. ANY change to the initial order relative to materials and specifications must ALSO be in writing and signed by the owner.
- Include all known subcontractor names, addresses and phone numbers.
- Include a statement that the contractor will maintain insurance throughout the contract AND the amount of the insurance policy.
- Be legible
- Contain the Bureau registration number of the contractor
- Contain the toll free number of the Bureau
- Include a notice of a Right of Rescission, allowing for the consumer to rescind the contract within 3 business days of signing the contract.
- Further, there are certain items that are NOT to be included as well. Chief among them is that a contact may NOT contain any provision that allows for an award to the contractor of attorney fees and lawsuit costs.
So, the next time you are interested in having your driveway re-paved, your roof replaced, your kitchen remodeled, etc., take a look at the suggested contract from any "contractor" you interview. See if the samples at least remotely line up with the noted items above. While there are other items that should be in the contract ( as well as some that should NOT ), if the suggested contract does not even cover the basics noted in point 1-9, perhaps you should treat such as a red flag in consideration of that contractor.
It is best to run any contract by an attorney, when possible. I would be happy to discuss this with anyone in pursuit of home improvement contractor services. Getting "it" in writing, up front, can best serve to lessen, if not eliminate, disappointment, down the road.


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This dose not work out in my favor at all! Its hard enough to get a sitter when the hubby and i go out, let alone getting one during the day who will not cost me a billion dollars. The day started off slow and even though I have to go to work, Jason really did not care and proceded to lounge around in his PJ's whining at me that he really did not think its fair that he has to come with me. Well guess what, you don't have a choice because you are 8 and well thats how it has to be. This did not go over well..Precursor to the day I might add! CRAP!!
So now its 9:30am and we have not left the house yet!
Jason you need to get ready and we need to go!!!
Mommy, cant we just lay in bed all day?
Jason please get down here !
Mommy I dont want to go…I WANT TO STAY HOME..
Well we cant now lets move, I'll take you to Mc Donalds to eat, but we need to go through the drive through because I need to get to work( at this point we are so late why even bother rushing).
We finally get to work and set him up, Computer-check Ipad-check chair to sit in and we are good to go. Ahhhh ok I start doing my work!! NOT 5 min goes by and I hear ..IM BOARD…
OMG ARE YOU KIDDING ME??????? Just give me 2 hours ill rush through my paperwork(thats never good) and we will go home just use your ipad watch a movie, but I need to get this stuff done! Mind you I work in a warehouse, its a family owned business(NO, ITS NOT AS EASY AS YOU THINK WHEN YOUR FATHER IS YOUR BOSS) We have a forklift and some other cool toys in here. Jason decides he wants me to drive him around in the forklift. I hear him beeping the horn, mom come on lets drive! LOL ..Seriously I just need to get some paperwork done! So i tell him when i am done we will take a ride around..he says ok mommy and comes into my office and now stars drawing on the white board, every few min he asks me to turn and look at what he drew, finally say to him Sweetie, I really need to finish my work, so we can go!
Needless to say I just gave up put the papers away and took him for his ride on the fork lift, the laughing that came out of this child was infectious..He asked me if he could drive it.. So I let him hit the accelerator button(lead foot magee by the way) and the break!
He looks me straight in the eyes and says this is the best part of the day mommy, I get to be with you..OMG I melted in the seat! Lets get out of here I tell him!
We decide to go to the movies and see OZ, it was a really cool movie, abit scary for him but a good movie..then we hit target to get some drinks for the house and headed home.
My husband at this point texts me to let me know that hes home and has fed the dogs(in my house this is a project because bella the boxer will eat bailey the Maltese's food if you literally don't sit there) ohh yeah and bailey is a slow eater takes him almost 30 min to eat his food, that he picks up out of the dish and puts on the rug only to eat it one by one..akkkkk! And my oldest calls to tell me he will be home by 12 hes going out with his friends. UMMM I did not hear a "Mom is it ok if i go out?" That will not float in my house, you ask me not tell me! Well i guess im lucky he still tells me what hes doing!
Its almost 8 pm now i have not been home yet all I want to do is go to bed! Yeahhhh ok, I dont sleep untill everybody is safe at home in my house(Its a mom thing, I'm sure you understand) Now comes the tricky part, My cat and dog have some issues, they love to hate each other so there are some gates in my house..But the cat is getting very daring and she has been jumping the gates to torment the dog..Well I move the gate to go upstairs she flyes up the stairs and with that the cat follows, JEEEEZ I run up the stairs to get in between them trip up the stairs shoes go flying crack my knees hit my head(i wish i could have seen what i looked like) twisted my ankle and save the cat.. all this and I was holding my other dog in my arms because he dose not do stairs!He is fine. IS THE DAY OVER YET??????? Nope i still need to wait for Andrew to get home before I go to sleep!
Finally I get lil man to bed and about 30 min later i hear a thud on the floor along with a few more thuds on the floor! What is that Its jason tossing GAK around that now is stuck to his ceiling and WONT come off! 25 minuts later after scrubbing the ceiling and most of it came off I say GO TO SLEEP NOW! Argg time to get some laundry done and about 11:15 ish I get a text, Mom im outside I came home early for you so you can go to bed! I LOVE THAT KID.. I have 2 great kids and i don't know what i would do with out them..To the moon and back with stars bursting out of my heart, LOVE YOU!


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Dinner at Coral Reef
Coral Reef is a table service restaurant located in The Seas pavilion in Future World at Epcot. It serves up a variety of seafood and coastal inspired meals with exceptional views of the coral reef and its marine life in The Seas. It has been nearly 9 years since I'd dined at Coral Reef and Brandon had never been. We decided to go one evening on a whim to try it out.


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The Principality of Asturias is situated in the heart of the green northwestern Spain, on the Iberian Peninsula.
It is a region that has undergone a profound economic restructuring, with its traditional industry turning into a dynamic metropolitan area, where global industrial groups and local small and medium-sized enterprises have found the right conditions for prospering. The constant, ongoing effort and the different approaches utilized to overcome the social and economic consequences of industrial decline have begun to produce results. This transformation is making progress, but it must be completed.
A close-knit metropolitan area, a strong industrial fabric and a very cohesive social structure are the legacy of its early and intense industrial development.
The region's industrial model, based on coal mining and heavy industries, experienced prosperity under protectionist policies, but it suffered when it was exposed to international competition. The transition to a low-carbon, knowledge-based business economy constitutes a new challenge, but it is also an opportunity to complete the transformation of the production model.
Entrepreneurship and innovation are regarded as the new bases for the social and economic recovery of Asturias. The policies of the Regional Government and the main social and economic players provide strong support for both of these mainstays by way of social dialog and the association.
The Agreement on Economic Competitiveness and Social Sustainability (ACESS) of 2016 is the most recent of a series of social and economic agreements that set up the framework for policies, which are afterwards elaborated with programs for different sectors or with different themes.
On this basis, during the past two decades, Asturias has developed a sophisticated support system for entrepreneurial innovation and spirit. This policy framework for Entrepreneurship and Innovation also reflects the guidelines and recommendations of the European Union, including the Small Business Act, the Green Action Plan and the Europe 2020 Strategy.


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- To generate educational processes that delve into the free, equal and democratic construction of the social being, based on the respect and protection of human rights and equal opportunities for everybody.
- To promote the formation of critical and sensible people who hold onto ethical values and solidarity to raise the community standard of living.
- To offer classroom-based and distance higher education, through undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate studies, in accordance with the University Statues.
To make the University be a tool to transform our society and to allow equal access to education to everybody as a fundamental human right.
- To coordinate with other universities and the regional education system the development of higher education studies, research and community participation, based on a permanent relation to work out any problem in a cooperative way.
- To promote strategies to help the local, regional and national socio-economic development based on a sustainable policy.
- To generate and systemize knowledge through research, experimental development and technological applications.
- To permanently commit the University to work together with local, national and international organisms, social organizations, professional associations, trade unions, private or public companies which may contribute to the country's growth, being in accordance with the University objectives.