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Moon and Mars from July:
Our nightly toad:
Me with bun and glasses:
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)I love toads. My man needs to pressure wash our house badly!
orleans
(34,051 posts)RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)orleans
(34,051 posts)RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)WTF? We live in an association and have to follow the rules, unfortunately. Satisfied? Jesus Christ.
orleans
(34,051 posts)DAMN!
"I love toads. My man needs to pressure wash our house badly!"
SORRY I MADE A FUCKING CONNECTION BETWEEN THOSE APPARENTLY SEPARATE AND RANDOM THOUGHTS OF YOURS
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Thanks for that intense apology. Have a great night!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)tummy tickles....
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)It's better than swimming.
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)My daughter loves that show!
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)one of the best things about summer nights.
Aristus
(66,373 posts)Here's me on the left with a friend at a concert in Seattle a couple of years ago:
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)They are Ray Ban readers for my over 40 eyes.
Looking good; I love that jacket!
Aristus
(66,373 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)This is my favorite photo of you.
Aristus
(66,373 posts)There are so few of me that I like. I hope you're not getting tired of it...
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)But, if that's really you, you look a little like a young Richard Dreyfuss.
Aristus
(66,373 posts)Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)I had a huge crush on him when I was a kid.
It's tough to explain what you look like in my head. I get visuals of everything...and everyone on DU. From your posting style and content, I pictured a slight man with thick, rather unkempt (because you always seem so freaking busy) black hair on the longish side. It could have to do with your compassion. It might be some sort of trigger in my past that I don't remember. Someone that treated me with kindness. If it helps, I like the real you better than my brain's version.
Aristus
(66,373 posts)As busy as I am, I try to stay 'kempt'.
I'm sure you do, but my brain wants you to take a vacation.
Aristus
(66,373 posts)fizzgig
(24,146 posts)and an old one of the husband and i
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Doesn't he have a beard now?
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)i asked him to shave today. too pokey!
Callmecrazy
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Aristus
(66,373 posts)Looking good!...
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)How was the cruise?
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)a la izquierda
(11,795 posts)fizzgig
(24,146 posts)you are adorable.
a la izquierda
(11,795 posts)I need it these days
Aristus
(66,373 posts)You look incredible...
a la izquierda
(11,795 posts)Cheers
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Nice!
a la izquierda
(11,795 posts)But you'll have to thank the random Mexican cameraman for the photo work
bluesbassman
(19,373 posts)Band photo from a gig last weekend.
This was a real treat, that's my son on the left. Just turned 22 and got to see our show before heading back to college.
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)He's got good genes.
bluesbassman
(19,373 posts)Must be his mom's.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)Me and my daughter 24 years ago:
And me and my wife a couple weeks ago on the occasion of our 28th aniversary
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Been to any shows lately? My husband went to the Lowlands music fest in the Netherlands a couple weeks ago as he was there on business and his bro was working a gig...tons of Euro metal band.
He went backstage and Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age was behind him in the food line.
I haven't been to any.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)if he plans any more Crooked Vulture stuff with Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones. Love that record!
Last saturday I went to the Southern Darkness Fest:
Best Surprise was Immortal Bird - a 3 piece from Chicago - Lady drummer who did the vocals too.
Here she is just singing - they must have lost a drummer since then:
Favorite band of the show was Phobia and very honorable mentions go to Maruta and Magrudergrind and Order of the Owl and Scrog. But everyone I saw did a great job. 3 venues all within about a half mile of each other in Ybor City in Tampa. Got my exercise for the year trucking back and forth between clubs! lol
jen63
(813 posts)I'm fairly new to DU, so I'll introduce you to my small family sans dogs. I'm the old lady, the handsome Midshipman is my son. This was taken at the US Naval Academy a year ago. He's a little lib too! Makes mama proud!
Kyle on a service trip to an AIDS/HIV "orphanage" in Honduras in 2011. Beautiful kids who smile all the time.
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)You should be very proud! Great pictures! Seems like a wonderful young man.
jen63
(813 posts)Thank you! He's the child I never was
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I'm on the right, at the groundbreaking for a home for a wounded warrior in my community. Next to me is the high school teacher whose students created the project and raised the funds to provide a home for the Iraq War vet and his caregivers.
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Has he moved in yet? Did the kids go through a charity or raise the money themselves?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)It's a complete reconstruction of 2 existing homes on a property to the extent that they will practically be new homes--one for the vet and his kids and one for his caregivers.
The students came up with the idea themselves when the vet, Jerral Hancock, came to speak to Jamie Goodreau's history classes at Lancaster HS (Lancaster, CA) along with other vets. When the students questioned him, they learned that Jerral was living with his two kids in a mobile home where he barely had room to turn his wheelchair.
The students thought Jerral, his kids and his caregivers needed a better living situation and they made it their mission to make it so. They called it "OATH"--for Operation All the Way Home, and the pledge they took to make this happen.
Besides raising tons of money themselves, the students also got Gary Sinise involved. He gave them a check for $60,000 and then came back to do a benefit concert that raised a lot more money. But on their own the students had already raised something like $200,000 or more even before he got involved.
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)What thoughtful, great kids. I can't wait until he and his family are in their new home.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Jamie brings out the best in them, making her classes come up with and take on a joint project each year. I've worked on projects with Jamie and her students, and it's always my honor and privilege.
There's a link for more info on Jerral and the status of his new home:
Operation All the Way Home http://www.operationallthewayhome.com/
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)You're a great person pinboy. That's awesome about the teacher. My son's favorite subject is social studies (it will be history next year) and we always talk about what he's learning.
Our veterans should never struggle; it breaks my heart.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)He spent an hour in a burning tank after it got hit by an IED and when they came to pull him out, his arm came off. He has only partial use of his remaining arm, and he also has burn injuries. Those are just the facts. That's what happened.
Jerral will sometimes invite someone to feel his shoulder, to feel the jagged end of the bone under his thin skin. No big deal. That's just his body. That's his life.
I remember when those photos first came out. Jamie and I were working as co-chairs on a totally unrelated, week-long project. On the biggest day, Jamie couldn't be there. A story had hit the news about OATH and the students and Jerral, and Jamie was suddenly inundated with media interview requests. When I got home from the project site late that night I found that there were 35 or so results for my search on Jerral's name (though many were repeats of an AP story).
I had a friend who jumped on a grenade in Vietnam to save his squad. One of a very small number to do that and survive (he was awarded the Medal of Honor). The impact of that didn't fully hit me until we were together at a pool party with our shirts off and I saw what that had done to him.
Jerral's shirtless pics are very tame compared to what could be shown of other war casualties living today. Something we should be shown more often, lest we forget.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)murielm99
(30,741 posts)I went outside for a minute to shake out a tablecloth, and found it hopping around on the rug.
We used to get lots of them, but then we had the foundation of our old house sealed. I used to leave them in the basement, until there were three or four of them hopping around, then I would put them outside. They would eat the bugs downstairs, and that was fine with me.
I like toads.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I understand completely. It's hard to find a toad pic that's not pornographic.
murielm99
(30,741 posts)of one of our toads, I will post it.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Her dogs try to get them...I've rescued several.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)My most recent pic would crack monitors, IMHO. Let me go find an old one.
eta:
That's about 11 years old, but still the same with some gray hair added.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)If you discount the serial killer eyes, it's not bad at all.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)(joking of course, Agent Mike, relax)
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Nice...I like putting a face to the name.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I like that one, as well as all the others here. Thanks for the thread, Riff!
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Thanks for participating; wish more people would but I understand privacy.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Oh well, a work in progress.
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)In keeping with the hoppy amphibian theme, heres a picture of my sleeping grandson Zay and a hoppy little green fellow. The picture was taken a couple of years ago on a camping trip.
Ive posted this pic before of me n my beloved pooch Ty. The picture was taken about 3 years ago the minute I brought him home from the pound. Poor little guy was scared and had infected gums and a bad ear infection.
Heres Ty nowadays, feeling great.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)The one of you is my fave. That's a beautiful photo.
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)a picture dear to my heart.
I love DU picture threads and getting to match faces with names.
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)I bet he's so happy!
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)except for mr. froggy and finally at long last, our grown sons. It's good that our vet is a woman.
He plays and plays with little Abby. They're very close and have never had a disagreement.
marzipanni
(6,011 posts)I'd like to see world leaders taking out their aggressions by playing tug-o-war with a fox-with-no-stuffing.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Looks like fun! How many people showed?
MrScorpio
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Extended Barrow family members from all over.
It was a beautiful thing.
Edited to take off a hundred.
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)This summer I went to my cousin's daughter's college graduation party. Hadn't seen them in like a decade since a funeral.
It was a blast!
Glad you had fun!
Aristus
(66,373 posts)NJCher
(35,675 posts)I note the "Knockout! Joe Louis" illustration in the lower left of the photo.
Have you ever read Maya Angelou's essay about the Joe Louis knockout event?
I just included it in my readings for English. Wonderful essay.
I miss Maya!
Cher
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,389 posts)This was taken in Paris last May. Left to right: My oldest son, our French "daughter"--who lived with us for almost a year as a foreign
exchange student from 1989-90--my husband, and me.
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Beautiful family and scenery. I want to go to Paris!!!!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Meaningful, too, to be there with your exchange student. How cool is that?
mnhtnbb
(31,389 posts)She lives outside Paris--has a family with two of her own kids--and the day after
this photo was taken we were invited to Sunday lunch in the garden with her family.
It was really fun.
We have seen her a couple of times in the intervening years. We visited her once in Paris
before she had a family of her own, and she was here visiting us in 2009.
I highly recommend the experience of hosting a foreign exchange student, if at all possible.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I was aced out by a girl I dated once.
Marie was a great selection, but unfortunately they were short of placements that year and she didn't get to go to Japan as an exchange student as she'd hoped. Later, while she was in college, she went on her own.
We stayed in touch over the years and I always agreed that she was the best choice.
Hosting a foreign exchange student is a real service, and I salute you for doing that.
mnhtnbb
(31,389 posts)his German teacher would arrange an exchange project every other year.
We hosted a boy from Germany for 3 weeks, and then our son went to live with
his family for 3 weeks after school was out. We're still in touch with him, but
haven't seen him as he's now in medical school in Austria.
It was the start of something serious for our son. He majored in German in college;
went for a semester abroad his junior year; and just returned from 10 months in Berlin
on a Fulbright scholarship.
In fact, we all--my oldest son and his SO-- visited the youngest son in Berlin after we
left Paris last May.
The younger son is now back in the US and attending grad school.
Foreign exchange experiences can definitely be life changing.
BTW, I was pregnant with the younger son the year we hosted our French "daughter".
Iggo
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RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)You do look ready to rumble though, and coming from me who has had some scrappers in my time (if you can believe that!) I wouldn't mess with you!
Lookin' tough is half the game! (The only half I'm any good at...lol.)
You ever see me around kids and my cover would be totally blown.
denbot
(9,899 posts)I finished high school at Lowell, after my parents moved us to La Harbra. Many a munchie was slaked there, I haven't thought of Puffy Taco in years.
Iggo
(47,552 posts)Picture of Kevin & Bean on the wall, signed James Worthy jersey in the corner, tables and benches from the 70s. They're still cash-only, but they did finally get an ATM so you don't have to go over the the liquor store to get cash anymore.