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O the dragons are gonna fly tonight
They’re circling low and inside tonight
It’s another round in the losing fight
Out along the great divide tonight
We are aging soldiers in an ancient war
Seeking out some half remembered shore
We drink our fill and still we thirst for more
Asking if there’s no heaven what is this hunger for?
Our path is worn our feet are poorly shod
We lift up our prayer against the odds
And fear the silence is the voice of God
And we cry Allelujah Allelujah
We cry Allelujah…
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Happy Easter to all in the Balloon Juice community who celebrate it. Many none of your chocolate bunnies (or Easter bilbys) be wobblies!
If the weather’s still springlike around here, we may pay the year’s first visit to the best local garden center, see if they’ve got pansies in stock already…
Another Halocene Human
Dumbass coworker asked a guy he knows very well to be an observant Hindu what he was doing for Easter Sunday. Seriously?
Amir Khalid
@Another Halocene Human:
The observant Hindu guy probably just shrugged it off as a harmless lapse, unless your dumbass coworker went on to ask, “Not celebrating Easter? What are you, some kind of heathen?”
Sarah, Proud and Tall
Yay for bilbies!
SP&T + 1 Hurricane, 1 Espresso Martini, 1 Aviation and a line of Easter coke
TR
Damn, I was hoping this was a post for Game of Thrones’ return tonight.
NotMax
Must. Ignore. Obvious straight lines.
raven
WC Fields spent his last weeks in a hospital, where a friend stopped by for a visit and caught Fields reading the Bible. When asked why, Fields replied, “I’m checking for loopholes”
Linda Featheringill
Happy celebration of spring to everyone.
I find the change of seasons to be deep, mysterious, and miraculous. And green stuff peaking out every year is just plain an effing miracle! Praise to powers that pull this off!
Does that mean I need to write a thank you note to the moon for its role in season-facilitating? What’s the mail code?
Linda Featheringill
@NotMax:
Oh dear. The mental images. Oh dear.
WereBear
@raven: I love that story. I always hear it in that distinctive voice, too.
My tricorder is set to PANSIES. And violas, if they have them.
NotMax
@Raven:
A true comic original as well as a highly skilled, dextrous and incredible juggler.
Playing the universe’s chew toy, he was nonpareil.
HeartlandLiberal
My son came over to help, and Saturday we cleared remaining plants and debris from 1,860 ft vegetable garden. We then spread bales of peat moss and compost. I spread 46-0-0 urea fertilizer, per recommendation of soil analysis I had done, plus some granulated sulphur to reduce the alkalinity/ pH level. We sit on top of a ridge topping limestone layer.
Then we got out the new rear tine tiller I had bought last fall when my 20 year old front tine died.
Started on the first pull. It is a monster, and tears the soil up easily and quickly. Powered wheels. My 67 year old body approves.
We got half the garden tilled, and hope it is still dry enough to finish the rest today, light showers were forecast overnight.
But we did the area where cold weather crops will go in, so I should have cabbage, broccoli, greens, lettuce, and peas in the ground within next 48 hours.
Richard Fox
@NotMax: A dear friend of mine tells the story of walking on a crowded street with an old friend of his, along with her mother in New York’s West Village. Upon seeing a window flower box in a ground floor apartment the mother exclaimed excitedly “My, what beautiful pansies!” To which her daughter immediately replied “Oh mother, please, we don’t call them ‘pansies’ anymore…” Of course from all the nice gay men nearby there was a guffaw of epic loudness after that crack. …Just thought I’d share. :-)
WereBear
Our tipping discussion and the tale of the woman who was dismissed for being homeless; all came together in this story.
A homeless man demonstrated considerable suit expertise; a kind-hearted store owner not only bought him the interview suit he had chosen, but gave him a job. It has the happiest of endings.
And it would never happen in a corporately owned store. And yet, current Republicans, champions of “business,” are determined to create a world where only corporations are people.
Evolving Deep Southerner
@raven: Mornin’, Dawg. I’ve taken a few days off and my sleep’s all screwed up. Almost as screwed up as my March Madness bracket.
Debbie(aussie)
@Sarah, Proud and Tall:
Exactly where should I send the paramedics(absolutely gorgeous of course)
:)
geg6
Lazy day, sort of. Gonna do some laundry this morning and then go to my sister’s to help her get ready for the family Easter dinner. John gets custody of the wild child and Otis until he leaves to meet up with us. Koda is settling in so well that John was saying yesterday that it feels like she’s always been here. And I honestly think she’s grown an inch or two since she got here a week ago. I love most how she jumps up on our bed and snuggles in between us. Lots of kisses for both of us when she does that. Both she and Otis look lovely in their new pastel Easter bandanas.
geg6
Oh and I forgot! The peppers and tomatoes that we startedin the greenhouse are really popping up. We started them in plastic water jugs and John put a ceramic heater in the greenhouse when we got all the cold weather. The plantlings just loved that and we should have some nice plants when we finally can put them in the ground. I think we are going to do it this way every year now.
JPL
@geg6: How sweet! Dose Otis give
Koda the it’s time for you to leave look?
PurpleGirl
@geg6: It’s nice to hear that Koda is settling in so well. Best wishes for a good day.
PurpleGirl
Plans for today include some laundry and maybe some shopping. Other than that, I’m not sure what I’m doing. Winging it.
Southern Beale
Wow. I don’t live in Virginia but Gov. McDonnell looks like he could get in a lot of trouble for this:
You guys need to read the whole thing. I’m increasingly of the belief that the entire Republican Party is just one giant con job.
Southern Beale
Here’s more:
Man, does everything McDonnell touch have that stench of merde on it?
JPL
@Southern Beale: Cuccinelli did not disclose that he had holdings in Star Scientific, also.
Just an innocent mistake.
gelfling545
Brunch with the family followed by the Easter Bonnet contest (home designed, hand made “bonnet” works of art by the family from age 2 to, well 62 (that would be me). Pics will go up on all of our facebook pages later to let our friends do the judging. The word is they (the bonnets) are VERY fancy(well, I guess some of the friends are, too). A couple of the more devious family members will be leaving brunch a bit early for “operation hen”, the ingenious concealment of Easter eggs for the small persons among us. None of us is particularly religious but everybody needs a spring holiday and we tend to make much of this one.
Valdivia
Happy Easter everyone. I’m now nursing a hangover from hell after trying to make good on making this a weekend that would salvage the bad bday on Friday. Will try to sleep it off.
Southern Beale
@JPL:
I’m shocked to discover that Star Scientific is under federal investigation.
No not really. Starting to look like a huge grift to me.
Southern Beale
What’s funny is Star Scientific appears to be headed for the crapper. The company is in debt up to its eyeballs, they’ve layed off workers. it’s last hope for staying alive is this diet supplement which has been completely unproven. And yet the head of Star Scientific is still flying around on a private jet and showering McDonnell’s daughter with $15,000 worth of catering for her wedding, not to mention all of McDonnell’s campaign donations.
Fucking job creators, man. They just don’t get it.
PurpleGirl
@Valdivia: Hope your partying last night made up for Friday… and happy belated birthday.
SiubhanDuinne
@geg6: Please let us see a picture of Otis and Koda in their Easter finery! I’m thrilled Koda has made herself right at (forever) home so quickly.
WereBear
As long as you’re not RIGHT-winging it. :)
I’ve got a ham in the crockpot with a can of pineapple and some cloves. We celebrated the Spring Equinox, so this is low key.
And please enjoy some of the scariest Easter Bunnies ever.
Warning: not for those who got freaked out by Donnie Darko.
jurassicpork
Happy Easter, peeps.
Valdivia
@PurpleGirl:
Thank you! It kind of did. :)
PurpleGirl
@WereBear: Nope, not right winging it.
Those bunnies are bad, just awful. I feel sorry for the kids who didn’t want to sit with the bunny and were scared and crying.
(When my niece’s son was 4 years old, she had a birthday party for him with entertainment provided by a Barney actor. The kid was absolutely scared and didn’t want to go near Barney and cried and cried. I scooped him up and held in another part of the party room and tried to calm him down. The other adults were mad at him and me but he was really scared. It didn’t matter that he loved the Barney tapes, the Barney actor scared him.)
bemused
@WereBear:
Hopalong Junkpouch is hilarious.
dance around in your bones
@WereBear: That site was hysterical!
My room was invaded by 3 very excited little boys at zerodarkthirty (6:30am) all bearing Easter baskets laden with sugar. The neatest thing Bunny left them? Mini Whoopee cushions, so they are all delightedly ‘farting’ all over the house.
We were supposed to go to an Easter egg hunt this morning but it is raining, so don’t know how that’s gonna fly.
Later the other grandparents are coming over for a BBQ (hope it quits raining) and the kids will get sugar-jacked again. Two of the kids started fighting over a particularly choice bit of candy and it ended with middle kid kicking older kid in the junk.
Yay, Easter!