2593 Days since retiring July 1, 2005!

"Cats are funny people. "

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Rascal has begun to drink from a water bowl. He will sneak up on the bowl, as cats are wont to sneak, and sniff around surface of the water. Then he seems to sit back on his haunches and cogitates.. Sneak back to the bowl, sniff around again, then start to lap. Shortly he will stop, sniff around again and lap but always in a different part of the surface. Do you suppose he can actually smell places on the water that are fresher or less polluted than others? Funny, funny creatures!

Thus far this season I have watched “”Midsummer Night’s Dream three times. Once by myself and twice with family members. I will see it once more with other family members Saturday night. I will watch Coriolanus in the afternoon then bring family to the final performance (7:30 pm) of Dream this season. Sunday I see “Winter’s Tale” once more at 2 pm then bring family members to the 7:30 performance of Coriolanus. It has been a great season with a splendid cast and I will have done my best to convert some of my family to Shakespearian interest. As I said last the best part, IMHO, of Dream was the play within the play. A student named Jackson Pritchett played Bottom as a ham thespian playing Pyramus superbly. I don’t know what the young man has plan for the future but I think he could best any that I see on TV today. The Chris Cole, with his noted beard, did a wonderful performance as Flute playing Thisby, Pyramus’s wife. Their dual suicide scene was played at its hamish best to howling screams of laughter. During the Sunday performance we had many former student actors setting around us. They began to laugh even before the various bits began. It is fun to be in a group that is enjoying itself.
Bottom in the prologue to the pip is demonstrating to the Duke and Duchess of Athens how he is going to play Pyramus.

Snug played the lion very similar to the lion in the “Wizard of Oz” through the rehearsals and the prologue before the Ducke and Duchess. But in the “performance: he played him as a ravening ferocious man-eating beast. A little boy, perhaps 7 to 9, setting on the other side from us with his father watched and laughed with delight. But when lion burst through the stage curtains and attacked Thisby he screamed, jumped and began to run away. His father grabbed him and hugged him safe. So great is our human imagination that all of a sudden, for him, there was a real killer lion on stage.

The student playing snout as wall did a beautifully understaged manner. Imagine trying to potray a wall to a person who can grant you great favor is you please him.

Saturday I will post a list of the actors and the characters they played.

One of the several things that that piss me off about the militant latinos and the liberal democratic party is their claim that Anglos stole their land in Texas from their ancestors. Sorry hombre but the Spanish started into the present area of Texas in the 1500s. Not until the mid 1700s did they or their Mexican counterpart venture as far north as Nacogdoches-Houston area. Two hundred fifty years and still no settlers, just missions to convert the natives to Christainity and slavery. At that rate they would not reach as far north as Amarillo until 2300. It was never your land. The Anglos just did a more thorough and concentrated job of stealing from the indians and converting the land to useable homeland, ranches, farms, and factories. After the Anglos tamed or chased out the natives and thoroughly domesticated the land did the Latinos start to flood north. If the Anglos had not established farms and ranches the bulk of Mexican would still be living on hard-scrabble land in a corrupt nation state. The thing that brought the explosion for fury was the Texas day by day note from TSHA about Antonio Margil de Jesus dying August 6, 1726. He founded a mission in San Antonio in 1720. The Spanish/Mexican were even more risk adverse than NASA.

I accomplished none of those tasks from yesterdays list. I woke at the crack of 8 am with the list in mind. But as I arose I realized I hurt. Even my fingernails felt sore. So I laid back in the recliner, Rascal mewyped and settled back on my lap and we fell asleep again. At 3 pm my bladder placed an urgent call to my feet saying “run! I am full to overflow!: Off I sped like Tim Conway doing to old man. Fortunately bladder was exaggerating as I only began to pee as I entered the bathroom. When I got beck to my room and measured my BP the systolic was 172 or higher for 3 readings taken at 3 minute intervals. I gulped my morning medications and decided to do some indexing while I calmed.

Cin Chili Con Queso

1 part Velveeta® cheese
Ready-To-Serve Hearty Beef Cin Chili
Place Velveeta cheese in a bowl and melt in a microwave, crock pot or double boiler. Add prepared Cin Chili. Sir together and serve warm with chips. Keep queso warm in a crock pot so cheese doesn’t get hard.

Spice it up by adding 1/2 can of Rotel® tomatoes.

Thanks Cin Chili

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