Comments on: The bride wore blue.

By: Tyler L.

Tyler L. — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:30:17 +0000

I just read your blog and thought you might be interested to know, the Perma-Log website is now updated with pictures of everything on the property, and it is all for sale.

Tyler
Perma-log employee

By: Connie

Connie — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:19:44 +0000

Learning how to fold the flag properly will serve them in good stead later on when they become bakers. Just this weekend I made filled phyllo goodies which involves folding like a flag.

By: ROgirl

ROgirl — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:47:46 +0000

The vintage brooches are the perfect touch.

The bear story and the “reincarnated” boy story were both on Fox. I rest my case.

I went to the visitation for the husband of a friend last week. Dropped dead at the age of 62. He happened to be a serious alcoholic and had some health problems, but still. It was open casket and I didn’t get too close, but I could see him laid out in an alcove at the far end of the room, an American flag folded under his head, spotlights illuminating the space, glowing a ghastly shade of salmony tan.

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:27:27 +0000

We didn’t have cake at my sister’s funeral, but the usual big honkin’ catered spread that Polish-Americans have for any event. And the desert was key lime pie.

By: Dexter

Dexter — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:23:05 +0000

SUE: Yeah, I recommended that book and I think it was Kirk who seconded the motion. Try and get the cassette tape version of that book…I ordered it from my local Carnegie lending library and had it from a Cleveland library in no time.
Wahoo Sam Crawford’s story of playing for his “Wahoo” team is priceless…travel from town to town in a couple of wagons, the cook bought round steak and bread and that’s what they ate, along with apples they came across , and other such truck.
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We went to a wedding Saturday…the couple is from Tennessee, and the bride was married barefooted. We’ve known the bride since she was a a baby , and it was nice they got married, after being together fifteen years.
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WHOA! That Cleveland bear story was hilarious!
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My bike ride was done on a 1951 JC Higgins cruiser bike that I bought 15 years ago in Defiance at R Bike Shop ( used to be the Western Auto, I think)
It just seemed right to break out the antique . I managed eleven miles on it before darkness set in. It has a very high gear (one speed coaster brake ) but when you get moving at about ten miles per hour it becomes effortless and a lotta fun.

By: CrazyCatLady

CrazyCatLady — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:00:26 +0000

We had cake at my mom’s Memorial picnic. She despised funerals and always said she would never make us go through that. Since she died the night before Christmas Eve, we had her memorial later the next summer. It was a wonderful party, without the religious bull she hated. It was a blast!!

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:48:38 +0000

Here’s a cheerier bit of bloggage from up in Nancy’s backyard — http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/06/cant-forget-the-motor-city.html

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:32:13 +0000

‘Scuse, i must have walked in at a cranky moment, but before i duck back out — the Pledge of Allegiance takes maybe 20 seconds if you take it real slow.

And the point is — we don’t pledge allegiance to a Crown, or an inbred person who inherited the ranch from their royal bloodline; we don’t pledge allegiance to the elected president, which i’m thinking many would have been grateful for the last eight years; we don’t pledge allegiance to the land, or the blood and soil, or to Der Vaterland or Matyushka; we don’t pledge allegiance to the Volk or Holy Mother Church or the Great White Dome of the Capitol.

We pledge allegiance to the public common goods, the public things, the “res publica”, to the Republic for which the dang thing stands: that which we hold in common, a nation of laws, crafted to bring the greatest possible liberty and justice for all.

Then, those twenty seconds over, you can talk about text messaging etiquette to your heart’s content. Yes, i spent last week teaching hundreds of kids how to do a proper flag ceremony, including that tricky triangular fold thing that gives you a Valley Forge tricorn and not a shapeless squarish mass. There’s something about having a few unifying rituals i hate to see discarded because it’s so uncool to say anything in unison.

Deborah, your wedding sounds spectacular. Long may you both wave over Abiquiu!

By: Kirk

Kirk — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:41:23 +0000

A daily five-minute civility lesson would make schoolkids much better citizens than the time they waste every day on droning the pledge to The Flag.

By: Jolene

Jolene — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:53:32 +0000

Re technology and civility, John Kelly, a WaPo columnist has started a campaign called Radical Civility, complete with its own logo. Its first focus is on stamping out--politely, of course--the practice of texting in movie theaters. The lit-up cell phone screens are, apparently, damn distracting.