Things that make you smile

[Zombie_61]

...The pungent, earthy smell of a mid-summer salt marsh...

This brought to mind the musty smell of a used book store that has been in business for at least two or three generations. There were two in my home town that I visited regularly when I was growing up; both are long gone. And in this part of the world stores like them are becoming harder to find as the years pass, so when I find one I breathe deep.

 

[2jakes]

 

[2jakes]

 

[Fading Fast]

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The well-timed "you're an idiot" is very effective.

 

[2jakes]

After the first 100 years of give & take---
putting up with one another---
and are still friends---
Life can be grand.
Especially on a cold winter's night when you have one another to embrace!

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Yes Co. Jakes I am looking for a nice proper southern girl who likes to cuddle and with a somewhat soft delicate drawl exclaims 'Yes Suh...why yes suh'. If you happen upon such a delicacy please direct her sweet self to this thread so I can give her my best beau regards....

 

[Fading Fast]

Brings a smile for two reasons: (1) the dog him/herself and (2) the artist's talent (look how few lines he uses):

 

[Fading Fast]

A grown man should not like Snoopy as much as I do (nor cookies):

 

[1mach1]

The boy and a big blue rooster.

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[1mach1]

A grown man should not like Snoopy as much as I do (nor cookies):

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Snoopy is my favorite! Ever since I can remember. Love him.

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[HadleyH1]

LOVE!!!!!!!

 

[BobHufford]

Taking a detour only to discover a Cairn Terrier running down the middle of a busy highway. Stopping (and getting the oncoming traffic to stop as well), getting the dog to head up a side road, coaxing it after some stand-offishness and then finding its owner after the third house on the country lane. Whew!

 

[HadleyH1]

don't you love this lol....makes me smile

 

[crawlinkingsnake]

January and February are over! March 1st is beginning of meteorolicical spring, March 15th beware the Ides of March, March 20th actual first day of spring... and best of all March 17th is St. Patrick's Day. Time for a Guinness!

 

[Zombie_61]

January and February are over! March 1st is beginning of meteorolicical spring, March 15th beware the Ides of March, March 20th actual first day of spring... and best of all March 17th is St. Patrick's Day. Time for a Guinness!

Yeah, but we lose an hour on Sunday because of that stupid Daylight Saving Time nonsense. It would make me smile if the U.S. (or at least California) eliminated that useless practice.

 

[HadleyH1]

Love the month of March!

My Fathers's birthday ...my brothers ....mine....March is the best month!

 

[Fading Fast]

I wish the North Platte Canteen could have been saved. What a treasure it would have been. Thousands of troops from all across America passed through there.

You can visit the Lincoln County Museum to see stuff. They have some things online: http://www.lincolncountymuseum.org/the-north-platte-canteen1

There's also a great book on it: https://www.amazon.com/Once-Upon-Town-Miracle-Canteen/dp/006008197X

Thank you. I've read that book a few times. It just astounds me what those folks did every day for almost 5 years. They sacrificed from their own limited supplies to make sure every train was taken care of.

Recently finished "Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen" by Bob Greene

• As you guys note: a book that will bring a smile to your face (thank you both for the recommendation)

• Impressive what that community did / we debate its meaning a lot here at FL - and I absolutely get that it is a complex issue - but this is one version of patriotism that I can get behind

• It's a shame that the station didn't survive, but it's all part of the long decline of passenger rail service in the US
  • Rightly or wrongly, the country's political system in the '50s went with cars and planes; so, today, we have cars and planes
  • The train station made and, when gone, (sadly) broke that town

• My born-in-'32 mother has argued that pre the late '60s (and, certainly, the '40s and '50s) truly were a sexual more innocent time for kids and teenagers - you can feel that in the stories of the kids and teenagers of the canteen

 

[Cornshucker77]

This makes me laugh.

 

[Zombie_61]

This makes me laugh.

Almost every one of these "dog shows" that I've seen has been a stuffed-shirt, overly pompous affair where everyone takes themselves far too seriously, so I enjoy it when a dog thumbs it's nose at convention and has some fun while it's going through it's routine. Olly's performance in the second video was clearly more fun than business, but I'd have given him points just for his enthusiasm for doing what a dog should do.

 

[Cornshucker77]

Almost every one of these "dog shows" that I've seen has been a stuffed-shirt, overly pompous affair where everyone takes themselves far too seriously, so I enjoy it when a dog thumbs it's nose at convention and has some fun while it's going through it's routine. Olly's performance in the second video was clearly more fun than business, but I'd have given him points just for his enthusiasm for doing what a dog should do.

Yep, I agree. That is a fun little dog!! The announcer got a kick out of him too!