A woman flying from Montana to Houston was told by a flight attendant that disposing of her toddler daughter’s diaper, wrapped inside a plastic bag, and put into a trashcan at the diaper changing station on the plane, was considered a biohazard. The woman said that she retrieved the used diaper and took it with her, throwing it away outside the flight. Then the woman said that about an hour later, she received a call from an 800 number…it was the flight attendant who said, “Due to a biohazard incident on the plane today, we’ve placed you on the no-fly list.” If this is true, then Mesa Air Group needs some real help. The woman now wants to know how the flight attendant got her name and cellphone.
I hate it when I see an old person, then realize that we went to high school together. No kidding. I was on the website of my old high school, looking at pictures of our last reunion. l thought I saw an older picture of my dad. Needless to say, it was not my dad!
Seen on a front porch welcome mat: PLEASE RING BELL and pull weeds until someone answers.
A North Carolina man caught a record-breaking blue catfish that weighed 127.1 pounds, breaking the previous record by more than 5 pounds. The fisherman said it was a dream come true, then later released the fish back into the Roanoke River. Years ago, I remember swimming in Lake Whitney, with rumors circulating that catfish by the dam were big enough to eat a whole person. I always thought they were exaggerating. In Minnesota, officials found 10 giant goldfish one day, then 18 more the next day, in a lake. Some were as big as a football. When your pet fish outgrow their aquarium, do NOT dump them into ponds and tanks. They will end up as invasive creatures, contributing to poor water quality.
What do Winnie the Pooh, Alexander the Great, Smokey the Bear, and Ivan the Terrible, have in common? They all have the same middle name.
Virgin Galactic launched its billionaire founder into space aboard a rocket he helped fund, along with three fellow crewmembers. Richard Branson said that his flight to the edge of space was much more extreme than he had anticipated. Now, Bezos and his brother will try their own flight on July 20, along with a mystery person that is paying $28 million to tag along. I think that also comes with a t-shirt. Elon Musk is busy with his SpaceX, but obviously not willing to wait, so he put a deposit down for a future flight with Branson. They are calling them billionaire space barons. I just wonder what the carbon footprint is for something like this. If these guys took just a portion of this money and spent it on something that is broken, like climate change…
“You know these are crazy times when it’s safer flying to space than going on a Carnival Cruise, don’t you think?” Jimmy Fallon
Alex Rodriguez has another new business venture, a makeup line for men. The Blur Stick is a specially designed concealer for blemishes or those nasty razor bumps. Hmmm. A-Rod recently became an owner of the Timberwolves. I heard sports team owners save hundreds of millions in taxes each year. Normally, machines (computers, printers, etc.), factories, and vehicle fleets can be depreciated each year to reflect fallen value, but team owners (all the balls and pucks) have a special rule allowing them to expense most of the purchase price of a team over 15-years. Plus, a whole bunch of other things that I didn’t understand in order to tell you. Poor guy. Jennifer dumped him, will not return the $1.8 million engagement ring, then 15 minutes later she took up with ex-fiancé Ben Affleck, so there is NO misunderstanding about her missing Alex. Paul Beeston, former Vice President of the Toronto Blue Jays, said, “Anyone who quotes baseball profits is missing the point. Under generally accepted accounting principles, I can turn a $4 million profit into a $2 million loss, and I could get every national accounting firm to agree with me.” Nope, not missing her. Did I mention that he is a co-owner of Presidente Beer.
RECENT BIRTHDAYS: Singer Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) is 73. Actor Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter is 32. Actor Danny Glover is 75. Singer Don Henley is 74. Actor-comedian-director Albert Brooks is 74. Composer Alan Menken of Little Mermaid, Little Shop of Horrors, is 72. Cartoonist Garry Trudeau of Doonesbury is 73. Singer-actor Bobby Sherman is 78. Julie, Do You Love Me, and Easy Come, Easy Go. Following his role on Shindig! he appeared on numerous television shows, including The Dating Game, The FBI, Honey West, and The Monkees, before landing a part on the series, Here Comes the Bride.
Henry Lee Crumrine died recently at 81. Henry started working on my car when I moved to LJ in the 80’s. Tri City Auto. Honest, fair, and all-around nice guy. He was my neighbor in recent years and no one kept a prettier, more manicured yard than Henry. He will be missed. Billy “Bill” Keath Fletcher died at 94, a super nice man that I had the opportunity to work with on the building of the Stephen F. Austin statue. Our committee met every Thursday at my office, and he never had a harsh word, but plenty of positives for everyone. If you have ever noticed all the trees planted around the statue grounds, you might wonder how they stayed alive when they were first planted…well, because Mr. Fletcher made sure they received the best start in life by dragging a water tank around the park and watering those trees. They are so beautiful now. All 150 of them. Definitely a man that will be missed.
Edwin Edwards was Louisiana’s only four-term governor. He survived grand jury investigations and two corruption trials before going to prison in 2002 for racketeering. The last time he married, was to a 32-year-old pen-pal who visited him while he was behind bars. In 2013, they had a son, his fifth child, and starred in a short-lived reality TV show, The Governors’ Wife. Well, he died at 93. I tell you all this because my best friend and I campaigned for Edwards in the 70’s. You know, straw hats, pageant sashes, and sitting in the back of a flatbed trailer driving through Bossier City waving at people. My friend’s uncle was fundraising for Edwards, having had a big party for him in our neighborhood. It was a little touchy at my house because my mother was voting for J. Bennett Johnston, “because he was an honest man”, and she believed that Edward’s was a big crook. Well… plus he had made a pass at her. Of course, my dad was for Edwin Edwards. Funny how that memory just flooded into my thoughts this morning when I saw that he had died.
Robert A. Perryman is retiring from First State Bank after 35 years. He is going to travel, play with grandchildren, and continue as an FSB board member. He was great to me and The Source Weekly. All I had to do is ask. Congratulations to Lonnie Key, who will continue the great hometown service as incoming bank president. Congratulations to our Parking Way neighbor Autumn Barrier, on the three-year anniversary of “serving” our community. If Wine Review can make it through the past three years of all the crazy stuff that has been thrown at Brazoria County, then you are doing some amazing things!! Thank you: Debby for all the butterfly chrysalises. Five have flown away so far, and it was such a joy to watch them land on my zinnias and enjoy their first nourishment. Thanks to all the readers that have cleaned their #2 and #5 recycled plastics and brought them by my office for the students to use in Precious Plastics and the Industrial Design classes. Today they made a brick made out of all your donated recycled milk bottles. Huge step!
Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based on values rather than personal gain. Chris Karcher
A 12-foot Burmese python missing from a mall aquarium was found after she bent a corner of her tank, allowing an escape. Cara was found inside a wall where she had been for several days, probably because it was her once a month feeding time and she gets restless at that time. What?!? This would not be reassuring news if I happened to be a mall walker at the Mall of Louisiana in Baton Rouge.
A sandcastle in Denmark, constructed from 4.8 tons of sand and measuring 69 feet 5 inches, may be the world’s tallest ever built. They say it beat the previous Guinness World Record by more than 11 feet. I watched the video and 30 artists used cranes and a wooden structure to stabilize the castle during construction. After the completion, the castle was covered with a layer of glue so it might last through the winter. I hope it was biodegradable glue.
The Lake Jackson Historical Museum has a new Executive Director in case you didn’t catch it when I mentioned it before. He and his staff are planning all sorts of fun events and displays, including the Mailmobile Robot (think R2D2 dressed like a post office). The Mailmobile made its first appearance on the job in Chicago in 1976, at the offices of Sears, Roebuck & Co. in what was then the tallest building in the world. Since then, thousands more have made their scheduled deliveries in corporate and government offices, each christened with a unique name. The FBI included their Mailmobile, “Marvin” among their model employees, noting that although he might run over you, or pin you to the corner, he also never took a cigarette break or asked for a raise. The unit on display at Lake Jackson Historical Museum performed his duties for Dow Chemical where he was known as “Herman”. Although some employees began to refer to him as “Hal”, in reference to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. The robot is a beeping, blinking, 600-pound machine that can haul 800 pounds of mail without the help of a human. He has cells of black lights beneath his metal frame that ‘read’ an invisible fluorescent pathway sprayed onto the floor, and he is only there until August 11th.
I don’t know about you, but I have thought about running away more often now as an adult than I ever did when I was a kid.
Haak Vineyards & Winery will celebrate their 2021 Harvest Festival Saturday, July 17 from 11-5. Wine and Stars that same evening from 6-10. If you’ve never visited Haak, then this is a perfect opportunity. 6310 Avenue T, Santa Fe, Texas 77510, or text 409-925-1401.
The Tokyo Olympics events will now not have spectators because of growing coronavirus concerns in Japan. Parts of Australia have been overrun by mice since August, and a fresh plague of the little critters prompted an evacuation of a prison in New South Wales. California has been asked to conserve energy for the fifth time this year as a blistering heatwave tests their power grid. With the west in extreme drought, Lake Mead reached historic low water level in June. The Federal government is expected to declare a water shortage in the lower basin of the Colorado River by 2022 or before. If you think this does not affect us, think again. An American Airlines passenger was duct taped to her seat after she tried to open the plane door mid-flight, then bit and attacked flight attendants.
Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks presented Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter with a 1946 red convertible, from the year they wed, in celebration of their 75th wedding anniversary. The celebration was held in the auditorium at Plains High School. Pianist David Osborne entertained the crowd of 300. President Carter is now 96, Mrs. Carter is almost 94. She said her life has been an adventure since first meeting the man she went on to marry, calling their marriage a full partnership. Envy from many.
I will leave you with this thought. There is a big discussion right now over why Ritz Crackers have a scalloped edge. Not something that I have ever given even a tiny, little scrap of thought to. Ritz, who has been making the cracker since 1934, claims that the scalloped edges allow you to cut pieces of cheese to fit the cracker. Hmmm. I am too practical… all I think about is broken crackers if you use a cracker as a knife. I will just use a knife. Thanks for taking the time to read us this week. We appreciate you!
LISA
