40000 Hits on The Blog!

Posted on Monday 26 June 2017 by joshwilltravel

40000 Hits on The Blog! THANK YOU!

Happy Monday! Today’s milestone: 40000 Hits!
AND WE COULDN’T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU! THANKS AGAIN!

Well, okay then, it’s another beautiful day in the San Fernando Valley. It’s going to be hot. It was over 100 degrees yesterday and it will probably be over 100 degrees again today.

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San Fernando Valley on the 101 east at the 405

“On The Road Again” Time for another Road Trip!

ON THE MENU (Breakfast):
orange juice, banana, peanut butter & raspberry jam sandwich and an iced espresso

Dogs are fed, they’ve been outside, did their business, they played around and now they’re down for a morning nap.

What’s on TV this morning:

ABC: “World’s Ugliest Dog” contest, SnapChat’s new feature and it’s dangers
NBC: BET Awards and Pitch Perfect 3, Marriage 101
CNN: Supreme Court allows part of Trump Travel Ban to take effect
HLN: At least 21 large fires burning in Western States
KTLA: Kooking for Kids
CBS: Some story about a murder in Michigan that isn’t news…
(“CBS has been covering this for a long time…”)
AXSTV: Merle Haggard live at Billy Bob’s
BBC World News: The Great Barrier Reef ($42Billion in economic value)
MSNBC: Supreme Court allows part of Trump Travel Ban, Medicaid with Trump stooge
FOX News: Criticizing Trump’s Press Briefings, CNN rules about reporting/retractions

FOX News is the only one talking about RUSSIA AND TRUMP!

Working Man Blues – Merle Haggard

It’s a big job just gettin’ by with nine kids and a wife
I been a workin’ man dang near all my life
I’ll be working long as my two hands are fit to use
I’ll drink my beer in a tavern,
Sing a little bit of these working man blues

I keep my nose on the grindstone, I work hard every day
Might get a little tired on the weekend, after I draw my pay
But I’ll go back workin, come Monday morning I’m right back with the crew
I’ll drink a little beer that evening,
Sing a little bit of these working man blues

Hey hey, the working man, the working man like me
I ain’t never been on welfare, that’s one place I won’t be
Cause I’ll be working long as my two hands are fit to use
I drink a little beer that evening
Sing a little bit of these working man blues

Sometimes I think about leaving, do a little bummin around
I wanna throw my bills out the window catch a train to another town
But I go back working I gotta buy my kids a brand new pair of shoes
Yeah drink a little beer that evening,
Cry a little bit of these working man blues

Another Late Night Doodle:

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Don’t Be Distracted! “Squirrel” (pencil on paper)

And there’s our Blog Post for today! The rest of the day is gravy.
STAY TUNED FOR MORE. (Maybe)

Monday! Monday! Monday! (again)>
https://joshwilltravel.wordpress.com/2017/06/12/monday-monday-monday/

Have a nice day.

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40000 Hits! “Fruity, Oatey Bar” 40000! THANK YOU!

MONDAY! MONDAY! MONDAY!

Posted on Monday 12 June 2017 by joshwilltravel

Monday! Monday! Monday!

Well, we haven’t posted a new blog in long time….
(There are a bunch of unfinished & private drafts are being worked on)
….and we just passed 39200 Hits.

So, here’s a new Blog for Monday! Monday! Monday!
(and check out our other Blog Posts:
“Monday. Blue Monday”, “Monday! Monday!” and “A Case of the Mondays?”)

Monday. Blue Monday>
https://joshwilltravel.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/monday/

Monday! Monday!>
https://joshwilltravel.wordpress.com/2016/11/29/monday-monday/

A Case of the Mondays?>
https://joshwilltravel.wordpress.com/2017/02/14/a-case-of-the-mondays/

Here are links to our most recent Blog Posts:

BBQ Ribs! (recipe and instructions with pics)
SATURDAY MAY 20, 2017
LOVECATS (by The Cure)
TIME OUT!
More All New Haiku! (poetry!)
HAPPY MAY DAY 2017!
Music Makin’ Mama from Memphis! (by Hank Snow)

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Adam West RIP (at the Dead & Co show in Boulder 6-10-17, not my pic)

BBQ Ribs!

Posted on Monday 22 May 2017 by joshwilltravel

BBQ Ribs!

We’re cookin’ now!

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St Louis Style Baby Back Ribs!

St Louis Style Baby Back Ribs
with Big Thunder Dry Rub and KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce

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St Louis Style Baby Back Ribs!

We bought some baby back ribs on sale at Ralphs.

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St Louis Style Baby Back Ribs On Sale!

CLICK ON ANY SMALL PIC TO SEE A LARGER PIC AND VIEW THE GALLERY
AND THEN CLICK AGAIN TO VIEW THE PIC AT FULL SIZE!

Big Thunder Ranch BBQ recipes from Disneyland:

Big Thunder Ranch BBQ Menu Recipes

We used the Big Thunder dry rub recipe and then KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce.

St Louis Style Baby Back Ribs

Let them season overnight and then “steam” covered for an hour at 350 degrees.

St Louis Style Baby Back Ribs

Remove foil and sauce both sides. Roast uncovered for another 30 minutes.

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St Louis Style Baby Back Ribs!

Remove from oven and let rest.

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St Louis Style Baby Back Ribs!

Done perfectly.
ENJOY! They were delicious!

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Perfect St Louis Style Baby Back Ribs!

UPDATED Tuesday, June 27th, 2017>

Father’s Day BBQ! We made Beef Ribs last week using the same dry rub, sauce and cooking procedure for a small party and they came out great!

Tasty and “finger-lickin'” too.

On The Menu: BBQ Beef ribs, BBQ chicken, corn on the cob, watermelon, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, dill pickle, potato chips and a Dr Pepper. Chocolate cake with whipped cream for dessert.

SATURDAY MAY 20, 2017

Posted on Monday 22 May 2017 by joshwilltravel

SATURDAY MAY 20, 2017 – Hot in the San Fernando Valley!

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My Three Dogs

Wake up. Feed the Dogs, Make some Food, Water the Plants!

Really hot in the valley: 92 degrees was the high temp today.

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BRUNCH!

On The Menu: 3 eggs over medium, crispy bacon, fresh fruit (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries and an orange), 2 toasted english muffins with chunky peanut butter and organic blueberry jam, and an iced espresso to drink.

Cool pictures from this week:

Big Bird Little Bird 1

Big Bird Little Bird 2

Big Bird (a very large raven) and Little Bird on a wire.

Sleeping puppy under my desk:

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Puppy Under My Desk!

Take a nap. Feed the Dogs.

What’s for dinner?
Leftover pizza and popcorn with strawberry lemonade.

Pizza

Popcorn

Netflix and Chill. “Get Him To The Greek” (unrated)

“Do you know the words to ‘African Child’?”

And Saturday is done.

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Wednesday Sunset on My Street in the San Fernando Valley

LOVECATS

Posted on Monday 15 May 2017 by joshwilltravel

LOVECATS
by The Cure

thinking of you (“We missed you hissed the love cats”)

LOVECATS

We move like cagey tigers
We couldn’t get closer than this
The way we walk
The way we talk
The way we stalk
The way we kiss
We slip through the streets
While everyone sleeps
Getting bigger and sleeker
And wider and brighter
We bite and scratch and scream all night
Let’s go and throw
All the songs we know

Into the sea
You and me
All these years and no one heard
I’ll show you in spring
It’s a treacherous thing
We missed you hissed the lovecats
We missed you hissed the lovecats

We’re so wonderfully wonderfully wonderfully
Wonderfully pretty!
Oh you know that I’d do anything for you
We should have each other to tea huh?
We should have each other with cream
Then curl up by the fire
And sleep for awhile
It’s the grooviest thing
It’s the perfect dream

Into the sea
You and me
All these years and no one heard
I’ll show you in spring
It’s a treacherous thing
We missed you hissed the lovecats
We missed you hissed the lovecats
We missed you hissed the lovecats
We missed you hissed the lovecats

We’re so wonderfully wonderfully wonderfully
Wonderfully pretty!
You know that I’d do anything for you
We should have each other to dinner
We should have each other with cream
Then curl up in the fire
Get up for awhile
It’s the grooviest thing
It’s the perfect dream

Hand in hand
Is the only way to land
And always the right way round
Not broken in pieces
Like hated little meeces
How could we miss
Someone as dumb as this?

I love you, let’s go
Oh, solid gone
How could we miss
Someone as dumb as this?

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Ann O’Reilly (nee Collins) RIP

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TIME OUT!

Posted on Saturday 13 May 2017 by joshwilltravel

Time Out! (Saturday May 13)

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This is all we got today.

We need to take a break.

Take a few deep breaths and just step back for a moment.

Relax. Breathe. Rest.

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SCORE! Found a hidden $50 in my sunglasses’ case!

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$50 – Hidden Fifty Dollar – $50 – Make You Holler! – $50

Squirrel money, from my last trip to Las Vegas and you know we went looking for more! And this happened too:

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Empty Storage Space. They jacked my rent for the last time.
Downsizing. Spring Cleaning. (and too much stuff to move)

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Time for a nap.

Read our previous Blog Post: STORAGE! February 2017!
https://joshwilltravel.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/storage-february-2017/

More All New Haiku!

Posted on Thursday 4 May 2017 by joshwilltravel

More All New Haiku!

Poetry! We have recently been inspired to write some more new poems.

We write the haikus!
Do you like reading haikus?
Hope you like these too!

We hope they inspire you!
Read them and Enjoy them!

Prisoners of Fun!
We are all just dancing fools!
There is no escape!

I’ll send my lovin’ right to your front door!

Say No More Mon Amour!

No, we mustn’t dwell
Have you seen “Empire Records”?
Always Rex Manning Day

Did you say wizard?

Are you looking for magic?

Sounded like “lizard”

A chameleon

Changing colors once again

Hiding in plain sight

We can see you there

All alone in the sunshine

Disguise doesn’t work

#ShePersisted

Give them the finger
When they say express yourself
Just like “Office Space”

Today is your day!
HAppy BirthDay Unkle Dave!
Do a little dance….

May 1st is May Day!
Laugh, Dance and Sing, it’s May Day!
Celebrate Springtime!🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷

Passover holiday

Remember the exodus
Now let’s eat brisket

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Brisket & Gravy for Passover

Matzoh for breakfast
And later Barbecue Beef
That’s what’s for dinner!

The wind is blowing
Flowers explode with colors
Spring is in the air

These Roses Are Red!
Have a wonderful Friday!
Enjoy the weekend!

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Kiff has allergies
Sneezing at posts on facebook
Take a sudafed

The Karate Kid:
Was Daniel the real villain?
Was he the hero?

Encino Mural
Karate Championship
Use the Crane technique!

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Write a poem for me,
And the whole world will hear it.
Thank you for your Love!

Again, not the end.
Inspiration! One more time!
Even more to come………

HAPPY MAY DAY 2017!

Posted on Monday 1 May 2017 by joshwilltravel

HAPPY MAY DAY 2017!

May 1st is May Day!
Laugh, Dance and Sing, it’s May Day!
Celebrate Springtime!

May Day is a holiday of traditional festivities celebrating springtime fertility. May Day celebrations usually include crowning a May Queen and dancing around a Maypole.

May Day has been celebrated in Ireland since pagan times as the Feast of Beltane.

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Coo-Coo-Ca-Choo!

The Dude:
It’s all a goddamn fake, man!
It’s like Lenin said: You look for the person who will benefit, and, uh, uh, you know…

Donny:
“I am the walrus”?

The Dude:
You know what I’m trying to say?

Donny:
“I am the walrus”

Walter Sobchak:
That fucking bitch!

The Dude:
Oh yeah!

Donny:
“I am the walrus”

Walter Sobchak:
That’s ex– SHUT THE F*CK UP DONNY!
V.I. Lenin! Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!

Donny:
(to The Dude)
What the f*ck is he talking about?

May Day is an international public holiday celebrated specifically as “Labour Day” or “International Workers’ Day” around the world.

In 1904 the International Socialist Conference in Amsterdam, the Sixth Conference of the Second International, called on “all Social Democratic Party organisations and trade unions of all countries to demonstrate energetically on the First of May for the legal establishment of the 8-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace.” The date was chosen for “International Workers’ Day” to commemorate the Haymarket affair in Chicago on May 4, 1886. May Day has always been a day for demonstrations by various socialist, communist and anarchist groups since the Second International.

May Day is one of the most important holidays in the People’s Republic of China, North Korea, Cuba and Russia. May Day celebrations usually include large parades with displays of military strength.

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May Day! May Day! Hey Hey Hey Hey It’s The Month Of May>
https://joshwilltravel.wordpress.com/2016/05/01/may-day-may-day-hey-hey-hey-its-the-month-of-may/

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“The Chinaman is not the issue here!”

From GoHawaii.com:
It’s also Lei Day in Hawaii today!
Hawaiian floral leis are made by braiding seasonal flowers and ferns together.

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Traditional Hawaiian Haku Floral Lei

Music Makin’ Mama from Memphis!

Posted on Monday 24 April 2017 by joshwilltravel

Hank Snow – Music Makin’ Mama from Memphis!

The Canadian country music star who brought you great hits like “I’ve Been Everywhere!”, “The City of New Orleans” and the “Rhumba Boogie”!
(see our previous Blog post I’ve Been Everywhere, Man!)

Hank Snow, the Singing Ranger

Hank Snow on the Perry Como Show in 1952:

Music Makin’ Mama from Memphis!
by Hank Snow

Listen to a story about a gal I know
She’s my music makin’ mama, I’m her hillbilly beau
She’s sweeter than the music when she tickles the strings
Sweeter than the flowers down in New Orleans
She’s my Music Makin’ Mama from Memphis, Tennessee.

She’ll play a little rhythm, do the boogie up right
A Tennessee polka, maybe blues in the night
Ever’body travels from near and far
To hear her when she picks it on that old guitar
My Music Makin’ Mama from Memphis, Tennessee.

You can hear her in the ev’nin’, when the sun sinks low
A-singin’ and a-pickin on that old banjo
You wanta jive when the words roll out of her mouth
Ever’body’s callin’ her the Queen of the South
She’s my fiddle playin’ mama from Memphis, Tennessee.

You gotta start dancin’ when she gets in the groove
Picks a big bass fiddle or yodels the blues
Plays a downbeat, offbeat, any old beat
A breakdown, a hoedown and does it up neat
She’s my bass pickin’ baby from Memphis, Tennessee.

You can tell when my baby is a-comin’ to town
All the jive-jumpin’ jitterbugs, they gather around
They keep a-yellin’ to my sweetie, now, honey, let’s go
My baby starts pickin’ and a pickin’ down low
My Music Makin’ Mama from Memphis, Tennessee.

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Clarence Eugene “Hank” Snow RIP (May 9, 1944 – December 20, 1999)

The Hank Snow Hometown Museum
P.O. Box 1419 (148 Bristol Ave), Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada B0T 1K0
(902) 354-4675 or Toll-Free at 1-888-450-5525 info@hanksnow.com

Located on Nova Scotia’s beautiful South Shore Lighthouse Route,
1 minute off Hwy. 103 at Exit 19 in Liverpool, between Yarmouth & Halifax
(Hank was actually born in Brooklyn in Queens County, just outside Liverpool)

Summer: Open Daily Mid May to Mid October
Monday to Saturday 9:00am to 5:00pm, Sunday: Noon to 5:00pm
Off Season: Monday to Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm, Closed holidays and weekends

Tickets for the 27th Annual Hank Snow Tribute (August 17-20, 2017) on sale now!
Early Bird weekend passes are $60.50, taxes and fees included.
Buy them at ticketpro.ca or call 1-888-311-9090.
Dry RV Camping book through the Hank Snow Home Town Museum
call 1-902-354-4675. The price remains $40/wknd

HAPPY EARTH DAY 2017!

Posted on Saturday 22 April 2017 by joshwilltravel

HAPPY EARTH DAY 2017!

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Paramount Ranch, Agoura, California

LOVE YOUR MOTHER EARTH!

Earth (AKA “the World” or “the Globe”) is the third planet from the Sun and is the birthplace of humanity and the cradle of human civilization.

‘s Earth Day Doodle!

Earth is approximately 4.6 billion years old. The oldest known rocks are about 4 billion years old (rocks older than 3 billion years are rare) and the oldest fossils of living organisms are less than 3.9 billion years old. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the biggest of the known terrestrial planets, and the fifth largest in our solar system.

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Planet Earth, Sol System, Milky Way Galaxy, Universe

71 Percent of the Earth’s surface is covered with water. Earth’s atmosphere is 77% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, with traces of argon, carbon dioxide and water (H20). Earth’s oceans have an average depth of about 2.5 miles and contains 97 percent of the planet’s water. Earth has a central (inner and outer) core, a rocky mantle and a solid crust.

The name “Earth” is at least 1,000 years old and it is the only planet whose name doesn’t come from from Greek or Roman mythology. The name is from Old English and Germanic origins and means “ground”.

Earth orbits the sun and completes one daily rotation every 23.9 hours. It takes 365.25 days to complete a one year trip around the sun. The Earth’s axis is tilted 23.4 degrees to the plane of the planet’s orbit around the sun and this causes the cycle of seasons.

Earth is the only known planet that has a single moon. The moon is (an average distance of) 238,855 miles away from Earth.

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Planet Earth, Sol System, Milky Way Galaxy, Universe

A beautiful Waikoloa sunset on the Big Island of Hawaii

We Can Run
by John Barlow & Brent Mydland

We don’t own this place though we act as if we did
It belongs to the children of our children’s kids
The actual owners haven’t even been born yet

But we never tend the garden and we rarely pay the rent
Most of it is broken and the rest of it is bent
Put it all on plastic and I wonder where we’ll be when the bills hit

We can run but we can’t hide from it
Of all possible worlds we only got one, we gotta ride on it
Whatever we’ve done we’ll never get far from what we leave behind
Baby we can run, run, run but we can’t hide

Well I’m dumping my trash in your back yard
Making certain you don’t notice really isn’t so hard
You’re so busy with your guns and all of your excuses to use them

Well it’s oil for the rich and babies for the poor
We’ve got everyone believing that more is more
If a reckoning comes maybe we’ll know what to do then

All these complications seem to leave no choice
I heard the tongues of billions speak with just one voice
Saying just leave all the rest to me, I need it worse than you, you see
Then I heard the sound of one child crying

Today I went out walking in the amber wind
There’s a hole in the sky where the light pours in
I remember the days when I wasn’t afraid of the sunshine

But now it beats down on the ashphalt land
Like a hammering blow from God’s left hand
What little still grows
Cringes in the shade till the night-time