Tuna Fish and Tomato Samich

Ize always za / spel wat u put beatween 2 peecez ov bread dat way. Gee, gud tyme tah teyell Tobee ... Anyway, Leenda toled mee dat da red slices wur contributed by da fuhst fruit (vegetable?) frum da patio tomato Max gayv mee foah mye birfday. Nuhow ow many blogs feature a hi-rez samich (clickz tah verify)? Let mee teyell u ... id wuz wun awezome meal. Notice da lit candle. Why did wee hav cold samiches foah dinnah? No power. Lost id at 5 pm. No Jeopardy. No indernette. Lyfe (az we've comed tah kno id) pritty mach ended.

Translation by Toby Speak Version 2.2n
The dishunary contains 1523 wurds.

Cruising Nuwingtun Cah Shoo

Cruising Nuwingtun Cah Shoo

Wee had a cah shoo yestahday avdurnoon / evening in Nuwingtun. Leenda and Ize walked ova tah chayek id owd. Talked tah a guy hoo had a 1966 VW bus (nutt shown) and saw a Pierce-Arrow (cah shown abuv - clickz dais imudge tah zee mowa cars) and a '38 Chevy (nutt shown) (mye parents owned wun witch dey cawld "Precious.") Mye favorites wur da red 1932 Ford and da pink Ford (yeer nutt nown).

Da oldest cah wee saw wuz a 1928 Ford "Lizzy" (nutt shown). Id had three pedals awn da flor da middill wun ov witch wuz wat u yews tah goe into reverse. Ov course id wuz starded via a manual crank awn da frunt. Wee talked tah a guy hoo kno awl aboot dais cah. He explained awl da dings u had tah dew tah tayk id owd ov gear and turn id off - Ize can't recommember da details butz id wuz reyal complicated!

Vintage music wuz blasting. "Exhibitors" wur axed foah a donation tah getz in (whatever dey wanted). Lotz ov "mussill cars" wur theah. U kud teyell lotz ov munee and lotz ov tyme went into mohst ov da cars awn display.

Leenda and Ize tried tah recommember awl da cars wee hav ever owned. Nostalgia.

Translation by http://primepuzzle.com/blog/jspeek.html using a 1521 word dictionary.

PS - If you're not fluent in "Toby Speak," copy the text into your clipboard and use the above link to translate it into English!

Branford Road Race

I ran a 5-miler today. Father's Day, Linda's birthday and the First Day of Summer.

Yay!

Click Andie, Kathy, Linda and Maureen to see more pix.

PS - You can't tell but the guy behind Maureen is I think her husband. His shirt reads: "My wife is faster than yours."

Kids Art

Kids painted several pictures today, which I scanned and printed on transfer paper to decorate a t-shirt for their Poppa for Fathers Day. Their mom
took some pictures while the iron was on and we included one of the pictures of the kids on the front of the shirt with some of the artwork with rest of pictures on the back. Happy Fathers Day to all the kitty daddies out there.

Casper and "Friends"

In foreground, Casper seed I thought would never make it, obviously has!

In background, awesome sunflower!

Click the image for more "friends."

Any garden news / other news from DeeDee, BuBe or Max?



Two days till Linda's birthday, Father's Day, and, of course, the Summer Solstice!

As DeeDee would say ... Yay!!!!

Yanni Clip

This is a bit strange, I suppose, but what Yanni says struck me as a very powerful thing the other day when I was listening to an audio tape I have of his Yanni Live at the Acropolis concert. I tried to play it back repeatedly so as to transcribe the words to paper but had trouble getting them down.

Today I got smart. Why not put the tape in my boom box and take a video of it? So the video is really just so you can hear the message. I kept the camera going a bit past the part where he speaks. His music is very beautiful.

Here's the quote. A truly amazing observation.

"That everything great that has ever happened to humanity since the beginning, has begun with a single thought in someone's mind and if anyone of us is capable of such a great thought then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we are all the same."

This and other Yanni quotes may be found at Yanni.

igPay atinLay

Since this blog is big on translation (for that is what "interpres" means in Latin), I could not resist telling you the following ...

LBrad's (that would be "my better half's") friend and former boss sent me a link on Monday that eventually generated this response. First, the link:

http://www.google.com/intl/xx-piglatin/

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Ifyay youyay avehay oubletray eadingray isthay ankthay youyay otenay, ecausebay youyay areyay otnay uentflay inyay igPay atinLay ...

http://www.wordplays.com/fcgi-bin/pig.pl

Bill Tribou and Bob Davidson

Friends of mine, Bill and Bob are two good reasons I *know* running is what I want to do forever.

2 out of 3 Caspers up!

I just got back from watering the garden and found two out of the three Casper seeds have germinated! Just goes to show, ya gotta have faith. And patience! No sign of life yet from the five seeds I planted in the peat pellets. But it's early.

seeds arrived / planted

I got the seeds yesterday. Thanks a lot. I just placed 1 of each (except the "extra credit" two-little-girls-on-package pumpkins and the sunflower seeds) in peat pellets and put them in a sunny window in the kitchen. It will be interesting to see "who" makes it. I will, of course, keep you and the Interpres gang current as they, hopefully, germinate and then grow into beautiful pumpkins!

More Seeds for Tinyc from Max

This image only tells part of the story. It is not known at this point if this will be an important seed. Tinyc will eventually let us know what he decides to grow to replace ALL of the Casper seeds he tried to plant. Mine never germinated either. There still seems to be time to plant. Good luck to all of us!