Baldo en Español by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for July 01, 2010

‘Morning. Carmy, I hope that all is well.

Hola Marg, JFri y los otros Locos! We are okay here in Brownsville. We got lots of rain and it’s still raining right now. It’s still coming in heavy at times and then it tapers off. We did have a couple of tornadoes, but not close to us. I was watching the weather channel, they really did sensationalize the whole thing way too much. This was actually the tamest hurricane I have been through.

Buenos dias Carmy y Marg!

Did Jim Cantore sensaionalize too? I couldn’t watch the weather channel, so I kept up by internet, NOAA and Accuweather.

Buenos dias y todos. I hope it stays tame Carmy.

Howdy there Cleo! How went the movies last night? Did you find one worth watching?

Dry I found the perfect one to fall asleep in front of.

Baldo reminds me of my trip to town yesterday. I had a hankering for fish and chips. As I was eating, 2 women and a man entered the cafe, all extremely obese. As they entered one of the women joked about them sitting at a table with extremely wide chair bottoms. Their chairs had to be close to four feet back from the table. I left before their order arrived, but one began with a huge float and another with a large cold drink topped with whipped topping.

Hola Dry y Cleo! Dry, yes, Jim Cantore is guilty as charged. It’s a lovely day here today. It’s partly cloudy with a nice breeze blowing through, 84 degrees.

Glad to hear you are having a nice day Carmy. I became very familiar with those Texas breezes coming off the gulf.

Now you know why they were so big, Cleo!

I love to watch, shall we say LARGE, people in the grocery stores. Love to see what they have in their cart. It never ceases to amaze me! And quite a few are on the “dole” if you know what I mean.

What movie Cleo, held your rapt attention? LOL!

Morning Carmy! Glad all is well! And a “Shout Out” to Jim, “Shame on you!”

Dry, I too like to look at what is in the carts of the obese. Usually it is filled with boxed dinners that you throw in the microwave or boil in a bag on the stove. But they are looking after their weight with their cases of diet soda. LOL

I fell asleep to The Ruth Rendell mysteries “Simisola.”

Yes that is funny, isn’t it, diet soda!

Never heard of the Ruth Rendell mysteries. Is it British, though I think I know most of the British mysteries.

Carmy should I ruin Cleo and JFri’s day by telling them that starting tomr. the temps will be in the high 80’s and low 90’s, clear skies, hot but not humid until next Thurs., And I’m on vacation! YIPPEE!!!!

Yes it is British? Vacation huh? Are you going anywhere or staying home and working on your tan?

Dry, yes, tell JFri and Cleo that. I’ll be back in a few. My brother just called from Chicago, his flight was delayed. He will be here later this afternoon.

Cleo, I don’t set out anymore to purposely get a tan. My tan comes naturally from being outdoors. Back in my younger (?) years, I would lay out for a tan, but no longer. And this one will be a staycation. Hoping to go white water rafting before summer is over however.

Vacation from what? Yapping on GoComics from your desk all day?

cleo, her vacation will be yapping on GoComics from her desk at home all day!

JFri, the question becomes, does she have more time for us when at work or when on vacation?

cleo, at work! She’ll really be too busy laying about in her string bikini working on her tan!

BTW, Dry, we are forecasted to hit 90 on Wednesday!

Our temps. don’t seem to be able to crawl out of the low 60s. It is gray here today at was only 46 early this morning. I am thinking of taking a drive to La Connor just to get out of this funk.

JFri you have to wait a whole week for 90? Poor baby!!

La Connor? Is that in the southwest Cleo? SNERK!!

Maybe Cleo meant to say “La Corner.”

“Around La Corner and through the woods to grandma’s house . . ” Oh wait, wrong song! Wrong words to that song!

Standing on La Corner watching all the girls go by…

Dry, I don’t WANT it to be 90!!

* I like your song Carmy!* Let’s see what else can we come up with?

Jfri Wuss!!!

Dry, I thought you would like the Dean Martin song.

i need some loving!

Tabby Didn’t know you knew the Beatles, Girl!

Carmy when I was 10 and a year or two after, I had the BIGGEST CRUSH on Dean Martin, I loved him, his movies, his songs, his TV show, just loved him, then I got a crush on his son Dino. You are probably just a little too young to remember “Dino, Desi, and Billy”.

Hi Tabby!

Dry, I remember Dino, Desi and Billy. I was in love with Desi!

Dry lol yep i do, but thats not what i was talken about. i need some hugs here. im getting fussed at by people form before i moved.

hi Carmy girl

((((((((((((((((((((((((((Tabby)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Tabby If they aren’t there in front of you, don’t worry about it!

Carmy Now that you mention that, I do remember you liked Desi! He was cute too, they all were! Poor Dino. That was sad when he crashed that plane!

Dry i wish it was that easy!

carmy thank you!

Tabby, ditto to what Dry said.

I may disappear for awhile. My Mom is heading back from the airport with my brother from Chicago. His flight was delayed several times.

have to run bbl

Heading home, bbl too!

So who’s bugging you, Tabby? We’ll git ‘em!!! Glad that all is well, Carmy.

Dry, speaking of obese on the dole: I worked with a woman at the race track one summer who was getting food stamps and free food from our local Food Pantry. Yes, she was obese, and she brought two coolers full of food every day. She had money to fly to CA to visit her alcoholic boy toy, and spent a lot of time on her cell phone etc. I’m sorry to say that every time the local Food Pantry asks for donations, I think of her, and think of how I could better donate my money.

Hello all. I am back but it is still cloudy and didn’t even reach 60, blah!!!!

Was Cleo gone? Where did he go? JUST KIDDING BUDDY!

Food Pantry’s should do better screening before they pass out free food. People get away with that here too. I often wonder if the Salvation Army does any screening.

My soap that I watch when I come home from work was pre-empted for the next 2 days for Wimeldon Coverage. CAN YOU IMAGINE??? :-P on NBC I’ve been watching that soap for 45 years from day 1 when I was little!

Tennis is much more important Dry.

Well, I am going on a short walk.

marg just people from before the move trying to run my life again.

just dropping in to say hi and bye time to get ready for supper. love you all!

Take care Tabby. Is your dog back to her old self?

I went out to water, where’d everybody go? No Cleo Tennis is NOT more important! You think withdrawals are bad when you can’t get on the internet? Mine are worse when I can’t see my soap. If it ever gets cancelled, I don’t know what I will do with myself!!! :-(

Hurry back Tabby!

Well, Cleo has a good idea. I didn’t walk last night, so I best get to it! BBL

Dry you wonder what you would do with yourself if your soap was canceled. What do you do when you watch it?

YooHoo!!!!

YouHOO!!!! CLEO!!!

What do I do when I watch my soap? Relax, enjoy the characters I have come to know, live in a fantasy world for an hour, drink a beer, and then get back to real life!

Yeah Dry, so you can do the same thing, just close your eyes and create a fantasy world, or as in the next day or two, you can fantasize about tennis players. Nyuk, nyuk!

Those tennis players get almost as much of a workout on the court as I do refilling my Booker’s snifter.

Nyuk Nyuk yourself! Tell me you like to watch tennis? Playing it is one thing, watching it??????

Thanks Marg! We’re glad it wasn’t near as bad as predicted also. I used to hate when I couldn’t watch my soaps. Luckily, I quit watching years ago and I don’t miss them at all.

Carmy I would miss “Days of Our Lives”, after watching for 45 years?

So the storm is over, and your bro finally arrived?

Dry, the storm is over, but there is still rain here and there. It’s normal rain though, not monsoon rain. My brother arrived later than expected, the weather caused the delay.

Yes, if I had TV I would be watching Wimbledon. Carmy glad you are safe.

Movie time.

Dry, yes, I’m sure you would miss your soap, especially after that many years!

Thanks Cleo! I went outside last night for a few minutes between the rain showers. It was nice and breezy, very nice.

LilG got a call from her mom who is visiting LilG’s bro in CA, so I am on hold. Dry in all the time of watching your soap has more than a year passed in TV time? snerk, snuckle, snerf!

So Carmy how is bro? Have you given him any Indian rubs, or put any spiders down his back?

Cleo, sheesh, I wouldn’t do that to my brother. He’s 12 years older than me, he might hurt me back.

Carmy catch him when he is asleep, stick ice cubes into his jammies, place a water bucket above his bedroom door, then blame other relatives. I can say this because I have had so much experience in these matters as an only child.

Cleo, it’s too late to mess with my bro. Consider how hold he is. Twelve years older than me! The only way I can mess with him is with mind games. It will have to wait until tomorrow though, he’s went sleepers because he was really tired.

YES CLEO! MORE THAN A YEAR HAS PASSED!! Many of the stars have been on there a long time, and it is fun when they have flashbacks!

Yes again, Cleo, since we are “onlyies” we are full of sage advice! Don’t pay any attention ot us Carmy! You are lucky to have siblings!

See Dry, you don’t need soaps, just take LSD and you can have your own flashbacks.

Carmy, when you say consider how old he is, please take into consideration how old that I am. Apologies expected and do them soon before I croak.

Cleo ROFLMAO!!!!

Whoa!! Wait a second here!!! Cleo, you and I are the same age or within a year of each other!

I AIN’T OLD BUD!!!

I have two cousins that are my “sisters” and we talk weekly. Before I met LilG we talked twice a week, plus I have another “brother” who is actually married to another cousin that I talk to 6 times a week. So I do not have real siblings but these are probably closer than most peoples actual siblings.

Stay away from the drugs, Dry! Cleo! Don’t make me…!! My brother turned 61 last month. Hey, I forgot to tell you all (I think) that I yapped with my best friend from when i was about 5 all the way through high school and even after. Her mom lives next door to my mom. We grew up together.

I am not old either Dry, but unfortunately I am older than you. But then again, I like younger chicks.

Carmy is the one that is suggesting that we are on borrowed time.

Wow Carmy! That’s a long time! I have a friend like that, haven’t seen her for a while, but when we get together, it’s like nothing has changed.

Cleo, you are probably right about the closeness. A lot of siblings spend all their time fighting and holding grudges, and I’d like to shake the “shize” out of them!

Carmy that is cool. I have no friends from that far back, except my two cousins that I previously mentioned, but I guess they don’t count, even though they are friends. We moved to much to continue friendships, unfortunately.

Cleo, I never said anything about borrowed time. My thoughts are, “you’re as young as you feel.” Age is just a number. Dry, it was really nice to see her again. We both said the same thing, “you look the same, but you sound different.”

It’s Canada Day here. W00-whoo!

Hello Shika!

Howdy Shika. How is life on the lake? I wish that you had better access to the internet.

Carmy, yes age is a number and unfortunately mine keeps growing. LOL

Hola?

Hey… that’s right! Happy Canada Day!

Shika!!!

I have thought about you Canadians, did you celebrate?

Cleo, my age is getting higher too, but you have to forget about that. It’s just a number!

Life is fine on the bay cleo It is a holiday, so I have a few spare minutes before I toddle off to bed. We young ones need our sleep, hee, hee.

Hi Carmy and Dry!

Carmy usually its the other way around, you sound the same, but you look WAY different! I think I told you I ran into a girl I graduated with on one of my walks, and I felt really good when I left, because she looked OLD, older than me, but she was in good health, so, I guess she aged different than me, at least looks wise,

Shika That is a big holiday isn’t it? Like our Independence Day? How ya’ doin’ anywho?

Aha! So that why I need so much sleep!!

Shika, did you set off some fireworks?

I celebrated by not doing anything! Mom had a red and white cake for lunch for celebration, and everyone got a pen with Canada and maple leaves on it. So I got one too when I visited her.

When I see old friends, they say I look the same, but I seldom recognise them!

Shika, a number of years ago I spent July 1st in the east coast of Canada in Alexander Graham Bell’s community and took part in a small town celebration. It was so much fun. Did you have fun today?

Carmy, I don’t need a holiday to set off fireworks!!

Cleo If you guys where here, I’d have fun. I felt funny going to the lake alone for the fireworks. I jsut saw families and teenagers. I don’t know where my sister was.

Shika, we should have planned a picnic with some fireworks after. I’m sorry. When is the next holiday?

I love the Canadian Maple Leaf. I have collected earrings, braclet, suncatchers, etc. when I’ve been In Ontario, Man I miss Canada! Last time I was there, it was no big deal crossing the border. I imagine it’s a “pain in the butt” to do so now.

This doesn’t happen so much with friends, but I will meet someone and after looking at them and talking to them I will think that they are ancient, only to find out that they are younger than me, but staying thin, allowing your musical interests to remain flexible and not getting caught up in your favorite era can do a lot to make one seem younger than one’s years. Oh…and eating healthy foods. Plus, of course, a daily diet of Booker’s.

Cleo I think Bell lived near the Falls, didn’t he? I saw his home.

Ahem! Carmy, the next holiday is Independence Day! Sheesh!

The next Canadian holliday is a meaningless holiday (which we should have) on August 2nd.

So break out the Booker’s, the fire crackers, sparklers, etc! Did I mention the Bookers?

Shika, I was trying to remember the name of the town, but I don’t have a map. Maybe I should google it.

Carmy after my birthday on July 10th, our next holiday is Civic holiday in August, the first weekend.

Cleo I look young because of genetics. Both my parents looked young for their ages.

But Bookers can’t hurt!LOL

Cleo, well I think I meant the next Canadian holiday. The Fourth is practically here anyway, so, let’s plan for a picnic and firework show.

It is Baddeck, Nova Scotia.

Shika, I knew your birthday was coming up!

Shika, I have had your birthday on my calendar for some time now. :-)

Has anyone noticed that I am still not watching a movie?

Party tiem!

Cleo Brantford Ontario has his house too. LOL He has more than one home!

Gee, thanks for remembering guys! I need to get to bed. I am not as young at heart as you all seem to be. Or maybe the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak….

Cleo, sorry, I hadn’t noticed. My Mom is watching Rio Bravo.

Cleo what has happened to you? No movie tonight??

Shika, I like ladies whom are weak of flesh. Brantford, Ontario (fortunately) is the only place that I have visited where someone tried to shoot me.

LilG has gotten 3 phone calls and supposedly is on her way up. OOPs, here she is, Movie Time.

What, and leave me in suspense? Why did they try to shoot you?

Well, I guess I’m to go to bed wondering what happened. Good night my friends!! Good to talk to you again!

Yeah, why did someone try to shoot you??

Anybody still here?

I am back after another blasted phone call. I was the target of a driveby shooting in the early 70s. The bullet hit a wall just ahead of my path.

Obviously I am here Dry. LilG is back on the phone.

Wow Cleo! That was close! Why did they single you out? Did they catch the “perps”? I take it you are not happy about all the phone calls!

I’m up past my bedtime, so I am going to say goodnight all you lovely people!

Goodnight Shika! Goodnight Dry! Cleo, I hope you get to finish seeing your movie. I’m glad you didn’t get “hit.” I’m just catching up on the toons.