Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for July 23, 2016

Scooter seems to be getting more and more rotund.

Shelby’s amazing grace…slides right by the less than amazed Scooter.

Bev, that has got to be the strangest dental technician I’ve ever seen.

Scooter is saving his expression of amazement for when Shelby does a face plant hopping over the fence.

Only Shelby would name his comb scooter

Scooter just rolls his eyes when Shelby zigs where he oughta zag.

Dennis…are you rolling something besides your eyes?

And while I’m at it…. I’ve seen lions with dark fur at the back and tips of their manes…in fact female lions are said to prefer it. (Glad I wasn’t the one knocking on their doors to ask.)

But I wasn’t sure I’d ever seen one with all that fluffy, wavy fur all the way down his legs and on his belly.

Now I know they do exist:

Scooter is not impressed.Cuttles, next door, does a much better zigzag.

@ 6 that’s a great one! @ Dennis are those papers “slow burning cut corners”? (my Fav) if u can roll with wheat straw glueless you’re good :D

@ Beviek I agree with your retirement plan 100 proof! oops I meant 100% ;)

Hey Bev,Your retirement planning looks good on “paper” but California no longer pays to recycle wine bottles.

@Number Six Yes, Scooter is less than amazed,to the zig-zags he’s not even phased.His ears are perked large,for Barney’s sound, “Charge!”Then he’ll chomp that apostrophe ess!

@number sixDo it again!

Bev and Number Six That was my AVATAR a few years back, sent to me by one of our original group, Char, that was her REAK name, she changed her screen moniker many times. GREAT TO SEE THIS AGAIN!

bev Thanks Girlfriend! And that should have read her REAL NAME, CHAR not “reak” name!

Bev…. Aren’t I awesome?

Sniffle….

And Dry…. what picture?

BTW… I bin thinkin’….(well… it IS late at night, so it could happen…)

$1000 worth of wine…. $214 in recyclables???

Say you’d bought a hundred $10 bottles of wine for $1000..To get back $214, you’d have to get over two bucks back from each bottle.

sayyou bought 50 bottles of Two Buck Chuck. $214 is over 40 cents each back.But a more typical deposit is 10 cents per bottle… to get $214, you’d have to have turned in 2140 bottles…for $1000 dollars… so you’re drinking wine that cost less than 50 cents a bottle!Good stuff. Good stuff.

Meanwhile, sad to say… you actually get nothing for wine bottles in California unless you find a recycler who pays a few cents per pound. Can’t drink enough. for $1000 to get $214 worth of glass.

And, sorry to bring bad news… no redemption for liquor bottles either.

the redemption is on bulk glass. not a lifestyle choice. beings that I had a bar the empty bottles were quite a few. we saved them in carboard boxes on the roof till we had enough to fill the station wagon. rainwater nad to pe poured from them, it was a Job! then when they handed us our payment it was under $2! Lol! I don’t recycle the beer bottles I have now 5¢ each doesn’t cover the gasoline to get them there! .

In the good old days we returned the empties to the store when we got more.

Susan, the Picture being referred to is the little Beagle Pup, posted here by Bev As far as I know, no one here knew the story behind it, It meant a LOT to me to see it again. Brought a BIG SMILE to this face! :-)