Monthly Archives: April 2011

April 6, 2011 · 6:00 am

Art Linkletter Would Have Choked!

A teacher is explaining biology to her 3rd grade students. She says, “Human beings are the only animals that stutter.”

A little girl raises her hand. saying, “I had a kitty-cat who stuttered.”

The teacher, knowing how precious some of these stories could become, asked the girl to describe the incident.

“Well,” she began, “I was in the back yard with my kitty and the Rottweiler that lives next door got a running start and before we knew it, he jumped over the fence into our yard!”

The teacher exclaimed, “That must’ve been scary,”

The little girl said, “It sure was. My kitty raised her back, went ‘ Sssss, Sssss, Sssss ‘ and before she could say ‘ Shit, ‘ the Rottweiler ate her!”

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April 3, 2011 · 6:02 am

Floating Homes In Panama

When I first considered retiring to Panama I thought I’d like to build a houseboat/shantyboat and spend my so-called “Golden Years” in the Bocas del Toro archipelago on the Caribbean side of the country. It’s an island-studded, enchanted place. For a lot of reasons I’m not going to get into here I ended up living nearly 3,000 feet above sea level on the Pacific side, instead.

While my original plan hasn’t been completely abandoned it is definitely on hold, but every month I look forward to the newest edition of the Bocas Breeze for all kinds of great articles about what’s going on over on the other side of the continental divide.

In the latest edition I saw this ad:

Naturally I couldn’t resist finding out more. These are a LONG way from being shantyboats but they’re certainly cool.

This is their top-of-the-line model. It’s 20′ wide X 40′ long, 3 levels, 2 bed/2bath:

The smallest is 16X20,-1 studio style bedroom, Living room, Kitchen

They’re building a floating restaurant and other facilities only minutes away from Bocas Town by boat.

If you’re interested in a cool concept in a little piece of paradise you really need to check it out.

http://aquaticagreensolutions.com/Home_Page.html

Oh, yeah, Bocas del Toro is BELOW the hurricane belt to that’s something you don’t have to worry about.

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April 2, 2011 · 10:56 am

Republicans: The Party of Just Plain DUMB!

I normally try and avoid getting into politics here, but sometimes it can’t be avoided.

For the moment I’ll forgo the idiocy of The Donald, the lunacy of Bachman, the ignorance of Palin and a host of others. But today I stumbled across this which almost takes the cake but is Republican mentality through and through.

Who knew that DUI laws were destroying a “Way of Life?”

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