Cypress Sun

That was really more than I needed to know...but thanks, I think.

Looks like the hurricane has your location in it's crosshairs. Stay safe Alpo and best of luck to ya.

My best friend for 13.75 years was a cross between and Black Lab and a Dobie. He didn't like water oddly enough even though he had a big, long rudder of a tail. If it was raining, he'd run out (forgoing the sniffing around), do his business and come running back in, do the shake in the garage and run in....expecting to be dried off with a towel. He loved the towel part but hated the getting wet part. Anyway - 2.40" on Tuesday, 1.75" on Wednesday and it's been raining since I got up. Good day for a nap.

Zimmerman went looking for trouble and found it. No video of the engagement. Look at the Michael Drejka case. He also went looking for trouble and found it. Different outcome in court. Had video of the engagement. Although Florida has both the Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground laws, you never know what the outcome in court might be....but no matter what the outcome, you'll end up A LOT poorer and possibly in prison. All it takes is the wrong jury and/or unskilled legal defense.

Has anyone noticed that the playoff games are taking considerably longer than they did in the regular season? Games are now taking 3.25 to 3.5 hours for a nine inning game.

Rays take out the damn Yankees in 3 games straight. Rays 4-3. On to the ALCS to take on the White Sox or Cleveland.

Cleveland wins and lives to see another game!

I hear very good things about the place that Lead Dispenser created. It's called Lock, Stock and Barrel. Website and info below. https://lsbauctions.com/auctions/

Anything and everything that you have written on social media (like what this here Saloon is) can, and will, be dredged up from the archives for use against you if applicable.

Look up Morning briefings with Grady Judd. Some hilarious stuff...and he does it every day. The "We ran out of bullets" was great.

Gotta admit, gonna be kinda hard to top those three.

Could be worse, could be a pig with a blue jacket, red bowtie and a speech impediment.

We need the rain. Yesterday was a good, soaking rain....2.20" at my house. It took all day and night to rain which allows it to soak in. Pasco is getting deluged though, that much rain in such a short time runs off into the storm drains and into the Gulf eventually. A few years ago, we received 5.50" of rain in 45 minutes at my house that was not related to a tropical system. Rain like that doesn't do anything but flood the streets, lakes and low-lying areas. I'll take this kind of rain anytime, at least it's not tropical....yet.

Yeah, I've got to go get a filter and Mobil 1 for an oil change in the coming weeks. I hope they don't mind if I open it and use a little for myself before checkout.

You got off light!!!!

I changed my own oil/filter and lubed all the way from my first vehicle to the one before my latest. The last one was a 2000 Ford Explorer Sport. The evolution of pan bolt/filter changing went from where I was able to scoot under the vehicle without using a floor jack, to using a floor jack for a pump or two, to really having to jack it up. It certainly had to be that the shocks were failing slowly and it was getting lower...yeah, that's it. Then I started buying my oil/filter and having my mechanic change it for $10 cash. Haven't changed the oil in my newest vehicle yet, but I probably won't do it myself.

Well, I hope it doesn't happen again.!

The Rays beat the Keystone Kops....I mean damn Yankees 5-2 to take a 2-0 lead in the best of 5 series. The Yanks committed at least 5 errors tonight....very un-Yankee like. Series resumes Wednesday.

That's what me and my missus are going to do next week.

When my brother and I were kids, some of the older people would give out homemade candied apples, popcorn on a string and a couple of other homemade goodies. My mother always made us throw them away lest they have razor blades in them or somehow poisoned. This was during the 60's and we really didn't understand that there were, and still are, people that would do that. You're right, candied apples, stringed popcorn and the other stuff was far more time consuming to make than just buying candy. I always felt bad for the folks that made the stuff that got thrown away.

Most of them are already here.

This^^^

I quit watching after S1 - E3.

I wonder when these relief pitchers are going to learn that even though you can throw a 104 mph fastball, it doesn't mean anything unless you can get it in the strike zone.