planet-earth-hi

 

The planet we call Earth

On Earth day,the Earth is elevated above all other “inferior” planets.  Here at Goatyblog central, we do not look down  on  the other planets, or even lowly asteroids.

Buttons

No Freakin’ Way

Saint Patrick’s Day in Rhode Island

Finally it is again that famous day celebrating the man who drove the snakes from Ireland. (The newspaper photo above is of Ireland)

  Here at Goatyblog, we encourage and celebrate stereotypes…..

Patience is required…..wait for the foam to subside…as long as it takes, as long as it does not take too long.

Worth the wait.

Now the Irish triple wick candle of Moher is lit

Now off with the bride to drink to excess….Check this out

Pumpkins being decorated

It is finally time for the annual Pumpkin decorating contest,  and this year, being the inaugural one, is no different than usual.  Children spend hours preparing for the big day.

The entries this year were much better than usual, and the judges more picky than ever.

 

Judge for yourself:

A**

 

L****

 

J****

 

J******

Mrs*

Mr*

L-dog’s Graduation=Memorial Day Combo

I must be thinking something

Mr. & Mrs. G-blog’s penultimate daughter has graduated from college, where girls go to gain knowledge.

sparsely attended graduation?

I must be thinking something

Lots of work is involved…

Mods must be scoured clean…

what a mess!

let's clean up later

parties must be held…

under-age drinking?

gone hollywood?

lining up for margaritas

One of the best things about graduation………………….Father his day presents

such as this one here.

Easter Someday or “Reflections on Easter”

A lovely, loving day was had this past Easter, or mais correctly, Pasqua Sunday at casa de G-blog.  These days, in our times, the greatest danger in celebrating Easter is a bellyache from too much candy.  But disturbing news reports from China tell a different story….which can be found here.

This allows G-stranomus to make one of his few predictions.  In a strange historical redux, some future leader of China will become a Christian and make Christianity the state religion, much as Constantine so many years back……..you heard it hear first

A-pril-fools-day

Every day is Mother’s day, but only the first of April belongs to fools.  This year, this day, belongs to, this nut. Do not try this at home!

Saint Patrick his Day

Once again Saint Patrick’s Day has arrived, and everyone can be Irish for a day.

Here at goatyblog, we celebrate this day, brushing aside the negatives of the Irish experience, and concentrating on the more positive aspects of Hibernian heritage, such as beers and ales, not to mention whiskeys. 

nobody shuts me off...sweety

In the spirit, or spirits of the day, let us have fun coloring, and coloring again.

Washington his Birthday

Once again a national holiday appears, this one about buying new, or ‘new to you’, automobiles.  But here at casa de Goatyblog, we celebrate in the true spirit of the day.  In these times, it is celebrated as President’s Day, a controversy we tactfully avoid here by changing the subject.

Before the revolution, we were subjects of the Crown, and we changed that, leading to our first president, George Washington.

first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen

This photo and others to follow were carefully lifted from the white house website, where a sanitized summary of presidents can be found.  Washington is well known, but not known well.  Most of his contemporaries are either dead or retired, and the utube videos attributed to him are suspect, IMHO.  On the other hand, we do have access to Washington his farewell address, which is required reading here.

We now skip forward to the thirtieth president,

keep cool with coolidge

 

 

The white house website relates a humorous anecdote, reminiscent of Mrs. G’s drunken incident at the C*****o’s wedding re-celebration at the VFW.

here it is…

Both his dry Yankee wit and his frugality with words became legendary. His wife, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, recounted that a young woman sitting next to Coolidge at a dinner party confided to him she had bet she could get at least three words of conversation from him. Without looking at her he quietly retorted, “You lose.”

…I laugh every time I think of it.

We now skip ahead to number thirty-four.

I like Ike

Like Washington, Eisenhower was a military commander at a pivotal point in our history (Supreme Allied Commander, European Theater of Operations).  He also gave a farewell address ,also required reading.

This leads us to the current president, Number Forty-Four!

hope and change

The book is still open on President Obama, and he has plenty on his plate…not an easy job to be president.

The white house website did settle one controversy surrounding our forty-fourth….

from the website…

With a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas, President Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. He was raised with help from his grandfather, who served in Patton’s army, and his grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle management at a bank.

….it is now official, he’s a citizen!

Merry Christmas and Happy (washington his) Birthday

Goatyblog’s penultimate daughter turns twenty-one

twenty-one candles

L**** has finally turned twenty-one again, and she and her mother demanded, I mean requested that we celebrate at an authentic Irish pub.

tis was not it

So off we went to O’Doul’s Pub in the villiage,

Nora

where N***

Laura

and L****,

drank to excess…….AGAIN