Day: April 17, 2025

First it was Vanilla Swiss Almond.
I went nuts about it! Delicious!

Sometimes I liked Chocolate Peanut Butter,
a smooth buttery nuttery spread of
chocolate and peanut butter. Scrumptious!

Now I’ve found a new Häagen-Dazs love,
Coffee Chip, which contains two of my
favorite things, coffee and chocolate. Heavenly!

And I’m thinking about asking God if there’s
a heaven and I get a reprieve to get in
it – to let me eat Häagen-Dazs Coffee Chip
as my eternal staple there. Selah!

Bob Boyd

I had a country girlfriend in NC, and she kind of
introduced C&W music to me.

Though I didn’t like it before her, I did appreciate
the stories in some of the songs and liked a few of
them, like one about not skating in a buffalo herd,
sound advice.

After that girlfriend who stole money from me and
was writing love letters to a married man while
with me and done me wrong.

The relationship kind of ended like a C&W song,
except I didn’t drink and couldn’t cry in my beer,
and I didn’t sing about her cheating heart.

But I did like Country Music after that, and really
appreciated how well written some of the lyrics are,
and my mama never raised me up to be a cowboy.

Bob Boyd

I don’t know why, but that part of a song lyric, Ex’s in Texas always sounded good to me.

I’ve been to Texas, San Antonio, Amarillo, and Dallas.
I liked Dallas the best. Maybe because I wasn’t in the
Air Force there like in the other two cities.

I was in my thirties in Dallas, and I remember that the
drivers drove like cowboys there, and it took me a while
to get used to it, but I liked that fast pace driving when I did.

I really liked Dallas. It seemed to have everything one would want. I remember when I was there hearing on the news about high school suicides in Plano, Texas. I just googled it, and it was in 1983. Sad sometimes young people take their lives when they’ve just begun to live.

I never had any ex’s in Texas. Not even a girlfriend there, but forget about San Antonio and Amarillo, military bases with basically no women on them then, and San Antonio was a basic training stint. Amarillo wasn’t much different, and the townies hated us there anyway.

Once a young guy in a car with his girlfriend stopped next to me on a street in downtown Amarillo, and his girlfriend had her dress intentionally pulled high up exposing her alluring legs.

The guy asked me if I wanted to go for a ride hoping his girlfriend’s nice legs would lure me into his car thinking that maybe I’d get lucky, and he could drive me to where his buddies were waiting to beat the shit out of me.

But although his girlfriend’s legs were appealing, and she had a pretty face, I wasn’t dumb enough to take the bait, and what kind of POS guy would use his girlfriend like that and what kind of POS girlfriend would be a part of that. But I have to admit, she did have nice legs.

And townies in Amarillo were known for trying to beat up military guys, and didn’t like that their city was a military one.

I wasn’t in Dallas long enough to really establish any relationships with any women that might have been girlfriends or wives, and I didn’t go to bars, so I had zero luck of having any Ex’s in Texas, but I always liked the song.

Bob Boyd

Spring is supposed to be here
but 42° seems a bit NC wintry to me.
It’s been this cold for over a week.
C’mon weather, give me a break.
Give me some warm relief, and
do what you’re supposed to do.
Instead of showering me with
April showers, showering me
with some warm weather, at
least 68°, but I’d probably
settle for 60°. Show me some
love and bring on the heat.

Bob Boyd

In 1982 Russian sailors taking diving training in Baikal Lake, Siberia took a dive of 164 feet, and 3 humanoid creatures about 9 feet in height floated up toward them.

The creatures had silver silhouettes and transparent spheres on their heads shaped like open umbrellas.

The creatures and the Russian divers stared at each other until the creatures descended back into the depths.

The sailors surfaced and told their commander what had happened and were instructed to catch one of the humanoids so it could be examined.

Seven divers dived back into the lake with snares and wires to catch one of the humanoids with.

The humanoids rose from the murky depths when they saw the divers, and one of the divers tried to catch one.

The attempt failed, and the humanoids unleashed high powered sonar waves that tossed the Russian divers back up to the surface.

The divers, having surfaced too fast, developed decompression sickness, and three of them died from it.

As to whether the humanoids were aliens, no one knows, but if this account is true, I suspect they were.

Bob Boyd