Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
Goodfellow, Texas • Age 93
Joined myLot 9 years ago
What the mind can see, the hand can write.
Also - Goodfellow is what I am, not where I live.
Gus Kilthau's Discussions
Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
25 Sep 17
Bet You the Kneeling Footballers Never Knew This -
I earlier posted about the music used for the USA's national anthem. Francis Scott Key, was the author of the anthem's words about the defense of Fort McHenry during the War...
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
22 Sep 17
"...day-old chicken covered in mildew and mould"
That is what I read on today's Drudge Report - part of a headline from the British publication, "The Sun," Supposedly it was about some of the food offered for sale to...
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
18 Sep 17
Keep A Cool Tool in the Motor Pool -
That saying is one of my favorites from back in the old days in the military. We used to say it often enough when someone was in the process of throwing some sort of a fit or a tantrum....
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
17 Sep 17
Ravens of Odin -
As many Mill Otters (My Lotters) know, I am a photograph nut; that is, I really do enjoy making photographs for others to view and I also like to look at photos displayed by others.
One type of photograph that...
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
13 Sep 17
Putting it Together (Finally) -
This morning things got a bit quieter around here than they ordinarily are. So I decided it might be a good morning on which to get serious about dragging some old doggerel (poems) out of the rust...
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
12 Sep 17
It Is Enough to Curl Your Hair -
Life in the city, life in the country, life on the hills and on the flats. Along come those humans with their noisy chopping machines and go about their bad habit of chopping our heads off.
It...
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
11 Sep 17
The Huge Prize -
My late friend, Dan Sullivan always enjoyed telling us funny stories. This one was typical and worth repeating.
[b]"Famous scientist, Isaac Newton, propounder of the theories of inertia and of gravity, was to...
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
10 Sep 17
A New Tree Wuzzit -
Our MyLotter Friend, @ARM likes "Wuzzits." a whole lot. I do not really understand that, but it is what it is.
So here is a new Wuzzit - a tree for which I seek a name.
This one grows alongside the trail on...
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
28 Aug 17
Hello Everyone -
Here is a link to some of the latest Hurricane Harvey news and pix.
Stay DRY ...
-Gus-
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
24 Aug 17
I Did Not Do It -
Temptation is never too far distant. but when you get to be of an age, temptation becomes of a lesser bother. That is; a person is able to know, scarcely without a second thought, "No. You don't do that."
So...
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
19 Aug 17
Scooter Shooter -
All batteries now on "GO," including the camera battery. and down the path that runs along the main roadway through this forested development we roll.
About when this summertime-100-degree heat makes life...
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
18 Aug 17
Moon Man - The Little Green Cheese -
They come in the night. Sometimes they forget how many of them arrived, and they leave one of the moon men behind.
Oh well...
He will be OK unless the sun hits him in the morning and...
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
10 Aug 17
School Daze -
You would think that all of the bad-mouthing that is now ongoing between our "Hippo-Potus" and the crazy fat fellow who fires off his rocket playtoys over in North Korea would be sufficient news for the day - but,...
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
8 Aug 17
After the Rain -
Sometimes a person has to take a chance - a chance on the weather, a chance on the electric scooter, and a chance on the digital camera.
This time, taking all of those chances turned out to be a good thing.
I...
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
7 Aug 17
Windy Day on Earth Today -
I was looking at a conventional website map of the weather this morning. Featured in the reporting and the mapping was a "new" tropical storm that was about to play "hurricane" getting ready to attack...
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
7 Aug 17
Almost Here, Almost Here -
Yesterday's outdoor temperature was right close to 100 degrees, Fahrenheit. Summertime is like that, and, after all, this being just after the end of July and into the first part of August, it is...
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
6 Aug 17
Today I felt BAD, Bad, bad -
There are such days in the lives of people, people here, people there, just people anywhere.
Out of bed in the morning, cup of yesterday's cold coffee, boss on the telephone yelling, "Hurry up. You...
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