Things I didn't know, not that I ever knew much, about Jimi Hendrix.

Lucy and Charlie are fighting over a toy.

The good thing about the big Viking rangetop is that it breaks down for cleaning.

The bad thing is that it breaks down into 32 pieces.

That doesn't include the hood.

Lucy is such an old biddy.

Charlie was begging her to preen his head tonight and she did nothing but yawn.

And he has perfected his wolf whistle. Scrubbing the stove is a lighter chore when a boy is whistling in the background.

This thing makes me laugh.

The very notion that a battery-powered object could affect anything in this house is absurd.

Even my vib... Never mind.

I think I have made it clear that I'm a fool for a good speaking voice.

I just spoke to the gentleman half of the snowbirds who have rented our condo since 2000.

My, my.

Ms. Huberman, seems to me if a comfort is desirable enough to complain about, it's worth a minute or two in your day to assure it.

Any man with good sense will follow Charlie's lead.

He has incorporated the call whistle with the wolf whistle.

The first two notes are the call whistle, and the third note finishes the wolf whistle.

Nature is so efficient.

I have no idea if Harry Anderson's show in New Orleans is worth admission, but I can tell you ladies, without any reservations at all, that pianist Gilles Marschall is worth the price. A charmer, in all the best senses, and some you forgot you had.

Laissez le bon temps rouler.

UPDATE: Here's another story about the club.

Charlie does a very good call whistle, taught him at the Johnsons, must be.

Now he's learning to wolf whistle.

Lucy is not a whistler.

James Joyner points to Robin Givhan's criticism of John Roberts' family's clothing choices.

I don't have young ones, so I've not been in the market for children's dress-up clothing.

What would alternatives be that were both appropriate to the occasion and the season? (And all that blond hair.)

Apart from puff sleeves, which I would have chosen for the little girl. There are only so many years a girl can wear puff sleeves. My time is up, for sure.

I loved my little dresses with puff sleeves, gathered skirts and bow sashes. And Mary Janes with lacy anklets.

My question would be why do they look so much like Southerners ready for church?

UPDATE: David C, commenting on that post, probably has it right.

Now what gives?

Charlie is holding a piece of millet in his foot and both birds are eating from it.

No problems so far, but there's plenty left.

I bet you didn't get this phone call anytime recently:

Hey. I take care of Ms. Alec across the street, and I just wanted to tell you that your tree is missing an eye.

A squirrel knocked it off, of course.

From Smiley Anders today:

Empty threat

Hunter W. Barrilleaux Jr. says when daughter Logann was 5, "I told her that if she wasn't good Santa wasn't going to visit her that year.

"She immediately responded with, 'No, no, Daddy; I was bad last year and he came.'

"She was right on both counts."

But, he says, she's been good ever since, "and is a hard-working student at my favorite school, LSU."

Lyman grew up as a child with Fox McKeithen.

He always meant to call him.

Fox was a mother's nightmare. He walked across a bridge railing as a boy. Lyman watched him, and defied the dare. It wasn't the only time.

Sheesh. Good news. I have an appointment with the hairdresser Thursday afternoon. I wake in the morning looking like Don King.

I prefer reading to watching movies, but I will be on the lookout for "March of the Penguins" after Mr. Balko's recommendation.

This is a little bizarre.

Rain is falling at the rate of 3.50" per hour, thunder is cracking, and the sun is shining from the west.

We have a toll block on our phone at the coast. When Lyman's dad called on Thursday night to say they were leaving Friday before Dennis struck, he called collect.

Lyman and his dad spoke for 8 minutes.

The charge is $24.24 including tax.

UPDATE: Some people at the coast don't rent and don't have blocks on their phones. Some are seeing large long distance bills for calls to Mexico.

UPDATE II: $2500 to South America.

Miss Jordana asks about musical tastes.

Who do I like enough to have bought more than one CD of? It's been years since I bought much music, but I bought more than one vinyl of these:

Henry Purcell
Joan Armatrading
Emmylou Harris
Janis Joplin
Bonnie Raitt
Tracy Nelson
Dolly Parton
Sandy Denny
Patsy Cline
Aretha Franklin
Laurie Anderson
Waylon Jennings
Willie Nelson
Jackson Browne
Nat King Cole
Tom Waits
David Bowie
Rolling Stones
Talking Heads
Roxy Music

There are more, but those are representative. I haven't bought much recently. Parrot toys, you know.