I’d love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair. ~ Bette Davis
The Salty Dogs were in the middle of our weekend troika of music. Saturday afternoon at Carlos Creek Winery with some of our close personal friends. Scattered thunderstorms were forecast creating a temperature inducement for some to wear jackets. Let the festivities begin . . .
[Annie, Greg, Erik and Tom . . . ]
Being baldpate is an unfailing sex magnet. ~ Telly Savalas
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac. ~ Saul Bellow
[Fans arrive for a visit with Annie at break . . . ]
I never loved another person the way I loved myself. ~ Mae West
Ilove Mickey Mouse more than any woman I’ve ever known. ~ Walt Disney
Fly Me to the Moon
[The key to enjoyment of any outdoor activity is a substantive quantity of brownie bites.]
Hallelujah
Fans Of Salty Dogs
New Fans of Salty Dogs
New Fans With Purses of Salty Dogs were apparently shopping . . .
Pancho and Lefty
I knew nothing of the life of a real musician, of course, but somehow I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion. ~ Lawrence Welk
[And Mr. Welk idolized Annie . . . ]
Do it again on the next verse, and people will think you meant it. ~ Chet Atkins
[Greg’s deft touch with the bow removed the arthropod from Erik’s pate . . . ]
Galway Girl
I’m a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice. ~ Bill Monroe
[Mr. Monroe idolized Tom . . . ]
The future is much like the present, only longer. ~ Don Quisenberry
Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he’s just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn’t know, but he’s a pretty good fiddle player. ~ Guy Clark
[Mr. Atkins idolized Erik . . . ]
[Mr. Clark idolized Greg . . . ]
Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one. ~ Duke Ellington
One day, an army of gray–haired women may quietly take over the earth. ~ Glorida Steinem
Is a man’s bald head any more attractive than a woman’s graying one? Is a man’s potbelly sexier than a woman’s flabby thighs? ~ Susan Jacoby
Was having fun, fun, fun till the Super took the T-bird awaaayyyyyy . . .
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in a confederacy against him. ~ Jonathan Swift
The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining me! This is the follow-up to the original, “alexandriacardinals.wordpress.com,” which overwhelmed the system’s ability to handle it any more. Thus, this is “Part 2.” As the original was initially described:
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“It all began in a 5,000 watt radio station in Fresno, California” . . . wait a minute, that was Ted Baxter on the Mary Tyler Moore Show! Let’s see . . . oh yeah, it all began in 2003 when retirees, i.e., old people, in Alexandria, Minnesota, who had no desire to become snow birds, went looking for mid-winter entertainment here in the frozen tundra of West Central Minnesota. We discovered girls’ high school hockey, fell in love immediately, and it remains our favorite spectator sport to this day. Initially, and for several years, reports on these games were e-mailed to those who were actually snowbirds but wanted to keep abreast of things “back home.” It was ultimately decided a blog would be more efficient, and it evolved into a personal diary of many things that attracts tens of readers on occasion. It remains a source of personal mental therapy and has yet to elicit any lawsuits.
~ The Editor, May 9, 2014
p.s. The photo border around the blog is the Cardinal girls’ hockey team after just beating Breck for the state championship in 2008. It’s of the all-tournament team. The visible Breck player on the left is Milica McMillen, then an 8th-grader – she is now an All-American for the Gophers. The Roseau player in the stocking cap I believe is Mary Loken, who went on to play for UND; and the Cardinal player on the right, No. 3, is Abby Williams, the player we blame most for making us girls’ hockey fans who went on to play for Bemidji State.
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Photos contained herein are available for personal use. All you have to do is double click on any of the photos and they will become full screen size. You can then save them into your personal “My Pictures” file. They make lovely parting or hostess gifts, or holiday gifts for such as Uncle Ernie who wants to see how his grand niece is doing on the hockey team. If any are sold for personal profit, however, to, for example, the Audubon Society, National Geographic, Sven’s Home Workshop Monthly, Curling By The Numbers, or the World Wrestling Federation, I only request that you make a donation to the charitable organization of your choice. You have two hours and fifteen minutes. Pencils ready? Begin!
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