Waitin' for the Weekend

"So Many Men ... #1" by Clint Collide:

If need be, you can save time by pausing the video and right-arrowing through the pics.

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Meet PJ and Thomas

Ya know, when I came out in the closing days of disco, there were lots of sexy guys in the clubs, but no long-term couples to be seen, no role models for a stable, grown-up life.  But nowadays, YouTube keeps showing me more and more of them.  What a difference half a century makes.  

Here's a couple from Chattanooga that I just came across.  They have three kids, a house in town, a farm in the country, and a beach house on the Gulf. I don't know where they hide their ginormous Money Bin, but they seem to have a wonderful family life. Good for them.

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Chateau Poseidon: Treasures and Troubles

The latest updates from the chateau guys.

Epsidode 13:  Fishing for Treasures

Episode 14: Tower of Troubles

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Todd and Rob Escape to Wyoming

The mountain boys finally get out of the garden shed and into the wide-open spaces of the West.  (But where's Wally?)

Geography note:  The Grand Tetons were so named by the first explorers, Frenchmen, because they reminded them of their girlfriends.  I'm not making this up.

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Sunday Drive: Choral High Mass from St. Mark's Episcopal, Philadelphia

Your Head Trucker hasn't been to church in a very long while - for good reasons -  and is not a high churchman; but sometimes a service of bells and smells can be refreshing to the soul.  At least I can make a spiritual communion online, and listen to a good sermon.  

BTW - Psalm 37 is particularly apropos in today's world.

Video description:

Choral High Mass on the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

Sermon by Mother Nora Johnson

The music for the Mass is:

    Missa Octavi Toni – Orlande de Lassus (1532 - 1594)

    O Lord, Increase Our Faith – Henry Loosemore (? -1670)

    Love Bade Me Welcome – Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

The service leaflet (PDF) for today's service is found here.

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Waitin' for the Weekend

"Do You Remember? #1" by Clint Collide:

If you please, you can save time by pausing the video and right-arrowing through the pics.

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Jeffrey Kevin: French Fall Tablescape

Another lavish display with a unique theme. In case you don't know, the Gallic rooster (coq gaulois) has been a symbol of France for ages.  

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Sunday Drive: The Lord's My Shepherd

The Good Shepherd, 1880 magazine illustration
via Wikipedia.  Click to enlarge.

A metrical version of Psalm 23 from the Scottish Psalter of 1650, sung by the choir of Winchester Cathedral.  This hymn was a favorite of the late Queen Elizabeth II, and was sung at her funeral in 2022.

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Waitin' for the Weekend

"Back for More" by Clint Collide:

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Cavalcade: Autumn Window Displays

Kevin celebrates the return of the fall season with crock pots, stoves, and miscellaneous pots and pans in the earth tones that were so popular when he and I were young.  Which is all very nice and decorative, but there's also a truckload of goddamn autumn leaves strewn everyfuckingwhere.  I'm glad I'm not the one who will have to pick them up!

(Leaf raking was never my favorite chore.)

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Todd and Rob Still Shedding

The mountain boys continue their labors in their tiny garden shed, which now has new windows, new wainscotting, new panelling, new ceiling, and new paint.  They sure are good with tools, and I envy their know-how, though I hate to think how much money, time, and sweat these guys are pouring into a 4' x 8' room that no one will ever see except them and their plant life. But hey, at least they're not destroying Western Civilization - are they? 

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