15 February 2026

We saw the sun this week. To be fair, we actually saw it twice this week, once on Thursday morning for about 20 minutes. The clouds were a glorious reddish-pinkish shade with a little glimmer of blue sky as the sunshine came down in shafts of light. Didn’t last, of course. More rain and mud until Saturday which, for some reason, dawned bright, sunny and cloud-free. Don’t worry, the forecast for today is back to “normal.”

Rain, rain go away!
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15 February 2016 – Amusements

A farmer had five female pigs. Times were hard, so he decided to take them to the county fair and sell them.

At the fair he met another farmer who owned five male pigs.

After talking a bit, they decided to mate their pigs and split everything 50/50.

The farmers lived sixty miles apart, so they agreed to drive thirty miles each and find a field in which to let the pigs mate.

The first morning the farmer with the female pigs got up at 5.00 am, loaded the pigs into the family station wagon and drove the thirty miles.

While the pigs were mating, he asked the other farmer, “How will I know if they are pregnant?”

The other farmer replied, “If they’re lying in the grass tomorrow morning, they’re pregnant. If they’re in the mud, they’re not.

The next morning the pigs were rolling in the mud so the farmer hosed them off, loaded them into the family station wagon and proceeded to try again.

This continued morning after morning for more than a week and both farmers were worn out.

The next morning the farmer was too tired to get out of bed. He called to his wife, “Honey, please look outside and tell me whether the pigs are in the mud or in the grass.”

“Neither,” shouted his wife, “They’re in the station wagon, and one of them is honking the horn!”

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8 February 2026 – Amusements

We’ve had this before in a slightly different context:

An old drunk guy walks up to the bar, slaps a $50 down and tells the bartender, “‘Il I bet you 50 bucks that I can bite my eye!”

The bartender is intrigued and takes the bet. The guy pulls out his false eye, bites it, and sticks it back in the socket.

The bartender is annoyed but pays up and figures the $50 was worth the show.

A few minutes later the drunk walks up to the bar slaps 100 bucks down and says, “Double or nothing. I’ll bet a hundred bucks I can bite my other eye.” The bartender figures the dude is drunk and takes the bet.

The guy removes his false teeth, bites the other eye and sticks the teeth back in.

Now the bartender is really angry but pays up. The old drunk looks the bartender in the eye and bets him 200 bucks that the bartender can slide a pint glass down the bar and he could run beside it and piss in the glass and not get a drop on the bar.

The bartender figures what the hell and takes the bet. He slides the glass down the counter but the drunk gets hardly any of his pee in the glass, most of it ends up on the bar.

The bartender is super pumped to get his money back and snatches up the $200 with a smile.

He then hears another guy at a table cursing up a storm. The drunk walks up to the bartender and explains, “I bet him $500 that I could piss all over the counter and you’d be happy about it!!”

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1 February 2026 – Amusements

A married man was having an affair with his secretary. One day, their passions overcame them in the office and they took off for her house. Exhausted from the afternoon’s activities, they fell asleep and awoke at around 8 p.m.

As the man threw on his clothes, he told the woman to take his shoes outside and rub them through the grass and dirt. Confused, she nonetheless complied and he slipped into his shoes and drove home.

“Where have you been?” demanded his wife when he entered the house.

“Darling,” replied the man, “I can’t lie to you. I’ve been having an affair with my secretary. I fell asleep in her bed and didn’t wake up until eight o’clock.”

The wife glanced down at his shoes and said, “You liar! You’ve been playing golf!”

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25 January 2026 – Amusements

Two elderly residents of a Florida mobile home park, a widower and a widow, had been friendly acquaintances. One evening, during a community supper at the activity center, they ended up sitting across from each other. As the evening wore on, laughter and conversation flowed.

Encouraged by the moment, the widower summoned his courage and asked, “Will you marry me?”

The widow paused, her face thoughtful and then she smiled warmly. “Yes,” she said. “Yes, I will.”

They parted that night with hearts full of joy and spirits lifted, each looking forward to a new chapter in their lives.

But the next morning, the widower began to worry. Try as he might, he couldn’t remember her answer. Had she said yes? Or no? Nervous, he picked up the phone and called her.

“I’m so sorry,” he began. “My memory isn’t what it used to be. Last night, when I asked if you’d marry me . . . did you say ‘yes’ or ‘no’?”

The widow chuckled softly. “I said yes,” she replied, her voice filled with affection. “And I meant it with all my heart.”

Then, with a playful lilt in her tone, she added, “And I’m so glad you called, because I couldn’t remember who had asked me!”

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18 January 2026

It’s been a week. A busy, busy week to be sure. So busy that I feel like the proverbial one-armed wallpaper hanger my brother Steph is continually comparing himself to. It’s been a week of chemotherapy treatments for Nick, a “minor” surgical procedure for Lady Penelope which has meant that I have been providing most of the taxi services to get Annabelle to school in Warwick each day. Phew, I am going to have to take a nap.

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18 January 2026 – Amusements

We’ve had a variation of this first one before . . .

A man wearing a MAGA baseball cap was seated next to a woman on an airplane. He turned to her and said, “Do you want to talk? Flights go more quickly if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.”

The woman, who had just started to read her book, replied to the total stranger, “What would you want to talk about?”

“Oh, I don’t know,” said the man. “How about those children whose parents get them vaccinated becoming autistic.”

“Okay,” she said. “This could be an interesting topic but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff – grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?”

The man, visibly surprised by the woman’s question, thinks about it and says, “Hmmm, I have no idea.”

To which the woman replies, “Do you really feel qualified to discuss science and medicine, when you don’t know shit?”

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