Wondering about wild grapes

Monday, June 30, 2014

Wondering If the Dust Will Go Away, etc..

We have dust.  Not just ordinary dust.  This dust has crossed the Atlantic and blew into the Gulf and came ashore here in Texas.  Where did it come from?  Well, the news says it came from Africa.  I wonder if it has a visa or at least a passport?  Had to go to town this morning and on the way home I took a couple of pictures.  Do you notice that the sky is more grey than blue?


OK, I guess the grey color doesn't show up too well in the pictures, but take my word for it, there is a lot of dust in the air.

Now, to change the subject, I want to mention a couple of things that took place awhile back on this date.  In 1953 the first Corvette was finished and this date is considered the Corvette's birthday.  Remember the '53 Vet?  

And a year earlier on this date in 1952, the Guiding Light soap opera appeared on television.  Before that, it was broadcast on radio for fifteen years.  It was the longest running drama on the air.
 
Overall, it was on the air (either on radio or TV) for 72 seasons!!  Now that is hard to believe.  It had 57 seasons on TV.  I remember it on TV from way back when I was a kid.  My Mother use to watch it and later on, my wife watched it.  Of course, since it was on, I watched it, too.  Let me know if there is dust where you live and you all have a great day, you hear?

10 comments:

  1. No dust here that I can see, but if there is I will worry about Valley Fever. I never got too hooked on soaps except after I had my first child and started watching As the World Turns. I was glad to get unhooked from that! Of course Dallas was the best soap of all times for the first few seasons.

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    1. Search For Tomorrow was the one I liked when I was a kid. Don Knots got his start on that show as a skinny teenager. At least that is how my memory remembers it.

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  2. The pollen is overwhelming any other dust in the air.

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    1. This dust from Africa showed plainly in the satellite views and radar. Not good at here at all, but it will get better, maybe.

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  3. It seems when I lived in Houston the African dust always made its yearly trip there. Too far I guess to make it to Del Rio.

    Our neighbor in Austin, Texas got my mother hooked on As The World Turns. I got hooked on All My Children. I thought they did not have soaps anymore but today when we were at the hospital they had them on.

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    1. You are right, this is not the first time it has happened and will not be the last. And as far as soap operas go, some sort of them will be on TV, probably for ever.

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  4. Our weather men said it was coming in too. It is hazy. I'm trying to stay out of it as much as possible.
    Now, when do we get the smoke from Mexico? lol

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    1. Too bad the Mexican smoke didn't come at the same time so that we could get them both over with.

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  5. Dust here is Mexican, Terlinguan, Texas panhandle and who knows what else. We have more than our share of it and I'd be glad to send some your way. The Africa stuff wouldn't stand a chance.

    I sure wouldn't turn down a 53 vet, but preferred the 55 when they had the whopping 265 cu in v8. I'd take a 57 T-Bird over any vet though.

    I sort'a figured you were going to fess up to watching that soap. ;)

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