North Salisbury Giant Will Close In November!

You heard it here first folks. This is a fact, Giant will close this November. The mega giant grocery store is calling it quits and will no longer attempt to compete with the super mega WalMart.

Let's see, great salaries, great benefits and a great retirement package to low salaries and next to no benefits! Once again the City Council and Mayor were and are clueless about this major loss to the North end of Salisbury and probably don't care. How many businesses will decide to close up shop because of piss poor management of the City?

Nevertheless, I guess it's time for another Peebles or clothing store. Maybe they should open a Bank of Delmarva Stock Store where the citizens of Salisbury can actually buy stock in a company they know for a fact will survive based on Government Officials alone?

Oh this is a prime location for outragedrichard to shine!

Wildlife Photo Of The Day

Back In The Day

Growing up in and around New York City, you sort of learned how to live a whole different kind of life and or lifestyle.

Sunday mornings were something to look forward to. Never, did you ever know of anyone who had their newspaper delivered. Everyone got up early and headed off to the News Stand to get the 300 pound Sunday Newspaper. Then you'd head off to the Bakery and get fresh bagels and rolls.

Mom and Grandma would be back at the apartment brewing an enormous Sunday special commercial pot of coffee and the aroma of slowly freshly cooked beacon was all over New York City!

One of the greatest parts about the Sunday paper was the Comics. I don't know anyone who didn't look forward to those Comics.

A couple of weeks ago I featured a photo of the Sunday paper where the Comics were in black and white and not in color. Today I regret ever complaining about it being in black and white because today I didn't even get the Comic Section of the newspaper at all!

No Comics, No Bakery, No fresh beacon, no bagles or fresh rolls. SUNDAY'S SUCK ON THE EASTERN SHORE!

Oh, and by the way Daily Times, I want my money back from today's paper! No Comics, no pay! Does anyone know where I can get a good deal on a plunger? LOL

Real Or Faux?

With color copiers and laminating machines so easily accessaible today, who's to say these are real?

Is there a standard in their looks as well? I happen to know people that make copies of these tags and use them, (as I mentioned in another post). There are plenty of people out there taking advantage of them, what do we do about it?

Do we suck it up when we see a 20 year old kid pulling into a handicap spot and running into the store? Do we accept the two young 15 year old kids riding around Sam's Club in these carts because they're obese?

Don't shoot the messenger here folks.

They're Heading South Already?

I watched several flocks of Geese heading south yesterday. What will the Salisbury Zoo do now if all those Geese leave the river? It will look like they have next to nothing left in inventory again. I'm sure they'll trick them into staying by feeding them more duck chow and then they'll complain again next year when there's too many Geese around and Jim Rapp will want to kill them off like last year. Do you think if they stopped feeding these Geese on the river that they might not hang around so much anyway?

Good Sunday Morning To You

You see, I have this special relationship with God. I tell him, I don't care about everyone else, I want sunshine on my property each and every day and he delivers. Now the rest of you have clouds everywhere this morning, right? Not me, it's nice and sunny where I live. Don't forget to fill that basket each and every Sunday and maybe you can get sunshine every day no matter what just like I do.

More Dog Handlers

There were local handlers, handlers from other Countries and handlers that were "well dressed" young children showing and earning respect from the Judges. No, this was not a Sunday outing, this is the way children should be raised. I'm not at all suggesting children shouldn't be raised in Church as well. I'm simply stating after other comments on the post below, this is an excellent environment for young people and animals.

Heck, you don't even see this kind of dress code at a City Council Meeting any more, so stop knocking it!

It Takes All Kinds!

The Talbot County Kennel Club held their Annual Dog Show in Easton this weekend and it has drawn an unbelievable turn out! This year we chose to bring a brand new dog for us into the arena and the results were just unbelievable! This was Renoir's very first Show and very first time into any ring anywhere and he took First Prize in his class, then Best of Winners and finally Best of Opposite Sex! YAHOO! Looks like we've got another Champion in the making! Do you think the Judge and Jennifer are happy? We know our Grandson is!

Naylor Mill Road RR X-ing

You know what cracked me up about this crossing? I'll bet I drive this route at least once a day. Each time I've traveled over these tracks the regular cars would try to do the speed limit trying to keep things flowing.

However, get behind a 4x4 vehicle and like pansies they slow down to a crawl and prance over the tracks like little girls pushing strollers loaded with loose eggs inside.

Even though a 4x4 vehicle is made to take such punishment these tough guys are too afraid to act like men and they need to realize that guys like me are cracking up laughing at those pansies. So ladies, if your family owns a 4x4 vehicle and you see your husband acting like a little girl and slowing everyone down because his little baby might get hurt, know you are the joke of the day. Oh, might I add, you never see a lady slowing down in 4x4 vehicles going over these tracks!

Getting back to the better point here. It's nice to see the County is finally recognizing that the automobile repairs on County Vehicles has gone through the roof because of these tracks and they're finally doing something about it. While you're at it, do something about the road behind Lowes!!!!! Mr. Sharma says it's NOT my road, it's the County's road! How about I go take pictures of that road today and show everyone just how bad it is?

Today's Grapevine Comments

Pet ordinance

I find it strange that anyone would want to limit the number of people occupying a house, but not the number of pets. Limiting the number of pets in an urban setting with houses so close to each other is a good idea. Just as a house can have too many people living in it, a house can also have too many animals. Are we getting hung up on the number or is it that people don't want the government telling them what they can do?

I think it is commendable that the police chief wants to work on the number of animals a person can own in the city. I'd like the Humane Society to take on limiting the number of people who can hang out on Priscilla Street by the pond. That would be a good trade-off.

OK PEOPLE,

Let's get this perfectly straight one last time. The 5 animal limit has always been on the books in Salisbury! The Chief was only a puppet for the Mayor as she was trying to pick on one family and her powers are next to nothing any more because of the Blog Sites destroying her. It was dropped because we exposed her game and before she came off looking like a complete mental case, she backed down and dropped the entire thing. It was stated before, all anyone had to do was look up how many families had a special permit for additional animals and it would expose who the Mayor was trying to screw, game over! Nevertheless, let this sink into your heads, there has always been a 5 animal limit in the City of Salisbury.

Now if I were sending in a message about the Zoo the Daily Times would consider it, possibly print it and then come back with a correction after my message. Something like, Jennifer Albero is suing the Salisbury Zoo and her father is Art Goetz. Obviously the Daily Times Staff is so brain dead that they allowed two more messages to be printed without correction because they want everyone to "think" the Chief wasn't doing anything wrong. Proof again that this Newspaper is absolutely run and controlled by the Mayor of Salisbury. Each comment should have clearly stated, this law of 5 animals per household has always been in effect in Salisbury. Joe Carmean and Greg Bassett are looking for cleansers that will take the brown off their noses, any suggestions?

Rescue & Release

This Loon was injured, nursed back to health and then released on our property in Ocean City.

Beam Me Up Scotty

I swear Officer, one minute there were'd three cows here'd, the sky opened up and some SOB raised it up and took it away and I ain't got no insurance for nutin like that.

Update:

I took this photo last night on my neighbors farm.

Special Delivery!

This plaque arrived today and this Husband couldn't be more proud.

Jennifer and her Sisters dropped everything they were doing and immediately took off for New Orleans and did everything they could to help wherever they could to make a positive difference.

Is there actually a single person out there that doesn't believe each and every animal at the Salisbury Zoo isn't missing her right now?

Did The Mayor Take Everyone Out For Happy Hour?

Here it is Friday afternoon, THANK GOD the tree stopped anyone and everyone from getting hurt! Just ahead is Rt. 50 and Lord only knows what could have happened. Oh well, the City is insured anyway. Time to relocate the Mayor's personal parking spot. Maybe a truckers runaway ramp with lots of sand?

Borrowed From Duvafiles

I found the following comment to be an extremely important one and felt it deserved its own post.

lootedbyP&Z said...
Since this has changed from the original Ordinance approved by the City Council, doesn't this PRD have to go through the same Public Hearing routine?How can P&Z approve anything when the original project is in litigation? You got two zoning classifications on the table and the P&Z has approved both. HMMMMM! Very interesting.Awful, awful funny that the P&Z wasn't allowed to discuss the Robertson PDD while it was in litigation but they could discuss this one.

Jennifer & I Enjoyed Many Unexpected Guests. These Are Black Crown Night Herons.

Duh, Where'd Da Water Go?

This was a very typical scene on Saturday, Sunday and Monday mornings on the Bay as many boaters thought they could concur the bay after several drinks at night and simply cruise home. NOT! This guy was flying so fast he rode completely up and onto the small island and hailed a rescue boat to get him off. We miss Ocean City like we miss Chigger Bites!

Click on image to enlarge.

If you truly want to see the scope of this project, this image tells it all. Seriously though, I kept hearing them mention something about 30% green space. Can someone please show me where they are anywhere close to that figure? Looks to me like 80% blacktop space.

The City Of Salisbury Is A Scam!

If you're on the West side of the Government Building and you throw in 4 quarters into this meter you're only going to get 1 hour and NOT 2 hours!

If you park on Main Street and put in 4 quarters you'll get 2 hours. I hear there are places in the City you can only buy 1/2 hour on the meter.

The scam and illegal activity is the FACT that NONE of these meters tell you what you're going to get for your money and no matter what they'll accept your quarters and NOT give you the time you're paying for.

This is illegal and if they don't change it immediately and at least warn everyone what they're getting for their money, I'm going to personally sue the City for taking my money and not giving me the service I paid for. You might think this is petty but I can assure you this is costing everyone parking in these spots many thousands of dollars. They must post what you're paying for, period.

The Mayor Burns Rubber!

Barrie Tilghman popped her head in today's Planning & Zoning meeting, not expecting me to be right there waiting for that "You're #1" photo op.

You talk about someone b-lining it to their office! You could smell the rubber burning off her shoes and the second photo clearly shows she wasn't too happy about my being there.

You're #1 too Barrie. There must have been 20 people laughing their a_s off watching the Mayor run away. ;-)