{"id":1238,"date":"2011-05-18T18:13:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2023-07-20T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:00:09","slug":"what-are-you-doin-saturday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/what-are-you-doin-saturday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are You Doin’ Saturday Night?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been such a nice day that I thought I\u2019d leave the TV off and get a few things done. Number one was to give those pretty yellow flowers in the yard a second baptism of weed killer because the first one didn\u2019t take. They must not be Lutheran dandelions. I have opened the back door to let some fresh air in and hopefully bring with it a few wisps of inspiration as I now assume my familiar position at the computer keyboard. Unfortunately all I hear is the gentle whirr of the overhead fan and a chorus of neighborhood dogs yelping their lungs out. Talk about inspiration, one starts to bark and all the others within earshot feel compelled to join in. I wonder if it\u2019s just an instinctive reaction or if they\u2019re actually communicating with one another. \u201cRuff, Ruff\u2026Hey, Sadie what the heck are your masters cookin\u2019 for supper over there..it smells delicious like dead carp or Buster\u2019s butt.\u201d \u201cYelp, Yelp..It\u2019s Mediterranean. That\u2019s the curry your perceptive snout is picking up. They used to toss me a few scraps and it was real tasty but hot as that German Shepard down the street. They stopped sharing with me, though, because they didn\u2019t get to the back door fast enough to let me out and I left them a little steamy souvenir on the carpet.\u201d Man, that stuff was as hot goin\u2019 out as it was goin\u2019 in. Did you hear about Spike..the neighborhood stud hound?\u201d He hasn\u2019t been the same since his master brought him back from the repair shop. He must have broken something because he was going to get fixed. \u00a0Something happened there, though, \u00a0because now he just sits around with his sad-eyed head on his paws as if there\u2019s nothing left to live for. \u00a0Poor fella. Maybe I should strut by there and give him a little whiff..see if that perks him up a bit.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

This might be my final blog, folks. No, Keloland is not pulling the plug; God is.\u00a0 Haven\u2019t you heard? The world as we know it is coming to an end at Six PM central time on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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Yup, according to 89 year old engineer turned biblical scholar, Harold Camping of California, the ground will start shaking, graveyards will give up their dead and the faithful will be lifted heavenward while the condemned sinners will taste the fires of Hell with lots of wailing, teeth gnashing and clothes ripping.\u00a0 Repent-Now billboards have sprung up all over the country warning of the impending doom and offering last minute deals on salvation.\u00a0\u00a0 I been kicking myself since hearing the news because I just filled up Big Red this morning. $3.69 a gallon at the Freedom station on South Minnesota. That\u2019s still insanely high but the cheapest I\u2019ve seen anywhere else in town. It still cost 57 bucks to top off the tank and now I won\u2019t have time to burn it up. Shoot, I thought we had until 2012 before the world ends according to that Mayan calendar thingy. \u00a0Well, we\u2019ll just have to wait and see but if the truth be known, these predictions tend to unnerve me; a reminder that even though it probably won\u2019t happen Saturday or a year from Saturday, we\u2019re all going to have to be ready for the trip someday. I just hope and pray that I\u2019m heading up and not down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The dogs have started yapping away again. They\u2019re really going at it. Perhaps they\u2019ve just heard the news that it could get very VERY hot Saturday evening and are passing the word . I can see Spike still laying in a heap out on the back deck. He looks as though his world already came to an end after that trip to the repair shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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