Doodle Sins - Pride

Man invented Cheesecake

And He Ate The Whole Thing

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Doodle Sins - Envy

A Cheescake reserved for someone else




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Doodle Sins - Wrath

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Doodle Sins - Sloth

Why Doodle Today

I just had Cheesecake

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Doodle Sins - Greed

MINE ALL MINE NO CHEESECAKE FOR OTHERS ALL MINE

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Doodle Sins - Gluttony

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Doodle Sins - Lust

I MUST HAVE CHEESECAKE

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Doodle - Body

Doodlechris went golfing last weekend for the first time in a few years. As a result he was in need of a totally new body. Fortunately being a doodle, a new body was easy, but he still seems to be having some trouble bending the joints.

Robin Williams - History of Golf (Strong Language Warning)

Doodle - Pet

The Doodlechris household has five cats all of which you may meet at some time in the future, but for his first appearance as a doodle: KiKi Boom the cowardly (miniature) lion. Now Doodlechris has an unusual talent for attracting everything that creeps, crawls, wiggles, hops, flies, or strolls on any number of legs, but it even took him awhile to convince Ki Ki Boom that death was not imminent and the only thing to do was run and hide. Now Ki Ki Boom emerges for meals and then when all is quiet and the other felines have bedded down for the night, he curls up next to Doodlechris where it is always a safe place to be.

Doodle - Evil

Doodlechris has a hard time being truly evil, but he did try to dress for the part and show what happens to your spelling ability when you are "Too Cool for School". He's a little too glib, with a line for some unsuspecting cutie who might fall for his enticements.

Doodle - Vacation

It looks as if Doodlechris is remembering a fairly regular family activity. My daughter lives in Sacramento which has a very nice river running through it. On the upper Sacramento, you can enjoy some pleasant rapids for the adventurous. The people who get the summer lazies when the sunshines bright head for the lower Sacramento.



The method is simple. Two cars or trucks drive to the picnic grounds. One truck is dropped off and the driver is brought back to the jumping off point in the second vehicle. In our case, we rope four rafts together (two big ones for people, one small one for picnic food, and one small one to hold the weapons and radio), don the life jackets and we are off for a nice two hour family float to the picnic grounds.

The beers and soda trail behind us in the water to stay cold. The huge water cannons are loaded to spray people on the shore and in other boats. If you get too hot, simply fall in the river to cool off (This is not recommended at the beginning of the season -- that water is ice melt and hasn't warmed yet).

Another small word of warning usually ignored by the young folks: Do not get drunk on the river and make sure one person is designated driver to get you all home in one piece.

Once at the landing, part of the crew lays out the spread under the trees while the others deflate and store the rafts in the vehicle. Finish off the day watching the sun set on the river before heading home very, very tired, definitely full, and probably sunburned.


One small note about the video. Back in the early sixties, I made a trip to Las Vegas. The original Mills Brothers were on stage in one of the lounges. To this day it is one of best evenings of music in a small venue that I have ever been fortunate to experience. Modern Vegas simply doesn't compare to the intimacy of the old clubs and I truly miss it.

Doodle - Garden

Doodlechris seems to have lost his head over gardening. In this day and age of news reports of salmonella poisoning, unknown locations as sources of food, and the high cost of produce because of transportation, growing your own is probably as good an idea as it was 60 years ago.

Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit and herb gardens planted at private residences in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom during World War I and World War II to reduce the pressure on the public food supply brought on by the war effort. In addition to indirectly aiding the war effort these gardens were also considered a civil "morale booster" — in that gardeners could feel empowered by their contribution of labour and rewarded by the produce grown. Making victory gardens became a part of daily life on the home front.

Doodle - Space

On This Day In History, July 15, 1965
Mariner 4 studies Martian surface

The unmanned spacecraft Mariner 4 passes over Mars at an altitude of 6,000 feet and sends back to Earth the first close-up images of the red planet. Launched in November 1964, Mariner 4 carried a television camera and six other science instruments to study Mars and interplanetary space within the solar system. Reaching Mars on July 14, 1965, the spacecraft began sending back television images of the planet just after midnight on July 15. The pictures--nearly 22 in all--revealed a vast, barren wasteland of craters and rust-colored sand, dismissing 19th-century suspicions that an advanced civilization might exist on the planet. The canals that American astronomer Percival Lowell spied with his telescope in 1890 proved to be an optical illusion, but ancient natural waterways of some kind did seem to be evident in some regions of the planet.

Once past Mars, Mariner 4 journeyed on to the far side of the sun before returning to the vicinity of Earth in 1967. Nearly out of power by then, communication with the spacecraft was terminated in December 1967.

Doodle Bug - Manic Monday

Linda of Are We There Yet has Amanda and I have Chris. Chris will be handling all the doodling duties this week in the person of Doodlechris bugging out on many adventures. The first of which seems to involve becoming a male black widow. He probably hasn't considered that the life expectancy of a male black widow is what gave the species its name.



Now when I think of bugs, you know it has to have something to do with a book, a movie, a piece of music, or dancers. Well how about all four at once? This scene was cut from The Wizard of Oz after the first premier due to the length. That was probably a good idea as the dance is almost synonymous with the time period which would have dated the movie and could have prevented it from becoming a classic. Only this old kinescope remains. Shot from the point of view of the cameraman here are Dorothy, The Scarecrow, The Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion being terrified of "The Jitterbug"