The Border (Tearrier)

Ha!
Yes, there is a film called "The Border", just in case you doubted your humble scribe.  I have added a parenthetical note because from today, your humble hack is also a dogsitter*.  You might also say that Edna is the Border boarder in question.  Art?  

"I am so despondent.  So, so despondent."

I alone infest The Mansion's hallowed halls as everyone else is down in the emergency bunker gone off on a cruise.  Hark!  Here comes the Irony Osprey, for at 3 ante meridian this morning when I drove them to the airport, it was lashing down and depressingly wet.  This morning is now gloriously sunny, as balmy as any of our so-called 'summer' days here in the Allotment of Eden.  Art?

Despondency a short-term state, it seems

     This photo serves a dual purpose: for one, it illuminates my point made above, and for a second, it allows Wonder Wifey to confirm that I am, indeed, walking the dog.
     This is not all.  O no!  Edna is now on a raw food diet, which takes a bit of forward planning.  You need to defrost the cubed portions of tripe and meat well before serving them up.   Art?

An example

     Fortunately for Conrad, his sense of smell is about zero, as tripe (I am told) stinks to high heaven.
     Well, that's enough Intro for early Sunday afternoon.  Let us light the blue touchpaper on the motley's rocket-sled and retire**!

"Stranger Things 2"
Conrad is happy, or as happy as I get.  Yes, I have located the second series on ST on the hard drive and am currently watching episode one.  Conrad, not being terribly up on, nor interested in, how these things work***, was not aware that Netflix put out the whole series at once, so I don't have to wait nine weeks to reach the conclusion.

A hot time in Hawkins, Indiana

     Well, I have the next seven days to follow it.  I may on occasion make a comment, but I will be careful to add in a SPOILER alert if needed.

Validated, Vindicated And Victorious
Perhaps I should add an exclamation mark after that.  Except - no, that would be almost Continental in excessiveness.  Here at BOOJUM! we limit our exclamation marks for the really important things.
     Okay, this one requires a little tangential description, although such is not new here on the blog.  Art?

     This is the latest issue of Naval and Military Press' booklist, and at only £5 per volume it is highly tempting, I can tell you.  What, in another example of the Coincidence Hydra fastening it's teeth in my tush, do we find inside?  Art?

Extra-large so you can read all that scrupulous detail

     Take note of the text there, and how it explicitly describes what the Arado 234 did in real life.  Now, we require a 180 degree turn, and go back to the Goofs page on IMDB for the film "Kelly's Heroes".

"At 30:37 while Kelly is talking Crapgame into his gold heist scheme, a jet aircraft can be heard flying low overhead. Since the only operational jets late in the war were German ME262s, it is unlikely that one would be flying low, miles behind enemy lines."

     Ha!  Literally and metaphorically shot down - flying low miles behind enemy lines is exactly what an Arado 234 would be doing.
     It's the little things, isn't it!

Finally -
Because I need to fill in a short article here, here is a picture of a bizarre Sinister-era tank.  Art?

A KhTZ 16 Tractor tank

     This dates from the Second Unpleasantness, and was an extempore design out of an Ukranian tractor factory, created by putting an armoured box on top of an agricultural tractor, then sticking a turret upon that.  About 60 were built and committed to combat, where they did not do especially well.  Part of their problem was only having a 2 man crew: a driver and a do-everything-else member.  Despite that, it was equipped with the Sinister's 45mm anti-tank gun, which would have given any Teuton tank it hit a very bad day.

Which puts us close enough to count for today.  I'm certainly not going to even begin another article on Operation Sealion and drive the word count up to over 1,000!

Till later.  I'm about to have some lunch and then abandon Edna for as long as 20 minutes to do a bit of essential shopping.  Don't tell Wonder Wifey!

*  This will get me into trouble later.  Wonder Wifey insists it's "dog-parenting"
**  Don't worry, it only hits a maximum of 8 G.
***  Did you see what - O you do.