I miss women in hats. Once Jackie Kennedy left D.C. women stopped wearing them.
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Any woman wearing a hat these days is an eccentric and someone’s, or many someone’s, PITA.
Happy belated Thanksgiving Hammies, so very much to be thankful for and blessed with. Busy, busy round here. Hooking up RV electrical, sewage, water and TV (satellite) today to move into tomorrow night, I may have internet hook up questions later. You geeky types keep your computers turned on please. 😀
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1 GJT
Any woman wearing a hat these days is an eccentric and someone’s, or many someone’s, PITA.
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Yeah. Probably my case in point.
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Today Fay and I reach the 30 year mark.
That’s 10,957 days. Each one a blessing.
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By the way, the RV project will include attempting to pull satellite and internet data about 150’ and push poop uphill the same distance. Wish me luck!
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#5
Oh wow, congratulations! Y’all are about 6 weeks ahead of us. Our 30th is 12/31.
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1948 GMC FC 101 Campbell Highlander Depot Hackney Woody
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Happy anniversary Shannon & Fay, I hope y’all have many more.
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#6 GJT:
150’ and push poop uphill the same distance
How much elevation are you trying to overcome? That attempt is one of the 5 or so plumber rules:
1) Weekends and holidays are double time
2) The boss is a jerk
3) Lefty loosy righty tighty
4) Don’t bite your finger nails
5) Poop don’t flow up hillYou may have to install a couple of pumps and check valves along the way, otherwise you may get an RV full of nasty.
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Jacobin magazine is a hard core, militant Marxist journal from the East Coast. I thought their tweet about Thanksgiving was so appropriate.
Let’s just go straight to barbaric murder. We don’t have to defend our ideas !
How to win dinner table political arguments this Thanksgiving.https://t.co/oNVQmsueMj pic.twitter.com/aSkRMgEkNk
— Jacobin (@jacobinmag) November 22, 2018
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#22 Shannon from last night: That was a great tutorial! It gives you a great understanding as to why the shoulder joint is such a beyotch to work on – there is so much that can go wrong and finding the root cause is not easy.
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#10 Bones, you left out hot on the left, cold on the right.
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So Shannon got married the day after Thanksgiving and GJT got hitched on New Year’s Eve. What is it with you guys and holidays ?
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Texpat how was the Big Soiree? I meant to ask you the other day, did you debone one or both of the birds before Thanksgiving?
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I got married the day after Valentines Day, two days before my birthday,…go figger. Actually, my Bride wanted to get married in August, but she kept moving up the date until February, I guess she was afraid I’d get away?!…..SCRAAAMM!!!! 😀
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I looked back and Thanksgiving was the following day in 1988.
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Texpat
We spent that night in that high rise hotel at 10/Hwy 6. It may have been a Hilton at that time, I don’t recall.Then we went to Bonner’s beach house in Galveston.
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Well, we had a blessed Thanksgiving yesterday, my daughter, son and their spouses showed up along with my son’s two daughters. We had Butter Beans, Collards, Squash, Dressing, Smashed Taters, Mac n Cheese, Giblet Gravy and Candid Sweet Taters. My wife made the egg bread/dressing, daughter, the smashed taters, and the two boys cooked the turkey, I fixed everything else, including all the chopping/peeling. I was in the kitchen all day, and that is a good thing. After supper, the women cleaned up, I deboned the bird and then we had coffee N pie. A couple of them said that my sweet taters were the best yet, and that is because I discovered Saigon Cinnamon, the best there is. Yup, Life is Good! 😉
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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Brother!
Big hug to your Bride!
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So Shannon got married the day after Thanksgiving and GJT got hitched on New Year’s Eve. What is it with you guys and holidays ?
Lose the battle win the war.
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She can’t stand our anniversary being on New Years Eve now, has aggravated her for years. I just smile.
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18 Shannon
I’m sure it was a Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza back then.
Yeah, I had some great times at that beach house with you know who.
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Wow! Congrats, Fay & Shannon! (Over Yonder, the word “Congrats” would be rendered as a GIF, with balloons and fireworks!) -
No, it was the other one. Maybe it was at Eldridge.
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Happy anniversary to all those to whom it is appropriate, now or in the near future.
Hubby and I were married in May 1985. We dated for for about six years before that. We mention both spans when talking about our relationship years. When I met him, there was no other, and vice versa.
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It was the first fancier hotel on the west side.
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We had a lovely time at the house of Eldest Sis yesterday. Way more than enough food for the few that gathered there, so we’re all stuffed.
While there, Eldest asked me to help me go through Mom’s belongings and help her identify special items. I identified items that were probably blessed and and others needing special care or disposition. The only thing I wanted, the family genealogical history papers, were missing. Everything else was there, as far as I could tell.
There is a strongbox, and Eldest has to find the key. If the papers aren’t there, I’m going to be…..strongly disappointed, to keep it clean.
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#10
1) Weekends and holidays are double time
2) The boss is a jerk
3) Lefty loosy righty tighty
4) Don’t bite your finger nails
5) Poop don’t flow up hill6) Payday is on Thursday
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15 Super Dave
Thanksgiving was great and went much smoother than ever. We only had 10 adults and I cooked the turkeys on Wednesday and sliced both of them up early Thursday morning. My birds come out of the oven still moist so there’s no worries about reheating and drying it out. Everybody said it was the best turkey they ever had. Even if they were lying, it was still pretty damned good. We have a ridiculous amount of food even after cutting back.
Sides included: 2 different dressings, fabulous mac & cheese, rum sweet potatoes, herb-roasted potatoes, brussels sprouts, bourbon mashed turnips, mustard greens, sweet potato pie, biscuits and gravy.
People brought so many pies and desserts there was nearly one for each person.
I had a full bar, three different red wines, beer, pelligrino, tea, water, coffee, soft drinks…
We invited everybody back over tonight to eat and try and get rid of some of this food.
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I always find it so sad that the end of one’s life is reduced to a small pile of belongings, being sorted though and tossed. “The flotsam and jetsam of one’s life,” I’ve called it.
I hope to leave behind more than that.
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#29 con’t
#7 addendum – Drink Miller Lite and eat everything coated in olive oil 😀
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Yep. It is now an Omni Hotel at Eldridge/IH10.
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Shannon, at Eldridge, that was a Hyatt Regency, wasn’t it ?
I spent my doomed second honeymoon there.
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I mean like, dude, they had robes and everything.
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#30, Texpat, very good, with dang near 50 pounds of turkey, I bet you did have some left over, even if there ten folks. Its good to have too much for sure.
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Shannon, daughter worked at that Omni as a Concierge right after she got out of college. She interned at one in Dallas and took the flunky job in Houston because they were going to hire her to work at a new one they were going to build out near Katy, but it fell through, something to do with the Obama economy.
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It’s really been something to watch the Katy Road corridor develop over the last sixty years. It went from one dumpy motel near Voss to no telling how many thousands of hotel rooms all the way to Katy. There was a short period where at least twenty went up seemingly overnight.
It’s crazy how fast they can build a cookie cutter hotel.
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A friend over yonder posted this amazing story:
“In May of 1861, 9 year old John Lincoln “Johnny” Clem ran away from his home in Newark, Ohio, to join the Union Army, but found the Army was not interested in signing on a 9 year old boy when the commander of the 3rd Ohio Regiment told him he “wasn’t enlisting infants,” and turned him down. Clem tried the 22nd Michigan Regiment next, and its commander told him the same. Determined, Clem tagged after the regiment, acted out the role of a drummer boy, and was allowed to remain. Though still not regularly enrolled, he performed camp duties and received a soldier’s pay of $13 a month, a sum collected and donated by the regiment’s officers.
The next April, at Shiloh, Clem’s drum was smashed by an artillery round and he became a minor news item as “Johnny Shiloh, The Smallest Drummer”. A year later, at the Battle Of Chickamauga, he rode an artillery caisson to the front and wielded a musket trimmed to his size. In one of the Union retreats a Confederate officer ran after the cannon Clem rode with, and yelled, “Surrender you damned little Yankee!” Johnny shot him dead. This pluck won for Clem national attention and the name “Drummer Boy of Chickamauga.”
Clem stayed with the Army through the war, served as a courier, and was wounded twice. Between Shiloh and Chickamauga he was regularly enrolled in the service, began receiving his own pay, and was soon-after promoted to the rank of Sergeant. He was only 12 years old. After the Civil War he tried to enter West Point but was turned down because of his slim education. A personal appeal to President Ulysses S. Grant, his commanding general at Shiloh, won him a 2nd Lieutenant’s appointment in the Regular Army on 18 December 1871, and in 1903 he attained the rank of Colonel and served as Assistant Quartermaster General. He retired from the Army as a Major General in 1916, having served an astounding 55 years.
General Clem died in San Antonio, Texas on 13 May 1937, exactly 3 months shy of his 86th birthday, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.”I couldn’t find the exact source, but did find a more extensive bio with lots of photos.
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/05/11/the-little-drummer-boy-sergeant-john-clem-was-12-years-old-when-he-became-a-civil-war-hero/ -
#31 TT
I hope to leave behind more than that.
You actually already have, in the legacy of your 2 children.
(I am tempted to say DUH!)
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TT
Most of your crap will get thrown away.
I’m just thinking of all those kids at church you beat into submission. 🙂
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About 10 years before Granny passed she started giving away all the things that had meaning. Any time one of the grandkids stopped by they had to leave with something. Everyone pretty much picked out things that meant something to them. By the time she died most everything was distributed. No muss, no fuss.
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If my kids only have a handful of “stuff” to deal with when I’m gone, I would consider it a success. But I know what you mean. It’s just my mind goes straight to thinking about the mountains of stuff that my grandmother had that my aunt now has along with her stuff. Nothing gets tossed, every last piece of clothing, every bowl, heaps and heaps of cards, letters…. I so dread it.
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I have things that have been handed down to me over the last few years that I haven’t decided how to handle. Photos of family that no one knows about, and old pastels baby portrait in an antique frame – but who is it? No one knows. Items that some consider family heirlooms, but from whom no one knows.
When do family heirlooms become “stuff”? There doesn’t seem to be any tie to them other than “we think it’s important”. Nobody else wants these items. I need to go through it all soon and make some decisions. I have enough stuff in my house already.
I did keep Uncle J’s and Fluttery Aunt’s crucifixes. Along with my mother’s casket crucifix, they are hanging over my doors. I’m sure they’ve all been blessed, and I wanted some crucifixes over my entrances anyway. I think it’s special that I have those remembrances of my family.
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I have an old hurricane lamp that belonged to my great-grandmother then Granny Hamous.
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I only have one thing that has survived from my life and times in West Texas. It is a wooden fold-up ironing board that I bought when I had my first apartment in Midland. It is over 50 yrs old, and of no particular value beyond sentiment. I don’t do any ironing any more but I still have that board set up and my steam iron stored on it.
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I think we’ve discovered where all the pre-punched Democrat ballots are hiding every election.
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A little A O-C for your post-holiday entertainment…
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We came upon my grandmother’s old dish set a few years ago in her storage, we have been using them since. They are about to retire though, Sweetie wants new dishes in her house. I will see if my brother or sister wants them, if not I’m garage selling them. I just don’t get the point in hanging on to stuff like that. My aunt will probably have a heart attack.
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I had Fay’s two children spend a weekend with us over a year ago. They and Fay went through everything, tagging items they want with their name on the back.
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She was kidding around with a former patient / old friend and told him, “Hey, I’ve got my plot, I’ve got my headstone, I’ve got my dress. My music selection keeps changing but other than that I’m ready when He is.”
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Going through all of the “stuff” allowed her to tell the stories about the various items. In the end, they thought it was a pretty fun time.
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My dress size keeps changing.
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Just buy “em really big. Those guys can do wonders.
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I want a female undertaker. One that doesn’t wear a hat.
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Yummy, leftovers. Most especially the Mississippi mud pie.
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There’s a younger woman at church who always wears very classy 1930-1940s hats and dresses to match. I keep expecting her to walk in on Philip Marlowe’s arm one Sunday.
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Ready to go…
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…and that reminded me of the Bulwer Lytton award, which has not been reported here for a couple of years. So I checked, and they appear to have gone over to the dark side of feminism for feminism’s sake.
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#62 Hamous, say it ain’t so!! Damn, do they have to ruin everything?
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About my #63, I discovered the Moth Radio Hour, many years ago and I’ve always liked it, but in the last few years, anything gay or feminazi gets moved to the top of the list. Sometime last year, a friend of the wife wanted her to go to one of the shows in Houston with some other realtors and my wife didn’t know what it was about. I was interested and was going with them but couldn’t make it but my wife said it was probably the best that I didn’t go, since the group were all Trump haters.
Interesting enough, the name of the show came from the moth’s flying around bulb on the front porch of an old house, on Saint Simon’s Island Georgia, were I used to live. -
Oh and the Moth Venue in Houston was in a bad part of town.
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Oh and the Moth Venue in Houston was in a bad part of town.
Not anymore. The Hipsters done gentrified the East Side. They even gave it a stupid Hipster name: EaDo.
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Travel cancelled today because I wanted to, so will travel tomorrow. High school playoff football tonight – I’ll keep you posted.
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Robert McNair has assumed NRG Stadium temperature.
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Looking for suggestions: my LG Stylus phone is being repaired, and we are planning on making it our new back-up phone. Hubby said to get another, more recent model as my every day phone. I’ve grown used to the way the LG software works, and I like having the stylus in the phone and always handy. The later models all seem to have the integrated battery.
I can go to another Android device; we’ve had Samsung models before and they’ve been reliable. They don’t offer the on-phone stylus.
I want a removable battery for two reasons: (1) if the battery goes bad I can just replace it instead of the whole dang phone, and (2) if the phone gets “hung” and won’t shut down or reboot, I’ve been able to pull the battery and force it to reboot.
If a phone with an integrated battery stops working, do y’all know how to restart it? I guess I could just let it run for hours until the battery drains. For hours.
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Who knew that the Texas evolved out of the raft and corruption of Enron.
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#14, They were smarter than me. Lots easier than remembering some weekend in August, maybe July, 36 odd years ago.
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Why are a bunch of light planes circling Galveston, maybe LaMarque?
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Retro Brits, not going back to the 50’s but I like them.
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Hubs and I went out to Denny’s to spend some time with an old friend from Big Spring. I first met him in geology class at Howard County Jr College, while Hubs was in San Diego at a Marine Corps hospital, over 50 yrs ago. He lives in Oklahoma now, but came to Houston over the holiday so his significant other could meet her new grandchild down here.
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I first met him in geology class at Howard County Jr College
One of my favorite classes in college was geology. I still find myself folding rock layers/mountains when I drive through cutouts on my driving trips.
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I was worried about the battery too but if it goes bad you can still get it replaced. You just have to get someone like https://www.ubreakifix.com/ to do it. Ive had my Samsung for about two years without issue. There is a button press combination that does the reboot if it locks up.
The Samsung Galaxy Note has a stylus.
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Thanks, Hammy. UBreakIFix is where we’ve been taking our phones. Great prices, good service, and we get a business discount.
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Cougars blew it. Again.
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HS football playoff final – SS 48 – Valley View 16. SS advances to the next round. The point differential is tightening up though. 16 points is the most they have allowed in a single game all season.
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Bellville lost to Jasper, 13-0.
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I’ve never had to replace a phone battery. Nor put it in the shop.
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Wake up slackers!
It’s the weekend!
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Travel day. Let’s get packed and loaded. Note to self – don’t try to go to Walmart for gas on Black Friday. OK, you all have a great one, and get those shopping sneakers working. I, on the other hand, will let the Amazon robots select my gifts and have Santa deliver them.
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