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On the road again,…..209 miles behind me, rolling through Lafayette.
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Good Saturday before Christmas morning Hamsters. That lovely pic just had to be Texpat’s OC without looking at the host’s name. 😉 Presume that might be a sailboat he’s been on several times or one like it. IMHO, whoever owns it has great taste as well as a healthy bank account.
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#2 Super Dave
Safe trip to you and your spouse over Christmas.
We drove over to Weston Lakes outside Fulshear yesterday to pick up a good friend whose dear husband is regrettably in a physical care rehab facility for a few weeks recovering from a fall. Took her to lunch at the Pier 36 branch there and had a lovely visit for a few hours. Our Pier 36 branch is near us on 90A east just outside Richmond. Great seafood and other dishes at each place, family run.
Traffic on 90A and I-10 heading west was heavy as in just about bumper to bumper and well under the speed limit. Presume much of the crowd on 90A was folks trying to avoid the crowd on I-10 closer in. Likely not much difference if any all the way up to Brookshire to get onto 10 that probably didn’t clear out some until Sealy at the earliest.
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BTW, where did this goofy avatar come from?
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First, the slant six, now Lincoln’s bringing back the Continental with suicide doors. For the low, low price of $100,000+.
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How can you people be up and about and doing normal stuff? Don’t you know that the government is shut down? We’re all gonna die. But the lights still work, I hear cars driving around, airplanes flying and not falling out of the sky.
Meanwhile, phil and I have been advising the Mueller team on its next moves. https://babylonbee.com/news/mueller-orders-trump-to-sit-on-scale-to-see-if-he-weighs-the-same-as-a-duck
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After all the hand-wringing and posturing and code-pinking of 2004 and 2008 it is hilarious to watch the Dems’ TDS transform them into the party of war. I’m not convinced Trump is doing this reverse psychology bit on purpose but whatever … it’s funny as hell.
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Here are some photos to put you in the spirit.
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So I’d guess the OC pic was taken from a drone? Or maybe a sail-kite?
Morning, Hamsters.
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Can someone explain the term “suicide doors”?
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This dreadful edge ad came up while I was reading a story about the drones at a British airport. I hope never to see any American male wearing these “breathable”, chic pants. Men should never buy clothing with “chic” in the product name, anyway. (Scroll up and down to see their wares.)
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I think I’ll pass on that ad. 🙂
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#10
I liked the Hipster Nativity scene.
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DON”T click on that ad in #13 unless you want to be haunted by those people’s ads.
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Chickens!
Bwa Haha Ha!
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Texpat should one day write his memoirs of his adventures in sailing.
Possible titles. Maybe?
Sailing in The Hamptons avec Loi Hoi Polloi.
Seaside Escapades and Culinary Adventures: Dining on Imported Escargot, Caviar and Grey Poupon in Runswick Bay
Stern Babes on the Bow Bridge Troubled Waters Below Deck
Mermaids and Waves Wet Decks and Raincoats
Yes Quint-I Am Pleasure Boatin’ and Day Sailin’
I Once Hooked a Mako with a Spud Shaped Head on 10lb Test
When the Tide was Low Moet et Chandon Always Kept Me High
She Mizzen Boomed My Jibe & The Undertow Left Me Breathless
Who Needs a Genie?: Masting My Way to Success One Sail At a Time
In the Crow’s Nest I Discovered She Needed a Bigger Boat
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Can someone explain the term “suicide doors”?
They open from the front, hinge on the back, so if you open them while moving forward, the wind hits them and tears them off the car.
Oh and I got a gallon of Bessie’s Boiled P Nuts!!!
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In the first quarter of Blog Bowl it’s
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🏈 🏈 🏈Still plenty of time for SD to mount a comeback.:)
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phil
In the first quarter of Blog Bowl it’s
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What happened to those football emojis???
Still plenty of time to mount a comeback.:)
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Personal foul.
Targeting. 🎯 🎯 🎯
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Oh. I’ve been ejected. Rejected. Injected. Subjected.
Now I am abject.
I am an ejected, rejected, injected, abject subject.
Just plain old hoi polloi…
Hmmm, wonder what’s for lunch.
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Howdy all Y’all. I’ve been real busy lately (doing that 4 lettered work thingie) so I haven’t had time to chat.
I am kind of excited about the Slant-6 coming back. I really like the inline 6 engine design. Long stroke, high torque, and very reliable. Wouldn’t it be great if they would put a real hemi-head on it and boost the compression to about 9.5:1- plus turbocharging? With the electronic engine controls today, the detonation and knock would be mostly be gone. -
My avatar looks like an ill pathogen.
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I wish I could figger out how to change my avatar. My email addy has changed so, perhaps I could use this one:
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I would love to be able to fill in the box, but not able.Oh well, it looks like sick pathogen is going to stay there for a while.
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I dunno, Bones, a pathogen doesn’t usually have one eye and a tongue sticking out.
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Looks like Zuck scored the contract to track down all of the bump stocks.
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Hmmm, wonder what’s for lunch.
Porcupine stew, collard greens and red beets.
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Speaking of edge ads, I just saw a Home Depot ad for the 40 gallon water heater that we bought from them 2 months ago. Seems like a smarter customer tracker app would know that we won’t be buying another one of those any time soon.
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Yup.
Cousin Corky hit it with his car in Pennsylvania and shipped it to me on ice.
Not sure how it will taste with Merlot.
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Meanwhile, phil and I have been advising the Mueller team on its next moves. https://babylonbee.com/news/mueller-orders-trump-to-sit-on-scale-to-see-if-he-weighs-the-same-as-a-duck
Great stuff.
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Halftime.
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just to see what I am today.
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A biped lobster. I heard years ago they were called suicide doors because you could get squished by a car coming from behind or sideswiped. The door opening towards the front gets knocked off.
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Go Army. 🎖️ 🎖️ 🎖️
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Was the OC pic inspired by Moochie’s outfit yesterday? If so, the sails look better on the boat.
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Well, I logged out for a bit and now back in. I wonder what sort of “image” will be there?
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Still the same diseased pathogen.
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Looks like I still have my avatar when I logged in just now.
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Hubby and I got up this morning, had breakfast at Tel-Wink Grill, then joined the Bay Area VW Club to hand out the toys we purchased with their proceeds from their Monumental Car Show. [Promo: The next one, which I think is scheduled for May 4th, will have a Star Wars theme. IIRC, one of the members is a huge SW fan and has all kinds of memorabilia, and the theme will be “May the Fourth be with you!”]
We were all assigned a family to buy for; Hubby and I got a 15 year old boy and an 8 year old girl. One of the members put together some really big, nice stockings, chock full of goodies. She and her husband made one for each of the kids on the list and then some extras.
The president of the club is an HISD cop, and he talked with the counselor at his school to pick the most at-need families, and he also arranged for 3 cars to escort us so the group wouldn’t be separated as we went through the neighborhood. One guy dressed as Santa and rode a convertible Bug as we drove around delivering gifts. It was so sweet, the smiles and grins; the attempt by one little boy to make off with a gift bag; the families coming out to the street to wave and point out Santa to their little ones. We had just finished one delivery when a father showed up with one little girl in his arms and a little boy at his side. Santa and Hubby diverted themselves to get two of the extra stockings to hand to them. Hubby was dang near tears as he walked back to the car.
We finished the morning with a communal lunch, police officers included. We got to sit with the female cop, and she told us some pretty concerning stories about some of the families she’s helped. What a sweetheart.
It was a very, very good morning.
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How a boat like that gets built.
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One way to get a stranded boat back in the water. Skip to the 19 minute part to the ‘oh heck no they are not to try that with a track-hoe’ moment, if you don’t have time for the whole video.
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If you have a Gravatar that’s what gets used. If you don’t you get assigned one.
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Today was one of the five days of the year in Houston you can open your windows. I took advantage.
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So. Edge ads. I sit here in Denton logged into my son’s WiFi. I get ads for retirement communities nearby.
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Hey, I’ve started getting cremation plan ads.
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Hey, I’ve started getting cremation plan ads.
That’s because you’re looking up death certificates of the Tiptons of yore.
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It was a marriage certificate.
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I just went to Gravatar and saw the pix I have used before. Just to confuse everyone, I have temporarily switched to one of my other identities: the harp seal.
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Open windows.
I’ve been cleaning the outside side of the windows. The weather was wonderful, the mosquitoes took a while before finding me, and I can clean the inside on the upcoming rainy days.
It’s amazing what cleaning just one side does. I really should do it more often.
Yeah. Right.
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Well, right about that time, people
A fur-trapper, who was strictly from commercial
Had the unmitigated audacity to jump up from behind my igloo (peek-a-boo)
And he started into whipping on my favorite baby seal
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I see the wall funding is over $15M.
People are saying it’s silly to donate, since Congress can’t use the money.
I remember me saying the same thing about the Comey legal aid fundraiser.
It ain’t fundraising. It’s sending a message. How many Congress critters see a private citizen raising $15M on his own and think about how many voters it represents?
Prolly not a lot. Critters, not voters.
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It’s amazing what cleaning just one side does. I really should do it more often.
I did the same thing! The bottom sash tilts in so I was able to clean half of the outside. I’m good for another three or four years 😉
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New Avatar: Blanca Peak, CO
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Testing 1 2 3 4
Bingo!
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Yes, I got a letter from the Hemlock Society last week.
Sorry, boys, already got me a casket-sized hole.And a nice headstone to boot:
https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/qQC56bfxui9qGaaARmsiMh1yrcLQ5Mo0pGqfMYNYj4f
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I just heard the Pacific Ocean is big and blue and it’s gotta a lotta fish in it.
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Professional boxing is just getting started on Fox26.
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The Stooges Have Rocket Will Travel on Svengoolie tonight.
As they aged Curly Joe was not a bad fill in for the original Curly.
100x better than Joe Besser but of course, no one matches Shemp.
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How I wish Moe was the GOPeeCon Senate leader.
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Y’all can check out our church renovations here.
We have our first Sunday mass there tomorrow.
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I’m SO glad they’re getting away from the “church in the round” kumbayah model.
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The church was built pre-Vatican II.
Hubby and I were concerned because Father kept mentioning “color”. We were hoping we weren’t walking into Flamingo Chapel, with tropical beach tones. Father IS from Mexico, and our parish is predominantly Hispanic, south of the border folks now. The blue and beige toned panels were originally dark stained wood.
What you can’t see in the pictures are the 2 TV screens going up on either side of the sanctuary. The problem I saw was that they were being placed so far away that if they were going to be used to help the congregation follow along with prayers, song lyrics, etc., being displayed, it was going to draw the eyes away from the altar.
I’m not a big fan of display screens, but I’m seeing them more often.
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What’s the significance of the devil’s tower looking painting.
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It’s the actual Mt. Carmel, in the Holy Land. Of course, the woman in the front is Mary.
Fr. commissioned it from a Mexican artist he knew. I’m wissed he spent money on that thing when we’re so broke. Fr. likes statues and images, which I wouldn’t mind if we weren’t so financially strapped. It must be a cultural thing. But there are a lot Hispanic friends in the church who agree with me.
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I just got a robocall from St. Mary’s Prayer Center Ministry. I hung up before they gave me instructions on what to do if I want prayer.
Even God’s gotten into telemarketing now. Unless it was going to be a scam, like “$5 for the first 3 minutes of prayer…”
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Supper and a show for me tonight was a salad and an Equalizer TV episode. I’m nearing the end of the 2nd season. The protein on my salad was one of the new foil-pack flavored chicken, which I don’t think are as tasty as the flavored tuna packs. But I can’t eat tuna every night.
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Did I kill the blog?
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#72 Tedtam
Fr. commissioned it from a Mexican artist he knew. I’m wissed he spent money on that thing when we’re so broke. Fr. likes statues and images, which I wouldn’t mind if we weren’t so financially strapped.
Fortunately our parish is not financially strapped, however, when I was on the Parish Council I was always concerned about the money coming in and going out. Our priest did and still does push the limits on the finances. The Treasurer I served with expressed the same concerns. At the end of each year he would exclaim that once again God had provided for our parish.
The many things our parish has accomplished under this “new” priest (8 years) is actually quite amazing. I will say that I almost feel that I’m back in the Lutheran church with our “tithing campaign”. We actually DO need it because a rather small percentage of the parish is carrying the financial burden of the parish. When I used to assist counting the collection after Liturgy, that little fact became abundantly clear.
Speaking of renovations, the iconographer is returning next month to fill in the last vestiges of white wall in the entire temple. Apparently there is room for another 20 plus saints to go up on the walls. After he is done we will literally have no white walls left in the entire nave. The two apses have iconography as well as the main dome.
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Did I kill the blog?
Is the moon full tonight?
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Re my avatar:
I actually took that photograph. I currently have it as a wallpaper on my work computer. My current Lead at work asked me where it was was taken. I pulled up google maps and showed him. One of the google images looked virtually identical to my photo.
BTW Blanca peak is just south southeast of the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve.
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Spouse has some delightful Christmas music on tonight coming from a couple of CDs we’ve had for some time. Can hear it all over the house with no problem so no need to sit in that room staring at a blank TV screen on a shelf above the CD player for absolutely no purpose. Anyway, you don’t stare with your ears. 🙂
I’m in the living room on its side of the common wall shared with the room with the music, so some must be coming through the wall as well as wafting through the air.
Mariposa kitty just walked through here and is headed down the hall toward the music. Wonder what she thinks of it. Maybe not much since she’s just returned and is hanging out where I am.
We even have a real record or two of Christmas music stashed away in a back corner that he’d transferred to CDs himself. Still have a record player and lots of wonderful records nestled in another cabinet, just waiting for him to put on CDs if it can still be done. Lots of musical show tunes from the 60s and 70s still waiting for transformation, or to be played as they were meant to be since we still have that capability.
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Yes, the Moon is certainly very full tonight as she was last night and into the early morning around 6 on her way to bed. Beautiful.
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Referring to the moon as a woman is forcing me to rethink all this man in the moon business.
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I see a little Joe Cocker in those moves.
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Meet Billy Strings.
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Mornin’ Gang
35 and partly cloudy over here in south Alabama. I woke up about 4 and there was a big ole full moon hanging in the western sky, not a cloud in sight and the stars were brilliant. It’s daylight now and the clouds are rolling in. -
Be still my beating heart………
1957 GMC 253-8 Crew Cab w/front driving axle.
Lots to like about this very rare crew cab one ton GMC with NAPCO front driving axle and 347 V8 engine. Proctor Keefe built the crew cabs and generally these were applied to larger GMCs that used the same cab as pickups. I’m pretty sure this was a custom build likely for utility line or railroad service, but I have no history on this truck. All I know is I’d love to have this in my truck barn!
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Good morning Hamsters. It’s the day before the day before Christmas and foggy at 6, everything outside is dripping, overcast hides another beautiful Moon setting so we have to go on yesterday’s performance. Started out at 57, and we’re still at 57.
Christmas preparations this year have gone well and with much less stress than usual. Helps a bunch to spread out doing the decorating, substituting e-cards for the snail mail cards where possible, and realizing that not having done something today does not mean that tomorrow won’t come and present time to do it. 😉
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KAOS! KAOS! KAOS!
Where is Maxwell Smart when you need him?
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I volunteer to interrogate Agent 99 to try to determine Maxwell Smart’s whereabouts.
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I’m gonna need a bathtub in the interrogation room.
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“A depth of dysfunction that I have never seen before.” – Dick “Turban” Durbin
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Morning, y’all. Sudoku finished, big coffee still being sipped, grocery list checked, getting ready to head out into the maelstrom at Kroger.
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“A depth of dysfunction that I have never seen before.” – Dick “Turban” Durbin
As he looked in the mirror.
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#91, 93 – I think he was talking about the UH football program. It’s been a long time since I have so thoroughly enjoyed watching a team get whipped up one side of the field and back down the other. Army turned them every which way but loose. And scored 70 points with a ball control, running based offense. How much longer will Tilman put up with Major at the helm. Things are well in Big D, and the chefs are hard at work planning the big meal. You all have a great day and be careful out there when dealing with the mongrel hordes. More later.
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Shannon was right. Rail car graffiti never changes.
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Great video on boat building. Sent it to friends.
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Well, my trip was not a hassle. It was bustling at Kroger, but not so crowded that I couldn’t get to the dozen items on my list. Got a peach pie, which Hubs had requested, but just barely successful. There were only 2 to pick from. It’s just not a popular flavor of holiday pie. Should go well with BB Homemade Vanilla.
I am making 2 sides myself. I’ll make dressing today, and have it in the fridge to reheat for tomorrow. Got the celery and a mild yellow onion to chop up for it. Tomorrow I’ll make a batch of the much-maligned Green Bean Casserole, which I happen to like, and as Hubs is indifferent to what veggies he gets, he eats it if it’s in his microwavable divided plate.
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Yet again, I struggle to keep the barbecue pit fire going. I’m having a hard time getting it hot enough. /sigh
If I want to collect insurance on my house, I’ll have to count on flood, ‘cuz I sure can’t burn it down.
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Just checked it – SUCCESS! Time to slap that brisket down.
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Nom.Nom.Nom. Made scrambled eggs with shredded cheese and bacon bits. Paired with blueberry waffles. Washed down with skim milk. My favorite breakfast.
Cornbread dressing made and cooling on the stove top.
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96 Texpat, not sure what country that is in. When they take the boat outside you can glimpse a few car plates that are not American. One of the posts accused TAT Woodworking, the logo in the video, of copying a Fairlee 55 video. Going to that video the post looks to be right. On that video they say this took 13 months to complete and it is in Hamble. Maybe the building in their tourist website. https://www.visit-hampshire.co.uk/explore/hamble-p1508091
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I had to make a run to Sam’s in Dothan, on the Ross Clarke circle and dang, there is a lot of stop lights on 231. When I was growing up, there were 3 stop lights between the farm house and the circle, (23 miles) one at Andrews avenue, Deese road and 123, (old 231). Now there must be a dozen in Ozark and a K-Gillion north of the circle. So, leaving Sams, I went through a couple of lights to 431, then north to a couple of pig trails and on to 134. Then in about 14 miles I went through exactly 3 stop signs and one of them was in downtown Midland city. I jumped on the 231 and it was smooth sailing. Anyway, I saw this neat old homeplace near Headland,…if that old barn or front porch could talk.
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The male cardinals are strutting up in the tops of my pecan trees like it’s already springtime. I guess they don’t know about teh polar vortex.
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It will be a Merry Christmas in Green Bay since the Packers defeated the Jets 44-38 in overtime this afternoon. Quite a game of ups and downs, and happily spouse recorded it to watch later, which he usually does rather than watch the games live.
That way it goes a lot faster since he can fast-forward through the commercials. And of course the outcome is known, making today much more enjoyable.
Sadly, the Texans did not fare as well today.
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#103 mharper42
LOL
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From the wayback machine:
President Barack Obama fired General James Mattis, the head of Central Command, without even calling the general to let him know he was being replaced.
Duplicitous dems were strangely silent back then. Why is it the end of the world now?
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KAOS!!!
KAOS!!
KAOS!!!
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Steelers vs. Saints
Amazing game.
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107 Hamous
Great catch. I knew that and had forgotten about it.
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Oh no! Now Tapext has one of those pathogen avatars!!!
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The pathogens are taking over Hambone, and we’re all gonna die.
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It’s Trump’s fault. Government shutdown allowed avatars to escape government custody. Night all.
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So,…who kilt the blog? Twern’t me, I’ve been out in the woods. BTW; Do you know how hard it is to keep your eye on a small black dawg, doing her business at night, with no ambient light? If not for the big ole moon peeking through the clouds, I’d have lost her.
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“Prove that you’re not a robot, what is 6 + 8?” …….WHUT?!?! Do we have to do this every time we post???…..Well no, I didn’t have to do it this time. (edited)
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But did you cold boot it?
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No cold booting robots here.
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Surely robots know basic arithmetic.
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Is tomorrow pretty much a vacay day for all the non-retired folks on The Couch? If so, enjoy yourselves, run last minute Christmas chores, cook up a storm, and above all, be MERRY!
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Our fax service makes us do math when we log in.
Annoying as heck.
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I cleaned windows again today. I think the cumulative effect of bending, reaching, and pushing/rubbing surfaces got to me. I had to soak again tonight.
LDIL and Handsome Son came to join us for dinner. It’s been a while since we’ve spent time together.
I learned that if I’m going to roast green beans, I shouldn’t do it on the barbecue pit. The temp is too low. I wasted a whole bunch of green beans by doing it that way. They came out chewy and had a weird aftertaste. Threw ’em out. Next time, it’s the oven and a high temp. I love roasted green beans. Eat ’em like french fries.
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Big buttery moon up there.
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Merry Christmas Eve!
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