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Good morning Hamsters. This is my first day back to work after the Saturnalia holiday. There are only 2 bones on the skeleton crew here at the office so far today.
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Woof.
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I was pretty sure I’d spotted a couple of robins last weekend.
There was about five hundred out there just now when I took Max out.
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Too bad old James preferred boys. I know, that’s like finding out that Santa is not real, but it’s true.
Meanwhile, here in the northern city of Big D, we had a magnificent light show, rolling thunder, lots of rain, and had it capped off with a power outage last evening, so Mother Nature was struttin’ her stuff. Today the weather appears back to normal up here. Not certain what is on the agenda for today, but I’ll find out soon enough. Meanwhile, you all in the greater Houston area don’t forget to hunker down.
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Walter E. Williams on the lunacy of proportionality.
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News you can use.
In fall 2019, Costco will open a chicken farming operation in eastern Nebraska. This [$440 million] venture will provide Costco with 100 million chickens, or 40 percent of its yearly chicken needs, allowing it to partially escape the American chicken monopoly run by the likes of Tyson, Pilgrim’s Pride and Perdue.
I read where one of their most popular loss-leaders is a cheap rotisserie chicken.
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Boney – stealing it for over yonder.
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Too bad old James preferred boys. I know, that’s like finding out that Santa is not real, but it’s true.
Can’t find anything on that other than he was married to the same woman for most of his life and had three kids.
I did find where Miss Kitty died of AIDS she contracted from a gay Austin Democrat politician (but I repeat myself) she married. Perhaps you’re confusing the two?
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I knew Arness was tall, but six foot seven inches ?
After hitting the beach at Anzio.
Arness was sent to the U.S. Army 91st General Hospital in Clinton, Iowa, to be treated for his wounds. After undergoing several surgeries, he was honorably discharged on January 29, 1945. However, his wounds continued to bother him throughout the rest of his life; in later years he had to cope with chronic leg pain that often became acute, such as when he mounted horses during his performance on Gunsmoke. His military decorations include the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with three bronze battle stars, the World War II Victory Medal, and the Combat Infantryman Badge.
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Three airplane passengers were injured in the air over Texas on Wednesday as Storm Eboni caused treacherous flying conditions across the US.
The Dallas-bound American Airlines flight managed to land safely at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on Wednesday night, despite initial reports suggesting it had been damaged by ferocious winds.
A passenger and a flight attendant were hospitalized with complaints of knee pain and neck pain, and one other person was treated at the scene – a spokesperson for the airline revealed.
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Playing Billy Joel instead of radio talk show repeats.
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The rainy, windy, storm full of lightning has passed. The clouds are dissipating to reveal blue skies and bright sunshine in short sleeve weather. We are blessed.
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Good morning Hamsters.
Well it was a dark and really stormy early morning here as the rain, lightning, and thunder rolled through starting around 5 am. The result after it passed over was 2.05″ in the gauge on top of 0.68″ yesterday with lots of small branches and twigs strewn around and lots of puddles in the yards and pastures. Trees are still dripping.
Certainly am glad I wasn’t on that plane taking refuge in Austin last night.
But the sky is clearing from the west with promise of a sunny day.
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I’m glad the storm has passed. I thought WE WERE ALL GONNA DIE!
One more weather prognostication failure.
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They tried to say the same thing about Chuck Connors, Roy Orbison, and a hundred others. Unsubstantiated rumors. Denied by those closest to them.
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Today Michael Berry featured a three hour interview with Rod Canion, one of the founders of Compac. I’m sure it’ll be available on podcast.
Well produced. And Berry is excellent at conducting a serious interview.
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Our son-in-law had one of his three living relatives visit for the holidays, Karyn, a cousin about 33 from Dusseldorf, Germany. Her family is originally Hungarian and she brought her Serbian/Swiss fiance with her on the trip.
Karyn told us she will be moving to Switzerland after they marry in June. She lives with her father in the neighborhood where she grew up in Dusseldorf and said for all her life she could walk the streets there safely, even at 3 AM. Now, she won’t go out into the street after dark alone or, if she must, with her three big dogs who are very protective. Karyn also said she doesn’t feel secure in the daytime and will definitely not raise her children in Germany.
You only get one guess as to why this situations exists.
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Karyn from Dusseldorf also told me nobody can afford to live in Munich anymore. It has become the San Francisco Bay Area/Manhattan of the Deutschland. Only the very wealthy can afford to live there these days.
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Texpat – may I copy/paste that over yonder? I’ll edit personal names out.
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Had to of been the best background music in a western series.
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Hey unca annyShay fast forward to the 21:30 mark for a great rock-em-sock-em, knock down, fist duel in the old west.
That was quite a sucker punch.
Go get em Lucas Boy!
Paaaawwww!
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20 Tedtam
You can use it as is. I don’t think there is enough identifying information there to worry about.
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Guess I woke up in a fog. I’ve been posting on yesterday’s blog.
We had a power outage between ~2:30 and 3:30 am. I got up to call it in to Centerpoint. Had to walk through a very dark house to the kitchen where the flashlights are kept. I then dialed by flashlight, but they know the address from the landline I was calling from, and it was already reported. This morning, I had 2 email alerts from CP, one to tell me when the outage had started “affecting approximately 1241 customers”, the other to tell me when it had been corrected.
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And this:
I got my CoH water dept e-bill, for an astonishing $81 during a winter month. I was told when I called about it, how to read my own meter, and went out to do it. After I got the cover off, i saw that the subsurface meter box is itself full of water. No way to know if it is rain from last night or a leak in the pipes. In my neighborhood, these boxes contain meters for 2 adjacent homes, and the neighbor had a leak in their pipe from the meter to their house, maybe 10 years ago, so I know that happens.
I decided to see if I could dip it out enough to read my own meter, but the ground was too squishy right around there. I need to look in the garage and find a scrap board I could stand on.
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I haven’t looked for a board yet. I went back out to look at the meter box, and the level had gone back up from where I had dipped it down to. But we had 2.1″ of rain last night, so it could still be runoff. That box is near the lowest point of a drainage swale between the 2 lots, so water runs off the yards and down toward the curb.
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22 Phil
I don’t remember Lucas having to take such a buttwhipping.
You’d think it was Bruce Willis!
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Now if I had the complete Rifleman and Paladin sets, I’d be all set.
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Richard Boone lived a full life.
Some Boone Trivia via the extensive bio on Wiki:
In the 1960s and 1970s, Boone assisted the Israeli film industry at its inception. He appeared in the first Israeli-produced film shot outside Israel, the Western Madron (1970), with a story set in the American West of the 1800s.[2] In 1979, he received an award from Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin “for his contribution to Israeli cinema.”[2]
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Richard Boone moved to St. Augustine, Florida, from Hawaii in 1970 and worked with the annual local production of Cross and Sword, when he was not acting on television or in movies, until shortly before his death in 1981. In the last year of his life, Boone was appointed Florida’s cultural ambassador.[15]
During the 1970s, he wrote a newspaper column for the St. Augustine Record called “It Seems To Me”. He also gave acting lectures at Flagler College in 1972–1973.[16] In his final role, Boone played Commodore Matthew C. Perry in The Bushido Blade.
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Boone was born in Los Angeles, California, the middle child of Cecile (née Beckerman) and Kirk E. Boone, a corporate lawyer. His father was a descendant of Squire Boone, brother to frontiersman Daniel Boone.[1][2] His mother was Jewish, the daughter of immigrants from Russia.[3]
Richard Boone graduated from Hoover High School in Glendale, California. He attended Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where he was a member of Theta Xi fraternity. He dropped out prior to graduation and went to work in oil-rigging, bartending, painting, and writing. He joined the United States Navy in 1941 and served on three ships in the Pacific during World War II, seeing combat as an aviation ordnanceman, enlisted Naval Aircrewman and tail gunner on Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers.
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The thought of Gubernator Kasich being outvoted brought a smile to my face. This was a big win for the 2nd Amendment.
Ohio General Assembly Overrides Gov. Kasich’s Veto of H.B. 228 -
Bright and sunny 66 here but not going to reach the 71 forecast for today. Perhaps
the overcast lasted a bit longer than expected this morning. The largest puddles have gone down a lot, but all is squishy in the yards and pastures. Guess we have to enjoy it while it’s here since the forecast ongoing is for overcast and more rain the next few days. Hope that is not the case. -
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That’s just great.
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Richard Boone moved to St. Augustine, Florida, from Hawaii in 1970 and worked with the annual local production of Cross and Sword
One of my uncles (mom’s baby brother) was an actor in the play about 1970. I’ll have to ask him if he met Boone.
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It was weird having an uncle just a few years older than me.
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No need for an Executive Branch and a Legislative branch when the 9 lawyers dressed in Penguin suits have all the power and decide everything that happens in life.
The EB and the LB and have secunded all of their power to the 9 lawyers dressed in Penguin suits and the Deep State controls the rest.
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I got my CoH water dept e-bill, for an astonishing $81
Gotta pay for that big raise to those poor underpaid firefighters.
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Yes, but the real question is whether Richard Boone was a secret gay pedophile predator.
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#30 M42 from your linkie:
Shifts the burden of proof back to the prosecutor so that you are innocent until proven guilty. Ohio is the only state in the U.S. that makes gun owners guilty until proven innocent in matters of self defense.
Strengthens “preemption” provisions in Ohio law that prevent local governments from passing their own gun laws.
Aligns the definition of “shotgun” to mirror Federal law to end the confusion about the Mossberg Shockwave and similar firearms that are currently legal under federal law but illegal under Ohio state law.
Eliminates the requirement to post no-gun signs in locations which have authorized the carrying of firearms.
Puts teeth into the law so that authorities can prosecute criminals who make “straw” purchases for felons.I can’t fathom why anybody with an R behind their name would oppose this legislation. I expect Kat$#!t to come out of the closet any day now and proclaim his Dness and that he is a queeah.
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I don’t remember Lucas having to take such a buttwhipping.
You’d think it was Bruce Willis!
Or Rockford.
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Rockford was a poofter too???
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Hamous, didn’t you know James Garner was kidnapping teenage boys all those years ?
You folks are way too gullible and not near cynical and jaded enough.
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Next you’re gonna tell me Perry Mason was a poofter 😉
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43 Hamous
He was Canadian. What do you expect ? No inference towards people like Texanadian, of course.
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And not only the worst actor of the last five millennia, Chuck Norris, too.
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I must’ve spent an hour in line at Wal-Mart waiting in checkout hell. Christmas ornaments were on sale and I ended up in a line where it was taking forevvvvverrrrrr to check out. Went to another short line to check out (a lot of the lines were miles long). I found out why it was so short. More Christmas ornament problems. It must’ve taken ’em a half hour to check out. They finally exited the lane (and freaked me out when they started checking their receipt). The lady in front of me, with five items, did the same thing. There was some large discussion over a package of ornaments that were either $4.32 after sale, or before sale and were half off, or some such.
Y’all just shoot me if my life ever gets so desperate that I will make people stand in line behind me until they turn old and gray, over a few bucks.
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It’s their world. You’re just living in it.
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I thought you were Coupon Lady? 😀
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When I did flyer price matching, I always arranged my checkouts to be as quick and painless as possible. I didn’t shop during busy periods, arranged my purchases for quick processing, and helped bag.
And I saved $20-$40. Probably why they don’t do it anymore.
I would never make such a fuss over $2.
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Today, I took the delay time to pre-bag my groceries (I use reusable bags when I can). As I could, I half emptied them on the belt and I told the cashier I would help direct him with the bagging, but they were all coming through the way I wanted them bagged.
The look on his face was priceless. I got a breathless “thank you!” and a look of eternal gratitude.
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Hi Gang, just a quick drive-by but dang I’ve been busy. Ever since my boy and his family rolled into town, we’ve been wide open. We had Christmas last night and the big supper tonight, I just got out of the kitchen, but we also went hunting this morning and took granddaughter fishing in the pond this afternoon. I’ll update later, complete with the big doe that embarrassed me this morning. Dayaam, I’ll never get over how well they blend into the woods or how long a doe, (a buck never) will stand and watch you until you get too close.
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Having had my name invoked twice in two days like a Genie I am forced to respond.
The homestead is supposed to get 6 inches of snow tonight. Does not bother me because I don’t have to shovel it. TW and I are snow birding in Texas and 3.5 inches of rain that I don’t have to shovel. I will update more fully tomorrow. I have continued to follow the blog and am up to date with most activities.Canadian politics is either boring or disgusting.
The good news…
Hillary is not president.
Later my friends.
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Thanks for remembering me. It’s been a long time.
Last effort to say this disappeared.
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Howdy Texanadian! Good to hear from you.
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It’s downright heart-warming to hear from Texanadian and from Cowboy Rich during the holidays!
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Been thinking about you up there in Trudeau Country. I’ve been following the Canadian oil & gas industry or what is left of it these days. What a disaster. Trudy makes Barack look like Ronald Reagan. You Albertans have all my sympathy. If you want to secede, Texas will take you in.
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Texas will take you in.
Heck yeah, trouble is the socialist are running the country. The media up there is MSNBC on steroids. It’s fun just say the word Trump and watch heads explode.
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And not only the worst actor of the last five millennia, Chuck Norris, too.
Take it easy there big fella.
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I just finished putting a second coat on 2 bathroom doors that have been unfinished wood. Hubby never got around to doing it…so I did.
The shower really felt good. Tomorrow morning I work, then fix my keto lasagna, then visit with the LD and the family for an outing. Saturday morning is last minute party prep and then the party.
So, if y’all don’t hear from me for a bit, it’s nothing personal. It’s just Noona duty and party stuff.
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Dang, Baylor and Vandy put on a pretty good football show this evening. I tired now, so night all.
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