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I love that picture.
Yup today is the first day of 2022, so it’s GOT to be better, right? Well, the demented old fool is still in the White House Wreaking Havoc across the land, wondering why us peasants don’t just go along all while the media does it’s best to cover for the imbecile.
But I’ll not let it steal my joy Happy New Year all!
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Good morning and happy new year gang. Just had rain shower passing through Big D as I’m trying to get my act together to get on the road. High predicted for the day -72; low = 20. That tells me that there might be some weather activity out there before the day is done. Hope you all have a great start to the day. Here’s an interesting bit about the moon if you are like me and periodically feel the urge to go out and bay at certain times of the year. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220101.html
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Happy New Year everyone!
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I just put my cabbage and Polish sausage in the Crock Pot to cook all day. Black-Eyed Peas are soaking and I’ll fix some cornbread to go with it, makes for a fine meal.
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Backattcha’ El Gordo and Hamous.
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Cathy, a nice lady that I went to school with remarried about 20 years ago AND it’s a Mixed Marriage. 😀
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Cathy and Gary watched football all afternoon and on into the night. 😉
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Happy New Year everyone. Do we cue the music for Jaws or the Twilight Zone?
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It is Day One with 311 days to go until November 8th and the retaking of the nation.
The Mandate has come down and everyone here is now ordered to have a Great, New Year. No if, ands or buts.
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It’s an election year, you know.
I figure somewhere between Fourth of July and Labor Day the White House and Granny BoxWine will declare complete victory over the Corona Lung Rot, have a giant mask burning party in DC, parades and fireworks. Whatever is actually going on with stats, hospitals and treatments will be utterly irrelevant to them.
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Good January 1st morning, Hamsters.
We’re off to a dreary gray sky, 74 at 6 and still 74 now, breezy with some vigor now and then. If we were farther north it would be a snow sky. The pansies in their beds are moving with the wind gusts, smiling bright as ever, cheery spots in the gloom. Our unusually warm days will surrender this afternoon, and winter will prevail for a few days. According to the Weather Guessers, that is.
Otherwise it is the bright first day of the new year, a fresh start, with hopes for a more settled time so we can catch our breath from last year’s turmoil. Before this year’s turmoil makes the scene….
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#9 Texanadian,
We could play both and cover the bases. 🙂
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Happy New Year to Couch Critters and their loved ones!
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It sounded like a war zone outside my house last night. Some of those fireworks were so loud I could almost feel them in my body. It was the most severe case of sky ‘splosions I think I’ve ever witnessed here.
Every year folks complain about how their pets suffer on NYE and July 4th. Last night was definitely a dog hiding under the bed and peeing the carpet kind of night.
Hubby slept through it all, and when I asked this morning how he could have missed all the excitement, he said “But it’s illegal to fire off fireworks in the City of Houston.” My response was: “….and your point is?”
There were too many people for the cops to arrest them all. Civil disobedience. Perhaps there’s a lesson there for the masked and quarantined.
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I’m planning on mass at 11:00. When I get back, I’m going to have to reprocess my attempt at blackberry jelly. I have berry juice, not jelly. I’ve read up, and I can recook and recan what I’ve done. I’ll try to cook it down more and add some pectin.
I’m trying to be careful – some of the comments on the blogs I was checking out said some folks ended up with rock instead of jelly, unable to get a spoon into their product.
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Current temp -20F, warming to +19 later this evening. +27 for Sunday. Then it gets chili again.
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I have berry juice, not jelly.
I remember Granny Hamous always added fruit pectin to blackberries. Not enough natural pectin in them.
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Normally Fr. John’s jokes are kinda corny, but I chuckled today.
Man: God, what is a million years?
God: For me, a million years is like one minute.
Man: God, what is a million dollars?
God: For me, a million dollars is like one penny.
Man: Can I have a penny?
God: In a minute.
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I was going to call it at 10pm last night, however, I made it to midnight. Surprisingly there were not many explosions in our neighborhood. From my neighbor’s driveway on the street behind mine, I could see the big stuff people set off in the Kroger parking lot about a mile down the street.
I agree with Texpat that covid as a national issue will die out before the election. I’ve stated before that there will be some inconsequential social justice event (to us) that the media will seize upon to exploit. That will be the main issue for the dems going into November. The dems just need to hope there is no foreign policy frackus that gums up their narrative with which the erepubs could bludgeon them with.
I need to get outside to cut some of those shrub clippings to something manageable for the green waste pickup on Monday and get it all on the curb. I also need to apply the second coat of ceramic coating to the Excursion. I started yesterday, but ran out of daylight.
I usually do not do New Year’s resolutions, however, I’ve resolved that I need to live life to the fullest. There have been too many instances over the last eight months where I’ve passed on opportunities due to the way I feel from chemo. Since this cross I bear is talking longer to resolve, I realize that I really do not know how much time I have left in this world. There is no sense waiting around to feel better just to enjoy life.
Happy New Year y’all! Carpe Diem.
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GJT and his lovely bride on their wedding day, 33 years ago. Hummm, he seems to be thicker these days. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SCRAAMM>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 😀
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#19 Hamous, yup corny but I’m liking it. 😉
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#21 SD
Lol, yep, a bunch thicker now days. And to think I constantly dieted back then to stay in the 190’s.
I spared no expense on that wedding! Odd trivia – the JP that married us was (one of?) Bill Yeoman’s sons. Can’t remember his name.
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Morning, 2022! Let’s try to make this a decent year, to help erase bad memories of 2020 and 2021. It’s nice to have The Couch as a refuge from all the BS!
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Delusions of Grandeur? She is a legend in her own mind.
AOC Blasted for Suggesting Republicans ‘Mad’ They Cannot Date Her.
BAWHAHAHAHA!!!!!
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Dinner.
Only was able to get two weeks on it.
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I should start by noting that I did not party hearty last night, I was in bed by 10:30. I woke this morning with body aches between the shoulder blades, across the low back, and both hips down the outside of the legs past the knees. The last time I felt this way was when I went on the candida yeast eradication diet, I was advised by my therapist that I was experiencing sugar withdrawals. I have eaten very little sugar or simple carbs the last few day so that was possibly a cause. The congestion in my schnozz and scratchy throat made me think a bit differently. I took a home test (at the insistence of my employer) and tested a very faint positive. I am going to double up on zinc, quercetin, and sweet wormwood to try and kick this thing before it gets a foothold.
thatisall
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It’s taken me an hour to do it, but I think I have had my first regular meal since Christmas Day. I’m just finishing up my small breakfast bowl of cottage cheese with banana slices, and about to pass the almost-empty bowl off to Travis the Magnificent, who loves to lick that bowl clean. I call out “Twa-veee-zeee” and he comes running in.
Yep, it’s gone already. I had hoped to feel up to a quick stock-up trip to Kroger, but it seems like a NO at this time. In fact I think I’ll go lie down again.
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I hate the way that alfalfa sticks in your teeth.
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26. Hey I got one a those. Only a one week dry age, though.
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What do you think of first?
The thing he is transporting or the fact that the car he’s driving has a trailer hitch?
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30 hamous
Nice.Mine has two friends in the fridge. Gonna leave one in another week and the other a couple.
29 shannon
That’s thyme, you philistine. It’s not going into the oven with the roast. I still need to shave the crust off it before it goes for a nice time in the sauna. -
32 WB
I still need to shave the crust off it before it goes for a nice time in the sauna.
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23 GJT
Odd trivia – the JP that married us was (one of?) Bill Yeoman’s sons. Can’t remember his name.
That would be JP Bill Yeoman, Jr., the coach’s oldest son. I didn’t realize Bill Yeoman, Sr. died less than 18 months ago at 92 years.
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#34
I saw that when I looked for his son’s name. Did not realize he passed only fairly recently. Four SWC titles, that was quite a feat for a small school considering the competition.
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33 texpat
After it’s been in the fridge for a couple weeks, its outside is like leather. Especially since this one didn’t have much of a fat cap.I don’t leave the crust on it because there are a couple people here who cringe at “medium”. The crust would prevent the ends from gettin done enough. The first 1/2” on each end is for them. The rest of it is nice medium rare (leaning toward rare).
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#31 Sarge
A trailer hitch on a corvette is an a-bomb-ination. 🙂
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I didn’t realize Bill Yeoman, Sr. died
That’s the kind of stuff you pick up watching “worthless” local news.
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Hamous says:
DECEMBER 31, 2021 AT 22:20
Worse than Billy Ray Cyrus singing a duet with a flaming fag black rapper?
Wow! Hamous knew something about pop culture that I didn’t know. I had no idea that rapper Nas-X or Little Nas X was gay. The only reason I know a smidgen about current singers is through my children.
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There are gay blacks?
What is this world coming to?
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The Cowpokes have come back from a 28-7 deficit and are now tied 28-28 against the Papist Horde.
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39 TexMo
If you watched 10 seconds of Little Nas on video you would know he hasn’t touched ground in years. I had no idea who he was until a few weeks ago,
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36 wagonburner
Thanks, good to know. Her Highness likes her meat cooked to shoe leather consistency. I have been able to slowly, in almost imperceptible increments, change her palate over the last 19 years, but she still leans towards “done”. I’m a solid medium rare.
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38 Shannon
Having lived in southern California, traveled all over the lower 48 and currently residing in the NYC metro area, I can say the Houston local newscasts were all better than almost anything I’ve seen in other parts of the US. I don’t know how poorly local Houston news is now, but it was still way better than NYC or LA broadcasts when I left years ago. It’s really painful to watch any of it up here.
Also, I saw Jim Rosenfeld, the guy who used to be on in Houston and with whom we have a mutual friend. He’s the NBC affiliate anchor in Philadelphia these days. Nothing but blood and guts down there. Philly is heading towards Baltimore level hell.
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Forget Little Naz.
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45 Shannon
Nice antidote.
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When I got home from mass, I decided to deliver Eldest Sis’ Christmas presents to her before the weather turns. I tried to call, but no answer. She didn’t respond to my text message earlier. I thought I’d drop ’em on her porch if nothing else.
Turns out, she and her Hubby were both home. He’d the Ladder Guy, and he is actually moving around rather well. Eldest was retrieved from the bedroom, where she’d been getting ready to visit her daughter and family. We had a short visit, and she loved everything that I brought her. She kept saying she felt badly for not having a gift for me, but I had to keep reminding her that they were gifts, not obligations. I was just happy that she liked what I got for her.
So, I’m back home now, and about to start my own stuff.
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Sweating like a pig and listening to everyone’s A/C unit running while doing chores outside on Jan 1 is just wrong.
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46 Sarge
Yeah, that should be a must read.
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Itsa a comin. Posted by Traces of Texas over yonder:
A Traces of Texas reader just texted me and said it is NINE degrees at his place outside of Texline, Texas. Meanwhile, Wunderground is telling me that it’s 93 in McAllen. Hmm … Do any of you older, experienced Texas hands have any idea what this could possibly mean?
Texline is in the upper left hand corner of the Panhandle.
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Texpat says:
JANUARY 1, 2022 AT 16:0546 Sarge
Yeah, that should be a must read.
Its the kind of thing I keep saying here that folks misinterpret as support for Dan Crenshaw…..
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Get your checkbooks ready. The Mecum auction in Kissimmee kicks of this Thursday the 6th with Lot E.
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Texline is just a place I pass through to get to New Mexico and Colorado. Kinda like everywhere else in the Texas panhandle. Not a place I would ever want to call home.
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Four years ago today my dumbazz BIL managed to drive about a 100+ yards up a forest service road in Colorado that was coated with about 8 inches of solid ice. After we got my sister, her kids, and one of mine out of the car, BIL, my wife and myself managed to put chains on all four tires. Then BIL managed to back the van down the road to where there was only dirt.
I still get a little ticked whenever I think about it. He was pizzed off at the rest of the extended family and put my sister and all the kids in grave danger by driving like a bat outta hell.
I’ve got the decent on video.
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I remember the first time (around 1971) I went to Colorado up old Hwy 87 on a warm night and rolled the windows down around Texline. There must have been 50 square miles of feedlots up there and they were all full. I’d been on feedlots and in livestock auction barns, but that was the most powerful aroma I had ever inhaled. No wonder it was in the middle of nowhere.
Next stop Raton Pass.
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#20 – From Larry McMurtry. “‘It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living,’ Augustus said. ‘I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.‘”
The one he wrote for me: Gus McCrae:
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It is 10°F at Amarillo right now with a wind chill of 9 below zero.
That’s pretty good blue norther.
It’s still 30 in Abilene so it hasn’t arrived there yet.
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75 here in SS, cooling from an earlier high of 84.
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It’s 75 in Austin and San Antonio.
The temperature will drop 40 tonight to 35° and wind chill to 16° when those folks wake up tomorrow morning.
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53 Sarge
RE: #46
Its the kind of thing I keep saying here that folks misinterpret as support for Dan Crenshaw…..
I have no idea what Crenshaw has to do with that Daily Signal article.
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Yeah we gonna have all four seasons within 24 hrs.
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22°F and wind chill factor of 8ºF
Somebody has a weather station at Persimmon Ridge just north of San Saba.
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https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/new-yorkers-celebrate-deblasio-is-finally-gone/
Looks like he won’t be missed at all!!!
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Oh thanks a lot. ELG in a Speedo.
Only SQK is worse. -
Reprocessed jelly in the canner. In about 20 minutes (includes cool-down time), I’ll know if they jelled. Whether or not I’m successful, I’ve decided jams and jellies are not for me. I’m not going to eat much – even if they are sugar free, and they take up way too much time and effort. I’d rather dehydrate them and store them in jars to use later. That way I can snack on them if I want.
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56 Texmo.
BIL’s.
My wife is one of four sisters. All very fine ladies.
However, two out of four husbands were real jerks.
The other two are okay. But sometimes I’m not too sure about him, either. 🙂
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#64 That’s the reporting station that I most often use.
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Temp just went from about 75 to 45 in short order. Guess the front has arrived here.
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I am apparently in the demo for GMC trucks.
They are relentless with this ad with the blonde and the puppy and Mr. Dreamy and the truck. At least 10 times each evening.
It doesn’t really bother me because the blonde and the puppy get cuter with each viewing.
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Not interested in the GMC truck.
It probably has aluminum tires.
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My windows in the house all fogged up at the same time. Even the sliding patio door glass. Still 75 degrees inside (with no heater or AC) but getting cold fast outside. Interesting weather phenomenon. Reminds me of Amarillo.
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75 Harper
The Scootercaster vid is great.
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Yesterday, a federal judge in Northern District of Texas blocked a Biden mandate requiring vaccines and masks for federal Head Start programs.
From Jonathan Turley:
Like the OSHA rule, the new rules under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were put through quickly and without a “notice and comment” period of review. The rules also are unprecedented in their claim of authority to use this program to effectively implement a national vaccine mandate. It requires not just masks for children over the age of 2 but requires staff, contractors and volunteers in the program to be vaccinated by the end of January.
and this is important,
I have long been a critic of Chevron over its expansion of agency authority. The law is reflective of a dangerous trend in our government with the rise of federal agencies. Federal agencies have become a virtual fourth branch of government and that is one too many in our tripartite system. Agencies have gradually assumed greater authority and independence in the governance of the country, including the expanding role of agencies in resolving political and social controversies.
The vaccine mandates of the Biden Administration have created a target rich environment for justices who want to curtail Chevron, which will make the Jan. 7 arguments particularly interesting.
If this whole mandate campaign backfires on Biden and the Left and we get to start a SCOTUS dismantling of the Chevron Doctrine, it would mean some of this nightmare has been worth the trouble for the last two years.
The Chevron Doctrine is responsible for a huge part of the Deep State and it’s perpetuation.
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37 and still dropping.
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Lubbock family posting pics of snow covered ground.
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Happy New Year to all of you hosers and malcontents.
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What we have here is my standard New Years meal. Cabbage with Polish sausage, Black-Eyed Peas N Ham Hock and Cornbread cooked in the oven in my cast iron skillet, oh and some rice for Hop N John. Good eating I’ll tell you. Oh and we didn’t set the table all fancy like, we just ate in the den on trays.
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Daughter is reporting snow and sleet in Midland, 23 degrees. 🙁
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75 TP
Good stuff. Thanks.
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78
You’re the hoser.
🙂
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Happy New Year Hamsterville!!!
I was taken to woodshed last nite for buying only one little bottle of champagne.
You’ll never please them, Grasshopper. No matter what you do.
Proceed accordingly. With cheerfulness.
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You’re the hoser.
eh?
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Texpat says:
JANUARY 1, 2022 AT 18:0353 Sarge
RE: #46
Its the kind of thing I keep saying here that folks misinterpret as support for Dan Crenshaw…..
I have no idea what Crenshaw has to do with that Daily Signal article.
I have no idea what he has to do whenever I say something like “When the other guy is screaming, you be the one who says “Let’s have a conversation.” either.
We are presented with a unique opportunity these days. Folks people have been listening to for a couple of years are losing it because their credibility is about as good as a 2 cent condom. As long as we’re the sane ones in the debates, we can get our points across, especially on Social Media where people have been tuning us out because they were listening to the other guys tell them we’re evil and crazy. The only way we can blow it is by being just as crazy and screaming just as loud as the crazy screamers.
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I had another small but distinct actual meal tonight, a supper salad with chopped red leaf lettuce, green onions, sliced cukes, shredded carrots, and a handfull of warmed chicken nuggets for some protein. I’ve been awake about half of the day today, and not too tired or sore from spitting up slushy throat fluids.
The big male cats are still riled up when they hear a firework noise. Get up and growl, then run around to see if they can find a cause that they could attack. Poor babies.
I’ve straightened up enough to be able to operate the kitchen tomorrow, so Ima bail early for a restful sleep. Nite all.
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Baylor and Ole Miss in a defensive struggle. down to 30 here now. I’m tired, but I’ll probably finish this game. More later as it develops.
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Rib roast turned out as expected.
Yum.
It’ll be interesting to see how its friends do.
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This blows my mind. I didn’t know Aaron Neville had moved from New Orleans to NYC and married this Jewish lady photographer. They were living in Manhattan and she decided she wanted to be a farmer so they bought a place in the Taconic Mountains in upstate New York between the Hudson River and the Connecticut border. I guess the Neville Brothers have permanently retired. Amazing.
It’s less than 90 minutes from here. Maybe we’ll take a little drive up there in the spring have a visit with them. It’s a beautiful place.
Linda Ronstadt went and found him in NOLA years ago and resurrected Aaron’s career.
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Slept for the last three hours.
Took the dog out.
It’s turned a little coolish out there.
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62 Texpat
I don’t have a clue what it has to do with Crenshaw, either.
I do know this – the author claims she and her husband stood strong and won. Apparently defeated their enemy.
But she damn sure never explains how……or gives any evidence of victory.
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Here is the link to the Toyota Sienna backing down the ice sheet. You can see my Excursion at the base of the hill.
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Baylor wound up putting an azz whuppin on Ole Miss. It’s a little later than I would like getting to bed, but I’ve got no plans to get out into the freezing cold anytime early tomorrow. You all have a great evening, and I’ll have more later as it develops. Nite nite.
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More than an acre of sail.
“You’d do things you’d never dream of doing in your ordinary mind!”
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I was gonna go back and read 46 after I got caught up. Then I read the finger-wagging in 53 and 85. Then I realized the entire conversation was going to be just another NIGYYSOB. Finally I said f**k it, it’s just not worth it, and moved along.
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Your woke assailants will accuse you of ineptitude, the inability to perceive reality, or even immorality based on your identity—by which I mean, the characteristics you can’t change about yourself. Your identity can even disqualify you from talking about certain subjects.
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NASCAR Plays the Coward Over Brandon Brown Deal That References ‘Let’s Go, Brandon’
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Mornin’ Gang
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Morning gang. A crisp 20 degrees out there this morning, just as predicted. My northerly facing windows are not only fogged up but are iced a little bit – cheap azzed builder grade windows from the 1960’s you know. I keep the heat pretty low in here at night, but I expect the windows to clear up as the heat comes on and the relative humidity goes down accordingly. Got up earlier than expected, but that pretty well assures that there will be a nap in my future today. I fixed my first cup of coffee from the hipster single shot coffee maker this morning before I realized what I was doing. The morning visit to the coffee shop is out since it’s closed on Sunday, so I think I’ll fire up my camp coffee pot which should make enough to last me all day. I do drink coffee when it’s cold outside as I read somewhere that it’s very healthy for you.
I decided on a new router system designed to bring better coverage to the back of the house where the bedrooms are – only one of which is regularly occupied and which was the beneficiary of a TV moved from the den when the new TV arrived. Only source of TV is the Amazon Fire Stick or Roku, so I do need a strong internet signal back there. I got a new router and a new extender from TP-Link which are supposed to join together just like the mesh networks – ie., there is not a separate SSID for the extender. We’ll see how that works out when the parts all arrive. For the combined price I could get a cheap 3 station last generation mesh network which would probably do the job as well, but with lower through put numbers. This new router is only one generation out of date, and with the associated extender, this old house up here on the hill should light up the internet like a lighthouse – when I see all the cars and trucks parking on the highway in front of my house and see all sorts of new and unusual connections to my router I’ll know that I’m putting out a strong signal I guess. I even considered going back to the old fashioned hard wired system to put a couple of access points in the back bedrooms – there are phone jacks in each bedroom already and I could maybe piggy back on them, but I think that would be overkill. Parts should arrive by Tuesday, and then I can begin experimenting with the wireless network for a while.
OK, my coffee cup is empty and my mouth is about done rattling on. You all have a good day, and more later. BTW, after spending a week or so out of town, I got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning – literally. At home here, I get up on the left side – at BFF’s on the right side. And also the bathrooms are not located in the same place either. Funny how that works – I had to turn the light on to get my bearings.
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Hunnerd!
It’s 75 here but it is supposed to be 35 in the morning. But I can’t complain since we had a 3 week run of nice weather, no heat needed and we had the A/C running all this past week and it was on when I got up. -
All the way up to 23 out here now that the sun has come up. Clear blue sky as far as the eye can see, so there won’t be any radiant heat preserved, but the surface temps are probably not very cold yet. Takes a few days in that freezer to get the ground temps down. Wind has been picking up though, so I would imagine that it will cut right through you, but I’m not going to venture out there to find out unless I have to. Just polished off a couple of scrambled eggs with thawed out left over home made chili and some cheese on top, so that’s always a good wholesome breakfast on a cold morning.
More later.
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Graveyard Dead?! I guess ole Dave’s Hunnerd did her in. 😉
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I’m sitting here waiting for Hubby to get to this restaurant for breakfast and I realized:
I have my purse rosary in my purse along with it’s itty bitty prayer book, and
I have my daily rosary in it’s pouch with my prayer book,
And I have my car rosary only steps away.
Yeah, I’m about as Catholic as they come.
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Morn’n y’all. Chinook wind blowing outside the window and it is +32 F here this AM. Going to let the fire go out and empty some ashes. Got a fair of outside stuff to get done today as it has been to cold before. Hope you wrapped your pets and brought in your pipes. Take care and stay warm.
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Twenty nine with a sixteen degree feels like. Looking out into the yard it stands out that the banana plant thing out there has about five new shoots coming out of it. I guess we got an abrupt halt to that nonsense! 😀
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I noticed some perennials blooming yesterday. I am sure tonight’s freeze will take care of those. We need to haul the plumarias into the garage so they do not die.
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92 Texmo
I think I would have moved the Excursion. 🙂
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My Turk’s Cap has usually, by now, long been obliterated by the first frost.
So, it has has been spectacular this year, weighted down with blooms. My grandmother would be proud.
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Here’s a 2 week old photo. It had twice as many blooms on it yesterday.
Click to enlarge.https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/EQcdjAuGSHO9UhlapRA9Yg.GNkjnHeAmH7YJFX6-GrNzW
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Long as we are just looking for topics of discussion, here’s a little update on the rose rooting from cuttings project. As previously noted, everything I studies (after getting the cuttings of course), is that this is the worst time of the year to try to start root development from cuttings, but that it can be done. This started with trimming back BFF’s rose bush at Thanksgiving, so we are close to six weeks into it I guess. Anyway, I have wound up with 23 cuttings, most of which I planted in clear plastic cups and covered with other clear plastic bottles or cups – this is supposed to help retain humidity to protect the fragile plant and keep it from drying out. Excessive watering is a problem but so is too little water, so it’s a delicate balancing act – for sure no standing water in the planter. I was gone for 9 days over Christmas, but when I got back, the plants all had evidence of condensation inside their plastic cup covers, so nothing got too dry. All but 3 of the cuttings are putting out new growth, but the pros point out that does not necessarily mean that roots are growing as the stems themselves generally retain sufficient energy to put out on their own. My logic with the clear plastic cups as planters is that eventually I’ll be able to see the roots once they grow enough to reach the edge of the cup. Today is the first day I’ve had to run the heater inside which of course reduces the relative humidity by a lot, so the plastic covers will most definitely earn their keep during this cold spell.
My plan is to plant the survivors outside probably around April, but should they get root bound in their little plastic nursery cups, I might replant them into larger pots before that – might replant a few of them into larger pots anyway. The pros say that if you achieve a success rate of 50% you are doing well. The three plantings that have not shown new growth yet are still not dried out and dead either, so I’m still holding out some hope they will catch up before it’s over. They are are now located in my kitchen windows facing either south or west, but with the sun still so low on the horizon, they get very little direct sunshine.
Anyway, since the conversation seems to be slow this morning, and it’s too cold for me to get outside and do anything, I thought I’d open up the floor to any suggestions regarding rooting roses from cuttings, where to plant, when to plant, how to keep the deer from eating them, and anything else that might come to mind. The floor is open.
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I never tried rooting rose cuttings, as they are generally grafted on to rootstock that is disease resistant.
At school at Waco we had these really nice cold frames for rooting cuttings. They had heated, permeable mats under the rooting medium which was mostly sand.
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I once planted a banana tree out by the pool, and you could watch that thing grow new leaves by the hour. Winter freeze would knock it back to the ground, but as soon as it warmed up it would start growing again from the base. When I finally decided to get rid of the nasty thing after a couple of years, I like to have never gotten all those roots out of there. I might try one out here in the rocks and cactus just to see how really tough they are. And nasty would not matter out there either.
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You didn’t mention if you used rooting hormone. It’s a powder that you dip the cuttings into before planting.
Sounds to me like you’re doing fine.
You are correct, trying to maintain even soil moisture is the challenge.
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Is it too early to start my tomato seeds indoors?
#113 – Yes, I did get the rooting hormone. I planted them first, then when the hormone arrived a week later, I pulled them out and dusted them and replanted them again.
What kind of tomatoes should I try? The cherry tomatoes did very well out here in the sunshine, but others look good but never seem to produce much fruit. The cherry tomatoes produced by the bucket load.
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I think it is way too early. I’d wait til early spring – whenever that happens to be up there.
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re: last night Super Dave’s Hop N John.
I love Hop N John, but I make mine differenter than SD. Black Eyed Ps no problemo, always good and for flavor a Jenny-O turkey ham makes a great substitute for swine. Brown rice, then a hearty helping of Pace thick and chunky picante sauce. Mix everything thoroughly. Tastes so good you can hurt yourself eating it.
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When we first moved to this place it had these banana trees/plants running wild. I hated them and tried to keep them mowed down, they just laughed. My youngest was bored one day and dug them all up with my tractor and dumped them out back. Now we have two areas they go wild. I’ve grown to co-exist with them, out of respect I guess, and keep the dead trimmed out.
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Cherry tomatoes just seem to be bullet proof – no matter where you live.
Table of Knowledge could be a source of slicing varieties that do well up there.
Avoid the gigantic ones that you see in magazines. This is Texas – not New Jersey.
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Tomatoes come two ways – determinate and indeterminate.
Determinates reach a certain size of bush, produce and then peter out.
Indeterminate bushes just keep on growing.
Keep in mind, once the nighttime temps get too hot, the fruit will not set and it’s over. This is Texas – they all peter out eventually.
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Now, that guy Mike Shoup in Brenham spent his life collecting antique roses in cemeteries and elsewhere. They are not grafted and more tolerant of Texas extremes.
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Tomatoes come two ways – determinate and indeterminate.
Wow. How cis-binary.
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Our founder Mike Shoup soon lost interest in the overused plants (ligustrum, pittosporum etc.)
My hero!
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A day trip to the Antique Rose Emporium in late spring is pretty breathtaking.
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That miserable summer wedding that I mentioned recently was held at the Antique Rose Emporium.
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The Independence Baptist Church, where Sam Houston was baptized, is just around the corner.
And also the original site/s of Baylor college.
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Old Baylor Park
Independence, TX
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What a rude weather flip-flop! Cold and wet! Really cold and drippy wet. I plan to go to the store and get some essentials this morning, but I’m up to a very slow start.
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Never Mind, Link is bad.
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#129 SD: That kind of thing seems to me to be counterproductive. Once someone realizes that they were lied to in order to bring them to the site, why they heck would they then buy? I know there a bunch of really stupid people out there but good grief, this is ridiculous. I would imagine that FOX could have a claim against them for defamation, seeing as how the the basis of the ad is knowingly and blatantly false.
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#116 – You have to accept the fact that I am very much of a procrastinator and also extremely lazy. So that may help you understand that just because I am now in the “planning” phase that if I decided today what I wanted to do it would still probably be springtime before I actually got around to it. People like me spend an inordinate amount of time analyzing and planning but very little time actually doing something about it.
But because it gets hot here pretty early in the year – from 0 to 100 degrees in about a month, they need to be planted as early as possible in order to have any fruit for the very reasons you mention. Deer seem to enjoy tomato plants too.
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I just looked outside at that bright sun shining and decided it would be OK to go ahead and take the trash out even though the thermometer says 34. So I darted outside, and let me tell you, that wind will cut right through your tshirt. Despite its inviting appearance with the bright sunshine, it’s one cold sumbich our there.
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The guy who hired me 40.5 years ago officially retired on Friday. There’s one more person who’s been there longer than me. By just one year. When I started she drove a Starsky and Hutch Gran Torino 😉
My goal is to retire before her. I don’t want to be the one with the longest tenure.
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Rona tomatoes are the TW’s favourite tomato, they make great salsa, spaghetti sauce, and related mixtures.
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texanadian says:
JANUARY 2, 2022 AT 11:26
Rona tomatoes are the TW’s favourite tomato, they make great salsa, spaghetti sauce, and related mixtures.Frikkin disease has its own tomatoes now?
This crap has got to stop.
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I’ve had a slow but filling breakfast, but don’t think I have the energy to do a shopping trip right now. Maybe a short nap and then see if it would work.
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#137 – My old mentor would describe how you feel as being “tolerable.” His definition of tolerable was when you feel good enough to eat but not good enough to work.
Hopefully you’ll kick this thing and get better soon.
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I don’t want to be the one with the longest tenure.
Yeah, they might put your picture on the wall and make you come back for parties or something.
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In deep northwestern Africa near Mali, Chad, and north of Nigeria a country called Burkina or something, the people have been smelting iron for millenia. They use a clay furnace and make bloom steel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2G9bnAraJ0&ab_channel=TamahaganeArts. The Japanese have a great source of ore called something like iron sand, it is black and mixed with silica, it is separated with a magnet.
There are lots of bloom steel videos on teh utube.
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The story on Mike Shoup was his father made a lot of money in the oil & gas business and put Mike in business as a commercial nursery grower in Washington County. Like many, many businesses, Shoup’s nursery business went bust in mid-1980s Texas.
However, he and his wife had always traveled across the South to visit friends and their hobby was to stop at ancient cemeteries and take cuttings of antique rose varieties. Once their big operation went under, they started a tiny little rose business from their hobby collection that exploded into the successful outfit that have now. I remember when they first started and wondered how they could afford to eat. They’ve been written up in places like Southern Living and Texas Monthly.
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Out at the Rocket Ranch I became the second senior man in our group. Second only to Clifton who is 71 but says he’s retiring in 2022. I don’t believe him but we’ll see.
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This method, crucible steel, seems to be much more efficient at making steel for individual projects.
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I’m not a fan or rose bushes, at least not in my yard. They’re fine to look at in somebody else’s landscape. Here’s my philosophy about roses: The more you coddle them, feed them, spray them – the faster they die. Try to kill a rose bush and it will fight back with a vengeance. I’ve tried kill, poison and dig up at least three rose bushes on three different properties over the years and every one them fought me like a wounded tiger. It took me years to kill off a rose bush on the south side of this house and I’m not so sure it’s not lurking underground again waiting to shoot up in the spring and try shred my arm with its razor sharp thornclaws.
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I have found that plants that thrive on neglect are the best suited for my yard. Yard work was one of the punishment methods my father used on me and my brother. If something requires me to move it for a mild freeze or water and tend to it, I would rather it die. Cactus and succulents and agaves work very well in my yard.
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The famous, old New Jersey Beefsteak Tomato is all but a thing of the past. You might see a few at roadside produce stands out in farm country, but they haven’t been in stores for at least 6 or 7 years. The weather has been too cloudy and too wet at the wrong times and the farmers finally gave up.
The good thing is the eastern Pennsylvania Amish have stepped up bigtime and they are as good or better tomatoes as any I ever ate. They also produce a bunch of heirloom “ugly” tomatoes that are excellent tasting. The other produce they supply spring to fall is also outstanding – cauliflower, broccoli, corn, cucumbers, etc. It finally convinced me to stop fighting the weather with a garden here. I still plant a couple of herbs and cherry tomatoes, but that’s it.
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It is 57° now and starting down t0 27° tonight and dropping to 21° at dawn on Tuesday morning. We may get 2 or 3 inches of snow on Friday. Forecast has us at 17° next Tuesday morning.
Texanadian left the gate open and let all that damned freezing cold air leak down into the states.
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Well, at mass this morning I got to see a Mother/Baby Son duo that I’ve been missing for some months. They showed up this morning, with Baby Sebastian much bigger than the last time I saw him. I could hear them behind me during mass, and Sebastian was raising such a ruckus that Mom had to take him out for a bit.
After mass, I went to see them and talk softly. Turns out they’ve moved to Dubai for about a year. Sebastian was all eyes on me, and Mom said, “You have him mesmerized! I’ve never seen him like this!” He grabbed my fingers and occasionally played coy with me while Mom and I talked.
Oh, how I love the little ones!
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Here’s my philosophy about roses: The more you coddle them, feed them, spray them – the faster they die. Try to kill a rose bush and it will fight back with a vengeance. I’ve tried kill, poison and dig up at least three rose bushes on three different properties over the years and every one them fought me like a wounded tiger.
Well, that bodes well for me. Turns out, I like rose tea. I bought some to try out, and not only are there medicinal benefits, but I find it relaxing, too. I’m trying to get some cuttings going from my neighbor’s roses, but since I tend to kill green things, we’ll see. If roses do better if they are abused, then mine might stand a chance.
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This just makes my blood boil. How many of these J6 prisoners are going to be suicided before Republicans can start an investigation?
Because if the abuse of these people ever comes to light, heads should roll. Not that they will, but they should.
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Yeah texanadian, your weather is down here drunk in my back yard, we’ll need you to come get it please.
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Yep, I felt better with an extra hour of resting my bones. Then I was able to drive to the store and get 3-4 days worth of critter chow for my raccoons. Got some sort of sinus spray that is supposed to cut down on the sniffles. Think I’ll spray some in my nose and lie down again.
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My nap turned out pretty good. Was down for about an hour, all snugged in and warm under a blanket. Would still be there if I didn’t have a prostate the size of a grapefruit and have to get up what seems like every hour. Thermometer says it’s up over 40 degrees now, but it’s still cold to me.
My feral black kitten was waiting out back for some reason, most likely food, when I came back yesterday. When I opened the door, it scatted out to the back 40 and I’ve not seen it sense. I had a couple of steak bones (from T-bomes) that I brought back from BFF’s house and tossed them out yesterday evening. The possums that normally raid the left over cat food ate a few bites, but then they discovered the bones. Not a sign of a bone or a possum later, but they left quite a bit of cat food – which they seldom if ever do. Still haven’t seen kitty yet today – it normally comes by around 10-11 in the mornings. Still haven’t come up with a name – thinking about something like LaMont except with an apostrophe in there somewhere.
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K’tenya
How’s that for a name for a black kitten? It’s gots an apostrophe an’ everything.
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Marjorie T. Green gets permanently suspended from Twitter for “Covid misinformation”.
She was quoting VAERS statistics from the government.
Because…the govt lies about its numbers, and only allows publications of facts that support their narrative.
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I just met my Carmel Light friend who asked for prayers for her son, whose army base in Iraq was being attacked.
The news came through her son’s ex-wife. My friend, ML, was in tears as she reported what he son told his ex to be sure to tell her/mom: “Let her know I love her.”
I said something about not seeing it on the news, and ML told me that the ex said there was one short blurb on a PBS channel about Iraq stating they wanted US troops out by the end of the year. That was all anyone has seen on this.
ML said that no one has heard from her son since that last phone call.
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On Dec. 31, New Year’s Eve, it was cold across Alberta and Saskatchewan. On that day, TransAlta, one of Alberta’s largest power generating companies, announced it had completed its conversion from coal to natural gas. It was also shutting down the Highvale coal mine, west of Edmonton.
Their release noted, “In aggregate, TransAlta has retired 3,794 megawatts of coal-fired generation capacity since 2018 while converting 1,659 megawatts to cleaner burning natural gas. This achievement, coupled with TransAlta’s growing and diversified generating portfolio, including hydro, wind, solar and battery assets, helps position TransAlta to be a highly competitive provider of reliable, low and zero-emitting electricity for customers in Canada, the United States, and Australia.”
About that wind and solar:
The AESO website revealed some literally cold, hard facts that weren’t in the TransAlta press release. As of noon, the TransAlta Keephills Unit 1, which was scheduled to retire that very day, was still putting out 302 megawatts, of its 395 megawatt rated capacity. At the same time, Alberta’s entire fleet of 13 grid-connected solar facilities, rated at 736 megawatts, was contributing 58 megawatts to the grid. The 26 wind farms, with a combined rated capacity of 2,269 megawatts, was feeding the grid 18 megawatts.
Solar and wind generation in Alberta, Canada this past Friday was generating 02.5 % of total capacity. We thought ERCOT was/is a bunch of idiots.
Texanadian, I hope you still have plenty of firewood.
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It’s a new year but we’re still ruled by the same Deep State/Swamp Monster Globalist Death Cult of GOOPeeCrats and Totalitariancons.
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I think I finally turned off that dang Cortana app. That thing kept popping up right in the middle of EVERYTHING, sometimes back to back. I spent more time dodging that thing that typing, sometimes.
Oh, what a relief.
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Getting cold out here again since the sun went down. My bacon and tomato cheeseburger without the bun makes it better though.
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Oh, and I finally turned the floor on about 5 pm today. Didn’t need it until then.
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Good evening, Hamsters,
Cold here this morning, 31 and very windy, sharp-edged windy that cuts right through you no matter how many layers you are wearing. Made it to 45 by noon and stalled there even in the warm sunshine that did not seem very warm at all. Currently 39 and falling to somewhere in the mid to low 20s by tomorrow morning.
Quite a change from being stuck in warm late fall temps so long, this appearance is welcomed to a certain extent. But spouse has moved all the potted plants onto the covered back porch, and I got out the stack of old sheets to cover them before we retire for the night. Still the wind has teeth and has not slowed down much.
Have closed all the draw drapes in the house and pulled down the blinds on the windows facing north. Kitty Purrscilla is wondering what this is all about, and she misses sitting on her favorite windowsills tonight. I’m sure she will spend most of the night under our bed.
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Sweetie was watching a movie about Jim and Tami Faye Baker and I got sucked in and watched it. Guess it’s a little comfort realizing today’s craziness is not all that new.
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Killary is still wiping the poo off her shoes after asking Twitter to donate to her “foundation”.
“Is this a joke?” demanded one reader.
“Cattle futures not what they used to be?” asked one Twitter user.
“Does Chelsea need a new house or something?” queried another.
“Only if it goes to the families of those lost in Benghazi,” stipulated another online commenter.
Others echoed some of Clinton’s more controversial statements. “Donate? What difference — at this point — would it make?” asked one. “Donate? Like with a cloth?”
One user simply tweeted a side-by-side photo contrasting a starving Haitian girl with Chelsea Clinton at her tony wedding ceremony.
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Got one of the rib roasts we got cheap from H‑E‑B cut up into steaks, vacuum bagged them along with the other one which I left whole. Vacuum sealed the beef ribs separately from the one I cut up for a treat sometime. Tomorrow I will cut up the spiral ham from yesterday and seal up into several meals. Oh, and throw out all the other packs of ham from last year we never ate. 😀
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#166 – Put those old ones into a big pot of pinto beans or some mac and cheese. No need to toss it over just a little freezer burn – people in China are starving.
Meanwhile, out here the temp is continuing to drop rapidly, 27 is showing right now. I’ma gonna stay up til 10 again, but there is absolutely nothing going on. More later.
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people in China are starving.
Rolling on floor laughing
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Well, I’ve felt like a human being again today. Otherwise, I think I clocked out on Christmas Day after I’d had a late lunch with an old friend and her son. There may have been a couple of days there where I was feeding the cats and then falling back asleep. I got very dehydrated. I had at least one nap today, but I’ve mostly been alert and knew what was going on. Now looking forward to a good night’s sleep.
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Went into hibernation.
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Bedtime for me. Nite nite you all. Pull those covers up tight tonight and snuggle in.
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Packers won 37 to 10 against the Vikings tonight in Green Bay where the temp at game time was 10 degrees. Not quite the Frozen Tundra of winning the 1967 game with the Cowboys for the championship, where that one was 13 degrees below zero. The NBC commentators and video folks showed an aerial view of Lambeau Field several times, and the residential area it is in was quite evident with all the streetlights and views of home rooftops. They even commented that the team is owned by the city of Green Bay and has been again selling more shares to interested fans to raise funds for upgrading parts of the stadium.
And around our place it is likely to be 26 or 27 degrees, definite freeze. Spouse has all the plants covered on the back porch, and we don’t think it will get cold enough to let faucets drip overnight.
G’night all, and stay warm.
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