Weighing Bales of Cotton, Port of Houston, Harris County, Texas
November 1939 by Russell Lee
Wednesday When Cotton Was King Open Commentary
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That front made it over here. The wind started howling around 3:30 AM and the bottom fell out about 4:30 but didn’t last long. We have exactly .10″ of rain now but hoping for more. They said it’d be a fast mover and could spawn a tornado or two. There are warnings in most of the counties in north Florida but none here so far. Oops the bottom fell out again and it’s pour down, 1.20″ an hour and a over quarter inch of rain now, (.30) dang that was fast.
Mornin’ Gang
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My grandfather was a cotton farmer and there’s several of those cotton scales and weights in the barn. They are smaller though, about 4′ long for weighing the bags full of cotton.
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Happy Birthday MHarper!
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Hey MHarper – have a wonderful birthday
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Many Happy Returns MHarper!
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What he said; Happy Birthday mharper!
Well the front is over in Georgia now and the rain is about over, just a few drops here and there. We got a grand total of 1.43″ most of it in about 20 minutes. I forgot to mention that it was about 50 degrees when I went to bed and 65 when I got up. Lots of warm air came in from the gulf.
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Morning gang. Dateline TOK. Happy birthday mharper. 37 degrees out here as the sun rises. Have a great day you all
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Winter wonderland: Storm brings widespread snowfall to South Plains, Panhandle
A winter storm system pushing its way across the country throughout the week has blanketed the U.S. Southern Plains in snow — with most of the Texas High Plains region accumulating between 4 to 7 inches by 1 p.m. Tuesday.
The Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport recorded 7.1 inches of accumulated snow.
According to the National Weather Service offices in Amarillo and Lubbock, Matador received the greatest amount of snow across the region, accumulating about 10 inches, while Plainview trailed closely between 8 to 9 inches.
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Happy Birthday, mharper!
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One more- happy birthday!
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Hey no one told me it is MHarper’s birthday!!
Happy Birthday MHarper
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Somebody go wake up MHarper, there is one piece of cake left and the ice cream’s gone.
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Back from TOK now. Still cool outside, but bright and sunny. Might try to complete greenhouse today if the wind will remain calm. Still need to figure out how to anchor it down so the prevailing winds will not blow it away. Should have some seeds arriving today, so should get started on round one of preparing for the spring plant. Still looking like I’ll need to germinate the seeds indoors before actually putting anything out in the greenhouse. Hoping that you all have a great day. More later as it develops.
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I’m bringing this post over from last night since I think it is an interesting and informative piece, particularly of interest to people in our age bracket. Sort of a PSA if you will.
Here’s a really scary story, and I’m not kidding around. All these places are near where BFF lived. https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/advocacy/info-2022/texas-elder-murders.html
Kind of discouraging to hear that they don’t seriously investigate elder deaths in the city. For sure they don’t out here.
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January is National Menudo Month. National Menudo month got its humble beginnings from Juanita foods in 2018. So lets all gather round the Menudo tree and have a steaming hot bowl of menudo from Juanita Foods.
- 5 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT MENUDO
It is alleged to cure hangovers Some claim that Menudo is the perfect cure for hangovers. - Your elixir for the common cold The warm broth packed with vitamins and minerals is the Mexican version of chicken soup.
- Guinness World Record Juanita’s Foods broke the world record by making the largest Menudo, weighing approximately 2,400 pounds.
- Many disliked it until adulthood Many Mexicans hated the dish as kids, because of the tripe and how it smells during the lengthy cooking process.
- There is a similar dish There is a similar Filipino dish with the same name made with pork and sliced liver instead of beef tripe.
- 5 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT MENUDO
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Uh……No.
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Beef Tripe:
Tripe is a type of edible lining from the stomachs of various farm animals.
Edible you say? I choose a jury trial.
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Saturday is menudo day in SS. At least 3 restaurants, including the one I frequent, offers menudo on Saturdays only, and if you want some you’d better get there early because it sells out quickly. As for me, think I’ll wait a little longer before trying my first bowl of menduo. Back in my drinking days, menudo was supposed to be a magical cure for a hangover, but I never had a bad enough hangover to try that cure.
The lady that makes it for TOK denizens says she usually makes about 60 pounds because that’s all she can get the main ingredient every week.
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#15 – Mixed bag for me for menudo……..I do like the broth and the hominy – the tripe NOT so much
(too danged chewy)
One Chapter Brother’s Mom & Pop used to come visit around Christmas from Lubbock.
I got NO CLUE what Mom’s secret(s) may be – but Her Menudo is as YUMMY as ANY good beef stew I’ve EVER tasted~! (and not chewy at all)
I missed out on Her other offerings since I scarfed THREE bowls of that magic Menudo!
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Gordo’s #14 AARP article is pretty dang scary indeed. I’d never even heard anything about this serial killer until I read this article.
I had always assumed that those assisted living communities had pretty tight security based on what you pay to live there. The management of those places should be found guilty in those wrongful death lawsuits.
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Menudo… I’ll pass. The Vietnamese can opt for tripe in their steaming bowls of Pho noodle soup. I’ve tried it a few times over the years. I’m done trying. It is too chewy.
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I love Menudo and seek it out when I’m on the road in Texas. I always check out the authentic hole-in-the-wall Messican places wherever I go. I have a NASA buddy, raised in Lubbock that used to make it and bring some to work for me. His is outstanding.
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NASA Sis checked in this morning. She said took garbage bags and a rake to a nearby area to help with cleanup. She met a lady who was having a hard time talking. In just the last three weeks, Monica has had a stroke, lost her father, and lost her home to a tornado.
Y’all, if anyone needs prayers…
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I worked late last night, so I’m a little late getting going this morning. I had my coffee already, and actually ate breakfast. Took care of a few tasks. Got my rosary in, will say other prayers later. I’ve had my time with the BGS, so that’s over.
I’m going to treadmill a bit, since I skipped yesterday. Before then, I’ll do my usual C&C review, but since I’ve had my coffee, would just be “&C”?
CRACKDOWNS ☙ Wednesday, January 25, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
Good morning, C&C, and Happy Wednesday! The news bag today contains: a word of thanks to C&C from new Representative Harriet Hagemen of Wyoming; ANOTHER former White House official finds classified documents under the couch cushions; the developing Seth Rich story is finally finding its legs; a C&C movie review; it’s Doomsday, again!; courageous president Zelenskyy takes prompt action to protect his backside; Governor DeSantis tackles teachers’ unions and woke school boards; lawsuit against the California doctor law picks up steam; and an amusing comeuppance video to help kick your day off right.
Looks like another interesting day in Childers land.
Multiplier news:
Harriet Hagemen, who took Liz Cheney’s Congressional seat in Wyoming, let Childers know that the multiplier for her campaign was a huge help, financially and emotionally. It encouraged her campaign worker. Of course they knew the multiplier numbers, since they all ended in “2”. She specifically mentioned all the $20.22 donations.
Harriet wants us to know she’s been appointed to the Judiciary Committee and is trying to get on the committee investigating how the federal government was weaponized against the American people. She said just wait, things are going to get interesting.
World news:
First up, news about Pence and his little trove of “documents marked as classified”. It seems that this habit of casually removing classified documents is endemic in the political world. I wonder if Maxine Backwaters or Nazi Pelosi have their own little stash? Remember when Hilary had 150 FBI dossiers in her closet for 3 years?
House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul told CNN that grab-and-go secret files are no bueno:
“I don’t know what to tell you other than it’s not permissible, whether you’re a chairman of a committee or president of the United States or vice president. And I’ve been dealing in the classified world all my career; I don’t understand people taking these documents home. If you do that, you’re supposed to have a safe designated for storage and you have to have a proper briefcase to carry it in. I don’t know all the facts here,” the Texas Republican said.
It sure seems like nobody’s really keeping track of where classified documents are, or who’s got them, or whether they’ve been returned or destroyed or whatever, and the whole thing apparently runs on the honor system, which — let’s be honest — given who we’re dealing with here is the worst idea since somebody woke up from a meth hangover blurrily thinking about mRNA.
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But now we have another former vice-president who is even more cooperative than Joe Biden. And it sure is starting to look like what we have here is a “custom” or “course of conduct” that lots of politicians were assuming was kosher. Once you hit three in a row, people rightly conclude there’s probably a lot more than three.
Are we going to throw them ALL in jail? Are we going to send squads of FBI raiders to every former president, vice-president, and senator’s homes and offices? Think about it: if home-stored secret documents really ARE a national security threat, given what we know now, don’t we have to be SURE? Can we take ANYBODY’s word for it?
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Thus the democrats are snared in a semantic slough. While admitting that storing classified materials in unauthorized tree forts is wrong, they now must slice the semantic onion very finely, and claim there’s a loophole: years later, once the documents turn up like a bad penny, if you “cooperate” the right way, then you can get out of jail Scot-free.
Cooperation! THAT’S the ticket. Not like that awful Trump person. Plus, orange.
But … unfortunately for the deep state, Pence is ALREADY cooperating better than Biden, because Biden is stonewalling Congress. It’s Goldilocks! We now have three “levels” of cooperation: the Trump level (too hot),* the Biden level (too cold), and the Pence level (just right), which makes it insanely difficult for corporate media shills to easily mold complicated exculpatory principles into psyop-friendly soundbites.
The real problem, besides the obvious habit of tucking SCIF docs into briefcases and forgetting where they were moved, is the double standard of (1) media coverage, and (2) judicial enforcement. To use Wagonburner’s favorite word (and one I like as well), they are smiting themselves with their own double standard, which is a dull blade.
Childers suggest that the focus of the FBI (but I suggest finding some other honest agency, somewhere) should look at the Anthony Weiner, Seth Rich, and Hunter Biden laptops.
But I’m not holding my breath. Too many important people would be implicated.
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Speaking of Seth Rich:
Since we’re speaking of Seth Rich… remember Seth? He was the DNC’s 2016 voter expansion data director who turned whistleblower and was promptly murdered under suspicious circumstances. You may not know that there’s a lawsuit percolating through the courts against the FBI for, among other things, failing to investigate and failing to respond to FOIA requests about the slain staffer.
On January 13th, the plaintiffs in that lawsuit filed a motion accusing the FBI of a coverup. Significantly, it says the FBI has admitted that Seth Rich was involved in the DNC’s email server hack in 2016: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe82aff18-9658-4a28-b282-22ffa14da68b_2234x1244.png
Seth Rich is suspected of having all kinds of anti-Hillary info; he was also murdered in the street. Despite still having his wallet, watch, etc., on him, it was labeled a mugging. As in “nothing to see here, just move along”. I don’t know which number he is on the Clintoncide list, but he’s there. He’s another lump under the Clinton rug.
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I love me some menudo. I cannot stand chitterlings. As we know February is black history month. I could care less about that. However while in Germany the powers that be decided that every Friday during Black History month chitterlings would be served in the chow hall to honor Black folks and give white folks a taste of Black heritage. Damn stuff stank bad. The only people that ate in the chow hall on those Fridays was officers and higher ranking NCOs. Because of my job in the service I was expected to do the politically correct thing and eat in the chow hall on. those Fridays. I got chewed out for eating in the NCO club. From that day on I made sure I was scheduled for temporary duty to units deployed in the field to eat “C” rations in the field.
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Now, more awesome Florida news:
Governor DeSantis tossed another political hand-grenade yesterday, when he announced his newest package of education reforms.
….among a bunch of other great individual pieces, DeSantis intends to break up the teachers’ unions and the blue school boards.
Buckle up, lefties, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride!
First, it rewrites a bunch of the rules related to teachers’ unions. Teachers would no longer be REQUIRED to join the local union, and they could not be punished in any way for opting out. It would require unionized teachers to pay their union dues directly, not through a paycheck deduction, and would require annual disclosure to members of the costs of membership. And union officials may not earn more from the union than the highest-paid teacher in that union gets paid by their school.
Wow. Unionized teachers would be competing against non-unionized teachers, who could actually TEACH instead of indoctrinate! Wonder how that’ll turn out?
Next, and this is truly amazing, the new law would set 8-year term limits on school board service. This will help break up the blue school boards, …. A 12-year term limit was more recently enacted, and this new law would shorten the time even more, to only two terms.
So, no more comfy and power hungry board members. This is how the Founders imagined that Congress would work – a rotating schedule of new blood and the kicking out of fat cats ingrained in the political miasma.
Finally, the whole thing is wrapped in a delicious breakfast burrito of a billion-dollar raise for teachers and individual liability protections for teachers from harassment by woke school administrators when teachers do things like buck illegal orders to teach materials they know are prohibited by Florida statute. Plus it would give teachers a way to file complaints against school officials who try to get them to break the law, and creates new powers to investigate those complaints.
It all sounds good to me. I wish Abbot would do the same.
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Morning, gang, and thanks for the b-day wishes. I am having a b-day lunch next door at 2 pm thanks to the 80+y.o. neighbor. He has been on a lunch kick since Thanksgiving. Lived next door to him for 27 years and this is definitely a new phase for him. These are home-cooked meals he’s doing!
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And there was whaling and gnashing of teeth.
As expected, Speaker McCarthy rejected Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ appointments of Schiff and Swalwell to the Intel Committee:
I have rejected the appointments of Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell for the House Intelligence Committee. -
More from the Legal Department at CoffeeandCovid.com:
The California lawsuit regarding the
muzzlingrestriction of free speech rights of doctors to actually discuss the WLR virus and treatments is moving forward. You know, was it “disinformation” or “scientific scrutiny” kind of thing?The California law has punishments for doctors who don’t toe the party line.
But the judge doesn’t get it:
A federal judge said Monday that he couldn’t make sense of a critical provision in a new law that punishes doctors for spreading false information about COVID-19 to their patients. Senior Judge William Shubb called its definition of misinformation “nonsense” during a hearing in the United States District Court in Sacramento.
The law’s language defines misinformation as “false information that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus contrary to the standard of care.” Try to explain that without word salad, I dare you.
Don’t feel bad. During yesterday’s hearing, Governor Newsom’s lawyers couldn’t come up with any concrete examples of what would be considered actionable misinformation under the law either, and the judge seemed downright skeptical:
When asked to more specifically discuss statements that could violate the rule, [government attorney] Liska declined to do so, saying it was dependent on the circumstances of each individual patient. Then how do you expect doctors to know what may violate the law? Shubb countered.
Indeed.
The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they grind. This is hopeful. May jail times be imposed to send a lesson to others.
I can dream.
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From comments:
I’m digging the revamp of the FL teacher arrangements. Here’s another victory:
In Iowa, the Based Gov Lady signed a new law: “allows any Iowa family to use taxpayer funds to pay for private school tuition — at a cost of $345 million annually to the state once fully phased in.”
/tapping microphone/ tap, tap, tap…Hello, Texas? Can you hear this?
I get this argument but I also think we need to stop referring to this as government money. It’s taxpayer money. I shouldn’t have my taxes confiscated to pay for an education that doesn’t meet my child’s or my family’s needs and priorities. As a homeschooler, I am penalized financially because I have to buy my own supplies and books and so on, I can’t deduct them from my taxes and I can’t use any school services even sports participation even though I pay for it. I pay for school that I don’t want and then have to pay again for either private school or homeschool (admittedly much cheaper but still…). I don’t know why we can’t change the framing of this to be that parents have the right to choose what their child’s education should look like and they shouldn’t be penalized for not taking the default public school option. It really limits options for many people.
I get the “taxpayer money” thing, too. Way too many people thinking they’re getting “free stuff” and thus don’t mind going in elbow deep into “entitlements”. Using the phrase “taxpayer money” might remind people that they’re taking from their neighbors and friends. But then, their N&F may be elbow deep right next to them…
Ooof: Bill Gates: Vaccines in our food supply solves the problem of vaccine hesitancy.
(In the same way slipping a roofie in a girl’s drink solves the problem of sex hesitancy.)
Squawk will appreciate this one. I agree.
I don’t even know what that [the doomsday clock] is. The clock I watch is Israel. They are God’s time piece.
…and many more.
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’bout dang time:
Josh Hawley introduces PELOSI Act to bar lawmakers from trading stocks and profiting while in office
The bill comes after revelations last year that Nancy’s husband, Paul Pelosi, traded between $1 million and $5 million of stocks for semiconductors just days before Congress allocated $52 million to the industry. The stocks were later sold at a loss to remove the appearance of impropriety.
They’ll probably find another way to cheat, but this would be a step in the right direction. But we’re talking foxes guarding the hen house, so I don’t have much hope of this passing.
I’d rather trust a millionaire coming into office than a millionaire made during office. A millionaire has SOME idea of business and stands to lose, while someone who makes their money while holding office probably didn’t do it legitimately.
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#20 – I was asking a couple of friends about the lid on publicity on that story. I would have thought that would be the news story of the year, at least in the Dallas area. I was told that these high end retirement villages don’t like that kind of publicity, and that they have both the financial and political clout to squash or minimize these things when they do happen. I’m not an AARP fan at all, but I’ve got no reason to question the story contents.
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School board terms should be two years as far as I’m concerned. Four years is too long to wait once parents discover the candidate lied and now school trustee Leroy identifies as Lee Ann and wants to invite drag queens to apply as teaching assistants.
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Bellville is 175 years old this year.
For you nerds (you know who you are), that’s what you call a demisemiseptcentennial,
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RE: Murder of Whistleblower Seth Rich
The just busted senior FBI agent Charles McGonigal was in charge of the buried and covered up Seth Rich murder investigation. Many believe Rich was involved in leaking the DNC hacking story and was going to deliver other damaging information.
McGonigal was involved in the illegal and corrupt charges against an innocent Carter Page.
McGonigal was up to his eyeballs in the fake Christopher Steele dossier used against President Trump.
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29 GJT
Whaling?
Damn Democrats killing whales, now?
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I was just going to keep my mouth shut…
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Happy Birthday Ms. Harper. Wishing you many more.
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Adam Schiff said it. It was on C-Span so it must be true…
All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it.
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Right in the blackheart of all that is evil in the rotted state of Virginia lies the smallest county in America populated with rich lobbyists, glorified bureaucrats and government trough feeders…
A former president of the Arlington teachers union, who was ousted last spring, has been charged with embezzling more than $400,000 from the organization.
Ingrid Gant, 54, of Woodbridge, was arrested yesterday (Monday) in Prince William County on four counts of embezzlement. She was taken to the county’s jail and later released on an unsecured bond, according to a press release from the Fairfax County Police Department today (Tuesday).
Fox 5 first reported the arrest.
Gant led the Arlington Education Association (AEA) for six years before being ousted last spring along with her executive board.
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When Caleb and Amber realized they were just too ugly to ever be fashion models and were turned down as slasher movie stunt men, they decided to become artists and began practicing with spray cans on pro-life clinic buildings.
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged two members of the radical left-wing group Antifa with vandalizing Florida pregnancy clinics.
Prosecutors say Caleb Freestone and Amber Smith-Stewart spray-painted threats of violence on three facilities in the Miami area between May 28 and July 3, 2022. Their graffiti made reference to “Jane’s Revenge,” an anonymous group that has taken credit for dozens of firebombings and other attacks on pro-life facilities in the wake of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. They painted “WE’RE COMING for U” on a facility in Winter Haven on June 26. A facility affiliated with the Archdiocese of Miami was tagged with the threat, “If abortions aren’t SAFE then neither [sic] are you,” on July 3.
All of the clinics offer free ultrasounds, pregnancy testing, and counseling, prosecutors said.
The charges are the first the Biden Justice Department has brought against left-wing activists under the FACE Act, a law that prohibits threats against reproductive health facilities. The administration had until now enforced the law only against pro-life activists. Republicans have accused the Justice Department of a double-standard in their investigations of incidents at pro-life facilities.
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Tedtam
I was just going to keep my mouth shut…
I bet you wouldn’t have if GJT said prostate whaling.
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Prostrate prostate prostrate whales?
yarrrrrrr! Where’s me harpoon?
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Yo Squawkster – we know monkeyworx eyeballs AIR traffic correct?
Does He also peek at Ocean traffic?
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Katfish
Monkey was up on that ship a week ago. That is what I tried top get through earlier is the top level software(s) he uses one up the media big time.
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Went back for a nap, but a friend called and we wound up talking for a while. Now it’s too late for my nap, but a little early yet for dinner. Supposed to drop down to 28 tonight, but I think I don’t need to cover my plants. I think they need prolonged cold in the 20s or less before I would need to wrap them. My seeds were delayed until next week for some reason, so no planting today. Nothing else to report on for now, so enjoy your dinner. More later.
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Dang autocorrect.
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Thank you, texanadian!
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You may remember that a few weeks ago a female ramp attendant in Montgomery Alabama was just minding her own business servicing a jet airplane whose engines were still running and was sucked into the engine with bad results. Blancolirio is on the job reviewing the preliminary NTSB findings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QGi9RIIF-E
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I’ve been jacking around with swapping phones for most of the day. Since I broke the glass on my old one, and it was covered by insurance, I got a replacement phone. I’ve never actually done the data transfer before, as hubby and I both usually go to the T-Mobile store and let the techs do it for us. I decided I wanted to learn how to do it today, but I was really nervous doing it thinking I was going to destroy some files or lose my contacts or something. I managed to get that done okay, and I went to the internet to figure out how to swap out the SIM card. Unfortunately, the video on the card replacement was telling me to poke the wrong hole on my phone. I had to go to the store anyway. Turns out the video was wrong.
I guess it’s true you can’t believe everything you see in the internet. Even if the model number matches.
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#45
Wow, that’s gruesome.
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#46 – Samsung has ‘smart switch’ – light it up on both old & new phones and set them side-by-side.
At least IME it has worked like a champ.
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Thanks again, every one of you Couch Critters, for the birthday wishes. I had a nice day, including a birthday lunch prepared by my 81-y.o. neighbor. He’s a good cook, and it’s all real food, nothing like what I put on my plate for mealtimes at home. One of the usual neighbors for Ken’s holiday meals had a medical appointment and couldn’t come, but otherwise we had a good assortment of older folks.
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#49 – I’m glad that you had a nice birthday party.
I’ve got about another hour to kill here before I head for the bed, so I’ll find something on YT to watch. I did complete the greenhouse today, and I think it may stay put in the wind, but we’ll find out soon enough about that. Surprisingly, it turns out to be just the right size for what I intend to use it for and it fits nicely right up next to the house on the south side where it gets good sunshine and radiant heat from the brick on the house too. Not putting anything in it for a few days, but that will give me a chance to see how it all shapes up. No other news for now. More later.
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Nite all. Signing off out here.
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#49 mharper42,
Happy Birthday to the lovely lady you are.
A great way to spend the day with friends virtually and in person. Hope the cats had a celebration ready for you when you got home.
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