My attempts to save, edit and post the photos I wanted were unsuccessful.
It’s too late and I am too tired to jack with it.
Tomorrow is another day.
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Loading up and getting ready to head west. A nice 64 here but it’ll be in the mid 50’s here and in Texas by Friday. We’ll likely it some rain in Louisiana but it shouldn’t be too bad.
Mornin’ Gang
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Morning gang. Have a safe trip Dave. Much cooler here this morning, and at high 40s may be looking at the high for the day. Freeze tonight, so I may cover my roses. Not sure what is on the agenda today either. After I get to the TOK and have a spot of coffee maybe I can figure things out a little better. You all have a great day now.
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Coyote seen on Oak Hollow.
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Texpat deserves a day off. I was jacking with my Latin program last night, and no matter what I typed, it kept telling me I was wrong. Four times I went through the lesson. I retyped the “suggested answers” I was given.
At that point, I just got up and left the computer to go wash dishes and go to bed.
I had thought about checking in on the day’s offerings, but I just wanted to get away from the keyboard for a while.
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Feeling better this morning, and I have my morning beverage in hand…
LEGITIMATE CONFUSION ☙ Thursday, February 16, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
First, the roundup:
Good morning, C&C, it’s Thursday! Your roundup today includes: another lefty influencer begins to doubt the narrative; if you weren’t sure about turbo-leukemia, meet hyper-leukemia; study finds young people now the most likely group to die from a heart attack, and scientists are baffled; briefed senators are disgusted by what the military has been shooting down; Fox wonders about the transparency of the Biden Administration; Russia starts arming its ships with nukes for the first time since the Cold War; US unofficially warns Ukraine that the party has to end at some point; Scotland’s prime minister resigns; mask study vexes Slate who expertly plays the study shell game.
*WORLD NEWS AND COMMENTARY*
Remember the report on Taylor Lorenz, the twitterer, who was coming to the realization that a lot of friends were dropping dead? And all of the followers chiming in likewise?
Yesterday, another influencer joined the ranks of the awakening. This time it was Stephen King. He’s tentatively questioning the government’s sketchy balloon narrative. Not directly. Not accusingly. He’s just “not sure.”
Stephen King. THE Stephen King. They guy who writes horror for a living. He’s wondering about all of the skeet shooting by the military. King was so far into the vat of lefty Kool-Aid that Childers blocked him. And Mr. C is not fond of blocking folks. Childers is wondering if this is a beginning, if there is an “awakening” going on.
We can dream.
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Yesterday Mr. C. reported on a case of “turbo-leukemia” that took a life in a matter of weeks. A few people got in touch with Mr. C. and said yes, it can happen that fast, even before the jab.
Alright then, how about this one? I don’t think I can give you a better example than this next story. Boston 25 ran an article on Tuesday headlined, “13-Year-Old Girl Goes To Hospital For Headache, Dies Hours Later From Leukemia In Georgia.”
Hours later. HOURS. We might need to call this something different from “turbo.” Maybe hyper. Hyper-leukemia.
Nobody saw it coming. “We never knew she had it,” said the girl’s mother, Jenna Randall. …
On Saturday, healthy Julia Chavez, 13, had symptoms of an ear infection and a headache. So her folks took her to the urgent care, where she got antibiotics. The next day, she collapsed late Sunday afternoon, and they took her to the hospital’s emergency room.
The hospital…. finding that Julia had internal bleeding caused by leukemia. “She had bleeding in her brain, lungs, stomach… everywhere,” her father, Dennis Lee Chavez, wrote…. “…. It came on so hard and so fast. Doctors told us there was no way we could have known.”
There was no way they could have known — because Julia’s hyper-leukemia came on so hard, and so fast…
And now all the blue states and a few red ones are requiring kids to get the covid shot to attend school.
I don’t see how cancer could get much faster than this. I suppose the next step will be leukemia that kills you in thirty minutes or less, or you get double the leukemia on your next order. Plus free bread sticks.
I had a nephew who had leukemia and the parents didn’t know until — was it a nosebleed or a collapse? – I can’t remember. He was asymptomatic until that point, and the hospital report was their first notice that their son’s life was in danger. He received cancer therapy and is the proud father of two adorable children. I had wondered if the cancer treatments were going to affect his ability to father children, but I am happy to see that it has not.
Incidentally, it’s his brother who is receiving treatment for Burkitt’s lymphoma now. I saw a pic of him yesterday. He still has eyebrows, but has gone for the smooth pate look for now. He’s smiling and seems to be in good spirits, so I’ll keep him on my prayer list.
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Next up at C&C, Childers refers to a CBS story about the S&U rise in cardiac deaths among young people.
Specifically, researchers found that 30% more younger people are now dying from heart attacks than they were before the pandemic.
They are baffled, of course. No idea. Not even a theory, really. Just guesses.
You can guess about how much side-stepping there was about the potential, anti-agenda cause.
My very favorite part was when the expert suggested that death certificates aren’t reliable. I laughed so hard I coughed up a clump of undigested spike protein.
/snip
If CBS’s revolting failure to consider the vaccine — or even myocarditis! — isn’t enough of a giveaway that the network is a part of the coverup, think about how the study period — two years — conveniently collects the first year of the pandemic, obscuring the cause. Why not break the two years out separately, where we could gauge the impact of the jabs versus the impact of the virus?
You know why.
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Childers has a discussion about the skeet shooting and Bidenco’s response. I’ll leave that for you to read.
What really caught my attention was the story that Russia is moving nukes:
On Tuesday, Newsweek ran a story headlined, “Russian Warships Armed With Nuclear Weapons Deployed: Norway.”
According to a report from the Norwegian Intelligence Service, Russia’s Northern Fleet is now deploying ships stocked with tactical nuclear weapons….
Thanks, Joe!
Newsweek said Norway’s report was released to reporters on Monday, for some reason. Among other things, the report said:
Russian decisions are characterized by a strong distrust of Western intentions. This perception has been significantly reinforced as a result of the West’s reaction to the invasion of Ukraine. Both the likelihood of misunderstandings between Russia and NATO and unintended incidents increase, which in turn increases the risk of escalation.
… What worries me the most about Nord-Gate is Russia’s lack of any public reaction. They haven’t taken it up at the United Nations. They haven’t blasted us with recriminations in their psyops network. They haven’t blown up our undersea internet cables. But I can’t imagine Russia is just going to chalk up their lost pipelines as “one of those things” that sometimes happens between neighbors, and you just have to set it aside to get along.
I don’t want to find out what they have planned, but I’m pretty sure we’re going to.
As a parent, I always knew something was up when it got really quiet….
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Childers ends his column with a long discussion of the latest mask studies showing just how useless they were/are, but how those with control issues will continue to insist on them.
Hubby and I comment on how masks are “required” at my doctor’s office, but that all of the staff seem to be ignoring their own mandate. Hubby walked out on one visit when they wanted to charge him a buck for a mask they insisted he wear. The last time I went in, I had my bandana mask around my neck, but didn’t put it on. The staff didn’t insist on it. In the past, the doctors allowed me to remove it in the exam room but told me to wear it in the hallway.
Stoopid. If I’m exhaling disease, I’m guessing the exam rooms would have a concentration of it, then. Who else was allowed to breathe freely in that room before I arrived? It’s all theater.
Anyway, no one messed with me when I was maskless. I do have a medical excuse – rebreathing my exhalations can bring on a headache. I never thought I’d be thanking God for scary, painful, thunderclap headaches and the following migraines, but I will say His timing was perfect. I have a legitimate excuse to avoid the jab and masks.
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GJT
Coyote seen on Oak Hollow.
We have a coyote in our neighborhood. We have some thick trees near the bayou, so I’m sure it has a home in there somewhere. Neighbors have reported missing small animals
When I went back to my childhood home and Noe invited me in to trip down memory lane (and explain changes to the house and yard), he mentioned how they were battling a whole pack of the coyotes. They were eating livestock in the neighborhood, and he’d warned his wife to never allow their babies outside alone. That’s scary.
I told him that when I was young, we had pigs, goats, chickens, ducks, and rabbits. No coyotes. We figgered that all of the Pearland development north of the property were pushing them down into their neighborhood.
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Found this in the C&C comments:
“Psychopathy is not a rare phenomenon. Dr. Hare estimates that psychopaths consist of 1% of the population. Other psychologists have estimates as high as 4%. That represents between 3 and 12 million Americans, millions of which are … residing in positions of power with a psychological need to control and manipulate others. They are drawn to occupations that allow them to wield power over others, such as police, military, intelligence, and finance.” ~~ From Chapter 3 of Timothy Silver’s landmark book: Lifting the Veil
https://www.wanttoknow.info/mk/liftingtheveil
Well, that ‘splains things.
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I heard on Salcedo’s show this morning that Jim McInvale and Wayne Dolcefino are filing lawsuit(s) to force Harris County’s government to release public documents about the last election. Lying Lina is refusing to release them.
Salcedo suggested we go and buy something from Mattress Mack to support him.
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It’s getting colder as the day goes on out here.
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blancolirio discussed the FAA’s call to action related to safety concerns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm0TnKtVIV0
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Hubby’s told me several times that Handyman shares some of EG’s disdain for the female sex. I’ve run into his resistance several times when I’ve told him to do something. Most of the time he’s nice enough, but he thinks he knows how to do everything, and sometimes we want it done our way.
I think he’s as nice to me as he is because I sign his paycheck.
We are recycling the 1930’s wood from the old house to use as flooring upstairs, which is one of Handyman’s current projects. The old house has been without climate control for years, and we know that the wood needs to be acclimated to our Dome Home before being nailed into place. Handyman didn’t want to be bothered with moving the wood, despite Hubby telling him for weeks that it needed to be done.
I had a discussion with Handyman about the need to move the flooring, and he responded with “I’ll just grab some as I need it.” Oh Hails NO! This is MY floor, and I told him so. I said I’d help him move it. So, for about two hours yesterday, as I was wearing my ever-so-sexy BGS, he pulled out strips of flooring from the pile and we both made many trips back and forth to pile it up inside the Dome.
I could feel the moisture in some of the pieces I was carrying. As we got to the bottom, they felt drier. I can’t even imagine using the wood in that condition.
I told Hubby that THIS woman got him to do something he didn’t want to do. I guess the paycheck thing counts.
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Also found this in the C&C comments:
I’ve been watching Stargate SG-1 recently. Last night I watched an episode called 2010 (originally airing in 2000). The plot is that humans met the Ashren who were techologically superior but were willing to share. Their medicine made our own doctors obsolete. But one of the main characters found out she couldn’t have children. So they did some digging and found that their birthrate declined 91% in 2 years due to vaccines the Ashren were giving them. It was a silent war upon the humans.
I have all ten seasons of SG1 on DVD, and Pluto now has an SG1 channel. I loved watching that show. I remember this episode, and the comparisons to our current news is striking: folks who pretend to be friendly, pretend to want to help “lesser” folks, make a technology (in this case, a beauty cream) widely available…and it destroys fertility.
It’s how that culture conquered new worlds.
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#14 ELG
Thats dang right scary. I know it was just one of the points brought up but sounds like the main one, we will be dealing with Covid aftermath for a decade or more. Plus whatever other shenanigans the government are up to currently.
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Good overcast and breezy morning, Hamsters. Typical winter’s day here, 58 at 6am has limped to 59 at 9am. It would be a snow sky farther north, but this far south we can only manage a rain sky. The north wind has picked up considerably the past hour or so, and we might have to take Old Glory inside for the duration of the windy morning.
Need to replace the Valentine banner with St. Patrick’s shamrocks on the front porch. After that it’s time for a mug of hot chocolate and a glance at the Chron.
Spouse has a doctor appointment later this morning, and it will be interesting to see if a mask is still required at a skin doctor’s office. Last time we were there the staff was so tired of the mask bit and how ridiculous it is, but they have to accommodate the patients who believe that it is required or else disaster will happen.
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TEXPAT
Contact me about pictures. Dude you are making things way too hard on yourself. It ain’t the Mini
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Morning, chickadees. I just ate my last banana as part of my breakfast, so I need to make a list and go to the store today. I hardly ever have a long list any more, but anything essential must be written down, or very likely I will get home without it.
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After watching this video about the newfangled ceramic pans, I’m thinking I may just go all cast iron and stainless steel in the future. The lifespan of those pots and pans are decades, not a year or two.
Treat ’em right, learn how to deglaze a pan, and the maintenance isn’t that bad. There are hacks for the outside of the pans, mostly using kitchen chemicals like vinegar and baking soda.
Plus, I won’t be chasing the newest and more expensive fad.
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My son has a job in Colorado on one of their frack fueling units so he took his galfriend with him for a little mini vacation. They stayed over in Amarillo last night and went to eat at the Big Texan, home of the 72 oz steak challenge. He didn’t do the challenge but there was a guy there that was. He couldn’t do it. Although I don’t think they had the challenge back then, when I was a boy we lived in Hereford and we’d go there sometimes for Saturday night dinner. Place has been around a long time.
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21 granny
Try carbon steel pans. They have the heat response of stainless and they season up like cast iron. Yellow Hair gave me a couple for Christmas and I haven’t used my stainless much since.
I can make omelettes in them.
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Do you have a brand you prefer, Wagonburner?
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Where has the time gone? It’s been 17 years today.
Patsy E. Johnson 3/25/1926 – 2/16/2006
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#20 mharper42,
I can relate to needing a grocery list with me, not just in my head. Once those things on the list are in the cart, that means browsing around the store is in order for other things I would like but didn’t get put on the list. 🙂
I usually grocery shop in mid-morning to avoid school rush hour traffic or in mid-afternoon before schools let out. There is usually considerable traffic from that time and until after-school sports and other activities are finished. Since our area has more homes built in subdivisions that until recently had been cow pastures, traffic has grown as new schools are opened. Our country subdivision is about a mile south of FM 359 that is now a very busy road during rush hours.
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I like my stainless steel pans on the glass electric stove. My cast iron would probably work, but I don’t want to scratch up the stove top. I got Cuisinart, but if I had it to do over, I would at least get 1 All Clad skillet. The ones that I have have a wafer type bottom that is aluminum in the center, but the sides are stainless only. The All Clad have the “sandwich” all over to allow for more heat evenly distributed to the sides of the skillet as well as the base. I prefer them to the high carbon simply for appearance if nothing else. Cooking with stainless is somewhat similar to cast iron in that you want to heat the skillet before adding anything to cook to prevent sticking, but you don’t have to get it nearly as hot as you do the cast iron. I keep them shiny and like new using Bar Keeps Friend.
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This is a hilarious spoof from South Park of a couple that looks suspiciously like Harry and Meghan.
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And there will come a time when you can’t easily handle the weight of a 12 inch cast iron skillet.
And with that elbow…. 🙂
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SPECTRE’s Blofeld says Ve vill take your soul.
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On the 16th day of February in Bergen County, New Jersey, the high today right now is 68°.
Global warming at its finest.
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25 Shannon
I’d like to know the joke the photographer told Mom to get her to smile like that for the camera. You know how she hated to have her picture taken.
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Having my best day so far. Woke up a little iffy -but just a little bit – so I skipped the NSAID this morning. After a bit, the stiffness disappeared. I decided to wait until at least noon to start pushing things, but when I did decide to exercise, I started with some non-extreme twisting to get the obliques woken up, stretched out the legs and lower back, then got on the treadmill. I went an extra quarter mile at a teensy bit faster pace than before. I was starting to feel some gritching from the back and though my first inclinations were to keep going, my head insisted that I stop while I was ahead.
I guess I’ll see if I overdid in a few hours.
As for the elbow and heavy pans, that was quite accurate. I have always had weak wrists and wrestling the larger of those cast iron pans is often a two-hander event. I do love cooking in them though. Hubby doesn’t. I have one very large stainless steel pan that I use when necessary, and the rest of them are old “non stick” options. I think it’s about time to splurge on some new pans, but I’ll need to eddicate Hubby on how to clean them without destroying the seasoning. He tends to think “more is better”.
I’ll start scouring the thrift stores, too. Sometimes folks who are cleaning out momma’s kitchen don’t realize what they are throwing out. I’ve seen folks finding All Clad on the thrift store shelves. I’m not holding my breath, but I’ll start moseying down those aisles….just in case.
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Oh, also on the elbow – Doc prescribed a steroid cream that is similar to the OTC medication, Voltaren ™. It’s the only thing so far that seems to be helping. I’m trying not to use it too much because, well, it’s a steroid and those things do affect the body.
I have three tubes and 11 refills. I guess she thinks I’m going to need it.
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24 granny
I got Merten & Storck.
I paid the extra to get the ones with the handles that have a fork at the bottom. This keeps the handle nice and cool – also easier on the hands.
Love them. WAY lighter than cast iron; maybe a little lighter than stainless. Clean and maintain just the same as cast iron.
n.b. The description at the link says “ceramic” but it isn’t. Just plain old steel.
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My wife loves that stuff, Voltaren, for her neck and sometimes her mid back. Used to be prescription only but can get it OTC now.
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I have bought some darned fine cast iron cookware from Academy for very little money. The down side is that they have to be sanded smooth and reseasoned. Not a big deal but it does take some time. I bought a 12-15 quart dutch oven that weighs a ton but it really works and a 18″ skillet. The skillet is big enough to easily cook 4 big ribeyes at the same time.
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Texpat, I don’t know when the picture of your Mom was taken – but if you boys were with her, my bet would be that he told her that her boys could not deny their relationship with her…
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btw – be thankful you don’t live in and/or are not driving through the Dalhart-Dumass corridor today.
6F – wind NW at 15
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Uh oh, here it comes:
“The administrative state officers at the CDC have not made immunization status a reportable disease (yet) but immunization status is listed as one of the reasons for mandatory reporting.6 They are just one step away from being able to collect this information without your permission. Ergo: Vaccine passports made easy.”
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Uh oh, here it comes:
“The administrative state officers at the CDC have not made immunization status a reportable disease (yet) but immunization status is listed as one of the reasons for mandatory reporting.6 They are just one step away from being able to collect this information without your permission. Ergo: Vaccine passports made easy.”
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I am trying to post a quote but after I save, it disappears from HammyVille…
Well, I put it on my FB page, which has no issue with it.
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Here’s the quote w/o the origin…
“The administrative state officers at the CDC have not made immunization status a reportable disease (yet) but immunization status is listed as one of the reasons for mandatory reporting.6 They are just one step away from being able to collect this information without your permission. Ergo: Vaccine passports made easy.”
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I ran into the Igloo factory store west of Katy the other day. I was surprised at the deep discounts.
They’re having some kind of big sale on March 1-2, IIRC.
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Super Dave
I bit the bullet and paid a pro to frame mine….
Chili Queens at the Alamo
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Mharper
Often, whatever you paste into a comment does not immediately appear….to you. You have to refresh the page to see it as it appears on the blog.
So…. post, refresh, then it will appear.
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My #42
The artist, (Robert) Julian Onderdonk (July 30, 1882 – October 27, 1922) was a Texan Impressionist painter, often called “the father of Texas painting.”
Go here for the Texas State Historical Association entry on him.
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19 squack
Sound familiar?
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BSue
We don’t have a date on the photograph. But an educated guess is that she was fifteen/sixteen years old.
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#46 Shannon, what a treasure. It made me recall my grandmother looking at my oldest cousin and me (her oldest and youngest grandchild – some 8 1/2 years apart), shaking her head and saying “you two could deny you are related but nobody would believe you” ♥♥♥
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Sun cam out a little while ago, but the temp still never got above 50 degrees, and the wind will just cut right through you. Looking fo 27 tonight, so I might go out about dark and cover up my roses for the night. I did not open the greenhouse up, but there is condensate all over the inside, so I’m thinking that it is warm and humid in there and that’s good enough. I could get me a smart cooking thermometer and leave it in there I guess, but for now we’ll just have to work with what we’ve got. I’m still leaving the light bulb on in there all the time for heat.
Think I’ll try my hand at an Absolutely Nasty Sudoku Level 4 to kill a little time.
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My 42
Heh.
When I took this photo of my newly framed print, the only light on in the living room was from an LED pharmacist’s floor lamp next to my recliner which I use for reading.
Bizarrely, the non-glare art glass grabbed the reflected light, mixed it with hues from the green mat around the artwork, and it appears as a lime green UFO in the trees behind the Alamo! -
#39 – I’ve had that problem on this site where the post seems to disappear into the ether when including a quote. Usually someone in authority around here has been kind enough to release it into the wild after a while though.
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ElGordo
See my #43 to Harper
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Ima try that right now to see if it works for me:
“The administrative state officers at the CDC have not made immunization status a reportable disease (yet) but immunization status is listed as one of the reasons for mandatory reporting.6 They are just one step away from being able to collect this information without your permission. Ergo: Vaccine passports made easy.”
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CRAPOLA.
I put in my post with a quoted lift and a link to the source.
Saved and didn’t see the post.
Clicked to edit YADA YADA
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Nap time for me, later gang…
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That’s another thing about our new Hambone home…
Whenever you copy and paste, it will bring all the live links with it. I often have to edit those out before posting the comment.
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I’m just knocking things off my to-do list. Just sent one of my company files off to the CPA.
I’m so darn proud of myself right now. It’s taken a long time to get here, and the relief is palpable.
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So, if your company has a research object shot out of the sky by an F-22, does your insurance cover it?
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I would expect that anything less than $15.00 might not cover the deductible on insurance coverage. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11760443/Did-Joe-Biden-shoot-hobbyists-12-balloon-380-000-missile.html
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GJT says:
February 16, 2023 at 11:33 amHereford!
You were close to Muleshoe and Wife 3.0 was from there. We made the trip from Tomball to Muleshoe maybe 50 times and it never got shorter! When we could start to smell Sudan, we knew we were close.
Wife’s Dad was a sharker and mover in his younger days and if you had any kin in Muleshoe they would have certainly known him.
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Dateline Nassau Bay, reporting from this quaint, cozy Air B N B, AKA hey let’s convert this backyard shed to a 2 bedroom 2 bath Hyatt Regency Suite,…or sumpin’ 😉 Actually it’s pretty neat, about 600 Sq Ft, I’m guessing with a small living room, nice well equipped kitchen and even a washer dryer. We rolled in about 3:45, a little less than 11 hours and dang I’m Tarred. We drove through some rain in western Louisiana on into Texas and came through the front near Lake Charles. How do I know? It was 80 degrees in Baton Rouge and 60 in Lake Charles, about 54 here now.
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Glad to hear SD reporting in safely. I miss that neck of the woods. Cooling off out here. I covered my roses with a tarp for the freeze tonight.
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#42 Shannon, very nice! I love the rustic “Barn Wood Look” a buddy of mine back when I worked at Hobby had a precision miter and made frames out of discarded fence planks that he picked up on the curb I have several of his frames that he gave me along with hand cut matte’s and non-glare glass. He used to sell them for about $50 bucks a pop and couldn’t keep up with the demand. Me, I paid the local
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I ran into the Igloo factory store west of Katy the other day. I was surprised at the deep discounts.
They used to do that every September, for a few days to clear out their inventory for the year. They used October 31 as the end of their year. I bought some neat coolers there, some 25 cents on the dollar BUT What A ZOO!!!! Guys showed up with trailers to load up. One year I was looking for a particular heavy duty cooler and an employee told me to come back the next day and they would toss out a few more. The sale had gotten so popular that they held back some stuff and released it daily to make it more fair.
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Chili Queens at the Alamo
What people may not be aware of, Tuesday night was Chili w/ Beans night at the Alamo. Every night could have been Chili w/ Beans but there was a substantial tax levied on beans in those days so the Chili Queens had to cut costs where they could.
/I love my wife. She looked over and said… “Are you making stuff up again?
Another thing people do not know is Wick Fowler’s Great Great Granda Ma Frijole Fowler preferred Chili w/Beans.
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Awright! I just got a text from John, a NASA buddy and he’s going to make the Seabrook Classic Cafe tomorrow. SO it’s going to almost be the whole crowd: Adrian, Carl, Clifton, Jesse, John, Ruben and ole Dave. 😉
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Annnnnnnnnnd they wonder WHY I wear TALL boots in here!
*NO SMILEY!*
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I just spotted The Mighty Brazos River in Texas, I don’t know how long it’s been up but it wasn’t there when I fired up my computer a little bit ago. That said; my Hot Spot is slow tonight.
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Katfish
Grandma Frijole says no chili for you w/wo beans.
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64 SQK
Sounds like a tall tale to me.
The chili queens worked the plaza from after the Civil War until the 1930’s.
Everybody knows that beans were invented at Texas A&M in 1939.
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What? Would I tell a tall tail about something so important as the chili queens and the Alamo? Say it ain’t so!!
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ABuck
All my ex’s live in Texas too!
We’d go through Muleshoe going to Lubbock. My Cub Scout group took a train ride to Muleshoe from Lubbock as a field trip, then parents picked up there.
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Just curious.
What kind of beans do you ruin your chili with?
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According to the WordPress record, this website was updated with the Brazos River photograph at 12:47 PM CST today.
I just spotted The Mighty Brazos River in Texas, I don’t know how long it’s been up but it wasn’t there when I fired up my computer a little bit ago.
I know you guys from Alabama are a little slow on the uptake, but damn, man, it’s been 7 hours.
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Shannon
Pintos. I tried Jelly beans once. That sweet stuff does not go well with the chili.
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Downloading the Old Win10 HD to the new Mac.
I don’t what his MoJo is, but I had already done everything Squawk told me to do and yet when I got him on the phone and he told me what to do, all the damned files I need appeared like magic even though they refused to show up for me before.
Historical Note RE: #64 – Wick Fowler’s Great, Great, Granda Ma Frijole Fowler was a Communist sympathizer from Vermont. The wicked woman put Garbanzo beans in her chili and the coroner said that’s what killed her. Honestly, can you imagine such a heresy ?
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Me, I paid the local
PimpFrame Shop Dude about $350 for a fancy frame, matte and glass.I assure you, I can empathize. I did the 1898 Battleship Texas, too.
Good thing I just sold a calf.
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Shannon, I also did the Republic of Texas and Alamo Map in semi-matching frames. The Chili Queens were just icing on the cake. Wife has my den decorated in Texican motif and it’s looks pretty good. I should take some pictures and post them. 😉
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Super Dave & Shannon
I got know a guy out in Dripping Springs with a frame shop years ago. He used to bring all kinds of framed prints to our auctions. His shop was pretty simple and not all that complicated or expensive to start up. He was making a small fortune out of that little place by hitting the road every week and pushing his stuff through auctions and flea markets.
The bottom line is the markup on the framing material, mattes and non-glare glass is spectacular. There’s ton’s of money to be had doing that business in the right place at the right time.
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TexPat – don’t feel too badly… He does that to me in person – all the time. I will go thru what he always tells me to do and nothing works. He takes my laptop from me, and does all the things I just did, to no avail, and the old computer whisperer makes it work
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76 Bsue
It’s aggravating as hell and just not fair.
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Another way the guy in Dripping Springs made extra money was he would do buyouts of framing material, mattes and glass for pennies on the dollar for overstocks and bankruptcies.
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GJT says:
February 16, 2023 at 8:09 pm
ABuck
All my ex’s live in Texas too!
Mine too. 🙂
Around 1994 Freddy Fender was at Joe’s Boot Shop right on Main St. And the Owner talked him into giving an impromptu free night of entertainment.
We were lucky enough to be in Town at the time and enjoyed some great music with a small crowd of maybe 200 people.
Joe’s Boot Shop was a big draw for people that wanted good custom boots. The City of Muleshoe sought to capitalize on this and proceeded to tax him to death.
He moved his operation to Clovis that same year!
My Step Sister married a Man from Muleshoe too. It didn’t last long though.
Small world!
I got a lifetime of stories.
Most stranger than science. 😯
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Dripping Springs has gone Hollywood!
Austin is knocking on the door with all the “escapees’ the real-estate has gone sky high.
My brother dates a woman that has acreage there and it is crazy.
My brother and I have watched that area go from nothing in the late 70s to what it is today.
Not good.
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Nite all.
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Night all.
Enjoy all the great post.
Even though I can’t contribute much!
Still enjoy reading about what everyone is doing.
Kinda makes me feel like I’m standing still by comparison.
With SD driving all over creation.
ELG getting ready for Spring.
Shannon messing with computers.
Katfish heading out every weekend
Tedham and Bsue canning an all.
Makes me wore out just reading about all the daily exploits.
I’m still knee deep in Probate and Family squabbles and that wears me out.
Later folks.
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Abuck
When my mom would allow, my dad and his buddies would take their stock cars and go to Clovis and race on Sunday afternoons, this would be after running in Lubbock or Amarillo on Friday and Saturday nights. They were the big guys running against the local guys in Clovis and kick butt. Lubbock and Amarillo not so much lol.
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#s 78, 81, 82 – BACA has empowered HEROs even out in
Mudshoeer Muleshoe
‘Twas actually flooding & muddy the day we was out yonder.
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Does Mick & Co. eat beans in their chili?
Of course not. But they pour it over haggis. Which is bloody revolting.
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