Virna Lisi, Italian Actress
Lisi made her Hollywood debut alongside Jack Lemmon
in the 1965 black comedy How To Murder Your Wife.
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Where is everyone? I’ve been checking in since about 3:30 and nothing is going on. Well it’s Friday again, heading for the weekend.
Mornin’ Gang-
I only managed to get to sleep after 2:00 AM so I won’t be up at 3:30, hopefully, doing anything on this computer.
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They delivered my new Toy yesterday,a Kubota RTV X1120 diesel, complete with the top, windshield, Warn winch, hydraulic dump bed and even fancy wheels N tires. Oh and it also has power steering and a tilt steering wheel, not that I need that. 😉
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@ 6:52 AM Awaiting for approval. Three links so I figured as much but We’ll have a Moderator any minute now. 😉
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I’ve been up for a while but coffee and a short dawgie had me preoccupied
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Mr Moderator, thanks for freeing up my post. I’m guessing it was the Squawkster?
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No, me. You’re welcome.
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Sheri Burton of Austin poses with a cigarette, a Carling Black Label beer … and a typewriter back in 1961. A great photo that was taken by Austin commercial photographer Dewey Mears (which is a wonderful Texas name, by the way) and shared by the great folks at the Austin History Center, Austin Public Library. I tried searching Sheri’s name to see if I could figure out what happened to her but to no avail.
Is that a great picture or what?
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Super Dave @ 7:33 AM
Here is the Dewey Mears Archive Collection at what appears to be University of North Texas through the Portal to Texas History.
Dewey Gerald Mears (1922-2013) was a noted architectural photographer based in Austin, Texas and active from the 1940s through 1990s. Early in his career he took on a wide variety of commercial jobs but by the mid-1950s Mears’ focus on architectural photography had emerged. Numerous architectural firms based in Central Texas hired Mears to document their works.
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That was linked in my post but I removed it. Thanks, for adding the link.
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The lady posted on Twitter X this:
No Jews no news dear @amjadt25
Thanks for highlighting the hypocrisy of the worldOver 230,000 women and children in Sudan face starvation. Since April 2023, airstrikes by the Muslim Brotherhood-led #Sudan Army have hit 86% of hospitals, killing45,000and injuring 100,000. Like #Hamas in #Gaza, they’ve also seized all humanitarian aid.
Any calls for ceasefire?
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No calls for ceasefire because the victims are the wrong color/no political benefit.
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She said it – I like it.
Essential in nutrition means something we must consume – we don’t make it.
There are essential fats & essential proteins. There are no essential carbohydrates.
There are essential vitamins & minerals.
Animal foods provide the essential nutrients & in the form that we need them.
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Anybody named Caesar had best be careful today. . . . . .
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Judge rules Fani Willis can remain on the Trump case if she fires her boyfriend!!!! SMDH ~SPITS~SPITS~ Again~
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Tracey Beanz and Michelle Edwards do fantastic investigative work.
Pfizer’s cholesterol-lowering statin drug Lipitor is one of the most profitable medications of all time. Globally, the lucrative statin market is projected to reach $32 billion by 2032. Yet, for years, there have been published studies reporting that statin drugs lead to profound memory loss and diabetes, and, overall, are entirely worthless. As such, the studies have supplied the basis for reevaluating the guidelines for prescribing statins and theories on cholesterol in general. After all, cholesterol is essential to the human body—if you had none, you would be dead.
President Eisenhower had a heart attack in Colorado in September of 1955. The federal government then embarked on one of their incompetent crusades – this one to end heart disease.
So, where does this leave us? We can thank Minnesota physiologist Ancel Keys and his questionable handpicked study back in 1958-1983 for declaring that the fat composition of the diet and serum cholesterol contribute to heart disease. The US Public Health Service funded his Seven Countries Study following President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s heart attack. At the time, heart disease was the leading cause of death in the United States. Speaking of the profound effect Keys had on inaccurately portraying cholesterol, journalist Nina Tiecholz remarked that in the wake of Keys’ legacy, we have seen increases in cancer, diabetes, and, of course, heart disease. Noting Keys study is filled with errors, she rightly stated, “We should not attempt to set dietary recommendations in stone when the research behind those recommendations are built on sand.”
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This is an excerpt from a speech Dan Schueftan gave recently. He is a highly respected Israeli scholar and advisor to political leaders.
Great stuff and a video of the entire speech is at the bottom of the page.
You see, one of the problems Americans have is that Americans have a operational oriented mindset. They look at problems like engineers: there’s a problem, what’s the solution? If you want want to be a historian, if you want to understand human behavior, you say to yourself this is a kind of operational thinking, while strategic thinking is what do you do when a problem doesn’t have a solution. In other words, what is the response or the damage control that you can apply if a problem doesn’t have a solution?
Most serious problems don’t have a solution. Poverty doesn’t have a solution. Crime doesn’t have a solution. But if you you have a good law enforcement system you can bring crime from an unacceptable level to an acceptable level; if you have a well-functioning welfare state you can bring down poverty from an unacceptable level to an acceptable level. But people speak in terms of the two-state “solution.”
By the way, in my recent visit to the US Congress I suggested to a number of Senators that the United States should adopt a two-state solution for a state for the Republicans and a state for the Democrats because the polarization in American society is alarming.
The only thing in life that has a solution is a crossword puzzle. For people who insist that every problem has a solution I remind them of their marriage and then they finally understand that there are some problems that have no solution.
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Hubby is trying out his fancy new electric wheelchair here at the knee doc’s office. He got it so he can enjoy his car shows again. The walking and standing were killing him, between his back and his knee.
It supposedly can handle non concrete surfaces, so he can roll through grass at the shows. I’m sure the doc isn’t going to like it, though. The first thing he told me was to ditch my crutches when my knee was so bad. I disobeyed, at least for the next week. My knee needed rest from bearing weight. As long as I was walking on it, it didn’t improve.
Doctors don’t necessarily know everything.
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TT
I’m going to cut your doc some slack and assume he didn’t realize that you are a whirling dervish from the moment your eyes open each day until you close them at night.
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Regarding Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff, Gerald Nadler and the other rabidly leftist ‘Jews’
Revelation ch. 2
“To the angel of the church in Smyrna write:
These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again. 9 I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich! I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Revelation ch. 3
9 I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.I really detest leftists of all stripes.
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I think my body will be very happy with it’s break from heavy gardening.
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Near the Gaza city of Khan Younis, Qatar spent hundreds of millions of dollars building a new city titled Hamad bin Khalifa. It is a massive upscale project.
PHOTOS AT THE LINKS.
Hamad towers near Khan Younes consists of about 60 5-story buildings with ~3,000 apartments initiated & funded by Qatar in 2016 with over $200 million in donated costs. The towers were built & inhabited in phases as part of a new luxury neighborhood.
The decision was made to not use IAF bombing and to take the area on the ground. It has been extremely tough and there are more Hamas there than predicted. It is room to room, building to building, alley ny alley fighting.
And do check this out. Gaza
hashad plenty of luxurious housing, fashionable stores, car dealerships, supermarkets, fancy restaurants – all controlled by Hamas. Gaza also has beautiful beaches and seaside resort hotels.The image of Palestinians living for decades in tents in a bare existence is a fraud perpetuated by Islam and the American/European media.
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Yesterday Shannon said
Tommy has a really nice place.
But his screwdrivers aren’t waxed and buffed like Super Dave’s.
I have discovered that super Dave has his own tool polishing compound
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Yes! By all means we need our tools polished. 😀
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It supposedly can handle non concrete surfaces, so he can roll through grass at the shows.
BTW; I found Mr Tedtam’s new offroad buggy. 😉
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Jim Gaffigan lampoons every reason why I refuse to eat at Waffle House.
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So very true. If comedy didn’t have a large grain of truth, it wouldn’t be funny.
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Fani Willis Case
This is exactly what I was thinking so Ed Morrisey must be reading my mind.
Judge McAfee writes an opinion basically making the case against Willis and all but convicting her and then says, oh, but she can stay on the job. He’s trying not to lose the next election.
The problem with splitting the baby is that the baby dies. That seems to be what happened here in McAfee’s attempt to be Solomonic. If he wanted Fani Willis to remain in charge of the case, he needed to exonerate her from all of these issues. Instead, he admitted what everyone could see on live television, and then refused to act on it.
That sets up an appeal, of course, based on the factual record that McAfee established in this order. And one has to wonder whether that is McAfee’s intent — to punt this to the state appellate court rather than risk the ire of Fulton County voters by disqualifying Willis. Declare her guilty, fail to act, and let the next set of judges with more political insulation deal with the issue themselves. Or maybe even more quickly, letting the Georgia State Bar and the Attorney General deal with the “odor of mendacity” and pre-empt the whole issue by suspending Willis’ law license.
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Willis and Wade both should be disbarred for blatant, self evident, perjury among other crimes. If the Georgia State Bar can’t accomplish this, what good are they and why do they exist?
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I guess that y’all have heard the acronym AWFUL; “Affluent White Female Urban Liberal” It’s been on Fox a lot lately and it has become of of my favorites. That said; A whole lot of our problems can be traced directly back to these Clowns.
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You talkin bout me? You cutie you
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Now this is something I believe the GroupofCons party would do.
they don’t want to win.
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One good thing about it is the ones leaving the House are all RINOs. Look at the Liberty Score at Conservative Review of Kay Granger of Dallas who has been in the House for 27 years and is chair of the powerful Appropriations Committee.
LIBERTY SCORE: 51%
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Watching the noon news.
The weather due here around rush hour was dropping actual golf ball hail, taking out a lot of windshields in north Texas.
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Realtor group agrees to slash commissions in major $418M settlement
Going to be interesting, wife says by July, sellers will no longer be required to pay buyer side commission. Not sure how buyers will respond – go direct to seller’s agent? Won’t they still want that side of the commission?
https://thehill.com/business/4534494-realtor-group-agrees-to-slash-commissions-in-major-418m-settlement/-
I thought of you and your wife when I wrote about this a couple of months ago. Talk about disruptions. This one is huge.
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Shannon RE: Storm Warning Radar
That bad storm out of West Texas turned NE at Waco and is headed for Arkansas. Bellville and Houston are looking pretty good except you have an intense brief storm coming 3 to 4 PM.
I hope like hell it doesn’t come here. It’s surprising how much bad weather originating out of Mexico and Texas ends up in NJ/NY/Conn tristate area.
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You are gettin 1.5″ of rain over the weekend, but the radar doesn’t show any activity in the Mexico, South or West Texas. I don’t know where it’s coming from.
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Curent radar………..
I don’t know where it’s coming from.
Along the frontal boundary is beginning to fire up
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Did anyone besides bill Barr barrel believe it was a suicide?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/boeing-whistleblower-if-anything-happens-me-its-not-suicide
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After reading several articles with quotes from friends, family, former co-workers and hotel personnel, there is no way to accept suicide.
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Congressman Michael McCaul R-Texas, chairman of House Foreign Affairs Committee, is the only one of 24 Texas Republican House members to have a Conservative Review Liberty Score lower than 50%.
McCaul comes in at 47%.
Everybody is afraid to run against the guy because his wife’s family keeps stuffing tens of millions of $$$ into their bank accounts.
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Thought for the day, Hamsters: Beware the ides of March.
Waiting here for the first drops of rain appear, though clear blue patches of sky would seem to postpone that until later today. Texpat’s storm warning for golf-ball size hail heading our way later today, leaving a trail of shattered windshields and other damages, should be all the warning we need to prepare down here. Our vehicles are in the garage, garage door closed for the duration. Closed the stall windows in the barn. Hope the awnings over the stall windows are still well anchored.
Spouse is back from the grocery store with lunch. No dining out today. Purrscilla kitty is aware something is not right today, and she spends lots of time looking out windows, which she usually does not do.
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Current Radar—— Storms and warnings are firing along a frontal boundary.
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Wow. None of that was on the weather radar at Wunderground a few hours ago. That system had to form up in place.
Here is their current radar map.
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We are back from Hubby’s doctor appointment and lunch at Pappadeaux.
We have to get an ultrasound of his leg, because potential blood clot(s) are an issue. That’ll happen next week, which won’t conflict with my dental surgery since it looks like that’ll be pushed off to next month.
Hubby’s wheelchair was a blessing today. There is no way he could’ve walked the distance we had to walk today. Fortunately, the chair arrived a day or so before the knee blew up, and he had time to put it together before becoming invalid. Timing, timing, timing…
I got to take the chair for a spin before he plugged her back in to recharge. It has quite of perk. Cranked all the way up to “5,” it can get some good speed on it. I had some fun spinning it in our driveway, discovering the joy of zero turn radius. I also drove it through our front yard, and it handled it well, though I could tell it would drain the battery much more quickly than being on concrete. It will do well for Hubby, and make it much more enjoyable for him to go to his car shows.
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Oh, and Hubby actually read the manual for his chair, of his own volition.
There’s a first time for everything.
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Here comes the rain.
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Fortunately or unfortunately, my wife is mostly retired, so only deals she does are that come along. I’m more curious how the real estate market will react. I don’t know if it is a Texas thing, or just the brokers she has worked for, she has always been able to negotiate her commission percentage. Many times if a deal is near falling apart, she and the opposite agent split a discounted rate.
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Look out Shannon !
There is some dark red in that storm cluster headed right for Bellville. Looks pretty wicked to me.
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Back during pre-Covid and during Covid there would be as many as 52 houses for sale and they sold very quickly in this little town of less than 10,000 people. Then, during Covid, the refugees from NYC were driving up the prices and still houses were selling within 1 to 3 days.
I talked to a guy who said his house listed on a Monday night on MLS, agent showed up with a buyer on Tuesday morning and they signed a contract with non-refundable earnest money. His home sold for $700,000 and he was pretty angry he had to fork over $42,000 in commissions. I said, “But you signed the sales contract.” His response, “I should have just put a For Sale sign in my front yard for no more work than they did.”
That same agent is suffering right now because there are 7 homes for sale in town and they aren’t moving.
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I just checked listings for this small town and there are not actually 7 houses for sale – only 4.
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I just got a severe weather alert (Thunderstorm Watch) for Harris county but it includes 23 counties. In south central Texas; Jackson. In southeast Texas; Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson Chambers Colorado Fort Bend Galveston Grimes Harris Houston Liberty, Madison, Matagorda, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity, Walker, Waller, Washington & Wharton.
This popped up on “Next Door” where I use to live. FWIW; We’re supposed to have some weather tonight starting about 5 PM but it’s looking pretty good right now. I came in from outside and I could smell,the rain. -
8:52 texpat
I recently had a blood test where my total cholesterol was just a bit high, but the ratio of good to bad was at least twice what “normal” is.I cook with butter and/or light olive oil for the most part. EV olive oil for salad dressing etc. and avocado oil for high heat. I can’t remember the last time I looked at anything other than sodium on the nutritional label (mostly as a guide to if it would taste too salty).
I don’t get the dietary cholesterol angle. You have to digest the dietary cholesterol in order for it to get into your bloodstream. That means breaking it up into its component parts. Your body then manufactures what it thinks it needs.
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My LDL/HDL/Triglyceride score is pretty good at about 189. My LDL is 61. The HDL is about 98, but it is not as high as I would like it. I also have slightly elevated triglycerides. I used EV olive oil everywhere I can cooking.
I am 6′ tall, average frame and my target, best weight is 186. Right now I weigh 196 and only need to lose 10 pounds. My cardiologist says I’m fat, but he’s a maniacal little Italian guy who is 5′ 5″ and weighs about 135. He also says my LDL should be at 50. Fat chance.
This guy invented the Napoleonic Complex.
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Hubby actually read the manual for his chair, of his own volition.
You sure he’s not starting to bat for the other team?
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Just got a text from Shannon saying this was the worst storm he’s ever been through (hurricanes excluded I presume). No internet. Said the house was rocking, hail pounding. He was actually sitting in his guest bathroom bathtub.
Second text:
He says hail stopped but he’s never seen it rain so hard in his life. Photo of a piece of hail bigger than a quarter. Still no internet. -
All safe, here.
Neighbor’s 3+foot diameter hackberry snapped near the ground…Not quite tall enough to take out the Porte cochère and my van, thank goodness. -
Really bad straight-line winds, I assume.
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Before I lost internet, I was watching the worst cell sitting right over Bellville, barely moving. There is no power in majority of Bellville. Which is very rare. Heard the Courthouse Annex in Bellville is flooded.
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My next door neighbor is on her way home from work at at the Brenham Walmart.
She’s working her way thru Bellville. Power lines down everywhere.
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My power went out about ten minutes ago.
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Alert from Austin County OEM:
AC OEM: No power in the Bellville area. Use caution when traveling in north end of Austin County. Trees and powerlines down in multiple areas.
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Walmart friend:
For the five miles from Bellville to our neighborhood, lots of downed trees.
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Shannon
The last time I saw Austin County like that was Hurricane Alicia 40 years ago.
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Bellville is the headquarters for the huge San Bernard Electrical Co-op and almost never loses power. It had to be a really bad storm for most or all of town to be out.
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Shannon, when you can you probably ought to drive by and see if our old mini-warehouse is still standing.
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Houston and the rodeo is getting pummeled
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One thing to be grateful for is temperatures are mild and will be tomorrow also. This could’ve happened in August or January.
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Radar looks like downtown and points south are gonna get a show over the next couple hours.
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When it comes to electricity, Bellville is somewhat uniquely positioned for a small rural city.
If you live in Bellville you get your power from the City of Bellville. As I understand it, the City gets the power from the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA).
LCRA has redundant trunk lines feeding Bellville because – so far – we have managed to keep the doors open of our rural hospital.
During the Big Freeze several years ago, Bellville never lost power. Not once. Not even for five minutes. I always knew that if worse came to worse, I could throw Fay into the back of the pickup and haul her ass to her sister’s place in town.🙂
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Steady rain here for the past hour, thunder occasionally, but it still keeps coming. So far we have 1.40″. We’re directly across the Brazos from Richmond, at the top of the big bend. And far enough back from the riverbank to perhapse have our place be at the river’s edge in several thousand years.
Watching the 6-pm news is gonna be interesting. Will comment later when I find out what kind of mess we have around here.
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Well, I survived the thunderstorm. I had already fed outdoor Billy Cat just before the thunder started. I hope he was down inside the gazebo when the storm arrived.
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Hey Gramps.
Garlic Basil marinaded Salmon with tender young asparagus spears.-
Last of the leftover Gumbo for me.
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Rain stopped at 1.40″, and there are only a few small puddles left to soak in. No hard rain, so we must have been on the edge of the storm. But then there is tomorrow and Sunday to get through.
The green grass and plants are really green, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day on Sunday. A day on which everybody is Irish in celebration regardless of ancestry. 🙂 The Vikings view it from the background, having occupied Ireland for 200 years, approximately 700 to 900 AD.
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Word is that our County Judge has already requested Disaster Declaration from the Governor.
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The site is experiencing problems so expect some problems when logging in. I am looking to see what is going on.
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I had to log on every time I came here this afternoon. One time it made me answer a math problem! C’mon now, not everyone can solve 8+4 just on a whim. Discriminatory I tell ya.
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I’m just 40 miles or so from Bellville and didn’t get enough moisture to register on the rain gauge. Lots of noise but no rain to speak of.
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Well we got .79″ of rain in about 20 minutes starting about 4:30 and the front roared on through no more rain tonight.
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GJT
C’mon now, not everyone can solve 8+4 just on a whim. Discriminatory I tell ya.
Man you are gonna scream when I change it to English Lit questions
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Harrumph.
You think you had it bad.
I had to solve 4 + 1.
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Funny.
We’re supposed to believe that you even know what English Lit is???
Pffffffth.
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Another Boeing/United airplane arrives with a missing body part.
Texpat. I’m thinking we should consider canceling our special family meeting in May.
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Who was it now that decapitated Macbeth and then walked around with his head and why did Macbeth deserve it ?
If you think today’s politics are bad, go back and read the history of Billy Shakespeare’s day.
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Well, it is the Ides of March…. That might have something to do with the quirks observed today.
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