I am cleaning up the Hambone server tossing out junk and unlinked items from the old site. I found these pictures from a “function” back in 2011. I did not want to trash these and figured y’all might like seeing them, so I saved them and here they are.
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Good times, great memories. One of them was from my daughter’s first birthday party – I wonder how it got in there?
I don’t remember that one.
IIRC, that was the gathering in Bear Creek Park that I pulled together after LST abruptly shuttered its site.
Yup all but one were at Bear Creek Park and I have all of those even though I wasn’t there. I have a bunch of pictures from the LST Brew-Ha-Ha’s and various pictures of folks that were regulars.
I remember all these picture even though I wasn’t at that event. Tedtam mentioned that this was at the get together after LST shut down. I have a whole folder of pictures I grabbed over the years from LST Brew Ha Ha’s, the Tea party and other various pictures.
Here is a Good-Un of our fearless leader and some other dude. FWIW; it is one of my favorites. 😉
Mornin’ Gang
My hair these days is mostly gray, but not as white as Shannon’s. I can’t stand for my hair to very long anymore so I keep it pretty short. Otherwise, I haven’t changed much since then.
Wow, that’s been a while ago.
That shirt, along with about 35 other XLs have found their way to Goodwill in the last 18 months.
I’ve given up on them ever fitting again. 🙂
This was quite a finish for the boys from Florida. It’s a moment they will cherish for the rest of their lives.
There was a little bit of everything in Sunday night’s showdown between Florida and Chinese Taipei, including a wild error late in the game that allowed Florida to capture the Little League World Series championship.
The title game ended up in extra innings with Florida winning the game 2-1 in the bottom of the eighth inning and marking the first time that a team from the Sunshine State had won the tournament championship.
That was a GREAT game
Here’s hoping that Hubby can get his truck fixed today. Changing the fuel pump didn’t do the job yesterday. The only good thing about this situation is that he can drive his show car to get parts. It needs some tweaking to run better, but it runs.
He did tell me that he won one award from the Fort Worth car club. He said people were asking if it was a kit car, and were properly impressed once he told them no; that he fabricated every bit of the customizations himself. I wonder if the judges thought it was kit?
Maybe I’ll help him get a little banner printed up with all the particulars so that at car shows he can put it out for people to see and understand all the work he did.. He knows a lady in the club who does that kind of stuff for a living.
I try to keep an eye on the media business. One of the flagship AM stations in America, WCBS, is shutting down its 57 year old all news format in NYC. ESPN is taking over the station, unfortunately.
AM radio in America is going to be either all sports or all talk. The WCBS loss of listeners has been attributed to the internet, smartphones and apps.
The Little League World Series has become one of my favorite sporting events – I think we ran across it the first year I retired because a local team’s involvement resulted in lots of new about it, and enjoyed it enough to look for it every year since.
I think a team from Fort Bend County was in the semifinals a couple of years ago. I’m not sure though.
Yep – I think it was Pearland but might have been Friendswood…
Since I don’t have my beads with me today, I’ll be checking the C&C a little earlier than usual…
PS: I was up late finishing Capitulum XII’s pensuma (homework), and I think I’m going to slog through all of Capitulum XIII today. We’re on Cap. XIV in the class and I’m supposed to have that chapter well under way before Thursday night’s class. I’ve allowed myself to fall behind. At least “on vacation” I’m not distracted by much of the daily household and business tasks, so I have a chance to catch up.
Unless I have to drive to Oklahoma to help Hubby get home. Not sure how that would help, but I made the offer, just in case.
I will say that going carnivore has certainly simplified my cooking life. I haven’t learned a lot of different recipes yet, so right now my cooking is: meat, eggs. I have stuff to make more of my homemade mayo. I cooked a roast last night, so that will give me a few more meals that just have to be heated up. Sausage. I have some steaks that I may not cook until I get home. So, not a lot of time in the kitchen prepping vegetables ‘n stuff.
And just like that, we’re closing in on the end of August and of summer, with hints of chill occasionally riding the morning’s warmer breezes. Good morning, C&C, it’s Monday! Your roundup today includes: Telegram founder Pavel Durov detained by diligent French speech police for being insufficiently cooperative; Democrats experience wins and losses in pro-democracy campaign to block third-party candidates; great election integrity news from Georgia confounds democrats; weird weather news and inexplicable ocean records baffle climate experts, again; Biden moves to make nuclear weapons gayer; and RFK hilariously rebuts weird allegations of dog-eating.
RE the Telegram founder being arrested in France:
Anyway, most people view Pavel’s detention (not arrest) as a kind of hostage scenario. If Telegram plays ball, Pavel’s problems will magically disappear! All the platform need do is build a few government backdoors into the Telegram system, for safety, not for monitoring and censoring citizens, no, never.
It’s unusual for a corporation’s CEO to be arrested for crimes committed by others. Media calls it “unprecedented.” We can compare Pavel’s predicament with Mark Zuckerberg’s. Zuckerberg learned how to play ball in 2020, generously donated to Democrats, and, despite originally warning employees not to take the jabs, hired a battalion of security-state drones and built the government its own misinformation portal page during the pandemic.
Zuckerberg has never been detained, not even for the child pornography rings running rampant on Facebook. Nor detained for anything else, since he’s a good little deep-state doggie.
When I was a teenager, I developed chronic tonsillitis. I had infections every month or two, and my father finally set up tonsillectomy for me, after a few years of this and my pointing out that I could lose my full ride scholarship if I was sick all the time.
My family promptly pulled out our Bill Cosby album and played his story about his tonsillectomy. A line from the story I think reflects the zuck’s behavior. Here’s the doctor’s words trying to explain what was going on in the little boy’s throat:
Start about the two minute mark
Zuck joined the other side. IMO, it wasn’t really much of a struggle. He’s been joined by many others.
Yes, I had to listen to that track many times before I went under the knife.
Onward: Mr. C. says the French government has 96 hours to charge Pavel before they are forced to release him. But the point has been made. Free speech is no longer free, it is chained by the PC police.
Was Pavel’s detention a genuine effort to protect the public, or a repeat of historical patterns where governments wield the power of arrest to shut down the free flow of information?
Y’all know where I stand.
Thanks to Texpat for keeping those memories from years ago. It was a wonderful get together in a city park that let us see each other for the first time. It was a beginning of what eventually became today’s Hambone. Rest in Peace, Hamous.
That was a time We The People needed to direct our representatives’ attention back to the way it was supposed to be: Off of them and on Us. And it worked because we worked hard and learned a lot about how to accomplish it.
We have not forgotten how to do it, and we cheer on the next generation’s hard work in reclaiming that which is ours as intended by the Founders.
Thank Squawk, not me. He’s the one doing the work and posting the photos.
Pennsylvania is up to its election shenanigans again: Cornel West won’t be on their ballot. Because, democracy decrees that third party candidates have to jump almost insurmountable hoops to allow the voters to have a real choice in elections.
/spits
Don’t complain! Democrats are suing everywhere to stop voters from choosing third-party candidates because Democrats are trying to save democracy. This is totally different from what South American communists do because reasons.
Georgia now has a conservative election board. Changes are being made:
For example, earlier this month in a 3-2 vote, the Republican-controlled Election Board voted to define the certification of election results as “attest[ing], after reasonable inquiry, that the tabulation and canvassing of the election are complete and accurate and that the election results are a true and accurate accounting of all votes cast in that election.”
By adding the words “after reasonable inquiry,” the Board gave local election boards the legal right to challenge results if questions arise, protecting them from post-election prosecution and lawfare. The new rule allows county election boards to request more information and to delay or even refuse to certify the results where appropriate.
The Democrats are so alarmed about this election protection rule that they, being liberals, are trying to remove the board members instead of running clean elections.
Go figger. /spits
Mr. C. then covered the weird story about “queering nuclear weapons”. Yes, that’s right. Y’all just head over there, I can’t even…
Next up, and final note: RFK responds to the accusation that he once at a dog:
CLIP: Kennedy responds to dog-eating claims (1:04).
Hubby got his truck running – the ignition module quit on him. Handyman said that was a common problem with that make. Hubby’s gonna get a spare to keep in the glove box. At least he can start home now.
I forgot to mention that get together was the first one I attended because previous ones were considerably farther from where we live. I was not comfortable going that far by myself. But the park was on our side of Houston and easy to find.
I’m listening to my Catholic podcasts, and we may have an American saint in the future: Sister Wilelmina’s body is incorrupt – and healings are occurring.
But pachapapa is loathe to announce new miracles. I agree with Mr. Stine that we need to allow the proper amount of time and study to pass before declaring her a saint. But this glimmer of holiness in such a time of darkness is welcome.
It was Obama who ate dogs.
And Romney who tortured them.
🙂
I thought it was Fauci with the beagle torturing.
Fauci is a special case.
Mass beagle torture.
Special place in Hell for him.
Purrscilla kitty is sitting on the edge of the desk looking out the window in the living room that has become an office of sorts because we entertain guests in the much larger family room next to it.
One or two squirrels have captured her viewing interest as they come up to the window and sit on the wooden bench in front of it on the porch. They look at her and she looks at them through the glass. Seems to be curiosity on both sides. They get bored before she does and bounce off the bench and into the front yard where they tear around on the grass before selecting a tree to climb. She just sits stretched out on the desk and seems ready to nap as that now is forgotten as rain advances through the neighborhood.
The rain seems to have stopped at our fence line next to our neighbor’s pasture, and it obscures the front of the subdivision. Purrscilla gives up and goes to her dish of dry cat food in the garden room. Thus ends 15 minutes of cat activity for the morning. Squirrels are gone. Show’s over.
Dark clouds that do not look friendly are moving in, light rain falls, and the wind comes through. Weather folk say we should expect 1-2″ of rain today. Kitty is back at the window, and she knows more about the rain than we do.
We should get some rain because I watered last night.
Learn something new every day.
A pupusería is where pupusas are sold.
The pupusa is a popular El Salvadoran dish made of a thick, corn tortilla filled with anything from meats to cheeses to refried beans to pork rinds. Pupusas can be purchased from pupuserías, as well as streetside vendors. Pupusas are also found in certain areas of Guatemala and Honduras.
We’ve had pupuserias near our neighborhood for some time now. They are delicious, but forbidden to me now. /sigh
I had a great crew of young Guatemalan brothers who worked for me. I taught them construction to my standards and then they exceeded them. Their visas ran out and I offered to hire an immigration lawyer, but the lure of pretty Guatemalan girls drew them back home. They’re all married now with a bunch of kids in the Guatemalan mountains. I would have gladly kept them as citizens if I could’ve exiled some nasty American left-wingers in exchange.
These young men did not drink, smoke, do drugs or chase women. They were so loyal to me that if I told them to go tear down the George Washington Bridge they would have grabbed sledgehammers and crowbars and taken off to the river.
One day, they insisted I come with them to a Guatemalan restaurant and then they ordered me this huge pupusa. Very thick corn tortilla filled with beef. I couldn’t finish it.
There’s been a food trailer in Sealy for many years and I just got around to looking up the word.
Pretty sure that the group photo from Bear Creek is the only one I’ve seen before.
Thanks SQK.
This is a from a blogger linked by Mark Tapscott at Instapundit. The article is how bad the housing market has become in the US and how much worse it will be if Kamala gets elected.
The same thing happened in Canada, after 9 years of Justin Trudeau. He let in MILLIONS of illegal immigrants and refugees – people who pay less in taxes than they collect in benefits. And you can bet they need somewhere to life. Unfortunately, Trudeau’s anti-business policies have killed the home construction industry. Demand went up, supply went down. Now the average price of a single-family home in Canada is up to $801,600 CAD. ($593,406.75 USD) And if that were not bad enough, the massive influx of unskilled immigrants has caused health care costs to skyrocket – up to $17,713 CAD for a two-parent family with two children. Demand is going up, but supply is going down, as many Canadian doctors leave to work in countries that pay more, and tax less.
I made a rosary walk a little while ago, to get blood and spirit circulating. I think we’re the only active vacationing unit on this whole end of the complex. I see other cars, but few people. I think those vehicles belong to workers who are doing end of summer renovations and cleanup. There was a family at the other end of the building over the weekend, but I haven’t seen them today, and I saw a bunch of people shadows in front of my window blinds last night; I think they were packing up.
Hubby is still planning on arriving tomorrow, so I guess that means we’ll have the little pool all to ourselves for the next few days, and no neighbor noise conflicts. All the parking we want.
I had called ahead of time to request a unit with no steps, for Hubby’s sake. So I was stashed in the area with all of the single story/ground level four-plexes at the back of the resort.
UPDATE: Hubby drove to O’Reilly’s to get an extra ignition module to take on the road with him, and the truck died again. So now the tow truck driver is coming to drag his truck to a local mechanic’s shop. The two guy is going to store the trailer at the tow shop so it won’t get stolen, which is very nice of him. Hubby can drive the bug to go eat and stuff, but it’s not running well enough to go exploring in it, which is disappointing. He didn’t have time to tune the engine before he had to leave for the show, but at least he can go eat and shop for socks before heading back to the hotel.
Bummer.
But he said that everyone in McAlester, OK has been extremely nice and helpful, so there’s that.
I had a similar experience in Knoxville, Tennessee about 20 years ago. The tow truck driver owned the shop and parked my truck inside where it was protected by a 10′ perimeter fence and burglar alarms. The truck was full of computer gear and all my clothing. Right across the street was a nice Econolodge where I slept and the guy found the part (on a Sunday morning) and fixed it for a very reasonable price. When you are out of state, you are ripe to get ripped off.
Thoughts are with Hubby stuck in Oklahoma. Vehicle problems are not fun.
Getting a much needed shower the past half hour.
This young lady is worth listening to. Not only because she’s now a disillusioned Democrat, but because she says some pretty insightful things about politics in general.
That was excellent and totally sincere.
We haven’t heard from Texanadian lately. I figure he’s outside supervising his trophy wife chopping and splitting firewood for winter.
I just made my first chaffle. It’s a keto term for a mini-waffle type of “bread” made from one egg and one cup of cheese. Mix the ingredients and bake in two batches on a Dash, a min-waffle maker. It made a quite acceptable read substitute. Fortunately, I remembered to bring my Dash with me, and it only takes a few minutes to complete the task.
There are all kinds of chaffle recipes; some keto, some not. Today, mine were basic: egg, cheese, salt, parsley. They became part of a ham sammich. I can see them being served next to a plate of eggs and bacon, too. I’ll be making more.
This is my son-in-law, John Baumgartner, as a guest on CNBC earlier today. The Biden administration is killing the restaurant business along with everything else.
Heh.
You wouldn’t know it by what happened to me Saturday nite in Bellville’s high end restaurant.
Man, I’m really glad he didn’t talk so fast when we were at his house.
:):) 🙂
The CNBC interviewer, Kelly Evans, really likes to hear herself talk. She’s very smart, but not a great interviewer. I was hoping John could get a word edgewise.
The truck started right up at the mechanic’s shop. Hubby wanted the ignition module replaced anyway, didn’t trust the existing one. The mechanic taught him something new: Hubby didn’t know to put a layer of some kind of grease on a plate part of the module. The grease helps dissipate heat and keeps the module from overheating. The shop only charged him $100 for over an hour’s worth of work. Hubby’s going to stay one more night rather than risk breaking down in the dark on the way home. He’s been in the heat all day, too, and he needs to cool off and rehydrate himself.
So, hopefully he’ll just have one day’s delay to go with his new knowledge.
We already have Tammy Bruce and now it looks like we may have fitness guru Jillian Michaels moving to the Right. If high profile lesbians can come to their senses and vote for conservatives, I welcome them.
“You find that sort of patriotism and Americana in Wyoming, and I tend to love it. And I’m also a big outdoors person. Ride horses, go hiking. Love nature.”
While she was still in California,
“I grew up here. I’m a woman. I’m a gay woman. My mom’s a Jew. My dad’s an Arab. I have a Black kid. And believe it or not, my son is half Latin, even though he doesn’t look like it,” Michaels said in June. “I hold a million cards in your game of woke victimology poker. And when I leave California, maybe you’ve lost your f—ing mind. Just maybe! Like when you have me running from home, maybe it’s gone way too far.”
Michaels has slammed California’s progressive policies for driving an uptick in crime and worsening the state’s homelessness crisis.
In an earlier article a couple of weeks ago she said the passage of Newsom’s bill allowing the state to take children away from their parents over trans issues was the final straw.
While the newly pregnant couple were here this weekend, I had this Eureka! moment.
I figure it was about sixty-five years ago that Mom bought this child’s maple rocker. I’ve been trying to get rid of stuff around here for the last couple years, but just couldn’t part with the rocker.
So I made a dramatic production out of presenting them with their first baby gift.
It’s smaller than it appears in this photo. It’s about 32” tall x 15” wide. The first-time-mother-to-be kinda choked up. I told the young father it’s something else to trip over in the dark in your new nursery. Hee hee.
I told her it’ll be real antique when the child turns 30. 🙂 🙂 🙂
All of my memories of that rocker are of you in it.
I took Hubby’s Granny’s rocker and totally refurbed it. It was loose, the seat was sagging horribly, and it smelled funky. I pulled all of the “cushion” materials and what was left of the fabric based base (twine? jute?), trying not to inhale the decades of dust mites and dirt. I replaced the base with a piece of plywood, and fortunately we were giving temporary harbor to a friend down on his luck, and he liked sanding and refinishing wood. He took on the tedious task of taking care of the wood parts and then I made new cushions and upholstery. It looks real nice now, but Lovely Daughter wanted no part of it and Handsome has refused it, too. Hubby can’t let it go because he has such precious memories of his feisty little ol’ Granny. She was something else, let me tell you. All 80 pounds of her.
Every memory I have of that little rocking is of you in it. Your niece liked it too.
The truck saga continues. It didn’t start – again. Now Hubby thinks it might some intermittent wiring connection problem. He’s got one more trick up his sleeve, and we’re hoping it works…
Raining again, and it looks like it might hang around for some time. Hafta wait until it stops to fetch the mail a mere 5 minutes after I was ready to go out and get it. Timing is everything….
My only regret about this weekend was that I wasn’t able to be there for my good friend’s first sermon at his new call – leading the oldest Lutheran church in Fredericksburg.
I just got off the phone with him and it all went well.
He lost his young 60 year old wife to early onset Alzheimer’s about eight months ago.
You May recall that I ran down to Nordheim recently to be with him for his last service there. While I was there he got word that his mother-in-law in Finland passed away.
With everything going on in his life he wasn’t sure if he could make it to Finland for the funeral.
Im so happy for him that he indeed got to go. He got to veg out and relax in Finland for almost a week.
What a blessing.
I just got off the phone with Scott Rasmussen’s polling group doing a poll. They said it was only going to be a few questions. It was 20 minutes before I hung up.
Did you pass? 😉
Really pisses me off.
Scott never calls me anymore.
Him: I want to be a billionaire
Like my uncle
Her: Wait your uncle is a billionaire?
Him: No
He wants to be a billionaire too.
You know. Finland?
The newest member of NATO?
Poor folks have had to put up with the GD Russian basturds…..forever.
Finland.
Hey Dr phil.
You there?
Sometimes it lasts in love..but sometimes it hurts too
So typically, I’ve fallen down on the job and haven’t raised the quality of this site by remembering you all to this:
If he was a gunslinger instead of a guitar slinger, even Charlie Bronson would never have had a chance against him.
Watching a carnivore video – this one features a 700+ pound guy, Todd Bockness, who so far has lost over 300 pounds on the carnivore diet, which he found basically by accident. He’d tried every diet under the sun, including keto. Even on the keto diet, his body didn’t respond well. Asthma and other breathing problems, eye disease, etc. He wanted Lasik surgery but was refused because his eyes were in such bad physical shape. He was legally blind without glasses. In a wheelchair and on oxygen.
Believe it or not, his eyesight was getting worse after being carnivore and losing weight. He got new glasses and his eyesight continue to suffer. He went back to the doctor, who had to have his assistant make sure he had the right chart. The diabetic eye disease was reverting – the vascular walls had thickened, the inflammation within his eyes was going down, and the lessening pressure inside his eyes was allowing his eyeball to revert back closer to a normal shape- hence his inability to focus with his glasses. His eyes weren’t getting worse, they were actually getting better. The eye doctor told him to continue until his metabolic state stabilized, because then they’d know how to properly execute the eye surgery – if he still needed it.
As far as his breathing goes, it’s healed, too. What really perked my attention was him talking about how his hair started growing; he’d lost a lot of hair. He said his eyebrows weren’t complete, he had about half of his eyebrows. I have the same problem, and I thought it was either thyroid (but the lab tests have ruled it out) or genetic. He just said it was due to insulin resistance, which I absolutely am battling right now. His heart disease has reversed. Gout is gone. High blood pressure normal, resting heart rate is fabulous. Amazing.
His depression is gone, too. His cravings for carbs is gone. He wants water, not energy drinks or sweeteners. He doesn’t want to drink anything else. His desire for all forms of sugar has disappeared. He lost over 200 pounds in five months.
His story is such an inspiration. He has a long way to go, but what a story.
They’ve been talking about priming, a technique that includes eating more food than I think I can handle, but it’s supposed to jump start the healing the body wants. I see the pictures of people losing weight by eating 5-6 ribeyes a day. Holy moly, I just don’t think I can eat that much. I’m having problem eating the two smaller meals that I’m doing now. I just don’t get the hunger I used to have. I am *making* myself eat because one of the warnings I hear is not eating enough.
I’ve only started. I have so much to learn. Bella, the lady whose videos I’ve been watching and who started the Steak and Butter Gang (sbgmeatup.com) had to recover from years of her vegan diet: she lost her periods, had severe acne, etc. Carnivore cleared all that up, and she eats sticks of butter. Just bites butter. Eats beef fat straight. And she’s skinny as a rail, but in healthy way. She is *definitely* not malnourished.
Todd Bockness can be found at TheCarnivoreCure on Youtube.
I find eating only meat and animal products so contrary to what I was taught growing up, but I’m finding more people who have thrived on this diet for years, and more doctors are promoting it. Im hoping that I don’t get bored with it, which means I’m going to need to find recipes that will allow me to desire the meat meals. Some keto recipes are fine or are adaptable; others not so much. So far, I’m getting the main results I wanted- the blood sugar is down. Everything else will fall into place.
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