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Weekend Open Comments

Christopher Hook and Mark Tipton, December 2, 2017  (Mark with his Ren & Stimpy tie)

Christopher is one of the young men Mark took on in his life to mentor and guide.  He left a beautiful tribute to Mark here.

It is not my intention to drag out a mourning period, but I have wanted a good, fairly recent photograph of Mark to post here before the week ended.  He would not want us to be overly morose and sad at his passing.

Play some music Mark would enjoy.  Play some more.  Smile, laugh and raise a toast to a grand life well-lived.

 

Photo credit:  Carolyn Hook

 

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144 responses to “Weekend Open Comments”

  1. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Slowly suiting up to roll out for more new HEROs……….

    Yall enJOY and stay warm!

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Great picture. Ne careful Katfish.
    Mornin’ Gang

  3. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Love the picture.

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    OK this is blasphemy; They ruined a 65 Camaro SS.

  5. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Play some music Mark would enjoy.  Play some more.  Smile, laugh and raise a toast to a grand life well-lived.

    ^^^THIS^^^

    I haven’t been playing much lately.  Both bands have been busy with a lot of non-musical stuff lately.  How dare they have lives outside of the band LOL.  But yeah, it is important to make time to pursue passions in life.  Spent about an hour playing bass along to recordings yesterday afternoon.  ‘My Wife‘ by The Who is a favorite of mine currently.  Funny song if you read the lyrics.  Also played stuff by The Cars, Tom Petty, Journey, Blondie, Dwight Yoakum, Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, and others.  Yeah, I am all over the map with my musical tastes.  I think that is a big reason Hamous and I got on as well as we did, because he was too.  He came out to the first gig I played with Cerveza Road and I will never forget that.  Cheers!

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Brian Laundrie claims responsibility for killing Gabby Petito in notebook: FBI

    The FBI on Friday released new details in the investigation of Gabby Petito’s death, saying that that Brian Laundrie wrote in a notebook that he killed her.

    The FBI’s Denver office had sent out a timeline of the investigation, saying that before discovering Laundrie’s remains in a Florida wetland in October, agents had discovered a backpack, a gun and a notebook that all belonged to him.

    “A review of the notebook revealed written statements by Mr. Laundrie claiming responsibility for Ms. Petito’s death,” the FBI said in a statement.

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I understand why the Supreme Court wanted to make the narrowest possible ruling — they do not want to be seen as making law and they do not want to get too far out front on any issue lest they risk the credibility of the court. The problem with this approach is that if we are not going to debate the big issues at the Supreme Court, then where exactly are these debates going to take place? They are not happening in the media (completely captured), nor Congress (completely captured), nor within medical societies (completely captured). So how, as a society, are we supposed to come to clarity about a new and novel virus and how best to respond to it if we are never allowed to have a robust public debate about it in any venue?

    and remember me praising Jeff Childers for his SCOTUS commentary,

    Jeff Childers at Covid & Coffee wrote the best initial take on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in the OSHA and CMS mandate cases.

    plus these facts are critical,

    In the U.S., the FDA has granted Emergency Use Authorization for three coronavirus vaccines.

    21 U.S. Code § 360bbb–3 clearly states that medical products under Emergency Use Authorization cannot be mandated and a federal district court has confirmed this.

    The FDA has only given so-called “full approval” to Pfizer’s Comirnaty coronavirus vaccine which is used in Europe and is not available in the U.S.

    Pfizer claims that the European and U.S. formulations of their coronavirus vaccines can be used interchangeably but the courts have rejected this assertion.

    If the Supreme Court wanted to rule on narrow technical grounds, it should have rejected the mandates because they clearly violate the rules in connection with Emergency Use Authorization of medical products.

    However, as I explain below, all vaccine mandates are unconstitutional, regardless of their FDA status.

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I would never send a child to UT-Austin.  My parents, aunts, uncles all went to school there.

    With cops in Austin, Texas, not supervising “hundreds of sex offender cases” due to Defund the Police budget cuts, Campus Reform spoke with students at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) about their safety.

    “The situation in the city of Austin has been critical for some time ever since the city of Austin council decided to defund the police unanimously in the summer of 2020, and reduce their police budget by one-third,” sophomore Carter Moxley said.

    Moxley also discussed UT Austin President Jay Hartzell’s decision last November to “increase [University of Texas Police Department] patrol in the west campus area and develop additional options to enhance safety for [the] students” after a violent incident near campus.

  9. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I think I need to name that thing, so I don’t have to type out dehydrator all the time. Any ideas?

    The Desiccator

    Gobi

    Stanley

  10. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Well, running my work computer through “repair mode” by turning off 3x while booting up helped, but it still froze up after being on for a while.

    I had to do the repair mode thing again this morning. Hoping it stays up long enough for Glary Utilities to complete it’s scan for corrupted files.

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Gobi – like the dry, dry desert. “Stanley” appeals to my sense of humor, but Gobi is more descriptive.

    But Stanley….

    Pondering my choices.

    Flashback story: Hubby had purchased a professional floor cleaning machine some years ago. We were going to use it for the apartments, but also for our house. There’s lotsa floor footage in this place, and the patterning has resulted in depressions that are hard for me to clean out. Hubby was trying to make my life easier.

    He was please with his purchase. I came home to find him demonstrating it to Handsome Son. “This is the X-400 Super Duper Maximum Floor cleaning system,” he tried to name it. “Let’s call it ‘George’” I replied.

    George it was.

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Gov. Newsom Shocked California Looks Like ‘a Third World Country’

    “California Gov. Gavin Newsom showed up Thursday with a clean-up crew and vowed action.

    And the Democrat, dressed in a T-shirt, baseball cap and coronavirus mask, pitched in himself, joining crew members from the state Department of Transportation in grabbing handfuls of debris and placing the trash in bags or in a dumpster.

    “What has happened on this stretch of the Union Pacific Railroad is unacceptable,” Newsom told reporters. He said the area looked like a scene from “a Third World country,” according to FOX 11 of Los Angeles.

  13. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    I think I need to name that thing, so I don’t have to type out dehydrator all the time. Any ideas?

    Drier Outer Thingy is descriptive, but just as hard to type. You could try My Dry Thing…

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I found tomatillos on sale yesterday, along with the berries. I’m thinking I may try my hand at a green sauce, maybe some chicken tomatillo soup.

    ‘cuz I have jars.

    My favorite source of jars was out yesterday. It’s a thrift store next to the bank, and they sell them for about 50 cents each, which is cheaper than the new. I then went to the Salvation Army store (because Goodwill, as per a previous discussion, overcharges on their jars). The SA store had about five good jars, but they also were overpriced.

    That’s okay. I have plenty for now.

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    You know, there was an actor/football player named Fred Dryer.

    So, maybe it’ll be “Fred”.

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    RE: OC pic

    One part of my brain knows that Hammy is gone.

    But part of me is still looking for his name to pop up on a post. And a blog monkey threat.

    Way too young.

    Damn clot shot.

  17. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Back from coffee this morning. The talk of the town seems to be the lucky dogs story, so I guess the effort to seek out the owners got pretty broad coverage after all. I think the pictures are what sold the deal, so next time I’m trying to promote something, I’m going to be sure and include a lot of pictures.

    Sun is shining, and it’s headed for the 50’s for a high today. I’ve got some catching up to do around here, more computer work, so I’ll probably try to concentrate on that some. You all have a great day. More later.

  18. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Most of the appliances and devices in my house have their name plastered right across the top or somewhere else on the front. The “Acme” or the “GE” for example. For a dehydrator, I’d probably just call it the “drier.” My birdfeeder is named the “Dorian” because that the name of the lady who gave it to me. I never got around to naming the dogs because that would mean that I was getting closer to them than I ever intended; I consider that a near miss. Anyway, calling things by the name on the front of the device tend to lead to less confusion in my experience.

  19. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The guys from Battleship New Jersey came down and made a video on the Battleship Texas.  They’re struggling up here to keep and preserve their ship, too.

    Why Is Battleship Texas Shaped So Weird?

    Battleship Texas Video

    This video has been posted less than 5 days and already has almost 220,000 views.

  20. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I like Gobi for the dryer.

  21. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #16 TT

    Damn clot shot.

    Is that confirmed? I haven’t seen anything about his cause of death.

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    It was heart failure.

    I’m assuming it was the shot because he fits all the patterns of sudden heart failure after getting the shot.

    He wasn’t under 30, but he was in good health.
    He was getting regular checkups for his skin cancer; doctor found no problems.
    It was sudden.
    It was delayed, as many of these deaths are. I’ve heard multiple doctors warn that these heart failure problems can occur months or years after the shot.

    I am making an assumption, but I also don’t delude myself into thinking that his death won’t be hidden as a regular “heart failure” condition. There may have been a hidden condition, but since he was being checked regularly, I would’ve thought his doctor would have seen something.

  23. Dr phil Good Avatar
    Dr phil Good

    22
    Dr phil Good agrees with your diagnosis.
    Just look at the oc picture. He looked very healthy.

  24. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #22 TT: Unfortunately, this ‘sudden heart failure’ is going to happen with greater frequency. The same thing is going to happen with sudden onset, rapidly metastasizing, cancers. The same thing is going to happen with ‘mysterious neurological disorders.’ The thread that will connect all of these things is the shot.

    Damn you Fauci and all your ilk.

  25. Dr phil Good Avatar
    Dr phil Good

    The biggest news is those leaked DARPA documents uncovered by Project Veritas.

    But the news goes nowhere because of the communist controlled propagandist media and gutless republicans in office.

    They may win in 2022 but they sure don’t deserve to.
    They’ve done nothing to earn votes.

    Just read illegal aliens can use arrest warrants as identification to fly yet unvaccinated truckers are now banned from entering the US while Covid-1984 positive illegal aliens still pour across in record numbers.

    Hey Abbott!! Del Rio is still a sieve.

    The beagle killer Count Fraudcila is still roaming free even though he’s guilty as sin of crimes against humanity and torturing animals.

    And nary is heard a challenging word form the goopeeCons.
    Pathetic.

    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/01/the-apocalypse-is-here.php

  26. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Our tranny can whip your tranny.

  27. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Those evil Zionists are still at it.

    This time Hamas has photographical evidence showing one of its beach patrol boat commanders being martyred by a laser-wielding dolphin to support its claim.

    n.b. The reply tweets or whatever you call them are hilarious. Particularly the picture of Flipper Goldstein.

  28. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Flipper Goldstein is world class snark!

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Just look at the oc picture. He looked very healthy.

    I actually saw him in real life about 2 months before he died. He looked better than in that picture, more fit.

    That’s why I have my assumptions.

  30. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Well, I got tomatillos about to go roasting, and chicken waiting to be shredded. I found a recipe for Chicken Verde, so I’m shooting for a canning session later.

    Leftover toma’s may get sauced.

    If any leftover from THAT, get dried in Gobi/Fred…still trying to decide.

  31. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Today is the 143rd Anniversary of the Battle of Rorke’s Drift, an event that resulted in more Victoria Crosses being awarded for a single engagement, a record that has not been equaled or surpassed since for any engagement of any nation’s highest Military Honor. It also spawned a pretty dang good war movie.

  32. Dr phil Good Avatar
    Dr phil Good

    Hey unckewla
    Say unckewla.

  33. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Bonanza, “The Decision”. S4/E12

    DeForest Kelley, aka Dr. “Bones” McCoy on Star Trek, playing a doctor.

    circle of life, in entertainment version

  34. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Handsome Son as asked to come over for dinner. LDIL is out of town.

    At least I get to see him.

  35. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    When “the narrative” has lost even Bill Maher, you know the tide is turning.

  36. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    In the midst of all this electronic wizardry and gadgetry changing, I managed to knock out my wireless laser printer from the network – at the very time I actually needed it to return a gizmo to Amazon by printing the return label. So then I went into a panic to try to resurrect the Brand X printer and get it all back on line. Of course, the enclosed set up disc only works with Winders, and since I make every effort to remain Windfers free, I pulled out my little bitty Winders based mini-computer that is attached to what used to be my home theater system before the AV receiver blew up and fired it up. Of course it needed about a year’s worth of automatic updates and so on which took a while, but I finally was able to get the printer network restarted using it. The remainder of the system came right up one at a time after that, so the printer is now functioning on all computers again and I was able to print my shipping label. Can’t take it to the drop off spot until Monday though, but that’s OK. I’ve go another of those mini-computers, and the Winders 10 program on it is all corrupted and messed up. It’s about 6 months old, and I’m working to try to get the Chinese company to take it back and give me a refund – I know, good luck with that. I might try to just convert it to a Linux machine, but I may not even be able to get enough responses to do that – one more challenge to deal with. BTW, the thing that I’m returning to Amazon is the replacement blue tooth 5.1 amplifier that I thought might run my speaker system, but it’s junk and will not do the job. So I guess I’ll eventually have to go back and buy another AV receiver and do it right rather than just trying to rig something up. No more than I watch TV in the first place, I should just forget about it, but it’s the challenge you see.

    So right now, I’m down to 1 broken computer and 1 broken AV receiver. Everything else is working at this point. One step forward, two steps back. I’m sure you know the drill.

    I’m so glad that I was able to get rid of those dogs when I did. They were here only two days, and if they had stayed another couple of days, there would have been no way I could have let them go. I hope they are not running around telling all their stray dog friends to come over to my house because I’m such a sucker. OK, that’s all for now. More later.

  37. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Just wondering about something. If you go take the vaccine shot, and then you go turn around and get tested for Covid, will the test results be positive?

  38. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #10 – I did not exactly catch the details of your computer problem, but I surmised that the gist of the thing is that it is spontaneously shutting down. While it could be any number of things, that is often a sign of excessive heat build-up. Those things have built in protection for themselves, and if it gets too hot, they shut themselves down. That could result from excessive build up of belly-button lint inside limiting the fans’ ability to move enough air around to keep the CPU cool, or more commonly, one of the fans just may be worn out and not be running. So I’ll just toss that out there for whatever it’s worth. Taking the case off and vacuuming it out might be a solution.

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    El Gordo – the Rube Goldberg of Hamousistan.

  40. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Well, I got the soup into the canner, and I reserved a big pot of it for dinner. It smells delicious.

    My feet are tired. It’s been about four hours or more of peeling, slicing, dicing, washing, drying, stirring….all those kitchen activities. I’ve been missng out on the sunshine, so once I get the pot up to pressure I’m going outside to pray my rosary.

    And no, there were no sammiches involved.

  41. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    El G, your constant tech wrestling sounds like me X10.  Last week my internet went down, but when it was restored it somehow set my modem/router back to default.  Took me a while to figure out what had happened but once I did was able to get everything set back up.  When I say everything, I mean EVERYTHING.

    On the other hand, I did manage to reinvent the wheel recently.  I have a Raspberry Pi project going where it monitors the home power for outages and reports it to you via email (using a Python program).  So the power to the modem/router and to the Raspberry Pi has to be from the UPS obviously – otherwise none of this would work.  Well come to find out after I got my project built and working there are already commercially available UPS units which do this.  So I guess I had a good idea, but was just late to the party.  Oh well, it was still a fun project.

  42. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    the gist of the thing is that it is spontaneously shutting down.

    No, it didn’t shut down. It froze up. Just stared at me with its one, big eye. No movement from the cursor, even on the laptop pad. If it was in “thinking” mode, the little circle wouldn’t even spin.

    Imagine Biden getting a real question for which he hasn’t been prepped and medicated. That was my computer.

    It is still up after Glary Utilities did it’s scan and repair of Windows files, so maybe that fixed it. I looked up how to get into safe mode, but what I found was how to go into Windows repair mode. Turn on computer, and as it’s booting up power it down using the button. Do that 3 times, and the fourth time it goes into repair mode. Letting it do a restart from there helped the computer be active long enough for Glary to work. It had gotten to the point that it wouldn’t stay active long enough to get any app time enough to do any repairs.

  43. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Watching Ben Shapiro respond to woke Tik Tok videos is freaking hilarious.

  44. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I am separating liquids. Again.

  45. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    re: the project in #41

    Schematic.

    Rough 3D model (minus the wiring).

    I ended up not using the little cooling fan.  The box sits open and the only thing the Pi processor chews on is running the Python program, so not much heat generated there.

  46. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good chilly afternoon, Hamsters.

    Barely made it to a still windy 50 after recovering from a 32 low overnight.  The wind had very big teeth early on.   Winter is making up for lost time when it was so easy to be lulled into thinking this would be a warm winter.  Even some of the hardy pansies look rather beat up, including the sheltered ones.

    Some old sheets covering plants on the back porch got blown off overnight, though the plants so far look to be all right.  This afternoon we had an enterprising gray squirrel trying to pull a single-sized sheet through the back yard, tugging for all its might and not getting very far once it got on the lawn.  It finally gave up and must have been exhausted.  Likely it wanted the sheet to warm its nest or build a new one.  We had seen another sheet displaced several days ago out back and guessed it was a squirrel who did it.  Maybe it was the same one.  Regrettably spouse couldn’t get his cell phone out fast enough to get a picture.

     

  47. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    So the power to the modem/router and to the Raspberry Pi has to be from the UPS obviously – otherwise none of this would work.

    Obviously.

  48. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I got only one mile on the treadmill today. But the jars are out and the first ping has occurred.

    Dinner soon. I guess I need to get in the shower before Handsome arrives.

  49. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    We had seen another sheet displaced several days ago out back and guessed it was a squirrel who did it. Maybe it was the same one.

    It appears we have a cat for that.

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Canadian government is trying to kill its citizens.

    A poll released by Angus Reid Institute on Friday showed 57 per cent of Canadians were having difficulty feeding their families, up from 36 per cent in March 2019.

    …Grapes that used to be 99 cents a pound are now running $4.99 a pound.

    With the trucks Freestone can secure, they are focussing on vegetable deliveries, and the cost of those trucks has also skyrocketed. The average truck out of California pre-pandemic cost Freestone $6,000 to 7,000, now it’s costing them $9,000 to 11,000.

    You still got your license ElGordo?

    We may need to airlift in supplies to texanadian. Probably have to fly low and land at a clandestine air strip.

  51. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I can’t point to a single thing I’ve gotten done today. Looking forward to tomorrow, when I expect I can say I worked the big Sunday sudoku.

     

  52. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    50

    Link:

    https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/mandatory-trucker-vaccination-leaves-store-shelves-empty-pushing-up-prices

  53. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #50 – Still got the license. Medical is a little out of date, but if you are engaging in low flying, sneaking across international borders, smuggling and so forth, what one more charge to be added. No sense in renting a plane either, just take one.

    In other news, I got the little mini-pc to open up enough to get to a “restore” point. Since I had not ever created a restore point, it’s trying to do a complete reset of the Winders 10 OS. I told it to wipe everything except the OS, so it should come back to factory defaults if it ever gets done running. Been 30 minutes so far and says 18% done. We used to call these dead computers “bricks,” but this one is so small maybe it should be called a pebble. Who knows, it may recover, or it may not. Meanwhile, guess I’ll go watch WOW for a bit and hope this computer is not waiting for me to answer a bunch of questions and is still working when I get back.

  54. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    I just spent the last hour fighting the water filter locking mechanism in my new(ish) fridge.  It’s a Frigidaire using the ULTRAWF filters.  It’s designed to just push in the filter and it unlocks the mechanism.  Then you’re supposed to just push the new filter in and it locks back in place.  Well, first time change out and the old filter easily came out, but then the new one wouldn’t lock back in.  So I pull it out and try putting the old one back in.  Nope.  Same deal.  No lock in place.  Turns out there are a couple of springs back behind the shroud which push the locking mechanism back and forth, and they very easily jump off track.  Had to disassemble the entire thing and carefully reassemble getting the springs back in the proper way.  Finally got it back together and working, but what a terrible design.  I never had this kind of issue with the old MWF type you just twist into place.

  55. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #54 Doooooood: I run reverse osmosis water to my fridge. I took out the filter and left it out. Works great.

  56. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    # 52 Shannon,
    So Canada’s Socialist government living in its far eastern provinces obviously thinks it is every province’s government in the rest of Canada.  Obviously not so and a good example of why we in the US do not want to copy it for any loony Socialist Democrat who tries it here.  Looks like this will not end well for many of our Canadian neighbors.

  57. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    #55 BC,

    RO sounds like a much better way to go. The replacement filters for the fridge as designed are expensive.

  58. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I had a micro-epiphany today.

    Hwhy i ax yew is it that a virus with a fatality rate at first of about 1.2% and now lower than seasonal flu has destroyed the psyche’s of the country, particularly the yoots, when the threat of nukuler war hung over most of us here like a dark shroud, but we never became as mentally and emotionally brittle?

    Having granny/gramps get the death flu and die is really bad, but it’s nothing like a few hundred warheads flying this way while we respond in kind and at similar levels, which would be a fatality rate well above single-digits.

  59. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    No sense in renting a plane either, just take one.

    Let’s “borrow” one of those Cessna 208s Super Cargomasters from Martinaire.

    3687 Max. payload

    Oughtta keep texanadian in HEB Spicy Charro Beans until Summer.

  60. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    That would be my choice. And if you can fly a Cessna, it really doesn’t matter which one – they all fly the same.

    #54 – Nothing is easy any more. My reset on the computer is already up to 55%, and I only started at 6PM. Rolling right along.

  61. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    It took me about 4.5 hours to distill the last batch. I threw in a couple jugs of tails, so that took a little extra time.

  62. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

  63. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    So, what do ya need, texanadian?

    Toothpaste, toilet paper, tampons?

  64. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Shannon & El Gordo

    I’m all in.  Charro beans, ammo, mags, jalapenos, habaneros, Tito’s Vodka…whatever is needed.   Over the tree tops…

  65. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    What about the WIP????https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/01/the-week-in-pictures-bye-bye-biden-edition.php

  66. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    After 3 hours or working, mini-computer urps up a message – “There was a problem resetting your computer. No changes were made.” Well isn’t that just wonderful. I think we are about ready to deploy Plan R – if you don’t know what Plan R is, go watch Dr. Strangelove.

    I’m starting to feel remorse about giving those dogs up. They are much easier to deal with than a cheap Chinese computer running Winders.

  67. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Hey GramPaw, What’s fer supper? Well since it’s turned off winter here in in south Alabama I decided hot soup would be the ticket. So I fixed some Campbell’s Mater soup and a couple of grilled cheese sammiches for my wife and a bowl of oyster stew for me. It is amazing just how good a simple comfort food supper can be…..Oh and for this audacious occasion, I used my fine “Dixie China”. 😉

  68. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #50 – Remember /mama  Nature had / has a BIG hand in this.

    At least 3-5 MAJOR (and only) cross mountain highways in southern BC CLOSED for a couple of months from floods and mudslides………..

  69. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Just put some big tires on the 208 and you can land it anywhere.

    OK, I’ve set up one more recovery technique, and I’m going to head out to bed and let it stew on it all night long. Then tomorrow when we are satisfied that nothing else will work, we will convert this to another Linux machine where everything is faster, easier, more stable, more dependable, and which deprives Bill Gates of any revenue. Nite all. More updates to come later.

  70. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Sigh, Packers lost tonight in what was becoming a blizzard and a windchill of zero degrees.  Long successful season ends on a sad note.

    On a much better subject, this morning spouse and I entertained a lovely lady and dear friend who had trained most of our horses over the years and coached us in our riding.  She and her husband, both native Texans, are moving to northern Georgia next month. They have found a place where they can retire in a few years in a small town amidst a beautiful countryside and a nearby national forest.   We will miss them a lot.  She came over for a visit and lunch at our favorite BBQ restaurant.  We had a great time reminiscing our long friendship with her and her late mother.

    I first met her mom at adult ladies group riding lessons shortly after we moved to Texas in 1969, and we became great friends.  At that time her daughter was 9 years old and began lessons thereafter with our very accomplished riding coach.  This friendship has lasted over 40 years.  It will be sad to see them go, but she is only a phone call away be it here or there.  🙂

  71. Dr phil Good Avatar
    Dr phil Good

    Well I’ll be dipped in sheep dip.

    I didn’t know El G-Man was a pilot.

  72. Dr phil Good Avatar
    Dr phil Good

    Hey uncklo
    Say hey uncklo.

  73. Dr phil Good Avatar
    Dr phil Good

    Say mon oncle
    Hey mon oncle.

  74. Dr phil Good Avatar
    Dr phil Good

    I know Hamous liked The Who so this is for him.

  75. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Burrr 26 degrees here in South Alabama, coldest night of the season.
    Mornin’ Gang

  76. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Checking out WIP and “Market Price” caught my eye. I actually saw that on a billboard menu at a Fast-Food joint in the Burbank Airport. 🙁

  77. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Now that the sun is up you can see a pretty while frost, 28 degrees now.

  78. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Mike Patey and the most recent Scrappy updates.

  79. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Those Patey twins are just amazing. If you’ve not watched the Scrappy build, it’s pretty amazing itself. He turned it in to a power generating station with solar panels on the top of the wings, massive battery capacity to handle welding machine or whatever, connects the electric motorcycles, etc. He wants to use it for search and rescue in remote sites, and it can power the campsite as well as all the other gadgets. And engineered like Brother Dave would do it – everything, from the bolts to the rivets with fine tolerances. Just amazing.

  80. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Sounds like Tom Tynan needs hang it up. Just in the short trip to the donut shop, twice I heard him tell a caller to Google their problem, his only recommendation was a couple of key words to search. 😀

  81. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Morning all, 30F here this AM heading to about 41. Going to be a nice day. Snow is melting fast and will be mostly gone I think by the end of the week. Then we will get another dump and it all repeats itself.

    Regarding food needs. Yes indeed, there are some empty shelves in the stores, but because of our large garden, cold room, canning, gobi-ing etc, we are not concerned. Many people are talking about it and rising costs, which does cause some concern.

    People are rapidly getting fed up with the covid bs and restrictions. This has to end soon or I fear people will snap.

  82. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Sitting here outside of church in the last place I saw Hammy.

    I need to pull myself together before I go inside.

  83. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I’m trying a couple more tricks with this silly mini-computer and then I’ll start my fight with Amazon to see how their A to Z warranty works when dealing with a Chinese company. I’ve been laying the groundwork for this battle by retaining all correspondence with date and time stamps and so forth, so when the time comes, I’ll be prepared to move forward. Once again, we are talking about principle here and not necessarily the amount of dollars involved – it should last more than 6 months no matter what the warranty might or might not say.

  84. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    We tend to catch the last part of CBS Sunday show, Spay The Nation, because Fay likes to watch Baptist (horrors!) preacher Dr. Ed Young. I do too, he’s a helluva preacher.

    Anyway, Margaret Brennan – the dumbest twit in television – had a Zoom meeting with a cross section of Americans….Biden and Trump voters.

    Despite Marge’s bald-faced attempts to defend the President, the panel was hilariously unanimous. Biden sucks. Biden’s inflationary economy sucks. Biden and the Branch Covidians suck.

    And the price of bacon was brought up by three of the eight panelists. 🙂

  85. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The best panelist was the black lady Biden voter. She thinks somebody is going to make a boatload of money off these masks and test kits that Biden is sending out. And we don’t need either.
    And her husband likes bacon and she can’t afford it.

  86. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    84 & 85 Shannon

    I wonder if there’s a video clip of that panel or do you think CBS has already burned it in the company BBQ pit ?

  87. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It may become available on their website but it tends to take a day or two. And sometimes not at all with these networks.

  88. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I would always check You Tube first. A lot of TV stuff appears on YT shortly after airing.

  89. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It’s a little above freezing here now but it won’t last long.  We’re headed into another deep freeze week with it going all the way down to 7° on Thursday morning.  It ain’t nothing like Alberta though.

  90. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    I’m enjoying seeing these people who have been living in the matrix for so long getting PO’d at the lies they’ve been sold. If it takes bacon becoming more expensive to force that realization on them, well maybe it’s worth the extra $ at the grocery store.

  91. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Yesterday, I finally got around to cooking up our bacon Christmas present to each other. BLTs last night.
    What a treat.

  92. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, gang. Took me a long time to finish the sudoku, but I did, and with no errors. Spent a lot of time being interrupted by cats. On a recent critter-chow stock-up trip to Kroger, I found the pet food aisles more empty even than usual since grocery transport got bogged down. One thing that really matters at Chez Harp is all the small meal items I get for my now 19-y.o. gal Millie. That is the least reliable thing on that aisle. I keep Millie alive and happy with small fancy meals, any time she wants to find me and let me know she is feeling peckish. So, last trip, there was none of the several favorites I usually get for her on the shelves. I had no choice but to get a variety of available small meals, most of which she had never had before. Fortunately, she has liked most of them, which means she comes begging every 30 minutes or so after her basic breakfast.

    Any bowl she doesn’t lick clean can always be offered to one of the three 15-y.o. kitties, who runs a bit on the lean side.

  93. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Y’all just need to get with the program and realize O’Biden is simply trying to address the wild hog problem.

  94. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I had noticed something on the old deck that I didn’t recognize. Thought at first it might be a clump of brown leaves or some such, blown down from a tree in the windy weather we’ve been having. I had looked at it several times when checking to see how the birds and squirrels were doing with their breakfast on the patio. Began to think it just might be a dead animal. Went out there with my grabber tool and took it off the deck and put it in the grass. Lo and behold it was a very well weathered teddy bear. No idea how it got on the deck, which is a considerable distance away from the fences around the yard.

  95. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    And her husband likes bacon and she can’t afford it.

    Now that’s the last straw! Don’t take that lady’s bacon.
    A Side Bar, I spent $65 bucks at the Pig yesterday but I did get a 4+ pound Rump Roast, 1 ½ Lbs of Wright thick sliced, smoked bacon and a pound of Tennessee Pride sausage, so I did pretty good.
    Since I retired I drop by the Pig several times a week and seldom have an old fashioned weekly Grocery list. I guess the main reason is that it’s easy to get in and out of the pig and I can always park close. I almost never go to the Local Leper Colony because it is a ZOO! Especially after they recharge that blue Alabama card that works like a Lone Star Card. A good 80% of the folks have them and they’re easy to spot. 400-500 lbs driving a scooter with kids/grandkids dragging two grocery carts loaded to the gills, little wheels splayed outward from the weight.

  96. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    400-550 lbs driving a scooter with kids/grandkids dragging two grocery carts loaded to the gills, little wheels splayed outward from the weight.

    If that doesn’t paint a picture of the state of the union, I don’t know what does.

  97. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Returning from my appointed rounds, on the Farm Road leading thru the edge of residential Bellville, I encounter a hot young thing in the highest of black high heels and very short little black dress and jacket, walking along the edge of the road towards town.

    Now a generous soul would assume she was on her way to church – the closest of which is two miles away.

    But it is 12:30 in the afternoon and I’m not feeling generous. Sure looked like an extraordinary example of the walk of shame to me. 🙂

  98. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    97
    How’s that for a run-on sentence, Adee?

  99. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Well, I’ve tried all the combinations of reloading Win 10 on the mini-computer, all without success. So when all else fails, it’s time to turn it into a Linux machine, so I plug in my trusty Linux boot USB stick, turn it on, press F7, tell it to boot from the stick, and it’s off to the races. Except it’s not. It starts spitting out error codes and messages, etc. Now the Linux boot stick is a device that you can plug in to any computer anywhere, do your computer business without having to download anything to the machine, pull it back out, and no tracks are left behind that you were ever there. It’s fool proof, even I can do it. So what all this tells me is that there is a hardware issue somewhere in that little tiny box that I’m not about to open up and try to find. I’m working on Plan B to install Linux Mint on it right now, but I’m not optimistic. But when I go to describe the problem and the tech says to try this and try that I will have already tried it. It’s a faulty, dead machine – it’s that simple.

    So tomorrow I’ll get to work seriously with Amazon to make this right. I’ll keep you posted as to how this goes, but I’ve always had good success when dealing with Amazon on return issues.

  100. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    97 Shannon

    It sounds to me like she got in a fight with some guy and he either told her to get out of the vehicle or she demanded to be let out.

    That’s my guess.

  101. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    I’m not much of an Amazon fan for stuff other than digital media, but I will grant that when it comes to returns they do make it easy.

  102. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Though updates indicate 95% containment, you may not know that they’ve been fighting an 800 acre wildfire in Bastrop.

    Again.

  103. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I saw a report about the Bastrop fire about a week ago.  I can’t believe it’s still burning.

  104. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Diammonium phosphate has doubled in price in one year to $745 a ton.  Way to go, Brandon !  Much of the cost increase is due to soaring natural gas prices.

    Higher fertilizer costs could translate into increased food prices in the next year, worsening global hunger after the pandemic caused massive job losses and further growing inflation, the WSJ reported.

    U.S. farmers have felt the impact of the rising fertilizer prices, causing some to alter their planting schedules, the WSJ reported. The high costs significantly impact developing countries with limited access to bank loans and therefore cannot afford the fertilizer.

    Fertilizer demand in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to dip 30% in 2022 for this reason, resulting in a reduction of 30 million metric tons of food produced, or enough to feed 100 million people, according to the International Fertilizer Development Center.

  105. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I’m not feeling generous.

    I think you made a wise choice, I’d have hated to find out that you were found on a desolate FM road near Bellville, ice pick in your back and tire marks where the water truck pealed out. 😉

  106. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    How old am I?

    I just bought Isotoner slippers and I’m ecstatic about them, that’s how old.

  107. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #106

    Sarge, I didn’t know there were Isotoner slippers made for men. Or am I assuming data not in evidence?

     

  108. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Well, was sitting there, remembering Hammy, and I met up with some little girls that I befriended one cold night after mass. Maliyah reminded me of me, nurturing and responsible, with curly hair. She remembers me, and I get hugs from her and all of the kids that seem to surround her. We had a nice talk, and Anna told me all about their new van. ALL about it. So cute. Little kids are reminders that life goes on.

    I gave blood before mass, and the Knights were supposed to have refreshments, but they weren’t set up ouside where they usually are, so I supposed someone didn’t show up. I went to mass. I don’t usually have a reaction to giving blood, but I did today. After about an hour, in the middle of mass, I started to feel lightheaded and queasy. I went to the ladies’ room and slurped some water from the faucet. It helped. I’m home now and working on replacing fluids again.

    So, now I’m home. I’ve had some chicken stock cooking since yesterday, so I think it’s time to strain it and can it. I have some pork that I think I’m going to can as well – may as well make it a full load.

  109. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Oh, I got in my car and Hubby texted me that he had a pleasant surprise for me. It seems that he and Handsome Son have finally installed a thermostat for the boiler, so we can turn it on and off without going into the garage.

    I’m feeling all uppity now.

  110. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    mharper42 says:
    JANUARY 23, 2022 AT 13:55
    #106

    Sarge, I didn’t know there were Isotoner slippers made for men. Or am I assuming data not in evidence?

    For men, at Sam’s.

  111. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    On the way home, I saw something that I have yet to figure out.

    Young black guy in jeans, holding the front of his pants like the saggy pants dudes do. But he wasn’t holding his pants, he was holding something white. I did a double take, and checked out my rearview mirror as I passed him.

    I swear, it was a pair of tighty whities or a diaper he was holding up. Outside of his pants. It wrapped all the way around.

    I told Hubby that was as far as I was going in trying to figure it out.

  112. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And Hubby shared another funny with me from his continuing ed class yesterday. A true story shared by one of the other plumbers:

    Customer: “My water heater isn’t working.”
    Plumber: “Is it gas or electric?”
    Customer: “Well, I haven’t put any gasoline into it, so I guess it’s electric.”

    True story.

  113. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I saw a bum walking the other day near the office. He had the outer pants on inside out and below the butt. I think he was trying to make a statement. He succeeded.

  114. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Y’all be careful out there,…… 😉

  115. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    From our church bulletin today. Sorry if I didn’t catch all the mistakes from the OCR in the Adobe Scanner app.

    The Sixth Ecumenical Council took place in Constantinople in 680- 681 AD and is also known as the Third Council of Constantinople. The council, called together by St Constantine the New, dealt with the following: Condemning the heresy of the Monothelites

    By this point, Arianism had become largely marginalized and many Arians were accepted back into the Church. But a new attack on the Person of Christ emerged in the form of the Monothelites. The Monothelites argued that Christ has only one will, for He is one person albeit with two natures. The Council felt that this “impaired the fullness of Christ’s humanity,” and that human nature without human will would be incomplete. That affirmed that since Christ was true man and true God, He must have two wills: a human will and a divine will. Monothelitism was condemned as heresy. In addition to the condemnation of Monothelitism, the council anathematized as heretics Pope Honorius I of Rome and Sergius I of Constantinople, as well as Cyrus of Alexandria, Paul II and Peter of Constantinople, and Theodore of Pharan for their part in propagating the heresy of Monothelitism.

    The Holy Fathers of the Sixth Ecumenical Council are commemorated on January 23 and on the 9th Sunday atfter Pentecost the Sunday of the Fathers of the First Six Councils.

  116. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #98 Shannon,

    That’s good for a starter, but if you really wanted to create a champion, gotta take a breath while reading it run-on, you could merely add on the following two sentences .  And that would be exhausting, besides funny as all getout!  🙂

  117. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    #109 Tedtam

    Now I understand why you always say you “turned on the floor or “turned off the floor”. You were literally turning it on and off.

  118. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sarge has also been spotted recently sporting Original Sansabelt Slacks.

  119. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I heard Sarge climbed Mt. Everest in Crocs.

  120. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    105 Super Dave

    Yeah, I would’ve offered her a ride but I didn’t have a chaperone handy.

  121. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #97 – IMHO a ‘rental unit’ whose handler / pimp / driver had ‘other’ things to do besides picking her up!

  122. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    And as for supply chain madness:

    Cargo vessels now stalled / waiting off the coasts of Mexico, Taiwan, Japan….

     

    https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ships-in-california-logjam-are-now-stuck-off-mexico-taiwan-and-japan

  123. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Anyone who has delved deeply into the issues at west coast ports knows it is a very complex situation. There are no simple solutions.

    But I tell you one thing.

    If Donald J. Trump was President, SOMETHING would have actually been happening over the last six months towards resolving the situation.

  124. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    We’ve kept this a family secret for years, but now I’m going to reveal that famous songwriter Leroy Troy wrote a song about me and Shannon…

    The Legend of the Johnson Boys

  125. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Short nap came at just the right time today, and now a hot cup of coffee tastes pretty good as suppertime nears.

  126. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    West coast port problems are clearly a national security issue.

    It’s way past time to invoke the Defense Production Act.

  127. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Not only that, put the fear of God in any of the dozen or so entities involved that have existing federal contracts.

  128. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    When you fill your Cabinet with a bunch of freaks, ladyboys, purple-hairs, and Commies there is no one with a enough snap to take on a real crisis.

  129. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Made it to 57 this afternoon, but it was still a bit windy and overcast for most of the day.  We’re down to 56 now.  The countryside looks to be fully in winter’s drab colors now, other than the green live oaks.   The latest blast has really stirred up pollen again, so I shall go to the nearby Randall’s and bring home more Kleenex boxes—if they are available at the moment.

    Grocery shopping has become venturesome out here lately, as there are more empty shelves and items are moved around from their usual spots.  However, the store manager has tried to help us find things by placing at the ends of each aisle a list of items and which aisles they are now on.  Very useful, and that saves walking up and down every aisle in some cases to find what is needed.  Oh, and the store is undergoing remodeling, so that is why things are moving around and not necessarily that they are not available.  New tile floors are now down in most aisles, and the remodeling is accomplished at night when the store is closed.

     

  130. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Although we still have all sorts of food in there that so many people have graciously brought over here, I wanted a steak dang it so got the taters in the oven and about to throw a couple ribeyes on the Weber.

  131. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Busy afternoon.

    I found a recipe for Mississippi pork for canning, so I’ve been doing that. Just so happens that it requires some chicken stock for the canning part, and I had that in the crock pot, so I strained out the stock while the pork was in the oven, roasting.

    While the pork was roasting and the stock was on simmer, I made some Italian sausage patties, to can those as well. I had some left over, so it’s cooked to add to some pasta Hubby has in the frig. I was able to put up a quart of chicken stock as well. So I have 3 quarts of Mississippi Pork, one quart chicken stock, one quart Italian sausage. I had some stock left over, so it’s in reduction so I can dehydrate it and add it to the stock I have dried already.

    Oh, and I wiped down, labeled, and stocked into the garage the pints of my chicken verde soup that I canned last night.

    Then I had a pile of dishes to do, and when the stove cools down, it gets cleaned, too.

    Hubby gets leftovers tonight. I’m done in the kitchen for now.

  132. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just used the new thermostat to turn on the boiler. As I punched up the temp button I could hear the boiler come on through the door nearby.

    So nice. We’ll probably run it for four hours, then turn it off. The floor will radiate for the rest of the night.

    Now, if I can make sure my computer is working properly before tomorrow hits….

  133. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Imma ’bout to do some prep myself: salad starters. I put out 4 salad bowls, and chop, cut, tear into said bowls the sturdy veggies that I put in my salads: lettuce of some sort, sliced cucumbers, chopped green onions, and pre-shredded carrots.  Tonight I want one of the salads with my supper, so the other 3 bowls get put into a closed plastic bag until the night I will eat them. I find that those ingredients do fine pre-chopped in the fridge for 4-5 days. I finish up a salad starter by adding those tiny grape tomatoes, chopped avocado if I want it in that salad, Tillamook grated cheddar, and optional flavored croutons. I’m a big fan of Ken’s salad dressings, favorite being the sweet Vidalia onion flavor.

  134. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Defense Production Act

    Companies are required to accept and prioritize contracts from the government and to prioritize “materials, services, and facilities to promote the national defense or to maximize domestic energy supplies.”

    The second provision in the act provides financial measures, such as loans, loan guarantees, purchases, and purchase commitments, to speed up the production of materials “needed to support national defense and homeland security procurement requirements.”

    The act also addresses voluntary agreements – or what the government says is “an association of private interests, approved by the Government to plan and coordinate actions in support of the national defense.” The proviso permits business competitors to work together to plan and coordinate measures to increase the supply of materials.

    Along with the three main provisions, the act also provides the government with the authority to obtain information from businesses, authorizes establishment of the National Defense Executive Reserve, and a Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States – which works on the effects on national security of certain mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers related to foreign investment in the U.S.

  135. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m watching the Fake the Nation “focus group” interview referenced earlier.

    Oh…my…word! It is painful.

    Well, amusing for me, painful for the interviewer. She is trying so hard, but getting nothing.

  136. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #126 Shannon

    West coast port problems are clearly a national security issue.

    It’s way past time to invoke the Defense Production Act.

    If a problem solver like Trump was in office, yes.

    This group of clowns can’t even pile out of that car without dragging the country down with them. Give them more power and there’s no telling the amount of damage they could do.

  137. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It has been one hell of a week and a month around here.  We don’t need anymore dramatic events around here for a long while. Have a little peace and a little joy.

  138. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Here you go.

  139. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I’m in to Episode 7 of Winds of War. It’s another 2 1/2 hour episode, so it may take a couple of days for me to watch. I see on You Tube that the sequel, War and Remembrance is also available on the free side, so I’ll probably move right in to that as soon as I finish WOW. Right now the Russians are defending Moscow, evidence of the atrocities the Germans are inflicting on the Jews are beginning to leak out to the western media and our government, and we are supplying the Brits with weapons via the Lend Lease program, and some support to the Russians as well. The Germans did not anticipate being there during the winter and are not prepared for cold weather, so we know how that turns out. Anyway, pretty historically accurate account of events with some love story/drama included to keep the wimmenz folk interested. Excellent series, and I again highly recommend it.

  140. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Who said I wasn’t coming back? We had a fine day today, started out at 26 but hit 40 by 10 AM and topped out about 55. It’s 36 now but it shouldn’t get below 30 so we’re good. Sister stopped bay this afternoon and after the wimmins went out for a run on the Mule we had a fine supper. I had a small 4 Lb Rump Roast in the crock pot and then I fixed smashed taters, collard greens with ham hock, English Peas and Hawaiian rolls. I took about a pint of beef broth from the pot and made some fine onion mushroom gravy. Sister said it was he best I’d ever made and since SHE is the chef in the family I felt proud.

  141. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Sarge has also been spotted recently sporting Original Sansabelt Slacks.

    Well not exactly, I’d say a Cossack Hat. 😀

  142. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    It’s the Russian army Santa.

  143. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    About time for me to be turning in here. You all have a great evening, and I’ll try to get back with you in the morning. Nite nite all.

  144. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Don’t miss the fun in Brussels over on CFP.

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