If only we could extend that privilege….
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History will look back on this Clown Show and wonder how ALL of Biden’s staff were not only wholly incompetent but mostly perverted.
Well the front roared though here last night with thunder boomers and a nice light show. But it came through so fast that we only got 1.36″ of rain. I was out with Lil’ Dawg about 5 AM and I could see some fair skies to the east so maybe it’ll be a nice day. High of 62.
Mornin’ Gang
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Yesterday the O.C. picture was Floyd from Yellowstone sitting on a 54 Chevy truck and I mentioned that he was a great character but I don’t know his name. Well now I do; Forrie J. Smith.
Who Is Forrie J. Smith?
Forrie J. Smith has worked in the film industry as a stuntman, actor, and occasional extra crew. His first acting role, according to IMDb, was in the 1987 film Desperado, where he portrayed Harley, Calvin’s sidekick. Following that, he played cameo roles in the television series Young Riders in 1991, The Lazarus Man (2006), Better Call Saul in 2017, and Midnight, Texas in 2018.
However, Smith rose to prominence as Lloyd Pierce in the TV series Yellowstone from 2018 to 2020. His additional TV credits, particularly film credentials, include The Vagrant (1992), Tombstone (1993), Gunsmoke: One Man’s Justice (1994), Blind Justice (1994), South of Heaven, West of Hell (2000), Transamerica (2005), Just Getting Started (2017), and others.
In addition, Smith performed stunts in the TV features Rambo III (1988), Aces: Iron Eagle III (1992), Posse (1993), Lightning Jack (1994), Los Locos (1997), and Seven Mummies (2006). Furthermore, he was an extra crew in the film 2 Guns (2013), Hell or High Water (2016), and The Kid (2019). He was hired as a wrangler in all these features.
Age & Family
Forrie J. Smith comes from an all-American family with roots in Montana. Smith was born and raised in Helena, Montana, in 1959. Smith grew up on his grandparents’ ranch, located southwest of the city. He is 62 years as of 2021.
As he grew, Smith mastered the ins and outs of ranching, rodeo, and horseback riding from his father and grandfather, both ranchers who excelled in rodeo, and his mother, a barrel racer. In fact, Smith began competing in rodeo when he was eight years old.
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El Gordo, here ya’ go;
Pix of the day Lockheed 12. It’s an 8-seat, 6-passenger transport #aircraft that was first produced in the late 1930s. The Electra Junior was a scaled-down Model 10 Electra, designed for small airlines, companies (and private pilots with a lot of dough!) The all-metal #airplane was powered by two 450 hp Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior SP radial engines. If only you could hear a picture.
by Jim Koepnick at AirVenture 2006.
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Morning gang. Wow, that is one good looking Lockheed Electra. In fact, I think a guy over in alabama or Georgia has one. I’ll go hunt for a video. PS: check this out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr8AWwyaDNM
30 degrees out here this morning. I noticed last night before bedtime that the windows were beginning to sweat, so that meant a pretty rapid change in temperature. I’m off to coffee this morning, but I’ll have more maybe after I return from the TOK. Have a good morning you all.
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Well, I worked late again last night, battling the bookkeeping monster. Solved one major problem, and finally sent an email on the last two.
Here’s hoping that once I’m caught up I won’t have these issues any more. I’ll be able to document the transactions instead of assuming I’ll be able to remember them. Dang that one tenant who managed to make my life a bookkeeping hell. His shenanigans occurred during the two year period that elders in my life were dying, so catching up became very difficult.
Anyway, that light at the end of the tunnel is NOT an oncoming train.
But I will have to put off my excitement. I have to do payroll today, but that may be all I get done. I have my pre-op appointment this morning, then I think I’m going to run to the eggery. Handsome told me they wanted some eggs, and I’m going to stash the rest of them for Hubby to use. Gonna oil them, since I won’t have time to dry them.
Then there are all the other last minute tasks to prepare for the Age of Hubby Care.
I may have time for some bookkeeping later this evening. Hubby will be arriving later today.
So, busy, busy, busy.
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Light crowd here at tok. I must be early.
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Morning, Gang – I guess the past couple mornings of me waking up early and not being able to go back to sleep finally caught up with me, as when that happened this morning, I rolled over and went back to sleep and slept til almost 7 am (Considering that for the last 14 years of my work/commute life, I got up at 4:40 so I could get awake enough to attempt the commute to the “Mother Ship” across from the Houston Zoo… ‘sleeping in’ is sometimes an amazing feat for me)… Tedtam – you are in my prayers – along with your Hubby, and will remain so until you “call off the hounds”
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The Real-Life Matrix: ‘EctoLife’ Artificial Womb Facility to Engineer, Grow Babies in ‘Factory’
I would be very surprised if any babies are actually brought to full term with this abomination.
Of those that manage to reach full term and are “born”, I seriously doubt that any could be able to function in society, be they extreme psychopaths or severely retarded. A bigger middle finger in the FACE OF ELOHIM I can not imagine.
G-D may have to invent a new section of hell for these people.
HAT TIP: ACE
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Good bright and beautiful and cold (36) morning Hamsters,
It was not quite cold enough for frosty sparkles on the pasture grass, so what looked to possibly be a light frost was only the remains of dead greenery from the real frost several weeks ago. One deer was in the front pasture at sunup but is long gone. Last look at the temperature shows 46. Winter is indeed here as predicted.
Prayers for and thoughts of Tedtam and Hubby today.
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Prayers Tedtam. I know Hubby can’t report progress, hopefully you will be able to ASAP.
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Maybe LD can?
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#7 Bonecrusher,
Now if that doesn’t freeze your blood…. And so close to Christmas this insanity shows up in the news?
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I really don’t understand why the left is so determined to destroy the country. Is their quest for power so overwhelming that they would rather rule over a pile of $#!t than live in opulence?
The open border madness is designed to destroy.
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#12 – “They will turn us all into beggars because they are easier to please.”
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#12 Bonecrusher,
It seems that Arizona has by itself taken on the invasion of its sovereignty because the Feds, whose constitutional duty to do so, has not. Texas needs to take that step as well. The states are constitutionally sovereign entities…. And Texas has some experience being the Republic of Texas for 9 years or so…. And Texas sits upon a huge wealth of oil and natural gas. So the turkeys in the DC administration need to pay close attention. But they won’t until the whirlwind is at their front door.
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Network update. As mentioned, I moved my main router from the kitchen to a more central location in the den, moved the satellite device from the den to the kitchen, and installed another satellite device in the bedroom. This allows each of the satellite devices to connect directly to the router mother ship rather than creating a daisy chain from kitchen, to den, to bedroom using more than one satellite device. Anyway, this seems to be a good arrangement and it seems to be coming together very well. As to client devices such as computers, smart bulbs and switches and such, and even phones in some cases, that once they lock on to a satellite device they are very reluctant to give it up even if there is a stronger signal available. So I still had client devices in the kitchen that were connecting to the router in the den rather than to a stronger satellite device located nearby. Echo devices seem to be particularly prone to locking on and not giving up a connection. As a result, my connections were being reported as being marginal even though they were located very close to a satellite node. So anyway, after resetting up the Echo devices, they are now showing an excellent connection strength, and other devices seem to be figuring out the best place to make their own individual connections. So over a period of a couple of days, the network and the clients seem to be working out their best connection on their own. No wonder they call it a smart network. Still a couple of seldom used devices still not optimized, but I expect that when they are used a few times they will figure it out. Amazing stuff – almost like magic. And I’m using probably less than 10% of this network’s real capabilities – all with remanufactured equipment and at a cost of less than $100 for router, satellite devices, and ethernet cable. I cannot imagine a situation where I would need to increase my ISP speed or upgrade the equipment for quite some time. I’m not using the “6” type latest equipment, but if I were I don’t have any equipment that could use it. I generally like to stay about 5 years behind the latest and greatest, so that’s about where this system upgrade puts me.
BTW, I’m using TP-Link One Mesh equipment; their competitor seems to be Asus for this type set up. The others have skipped this step and gone straight to full blown mesh systems which requires all new (and expensive) equipment.
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Morning, gang. I woke up in a bed full of cats. Warm and cozy, until they got grumpy and demanded their breakfast.
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#17 – Dang Squawkster!
you trying to give me a Tim Leary flashback moment? 😉
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Now you have to read this to really get a grasp of what it’s all about. And then to realize that she was able to get a sizable government grant to pursue this study. https://news.rice.edu/news/2022/evelyn-tang-wins-career-award
My only response is when will somebody stand up and say “the emperors has no clothes.”?
PS: and just in case you were having trouble understanding the topic but were too embarassed to click on the link, have no fear because I did it for you. And now your will learn: https://encyclopediaofmath.org/wiki/Topological_invariant
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#17 Squawksterdude:
Quit it, you’re like, freaking me out man
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My #19 – really, the censors have to check this out for further approval?
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A friend sent this recent shot – heading west out of Denver.
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19 el gordo
At least the money isn’t going to fund biological research on a weapon to be used against us with us not able to have the results of that research.
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It was 30 degrees this morning, but with the bright sunny skies it has warmed up to a pleasant 60+. So I took the opportunity to walk around the fence line outside my house and conduct speed tests on my internet signal about every 25 feet or so. No dead spots located at all. My house might glow in the dark at night after all just from the radiation levels in here. I knocked out a couple of any beds while I was out there. Now if someone could develop a proper radio frequency that would just zap those little suckers whenever they first show up they would have something. I hate to sound like I’m bragging, but unlike most of my DIY projects that end in dismal failure, this one actually seems to be exceeding expectations. I did decide to turn off the guest network so long as I don’t have company in order not to attract freeloaders or having people inadvertently stop on the highway in front of my house to use my internet and cause accidents.
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Squawk is attempting to hypnotize all the readers of this site. I don’t know what he’s up to, but it’s certainly weird.
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There really is no reason to pay attention to this. Pippa Malmgren is just some rich daughter living off her daddies money. I mean she only warned us about this a few months back but yanna she is just some rich dudes daughter.
Global central banks racing to implement digital currencies as cities convert to ‘smart’ infrastructure:
The Central Bank of Nigeria announced it will begin, effective in January, restricting cash withdrawals from banks and ATMs to just $45 per day as part of a push to move the country toward a cashless economy.
If this were a one-off, I wouldn’t bother writing about it. But it comes on the heels of mega-banks announcing similarly creepy new policies in recent months in China, India, Russia, Brazil, Sweden, the U.S. and many other nations, all pointing to an imminent switch over to a global digital money system.
In the U.S., the Federal Reserve put out an announcement in November that it is launching a 12-week “pilot program” to test out a new central bank digital currency, or CBDC, with six major banks.
Uhhhh yes
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The Center For Disease Control (CDC) deleted a reference to a study it commissioned after a group of gun-control advocates complained it made passing new restrictions more difficult.
The lobbying campaign spanned months and culminated with a private meeting between CDC officials and three advocates last summer, a collection of emails obtained by The Reload show. Introductions from the White House and Senator Dick Durbin’s (D., Ill.) office helped the advocates reach top officials at the agency after their initial attempt to reach out went unanswered. The advocates focused their complaints on the CDC’s description of its review of studies that estimated defensive gun uses (DGU) happen between 60,000 and 2.5 million times per year in the United States–attacking criminologist Gary Kleck’s work establishing the top end of the range.
“[T]hat 2.5 Million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again,” Mark Bryant, one of the attendees, wrote to CDC officials after their meeting. “It is highly misleading, is used out of context and I honestly believe it has zero value – even as an outlier point in honest DGU discussions.”
The CDC has become utterly useless. I’ve never thought it an effective government agency and now it has devolved into a hack PR arm for the anti-gun lobby.
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26 Squawk
I criticized Pippa Malmgren personally because she’s a stone cold hustler and is trying to chisel her way into a position of power. The only power she has right now is her mouth. The fact I attacked her credibility has absolutely nothing to do with what I think about the international movement to destroy cash currency, convert all transactions to digital tracking and set fire to personal freedoms for all people.
Christine LaGarde, chair of IMF
Mary Schapiro, chair of US SEC
Janet Yellen, US Treasury Secretary
Chanda Kochhar, ICICI Bank, India
Lubna Olayan, Olayan Financing Company, Saudi Arabia
Sri Mulyani Indrawati, CEO, World Bank
Ho Ching, CEO, Temasek Holdings, Singapore
Maria Jesus Montero, Finance Minister, Spain (stone-cold communist)
This is a short list of women who wield actual, vast powers over money and finance. Every one of them will be on board for digital fake money. These are the women to be scared of and watch along with their male colleagues and weak, spineless American politicians.
The problem is the women, and men, with the power to create things like CBDC don’t often say anything but bland, opaque statements in public. It’s what they do behind closed doors that is the most dangerous.
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I posted here a semi-coherent article about the real shape of things at Twitter prior to the Musk takeover. This is a much better version by Stephen Green at PJMedia.
In or around the spring of 2021, Twitter’s primary data center began to experience problems from a runaway engineering process, requiring the company to move operations to other systems outside of this datacenter. But, the other systems could not handle these rapid changes and also began experiencing problems. Engineers flagged the catastrophic danger that all the data centers might go offline simultaneously. A couple months earlier in February, Mudge had flagged this precise risk to the Board because Twitter data centers were fragile, and Twitter lacked plans and processes to “cold boot.” That meant that if all the centers went offline simultaneously, even briefly, Twitter was unsure if they could bring the service back up. Downtime estimates ranged from weeks of round-the-clock work, to permanent irreparable failure.
Quoting Green:
It’s no wonder the board sued Musk to force him to follow through on his purchase of the company because the old management didn’t want to be the ones caught next to the fan when the you-know-what hit.
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Missed the point, the mark, the bullseye, the target, the reason. The story is in the quotes. It was not about Pip before and it is not now. It is about what is being said not only by her but a damn bunch of other people too. I could care less about Pip herself. When I see peple like her Schwab, Gates, and so many others towing the same line in different forums and meetings it means one thing and one thing only. What ever they are touting is coming. I could care less about there character reference. Biden does not say what he says without someone pointing him in that direction. I could care less that he is a dolt.
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I’m waiting to pick up my post op pain meds and finally had a chance to peruse the c&c.
Saudi Arabia is costing up to Russia and China, BRICS is on the move, and Joe is messing up again. More young folks have died suddenly from climate change and look for defibrillators on your corner soon.
Y’all really need to look at it. Major alliance shifts are happening while we’re pushing pronoun compliance for mentally ill individuals.
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Still so hard to read Twitter for me. Sounds like Musk is moving Twitter to Texas!
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25 Texpat
He’s got a side gig doing beta testing for the NSA and HSA.
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#19 El Gordo,
Spouse, the nuclear physicist, just finished reading the proposal for financial support via academic inclusion at Rice University and finds it mostly inscrutable, possibly only understood by a theoretical mathematician. To everybody else it is: what is that? Maybe Rice accepted her because nobody on the faculty understood it either but didn’t want to embarrass themselves by making that known. Lord help us. Lord help Rice. Thank heavens she is not in a science like nuclear physics.
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30 Squawk
You know, I already have one brother with whom I can agree with on 14 out of 15 points on an issue, but will swear I completely disagree on everything and will insist on staying up till 3 AM to argue about that single point.
You’re pissed off because I shot your messenger and didn’t directly confirm everything you said was correct. I never said you weren’t right about digital currency on all counts except that in my mind it’s not inevitable. I think it can be stopped and you don’t. I’ve always allowed that maybe you’re right and I am wrong. However, I’m wondering if you aren’t Shannon’s fraternal twin who got switched out of the nursery at the hospital and ended up in Cut & Shoot.
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Texpat
I have no intent or interest arguing with you for hours on end. The person who did that is over on facebook. What I am pissed about is being talked down to which is becoming a regular event. I am not here to win arguments. I simply enjoy sharing what I find interesting and possibly enter into a DISCUSSION just like everyone else here. I do not know where the thought about everything said here is couched as an argument but not with me. I do not get any frequent flyer points for arguing.
AND if I am a long lost twin of Shannon I dang sure will take that as a compliment.
The only subject of ARGUMENT for me is CHILI WITH BEANS everything else is, well what it is just exchanging ideas..
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Squawk,
I’ve never intentionally talked down to you and if it was taken that way, I apologize. Mea culpa.
I am not interested in arguments, but we have debated a thousand things over the last 17 or so years and I’ve always thought it was in the spirit of intelligent, informed discourse…maybe a little combative, but always in the spirit of friendship.
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I got a new grand-nephew this afternoon, 6lbs 13ozs, sister’s boy’s. Everybody’s healthy! Still hard to believe these kids are having kids…even though I’m 64 and he’s 31 lol.
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#38 Congratulations Uncle Good Job 😉
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#35 – OMG
but will swear I completely disagree on everything and will insist on staying up till 3 AM to argue about that single point.
Lordy I sooooooooooooooooooooo resemble that remark! 🙂
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Texpat
Combative? Never from this end. That was that other guy. Passionate yes, but never combative. Friendship yes. I do not let this mess interfere with my friendships.
I hate to break up this love fest but lovely wife needs my undivided attention. Later.
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Congrats GJT
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Ima put David’s car in the shop tomorrow for oil change and state inspection. I don’t drive it much, but it’s good to have an extra set of wheels in the garage.
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Congrats on the new baby! Annother reason to carry on!
I have only a minute or two before I have to carry on somewhere else, actually. This whole day has been one frazzled moment after another. Had a good pre-op visit with a nurse, I have my instructions. Eggs have been acquired and Handsome is sitting with his father, visiting while sitting in his truck. So, he’ll get his eggs when he’s ready, I guess. Sheets and towels have been washed with an added disinfectant, since nurse told me to be sure I had clean sheets on my bed. I have to take super-shower tonight, with the magic soap on everything below the neck, sans delicate areas, thank goodness. Repeat in the morning.
So, I have to make my bed, process two paychecks, pack and double-check my hospital items since I’ll be staying overnight. Reread my instructions. Get a copy of my medical directive, which is upstairs and I have a feeling I’ll forget.
It took me three hours to get my meds, three pharmacies. Well, four, if you count the phone call only pharmacy. The “good stuff” isn’t stocked everywhere, and one pharmacist told me that pharmacists normally don’t affirm that they have the strong stuff in stock or not, not even to doctors, for security reasons. The only way to find out is to send the prescription to different pharmacies until you hit one that can fill it. Fortunately, I hit pay dirt on the fourth one. But it sure screwed up my plans for the afternoon.
So, off I go. I’ll ask Hubby to call one of you tomorrow with updates. Who wants the duty?
Lubs y’all.
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We were pondering food for wife’s family Christmas Eve, we’ve been doing rib roasts the past couple years but fixed income and all…thought about doing fajitas and fixins from local restaurant – $265 for 14 peoples! Checked one of the others in town, same price! Rib roast it is!
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#38 – ConGRATS Grunkle™!
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#43 mharper42,
Agree that a backup vehicle is a good thing to have even if you only use it occasionally. Much better than having to sit waiting at the garage for work to be done. Or having the garage folks come to the house to pick it up and bring it back when repairs are finished. You have to wait either way and need to have a phone handy.
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#34 – Ms. Adee – Even some of the smart people over at Rice are making fun of this. But someone pointed out that these career grants are very hard to get, as if that improves her credibility or something. I can’t tell if it’s just an academic sounding word salad or if it is something that came from Art Bell’s radio program. In any case, I doubt it’s credibility.
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I had similar instructions as you have for the day before and morning of my carotid surgery. Had to get up at 4:30 am to be ready to leave for the hospital by 5:30 so we could arrive at 6am. And wait until around 10am. The surgeon must have been booked for the day. The overnight stay at the hospital was very helpful and so was going home the next day, which happened at 3 in the afternoon. At least we missed evening traffic. Once I got home I realized I had been in the Intensive Care unit and that was why so many people of all ranks were checking on me, including an accompanied 3rd-year med student.
Please let us know when you are home how you are feeling. And show spouse is managing.
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Ooops, forgot to say I was thinking of Tedtam’s surgery.
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TT
Godspeed, sweetheart.
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It’s good to have an extra vehicle sitting in the driveway. Burglars are more likely to assume there is someone home.
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We never locked our doors. But since Fay’s Y2K Dodge truck has a new home in San Marcos with her son, I do lock my doors now.
(Although a seven-year-old girl could kick in my front door)
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With the exception of an apartment in a quadplex back in the 70’s, for 50 years I never locked my doors in any other place that I’ve lived in Austin County, until now.
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Tedtam 9:09 pm
Both cars are always in the locked garage at home. I prefer that as a precaution, compared to looking like someone is home.
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Yesterday was the six month anniversary of Fay’s passing.
It is so weird how sometimes it seems like yesterday, and other times it seems so long ago.
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I’m looking at Wunderground and they’re saying 21° F on Friday morning, December 23rd in Bellville, Texas.
I would take that very seriously. It’s a pipe buster.
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Getting bedtime out here in the sticks. You all have a good evening now. Cooling off now that the sun is down. More manana.
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I’m looking at Wunderground and they’re saying 21° F on Friday morning, December 23rd in Bellville, Texas.
Yes and the weather people are all giddy teasing the S word for Christmas.
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Tune in to hear more!
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I think we should buy Harper some of those life size cutouts of Trump, Johnny Cash, Anthony Hopkins, you know, a bunch of scary characters she can stand in her windows to scare off the bad guys in her ‘hood.
Bonus points: The neighbors will be beside themselves gossiping about mharper’s new social life.
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G’night all. See you in the morning.
Adee
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So, off I go. I’ll ask Hubby to call one of you tomorrow with updates. Who wants the duty?
I missed this earlier. It’s probably too late now but I’ll volunteer.
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