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Looks like we have 2 different weekend threads. FWIW; I’m liking this one better.
SO Mornin’ Gang again.
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It’s like deja vu all over again.
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Drinking my coffee, but won’t have to dissect the C&C for you today. But I can bring you Kari Lake.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1667384783792381952
It’s nice of her to share her PSA.
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I was perusing my emails before loading up the car, while finishing my coffee…and found this one. It’s from a company that I bought something from, and now they send me stuff. I haven’t unsubscribed because sometimes I find nuggets in their information.
This is what I found today, and though it’s long, it is surely true:
Think of the vast amount of time that students spend in school. But what do they come away knowing? They are taught very few life skills, so are they really prepared for the real world?
Here’s one of the glaring problems with public school: it’s designed to waste time. Like a Weeping Angel from Doctor Who, school can zap your life away. It wouldn’t be half bad if you were being taught something useful. Sure, reading and math are important, but the bulk of those things can be taught in much shorter periods of time than are being utilized right now. Plus, reading skills are deteriorating and math was swallowed by Common Core.
Ideally, there would be myriad forms of trustworthy education that could suit any personality. And ideally many of these skills would be taught by family and imparted by experienced people – but that’s getting harder to do. So in the list below, think of what it would be like if schools were ideal and actually preparing people to live meaningful lives.
#1 Individual Thought
Instead of regurgitating what the teacher says and mirroring their peers, people need to think for themselves only. That means no groupthink. Most people think they are unique but are only parroting. That’s why you can figure out who they are from just two of their beliefs. A lot of people struggle with who they really are but can’t even have a thought of their own. Life shouldn’t be so monochromatic and Borg-like. Calling all real individuals.
#2 Survival & First Aid
All forms of survival, prepping and first aid, including wilderness first aid, should be taught to everyone. Survival without tech and during disasters or live shooting events – all of it. Gardening, self-defense, and firearms overlap with this class, too.
In the Wild West, cowboys relied on a set of essential tools and items to survive the rugged and unpredictable frontier. These tenacious individuals faced numerous challenges in their daily lives, from harsh weather conditions to dangerous encounters with outlaws and wildlife. Click here to see what are the 10 things cowboys carried with them in the Wild West to survive.
#3 Health & Nutrition
No fad diets. Just self-care and nutrition. Food selection and important information about vitamins, minerals, and bio-compounds. I know they teach health in school but c’mon… And why not include gardening and food prep?
#4 Resiliency & Failing Gracefully
The world can be crushing enough, perhaps resiliency and tenacity can be emphasized instead of measuring students against failure. Failure is inevitable after all, so people should be shown how to fall and get back up again.
#5 The Art of Conversation
‘Sup! Hav U taken this class B4?
#6 Logic, Reasoning, and Public Discourse
Did you know that schools have been rapidly dropping Logic classes? It’s time to stop the Idiocracy from spreading and revive Logic! Also, it would be nice if public discourse didn’t amount to two people rabidly screaming at each other.
#7 Character
You can’t legislate morality, but young people are eager to learn character. Instead of burdening children with global warming responsibility and punishing them severely for breaking unspoken social justice mores – how about letting them have fun but fostering a sense of character. Show them they have personal control/responsibility and that there are real-world consequences for their actions. Relationship skills probably shouldn’t be taught by government-run schools but ultimately those come from a person’s character.
#8 Negotiation
In order to make it in the real world and provide for a family, negotiating is crucial. It means being firm, having a backbone and the willingness to exhibit some disagreeableness.
#9 Cooking from Scratch
It’s a seriously needed lost art! And it overlaps with health, budget and survival classes.
#10 Personal Finance, Saving & Budgets
The credit card and personal finance industry should not be the ones teaching us about money. And while I think Dave Ramsey’s advice from Total Money Makeover to start an emergency fund is golden; I’d like to nominate The Index Card by Helaine Olen as the curriculum. It is by far the best, most objective personal finance advice I’ve ever gotten. Takes all the confusion away. The name is from the idea that everything you need to know about finance fits on an index card – and the book even comes with it!
#11 Speed Reading (But with Deep Comprehension)
Speed reading is not the same as skimming. Many people have been taught to skim haphazardly because of the Internet, new gadgets and pressure to multi-task. This study shows that skimming is actually not a great way to comprehend more. Speed reading removes “subvocalization” while reading, and it can be done while maintaining comprehension.
#12 Self-Defense
Both with and without firearms. It would include boundaries, situational awareness, and improvisation
#13 Crash Course on How Government Works
People are told to go out and vote but a lot of them don’t even know much about the positions they are voting on. I wish School House Rock had kept up the government songs! “I’m just a bill…”
#14 Creativity
Our linear-thinking and tech-driven world is rapidly extinguishing right-brain thought, and that is a travesty. Our creative force needs to be ablaze at all times and should never be downgraded or snuffed out.
#15 Household & Basic Car Mechanic Repairs
Why are these skills not taught to everyone? Learn to be handy and be independent from others while putting thousands of savings toward paying down a house. A lot of people are afraid to try, but only because they weren’t taught and may be afraid to ask for help.
#16 Time Management, Focus, and Productivity
Multi-tasking is a proven fraud. In a world driven to distraction, the art of focus is priceless in the working world. Maximized time is a maximized life.
#17 How to Read Literature With Deeper Understanding
Let’s face it: high school makes a lot of people hate books. Something tells me that’s the real reason why 1984 is mandatory reading. Who actually remembers the deeper message later in life? Curriculum: The Well-Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer is a straight-forward, wonderful guide through the classical education most of us never got.
#18 Entrepreneurship, Career & Starting a Business in a Gig Economy
This is a crucial skill desperately needed in a changing job landscape. It could teach sales skills for all different personality types. And hey, wouldn’t it be great to cultivate what your passions are instead of being wedged into categories by those career assessments?
#19 Etiquette
Seriously. Make. This. A. Class.
#20 Social Skills
Social skills are different than etiquette and manners. It involves picking up on cues and tone, and knowing how to appropriately respond in different situations. There is dating etiquette and there is also dating social skills. These are just as important as having social awareness on the job.
#21 Study & Deep Research
Why do 12 years of school without first learning this key element?
#22 How to Selectively Make Real Friends
An elective class to win GOOD friends and influence people. Networking. Watching out for red flags in relationships. School is basically a big bullpen where you’re with the same people every day for 12 years. And they think homeschoolers aren’t “socialized”? Sheesh! Plus, social media gives the false impression of connection without much selectivity.
#23 Effective Communication & Writing
So apparently this is being taught now, but…is it really?
#24 Resume & Cover Letters
Firstly, a lot of people do not know how to craft these. And secondly, most of them are thrown into the trash or get lost in cyberspace. The soul-crushing job application process needs a serious makeover, but until that happens, people need to learn how to write an attention-grabbing human-voiced resume that gets that foot in the door.
#25 Understanding Credit Cards, Bills, Taxes, House/Car Purchases, Student Loans, Insurance
This is a much-needed course, unfortunately. This class would help students avoid predatory financial practices instead of being ushered right into them. Day 1: teacher cuts up all credit cards in a class demonstration.
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Here is the info on Texmo’s services:
TUESDAY – June 13
10AM Funeral at St Joseph Church; mercy meal to follow in the Hall
procession to cemetary
1PM Burial at Forest Park CemeteryMay his memory be eternal!
If you would like to leave a memory, kindly visit Dignity Memorial for SWalker (https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/houston-tx/shannon-walker-11326794).
Flowers are welcome, however, also kindly consider donating to Texas Children’s Hospital Heart Center or St. Judes. Both Shannon and I have always been committed to the health, education, and welfare of children.For Texas Children’s, TCH Donation (https://give.texaschildrens.org/site/Donation2?3350.donation=form1&df_id=3350&mfc_pref=T&DONATION_LEVEL_ID_SELECTED=1&_gl=1*1e16hp5*_ga*MTAxMzgyNzMyMC4xNjg2MzQyNDM0*_ga_QY0VNB3WSE*MTY4NjM0MjQzNC4xLjEuMTY4NjM0MzM0Mi4wLjAuMA..)
. Kindly select the Heart Center.
For St Jude,
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Good Morning Audrey,
She was a beautiful woman in all stages of her life.
On to more mundane things, we had 73 at 6am with sunshine and overcast playing hide and seek. Currently the sun is winning.
Two deer are in the neighborhood, so we will likely have company in our pastures again today. No babies hiding in the grass so far. If everybody shows up today our little herd of girls will have 6 members and the boys still have 3.
The Chron just arrived and spouse brought it in. I have to see if there is anything fit to be read other than the comics and the sports section that usually shares space with the comics. Must consume my tea first to get ready for what shows up.
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Bellville bound.
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I think I screwed up the Weekend OC by posting on top of Tedtam. My mind was not very clear when I was doing it.
I’m doing a little better, but I may go to the emergency room later and get checked out.
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I can’t find the article but it told a great story about a NYC high school math teacher who decided to offer a summer school class on how to function in the world. It starts out with how open and maintain bank accounts, credit scores, how credit cards can ruin you, exactly how mortgages work, how taxes affect your usable income, what are tax deductions and most importantly – how to not to get screwed over by the college loan industry and end up ruining you life.
The class became so popular the school added it to curriculum during the school year and there is a waiting list to get in.
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I do believe there’s a Baptist church every 5000 feet in these parts.
I think it’s the law around here.
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Perhaps. From the Facebook post on the Cracker Barrel page, there is a mix of reviews from, “I’ll never eat at Cracker Barrel again,” to “I avoided Cracker Barrel, but now that you include everybody, I’ll eat there.” If the comments are any indication, not everyone is as offended as what is being reported. I have recently traveled to the South and ate at a few Cracker Barrels along the way. All I saw were American flag bunting and the run-of-the-mill rocking chairs. So, wherever this display is, it wasn’t in any of the states where I stopped. While they are okay with touting this on social media, the run-of-the-mill Cracker Barrel customer probably hasn’t bothered to look at the post, and the locations apparently have the option of choosing “Yah” or “Nah” in their displays.
Maybe they have the Pride rockers and bunting displayed in locations like Gilbert, Arizona, or even Portland, Oregon.
Oh, wait…
And just so you know, Cracker Barrel’s diversity push is not new, and doesn’t end with the external decor:
It gets worse.
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Free countries do not have laws like this.
A recently amended California bill would add “affirming” the sexual transition of a child to the state’s standard for parental responsibility and child welfare—making any parent who doesn’t affirm transgenderism for their child guilty of abuse under California state law.
AB 957 passed California’s State Assembly on May 3, but a co-sponsor amended it after hours in California’s State Senate on June 6.
Assembly Member Lori Wilson, D-Suisun City, wrote the bill and introduced it on Feb. 14. State Sen. Scott Weiner, D-San Francisco, co-sponsored it. Wilson’s child identifies as transgender.
Originally, AB 957 required courts to consider whether a child’s parents were “gender-affirming” in custody cases. Wiener’s amendment completely rewrites California’s standard of child care.
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California courts would be given complete authority under Section 3011 of California’s Family Code to remove a child from his or her parents’ home if parents disapprove of LGBTQ+ ideology.
By changing the definition of what constitutes the “health, safety, and welfare of [a] child,” schools, churches, hospitals, and other organizations interacting with children would be required to affirm “gender transitions” in minors by default—or risk charges of child abuse.
It’s doubtful this will pass constitutional muster, but I’ll be glad when Super Dave’s son and family get the hell out of California. If I had to live in California, I would have a good conservative-minded family court attorney on speed dial as well orgs like Alliance Defending Freedom. These fascists can turn anyone’s life inside out overnight.
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Billy Cat has become fond of the ramshackle Chez Harp gazebo. After it gave him a dry spot on several recent rainy days, I often see him napping out there during the day. The roof overhang provides both dryness and shade. But he is still afraid of me, if I get too close to him while bringing him food. I don’t know what he does for water — I’ve never seen him try to drink from the big tub of water sitting on the patio under the breezeway. I refresh it every day and only see it being used by raccoons.
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To get to Bellville, I am deviating from yesterday’s northbound route at Nacogdoches.
Totally unplanned, this route will take me on the path of Katfish’s final ride.
A fitting end to this sad chapter in my life.
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I never could stand this guy. There was something about him that set off my phony/fraud alarm bells.
Fans have begun revolting against Brooks, with some saying they will no longer listen to his music.
and,
“Yes, we’re going to serve every brand of beer. We just are. It’s not our decision to make,” he reportedly said during a Q&A session for Billboard’s Country Live in Conversation.
“If you come into this house, love one another. If you’re an a**hole, there are plenty of other places on lower Broadway.”
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Texpat 9:52,
I read someplace several years ago that northern California wanted to split off and join another state, Oregon being adjoining. However these days it seems that Oregon and Washington State are getting nearly as crazy as California. And maybe the craziness is spreading to Canada’s British Columbia, since it is not as conservative as the other western provinces.
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#10 Shannon,
A good choice of route, and may it be helpful.
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Caught a mighty fine classic country station out of Nacogdoches..
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Couldn’t possibly recall the last time I took Texas 7 through the Davy Crockett National Forest.
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Garth must be chasing that neon rainbow.
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Well I made it back to the farm, rolled in about 10:30 and Lil Dawg was tore slam up to see me. She had got up earlier, went for her walk but skipped breakfast and went back to bed. I snuck in and woke her up but it took a minute for her to realize she wasn’t dreaming and the she went nuts. Luv That Dawg. 😀
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Roadside Memorial
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Sun comes and goes most of the afternoon so far. We have 90 on the front porch and 94 on the back porch. Trees in the front yard give lots of shade but still make room for sunny spots pretty much all over the yard. Back yard has more sunny spots and fewer trees but plenty of shade. Very disappointing when rain stops at the edge of Pecan Grove.
The breeze has suddenly appeared again. Maybe some rain is nearby, which would be nice if it comes over our place.
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Crossed the Brazos.
Back home in Austin County.
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Thanks for the pic Shannon.
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Here’s a weird one.
For the last four hours, I have a nerve gone rogue on my scalp.
It feels like there’s a bug walking around up there on a small spot.
Hope it goes away.
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Well, I wasn’t going to give in to Her Highness, but after taking my BP four times and my heart rate was 130-150 I decided to take up her offer for a ride to the hospital. They say I have “atral flutter” not atral fibrillation. I’ll be here for couple of days.
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Texpat, here’s my fervent hope that your hospital gets that heart rate down. Rest easy, if you can, and get back home soon.
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Texpat,
Take full advantage of being taken care of from A-Z at the hospital, and prayers that your heart rate quickly slows down to where it should be.
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Texpat – amen to what everyone else said – and thanks for going to get checked. Our prayers are with you, for your docs to find the right combination of medications and Texpat to get things under control QUICKLY.
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Texpat I just popped in to see what’s going on and I’ll Ditto everyone’s thoughts. Just hang in there and get better soon. I guess that you’ve had a pretty rough time this past year.
And Shannon, thanks for the Katfish Memoral picture, I’ll be sure to look it up the next time I’m in Texas.
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I remember when California was actually pretty libertarian. Places like SF were pretty left leaning, but not loaded with total looks like now.
Seems the only places remaining that are not completely off the reservation are a few pockets in the Central Valley and far northeast California like Modoc County.
Im just glad I no longer live there.
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btw – any day with the charming Miss Hepburn is a good one.
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Hoping for some rain to slide over here, but we currently are under a possible storm warning.
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Sleep deprivation is an effective form of torture. I’ve had maybe 3 hours of it in 3 days and none last night.
They’re not going to break me. I refuse to give up the secret codes !
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Hang in there Texpat, did they wake you up to give you a sleeping pill?
Mornin’ Gang
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I arrived in this room at 8:30 PM and laid here till 7:30 AM when my breakfast got here. Not one second of sleep.
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Texpat, I feel ya’ dude. I hope you get some rest soon. You need it to get better.
We are packing the car for our trip and Aggie Beau is getting breakfast together for everyone, trying to use up what’s in the frig and cleaning up the rest. Sunshine cookrd the eggs. The girls are getting all grown up on me. No more waking up Noona snuggles. That makes me sad, but I knew there would come a day..
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Graveyard Dead. But don’t blame me I didn’t do it, it was Tedtam. 😉
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Good Morning Hamsters,
Zero rain overnight, as sadly expected. All of it was east of us again, and the only watering came from the sprinklers in the yards. Only one flash of lightning to the east and one rumble of thunder out here. That was it. Up to 82 already with 79% humidity, and a brisk breeze. Could be too strong for flying kites.
Texpat, hope you are in a private room. Also hope there is not continuing noise in the hallway or noise from other patients hollering in their rooms.
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Saturday night, Billy Cat didn’t show up in my back yard until after dark, and by then the local raccoons were swarming for chow. Billy couldn’t compete, so he left to the east via a loose fence board. I never saw him again last night, and haven’t seen him so far this morning. Poor addle-brained kitty. If only he’d learn to get over here and get plenty of chow between 10 am and 3 pm, he’d be fat and happy.
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Bellville-Katy-Texarkana-Bellville was 719 miles which includes a few miles running around Texarkana.
Total travel time was about 12 hours, which includes breaks. At the 2/3rds point (both ways) I took a long fifteen minute break to stretch and walk.
Got lucky on the weather. It was beautiful both days. Glad I didn’t have to deal with any deadly Spring storms which love that part of the country.
I would have liked to stop by the famous Marshall Pottery plant but wanted to keep going. I’d like to have a souvenir-sized white clay crock. My father-in-law and I used the ten or twenty gallon crocks for pear wine mash.
Wiki says Marshall Pottery was founded in 1895. The invention of glass canning jars almost put them out of business in the 1920’s. They only survived because of demand for their jugs during Prohibition. In the 1940’s, discovery of a red clay that required lower firing temperatures had them get into the flower pot business. They remain the world’s largest producer of red clay flower pots.
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Well, Billy showed up about 11:30 am and sat in the shade of the gazebo, waiting to be noticed. He got a bowl of canned cat food and a bowl of dry kibbles. He always eats leisurely, and for all I know he could be getting food at other homes in the neighborhood.
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They’re not going to break me. I refuse to give up the secret codes !
beware the Jersey jelly roll.
he wants those jelly donut codes and he’s liable to do anything to get them even it means donning a hospital gown, crawling up in your bed and sharing your intravenous fluids.
talk about torture.:)
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Dolly Parton/Linda Ronstaft/EmmyLou Harris
1 Tempted and tried we’re oft made to wonder,
Why it should be thus all the day long;
While there are others living about us,
Never molested though in the wrong.Refrain:
Farther along we’ll know all about it,
Farther along we’ll understand why;
Cheer up, my brother, live in the sunshine,
We’ll understand it all by and by.2 When death has come and taken our loved ones,
It leaves our home so lonely and drear;
Then do we wonder why others prosper,
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I don’t recall noticing any tree limbs along my driveway when I went down to the curb to get the HouChron. After I’d worked the sudoku, I was out putting some trash in the CoH barrel, and I could see some small broken limbs fallen around my redbud tree. It is on the narrow strip of my yard to the west of my driveway, adjacent to 80-Y.O.’s front lawn.
I assume the small broken limbs had broken off during the thunderstorm last night, but hadn’t fallen down right away. I took out my loppers and cut up the limbs into shorter pieces that would fit into the barrel. Then I noticed there was a larger fallen limb that had landed on a fruit tree in 80+’s yard and went to check it out. Although the leaves were all brown and crackly, the limb had clearly come from my redbud some time ago, but no one had noticed it. I chopped that limb up also and put in my trash. After all that, I’m afraid to go around to the east side of the front yard and see if anything came down around there. (I’ll look next weekend.)
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As I was returning from the Pig I heard a Democratic Spokeshole, Matt Bennet saying something on Fox about what Biden needs to do is get out and show the people what he’s accomplished that will actually affect them in their daily lives. He was of course referring to the $500 Billion
InfrastructureGreen Donor Payoff Bill that he passed. I thought, well HELL, he doesn’t have to tell me what he’s done to affect me in my life I JUST GOT BACK FROM THE GROCERY STORE! Not to mention gas (auto) gas N electric bills and every damn thing else that has gone up under his watch. ~SPITS~ -
Spouse and I went grocery shopping this morning, something we rarely do together these days. When it is me alone, I take the smaller grocery cart and think when it is full I am done shopping. That controls how many bags there are for me to put in the car, some of them being awkward to handle. I always take a grocery list of the essentials that need replacing and then indulge in some fancy things from the deli.
We just recently noticed that this scenario is a dead ringer for how I/we did the grocery shopping when he was in grad school and I was working for the then-called PHT (Putting Hubby Through) star. He had a stipend from the Feds because he was working on an advanced degree in nuclear physics, and the Feds encouraged such things. This was in the 1960s.
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#39 Super Dave,
Yes, regrettably, the well-run government that we enjoyed when Mr. Trump was at the helm is no more thanks to the wicked and definitely not-too-bright Socialist-democrats now in charge. Notice that democrat is spelled with a small d. They don’t deserve a D. That party is no more. Instead: Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves all. 🙂
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I guess my vote doesn’t count for much with the powers-that-be at HEB.
I sent them a communication that I’m none too pleased with the changes to their in-store coupon strategy over the last two years.
For many years, individual items might have a yellow coupon for X-amount-off. Recently their coupon strategy now requires you to buy multiples of the same item and they’ll discount your entire basket by 2 or 3 dollars. Or give you a different, often unrelated item for free.
I don’t need $15 dollars of aluminum foil. Or three gallons of laundry liquid, you fools.
Harrrumph.
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We’re at the Big Texan restaurant in Amarillo. None of us are tempted to take the 72 oz steak challenge.
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I guess it was Friday that I went to Kroger with a shopping list, and on my way there, I stopped at the neighborhood donut shop and bought a bacon-and-egg-croissant which I planned to have for lunch after I got back home. Well, those sammiches are so large that it is always 2-meals-worth for me. So on Friday I had half of it (warmed) plus a donut for my lunch, then the rest wrapped in plastic and stashed in the fridge. So the fridge was then so stuffed with things I had bought at Kroger that my B-and-E got lost in there. I remembered the sammich today and enjoyed the lunch. Now I need to come up with a suitable dessert to finish up my meal so I can grab a nap.
A small bowl of purple grapes is just right…
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We’re at the Big Texan restaurant in Amarillo. None of us are tempted to take the 72 oz steak challenge.
Was anyone taking it on when you were there? I think there were two doing it when my son was through there a while back.
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Every Sunday, subscribers to First Things receive via email a couple of choice articles chosen from years past.
One of today’s offerings is a very humorous recollection of the author’s Confirmation Sunday. Anyone who has been through the Confirmation process (or is familiar with it) will enjoy it.
As for my own confirmation, it was a nightmare because one of my cohorts – just as we were to kneel at the railing – cracked some kind of joke and I was immediately in the throes of paralyzing, uncontrollable laughter. By the time the Bishop got to me I had been holding it in for some time and the tears were running down my red face. The Bishop played it cool, but I was terrified. Lucky I didn’t pass out.
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Home from a lovely dinner at the Olive Garden in Rosenberg. That place is at the top of our lists for dining out. The portions are generous, and they supply take-home containers that keep the food very well. Spouse saw an OG under construction to the northeast of us a ways in an area with other restaurants of various specialty. I think that one might be a bit closer to us.
New building on our west side of Fort Bend County keeps growing and growing despite the uncertainties of the economy. And the county keeps attracting more and more folks to move here, which is good up to a point, and I think we’re getting close to that point. The only thing that keeps Sugar Land from building all the way to meet Richmond’s ETG is the Smith Ranch in between us, a large working cattle ranch that’s been in the Smith family a long, long time. And they have no intention to sell was the latest I’ve heard. So for now the cows are kings there.
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#46 Shannon: Who was it that told the joke and, more importantly, what was the joke?
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It was a fellow confirmand who had joked. But I don’t remember what it was. Something silly told by a ten or eleven-year-old, I’m sure.
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The confirmation story is priceless.
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46 shannon
I came very close to getting the giggles during a (funeral) rosary for the recently departed sister of a friend.
I was in my 40’s.
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I wanted to make sure y’all saw the information on Texmo’s funeral services. I posted it earlier in this thread at 8:38 a.m.
No one said anything so I don’t know if it was noticed or not. I wouldn’t want anyone to miss their chance to pay their last respects if they wanted to attend
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Pretty disappointed that one of you didn’t show up in my absence and mow my yard.
However, I see where we are moving headlong into a stretch of 100-degree days. So perhaps it will all dry up and blow away by next weekend.
Hope springs eternal.
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Tedtam,
I saw your announcement on TexMo’s funeral arrangements. That was very kind of you to post the information. Mind boggling that 3 of our old timers have passed on within the last year, folks who have been here for a long time and knew so much about the early years of hamous.net in its start and changes in its names with the times and ownership. What has not changed is a steadfast conservative outlook on things important to our nation’s health and future. 🙂
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Just saw the nj jelly roll is in a 5 way tie at 1% in the goopeeCon lineup of losers running in the joined@thehipparty primary.
jelly jelly
he’s our man
if he can’t win it
no one can
roll him up
in laundered dough
and he’ll become
a spyduck ho
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52 Tedtam
I literally just came hear to search out the info. Thank you. I will be attending.
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We have arrived. We won’t be following the Google map directions on the way out. We went through some scenic but must drive slowly one lane roads getting in.
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