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BREAKING: Biden includes Hamas terrorists in impressive 336,000 new jobs report

WASHINGTON, DC—In a truly baffling turn of events, President* Biden’s administration has managed to find a silver lining in the ongoing Middle East conflict. The latest jobs report proudly touts an astonishing addition of 336,000 new jobs, and it seems that even members of the infamous Hamas terrorist group are getting in on the action.

In a press conference that left many scratching their heads, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre gleefully announced, “We’ve achieved something truly remarkable here. Not only have we put Americans back to work, but we’ve also created job opportunities for our friends in Hamas. It’s all part of our commitment to global job growth and diplomacy.”

It appears that the administration is employing some creative accounting to reach these numbers. By counting everyone from fast-food workers to doctors and now, apparently, international terrorists, they’ve managed to create a rosy picture of economic recovery. Some have even joked that the White House might be considering a “terrorist jobs czar” position to further boost these statistics.

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  1. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Woke up to get a drink of water so i thought I’d say

    yo uncklo.

    Now back to b-e-d.

  2. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    🙂

  3. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Morning from Deering, NH not far from Manchester. Loving these little mountain towns. Weather has been gorgeous, saw more leaf color going up through Pennsylvania a couple days ago than there has been through Western New York to here but nephew is taking us up into the White Mountains for an overnight stay, should see a lot on this trip.

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    GJT Back when I worked for Narco I went to Pennsylvania every Fall and the trees there where magnificent that time of year.

    From last night;

    And she tips the scale at twenty stone

    20 Stone = 280 Lbs in case you were wondering. Oh and 127 kilo’s, 4480 ounces or .14 Ton. 😀

    I do love my handy dandy conversion chart.

    It’s the Weekend!

    Mornin’ Gang

  5. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    3 GJT

    You can spend a long time in New England just following all the early American history and related sites up there.

    The Old Paramus Road is the the path George Washington and his army used to retreat from Fort Lee at the Hudson River across present day Manhattan where the British Army and Navy were sitting.  They went to Pennsylvania and eventually returned via the famous Crossing of the Delaware depicted in paintings.

    Old Paramus Road is now Passaic Street and is a main southeast to northwest thoroughfare.  It’s about 6 blocks north of our house here.

  6. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Texpat

    Thanks! Hoping to see some Revolutionary War/Early American sights. I think we are supposed to take the Kancamagus Highway tomorrow, hopefully it will lead us to some.

  7. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I hadn’t planned on getting up this early, but I may have a friend coming by to help me make some one-decade rosaries for gifting at church later this month, for some kind of kid event.

    The Catholic Daughters had his text string bouncing all around about doing this, buying that, buying those and fixing the error beads, blah blah blah.  I finally said that I would make them, but they’d be knotted, not wired.  No way I could make fifty wired rosaries in time.  I sent some pics and they were okayed.  The beads have arrived and I got fifteen done so far, but it took yesterday afternoon and evening.

    So, one of the CDA members has to pick up her daughter from Hobby this afternoon, so she may be spending time with me before hand, helping me out.

    So, I wanna pick up and clean up a little bit before she gets here.  A little bit.  This is the best my knee has felt in a loooong time, but as Hubby warned me: “Don’t overdo it.”

    Ah, yes, a lesson hard- and well-learned.

    Good morning.  It looks glorious outside.  I wish I was gardening!

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Shocking Revelations Realizations From the New York Times !

    For far too long, too many Americans considered the border to be someone else’s problem — someone in Texas, maybe, or Arizona or California. People who didn’t live near the border might have condemned harsh tactics used there or offered their communities as sanctuaries for those who managed to slip across it. But for the most part, the challenges of the border remained at the border. Out of sight, out of mind…

    Now a major reassessment is underway of what these cities can reasonably be expected to provide to people who have just crossed the border in search of safety and a better life and whether efforts to house and support them will encourage more to come. In a recent survey by Siena College Research Institute, 82 percent of New Yorkers called the arrival of so many migrants a “serious problem,” with 58 percent saying it’s time to slow the flow. New York is starting to think — and act — like a Southern border state now…

    It’s clear that the city’s well-earned reputation for welcoming immigrants has played a role in making New York the top destination. Nevertheless, Mr. Adams blames that “madman” — Mr. Abbott — for the crisis, even though only about 13,100 of the roughly 140,000 migrants who arrived over the past year were sent on buses chartered by Texas.

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    American news broadcaster NBC published documents on Saturday recovered from Hamas terrorists killed in southern Israel that show detailed plans to target children and young people from Sa’ad, a religious kibbutz in the Negev desert.

    The documents included everything from maps specifying the location of kindergartens and schools, plans for how many to kill and take hostage, as well as detailed escape plans. Although schools in Israel are closed on Saturdays, many Israeli children play in the basketball or soccer courts at the schools.

    The documents labeled “top secret” were given to NBC reporters by Israeli first responders.

  10. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    So much reading to do, but since I’m in rosary-making-strapped-for-time mode, I’ll have to read the linked material above later while I’m on break.  In the meantime, here’s the C&C link for today:

    RECKLESS ☙ Saturday, October 14, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Saturday! Time for the Weekend Edition. Your roundup this morning includes: watch the skies for the annular solar eclipse; Jim Jordan is solidly back in the running for Speaker of the House; dumbest state attorney general in the country torpedoes case against Michigan alternate electors; Michigan Supremes require judges to use preferred pronouns; Middle East war update and my reckless predictions; Soros Foundation cuts 40% of staff; very SADS opera singer; Australians reject woke constitutional amendment; and Kiwis elect conservative government in red wave, tossing Jacinda Ardern’s party.

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    BTW – today is eclipse day!

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  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Last night, Jesse Watters had two retired American generals on for interviews about the invasion of Gaza.  Both said they had been all over Israel and in the tunnels built by Hamas.

    Both proceeded to say and confirm one another that the IDF were novices about urban, door-to-door combat and there was going to be a big learning curve.

    Yes, I’m screaming at the TV and also being grateful both of these ignorant imbeciles are retired and can longer put our troops in danger.

    As usual, Watters’ questions were boring and inappropriate.  The guy may be popular with young women, but he’s not very bright at all.

    Immediately, after the two generals debacle, a former US Navy Seal came on, very articulate and knowledgable, and specifically disagreed with the generals and proceeded to explain he had been in an urban, door-to-door combat situation with members of the IDF and that there were no better street fighters in the world.

    Fox News has a lot of stupid people on to be interviewed and sometimes it’s so bad I’m embarrassed for them.  For some reason, they don’t seem to do any screening of these people before they go on air.

     

  13. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Daughter is in Midland and the eclipse will be 100% there so she is excited. BTW; The motels/hotels are all booked up. We’ll have only 59% here and it may be cloudy.

  14. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    The Last DeSoto

    FWIW; The dash of the 61 DeSota looks exactly like our 61 Dodge. They usually change them up just enough to be different but not this time. I always thought that this dash was cool with the speedometer sitting on top of it. Oh and check out the RCA Record Player under the dash. 😉

  15. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Texpat @ 8:39 am
    I saw that exchange and I agree. Listening to the 2 “experts” I wasn’t exactly sure if they were right or wrong but I do know the Israeli’s are warriors and then the Navy Seal cleared it up for me. I have to trust a Seal above any General or Admiral that has a chest full of medals earned by those under him.

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I decided to take a break from the beads to come sit outside. This weather is absolutely gorgeous. Don’t be inviting any of your liberalYankee friends down for a visit now, we don’t want them to decide to stay here.

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    It’s getting darker here and the birds have gone silent. They were really, really chatty earlier.

  18. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    yo uncklo

    it’s a solar eclipse of the heart.

    pfizzle says take more drugs to prevent solar eclipses of the heart.

    side effects may include death, death and more death.
    but what the heck, right?

  19. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    A 20-year-old Russian-born Chechen, Mohamed M

    the Hell?  A Russian named Mohamed M?
    sounds like shullbit to me.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/france-deploys-7000-soldiers-after-teacher-murdered-lourve-versailles-evacuated-over

    All the more reason to

    #BeLikePoland

  20. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    #BeLikePoland

    Funny you should say that.

    I spent an hour reading up on Retiring In Poland last night.

  21. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Problem is, Poland is about as far north as Calgary.

    Too many months of bitter cold for me.

  22. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good Afternoon Hamsters,

    At last, weather as predicted has shown up as predicted. Clear blue sky, light breezes all that’s left of the cold front that brought all this to us, and watching the eclipse was great.

    Funny in a way to see on our shaded driveway so many figures looking like the letter C filled in with a growing solid letter O  as the Moon was doing its part covering the Sun.   We did the viewing by holding up toward the Sun a piece of plain paper with a hole punched in it.  The shadows of that on the driveway were plainly seen as the eclipse progressed.  And daylight looked rather surreal with the increasingly covered Sun. The increasingly reduced daylight looked strange, not quite normally bright enough but all visible and not like dawn or dusk light.  Spouse took pictures of those changing shadows.

    The population of San Antonio surely got a lot bigger because it was in the 100% range of the eclipse and people came from all over to get the best view. Parts of Texas north-west and southeast of San Antonio also had 100% cover and likely a lot of visitors.  And there were surely folks all over Texas who did not know about the eclipse and were wondering what was happening.  Likewise lots of animals knew something was up.  Our cat Purrscilla did.

  23. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I missed the eclipse. SQK came by and blocked out the sun anyway. That dude is tall, ya know?

    🙂

  24. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    We were only in the 30% range for the eclipse, but it didn’t matter anyway.  The only people who could see the sun over New Jersey and New York were in planes at 39,000 feet.  It has turned wet, cold, windy and nasty here.  A taste of the coming winter.

  25. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Yup uncklo.

    id really like to move to Poland or Hungary just wish it was warmer too.
    Never did I dream I’d want to leave the states one day but the states and America no longer exist.

    Just in name only like the rino Vampyre political class.

  26. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    My friends called me yesterday and their daughter’s stainless steel kitchen sink started falling off the countertop.  I told them to call a plumber so they called some plumber they know and he said…get this…

    I’m a plumber; I don’t install sinks.  Call a contractor or a handyman.

    I am not kidding you.  This is New Jersey so he’s probably a union member who sits on his fat ass all day long collecting unemployment and union benefits.

    This is an old condo she rents and it’s an undermount installation.  It has only 3 clips holding it up against the countertop.  One is missing and probably was never there.  So today, in torrential rain and heavy traffic, I spent 7 hours going from Home Depot to Lowes to 4 plumbing supply houses around the state and finally found the clips – without the screws, of course, which meant I had to go back to Lowes and find the right screws.

    Who the hell is running this country ?

    Everywhere I went the places had boxes of mounting hardware for top mount sinks.  Nobody installs top mount sinks anymore.  Everything today is countertop undermount, and has been for years, so maybe somebody should ask why they have shelves of topmount clips covered with dust nobody is buying.

    All this for a $22 mounting clip kit.

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    More Breaking News…

    Texans Strangely Unconcerned About Global Day Of Jihad

    SWEETWATER, TX — As the rest of the world sits on edge due to the leader of the terrorist organization Hamas calling for a global day of jihad, residents of the state of Texas seemed entirely unconcerned.

    “Global day of what now?” asked native Texan Barry Windham as he wiped his freshly oiled AR-15 with a rag. “Not sure I’m familiar with that term. Out here, we don’t really listen to all the stuff going on everywhere else. We’ll let everyone else get all wrapped up in that. Anyway…you ever see what happens to a cantaloupe when you hit it dead-on from about 10 yards away?”

    Citizens throughout Texas towns were seen calmly going about their normal business, enjoying the early fall sun, and showing absolutely no worry about the threat of radical Islamic terrorists striking at any moment. “Oh, I think they know better than that,” said Stan Hansen with a smile as he loaded his 12-gauge shotgun with buckshot shells. “There’s a reason you see that type of thing happen in places where folks aren’t allowed to own massive arsenals that take up several rooms of their homes. Those terrorists may want to die, but they apparently don’t want to die badly enough to come to Texas. We’ll make it happen for ‘em!”

  28. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I tried.  I nominated Dr. Phil Good for the title, but to no avail.

    It is time once again to honor one man who has gone above and beyond to advance the cause of men and raise the bar for what other men seek to accomplish.

    The Babylon Bee has chosen Dylan Mulvaney to receive the 2023 Man of the Year award.

    Already a proven force to be reckoned with on the Chinese spy app TikTok, Mulvaney has gone on to make his mark as a celebrity spokesman powerful enough to utterly destroy the reputations of big-name consumer brands. None of them were more notable than Bud Light, the one-time top-selling beer, which hired Mulvaney as its pitchman last spring only to suffer the most precipitous financial freefall in the history of the beer industry. Once thought to be an invincible brand in the beverage world, Bud Light was brought to its knees by the man — the legend — that is Dylan Mulvaney.

  29. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    SQK

    Got your msg. Thanks.

    I’m at rehearsal. Singing this evening.

  30. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Sony has a drop dead beautiful picture.  10X better than the Samsung that is headed to the dumpster.  Makes me sick because that Samsung was only about 4 years old and Mom paid a group for the TV.  It was one of those curved picture TVs.  At least it out lasted Mom before having problems.

  31. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    I tried.  I nominated Dr. Phil Good for the title, but to no avail.

    LOL!

    now that’s some funny stuff from one half of our very own blog Smothers brothers.

    hahahahahaha!!

    Did mom always like you best? 🙂

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    SHEFAYIM KIBBUTZ, Israel − They exchanged text messages and emojis. Brief status updates with words of encouragement. A picture of the beloved family dog, Tutsi.

    Until no more messages came.

    And then, Cindy Flash, an American, and her Israeli husband, Igal, vanished into the violence, presumed kidnapped by Hamas.

    Four days after Hamas attacked Israel, more than 100 Israelis and possibly dozens of foreign nationals are thought to be held captive in the Gaza Strip. At least 14 U.S. citizens have been killed and an unknown number are still unaccounted for.

    also this,

    Keren described her mother, an administrator in a local college, as someone who had the “sweetest biggest heart,” whom everyone knew and loved, and who had spent a lifetime advocating for the rights of Palestinians, including those who live in Gaza, where she may now be held.

    So this woman and her husband advocated and promoted the rights of Palestinians for many decades and then they get murdered by the same savage beasts.  I take no joy or satisfaction in the homicide of innocent people, particularly Jews, in this instance. Their murders, all of the murders, are a crime against God and humanity.

    However, it does bring to light the bizarre aspects of this entire situation.  How can these same people live in a kibbutz, a semi-socialist community, right next to the over 2 million people who have vowed to murder them ?  No security.  No weapons.  No nothing, pretending life is Shangri-La and no one will hurt then because they like the Palestinians.  The Soviet Communist Party called sympathizers like this useful idiots and they were always the first to the guillotine or firing squad.

  33. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I went outside several times noonish today to see what could be seen of the partial eclipse. Answer: nothing. I could see nothing of the disk because it was just blindingly bright to look toward the sun. There was an interesting jittery light pattern passing through the canopy of tree leaves down onto the patio. All surfaces seemed a bit washed out, in any direction I looked.

  34. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Looks like my Medicare Part D company is exiting the business. I’ll have to find drug coverage elsewhere.

    Oh, what fun.

  35. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    22 SQK

    Thanks for the update. It does have one heck of a picture.

    I’ve never gone wrong with a Sony.

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Coach Mack Brown smiled a lot more when he coached at Texas.

  37. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    27

    He’s 72 years old and looks tired.

    But for $5 million a year, I guess I’d keep working, too.

  38. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just popped in from my rosary making (I’m over halfway to my quota) and realized no one had linked to the WIP:

    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/10/the-week-in-pictures-mass-hypocrisy-edition.php

  39. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Shannon

    Do you have any speed internet access or are you tethering off your phone?

    If not you might wanna check this offer form Verizon.

    https://www.verizon.com/home/internet/5g/

    I left my old DSL  for T-Mobiles 4G service.  It was quite the step up till they upgraded to 5G.  Killed my service bad.  At the same time my telco got fiber down here.  I have been pleased with it BUT…….  now that I am coming up on a year my cost is going to be really high over $100.  When that happens I will be moving to Verizon 5G service.

     

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The only Internet available to me is line-of-sight Broadband….off of a nearby water tower. My home transceiver is on the tallest tower that they offer.

    I barely get by with one bar (occasionally two!) of phone service from an AT&T tower not far away on Highway 36. It’s a topography problem – I am in a low spot.

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Starlink is now available to me, but for twice the monthly cost of what I am paying for broadband.

  42. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    And, yes.

    Mom always liked him best.

  43. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    But I have heard that we Second-born folks will get our just rewards in Heaven.

    We get to sit up front near the orchestra…and all the First-borns have to sit in the nose-bleed seats.

    It’s a gentle, eternal punishment for their universally evil ways.

  44. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I hope this two straight nights of sleeping from 7pm to 2am isn’t a permanent affliction.

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Three tamales and chili is a pretty good 2am breakfast, though.

  46. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Now that I have lived more than 7 decades, sleeping more than 3-1/2 hours at a time seems impossible.  I’ve never been a big sleeper and five hours was usually good enough for me, but if you can’t to that deep REM sleep level then no amount of sleep ever makes you feel rested.

  47. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I would suspect the Ford dealership owners are about to revolt.

    Buck Throckmorton has a roundup on electric vehicle news and it is a disaster.

    Ford sold 6,464 F150 Lightning EVs in Q3 2022, but sales in Q3 2023 fell to just 3,503 which annualizes to only 42,000 per year. Ford executives think pretend they’re going to sell hundreds of thousands of EV pickups per year, but demand has already imploded. Even worse, a great many of the recent Lightning sales are to governmental fleets. Consumers have rejected this product.

    As for “downtime at the plant” affecting sales of the F150 Lighting EV, an ideal supply of vehicles on dealer lots is 60 days’ worth, Ford dealers are currently choking on a 97-day supply of Lightnings nationwide with 3,632 for sale. “Downtime” is not retarding sales.

    Meanwhile, Ford has suddenly canceled all further deliveries to dealers of 2023 model year F150 Lightnings that are not already pre-sold.

    “Ford cancels dealer stock orders of 2023 F-150 Lightning to do quality checks” [Detroit Free Press – 10/02/2023]

    The CEO of Toyota has been warning his colleagues in the industry the EV fad is a dead end for automakers, but they haven’t listened.  I figure there’s some guys getting wealthy having shorted those stocks.

  48. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Mornin’ Gang Better late than never.

  49. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It seems that Australia is having the same problems as Canada and to some extent the US. I saw a post from Lee over yonder where she was happy that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was defeated and a friend of hers was surprised that she voted the way she did. I clicked on her friends page and all of her friends sound like the left-wing lunatics that were crying when Trump was elected. A fellow named Meade Jess said this;

    I am interested to know if you really, honestly believed that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders would have had more rights than white people? And that those ‘rights’ would have privileged them over white people.
    I’m interested how you came to believe that. Was that written anywhere? Was there really any credible evidence or constitutional possibility that that would happen?
    And ‘one’ voice? What does that mean to you? Can you explain? That’s not democratic. We have several political parties now, many religions – they don’t speak with ‘one’ voice.
    So how do you see the current and undenied inequality of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people being addressed? Do you have ideas about how this will happen?

    Remind you of anything? Emphasis mine.

  50. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Texpat 7:59

    From the recent “leakings” regarding businesses having anything to do with electric vehicles of any kind, it appears that questions about them are popping up rather frequently now. It would seem that the EV breeders have rushed into the market without seriously and adequately investigating what the driving public really thinks about EVs.  That is, those not told what to think.  The more folks learn about the problems that these very expensive vehicles have and the price, the more folks are alerted to the negative details about them.  The EVs are now expensive vanity enhancers for many people it would seem.  Ford is correct in suspecting this will not end well….  The other car makers better listen to Ford.

  51. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Checkout the look on the Kenyan’s face in this picture.

    looks as though he’s thinking keep your hands off my man, dude.

  52. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    I think this song may be going through the Texas dizzy dunce’s head in my #40 pic.

  53. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    A friend bought me lunch from the local soul food joint.

    2 giant chicken-fried pork chops

    mashed potatoes

    collard greens

    corn bread

    Zzzzzzzzzzz……

  54. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Here we are at the Ides of October already.   Time keeps flying by it seems. Perhaps the late departure of Summer messed things up, but better late than never…. Fall is finally here.

  55. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    This cold snap we are having has Billy Cat waiting for his breakfast on the patio in the mornings. No more snooting his chow, he knows where it will be, and he makes sure he won’t be left out.

    Morning, gang. I messed up my sudoku, so I’ll have to erase it and start over. Maybe later, eh

     

  56. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    2 giant chicken-fried pork chops

    mashed potatoes

    collard greens

    corn bread

    Mercy! That sounds awful good. I remember the first time I went to a “Soul Food” place and thought Soul Food?!?! This is exactly what we had growing up in LA. 😀

    The place was in Metairie about 1984, maybe? I went to a PHI school on a R-Nav device that used Loran stations instead of Vor-Tac’s. They invented them for use on their helicopters flying out to the rigs. And if you didn’t know Loran is for shipping so the stations are located close to water. Using one master and 2 slaves you could navigate, say the gulf but they also used them in the great Lakes so if you’re high enough up, (think airplane) you could use transmitters from the Gulf, Atlantic, Pacific or Great Lakes.  PHI bought an old DC 3 and outfitted it with test equipment and got the R-Nav approved in all 48 contingent states with the exception of a small strip of land on the N Dak Canada border. BTW; A Fed had to fly with them, (for months) and they had to pay his salary.

     

  57. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    FWIW; I just had to Log In first time since I used my Lap-Top over in St Simon’s Island Georgia.  😉

  58. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Oh and I making a big ole Pot O Chili. Put it on about 1:30 PM. Already smelling goood. 😉

  59. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My #45 PHI = Petroleum Helicopters International. I figured that most of you would know who/what it was but maybe not.

  60. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #48 DAVE

    Maybe not???

    Ok, who here did know what PHI stands for?

    Me, I’m just pleased that I easily and quickly worked today’s sudoku on my 2nd run.

     

  61. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    We just got thru re-working the “doggie prison” we put Shortie in when we left for church this morning… Only to see her running gleefully down the ramp to greet us as we got out of the car… Thanks be to God for watching over her and keeping her HERE, even her Houdini-like skills. Guess you can take a dog off the streets, but not necessarily take the streets out of the dog  😉  If she’d get past the “I gotta chew up everything I can get my mouth near just to prove that I can” state, we’d leave her in the house.

  62. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    It’s been a long time since I’ve been around cats. We are staying with she wife’s nephew and family and they have two cats, we all just got here about an hour ago after being gone two full days and the both of them could barely show enough interest to turn their heads toward us. 😀

  63. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Yesterday we took the Kancamagus Highway up into the White Mountains, stopped at some of the tourists traps and stayed overnight in a nice mountain hotel. Leaf season either hasn’t fully developed, or some folks say there was too much rain this summer. But we saw enough of it, beautiful.

     

  64. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’m usually a mustard greens guy. Not much for collards.

    But those collards were really good. I wish I knew how he seasoned them. I always put in some bacon ends and pieces. But he had something else in there.

    Any suggestions, Gramps?

  65. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    And today I mowed for the first time since late May or June.

  66. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    One recipe suggests cooking the bacon in the pan first, then sweat some finely chopped shallot and garlic, then cook in chicken broth. Drain and splash with some apple cider vinegar before serving.

  67. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Good friend neighbors three houses down lost their dog today, she was suffering but she was a gamer. She came down to visit our dog Buddy all the time, they were cute friends.

  68. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Home from a late Sunday dinner at the Olive Garden in Rosenberg. Lots of take-home as usual for us.  Everything will be as good if not better tomorrow when all the juices/gravy/or dressings soak into the appropriate foods.

    Spouse went past the new Olive Garden yesterday on highway 99 between Sugar Land and Richmond.  He saw a sign that it is to open tomorrow, so we shall have to check it out later this week.  We live halfway between the two places.  We first discovered Olive Gardens in states north of Texas our way to and from Wisconsin in the years we drove up and back to visit kinfolk in Madison, about 1200 miles each way.  In recent years we get there and back by Continental and a regional airline.  Driving there and back has been in the rearview mirror for a long time.

     

  69. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Taking a breather from rosary making. I have the last ten it so strung except for the pieces to arrive if a day or so.

    A quick portal of headlines revealed that Suzanne Somers has passed away. Breast cancer finally got her. I didn’t realize that she’s been fighting it for decades. She was one day short of her 77th birthday.

    RIP, fine lady.

  70. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I finished my plumbing job by early afternoon.  I was wiped out after yesterday’s craziness.  Crawling around on my back in kitchen cabinets is enough to ruin me for a day.

  71. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Making sausage and cabbage for dinner, since that’s what I have in the frig. Since I have the FD chicken stock in the shelf, I added a few spoonfuls to the mix you see what it did for the flavor.

  72. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I’ve foregone things electronic with the gorgeous weather. I finally had to come back so I could find a recipe for dinner.  It’s now in the oven.

  73. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    FD chicken stock

    aka “chicken base”.

    Yours is definitely better than what I use. I found some Knorr lower salt, but I’d much rather have yours.

  74. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This has been the most exhausting week I’ve had in years, maybe since 9-11.

  75. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Once again: Do not ever buy a Samsung television.

    I just went through an infuriating experience simply trying to turn Fox News Channel’s Mark Levin Show.

  76. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Any suggestions, Gramps?

    I’d say your #55 pretty much does the trick. I generally just use ham hock or bacon in my greens, nothing fancy since they’re pretty flavorful as is. My wife and I love turnips, mustard and collards. Wife really likes purple top turnip roots, cooked or raw.

    For supper I had a bowl of my first batch of chili for the season and it sure was good.

  77. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    This has been the most exhausting week I’ve had in years, maybe since 9-11.

    I know what ya mean.  Throwing that damn Samsung TV into the dumpster today was tough work.  But I am rewarding myself with a tall Mormon Martini, a fine cuban cigar while watching the Astros on a Sony Bravia.

    Life is good

    ……………………Super Dave

  78. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The Astros are on the free local Fox affiliate.

    Down 2-0 to the nasty boys from Arlington.

  79. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I hate to say this but I will be glad when the /stros play in Arlington.  This whole season they have not played well in the Juice Box.

  80. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    That was one weird tag-up mistake by Altuve.

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