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Chef does not eat. Chef TASTES.
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Mornin’ young’un!
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I laughed myself to sleep thinking about that anecdote, Weed.
It’s so true.
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It’s funny – I haven’t thought of “Chef” in 25-30 years. I wish I could remember his last name – we called him Chef or Patsy, outside. He went back to the French Quarter, in the long run. 😉
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“While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night”–sung to the tune Winchester Old. I love this setting:
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Amazing.
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Whisky advent calendar, day number 14!
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Every whiskey starting with “Glen”?
That explains no Mortlach.
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And no Jack.
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Morning Menagerie .
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Get odd evening Colonel.
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Hmm. Something odd indeed happened to my good evening comment.
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Get odd?
I’m already odd.
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Tough crowd Nyet 🙂
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Morning lovely. How’s the 4 legged wolves doing in your AO?
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Good morning Col. 🙂 The pups are sleeping like babies but I am about to get ready to get out the door so soon there will be mournful looks and pacing back and forth to the yummy jar since they always get a treat before I leave .
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Nye, I’ll start after 5pm. As lovely said tough crowd.
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Morning Nye.
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Morning sir!
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D.J. Taq.
I’ll be here all week. Tip your servers. Try the veal.
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And rejoice. What a great word that is.
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“Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say: Rejoice.”
–Philippians 4:4–
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That verse is amazing, isn’t it, Mary?
Joy is something that needs to be amplified, and thrown outward, and upward.
We can’t just sit on it, and hide it.
Paul went further and said it twice.
“…and again…”
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Great description taqiy and I believe if it is indeed authentic joy it will, it must, be amplified, thrown outward and upward. I love that.
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Morning Mary.
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Good EVENING, Col. (Just got home from work, etc.)
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Gaudete! It gets a whole Sunday in Advent named for it, and Laetare Sunday during lent. The Church makes wonderful use of the liturgical calendar to gently guide us along on our journey of faith. And to remind us to rejoice.
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I owe that guy money. Been studying under him for 20+ years.
He doesn’t even know it. That’s the funny thing. I would shine his shoes.
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I heard a beautiful rendition of Ave Maria this Saturday, it was one of those clear beautiful voices that makes everyone in their pew shift to see who is singing. Sheer beauty.
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Good morning everyone. Thanks for sending me some rain Wee. It had been almost a week since we got any!
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Good morning Menagerie 🙂
How is Conner doing?
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Up ove 14 pounds now! He got a great report at the pediatrician’s office last Thursday. He goes back to the cardiologist in January. I’m kind of holding my breath until then, but I believe he will get the all clear then. He sure is a cutie, and the smiliest cooing little one I’ve seen. He’s very happy.
Thanks for your concern. Conner is a lucky boy, a blessed boy, to have had so many people praying for him, pulling for him.
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Beautiful news !
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Outstanding!!!
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That’s great, how old is he now?
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He’s four and a half months now. Still very low weight for that age, but healthy and catching up.
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14 lbs. doesn’t sound that bad, especially with all he’s been through.
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Mornin’ Menagerie!
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Good evening.
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Monday fun day. Coffee’s on. Grab a cup. Road trip later today. Not sure how much I’ll be around til Wed. evening. Enjoy. 🙂
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Morning’ Tex! May your journey be fruitful.
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Thank you Miss Stella. It’s a planning meeting with some learnin’ thrown in. 🙂
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Morning Stella.
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Morning Colonel!
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Mornin’ T! Be careful!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed, I’m on wpns detail until the rain starts. Just cleaning up from last week.
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Mornin’ Colonel!
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Thank goodness I ain’t seen a mosque yet. Glad I’ze not on the top floor. 😯
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Wherethehell you iz??? 😯 Arlington? Irving??
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Richardson. At this point, what difference does it make. 😉
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Exactly….. yer in the middle of the hive……. 🙄
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Mornin’ texan59! Thank you as always and have a pleasant trip!
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Could morning Texan and a safe journey 🙂
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Morning Tex. Great coffee! Road trip? Arm up, and be careful, return to us safely. Nye and I volunteer to ride shotgun on the stagecoach!
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Mornin’ kids!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed! That is so wrong.
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Mornin’ stella!
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HE is so wrong…… 🙄
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Boris!
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Good morning WeeWeed and all 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Good morning, lovely!
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Good morning Stella 🙂
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Mornin’ lovely!
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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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💥💥💥
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Mornin’ Wee.
I was pleased to see our taxes pay for late teen/early twenties people’s food at the grocery store Saturday. I had saw them on the cracker aisle and overheard them arguing over having kids after they saw a baby, girlfriend wanted a baby, boyfriend didn’t. Then lucky me I got behind them at the register and watched the girl pay with an EBT card. I told the girl that I was going to ask a question that she’d probably find rude, but since I helped pay for them, I was curious how much a young couple with no kids gets in food stamps. She told me I was rude and that she only gets $120/month in food stamps and that she works and pays taxes as well, and that is a small amount that doesn’t feed her for a month and I should be more concerned with big business taking my money. I told her I was concerned with everyone taking my money and wouldn’t it be better if everyone stood on their own two feet and nobody’s money was taken and given to others, rich and poor alike? I think I confused her, as she didn’t say another word and walked off with her boyfriend and groceries with him telling her I was a rude b…h.
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LOLOLOL!!!! Mornin’ Michelle! And why isn’t young boyfriend helping PAY for said groceries?? These snowflakes……
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I could be mistaken, but I thought pre-Obama you had to have children or be elderly to get food stamps.
Young boyfriend probably had his own SNAP card. His Mama obviously didn’t teach him it’s not polite to call his elders a b…h.lol
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😀 One ‘a these days, he keeps that up, he’ll run into a real one that’ll whiphisass.
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I just laugh.
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😀😄😬😀‼️
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My DH says I’ve mellowed out in my old age because once upon a time I would have been fighting mad. He just doesn’t get it takes energy to get fighting mad so I save that energy until it’s really needed these days instead of wasting it.:)
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I see groups of late teen/early twenties sitting/sleeping on sidewalks in Seattle, always begging for money with a dog. They sit outside grocery stores, drug stores, fast food places. I don’t see them in any stores often. When they’re less drugged up, they prowl cars, and commit other burglaries. They get counted in the city’s homeless crisis as the displaced due to Amazon/Microsoft/tech workers pushing them out of jobs (when they really never lived here before the OWS mess and certainty never had a job here to be displaced from). But Seattle has so many social welfare programs that take up a huge part of the city budget. We attract homeless from everywhere. I’m sure they vote as required as well.
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Cloward-Piven.
I would push them out of a job.
Because I like to work.
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My daughter was talking to a lady the other day who volunteers for a Church food and clothing bank. She said she had been doing it since she retired 20 years ago and up until about 5 years ago it would be people who were truly destitute, had lost their job or became ill and were just needing help until they could back on their feet. They had to quit just handing out to anyone who came knocking and started asking for proof of income or lack of income.
That’s sad to me that people who don’t really need it grab it up because it’s free.
However, she said there are still problems because the majority of them come in and tell you how they’re on assistance and go on to tell you about this program and that charity they’ve received help from. I guess if you know where to look and how to work it you can get just about everything you need from plenty of food to clothes, shoes, school supplies, utilities paid, house payment or rent paid for you, new roof, new HVAC, windows, doors, appliances and even a car for free.
It sounds to me like we give too much and instead of teaching people to fish we’re teaching them how to find people who will catch the fish, clean the fish, cook the fish and hand feed it to them and then do the dishes on top of it.
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“….It sounds to me like we give too much and instead of teaching people to fish we’re teaching them how to find people who will catch the fish, clean the fish, cook the fish and hand feed it to them and then do the dishes on top of it.”
It’s name is socialism. Many immigrants from Russian Federation vs. refugees of the former USSR in the last 20 years take complete advantage of the welfare system and milk it for everything it’s worth. We know people from the USSR that came here with nothing and literally dug ditches while teaching themselves computer programming at night. Today one is a VP at a well known software company. We know another that started by teaching himself to fly using a computer simulator and is today a senior pilot for a major airline. Many of the recent immigrants are on welfare with the children getting involved is car chop shops and drugs.
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Sadly though it’s not just immigrants. I would say young people aren’t taught like we were, but people from our generation are just as bad when it comes to looking for handouts.
Immigrants add to the problem because we shouldn’t allow immigrants who can’t support themselves.
If I could snap my fingers all immigration would stop until we could rid ourselves of all illegals and every American who is 18 to retirement age is supporting themselves.
Then when we did allow immigration again they would be heavily screened and only those who can benefit our country would be allowed in.
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michellc, I’m sorry. I’m not writing very complete thoughts or being mindful of my prose.
For some reason immigrants were in my head. Probably because one just made lunch and told me to do dishes.
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Hopefully your immigrant didn’t come here for a handout.:)
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I’d ask, but I like having all my teeth.
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Are you not a fan of frying pans?
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Not the ones that cause male pattern baldness.
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I’ve found cast iron skillets are not just good for cooking.:)
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Showing my age, I suppose, but when I was a kid the only legal immigrants WERE educated, they WEREN’T diseased, COULD support themselves – as a matter of fact even later one of my daughter’s best friend’s parents (Russians, both doctors) were working shit jobs to get their credentials here to make a decent living. You should HEAR Marina tell about the all day wait for food over there…… they had 1 hard boiled egg a day and boiled spaghetti noodles. Every day.
Last time I heard tell, she still doesn’t touch them with a ten foot pole.
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That’s the way it used to be, we didn’t seem to allow immigrants here if they weren’t able to support themselves.
I’m not sure exactly when that started to change. I do remember back in the early 80’s when it seemed like overnight the area I lived in at the time seemed overloaded with middle eastern immigrants.
Before then though immigrants talked about how long and how hard they worked to come here and how grateful they were. They loved being here because they could work to become whatever they wanted to be and cared about giving back and not about what they could get.
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Good Morning! Breakfast!
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Nye, thank you Sir. Like,like,like!!!
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Thank you Lovely. Sitting here with Tex’s and Nye’s sipping whiskeys’ my thoughts are not on the many Christmas’ I have missed. My thoughts return to a small Belgium town, Bastogne. My father and a few thousand of his friends were surrounded. He never would say to much about those days. And to my Uncle in Burma, he would only say: “Can’t remember what we were doing”.
Now, my thoughts turn towards the young men/women, who are serving Our Country, thanks for carrying my ruck, God Bless You, Keep You Safe, Merry Christmas……..
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Thanks Col. 🙂 and thanks for your service and your families service.
Cheers!
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I don’t how many know who Joey and Rory are, but I became aware of them when they were on the show “Can you Duet.” I thought they were a cute couple with sweet personalities. So I sort of followed them for awhile and my husband and daughter always watched their show before we got rid of satellite.
I read Rory’s blog and even when the news is not good it always lifts my spirits because no matter how bad it is, Joey is always positive and trusting the Lord. Today Rory wrote about Joey getting out of bed for the first time in a long time and sitting on the floor and playing with Indy. Joey’s prayer now is to make it until Christmas and until Indy’s 2nd birthday.
My mother used to tell me anytime I complained about something that it could be worse. I think their family is going through the worst. I watched my sister die from cancer and it was horrible and it was sad, she also left behind her children, although they were older than Indy and they didn’t have downs syndrome, but that was the only thing that made my sister cry was that her youngest child who was just reaching her teen years wasn’t going to have her mom. Joey kind of reminds me of her, her faith was always strong, she wasn’t scared to die, but she was human and didn’t want to leave her children and didn’t want her children to have to grow up without her. She also had prayers that she would live long enough to see her oldest son married and she did, long enough to see her youngest son graduate from high school and she did, long enough to give her daughter a 13th birthday party complete with a slumber party and she did.
She taught us to cherish each day and to make memories with those left behind, much like Joey is teaching her family. So if you want to cry and smile I recommend Rory’s blog. http://thislifeilive.com/
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I did read about this, and stumbled across her blog a couple of months ago. It’s very sad that she is terminally ill, and that dear little girl will be without her mom. Doesn’t the baby have Down Syndrome?
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Yes she does. She was still an infant I believe when she first found out she had cancer and they did a complete hysterectomy and said they got it all. Then about a year later she found out it was back and in several different areas and they started treatments but they weren’t working.
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So. They’re spying on Americans they KNOW to be harmless, so that they don’t get accused of spying on Muslims
Then, when those Muslims attack, they tell us, Those aren’t Muslims. Even though we stopped investigating those groups because they were Muslims.
Stop the ride. I wanna get off.
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Sorry I haven’t been around much today. I’ve been reading all the good stuff you all have contributed, but I’ve been busy sewing all day! Projects for Christmas, so they have to get done.
Love to all!
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Hello everyone. Something that I knew was an issue turned into a very major issue last week and I went into the hospital Wednesday. Got out today.
I don’t comment often, but was trying to comment a bit more here. Will try to catch up on the reading over next few days and if things here allow will comment again. Am enjoying you guys comments either way. See ya soon.
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I hope you are healing well, tessa50. You are always welcome – to read, or to comment, as you prefer.
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Thank You!
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I will add you to my prayers Tessa. May God’s healing hand be upon you.
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Thank You!
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We have little bacons hitting the ground. No matter how many times I see it, I’ll always be amazed at how those little critters come out almost running.
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Michellc, you do mean little hams hitting the ground running!!
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No, this particular cross, although all of their meat is good, the bacon they produce is the absolute best bacon I’ve ever tasted. So as soon as they started coming out I started calling them my bacons.lol
My DH told me bacons is not a word, I told him we’re raising two of these to eat, so they are my bacons.:) If progs can change the definition of words and make new words, so can I.lol
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