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Tomorrow [Sunday] is the last Sunday in Epiphany; the Gospel reading, from Luke chapter 9, is of the Transfiguration of Jesus. This icon is from the Visoki Decani Monastery in Serbia:
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[fresco, not icon–sorry!]
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“…there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, ‘This is my beloved Son: hear him.’ ”
— [Luke 9:35; the Transfiguration] —
Blessings to all this Sunday.
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[And now for something completely different…]
No particular reason except that I loved it:
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Smelly looks to have a crush on Mad Cow.
Megyn Kelly Defends Madcow: ‘What’s the Harm’ in Her Moderating a Debate?
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/megyn-kelly-defends-maddow-whats-the-harm-in-her-moderating-a-debate/
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Mornin’ kids!
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Good morning Weed. Another example to teach the kiddies why they need to do their homework.
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Mornin’ Menage! I’m cuttin’ up stuff for our sammiches this afternoon – game day!
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I know! Gotta cook a turkey for my crowd. And aebleskivers becuz Ash Wednesday is nigh upon us. I want a treat.
Stella, if you haven’t made the ones with the lemon curd filling you need to. They are so delicious.
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Lemon curd would be good on cardboard, or styrofoam.
ADD: I’m not saying anything bad about the ableskiver (sp), of course.
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Mornin’ Wee!
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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Mornin’ sports fans. Coffee’s up y’all from Rancho el Gordito where it’s a nippy 21* this mornin’. I’ze got some bacon cookin’ for ZMike and the rest of ya’z. It’ll be out in un momento. 😉
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Mornin’ T! Cheer up – spring’s a’comin’ next month! Garcias!
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That’s what I hear, but I git to go to Chi-town the end of this month and prolly Big Sky country shortly after that. Not so sure the Big Thaw will have hit up that far by then. 😆
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Well, it’s 32* in the north country!
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Here, too – supposed to warm up to 60* – today only, though.
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Hi, WeeWeed. It won’t be that warm here, but not bad for the beginning of February in Michigan.
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Well, glad to see the planets have re-aligned.
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LOL!
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That looks like enough for Zurichmike. 🙂 Did you make some for everybody else. 🙄
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He can share. 😆
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Only because we are beating him to it! 😀
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Why would I share a tiny single portion like that?
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You are correct. The above photo represents a single serving of nutricious and delicous bacon. I am sure Tex will have another batch for you.
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ZurichMike Pork-o-Meter rating of 10,000,000,000,000,000 out of 10.
Words fail me.
I am making that photo my desktop photo.
You are forgiven all thinkg, my lad, except being an Aggie. 🙂
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I love the bacon Kaaba. Would look great with a HO-scale grand mosque behind it, and a million little Lego muslims around it, bumping their heads on the table. Huge!
#talkliketrump
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ROTFL 😀
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Another SanFran rocker kicks the bucket. Rough year for another one who played with Jefferson Airplane. 🙄
http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/wife-says-singer-and-band-leader-dan-hicks-dies-at-age-74/ar-BBpctLI?li=BBnbfcL
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The rest of ’em better lay low for awhile…….
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Oh, no. I love Dan Hicks’ music. I play a CD in my car all the time. 😦
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Our favorite Sunday morning columnist on activity below the radar………….that ought to scare the bejeebers out of us. 👿
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/you_cannot_support_israels_existence_and_ours_and_vote_democratic_this_election.html
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Excellent. One question though: Why did Philip Haney wait more than six years to divulge what happened at Homeland Security?
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Good morning, everybody. Not much to report from here in the north country today. Pretty quiet. Probably the big story for today is Super Bowl, although I’m not a football fan! I hope you all enjoy yourselves, though, and eat lots of good stuff such as Menagerie and WeeWeed will prepare (maybe they will share). I shall enjoy a nice bowl of home made soup for supper today, perhaps with a slice of home made bread.
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Mornin’ Miss Stella. Glad I’ve got a few minutes to try and catch up a bit before Mrs. T and a little one wake up and start up the tornado machine once again. 🙂
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Hey Tex! Hope you’re passin’ through again today. To answer your question of a week or so ago, I finally remembered to ask DH about your friend, and YES! he did know Russ Wilson at the Coast Guard Academy. Immediately went and pulled out one of his yearbooks and showed me Russ’s photo. He was a year ahead of DH. Small world and 6 degrees of separation and all that…
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It truly is a very small world. That’s pretty neat.
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Good morning Stella, not much going on here either. Temps in low 30’s, supposed to get up to around 60.
I’m going to make some BBQ meatballs, boneless bbq wings, cheese dip, throw some little smokies in the crock pot(my youngest son to this day seems to think his favorite SB snack is something only his mama knows how to do), bake some cupcakes and chocolate chip cookies and open up my last jar of salsa I canned during the summer.
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Good morning all,
Just walked outside a bit ago, sun just coming up over Mt Lassen, it was almost a balmy 53 degrees! Had to clear up the empties from last night, thanks to Miss WeeWeed opening the bar up early. Supposed to be mid 70’s for a few days up here.
Going to hit the golf course this afternoon during the SB, should be empty.
Have a great day y’all.
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Sounds like you live near where my sister lived – in Redding, then Shingletown.
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Yes ma’m, Redding. Came up here about 5 years ago, spent the previous 40 in Santa Cruz. As I now say, I live in the “red” part of my “blue” state. Outdoor area set aside for a gun range, CC permits can be obtained here, $25 annual permit for Whiskeytown. A few things available here that were foreign to me.
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I still have a niece in Shasta or Burney (not sure; she’s moving); visited out there in 2012. Beautiful area.
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Love Burney, and yes gorgeous, Shingletown as well. I was a young boy and caught my first trout up in Burney, my uncle lived up there working for PG&E. Just drove through there on my way to Oregon last week, and was admiring Burney again. Lots of Bay Area people moving up this way, and I’m sure bring their political views north. No Bueno.
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By the way, had a sticker on my car, “CRUZ”, which was intended as homage to Santa Cruz, which I consider my home. Had to take it off, now resides on my refer.
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How dyslexia came to be. Very interesting. Another black mark on the “educational system”. “Educational child abuse”. 👿
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/dyslexia_is_a_myth.html
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Very interesting. I wonder if something similar can happen in regards to math. My youngest ,now 14, has a block with numbers, although she does well with the other subjects. You can see her shut down when anything mathematical is asked of her, an anxiety that is described in the above article. Thanks Tex, gives useful perspective that I will apply with her.
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I wonder if something similar can happen in regards to math.
YES
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Math…………………………
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I like the commenters that disagree with the article and insist dyslexia is real because they have it and didn’t learn to read as described by the article. They then go on to describe their condition – which is exactly like the article.
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Nyet! They can’t read!
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I didn’t attend preschool or kindergarten, but was reading at what is now considered collegiate level before I ever went to school.
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Does that mean you can read? Because what is now considered a collegiate level is probably a lot dumber in reality than what used to be a collegiate level.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Don’t take my cool smiley away.
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🙂
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I read Dick n’ Jane aloud in class the same way the nightly news was delivered. Disrupted the class every time.
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Yes, I can believe you disrupted class. 🙄
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I always thought you wuz smart, Nyet.
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I don’t think I ever heard the lyrics until a couple of years ago. Same for Pixie and Dixie.
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Ahhhh, but can you read CURSIVE??? 😉
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After practicing my mother’s signature, sure I could.
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😀 You, too?
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Ice cream truck don’t take unsigned checks.
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School don’t take unsigned behavior reports, neither.
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I lived on my own but still had to attend school by law. I would show up write an excuse note, sign it, then go to work.
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“Epstein’s mother” comes to mind….. 😀
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Well, isn’t this just great! I would say this research on thinning hair is something that should have had research started on much, much sooner. 😉 😆
http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/scientists-discover-why-our-hair-thins-as-we-age/ar-BBp8Ujq?li=BBnbfcL
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I posted a picture of a hat that’ll cure that for ya’s yestiddy. 😀
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Izzit the won with the LED’s inside of it. Already tried that’n. 😉 😆
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Is that a little building on top of it? Maybe a Hair Temple or something?
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It’s a Hairy Krishna Temple, Menagerie. And it’s resting on the correct location.
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Used to do gun runs on one of their temples…… Blanks……..
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Thank heavens that isn’t a problem that I have.
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Knock on wood I don’t have that problem either, although when I was birthing children I thought I was going to lose all of my hair. I had forgotten about that until my daughter had the baby and she was freaking out when she’d brush her hair and think it was all coming out.
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My daughter lost a big chunk on the back of her head when she was pregnant the first time, but it grew back.
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My daughter didn’t have any bald spots, but would brush her hair and have handfuls come out.
I remember when I was first pregnant I’d wake up in the morning and see all the hair on my pillow and would run to the mirror to make sure I still had hair. lol
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Found the new Republican Austerity Dollar
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😯
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The “NONE” dollar. Sad but true.
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Mornin’ stella! 😎
Mornin’ WeeWeed! 😛
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! 😎
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 🙂
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 😯
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 😀
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014 🙂
Mornin’ ctdar 🙂
Mornin’ tessa50 🙂
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Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 🙂
Mornin’ taqiyyologist! 🙂
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Mornin’ Sha 🙂
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 😐
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂
Mornin’ Les 🙂
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂
Mornin’ derk (“Stellars”) 🙂
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂
Mornin’ complainers! 👿
Mornin’ whiners! 👿
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 🙄
Also just in case, mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, czarowniczy and F.D.R. in Hell!
Breakfast!
Cinnamon rolls for coffee!
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Good morning nyeteetot,
That omelet is gorgeous, think I’ll give it a try.
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Mornin’ Nyet. 🙂
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ZurichMike Pork-o-Meter rating of 4 out of 10. The omelette is lovely, but it’s like one of the muscled jocks in high school, strutting around in front in all his glory, and the two little sad link sausages off to the side in back like the nerdy kids who were never picked first for the dodge ball team. No bacon. Sigh.
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Can relate. At one time, back in 4th grade, I was the last taken in kick ball, after a female, who also wore glasses and had a broken leg. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Your comment was funny, good to be laughing, one of the virtues of this place.
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I didn’t think bacon was needed since texan59 provided some. My error.
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I think I like whatever you choose to cook for me. Then, I don’t have to do it myself!
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You gonna put up a superbowl thread or shall I set the late lunch and beer out here in a bit?
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I’ll put up a Superbowl thread. I’m not much of a football fan, but I’ll do my best!
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You could do the Puppy Bowl.
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Maybe as an alternate !!!
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Oh, trying to weasel your way out of this? Is there such a thing as too much bacon? I think not.
LOL!
🙂
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Yes, it’s a tattoo:
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Hey! That look’s just like the flapper tattoo my grandma had…..
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Good afternoon, somehow I missed this earlier.
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Something I read from a cousin on FB this morning that made me smile.
So this morning I was looking out the window, drinking my cup of coffee and feeling the sun on my face. Something I’ve done every morning for the 15 years I’ve lived in this little house because I enjoy feeling the morning sun. The little house across the street was always a pleasure to look at as well, in the spring time looking at all the flowers blooming and in the winter the precious little old lady missed her flowers so much she would weekly buy artificial flowers and place them in a way it looked like spring in the winter. Last year her children put her in a nursing home and now they rent out her house and I miss the artificial flowers. A new tenant moved in a few weeks ago and a few days ago she put a campaign sign in her front yard, a Hillary sign with Hillary’s picture.
This has been putting me in a bad mood the past few mornings, who wants to look out their window and see that woman? Well this morning my mood got a lift. A little dog was walking along smelling the grass and it walked up to the sign and sniffed and hiked his leg and peed in Hillary’s face. Then he sniffed, turned some circles and took a dump right in front of Hillary. For good measure he hiked his leg again and peed right in her face again and then strutted off with his tail held high.
That was the best laugh I’ve had in a long time.
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LOL
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I think Hillary can place second in every state and still get the dem nomination. All the controlled delegates could do it.
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Yes, it is true. Berni can win every state and the establishment can easily nominate Hillary.
https://ballotpedia.org/2016_presidential_nominations:_calendar_and_delegate_rules
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/D-Del.phtml
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LOL!
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I see on Facebook that Donald Trump is visiting small spots in Manchester, NH. Had breakfast at Chez Vachon:
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The American Troika interesting essay.
Who rules America today? Not the people; they have been vanquished. America is ruled today by a collectivist Troika – an Executive-Congressional Combine, Judicial Oligarchs, and a Corporatist Banking Cartel – who have as much concern for the resplendent principles that formed our country as street pimps have for romance and love. How has this Troika come to possess its power over our lives? It has accrued its power by conveying endless privileges (handouts, subsidies, loans, quotas, monopolies, price controls, tax breaks, etc.) to an ever-swelling mobocracy. This buys the mobocracy’s support every election year and insures the Troika’s permanency.
The lesson to be gleaned from this past century is clear and stark: we as a people must renounce the inexcuseable prodigality of liberalism and its ruling Troika. This will require that we retrace the philosophical steps that built America and throw out all our manifold treasons to the Founders. There can be no half-way measures. America will live again in the future only if we are willing to restore the Jeffersonian ideal that gave us birth. Lincoln’s centralization – Wilson’s progressivism – FDR’s New Deal – LBJ’s Great Society – Nixon’s middling conservatism – today’s Obamanation must all be purged from our governing aspirations. Nothing short of the Jeffersonian ideal will save us. Our youth need to be taught this crucial philosophical necessity.
http://afr.org/americas-ruling-troika/
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Dianne Marshal has some good views on last nights debate.
https://themarshallreport.wordpress.com/
I enjoyed the debate, personally felt it had the most substance and was of an actual use, compared to all of the previous ones. Felt moderators were fair, called out a few yes, but was appropriate.
There is one post on the candidates entrance, confusing to be sure at the time, but she points out that Donald was aware of what was happening, and acted to try and make situation better.
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Look, kids! One hour south of me – daffodils be up!!
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They are called “Easter bells” (Osterglocken) in German because they usually bloom around Eastertime at this latitude.
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I’m watching a marathon of “Keeping Up Appearances”. I forgot how silly it is!
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I love that show. My favorite character is Daisy. She is such a hoot. She is so funny and it just tickles me how crazy she is about Onslow. 🙂 But, all the characters are real characters, if you know what I mean. They are all so funny.
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So, I get a text to go down and lock up the joint. A couple contractors are down there, cleaning up and heading out. We get chatting and they ask about my digs, my landlords. They ask, so are they good folks? I say, “Yeah, they go to church three times a week.”
Guy says, “Jesus.”
I look at him, smile, and say, “Yeah!”
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Oh, I was nodding when I said it, too; as if to say, “exactly.”
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This is an important interview/press conference.
Absolutely amazing.
https://www.periscope.tv/danstuckey/1djxXalZgPBKZ
Research Roosh, the controversy, and then listen to that.
Our society is being programmed. This guy knows how to work a crowd of reporters. And then tell them how much they’ve all screwed up.
“What happened in Cologne last week?”:
silence.
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“Donald Trump comes the closest…:”
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“I can take a dump in a box right now, and sell it.. because of you.”
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This guy is like mini-Trump to the media. Just watch it all.
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Q: What else do you like about Trump?
A: He hates you guys too!
You all must listen to this whole thing. inshallah.
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Happy Sunday to all the beloved Friends of Stella (great list above, thanks, nyet!). For those who, like myself, are less than riveted by the Broncos and Panthers, I’ll over a small diversion into the world of dog mushing.
The serious part of the dog mushing season began yesterday in Fairbanks, Alaska with the start of the Yukon Quest, the first of Alaska’s two 1,000-mile races. Lots of mid-distance races (200-400 miles) have been going on around the state since December, and are qualifiers for rookies in the two big races, but don’t generate the same level of excitement as the bigs. A thousand miles is a long way to go on a dog sled. Both the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod take 9 to 10 days for the winner, and sometimes much longer for the Red Lantern (last finisher).
DH and I have two very good friends who are professional mushers, and we always pull for them in any race they enter. Aliy Zirkle and Allen Moore (husband and wife) are the owner/operators of SP Kennels in Two Rivers, Alaska (http://spkenneldoglog.blogspot.com/). Both of them have run both big races many times; Aliy was the first–and so far the only–woman to win the Yukon Quest, in 2000. Allen has won the Quest twice, in 2013 and 2014; and in 2012 he came in second by 26 seconds. Neither have won the Iditarod (yet); Aliy finished second three years running. I’m so hoping 2016 will be her year!
Full disclosure, I don’t really follow the Quest that closely. Mostly because their website http://www.yukonquest.com pretty much sucks. Difficult to locate useful info there. The best I can tell at the moment, now Day 2, Allen is in second place. Aliy is running the Yukon Quest 300, and is in the lead. The YQ300 should finish tomorrow sometime.
The Iditarod is a much more armchair-musher friendly event with an excellent website, http://www.iditarod.com. I usually ante up the $25 to be an Iditarod Insider, gets me lots of free videos from the trail, interviews, “color”. The ‘Rod starts on March 5th in Anchorage. If Friends of Stella are interested, I’ll be happy to offer insight and info on all things sled dog.
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Well I certainly am!! It’s fascinating to me and sounds terribly hard (as in harsh conditions, feeding, housing, etc.) I’d love to hear more – even from your older posts, Tundra! For most of us it’s a totally foreign environment. 🙂
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As you know, I would love for you to write some about the Iditarod, or whatever you would like about the dog mushing season. You are a talented writer, and have so much experience and background with the sport.
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Stella’s Place is just the best, isn’t it?
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That’s sweet of you!
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This was in response to Menagerie…
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Eek! I got caught by placement making me sound snarky when I wasn’t. My “in response” comment was to myself, not to you, Stella. Egads. SP is the best, and I love what you are doing here.
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Thanks, Stella.
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Great idea. Most of us are really interested but know so little about it. Looking forward to it Tundra.
I love the mix of stuff we get here. Always something fascinating.
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This article is going around on FB. This lady is not very bright, a Moslem is never going to set foot in her business and some just might be willing to chop her head off for serving pork. I also doubt I’m the only person who likes pork and BBQ who would find me another place to eat BBQ when seeing a stupid sign next to a pig.
She says she gives blunt answers, it’s too bad we can’t send our dear Wee to pay her a visit and give her a blunt opinion.
http://abc11.com/news/popular-raleigh-restaurant-has-a-message-of-tolerance/1183064/
A popular downtown Raleigh barbecue restaurant is sending a message to its patrons: Stop profiling Muslims.
That’s the sign the owner of Clyde Cooper’s BBQ hung in the window.
Debbie Holt, the owner, said she was just fed up with the national conversation that to her sounded awfully Islamaphobic.
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