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Stellllllllaaaaaaa….deja vu???
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We loves ya, hawt, but we ain’t doin’ ’16 over agin’.
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Well, this started last year.
Better late than never. 😉
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Love the glitz, Impeach.
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Wow Impeach!!!!!
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… and glimmer. 😉
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Happy New Year, everyone and all…
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Happy 2017, Impeach!
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Happy New Year, Dolly.
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Fixed it! Can’t imagine how that happened.
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Celebrating with a bit too much prune brandy?
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That sounds disgusting!
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Sorta meant that to be something else but after I pisted it I remembered: slivovitz.
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Plum, not prune!
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Plum…prune…potato, potatoe.
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Any of those are better than pumpkin.
Hey, nyet–IS there such a thing as pumpkin brandy? Or pumpkin booze of any kind?
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Pumpkin!
Don’t forget the pumpkin…
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Just hoping to watch all those fabulous Trump speeches again by reliving 2016 🙂
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Happy 2017, Czar!
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And a prosperous and healthy 5777 to you.
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Thank you!
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Did you ask your husband if he knew Dr Isaacson or his wife Babs? They went to Temple Sinai.
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No, he doesn’t know them. He was only a kid, and he went to Beth Israel and then onto a yeshiva in Baltimore. Did you know the Gutmans or the Nelkins?
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No, the Issacsons were our primary Jewish friends here though we had a few other contacts. Jewish community here’s a bit insular. Czarina had more contacts through her organizations. I didn’t have anything but Catholics, Baptists and a slug of heathens in my military unit, my primary contacts. Our off-time largely consisted of shrimping, gathering oysters or hunting hogs and rabbits sort of limited association with the Judeo side of the group.
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My husband’s family emigrated in 1974. He says it consisted of three and a half Jews, where he was the half. He turned 11 already in New Orleans. I think the age gap also makes a difference as to who hangs out in which circles.
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Julius was a retired surgeon who, after he retired, became the jail doctor for the Parish Prison. Absolutely loved to talk Israeli politics and was a staunch conservative.
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Ahhhh…he was a Metatie resident, Isaacsons were ‘uptown’, oy. Tough town to stay kosher, most all foods are trayf but if you come to NOLA the iconic Cafe du Monde now has Hashgacha!
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Yes, they lived in Metarie, and yes, he used to bring food from Baltimore when he came hone for vacations. We know about Cafe du Monde – love it!
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Yes Mary!!!!!
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Happy 2017, Mary!
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So many good quotes and images…wish I could post them all…
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Post away, post away….
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One more, because you asked, Col !
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Happy New Year, Colonel, sir!
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And to you, Dolly!!!!!
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🙂
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Time for another log…
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Just threw a big chunk of oak on, it take a bit to warm up…….wood is dry, I’m not……
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Had our big outside bonfire last night, thought tonite’s rain would put a damper on it. Will start cutting excess maples and oaks and drying them for next years Christmas Eve Papa Noel’s bonfire.
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I have heard about the southern tradition of a bonfire along the levy…. I always wanted one. Nice!
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We used to ho to them while they were still more of a local thing but as they became more popular they’ve been touristized and bureaucratized. There once was even acdiner cruise that left NOLA and went up river for the fires, haven’t heard about that in years.
The people there have been doing this for centuries, they used to run for miles down the levees, now its more limited but still quite interesting. They used to be just pyramidal piles built by individual families/groups but in recent years have become inventive. We saw riverboats and houses builtbout of logs, this year there was a bulldozer built out of wood and logs. There are still a lot of ptramids and cribs but local bureaucrats who don’t build are limiting sizes, locations, stopping folks from putting fireworks inside the structures…those who can build, those who can’t regulate.
It would be over 150 miles one way now and the crowds are terrible so since we have the land and the wood we’re just gonna build our own, sit back with a drink and a gnosh and shop locally.
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‘Go’ to them, no hos, it’s a family event. OK ‘ ho ho hos’ if you wanna be technical.
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To the truly technical troll, no Ho Hos either, this is Little Debby and Moon Pie country.
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Hmmmmmm.
Was thinking
about Heidi. 😉
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I was late in getting to this one, shoulda called a cab….
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I had a large pond, with a huge berm, I used to pretend it was a levy… Oh well, that was back in PA. No one would see it, but still…
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We won’t do ours on the levee, we’ll use a part of the front yard. Important thing isn’t where but with whom. We just put the chairs out about 25 feet away, to start, cats get up on the tractor about the same distance away, and dogs get underfoot. A nice drink,or two and viola, holiday spirit.
Yes, we have two cats who love to come over, sit by and watch fires.
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HAPPY 2017! Tea and champagne–two of the best!
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Four inches of rain so far, still drizzling. Have to postpone booze and HE…OK, HE… but we can celebrate good Trumping evil any old day.
Happy New Year fellow curmudgeons.
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Hey, you kids, get offa my muddy lawn!
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“Who’s gonna make us?”
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EPA..when they get back from the holidays. Or are those kids celebrating they do not live in California?
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This EPA?
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They’ll probably find some way to claim ‘kiddie slime’ is polluting the groundwater. Thst Colorado River on the right sorta looks like a bathtub after you give an active ten year old a scrub down.
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I have a picture of that river hanging on my living room wall (along with the Durango/Silverton train).
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In its brown or blue mode?
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Clean mode. The pic was taken (by me) from the train, showing the last couple of cars, the river, and the mountains. Must have been in 1983 or 84.
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We used to have nice clean rivers flowing thru town when we lived out west, people from outta state who wanted to experience (read as ‘own’) raw, unfiltered nature sorta screwed that pooch. .
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Colorado has a mixed history, especially in that part of the world. Mining isn’t great for the rivers.
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So… we know what tomorrow’s open thread pic is going to be…
😉 Thanks for the heads-up.
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Don’t make any bets.
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Phone. Camera app. Photonbucket. General Discussion Thread.
😀
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Hey!!!!
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Happy 2017, Derk!
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And to you Czar!!!! About 3/4 inch of rain, run off, ground is frozen………
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Lake was down, this put a few gallons in (we drain about 800 acres into it) and even though there’s a beaver-block in the drain under the road the creek’s handling it well. Country was supposed to remove the block well over a week ago bu the holidays gave them the excuse to be even slowerer than they usually are. Mud…think Graf in spring…
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Graf, in the Spring, Winter, with those WW2 squad tents, blowing snow, center tent pole swaying, walking a 1/2 mile to the latrine……… yeah fond memories…….
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You forgot the wonderful H-45 multi-fuel tent heater that never quite worked.
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Happy New Year! I’m really looking forward to a new and better time for us all.
May I add some rum to my Shirley Temple?
Thank you all for making my life just that much better! XXXOOO!
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This is New Years, dawhlin, question should be: ” May I add some Shirley Temple to my rum?”.
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Captain January meets Captain Morgan. 😉
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Tale of another Starr…
Fannie Belle Fleming , Blaze Starr, “The Hottest Blaze in Burlesque”,
undoubtedly knew Captain Morgan, as well as, Gov. Earl K. Long. 😉
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Mary!!!! Another early childhood picture……….and cold Milk…….
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I just came in… fireworks!!! Right from my own front porch. It was amazing.. Happy New Year!
ps We ran out on the party…
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As I would say; ” tides coming in, time to move”
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Bought some land
in Florida, did you? 😉
Happy New Year.
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A Happy and Blessed New Year Sharon!!!!!!
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I second Col. post Sharon. A Blessed and beautiful New Year to you!
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3rd it 🙂 Yeah!!
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Happy New Year, Lovely!
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Happy New Year Dolly!
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Happy New Year! May God Bless and keep you always!
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Neighbors set
Ting off some big fireworks across the lake, about 300 yards away. GGS was lying on a blanket on the floor watching TV and the old Border Collie ran over and threw herself on him. She’s now huddled right next to him, got him pinned by the couch, putting herself between him and whatever that noise is. Cat’s sitting on the table cleaning its naughty bits.
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Market Common had a huge fireworks display… as I said, it was amazing right from my porch. I took my sweet old dog out (we are far enough away so the noise was not that bad) and she had the funniest expression. I know she saw it… but she just whimpered and gave me kisses.
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Yeah, generally Daisy doesn’t react to gunfire or fireworks. This was the first year for the big puppy and fireworks so his barking may have upset Daisy a bit. We still have to big bags of fireworks, one leftover from last year, so if we get a break that continues after dark we’ll go for it. We’ll take the pup,out so he has enough room to run off the nervous excitement.
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Save some for Jan. 20!
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I got plenty of other stuff. Most places hereabouts are sold out of Tannerite.
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Y’all, too??? 😉
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💥💥💥💥💥
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Amazon has it – but no Prime on the shipping…..
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Already got mine…
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Dh used to target practice on our driveway, right by the house. It was paved there so he could collect the brass. The dog would go hide in her bed whenever he took out the pistols. She hated that noise, poor thing.
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I lòst a big chunk of my hearing to gunfire in the military – for most of my career they never used ear plugs. As our dog’s hearing is so much more attuned than mine and I need their ears to augment mine I don’t have them outside when I’m shooting.
They’ve become so ‘inured to home life’ that I can’t even get them interested in game I brought home until it’s cooked, prepared for service and delivered. Only way the’ll go hunting/shooting anyway is if it includes a stop at the BK.
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Yeah, I read your comments!!!!!! For 3 months our Cav Troop pull security for an attach Artillery unit. And that’s all they did was shoot.Infantry day and night …Armor, then Aviation. When you have twin GE’s spinning less than 3 feet from your head. Had ear plugs then, too late, Hey still good in the woods, can hear those footsteps.
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Wellllll, remember the ‘hang!…fire!’ System of Hearing Loss? Thst didn’t help, neither did being a designated M-60 and alternate M-2 gunner. Add the M-14, M-16 and assorted pistols and some towed 155 artillery, you can see the problem. I don’t know one retiree who doesn’t have hearingnproblems, the VA won’t do crap for you and to get better than a handshake from the disability folks you gotta be deaf as a stone.
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Aww. That is so sweet.
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Happy 2017, Aus!
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Same to you. 🙂
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That’s my old guard dog.
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Happy New Year, Stella and everybody! Best wishes to you all!
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Happy New Year Dolly…. 🙂
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Thank you, Amwick, same to you and yours!
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🙂 So far so good, the goose is roasting!
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That sounds so nice! What’s inside the goose?
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Happy New Year
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Happy New Year, Joshua!
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Happy and blessed new year to all my wonderful friends here. You’ve all helped to make the last year far more fun than it would have been without you. Some of you have been essential to my journey, and I am forever grateful. Thank you.
And on an exciting note, Sarah Palin has commented next door again! Top of the Presidential daily thread. I love that she’s reading there.
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I hope she reads all the comments…. that was very sweet.
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You should invite her here.
Promise not to ask her
how Russia looks today. 😉
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Happy 2017, Tundra!
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Stella, I think I’m in spam…
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😦
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Nope.
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Hmmmm. I replied to the Colonel’s New Years greeting to Sharon, adding my heartfelt wishes for her well being…just disappeared. I miss Sharon.
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I checked again – nothing in either spam or pending. Sorry! It happens occasionally.
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Thanks for double checking!
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On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…..
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I stopped at Jack day! Happy New Year to to my best pal and whiskey pusher! May your backroom supply never run low nyet!
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Happy New Year, Menagerie! Second your wish to Nyet!
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Happy New Year Nyetneetot….
My neighbor gave me this for Christmas:
Its really good.
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This bottle is so nice,,, it actually has a cork thing… Dh is going to keep it as a kind of decanter.
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I’ve sometimes wondered if the bottles are worth more than what’s in them.
And who makes them. Italy’s known for glass, I suppose.
The Mortlach bottles (and cases) are astounding. Same with the Bunny’s.
The liquor store in my town is one of the best in SW MI.
The bottles I’ve seen… man.
Put it this way: if you took all that 40-Year Bunny and poured it into a couple of mason jars, which would be worth more? The jars of Bunny? Or the bottle and case?
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:runs:
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:ducks:
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The mason jars, they just needed proof.
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I just shipped a couple hundred of Mason jars to Tex………
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Hope you included return postage, if so I’ll bring my jar opener and a thirst.
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Some distilleries sell the same product to other bottlers to label as the bottles brand. Some of the very expensive scotch is sold under a generic label at a quarter the price of the distiller’s name.
In answer to your question; It’s more the brand name than either the bottle or contents.
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Food is the same thing. Most manufacturers sell the same or similar products under special branding. Store brands, for example.
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Happy New Year, Nyet!
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Happy New Year!
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Nye, just have a safe New Year in the Big City…..
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That is DH’s favorite!
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HAVE a MAGICKAL 2017…💋
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Happy New Year! It’s going to be all kinds of great, and lots of fun watching what unfolds. Off. go now, I’ll be back to celebrate tonight. Save me booze and a party hat y’all.
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Mornin’ kids, and Happy New Year! What fresh hells………
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Happy New Year, and a great morning Wee Weed!
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Mornin’ Amwick! Happy New Year!
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It will be better when my stomach stop flip flopping…. Must have been the meat balls… 🙂
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Morning Miss Wee!
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Mornin’ Derk!
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Happy New Year, WeeWeed!
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Happy New Year Stella!
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Evening Ms.WeeWeed!!!!
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Evenin’ Colonel Sir!
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Before or after
she relocates
to Jupiter? 😉
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Dang…… I thought she was already there!
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Santa’s not
batting 1000. 😉
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Happy New Year, Miss Wee!
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Happy New Year Dolly!
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Afternoon Lovely!
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One more Bondo-based face filling and ya won’t havta babe, they’ll squeeeeeeze out on their own.
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Gloomy day outside, but I feel optimistic. Bring it on 2017, I am ready.
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Good afternoon Amwick 🙂
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Happy New Year everyone! And a blessed Sunday!
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Happy New Year S&S!
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Thank you, Dolly! And Happy New Year to you!
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Good afternoon Sand&Sea 🙂
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Good afternoon, lovely!
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Morning Stella!
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Morning derk, and Happy New Year!
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LOL
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😂😂😂
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Evening Stella!!!!! Yes!!!!
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👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
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Good morning everybody, and Happy New Year!
I went to bed early last night, so I missed the party. The sun is shining here this morning, and we are promised a Spring-like day, so January 1 is better than average!
As Tennyson said,
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
And I always love to hear this, so sentimental:
The person who originally posted this video several years ago wrote last night:
Update Dec 31 2016: – I posted this exactly 5 year ago today and from your comments I now know why this song has lasted over 200 years. It’s about connection with others. The kind that binds you to someone forever: loyalty, friendship, kindness, love; Even though that person might not be with you anymore. It’s about the human spirit’s ability to hope for the future while enduring rough times by remembering these precious human attributes.
Each year sees many suffer from both naturally created and man-made hardships. But with each there were others willing to step in and attempt to relieve some of that hardship, exercising the best of the human spirit.
Thank you for your comments and all the well wishes and blessings you have sent to me over these past 5 years.
As we ring in the new year remember to take a cup of kindness for the days of auld lang syne.
I couldn’t say it better than he did.
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That brought tears tae me eyes, so it did! They still talk like that where we lived in Fife. It took a while, but I picked it up pretty quick. It is English, just their dialect. You can actually tell what part of Scotland someone is from just by the accent! England is the same way, as is our dear America.
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https://twitter.com/weknowwhatsbest/status/815573107364667392
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Saw her lips moving;
but could not hear her. 😉
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Unwrapped the goose…. oh my… this will be an experience. It looks just like a big duck, with more fat.. I would hazard to guess that this will be our first and last goose. I could have bought at least 4 nice turkeys instead of that thing..
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So, not the one that
lays the Golden Eggs?! 😉
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That would have been nice. Nope, this goose is the one that will fill my oven with grease splatter, and probably set off the smoke alarms.
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Duck has a stronger flavor, goose is closer to dark meat on turkey. If you want to experiment, you can save the goose fat since it’s what was traditionally used to make pastries in Western Europe for centuries.
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Chicken fat too. Liquid gold.
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In France, goose fat is the BEST for roasted potatoes!!! YUMMMMM
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Duck fat too!
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I saved some of the fat. Tastes pretty good.
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Supposed to eat the
pastries and potatoes;
not the fat. 😉
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Last night, at the somewhat tame party, there was a oldish guy dancing with like 6 women. The band was playing Mustang Sally, and he was going wild. It was so nice to see, he was 94.
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Why make only one happy;
when you may make 6 happy?! 😉
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My thoughts exactly Impeach!!!!!
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If they only cooked
with blueberries. 😉
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Mornin’ and Happy New Year stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
(Tom Collins)
(Black & Tan)
(Boilermaker)
(Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
(Irish Car Bomb)
(Godfather)
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(Classic Daiquiri)
(Gin & Tonic)
(Blackberry wine)
(Backdraft)
(Flaming Dr. Pepper)
(Stinger)
(Rusty Nail)
(Jack Daniels)
(Whiskey Smash)
(B52)
(Rum & Coke)
(Night Train Express)
(Albanian Raki Moskat)
(Hot Buttered Rum)
(Mudslide)
(RumChata)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ and Happy New Year Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)|_|
Mornin’ and Happy New Year Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year Czarina! 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year czarowniczy! 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year MaryfromMarin! 😀
Mornin’ and Happy New Year Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year Howie! 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year lovely! 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year Ms.Tee! 🙂 🍸 (Mojito)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 🍸 🍸 (Cuba Libre)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year ImpeachEmAll 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year Monroe! 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year Les! 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year shiloh1973! 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year TexasRanger! 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year Ziiggii! 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year oldiadguy! 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year facebkwallflower! 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year amwick! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year Rhea Salacia Volans! 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year joshua! 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year John Denney 🙂
Mornin’ and Happy New Year whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ and Happy New Year to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ and Happy New Year to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; Mornin’ and Happy New Year to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Cinnamon rolls for coffee!
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Great way to start the New Year.
Happy New Year to you too, Nyet.
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Cinnamon pastelitos! Thank you, Nyet!
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Great breakfast this morning. Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. Oops, it’s afternoon now. 🙂
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Happy New Year Nyet! 🍾
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Thank you for the daily sweets and drinks Nyet! Happy New Year🎉
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No toast, no doughnuts…
But we’ll always have bacon!
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Nye!!!!! Happy New Year to you and yours!!!!!!! Evening Everyone!!!!!!
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Happy New Year Nyet, thanks. Here is wishing you and your family blessing and success in this year of 2017.
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…and on that note, I am going to the kitchen to make lunch as my husband is already mixing Mimosas (looks like we haven’t finished all the champagne last night)…
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😦 I did. It’s all gone.
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Now it is! Those mimosas hit the spot…
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Happy New Year, Stellars! I had a beer last night, and not 12.
Cuttin’ down. Lot’s of D.T.s. Not really all that fun. All my bedclothes are in the washer/dryer. Lots of sweating, tossing, turning. Shaking, moaning. When you get out of bed 15 times in 12 hours to drink water and stretch various insane leg cramps, it’s not a fun night. Hey, at least there’s no bugs and such that I’ve heard about.
I pretty much read the whole internet yesterday. Went to bed at 8PM. Got up (for real) at 9AM.
Then read the whole internet again.
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Praying for you every night.
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Prayers for you Wooly. Please be careful, what your doing is usually monitored by a health professional. The body and mind do strange things during the detoxing process. I hope you have someone near by on speed dial. 🙏🏼 🙏🏼🙏🏼 🙏🏼
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I’m making an appointment tomorrow with my doc regarding “something for that”, and assorted dietary advice.
“Meetings”?
This is as close as I’m likely to get to those.
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I’m not one to push meetings, I’m under the belief that they work for some people but are as big a danger psychologically as they are a benefit in keeping some people dry. I know people who have had success with the program and people who drank themselves to death in spite of the program.
Meetings are a place for people to find a new community away from their drinking “family” the danger in there lies often the lunatics are running the asylum. AA Meetings could be in the psych dictionary next to peer sabotage. Too many people feeding the “I was one month sober so I went out and got drunk to celebrate!” You can substitute one month with any milestone.
12 steps and the 13th used to be “And he died sober” now being thirteenth stepped is finding to put it in AA terms a F* Buddy. That means a fellow sober friend willing to be a sex partner with no strings attached.
My final time I sen someone to a meeting was when a young girl with a lot of baggage other than her sobriety came to me crying. She told her story no small feat in a room of strangers and she was subjected to 45 minutes of “Super happy sober people” talking about how they just knew that god had their picture on his refrigerator because he just loved them so much 🙄.
Then of course there is the sticky situation of AA encouraging people to consider “Fred the pencil” their greater power.
That said, I do encourage a circle of sober friends or people or activities that will occupy your time and mind.
The magic is between your ears, your heart and soul and your desire to to stop slowing killing the body God gave you.
You can think or over think your way into anything, matters like this require prayer and a whole lot of physical and emotional work on your side, God doesn’t deny any man his free will so remind Him that you need His grace to get yours back and do the painful scary legwork to match the grace.
You can do it.
I just lost a young kid back to Satan’s lake, 24 year old young man who decided the bottle was more appealing than his child, his girl, his job and his freedom. He had a choice, you have a choice, you are more powerful through Christ than any bottle.
Prayers for you sweet Wooly 🙏🏼. Rethink, relearn, re-love yourself.
And as I mentioned to you a while back, the world is not yours to fix, Christ came and we killed him, in his humanity even He accepted His limits. We do what we can one good deed at a time the rest will have to wait until the days of Glory regardless of how sickening it is and how hard we want to change the world.
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You’re lovely.
A few people around me push meetings. There’s two in town. One A.A., which I’ve studied, long ago, as in depth as I’ve studied other branches of religion, like JW’s and Joe Smith’s folks. Which is quite deep. I don’t dig The Book.
The other a sales subsidiary of Zondervan Corp. and the Christian Music Industry.
Yeah, I’m good.
Already got one. KJV, m’fers. One in each hand. I hold them sideways, and smile disarmingly. With my pants up, and belt buckled. I like to be different.
At 46, pushing 50, I’m not really into meetings, either. Been there, many times, many hospitals. But not for more than 25 years.
Later in life, since I like to read the whole library, and then the whole internet, I learned (from IBD or WSJ, probably) that “meetings” should never involve more than three people, lest they devolve into absolute chaos, and nothing’s resolved. I had already learned this, of course — not just from psych wards, but from many useless 20+ person business meetings too — but this was the first time it was explained to me succinctly.
But it’s true.
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You may always
meet us here. 😉
We do enjoy
your company.
Happy New Year!
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You have to do what works for you.
Part of the myth of AA’s “phenomenal” success is that those who work it stay sober. Well, those who work anything generally succeed, they don’t talk about all the people who come and go and fail. I watched a man work the program and he was sober something like 20 years, a very sweet guy he had a daughter who was in and out of the program and died from alcoholism at the age of 27, her teeth were nubs because of all the sugar in alcohol, she was pretty enough to have been a model if her path was a different one, but the program didn’t work for her or as AA would say “she didn’t work the program.”
OK good and grand, but why didn’t she work the program? Life is and troubles and neurotransmitter misfirings and corruptions are deeper the any one answer. One size will never fit all.
If you’ve read a lot about Bill W and Bob S you know their demons didn’t go away, particularly Bill W struggled.
I do think that being with other people who have walked in your shoes is important. No one understands the power of what’s inside the bottle as someone else who has been trapped by it.
All that said many people get sober and stay sober, it is a physical disease, some people are heavy drinkers their whole life and never become alcoholics some folks are hooked from the first drink.
As Impeach says, you can meet us here 🙂 but ya’ need to have someone on the ground with you for some moments.
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I’ll just read some Francis Schaeffer, or some Clive S. Lewis.
In a pinch, I’ll come read comments here.
Actually, I meant that the other way around.
Happy new year, Stellars!
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Best of luck (and a prayer or two). Quitting something you don’t really want to quit is hard, especially when you take the side effects into account. That’s how I felt when I quit smoking. I loved smoking, and was a 3+ pack a day chain smoker. But I did it. It was the most difficult thing I ever did, but filled me with a big sense of accomplishment.
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No luck. I like blessings — those are real.
And, no sweat.
Heh.
Love you folks.
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I found that stopping a habit is more of a mental game played by ones self once the physical withdrawals subside. Just reducing consumption did nothing but drag the process out longer than it needed to be. Even after more than a year, I would have cravings if I mistakenly associate the former habit with a pleasant memory. Doing anything that had formerly been followed with the habit took several times before the association was broken. Going to the store daily and bringing bags home caused a strong desire to smoke that took a few weeks to break the association.
Funny enough, since I stopped drinking a couple of months before stopping smoking, I expect that if/when I ever have an adult beverage again like scotch or wine, I will be hit with the desire to smoke since I have never broken the association.
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Agree about the reduction of consumption – at least with smoking, it makes it more difficult to accept the inevitable – life without cigarettes. Also agree about associations. It took me more than a year to pass the point where I still was open to smoking.
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I also found that the anxiety was less if I still had cigarettes on hand. If I smoked all my cigarettes, I found myself not ready to quit on that exact one and would end up buying another pack. The Mrs. played that little game with herself for years. She would get angry if I bought her a carton, but would demand only one pack since she was trying to quit. She smoked about two and a half packs a day so I would hide the others until she said I needed to go to the store for her. 🙂
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When I got serious (my sister had just died of emphysema 3 days earlier), I called my daughter at home and told her to destroy the cigarettes I had on hand. I never smoked another cigarette again.
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And no, the 40-year old Bunny™ don’t trigger me. Nor the Jack.
I’m sure they’re all quite tasty.
Nor any other pictures of liquor. I’m no snowflake. I don’t get “triggered”.
I never went to University, though. I wasn’t taught to be.
It’s all about choices.
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OH Wooly!!! I know too much about how that goes, so you are in my prayers. It changed the lives of two members of my family, well, it probably saved their lives. You will find the way that is right for you, I just know it. Please be careful. Happy 2017.
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Slow and steady, Wooley, just keep busy.
Prayers for you of strength and perseverance, always.
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Will pray for you, Wooly. I didn’t know you were going through this (no idea why I didn’t–missed a lot, I guess) but now that I know, you’ll have prayers from here, for sure.
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As long as you’ve seen me here, Mary. Been a struggle.
I’ll be painting tomorrow. My cut-ins might look like seismographs.
Trim work in a couple of days, high-gloss. I may have to tape.
I hate tape, and shouldn’t need it. Hopefully in a couple of weeks I won’t.
Love your humor, Mary, always. When you greet me, go ahead and ask me, “What’s shakin’?”
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I will try to remember. Will there be a stock reply, or shall we graph it downwards? 🙂
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I discovered these guys almost a year ago. Great performers.
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God bless you, Wooly. I’ll say a prayer for you too.
I hear a long walk is good for that.
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Touchdown Dallas Cowboys!!! Tony Romo’s first TD this season! Woot! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
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One take?
Good grief.
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Nobody could do that.
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https://twitter.com/FinancialPlayer/status/815643093856763904
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Happy New Year Stella 🎉🎉🎉
Best wishes to all for a healthy and happy 2017!
xo
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Happy New Year, Patriot!
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Happy New Year 🙂
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😄🎉
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Happy New Year to all!!! Best wishes for love and happiness all year.
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Happy New Year, tessa 🙂
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Hey Mary: http://www.foodbeast.com/news/7-pumpkin-flavored-liquors-to-get-you-cantevenwasted/
Having spent far too much time working the tiers in jails I can guarantee you that there are precious few fruits/vegetables prisoners can’t or won’t ferment into something.
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Ha! I figured somebody would know…
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Part of my survivalist skills.
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I just had Macadamia nut liquer and adult egg nog.. Now that was a treat… Now I am just sipping the liqueur… oh, it is smooth and sweet,,, this may be a new thing at my house.
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Yeah, older I get the more I drink in private drinks I wouldn’t order in a bar. Sometimes you just want to drink dessert.
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I actually had this instead of grabbing a couple cookies. I even thought about drinking desert. Too funny. It just seemed appropriate after dining on roast duck…
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See, there I go,,, it was a roast goose.. dagnabbit.
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A goose is basically a duck with a longer neck, a swan is a goose with a longer neck…and an attitude.
I love goose but it’s a pain to cook for what meat you get off of it. And the Canadians (geese, not tourists) in the lake give me dirty looks.
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Accompanying drink should compliment the food, not compete. If it tasted good, viola, winnnnnnerrrrrrrr.
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Yes,,, and the funny thing is, I thought the goose had a slight nutty flavor, not gamey, so the liqueur was a wonderful follow up. 🙂
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Geese (and other ‘game’) get that gamey taste from scavenged dtuff they pick up eating at nature’s buffet. If you cook wild geese up andbout of its fat it’s less slidey and less gamey tasting.
Commercial geese are fed something like Purina goose chow, they get a commercial diet that gives them the more bland taste of commercial fowl. Still get greasy though, I know more than one person who’s cooked one stuffed and flat in a pan…gotta slimy surprise.
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This was a commercial goose. Definitely. I like the meaty flavor, different from anything I have had, and not gamey, to my way of thinking. Never had a wild goose, or duck.. Dh has treated me to wild rabbit and squirrel. Not often, thankfully.
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So, roast goose is awesome…. Messy, but delish!!! The sad thing is that it is just too expensive. I doubt we will ever do another one.
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But, you got to experience this one.
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DH said, he really said that he didn’t want to die without having at least one roast goose. I can see an epitaph cooked his goose, well, hopefully a long time from now.
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I have a rack that fits in the turkey roaster that lets me cook the goose out of its own fat. I also stuff the body cavity with apples and baste with unfiltered apple juice. Note: red delicious is NOT an apple – it looks like one but I have no idea what it really is.
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Agree about red delicii. Why eat them? They no way live up to their name, IMO. Perhaps it was different long ago…?
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It was. 😉
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They were. 😉
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It’s all advertising…I use Fuji or another I know to be sweet. I’m known to the produce manager at Wally World to open a bag of apples to sniff them…no scent, no buy. I find usually the smaller cheaper apples that are bagged are justvas good as cooking apples as their larger more expensive selves.
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I bought one of those racks for Thanksgiving. It worked just right for the goose…. I didn’t bother stuffing it though… It was really good. We have enough leftover for dinner. I said that if I can ever catch it on sale we would have another one.
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I’m really glad it turned out well!
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TY, as Dh said,,, about the same as a nice dinner out. 🙂 I was honestly surprised… pleasantly surprised..
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Look on Craigslist for a farmer selling one dressed, seasonally they are a niche bird and expensive. Note: be careful of what section on Craiglist you consider buying a goose from.
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My local Lowes foods has a meat sale now and then. That might help. Not too sure about local farms around here.
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Sometimes your local store can special order but don’t expect it to be cheap. When we go into NOLA there’s a big bix Asian store thst dies its own ducks and, for the money, I find that superior to geese.
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BTW bit of a celebration next door,,, blog of the year! Happy for him..
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“Bit” is a bit of an understatement. I got so caught up in the excitement I offered to buy a lamp for WeeWeed.
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A 21st century Lamp Unto My Feet.
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Well, it’s a step up from this one:
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Glad to see Hillary found a job.
Alternate was: Depends on witch light you’re talking about.
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I avoided saying the light had a nice sheen to it.
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Keep that one away from water.
I mean, even more than a normal lamp.
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🙂 It was so nice…
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https://directorblue.blogspot.com/2017/01/here-they-are-2016-fabulous-50-blog.html#more
Oh, that’s awesome! I said “Conservative Trumphouse”, tongue-in-cheek and sarcastic, last year, before I found THIS Refuge. I was already decided, and that place was getting too crazy for me. I’m glad he kept it up, though. I’m absolutely sure SD had an influence in this election. Certainly more influence than Clinton’s and Podesta’s e-mails, which almost NOBODY EVER SAW.
Love it.
And I hope Doug Ross gets his sites in the Left’s crosshairs, too.
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February 2012, Trayvon Martin is shot dead by ruthless killer G-Rog Zimmdogg.
My intro to CTH.
The first example of real gumshoe reporting I had witnessed in my entire life.
Then Jessica Chambers and the ruthless MS “law”.
Then Mike Brown and his rightful killer.
Then Eric Garner, and how he died of his own volition.
REMEMBER, THIS IS ALL FAKE NEWS.
heh.
CTH Deserves this award, and has for 4 years.
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Get a look at some of these pics from the drunken celebration in England. Why is it that women who shouldn’t be wearing short skirts are the ones who always wear them? Some of these skirts look more like handkerchiefs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4079616/Some-people-won-t-having-happy-new-year-Carnage-streets-Britain-revellers-2017-boozy-night-no-one-s-wrapping-warm.html
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Blame the Russians. 😉
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It’s not just New Years. When I lived in the U.K. it was every Fri-Sat night! Lots of young Brits get a few down while preparing to go out., because the price of drinks in a club isn’t affordable for a lot of young people. They get wasted. It seems to be a British thing, because lots of European vacation spots always complain about the rowdy drunken Brits.
I used to marvel at the girls in very short skirts, very high heels, and no pantyhose out roaming the streets drunk. They also wore no sweater or jacket, and it would be freezing!
The guys would have more clothes on, but would get into drunken brawls with their best friends.
My hubby and I were members of “The Conservative Club” I used to marvel at the elderly turning up the drinks after a Sunday afternoon bowls game on the lawn. I had never seen older folk drink before in my life!
It all opened my eyes to a new way of life that I never knew existed, lol.
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Then you’ve never been tomeither thr Polish Club in Jewett City or the Polish Legion of American Vet’s club in Lake Worth. Then again after 60 or so you’re generally a cheap drunk. 🍺🍺🍺😝😝🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃😵😵😵😵😵
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Remember. George Michael’s controversial I Want your Sex video and Madonna’s unbelievably grotesque Like a Prayer video, which Christians worldwide beheaded people for, or not — actually not.
That was 30 years ago. I won’t link the videos, but they were evil even then.
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