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Happy Halloween!
Enjoy a a fun slightly spooky day! (My son says “not too pooky, just a lil pooky”)
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Happy Halloween, Gil!
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Happy Halloween!
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I’ll look for the headless horseman……………
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Here He be, Col Ken… 😉
https://www.americangreetings.com/ecards/view/rd56a28a1f4414ffa8cb2d8108e5dbcd5?source=ag999&utm_medium=internal_email&utm_source=pickup&utm_campaign=receiver
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Happy Halloween Gil!
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My son loves it! 🤣
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😊
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Charlie Brown is now a grown up zombie and is looking for Lucy to exact his REVENGE for the football snatching……he has a baseball bat…..Snoopy turned into a zombie rottweiler with red eyes that glow in the dark, has sharp fang teeth, and doesn’t fly a biplane anymore since he got the stinger missiles…
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
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It really is a choice, isn’t it Lovely? Thank you for posting this!
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Oh Poo. Sorry Lucille! Fingers ahead of brain….again.
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LOL! Typing is like muscle memory…occasionally it gets flubbed.
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It is, indeed. Attitudes are about choice. Beliefs are about choice. Someone or the True Someone shows us or provides us the way, allowing good choices to be possible.
Recently I made note of a quote by author Dave Barry: “Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.”
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Morning Lucille! Have a wonderful day!
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Thanks, sand! You, too!
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Thank you Lucille…..
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You’re most welcome, Colonel! Have a good one!
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Happy Halloween Lucille 🙂 .
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Thanks, lovely! A happy day to you, too. Love the photo!
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Thanks it’s one of my own I took at a pumpkin patch in WI.
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Worthy of framing, lovely.
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Aww… thanks Lucille 🙂 .
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Creative Halloween Costumes for Pets
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Morning WeeWeed! Happy Halloween!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed!!!!!! That’s the Alien mode…..
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What does your dog know???!!!
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😀
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Good one, WeeWeed! Happy day to you!
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Afternoon Lucy!
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😊
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that actually made me ITCH all over……lol
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Hallowe’en photo, redux:
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Morning Mary! Happy Halloween!
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Afternoon, s and s !
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Mary!!!!! What I’m supposed too do????????
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Invite the kitty home for a bowl of milk, maybe? She looks like a little sweetie, behind that lost expression.
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Happy Halloween Mary 🙂 .
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And to you, lovely!
Have bowl of candy, am ready for trick-or-treaters.
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Went to Halloween contest night Saturday at the karaoke bar at which I’ve been a regular for about 5 years.
My personal challenge was to not be recognized, so I wore a full-head wolfman mask, flannel shirt, dockers, really old hiking boots, didn’t wear my usual jewelry or the cell phone on a belt holster, even wore different cologne. Plus, I walked bent kneed and slightly stooped forward to reduce my height, with a rolling gait, and elbows wide.
One guy recognized me. Former Navy, he used to train SEALs. He knew my body type and how I move.
One woman deduced it was me, since she knew I would be there and no one would know it was me. I was the only unknown character there, so it had to be me. Sharp girl. 🙂
All this as background for the fact that I really creeped out some of my female friends merely by invading their body space without touching them.
“Who ARE you???”, they’d ask.
“WOLF!!”, I’d answer in a deep gruff voice.
“Go away! I don’t know you!”
But when I revealed myself, they’d be like, “Oh, it’s YOU!!” and give me a big, long hug of relief, like I’d just rescued them from some horrible monster.
BTW, I sang CCRs, “Bad Moon Rising”, in a gruff, choppy, broken English voice, and the wireless mike let me move among the crowd, and it came off as Wolfman as a crazed “the end is near” street preacher (seriously, read the lyrics), getting in people’s faces with dire predictions and wild gestulations. The crowd loved it, and the Karaoke Jockey later told me he had never laughed so hard.
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as an adult, I am convinced that growing up is a great waste and we should all remember how to play with each other without being mean or bullies…..but not if you live in Hollywood….that is perpetual idiocy, not childhood.
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There was a passage in The Chronicles of Narnia that bemoaned that the worst children were the most childish, and the worst adults were the most adult. Or something like that.
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 (Tom Collins)
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 (Black & Tan)
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 (Boilermaker)
Mornin’ czarina33! (aka czarina) 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 (Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 (Irish Car Bomb)
Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 (Godfather)
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 (Mortlach)
Mornin’ Wooly Covfefe! (aka “Wooly Phlox” aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 (Roy Rogers)
Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂 (Classic Daiquiri)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 (Gin & Tonic)
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 (Blackberry wine)
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 (Backdraft)
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
Mornin’ Ms.Tee! 🙂 🍸 (Mojito)
Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 🍸 🍸 (Cuba Libre)
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 (Flaming Dr. Pepper)
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 (Stinger)
Mornin’ Les! 🙂 (Rusty Nail)
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 (Jack Daniels)
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 (Whiskey Smash)
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 (B52)
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 (Rum & Coke)
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 (Night Train Express)
Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂 (Albanian Raki Moskat)
Mornin’ Rhea Salacia Volans! 🙂 (Hot Buttered Rum)
Mornin’ joshua! 🙂 (Mudslide)
Mornin’ John Denney! 🙂 (RumChata)
Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂 (Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 (Smoking Bishop)
Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂 (Red Russian)
Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
Mornin’ Gary! 🙂 (Yuengling)
Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
Mornin’ davidhuntpe! 🙂 (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ skipper1961! 🙂 (Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂 (Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Doughnuts and coffee!
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Thanks Nyet! Breakfast couldn’t be better! Good Morning Everyone!
‘Simple,’ Tummeler replied. ‘Blueberries is one of the great forces o’good in the world.’
‘How do you figure that?’ said Charles. ‘Well,’ said Tummeler, ‘have you ever seen a troll, or a Wendigo, or,’ he shuddered, ‘a Shadow-Born ever eating a blueberry pie?’
‘No,’ Charles admitted. ‘There y’go,’ said Tummeler. ‘It’s cause they can’t stand the goodness in it.’
‘Can’t argue with you there,’ said Charles. ‘Foods is good and evil, just like people, or badgers, or even scowlers.’
‘Evil food?’ said Charles. ‘Parsnips,’ said Tummeler, ‘Them’s as evil as they come.’
~James A. Owen
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Love it! Col. Ken would approve. He loves his blueberries. Good morning, Lburg! Happy Halloween!
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Good Morning S&S. Happy Halloween Backatcha!
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Yes I do SAS!!!!!
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Afternoon Col Ken! It’s good to see you! Happy Halloween!
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I’m eating a blueberry muffin as we speak. Blueberries from the bushes in our backyard. Of course, bacon on the side would make b’fast better, but Czar isn’t up yet, & I don’t cook except a few specialties.
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Good one. And we all think of the Colonel.
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Thank you Menagerie…..
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What alternative universe is that? Blueberries (and fruit in general) are OK for making sorbet, but breakfast they are evil and can only be counteracted by the pure goodness of BACON.
Also evil: Gooey, disgusting, cinnamon buns the size of Princess Leia’s hairbraids. You know, the kind that auscitizenmom uses to try to corrupt us.
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Wrap dat cinnabon in bacon….mediation in tasty action.
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Nah ZM, old friend. At long last we disagree on something. Blueberries are good 24 hours a day. For breakfast they are great in oatmeal, muffins, waffles (my favorite), and blueberry overnight French toast casserole, to name a few. Not to mention my all time standby breakfast, blueberry smoothies. The berries disguise the greens and stuff!
I cannot be 100%bacon. Gotta have the berries too.
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microwave bacon only requires some paper towels and a plate…about 6 to seven minutes on high…no mess, no COOKING required….but blueberry muffins….that takes a car ride to the groc bakery deli first….
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Looks. So. Good!!!!! Morning Nyet! Happy Halloween!
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BREAKFAST! Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Nye!!!!!! Just. A glass of water, please, thank you……..
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Thinking of you, Colone – it’s good to stay hydrated…..
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Mornin’!
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Good morning Nyet 🙂 .
Happy Halloween !
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OMG!! Is that pumpkin and pecan? I bet that would be most excellent. I have a pumpkin bread with cream cheese topping I haven’t made yet this year. It’s so good!
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It is, it is just a stock photo, but a local family sells the exact pie at our farmers market and it is delicious 🙂 .
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I am pretty much certain that two slices of that you make you regular for sure…..jes sayin’
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Another one I love is sour cream apple (with a streusel topping).
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Oh wow!!!! That looks incredible! Afternoon Stella! Happy Halloween!
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Afternoon SAS!
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We used to have a producing apple tree on the property and several years I had to bake and bake and bake to keep up with the fruit the tree gifted us with. I found a caramel streusel topping. It was awesome, and I don’t know what I did with the recipe. There were similar ones, but this one was head and shoulders above the rest. I need to try and find it.
I should bake apple pies still, but I love that cake recipe I have so much that I always want to spend my apple calories allowed on it in the fall! Maybe I should go back to the diet I had when I was pregnant the first time. I craved strawberries. I ate nothing all day, had a reasonable supper and then this monster strawberry shortcake for dessert. Now I could do that with apple desserts. Or blueberry pie.
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Punkin pie topped with pecans????
Where has this been all my life??? It will now become a staple.
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I am the only person in my family who likes pumpkin so I don’t make too many pumpkin treats. I do love it though.
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I hadn’t heard of it until this summer at our farmers market, I was like “Wait, what is that!!!??” Yummo! The guy whole sells it is probably in his 30’s it is his grandma’s recipe and he always brings his little daughter with him and she is learning how to make change without a machine telling he the answer to 2 + 2.
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Breakfast with Stella and all the Stellars is always fun. Do you have a pumpkin spice latte on the menu? Love one of those.
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Top photo: Fail. No bacon, and sausages are practically out of the picture. What’s with the blueberries and fruit? Yech. Lose the parsley garnish. Where’s the bacon?
Middle photo: Oh, THERE’S the bacon. Much better.
Lower photo: Pass on the carbo stuff; pass on the cappucciono (foam gets caught in my moustache).
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Morning ZM……… good too see you……
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Hi, Colonel! How are you? Hope all is well after recent events.
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Long road ahead, thank you for your prayers……
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Prayers, coffee, bacon, bourbon. Repeat.
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Happy Halloween Mike 🙂 .
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Thank you! You, too!
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Hey, if you’re every searching your family tree I found one of your ancestors!
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And a rasher comparison could not be made. Yeah, I’ve used it before but I like it.
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Isn’t that Sir Francis himself?
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I was thinking the Duke of Pork.
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OMG this is so funny! Thanks for posting.
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Explanation: carbs fuel the metabolism to digest the processed bacon faster, thereby clearing the internal bacon processing mechanism for intake of even MORE bacon while caffeine speeds the process even more.
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Can you factor in bourbon to that equation, please?
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Yes, bourbon is what Captain Kirk meant when he said “Warp speed Mr. Sulu.”
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bourbon was what caused Captain Kirk to slur, “Wha arp de speeds, Missur Slullooo?”
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Pffft, the lubricant that heighten’s senses and cleans the palate for the further uninterrupted taste of more bacon. Alcohol cuts the fat.
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Not to mention the complimentary tastes of nectar aged in charred hardwood barrels and succulent pork belly smoked over hardwood fires.
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See! I told you when Czar got to the kitchen good things would happen (with bacon).
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He’s a deep font of wisdom, knowledge, and experience, that one. Razor sharp wit, too.
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I find that grease clogs my carbs up and makes the engine lean out on sharp curbs.
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Mornin’ kids!
https://twitter.com/WeeWeedTX/status/925311966083678208
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So true. Mornin’ Weeweed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Good Morning Wee! Thanks for the laugh!
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Mornin’ Lburg!
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Aaaaaarrrggghhhh!
Morning WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ S&S!
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Really funny. 😀
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Mornin’ Mom!
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Very true, I’d be happy if we never heard the name Hillary again unless it was a report she was being led away in shackles.
Mornin’ Wee!
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed!!!!!!!!! I have a few days off, while the Dr’s do an azimuth check, make some adjustments………
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Mornin’ Colonel Sir!
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Yay for getting a break!
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Happy Halloween WeeWeed 🙂 .
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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She’s waiting for her cash payout, WeeWeed.
The best Halloween treat? No more Hillary tricks.
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https://twitter.com/deborahjuanita4/status/925127616285364225
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Why yes, I frequently do! Good morning.
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Good morning San&Sea 🙂 . Happy Halloween!
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Best Costume Winner…hands down!
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ROFL!!!!! That’s perfect! Afternoon lovely!
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Seen on Facebook (my friend, Tom Gelsthorpe, who writes for the Cape Cod Times):
Why opposing “cultural appropriation” will never work.
This is one of my favorite statues, “Appeal to the Great Spirit,” that stands in front of the main entrance to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The sculptor grew up in Utah (one of the 28 states with Native American names) knew and liked many indigenous peoples. He created the sculpture in Paris, using an Italian model, cast the statue in the lost wax process recovered from classical Mediterranean civilizations, and had it brought to Boston by steamship.
The MFA entrance is Neo-classic, a marvelous imitation of Ancient Greek architecture that has been copied all over the world for 2500 years.
Should the statue be taken down because the model is inauthentic? Or because Native Americans didn’t use bronze? Because Native Americans “appropriated” feral horses that had escaped from Spanish explorers? Because steamships burned coal in the 1910s, or damage the marine environment?
Should Greek architecture be discontinued because Greeks were pagans, held slaves, started wars, or collapsed into regionalism and corruption?
Of course not. Culture IS appropriation. Culture blends the best of the best, whatever the source — to benefit everyone.
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Exactly. So what that we appropriate anything. Man learns, grows, moves on, takes what he finds worthy or useful with him.
I get frustrated with the atheists and pagans who constantly bitch about Christianity using ancient traditions or holidays. First, in many cases they are wrong, and would prove it so if they researched any actual scholarly sources and not snopes, and second, a big fat so what to the times it did use something old. Your point is what?
Saint Patrick reportedly appropriated a shamrock to describe the Trinity. Perfect way to make something incomprehensible within our grasp. I wonder if the clover are bitter about it. They might have had druid ties.
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Every holiday like today is approriated. Youre right everything is. You could throw it right back at the people saying that and tell them to start dressing in only their COO clothing, eating that food, etc. And they just get mad. They arent interested or maybe capable of the truth.
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Very good short answer. But I dont think a lot of people who damage the statues even care they are just mob mayhem mentality. The very least this can reach some that are not totally lost
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I think his comments are more about the fallacy of cultural appropriation, rather than the statue.
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The lost wax casting process is still used today in making jewelry and teeth! When I was a dental technician, I actually made a gold crown for President Jimmy Carter! He had the most amazing teeth for a man of his age.
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You miss the point, the Native Americans have, over centuries of European sociocultural oppression, lost the ability to see who and where they should be. It’s up to the descendants of those same European oppressors to put them back on their true path.
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Cultural progression for everyone except those native cultures the progs think should go backwards.
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Americans are nothing if not eclectic.
Like the Apostle Paul said in 1st Thessalonians 5:21, “Test all things; hold fast that which is good.”
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AT LAST
My favorite Day of the Year…..Halloween….
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Reminds me, we’re just 5-1/2 months from April 15th.
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I just took my required minimum distribution from my 401K (first time), so I will actually have taxable income this year.
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Thank you, Mr. Buzzkill.
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We’re too close to filing quarterly as it is, but anything I can do to help keep the party high going….
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The Manafort Indictment: Not Much There, and a Boon for Trump
Andrew C. McCarthy
Do not be fooled by the “Conspiracy against the United States” heading on Count One (page 23 of the indictment). This case has nothing to do with what Democrats and the media call “the attack on our democracy” (i.e., the Kremlin’s meddling in the 2016 election, supposedly in “collusion” with the Trump campaign). Essentially, Manafort and his associate, Richard W. Gates, are charged with (a) conspiring to conceal from the U.S. government about $75 million they made as unregistered foreign agents for Ukraine, years before the 2016 election (mainly, from 2006 through 2014), and (b) a money-laundering conspiracy.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/453244/manafort-indictment-no-signs-trump-russia-collusion
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Just finished reading the article before I came here. Agree with him whole heartedly. The conspiracy against the United States charge is bogus. It is a simple fraud and tax evasion case.
Clinton judge is presiding at the moment.
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Judge Robinson will manage the preliminary phase but then it will be handed over to Obama appointee Judge Berman Jackson. Jackson earlier this year dismissed the lawsuit filed against Hillary by relatives of the Benghazi victims and has represented good old ‘Dollar Bill’ Jefferson in his Federal corruption trial. It gives me the creeps.
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The creeps is the proper thing to get from these shenanigans.
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I love this young man!
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Pathetic.
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She should go as a bitter, pathological, shrew … oh, wait….
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OMG, what a stupid answer. She really needs to move on. To the insane asylum. Or prison.
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There’s a third alternative involving a dirt nap.
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He’s always got great comebacks!
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I know he has mastered his father’s comedic genius!
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‘Bout as close as she’ll get. If I were a kid in the neighborhood she was canvassing I’d sure watch my candy bag.
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Morning all. Internet, TV, phone, power just recently came back. Lost it just after late Sun pm- early Mon am post. Really tired – apparently there was this loud train driving around the house all Sun pm keeping me awake all night! It also must have hit one of the oak trees remaining because an oak fell!!!
Ya – after spending a small fortune having 200 trees cut. I’m really glad we did tho. I was feeling bad about cutting trees, and spending the money, but we had about 8-10, 80 foot pines (with shallow roots) 30-50 feet from the house, along with all the 50-60 foot oaks. I know the closest pine would have fallen as it was already pushed a little crooked in the spring Nor’ Easter. DH was not happy about the money we spent on propane & generator installation, but then I reminded him of losing a refrigerator of food, cold nights, and no hot coffee or hotel rooms in 2 states! This is what happened to a bright yellow and green sunflower balloon we had outside – the colors came off! I don’t know if it was the wind, or because it was dragged along the ground.
(hmmmm imgur said it was saved in a small, edited size, but it shows large. I hope it’s small. Please forgive & delete if it is large Stella).
Great postings everyone! Nice pictures, videos etc. (sorry if I missed anything. I’m exhausted.)
Here is today’s painting. I really like this one. Not only do I think it is nice, but it fascinates me that it really only has about 4 colors – white, gray, brown, blue. If I just told you it had a grayish sky, gray rocks, a woman in a gray dress on a gray and white horse, you’d expect a big blob of gray!
Winslow Homer’s Woman on Horseback from the White Mountain School of Painting (one of my favorite styles 😉 ).
Off to clean up some of the mess outside. DH is disabling all the driveway solar lights to discourage the trick or treaters that trudge all the way up here (really only a couple of older ones bother). Have a safe and great day everyone 🙂
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AAAACK!
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Sorry. Sometimes I really think it’s the comcast connection. The TV is flaky still as well.
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fify.
Deleted the characters after .jpg.
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G&C, love the paintings you post!
Stella just nailed it on the head. Look at the link, when you paste it. It should end in a picture file extension, which is always three letters preceded by a DOT: JPG, GIF, PDF, and a few others. If there are ANY CHARACTERS after the “.jpg”, delete them all. Those are just formatting options that WordPress does not recognize for commenters.
It’s hard to explain these things, for me. It’s so easy. For me. I’ve been Ctrl-C, V, and Xing since MSDOS 6.2. Heck, since 8″ floppys and CP/M.
Short: if what you paste doesn’t end with jpg, gif, or a three-letter file extension and nothing else, it won’t work.
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“Short: if what you paste doesn’t end with jpg, gif, or a three-letter file extension and nothing else, it won’t work.” Thank you ! Now I know better. Great group of people here to help out the ‘slower learners’ :-} Much appreciated.
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Thank You 🙂 Now I know, and thank you for putting in the pics. 🙂
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I’m happy you cut the trees down before the storm! Beautiful painting.
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Me too! I still have my house in one piece! 🙂
Yes – the painting reminds me of younger days horseback riding – my very favorite thing to do!
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Sigh…yep, gonna get that whole-house generator and another propane tank too before next hurricane season. May be months before the grid’s back up, urban areas get all the attention first, but even after Katrina the propane deliveries were back up just three days later.
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This month in symbolism:
https://vigilantcitizen.com/pics-of-the-month/symbolic-pics-month-1117/
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is free on Kindle today. Good read on All Hallow’s Eve.
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Another good Halloween offering.
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HORRORS! UNsweet TEA!
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‘REAL WORLD NEWS’: RUSH: Trump Is NOT Getting Nearly The Credit He Deserves For US Economy
Daily Rushbo
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Soooo adorable! ❤️
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That is so great. 🙂
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He truly has the best costume! 😊
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I was going to post this as my favorite Halloween costume, but that is just the best evah! God Bless him, and all who helped him make this 🙂
Back to work. What fun posts today!
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Soooo cute!
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That is so neat!
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A Facebook friend who hates Trump posted this morning that we have a timeline of Trump’s Russian collusion, but he didn’t post a link.
I found this:
http://billmoyers.com/story/trump-russia-timeline/
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Post this thread on his FB 😎.
https://twitter.com/Imperator_Rex3/status/925226544393371649
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Thank you, lovely.
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You’re welcome. The internet does have some perks 🙂 .
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Happy Halloween folks! See you later 🙂 .
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Love Lucky Ferals…the first kitty you see is Simba, then Boo the almost totally black cat, then Stella–Momma cat–and also Splash under the chair who is always scared of quick moves and anything out of the ordinary…
Happy Meowloween From The Lucky Ferals! Cats In Halloween Hats 2017
Lucky Ferals
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Oh my, a possible terrorist attack in NYC…
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Fox has report the guns the suspect carried were toys, not real firearms, and have witnesses saying he yelled ‘Allah Akbar’ as he exited the truck. Waiting to see if/how apologists spin this.
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“The driver has been identified by ABC News as Sayfullo Saipov, 29, from Tampa.”
http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/7-dead-after-truck-plows-into-people-in-new-york-city-in-possible-terror-attack
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THE NEXUS REPORT: MURDER IN MANHATTAN
BillWhittleChannel
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Woolly, I just finished the Hyperion books you recommended. Took me months, because they are so dense in ideas, not to mention have small print, but I enjoyed them! Thank you.
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Thank you, Stella. Technical acoustic guitar is amazing. Very mathematical, precise, and, in some cases, soulful as it gets. This style (technical) is soulful because it IS math. It’s what prog rock was (Rush, REO Speedwagon, all of that) was about. Crazy mathematical detail.
Look up anything on Candyrat Records YouTube channel.
It’s pretty much all superb. Beyond superb. Stupendous talents.
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Did I ever tell you that my ex husband was a luthier? He died a few years ago, but I was able to get one of his guitars for my grandchildren, and his sister gave them another one, so each boy has one now.
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This is one of his guitars being played:
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lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
And, Lord, we pray for all the people who have been affected by the earthquakes and hurricanes.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
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Amen
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Amen.
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Amen.
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https://www.americangreetings.com/ecards/view/r9eafc12301bc4064b9afde00b461f50c?source=ag999&utm_medium=internal_email&utm_source=pickup&utm_campaign=receiver
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One more from this guy.
There is not enough life for all music. Rachmaninoff said that, I think.
I bet even Steve Vai said, “Wow.”
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One more?
Oh goodness, this guy is the next Bobby. Such talent.
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Okay, it’s Halloween. I lied. This guy is Bruce Lee on guitar. And on stage. Amazing stuff.
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TV’s just breaking the story that New Orleans has reached its 500th shooting this year…on October 19th…no explanation as to why it took to today to mention it. Reporters were wringing their hands over the increased GUN VIOLENCE. No mention of the demographics perpetrating so much of the GUN VIOLENCE nor how much of this GUN VIOLENCE is related to the ethnic drug trade in the city. News used to report that but for some strange reason they no longer do.
Local crime ‘experts’ were on giving demographically sterilized explanations of why the GUN VIOLENCE is so high, the main reason tiptoeing around the easy access to guns…though most of the guns used are illegally obtained. But wait! The way to prevent these innocent victims from being seduced into the cult of GUN VIOLENCE is to reduce honest people’s access to weapons so that these susceptible to potential criminal activities won’t be enticed into stealing them. It’s those honest peoples’ ownership of physical goods in excess of their basic needs that fuel the deprived to be depraved, they are driven by the need to have those goods too. So, progressive citizen, turn in those guns so the deprived won’t feel the need to have them and, while you’re at it, that big screen TV, that jewelry, that car and any spare cash you may have lying about.
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