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General Discussion, Friday, December 22, 2017
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I’m going to sleep with a smile on my face tonight! I love you all!
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Love you, too, Jacqueline! Happy Friday!
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“I’m going to sleep with a smile on my face tonight! I love you all!” ~ We love you too. What a great blessing to go to sleep with a smile, knowing you are loved.
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❤️
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Hi Lovely. How do you put those tiny images in? Are they just tiny 20×20 pixel images you put in through an image posting site like imgur?
I am not signed in to imgur or wordpress, so maybe it restricts what is available for me to do.
Thanks.
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Hi G-d&Country, the heart is an emoji from Apple, there is a choice to insert them when I hit the edit bar at the top of my page. Adrem told me about it 🙂 . I don’t know how to insert an emoji with other computers other than the smiley face and frowny face : ….. ) but no dots makes the 🙂 and : …… ( no dots makes the frown 😦 .
Sorry I’m not more helpful!
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Thanks! I do not have an apple, but I’ll have to try that!
Experimenting…
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Hmm did you put a space between : and ) ? You have to do it with no space 🙂 .
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But, the HAS to be a space before and after.
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🙂 there
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Have a beautiful and blessed Friday, Lucille!
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Thanks, sand! You, too!
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Morning Lucille, Thank you as always for you lovely quotes. I don’t know how you find so many good ones!
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Morning, G & C! Finding items to post is a fun thing to do. Glad you enjoy them.
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Good morning Lucille 🙂 . Have a beautiful day 🙂 !
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Thanks, lovely! It’s been a great one so far. The pretty white stuff decided to arrive after all and it is so pretty.
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Inspiration
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Ran across this today in the YouTube sidebar when watching another vid….
Doris Day singing “The Way We Were” (with a who’s who showing of actor photos–they were all men she’d co-starred with)
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Wow so many memories….Seems that Christmas brings that out in us…
This is my youngest childhood movie memory and it is a movie with Doris Day.
The song still gets stuck in my head often.
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Great song!!!! 😊
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I remember when, as a small child, I wished Doris Day was my mother… sigh…
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Apropos of fun, and goodness, one of the greatest rap songs ever produced, from that incredibly short period of time when popular rappers just bragged about how adept at rhyming they were, and cautionary-tale-telling. This song is just pure fun, and quite well-engineered. Ahead of its time.
This is what I listened to when I was a 13-year old kid.
Best at high volume with lots of bass. For 1984 this was a genius production.
Wiggy wiggy wiggy! (shut up!) Know the whole thing. Every rhyme, every arpeggio, beat, and melody. I learned to rock like a Dolomite!
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But did you have those moves? Inquiring minds want to know! Morning Wooly!
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I definitely did not have those moves! I was more into the audio aspect of the genre.
Morning, Sand! Morning, Stellars!
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😉👍🏻
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Morning Wooly 🙂
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There’s better dancers since 1984, in that underground vein.
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That’s actually unedited, and live recorded. SMH.
👀wow.
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sorta reminds me of when I stopped drinking alcohol on Dec 13, 1984…..
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You ended up spinning on your head, and doing the Hookworm and the Robot, to fresh beats? With parachute pants?
😜
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That’s so Bright and Happy! 🙂
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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!
Apple Coffee Cake with Crumble Topping and Brown Sugar Glaze!
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Happy Friday, Nyet! Thank you for breakfast!
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Yes. I will have that breakfast. 🙂 Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Morning auscitizenmom!
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Good morning Aus!
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Morning Nyet. I’ll just indulge in some of that never-ending pile of bacon, along with my coffee. Thanks! 🙂
Believe it or not the GI doc put me on a restrictive diet a few days ago – ya right! – I’m giving everything up 7 days before Christmas – NOT! I’ll start January 3rd.
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Works out ! That’s “12 days of Christmas” food, then you can start the diet on the 3rd.
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hahaha! I didn’t even realize that! Thanks! Now I feel so much better having a classic excuse 😉
Have a great day to you and Czar 🙂
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After we all eat the “12 days of Christmas” food we will ALL need to be on a diet. 🙄
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🙂 TRUE!
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Good morning Nyet 🙂 .
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Afternoon lovely! Did you get all the shopping done?
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No. Believe it or not I have Shingles 😩. I knew I was lagging and had a sharp pain in my rib cage and a rash, but who has time for that 🙄? So I go to urgent care and find out I have Shingles. My doctor is on maternity leave, so an idiot doctor told me he was giving me something for the pain, I pick up my prescription drive down to Milwaukee to pick up kiddo, get home open prescription and find out he just gave me something for the virus that is really basically just crap. I’m going back this morning to raise a little hell and get something for the pain. Did I mention I woke up at 4Am feeling like someone was sticking a needle in my side.
Doctors with God complexes need to be flogged.
Rant over 🙂 !
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Lovely, I had shingles about three years ago, it was terrible. I am so sorry!
Here is what may or may not have worked for me. I don’t know if this is coincidence or not. I had it for quite some time, a pretty bad case of it. Then someone whose opinion I value told me that she had suffered terribly with it, and nothing was helping. Her mother went online and researched home remedies. She insisted that her daughter should immediately begin taking massive amounts of vitamin C. This woman, desperate, tried it and the next day was almost completed rash free.
The same thing happened for me. Maybe it just went away. I don’t know. Tundra PA says there is a limit to how much vitamin C your body absorbs hourly. All I know is that I had had the pain and rash for over two weeks and the day after it was almost completely gone, what was left was dried up and itched very little.
I will never know, but if I ever get it again I am trying the vitamin C again.
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Thanks so much Menagerie ! I am headed back to urgent care they open at 8 (Central time here) I will then stop at one of the 24 hour places and get vitamin C. How much did you take?
The good doc was quite an butt head. I’ve had it about a week without knowing what it was, found out yesterday, woke up this morning around 4 feeling like someone was sticking hot needles in my ribs.
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I was convinced hat I had kidney stones or something terrible.
Here is an article. Take as much as you can tolerate. I took 6-8 pills every hour all day.
https://www.peakenergy.com/articles/nh20131003/Reverse-shingles-with-vitamin-C/
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Thanks I’ve been researching. Off to read your article!
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Thanks for the article. I wish my doc wasn’t on leave I would get the Vitamin C IV. I’m hoping regular stores have the liposome-encapsulated C I’m thinking Whole Foods or Good Harvest will have them if the regular drugstores don’t. Thanks again for the information, have a beautiful day, I’m sure it will be a bust one!
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I just found the article. When I had shingles I took the drugstore brand. Take whatever you can get!
BTW, he has several other good articles on Vitamin C.
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Oh my goodness!!! I’m so sorry, lovely. That is just wretched. Praying you get through it quickly.
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A perfect breakfast for a cold morning heading toward a 29 degree high. Ride safely!
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Goooood Morning Nyet and Happy Friday. Thanks for breakfast and ….. dessert! Good Morning STelllars!
“If that’s the case, waiter, please bring me another piece of cake,” Gramps said as lunch was brought to the table, “I’m all for fighting tyranny and oppression.” ~E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
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Morning Lburg!!! Okay… I need the scoop. The 4-1-1. Oven in? Cookies baked? You posted this morning, so apparently no snafus with the propane, I pray.
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Ah, Good Morning S&S! Thanks for asking.
Yes, the oven is in and no, we were not blown to smithereens! Everything went according to plan with the small exception that the ‘certifying team’ didn’t show until around 4:30. Not a problem except that it put a crimp (ha!) in my baking-all-afternoon plan.
I baked some 10 grain bread last night – it was lovely and go figure – it cooked for just the amount of time called for in the recipe… Woot!
Hope your day is a wonderful one!
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Hopefully you’ll be able to catch up on the baking project now! 😊
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Another great quote – I really like this one 🙂 I never knew there were so many literary references to food – but it really does make sense!
I’m guessing you had a problem with propane -Thank God you’re OK!
Here in NH you can build your own house yourself, but the one thing you can NOT do is your own propane. Interesting that all of the workers for propane have grey hair – no younguns working those jobs!
When living in Mass. we purchased a gas stove and micro from Home Depot and the “installers” got into a yelling argument in our kitchen as to who could read English better to understand the instructions. The microwave broke in 2 days, and needless to say we had that stove inspected twice before using.
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G&C, I am continually amazed at Lburg’s literary food quotes. One would think the well would run dry, but nope. Most of the best books have great discussions about the joy of food, no matter what the books are actually about. Lately, as I have been reading Lewis’ Narnia books, and Lburg’s daily quotes, I notice that fact more and more. The chapter “A day with the Beavers” is a wonderful food chapter, in The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe. There is a chapter called “Turkish Delight” in the prequel, that is amazingly well-written, as well. Makes you salivate just reading it!
Someone once described Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings saga as “the eatingest book ever written.”
I disagree, because Robin Hobb’s Soldier Son Trilogy took that title away from Tolkein. Some serious eating going on in this series. The main protagonist goes from soldier to morbidly obese, and back again, and the food discussions are endless and exquisitely written.
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Interesting! You have some great reading going on there! Good for you! I am a firm believer in carefully choosing what we fill our minds with.
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Literature choices and everything else…all stored away in our wonderful brains to be trotted out at inconvenient times to haunt us or happy times to bring us further joy. What a magnificent God-given instrument. Pray God it is used wisely.
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😯
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si…..la Cucarachas been munching on de gas lines….siesta time coming now…..oh noes…
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Mornin’ y’all!
https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/943890254808969217
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Bwahahaha!!!!! That’s hysterical! Morning WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ S&S!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Morning Miss Wee,
You know, until your ex has re-married and you really don’t care to hear or see her new last name, you didn’t really realize how many times the name Phillips comes up!
Sheesh. Cuts down on ones buying power to say the least.
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Lol!! Mornin’ Derk!
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Hi Wee! At leas they were civilized enough to use Phillips head instead of slots!
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you coulda been really torxed….
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Good one! 😉
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Mornin’ Lburg!
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Good morning Wee 🙂 ! Probably banking on the thought that 85% of millennials don’t even know what a Phillips head screw driver is.
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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My four year old grandson has his first toolbox with real tools. He has been known to inspect screws and shout out “Its a philips head!”
Apparently this is greatly exciting to a four year old boy. 😀
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HAHAHAHA! HILARIOUS!
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Life through a child’s eyes.
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nor a wheelbarrow…..complex machines……..
“where do you plug in the battery charger and can it make a selfie picture?”
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Mornin WeeWeed 🙂 That’s a good one! Showed it to Dear Hubby – the engineer. He got a laugh out of it!
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Mornin’ G&C!
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That is insanely funny, Weed.
Star Wars is just looking for sharks to jump, at this point.
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Mornin’ Wooly!
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What is this Stars Wars 8 at this point? As bad as the Rocky series!
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I hope not! We’re going to see it this afternoon.
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John Nolte’s movie review, posted on Facebook:
Saw STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI — MY REVIEW — SOME SPOILERS…
Last hour is spectacular… Opening battle scene is great. Middle stuff with Luke, Rey, Finn, Poe is pretty weak. The mutiny is absurd. All Laura Dern had to do was explain. Terrible storytelling.
Carrie Fisher looks awful, and her acting is wooden. Every word looks like a struggle. Painful to watch. She was so good in the original trilogy. I know that we are supposed to ooh and ahh in reverence, but that just is not the truth. You can watch NETWORK and DARK KNIGHT knowing an actor died soon after without a problem. Fisher is just bad here. And I take no pleasure in saying so.
Mark Hamill is the best he has been yet. But they are expanding the rules of the Force to a point where there are no rules, where they serve the plot. That undermines the stakes because the magic has no borders, no weaknesses. It’s a cheat.
Kylo Ren is great, very conflicted and complicated character. Top-notch villain.
Rey and Finn are empty characters, children playing grown ups. I worry about the series once the adults, the grown-ups Han, Luke, and Leia are gone.
Poe could be a great character because he’s played by a great actor, but there is nothing to him but brashness. The original trilogy of Luke, Leia, and Solo were unforgettably interesting characters with sharp edges, a legitimate emotional life, and actual character growth.
Rey and Finn both are in desperate need of FLAWS. Poe needs a flaw outside of EAGER. Han Solo’s sexism and mercenary impulses are why he’s an icon. PRINCESS Leia was much more interesting than GENERAL Leia because she didn’t act like a princess.
Rey’s journey of self-exploration makes me want to slap her self-involved face. Young Luke’s search for glory, to get in the fight, and him being kind of stupid about it was way more interesting.
Still, that last hour made up for a lot.
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Thanks. I had told my friend that I would not go to see this movie. But, this changes my mind a little. I had to laugh, though, about the battle scenes because they are always, always, way, way, way, too long for me. I loved the first movie because of Hans Solo, a real guy, with real flaws. He was charming and funny. But, a real man. And, all the characters were well developed.
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I’m getting good feedback about the new movie about Winston Churchill, Darkest Hour.
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I’ve heard some very positive things, too.
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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/darkest-hour-gary-oldman-joe-wright-apply-churchill-todays-politics-205344341.html
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Stella, just wanted to say thank you, on another note, great header photo of the light house……..
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Thank you, Col. Ken! I hope you are feeling a bit better.
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Weren’t those screws invented by the Tribe Phillips that lived in the sand dunes over on the far side of the planet? You know, the same tribe that created eye makeup, messy hairdos and manicures.
G’day, WeeWeed!
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Afternoon Luce!
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Evening Ms.WeeWeed!!!!!!!! Only you would mess with the Force!!!!!!!!!!!
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Evenin’ Colonel Sir!! How are you doing?
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A Phillips screwdriver – vodka and milk of magnesia…(best served Luke warm).
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If I needed to throw up, that would certainly do it. 😯
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Good morning all. I know this isn’t a food thread, but it’s bacon, and don’t we do that on the daily discussion?
I was shopping at Publix yesterday and they always have fresh cooked food samples and recipe cards. This woman I had never met has a mouthful, and is wildly flagging me down. I thought she needed water or something. Turns out she loved the food and was recruiting people to try it, all on her own.
So, this is the recipe. Clean and scrape carrots, wrap them in bacon, drizzle them in real maple syrup, sprinkle with salt, and cook on a foil lined pan sprayed with Pam. Let me tell you, I danged near joined the woman flagging people down. It was that good. So, I added two bags of carrots and two packs of a thin cut bacon to the buggy, and one more dish for Christmas, even though I don’t know how we are transporting it all to my son’s house.
And carrots have always been one of the meh vegetables for me.
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Sounds fantastic and so simple, too!
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There’s always room for Bacon! (*) Sounds really yummy!
(*) much better than jello.
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Sounds good! Carrots are so naturally sweet that they pair well with salty. Sliced very thin and cooked in butter is another delicious dish.
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Have always liked raw but not cooked carrots. Never thought of the butter/salt/bacon angle! Thanks! Syrup too!
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I don’t particularly like raw carrots – or cooked carrots most of the time. I give Tucker raw carrots as a treat, and he loves them.
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My little doggie WILL NOT eat raw carrots. She used to be at least willing to take it out of my hand, but now she won’t even do that. Cooked carrots are something else. She loves them.
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Maybe they are too hard for her to chew now, or a tooth bothers her.
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That could be. She had already lost a few teeth by the time I got her when she was 4. And, she had an abscessed tooth, which we had to pull. Then last year the vet and I decided it was finally time to pull a several more. So, she is missing a lot of teeth. But, she has always sniffed the carrot and turned her nose up at it, so I really don’t know. She doesn’t hesitate to take a small piece of bacon or a bacon treat that is tough.
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Lucky, the counter surfing dog, got an uncooked sweet potato the other day. Found it later on the floor with tooth marks, but apparently he would not successfully consume it. Last week, Grandma dumped the unwanted rice from her dinner on the floor, and he ate all of that!
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I accidently dropped an asparagus spear on the floor. Isla (the Border Collie) licked all the butter off and left the spear! She really doesn’t like veggies, except for potato chips. Finicky hound!
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Oh! Oh! Who is the counter surfing dog? I especially am fond of large dogs, and Spinones!
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Lucky Dog, who Czar found as a black puppy in a paper box in the road, is Labrador sized, with a heavy, Rottweiler sized head & a never-ending appetite.
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🙂 God bless you for taking in a little lost angel! He sounds so cute even with his eating & size!
We rescued one of our doggies that we found tied to a gas station pump. Another was a fluffy small ball of fur that weighed as much as lead! He was a great dane- belgian shepard mix over 6 feet tall. Doggies are such a gift from God.
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My sister found a young dog tied up outside a quick shop store. She asked whose it was, and was told they didn’t know, but they had been giving it food and water that day. As they started to leave the parking space my sister was looking back at the dog and her husband told her to get out and get it. So, it was very lucky that they took him. He had seizures most of his life that just got worse and worse. She had worked in a vet’s office for 15 years so had some knowledge of what to do and her husband is a very caring gentle person with animals. He lived about 12 years, I believe. He lived a very good life.
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LOL
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There is no reply button to the comment above about your sister & her husband saving that dog, but I just wanted to say how wonderful that was of them to do. I’m guessing they received 12 years of love in return. 🙂
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Yes. They did. 🙂
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what oven temperature? and how long?
sounds great.
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http://www.publix.com/aprons-recipes/maple-bacon-wrapped-carrots
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Good story with a recipe…who cares if it’s not a food thread!
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Morning all! 🙂
I have 2 images for today. The 1st I included because it struck me as showing how alone in this world Joseph & Mary were, (but God was with them). I apologize because I have not been able to find who the artist is. The second image is also of their journey by donkey, & is from “The Nativity Story”, a movie by New Line Cinema – Temple Hill Production. I saw this movie about 4-5 years ago, and recently bought the DVD because DH & I liked it so much. Among many things I remember was how rich and elaborate King Herod was, and how simple and humble Mary and Joseph were. However Herod quickly went murderously insane trying to hold onto power, and Mary and Joseph partook of the greatest power of all, and eventually after a life of love and fidelity, surrounded by loved ones, went to Heaven.
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Beautiful! Morning G & C!
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Morning SandandSea 🙂 Glad you like them! I am making painting/image exceptions for Christmas.
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Wow!!!! Artistic talent is such a gift.
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The 1st image is a painting. The second image is actually a still image photo/copy of the film, and not a painting. Even though the 1st painting is relatively simple, it evokes great emotion, which I agree shows great talent.
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I don’t have an artistic bone in my body, but I love it.
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Good morning G-d&Country 🙂 !
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Good Morning to you Lovely – hope you are having a good one 🙂
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Morning Stella. 🙂
What a beautiful picture of the lighthouse today – and all of the lighthouse pictures and music! I truly appreciate this setting/atmosphere for Christmas you have made for us – Thank You!
The lighthouses remind me of how every year we leave a single lit candlestick in the window on Christmas eve for Mary and Joseph to invite them into, and know there is room for them, in our home.
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That’s a lovely analogy. Thank you for that!
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Young Iranians are going to rise up.
Barack Obama can no longer help the Mullahs stay in power. The pallets of money are already in personal bank accounts of the PTB in Iran bit not in Iranian banks.
Iran detains 230 young boys and girls for drinking, dancing at parties
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/iran-detains-230-young-boys-and-girls-for-drinking-dancing-at-parties/story-L0QxvoL2nIwLcOdDwppgiN.html
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I admit I had read about, but not studied, the last uprising in Iran that Obama did NOT support, but I was almost in tears when I heard it failed, and how many people we killed for desiring freedom. (I wonder if over the course of history these situations are set-ups to find the people out and then kill them.) It just breaks my heart.
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maybe we could get them to come help with Middle School student discipline.
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Good Morning to any Stellars I missed! I really like that name – Stellars – like we are all twinkling, bright stars 🙂
(I’m sure most of you already know, but Star in Italian is Stella)
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My last dog’s name was Stella D’oro – gold star!
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And my cat’s name is Luna – moon. She came with that name from the shelter.
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🙂 Those are great names! Italian is a beautiful language.
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So yesterday we had comments starting with one from Mark Steyn about IQ, inbreeding, and how mental illness is the new cover story for islamic violence – then these 2 reports appear:
http://www.dcclothesline.com/2017/12/22/mental-health-issues-muslim-who-rammed-18-people-with-car-has-no-link-to-terror/
“Mental Health Issues”: Muslim Who Rammed 18 People With Car Has ‘No Link to Terror’
Posted on December 22, 2017 by Paul Joseph Watson
The new convenient excuse that allows us all to ignore reality. Ramming a vehicle into 19 people is a totally normal response to being a drug user and being a bit sad, especially if you’re from Afghanistan. Anyone who questions this explanation is an Islamophobic bigot. More recently, numerous potential acts of terrorism committed by Muslims have been quickly dismissed by officials asserting the perpetrators were simply lashing out as a result of mental illness or drug use. It’s far easier to just label every attack the work of a deranged individual, rather than having to face up to the far more serious problem that first world nations are importing a belief system that is quite brazen in promoting the use of violence as a means of accomplishing political and cultural power.
and:
http://www.dcclothesline.com/2017/12/22/minneapolis-woman-stabbed-14-times-by-muslim-migrant-local-media-ignore-attack/#more-79530
Minneapolis: Woman Stabbed 14 times By Muslim Migrant – Local Media Ignore Attack
Posted on December 22, 2017 by Pamela Geller
This attack has not been covered at all by the Minneapolis newspapers, and other coverage of it doesn’t mention the identity of the attacker. This report doesn’t either in the print version.
Only in the video do we learn that the attacker was a “Somali man.” … some people in Minneapolis might start to get the idea that inundating the area with Muslim migrants wasn’t such a good idea.
This slanted coverage of the most important story of our time is unacceptable, and it leads to attacks like this from Muslim migrants who are emboldened, knowing that no serious effort will be made to stop them, and victims who are careless because they don’t realize there is a threat. This has to stop. Two comments from that site -1.Even if they catch him he will be diagnosed with a mental disorder.2.Islam IS a mental disorder.
I am so glad this problem, and the “mental illness” cover-up is being exposed. It is years past time.
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Minneapolis…the same city that’s going to let the Muslim Somali cop off for murdering the Australian woman after she reported what she thought was a crime happening in the alley behind her home. According to her father, they aren’t giving out any information to the family or appear to be going forward with an investigation. Guess the powers that be are phobic about being called Islamophobic and to the detriment of justice.
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What’s it gonna take…….vigilantism?
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I remember reading about that. It is a complete travesty of justice. It makes NO sense at all. I am hoping as time goes on, and Pres Trump’s ratings go up, the new, clean DOJ will look into unbelievable situations like this.
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reminder of why I am still a Christmas loving Christian singing simple Holy Music.
takes all kinds to make a world, however.
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Has anyone listened to the 1st hour of Jeff Kuhner on WRKO radio? Very interesting. I listen to him as much as I can M-F noon-3pm. Next week he is on vacation. I wonder if Mark Steyn will fill in here, or on tv, or Hannity’s radio program?
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“COUNSELOR – CHRISTMAS JOY” by Mel Lawrenz
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
— Isaiah 9:6
“What is the baby’s name?” The people in Bethlehem who heard about a baby being born in a stable must have stopped by to talk to Mary or Joseph. And the new parents voiced the name they had not chosen for their son: Jesus. But hundreds of years earlier, other names had already been announced for the Anointed One. Among them, Isaiah spoke of one who would be called Wonderful Counselor.
What was a “counselor” in biblical times? It was one of the roles of a king or other high official, and their task was to be wise and judicious in the face of the most difficult questions, the most complicated negotiations, and the most intractable problems. The counsel of the king was supreme, but it was not infallible. We all know there is good counsel and there is poor counsel.
The one born of a virgin would be called Wonderful Counselor. Now that is something different. The Hebrew word for wonderful means something out of the ordinary, clearly different, beyond human explanation.
It is the knowledge described in Psalm 139:1-6: “O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord. You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.”
When we contemplate the Nativity of Jesus, we cannot help but be full of wonder. This is how God came to us, and it is wonderful because Jesus gives us an unclouded vision of what our lives are supposed to be—good counsel. He instructed us with words of wisdom. He exemplified for us what it looks like to lead a life devoted to the Father.
Mel Lawrenz is minister-at-large for Elmbrook Church, Brookfield, Wisconsin and the author of 18 books.
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Thank you for this thoughtful post. It is something in all my reading I had not heard described in this way.
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This is a happy story from Hungary and Poland with a season appropriate theme of family.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/12/22/hungary-grow-population-without-mass-migration-eu-not-family-friendly/
Hungary: We Will Make Our Country Family Friendly So Population Can Grow Without Mass Migration
The Hungarian government has pledged measures to support naturally growing the population — rejecting mass migration — as an effort to halt the demographic decline after Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared 2018 to be a “year of families”. “Brussels does not really have a family-friendly policy,” The Hungarian provisions, will “support childbearing in a working society”, built on three pillars: to reduce the cost of living, to ensure that Hungarians are not excluded from having families because of their economic situation, and to raise, in value, the public perception of child-rearing. Delegates also pledged to stand by traditional values by vowing “to protect life, marriages based on the relationship between man and woman, [and] the family on which the whole of society is based because it is the basis for a sustainable future”.
In a similar drive to grow the population without importing migrants from the Middle East and Africa, Poland’s government released a light-hearted, educational video in November encouraging Poles to ‘breed like rabbits’.
However, migrants have cost Germany billions with reports showing most are unemployable and uneducated, taking more from the welfare state than they put in. What Germany has received in payment for her open borders policy is a rise in crime, rape, and acts of terror – facts which have not escaped Visegrád politicians who have vowed to not allow the “bloody harvest” of multiculturalism to come to their countries by rejecting the Brussels edict to accept migrants.
my comment – The above pic is from a tweet in the story. Part of the NWO, progs plan is to make it so awful that good people do not want to bring children into an awful world, therefore they have less opposition.
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Cool map.
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I get more’n y’all. Jus’ sayin’. I’m speshul. Hey! Z and Mrs. Z do, too! Where’s he been, Mrs. Z??
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Just watched an ANTIQUES ROADSHOW UK episode held at avery beautiful estate, Bowood House in the U.K. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowood_House
There’s a museum containing Napoleon artifacts, among which is a bronze copy of his plaster death mask. He was teribly ill the last months of his life, some believe today from stomach cancer.
A frontal view of another mask copy–not sure who owns this one.
Such a complicated, supremely self-centered man. The terror and horror he inflicted upon the world is obvious, yet we can see his humanness easier than we can that of other dictators. Wonder why that is.
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Here is a very odd Napolean story. When my oldest son was about to make his First Communion, the seniors in the parish each picked a child to write a letter to, heopefully telling a story or experience or something that would help the child understand the gravity, the joy, the reverence due the Sacrament. It was also hoped that it would encourage the children to receive the Sacrament frequently and worthily.
My son got a letter from a man who told the story of Napolean’s First Communion. I have never researched it, but apparently Napolean wrote about it to someone. The letter directly quotes him as he tells what a special, wonderful day it was, what it meant to him, and that it was the happiest day of his life.
It was a very moving letter. I still have it somewhere.
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I read somewhere years ago that Napoleon returned to his faith during the last months of his life. Wouldn’t that be wonderful if true!
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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.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
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Amen
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The days are getting longer.
I like to point that on the 22nd of December.
Used to drive my dear hubby crazy. He did not see the joy and the anticipation of the thing. By the end of May, I could say, “See? Toldja……………..”
Sometimes he thought I was cute and amusing. Other times not so much.
My grandson was here this week with his family, including a 2 1/2 year old and a 5 1/2 year old. About wore me to a frazzle, they did. In fact, I believe they did. But we had lots of stories about Grandpa and Grandson got to start picking out some significant tools (along with the help and supervision of his local uncle here) from Grandpa’s stash, to become his property now. It was nicely done all around and well done. I’m grateful to have some of those processes under way.
That distribution of “important stuff” needs to have a flow to it: if it’s done too suddenly or out of place, the results can be hard to live with. I’m blessed with sons who are willing to discuss it, and are not weird bout what to do – just wanting to work it out together so that those who receive Grandpa’s tools are those who have tghe capability to use them and the responsibility to care for them.
It was a good visit but I may never recover. Makes me wish I was a drinker.
Menagerie, have one for me, please. Then give me a couple of days………………
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Done. I can relate. I have had Conner a lot lately. Keeping him for a few hours will make you want about a quart of Jack.
He’s actually almost always a good boy for me, but his battery never runs down and mine goes very quickly.
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When my best friend had her grandsons over, it would take her two days to recover after. And, they were both really good boys.
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I usually have a nap after he leaves, no matter how much work I have to do. If I had to keep that kid full time, and survived, which I wouldn’t, I’d lose the weight I need gone fast.
But I seriously think I couldn’t last a week. He never ever stops.
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A few years ago a reporter recorded himself following his grandson around for a day. It was hilarious. I don’t think he made it the whole day. Wish I could find that.
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I just finished watching A Christmas Carol on Amazon Prime. It was a 2016 film. It is a musical and I almost turned it off. But, I actually enjoyed it, so if you are interested in something new and unusual, you might want to give this a try.
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