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Good morning Lucille 🙂 ! I wish we were there it looks so peaceful, I can smell the salty air, feel the breeze and hear the surf!
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Good morning, lovely! Yes, it would be wonderful to be there seeing such clear water and smelling the sea and air.
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Morning lovely!
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Afternoon Sand 🙂 !
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Yes, peaceful……..
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Morning Col. Ken!
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oooo Tuesday you are lookin’ fine…Morning Lucille :0)
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Morning litenmaus!
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Mornin’ Sand, :0)
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Afternoon, litenmaus! You probably already know these. It’d take a LOT of practice for me to get even one right…LOL!
7 Essential Knots You Need To Know
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LOL…I grew up wearing cowboy boots Lucille and I still have issues tying shoe laces, let alone some of these.
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Funny how things connect up…your mentioning cowboy boots and tying knots made me think of the TV comic George Gobel and his routine, “I’m an old mink poke, and it ain’t no joke. A-poking minks is a job that stinks.” LOL! Yeah, OK, so I’m weird.
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I used to love watching George Gobel Lucille. I thought both he and Buddy Hackett were a hoot. :0)
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Lonesome George and Alice.
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Sooooo beautiful! Morning Lucille! Happy Tuesday!
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G’day to you, sand!
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Abandoned Tracks at Sunset…
Bluebonnets and Cactus
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Love them both, but especially those bluebonnets!
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Western Michigan Travel: “Roads to Romance” 1949 Chevrolet Division General Motors
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The first car I can remember ever riding in as a child was a 1950 Lincoln Continental. It was probably about 11 year old, I was 3! That car was big! My mom drove it like a champI I think it was one of the first made with electric windows, and I thought it was luxury! How I wish it was still here. They don’t make them like that now.
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I don’t remember what kind of car we had, but I remember when we were in Cuba, I was sitting on my dad’s lap steering the car at five years old.
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Morning auscitizenmom!
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Morning Jacqueline!
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Good Afternoon, Ya’ll! Had to go run a few errands, getting ready to go to the beach! I haven’t been out of the county in over a year, so going to Florida will be a big adventure! I got a big ‘ole floppy straw hat for $3 and a big can of sunscreen so I reckon I’m ready!
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How fun!!! I miss the beach so much!
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Cannot remember what our first car was but I can remember sittin in it – the back seat was like a cave.
We had the 4-door model with the couch-soft seats, the huge cloth pockets on the back of the one-piece front seats and the rope grab-handle that ran across the top of the front seats so you could haul yourself out.
In 1955 my father got orders transferring us to Florida and he sold the tank for a brand new, spiffy Nash Rambler! WOOF! AND IT HAD AN ELECTRIC CLOCK IN THE DASHBOARD!!!!!
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We had a Nash Rambler, too. In, Florida.
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They were great beach cars.
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I learned to drive in one of those huge Lincoln Continentals. I also backed into a limousine while trying to back it out of an icy snow covered parking spot. << That is quite a story that I'm too tired to type out at the moment.
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If you want to keep your neighbor’s money you can keep your neighbor’s money.”
The Democrat midterm slogan.
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Now that’s good…….
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Sad but true Col. !
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In the footsteps of Timothy Treadwell.
A girl and her “best friend.”
SMH
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Shall I say idiot????????????
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Uh………yeah. SMH
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Ya beat me to it. Good Morning Colonel. :0)
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Common Core prodigy.
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I am wondering if it’s not her proud liberal daddy behind the camera.
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Morning Menagerie!
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Hey sand!
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I was thinking that the Aggie scarf probably looks like dental floss to the big guy. I hope it is an equally dull friend who took the picture but given she has been “befriending” him for months I’m afraid that her parents are probably keenly aware of her little buddy. SMH.
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That place is around Beaumont, not far from where I grew up, and most of my family are Aggies. But that’s just crazy right there!!!!! There were some news stories saying that the horrible flooding from the hurricanes last year caused some of those gators to get out. 😳
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I was waiting for someone to mention she was wearing a Texas A&M sash. “Y’all remember, ya don’t plant them chickens head down!”.
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😉 Morning czar!
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My husband was a librarian at Texas A&M. We used to go every Friday night to live concerts somewhere on campus if I remember right? It was on a lake and we would bring our three girls, it was a lot of fun and we’d often meet up with my friends.
The gator in the picture was relocated to some type of sanctuary situation, because he kept going around people and some people actually thought a gator who had no fear of people should be taken away, (imagine rational thinking!) anyhow the gal said at first he was a bit stand offish but now they’re best friends 🙄.
Good grief.
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My cousin was a librarian at A & M! My parents and some cousins still live
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Live in College Station. Small world!
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And…. my sister and cousin attended A & M in the mid-90’s. Would that have been around the time your husband worked there?
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Had to do the math 🙃. Early 2000’s.
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Math is not my friend. 😉
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He’s looking at that hand and thinking what a tasty morsel it’d be.
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But he’s her best friend!!
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Mornin’ 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)
(Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
(Smoking Bishop)
(Red Russian)
(Yuengling)
(Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
(Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
(Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ czarina33! (aka czarina) 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
Mornin’ Wooly Covfefe! (aka “Wooly Phlox” aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂
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 🙂
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂
Mornin’ Les! 🙂
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂
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) 🙂
Mornin’ rheavolans! (aka “Rhea Salacia Volans”) 🙂
Mornin’ joshua! 🙂
Mornin’ John Denney! 🙂
Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂
Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂
Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
Mornin’ Gary! 🙂
Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
Mornin’ davidhuntpe! 🙂
Mornin’ skipper1961! 🙂
Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂
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!
Cinnamon rolls for coffee!
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Nye!!!!!!! Thank you, thank you………I have too eat fast, only hour left, then I’m shut off. Doctors are working in the esophagus late this afternoon and tomorrow morning…..
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I’ll say a little prayer. 🙂
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I’ll have that plate of eggs, bacon, and biscuit. 🙂 Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Good morning, Nyet! I’ll take the roll, put some mustard with horseradish and Romaine lettuce on it, throw in the bacon…FEAST! Gwennie the Guinea pig has been sending me texts all morning re Romaine; so put extra leafs on my plate.
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Ya know, in my distracted state what I saw was that rodent picyure juxtaposed with your discussion on mustard, horseradfish, et cetera…
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LOL…Peruvian Delicacy..I had the same thought czar.
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Yup, they almost ‘et ’em into extinction in Panama.
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Have ya ever noticed, we really like to eat the cute ones?
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I never get that personal with my lunch.
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Oooo…that little face looking up at you while you get out the cleaver WILL HAUNT YOU.
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I’d cleanem south to north.
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Excellent breakfast, Nyet! Thank you!
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Good afternoon Nyet 🙂 !
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Stella, love the railroad picture……..have two places around my AO, take you out on the bridge, stop, so passengers can enjoy the view…….
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Why is the engine backwards?
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I don’t know for sure, but I suspect that the end of the line there is a turntable that can turn the engine, but not the cars, and the engine pushes the train.
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This is a comment I saw on Trip Advisor, although it does answer the question exactly:
There is no turntable so the locomotive engine faces the cars one direction and runs engine forward on the other leg.
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The things I never knew that I didn’t even know that I didn’t know!
Afternoon Stella 🙂 .
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Afternoon lovely.
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About halfway through this video it explains. The valley is too narrow to turn around. The engine pulls the train up the mountain, and pushes it down the mountain.
PS: I have not been on this railroad. I have seen it in person and photographed it, but that day we arrived a little too late to catch the last train!
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Driver’s a Texas A&M engineering grad?
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Love the old railroads! Good morning Ken.
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I just saw on FOX and FRIENDS that Amtrak is no longer going to help deliver toys for Toys for Tots like they have done for 20 years. They are looking for new ways to get them delivered. Evidently this is in the North.
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“Consistent with Amtrak’s mandate to provide efficient, safe, and effective intercity passenger rail transportation, Amtrak has established a new policy for the operation of charter trains. Amtrak’s objective is to operate its core, scheduled train service safety, on time, and efficiently, and must therefore decline to operate this charter. Amtrak will continue to proudly support the Toys for Tots program through the collection of toys at participating stations.”
https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Amtrak-pulls-out-of-Toys-for-Tots-effort-13129363.php
I can’t help but feel there is some political motive here. I’ll keep digging.
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That’s what I thought, too. There have been some changes in management, I understand.
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He noted that Toys for Tots serves children in “outskirts” who have little access to toy stores, and said he has “no idea” how it will make up for Amtrak’s departure.
“We’re gonna make it happen in one way, shape or form,” he said. “It’s just gonna be a little more creative, I guess.”
Toys for Tots serves more than 700 communities in all 50 states and Puerto Rico and has sent more than 530 million donated toys to over 244 million children, according to its website.
Roman said Amtrak’s support in recent years made a “huge difference,” making it easier to deliver huge holiday hauls. In the Capital Region alone, he said, Amtrak trains helped deliver up to 25,000 toys every year, as well as thousands of coats, blankets, mittens and stocking stuffers.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/toys-for-tots-tries-to-figure-out-how-to-make-deliveries-after-amtrak-withdraws/
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Sad.
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Morning Stella!
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Morning S&S!
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/08/ptsd_relief_without_drugs.html
Encouraging info about successful PTSD treatment–without meds!
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This looks very encouraging.
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Morning Valerie!
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Mornin’ S & S…
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Afternoon Valerie 🙂 ! Thanks for posting this, I’ll read it later tonight!
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Blessings, Lovely…hope things are well with you & your family…
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Thanks Valerie, I spoke with my cousin yesterday, he is as well as can be expected, still sliding, crawling downhill.
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Does he know the Lord & at least have access to Peace for his soul?
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/08/abdul_elsayed_and_the_redgreen_axis.html
A sharia promoting Muslim-Brotherhood affiliated candidate in Michigan–concerning…
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I am joining President Trump in supporting John James for US Senate from Michigan (not that my endorsement means squat, unlike our great President). I’ve sent his campaign several small donations. Anyone have any ground reports on him?
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Actually my husband & oldest son went to the gun range a couple of days ago, Downriver from Detroit & ran into a rally for him. Apparently it was attended mostly by white people (he’s black & I’d asked about the racial mix of the crowd). There was a large enough crowd that they didn’t want to go through it twice to get more ammo for more shooting time. Also he’d endorsed by Right to Life!
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That’s good news, Valerie, thanks. I’m praying he wins, today and in November.
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Amen!
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I took my grandson on a train ride last week. Rode the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad through the Nantahala Gorge. We both loved it, and the scenery was breathtaking.
Only disappointment was that they have two trains leaving at the same time.One is the Moonshine Experience. Sadly, my grandson is not old enough for that one yet.
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Very fun!
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Would love to see some pictures!
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I love that area, Menagerie. I once rafted down The Nantahala River when I was younger. I have a photo of me in the raft going over a waterfall. It was so exciting, but my arms sure were sore. Great memories!
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Mornin’ kids! Taco Tuesday!!
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As my granddaughter always says when presented with a choice, both. And I want a side of Mexican street corn to go with ’em. And a margarita, extra salt. Bring a pitcher.
Morning Wee. Still got rain? We had sunshine yesterday!
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I’m with you. Oh, and a side of guacamole.
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And another side of mango salsa.
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And, another bowl of chips.
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Both blue corn and yellow corn chips would be pretty.
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Blue corn is my absolute favorite.
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Mine too.
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We have a local company that makes the best blue corn chips. It is called Garden Fresh Gourmet, and I think they were recently bought out by one of the big national brands (Campbell). Their chips are made with stone-ground whole corn. Their blue chips are the best I have ever eaten.
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I like blue corn too. I have a DIL who makes this outstanding corn dip. Mmm. The two go together. She makes great guacamole too. Strangely enough my one year old grandson loves the guac so much you have to dig in fast to get some. I have never seen a kid who liked avocados before. Of course, to be fair, we haven’t found much the little guy won’t eat.
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Mornin’ Menage! No rain for a few days, now….
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My grandson and I were in Guatemala for my oldest son’s wedding some years back. We were in a small town square and he was watching a street vendor roasting corn. Now the town officials had made the vendors put diapers on their donkeys to keep the square ‘clean’ (this was Guatemala) and a chunk of donkey manure fell out of the corn vendor’s donkey’s diaper and out onto the street. Without skipping a beat the vendor reached down, picked up the lump, plopped it back into the diaper and went back to flipping the corn on the grill by hand.
In one fell swoop my grandson lost his desire for rioasted corn and gained an insight into why the 3rd world world areas are 3rd world.
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I might like street corn, but I never actually buy it on the street. Restaurant nearby has it. I simply love it. Unfortunately, another restaurant has the creamy jalapeño sauce I like. So I am constantly torn if I want Mexican food.
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I will just grill it, for what they want for one restaurant piece I can buy four raw and screw up two.
BTW, here’s a creamy jalapno sauce – I think I’ll try it and see if sprinkling som packaged Ranch Dressing powder in might help. Fun testing…
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Recipe please?
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I strip the husks back to the stalk – back, not off. Clean off all of the silk and copver/soak the corn in a bucket of salted and sugared water for about half an hour.
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#$%@&^ Chromebook
Pull ’em out, pull the husks up, put ’em on the grill away from the flames until the kernels are soft then go to town.
You can also do it in the over, just heat it to about 425 degrees and turn it every few minutes until the kernels are soft. You can put whatever you want on it but I just use butter, salt and pepper.
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‘…cover/soak…’
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Heck…thought you were talking about the corn, didn’t see the recipe didn’t post:
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/creamy-jalapeno-sauce-56389516
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I like this one too except I’d use fresh jalapenos, roast ’em (after deseeding/deveining). I’d also skip the cayenne and try a lighter vinegar like rice vinegar, I’m not a big fan of that sharp vinegar taste with corn.
https://alyonascooking.com/2017/12/creamy-jalapeno-sauce-taco-bell-copycat-recipe/
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At my age, what would a smokin’ hot body be like? Raquel Welch? Really? Is this a gift, or do I have to work at it & also give up chocolate? And wine? I think I’ll go out on the patio with a mimosa and think about it for a while….
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The way I see it, I have a smokin’ hot body. It is just underneath all this other stuff.
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Mine’s not smokin’, but it sure is hot! So glad for the AC when I got home.
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IKR??? I’ll have both!! Mornin’ Z’s!
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Morning czarina!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Good morning, WeeWeed! How about a soft flour tortilla for the fish tacos…and a really greasy corn tortilla for the pureed beef and shredded lettuce like the ones at Jack InThe Box at two for 99 cents.
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Mornin’ Lucy!
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I must be early. I had steak fajitas on Sunday and Monday. There’s a little meat left, so I’ll have it for lunch today. I’m out of tortillas though.
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A friend and I today got onto the subject of mac and cheese and it turns out we both make our own from scratch. He actually has a picture of his on his phone. He makes the mac and cheese then fries some tortillas, puts the tortillas on a cookie sheet, puts some home made mac & cheese on them, sprinkles the tops with parmesan, paprika and bread crumbs and bakes the concoction in the oven. I have to say it looked pretty tasty. So all that led to him and I having a bake off next week with a mutual friend being the blind taste judge ! The man doesn’t like anything too spicy so I’m pretty sure I have this one in the bank 🙂 .
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If the smoking hot body is that of actor Sam Elliot, it’s not a contest… Mornin’ Wee. :0)
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😯 I get so mesmerized by his voice, I am not sure I ever looked at his body.
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Morning Aus, Eliott, was once in a movie with Kristie Alley and there was a scene where he was shirtless….that scene burned itself into my brain….but you’re right, he could just say the word ‘taco’ and I’d be a goner. :0)
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Czarina says that too….uhhh….wait……
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Better open your eyes. Like so many men, he’s aged fine. Why the heck is it that men get better looking and most women just don’t?
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I saw a picture and his hair is gorgeous.
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Mornin’ ‘Maus!
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I can’t stop laughing…the model, meh, though….
From an article entitled “Real Men Take On Underwear Ads”
Calvin Klein, Man vs. Freddie Ljungberg
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Soft tacos for me!!!! Tacos! ❤️❤️❤️
Morning WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ S&S!
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Tacos por favor. I mean cmon! We saw these at the museum…
Tacosaurus rex
Tricerataco
Nachosaurus of course!
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Those are awesome!
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Easy – take the smokin’ bod and eat chalupas – best of both worlds.
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😀
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Afternoon Wee 🙂 !
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Last Sunday evening I watched this tearjerker melodrama…had a good sniffle and thought about all those articles by killjoy psychiatrists who claim falling in love can’t happen overnight. Phooey on them.
“I’ll Be Seeing You” (1944) Ginger Rogers and Joseph Cotten
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I knew two different couples who met, went home together, never parted, married in a couple of weeks and stayed together. It can happen. Unfortunately, I don’t think it happens that often that it really works.
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Leaving out the strange way we met I knew Czarina for about 18 months before I decided to leave everything behind, such as it was, and move almost across the country with her. Before we moved I hadn’t moved in with her, though a good deal of my kitchen untensils were at her place, so the move was a bit of a surprise.
We’ve been together for a short 40ish years, so far so good, surprising a lot of people over the years who swore we’d never make it. “Oil and water jes don’ mix”, they’d say. “Nope”, I reply, “but when properly blended thery make a helluva emulsion”.
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LOL! Beautiful!
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That’s so great! 😊
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DH and I met on a warship in Savannah Harbour in 1988. 3 years later we married, but had only actually spent 6 weeks together! Him away at sea or England, and me in the USA. We wrote, and he would call me from all over the world. He even called me from Admiral Nelson’s desk on HMS Victory once.
I always said I spent a long weekend in Savannah and my ship came in!
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LOL 🙂
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Our first date, and we weren’t dating, is when we worked together at a charity ‘haunted house’ she was an unfriendly corpse and I was a ghoul under a table that would grab your ankles – we were type-casted. Second date, we still weren’t dating, was when we were scavenging at a newly built nuclear pile rod procerssing plant and she slammed my finger in a trunk. he dating ‘dating’ was really rather uneventful.
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Well said!
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I fell for my husband from the first time he spoke to me. We went out soon after that. Six months later we were married.
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Same here. That British accent, telling me about his cat and plying me with Dry Blackthorne Cider just did the trick! Took about 10 minutes and I thought “Wow”. And he’s cute.
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That’s romantic!
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It truly was. He’s still a silly romantic kind of guy. I just can’t help but love him.
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My son and DIL met at a shooting match, and he scored for her when she shot. They knew each other for about 20 min. They seemed to have a lot in common and he asked for her number, which she gave to him. He told me he didn’t to the “guy” thing where they wait to call. He called as soon as he got back to school. He had already decided he was going to marry her. Luckily, she was of the same mind. 🙂 He is lucky. He got a woman who adores him, a mother and father-in-law who adore him, and a brother-in-law who is like a brother to him.
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Wow!
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They didn’t see each other again for about 6 more weeks, but they texted and talked on the phone every day. Her parents had some reservations until they met him and then they just loved him, too. They had to wait until he graduated from Annapolis to get married, which they did 10 days after graduation. She finished her last couple of courses after they married.Their first 3 or 4 years together, it was a long distance relationship for the most part, because he was then sent off to sea. They waited to have a baby until he got shore duty and could be home. They have taken everything is stride and she is a real trooper.
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About a week ago, two bodies were found burned beyond recognition in a weed-filled lot near our NOLA property. Today the news announced the incident will be investigated and treated by NOPD as a homicide!
Wow, glad they determined this wasn’t just another of those tragic lithium-ion battery accidents.
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Just looked at my timeline and it’s been thirty days since a young woman was found murdered, propped against a garbage dumpster. No public information has been released. No name, no age, no details. Just another day at the FBI.
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NOPD has a helicopter up looking for a boating accident victim in Lake Pontchartrain – interesting how it seemd to be hovering in the news shot every time the cameras show up. Just wondering how many drones could be up covering a much larger area in hi-resolution for the price of one chopper burning sky.
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Your comment made me think of Sue Grafton’s novel “Q is for Quarry”…
Who Was Jane Doe?
True Life Subject of Sue Grafton’s “Q Is for Quarry” Still a Mystery
Thursday, July 21, 2011 by Barney Brantingham
https://www.independent.com/news/2011/jul/21/who-was-jane-doe/
Sue Grafton was a wonderful writer. If you’ve not read any of her alphabet series novels which began in 1982, “A”, “B”, and “C” are out under one cover. Passing away this last December, she’s the only novelist I’ve ever cried for when notice of her death arrived. She was working on “Z…” and her family has decided to let it remain unfinished. Not having met anyone who knew her to corroborate this, just looking at her photos I always had the feeling that she was a woman with a good and happy heart.
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One of my big ‘wish I would have’s” is that I wish I would have purchased the first print edition of “A is for Alibi”….I hope the family stands firm and leaves the “Z: unfinished and unpublished. Kind of a fitting tribute IMO.
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I just finished “Y is for Yesterday”. She will be missed.
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Some years back we had a corpse found hanging from a bridge. It’s hands were tied behind its back and there was a bullet hole in its head. Spokesjerk just blurted out that “we’re not ruling out the possibility of suicide”.
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Good grief 🙄.
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Well on this side of the border we had a county sheriff and some deputies arrested for being full memebers of the Dixie mafia.
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Our mayor is a democrat. He is also a practicing attorney.
We have an event every Friday during the summer, “Friday Night Live” it is a fun night out with live bands, food and you always run into folks you know, just a really nice community event.
Rumor has it, (note again the creepy chap is an attorney 😎),that the mayor’s friends live where Friday Night Live takes place. They hate the night, the noise, the people, well, maybe you shouldn’t have bought a house in the middle of a business district in downtown if you don’t like noise bozos.
IMO the mayor has been trying to get Friday Night Live shut down just because of his snooty friends and his own general stupidness.
I was asked to help him out with a charity event, it would have been me him and maybe 2 other people together in a small space for about 4 hours.
Nope.
I told him to suck an egg 🙂 .
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Yeah, once many turds get elected they get carried away with the power and think God’s appointed and annointed them to be oligarchs. After Katrina a major auto maker donated a slug opf SUVs to the city and first responders as so many official cars were destroyed. Much of the city govertnment, including some city council jerks, took them for personal use – fire, police and EMTs could ride bicycles as far as they were concerned.
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I believe it. Sadly more likely the rule than the exception.
Did I ever tell the story of how a city official gave his buddy a couple of towns away a contract to store our street salt? So our public storage facilities were empty and we were paying big bucks to store the salt about 15 (?) miles away. Sure enough a terrible winter and people are seeing our salt trucks making a long haul in terrible storms. The streets were a real problem because the trucks had to drive through the storms to get the salt.
The excuse? The magnificent altruistic deal maker thought the city could rent out the salt storage domes to another entity and come out ahead in the end.
😏
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My first thought was, “Did the poor guy know the Clintons?”
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If not I’m sure he could get a job.
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Or do you mean the ‘suicide’?
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One of my favorite writers. Started with A in 2007 and read straight through to R, then eagerly waited for the library to get each subsequent book. I liked the way she stayed true to the timeline she set, not moving Kelsy into cell phones & computers. Felt more like 1940’s gumshoe detective work!
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Amtrak & CSX in Ashland, Both with Private Cars!
Virtual Railfan YouTube Channel
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That about looks like our ‘big city’ just down the road – same type of storefronts and we have a train track running thru it north to south.
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Something is going on folks, I mentioned that whispers here are that Ryan is running against Trump in 2020 for the presidency. People who might really know don’t speak with me anymore since I blasted Scott over his boorish way he left the presidential race and his attacks on president Trump, so I have no real information if it is true or not but lean more toward truth.
Milwaukee which is rivaled maybe only by Chicago for per capita shootings is a wreck.
A couple of chaps were shot and killed in a Milwaukee park last night and the ever brilliant mayor Tom Barrett said “People, maybe just do’t pick up your gun?” So now that Tom has spoken up it seems the shootings will end.
🙄
Anyhow, that said, there are a lot of very nice spots in Milwaukee. But there are far more dumps and dangerous places.
But wait! Another business is coming in and building a hundred million dollar hotel/shopping/dining center.
Perhaps I should just applaud President Trump’s economy and be done with it, but ever since Walker showed his hand and Ryan exposed his hatred for our President and our Republic I always raise my eyebrow when this kind of money comes into WI, especially Milwaukee.
Foxconn is a huge boon and that I believe was President Trump’s doing but it irks me that it is opening in Ryan’s district as did the Amazon Super warehouse.
Things that deserve a hmmmm…..
And on a side joke.
A white democrat is running for Milwaukee County Sheriff, he is running commercials promising to clean up all the awful things that the rascally Sheriff David Clarke did to the African American community.
The sad thing is that many if not all Milwaukee democrats really believe that Sheriff David Clarke is a man who hates black people.
Mad Mad world.
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IMO, whatever Ryan does, he’ll be blasting President Trump from day one. If we think his disrespect is bad now, just wait.
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Ugh. I can’t stand Paul Ryan. He’s such a crap weasel. If he does run, Pres. Trump will wipe the floor with him.
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We have another fire that started yesterday, the Holy fire. Its gotten much bigger and the giant plume is visible from home. Im not threatened but its burning a forest area. 4000 acres last night. 2% contained.
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🙏🏼 Stay safe Gil.
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Thx. Pollution and heat, too far from my home, but bad news now and if we get a wet winter.
https://patch.com/california/ranchosantamargarita/fire-breaks-out-trabuco-canyon
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Gil that looks terrible. Thomas Wictor has some interesting information about California wild fires. I plead ignorance on the subject but what he wrote makes sense as to the land needing the fires or the effects of the fires in order for the wild fires to not continue to become “the biggest one yet.”
https://twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/1026954472142983168
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Wow, Adam, hubris AND ignorance…what a combo!
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Love victors line for politicians “This is why politicians should stick to insider trading and prostitutes.”
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And………..the really bad part is that this has been known for probably 30 years, from the time they quit doing the maintenance.
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Oh no!!!! That’s awful!
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Has the local/state government come up with a cause of any of the fires yet? Waiting for the old and tired ‘campfire leftb unattended’ or ‘lightening’ when there wasn’t a storm within 50 miles.
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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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Amen. Thank you, Aus.
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Amen.
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Excellent news in the Michigan Senate race: John James has a 15 point lead with almost 25% of precincts reporting! Go John!
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Excellent!!!
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Michigan has called the primary for John James with a 13 point lead and 60% of precincts reporting. Yay John! Now beat Debbie Stabenow in November!!
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Terrific news!
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Love it!
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Moon and Jupiter over Norfolk Southern Railroad, Abingdon, Virginia
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