Shortly after dawn on June 7, Lt. Horace Henderson of the Sixth Engineer Special Brigade landed on Omaha Beach. Going in on his Higgins boat, “I noticed that nothing moved on the beach except one bulldozer. The beach was covered with debris, sunken craft and wrecked vehicles. We saw many bodies in the water… We jumped into chest high water and waded ashore. Then we saw that the beach was literally covered with the bodies of American soldiers wearing the blue and gray patches of the 29th Infantry Division.”
Although the fighting had moved inland, sporadic artillery shelling and intermittent sniper fire from Germans still holding their positions on the bluff hampered movement on the beach. Henderson’s job was to distribute maps (a critical and never-ending process — eventually in the Normandy campaign, the U.S. First Army passed out 125 million maps), but because the front line was just over the bluff at Omaha, only men, ammunition, weapons, and gasoline were being brought ashore, so he had no maps to hand out. He and his section unloaded jerry cans of gasoline, the first of millions of such cans that would cross that beach.
Sometime that afternoon, Henderson recalled, “Before the bodies could be removed, the first religious service was held on Omaha Beach. We prayed for those who had been lost and thanked the Lord for our survival. I promised God that I would do all in my power to help prevent such a terrible event ever happening again.”
Stella's Place 
National Doughnut Day is June 7th
Primo’s Donuts
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Good morning Lucille 🙂 !
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Good morning, lovely! Some Stargazer Lilies and Roses….
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Beautiful, I love the clear vases 🙂 !
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Oh yum! Morning Lucille! A very happy Friday to you!
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Good morning, sand! Happy day to you, too…
Algarve, Portugal
Learn seven pieces of Sales excellence
– The Donut Man of Alvor beach
https://excellenceassured.com/4957/seven-secrets-sales-excellence-donut-man
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Good article. Important to remember to have fun.
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I love it when I just happen onto articles when looking up something else…having fun!
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So tranquil! Thank you, Lucille!
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Yum! I like cake donuts best! And I see lots of them here! Mornin’ all ya’all!
I saw the Salvation Army is recognized as starting Donut Day, to remember their Donut Dollies who, starting in Sept. 1917, made and distributed donuts to the soldiers.
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New to me…she doesn’t share.
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The Women Who Fried Donuts and Dodged Bombs on the Front Lines of WWI
Even if they had to use shell casings as rolling pins, the donuts still got made
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/donut-girls-wwi-helped-fill-soldiers-bellies-and-get-women-vote-180962864/#mDI74Qkmd8MLZ3PQ.99
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Mornin’ kids!
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Well, then…….
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🙂 There’s always ONE at work……
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Morning! 👋🏻👋🏻
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Good morning Wee 🙂 !
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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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 Ms.WeeWeed!!!!!!!!!
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Mornin’ Colonel Sir!
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Mornin’ Wee!
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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The note writer seems a little crotchety to me.
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Good one! Mornin’ Z’s!
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Wrote itself…plus it’s raining again so what mind I have left is free this morning.
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Good morning, WeeWeed! Life!
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Afternoon Lucy!
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The scenes from Normandy yesterday brought a flood of memories, conversations with my Dad, my Uncle, other WW2 veterans and visiting Normandy.
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Good morning Col. Gratitude to your Dad, your Uncle, other WW2 veterans 🇺🇸🙏🏼.
And to you for your service 🇺🇸.
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Morning Lovely , Thank You
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Morning Col. Ken!
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Morning SAS…….
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Good morning, Colonel!
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Morning Stella…….Thank You…
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Morning Stella, Thank You
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We’re down to Korean War vets here.
I can remember back in the 50s when we had a park in West Palm that had open cabanas with tables where old vets would congregate. The oldest ones were a few Indian War vets, but there were a lot of Spanish-American War vets. WWII and Korean War vets were everywhere with many still in the active/Guard/Reserve units in the area.
Now those of us vets in the Vietnam Era are starting to age into that ‘in the chute’ demographic, following the Korean War vets as they move into the public-awareness-of-mortality slot the WWII vets now hold.
Interesting this is those of us who share multiple war ’employments’. In Vietnam I worked alongside a few WWII vets and Korean War Vets. When my father followed me to Vietnam (I got there 1st) he had both WWII and the Korean War under his belt but like most multiple-war vets his first war was the one he identified with, the one that defined him. I had Vietnam, Desert Storm and the GWOT but Vietnam was the one I first and foremost identify with as does a friend of mine with all three wars in his pocket too.
i’m wondering how many of the older WWII vets we see are veterans of multiple wars but they just hold themselves out as WWII as they see that as THEIR war?
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czar
Thank you for your service to our great country! You and the other vets are who have made our country great ! God bless you and the USA ! 🙂
bj
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Thanks but being thanked for my service, especially after y’all paid/are still paying for it sort of embarrasses me. I just looked at the employment options and thought one with a retirement plan, medical and free travel.
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I don’t see any need for you to be embarrassed, czar!!
Have a good evening/
bj
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Lol….
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Now that’s funny!
One of my new favorites. (Not sue where I saw it? Maybe you already posted this Wee so if so my apologies ).
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I had to look twice to catch the mustache….
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Me too.
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Well, technically, the Germans did take part in D-Day…..
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Z had explained the “hostile takeover” of various company assets a few years ago…. : )
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Wrong, the Germans were there, they were the guest of honor.
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They made it all possible,huh?
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Without them there’d have been no party.
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True. That’s true. 👿
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It’s not as if ewe had no warning about what Hitler was up to and had the WWI allies not plowed the field and sowed the seeds of WWII it might be a whole nuther game. I’m not saying the allies were responsible but they were complicit.
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Have a beautiful day folks.
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Morning lovely! You too! 😊
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😊
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First thing that came to mind…
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Just look at the peaceful eyes on that good boy!
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Artie or the dog?
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😎 Either or.
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Yeah, we’re in a bunny cycle here. When we first moved in our yard was alive with them but we went thru a down cycle but now they appear to be making a comeback. Then again our yard is a bunny buffet.
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Bunny buffet. sounds about right 🙂 .
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Just as long as they stay outta my garden.
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They are a problem around here as all of the neighbors and my friends who live in town complain about them.
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We have raccoon/coyote cycles that go with the assorted rodent cycles. It’s now down to the point where sometimes the dogs are too bored with them to chase them.
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I live almost in the city, and we have opossums, raccoons, and other varmints. Lots of squirrels. Skunks. I hear there are coyotes, but I’ve never seen one. Deer were spotted in our city, right on 8 mile road (the dividing point from Detroit) a couple of years ago. They were living in an overgrown lot of an abandoned factory.
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I sorta reached an agreement with them coonses, I put feed out every now and then out on the periphery and they don’t come close to the house.
Our BD hound and the beagle-terrierist are too much for the coons, they’d rather dine outside than come in. There are also skunks close in, a couple den around the house and they don’t take kindly to coons stepping into their territory.
It’s complicated but beats dealing with neighbors in the city.
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When we first moved in out here we had a female retriever, most alpha dog I have ever seen, believe it or not. She was born to comman, born to rise to battle, and battle she did. Never were we ever once disturbed by squirrels or chipmunks until she got really old.
In the first few months there was an epic battle on the back porch in the middle of the night with two coons, her, my husband and firepower. Coons and a storm door were the casualties. I was composing stories to tell the cops when they got here, hoping the dying coon who got off the porch hadn’t left a visible blood trail, but this being rural Georgia, of course no one ever called the cops.
Word got around in the coon community though and they found less defended porches to steal dog food from. And twenty years later they still don’t come back.
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It has gotten so that I can’t put trash outside unless it’s in a metal can. The raccoons chew holes in the plastic containers, and the other varmints use the holes too.
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We have raccoons by my moms. My sister just found two baby raccoons, too young to be separated from their momma so she built a nest for them so most land dwellers couldn’t get to them and the mom returned and took them home 🙂 !
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You have Czar’s soft heart….
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Thanks Czarina. Don’t tell anyone but I am a softie that’s for sure. My poor mom never knew what I would drag home (and be late for school), if a dog was running loose I took it back to our house. Squirrels fell out of the tree? Same thing, lots of critters.
I just got home and there was a sparrow in the middle of the road on its side, of course I had to stop the car and make sure that it was dead and not injured. I wonder how many birds I brought home as a child. Sadly most of them didn’t make it 😦 .
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Yeah, t’aint unusual to find separated pups, they jes wanders off. Either mom does a headcount or hears them complaining and fetches them. My personal fav are skunk kittens.
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Brother in law brought a tiny skunk home one day, it may have been back when he was just my sister’s boyfriend. The tiny cute little kit sprayed my mom’s upholstered chair.
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Yeah, best to get skunks rearranged. Back in Florida we handled a divorce where the two partners fought tooth and nail over custody of a female skunk (Petunia). The battle took four weeks until the wife retained custody though hubby paid support and had visiting privileges – and this was 1974!
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“Honey, I’m here to see Petunia!” Too sweet!
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So. how is that garden growing, czar? I quite often think about your pickled asparagus, with a longing to have some! 🙂
bj
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We just opened a bottle yesterday, figured that 6 weeks was long enough to test. It’s quite good though the regular pickling spices gave it a pickling spice overtone. It’s not bad, just ain’t what I was reaching for. We’ll eat it and try again – best thing about experimenting is eating the experiment.
Garden’s getting along, tomatoes are coming in and I’m battling the crickets for ownership of the peppers and eggplants – latest round of chemical warfare begins to morrow, too muddy to walk out there right now.
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Yep, the small downside of gardening, I guess! I miss having my own garden so much!
bj
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It’s getting harder to do, my back/knee and all, but Czarina does a lot and most of the harvesting. I do the prep the planting, spraying and cussing.
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My reason for container gardening.
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I’m starting to look at that, maybe just growing those things like peppers, tomatoes and eggplants that we’ll use and turning the greater garden over to squash.
Thing is it’s exercise and does keep us from rusting out though the parts are getting worn.
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I’m trying grow bags this year for the first time, and I’ve collected large pots over the years for flowers etc. The grow bags are pretty inexpensive, and they come in quite large sizes.
Raised beds are another option. The most expensive part of these is the soil, of course.
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We have tons of pots so any out-of-garden growing will be in them, it’s just the most obvious solution for us.
Do you have any stables around? If you do they might be more than willing to part with manure and it makes fantastic compost. I keep a slop box by the sink and put every organic leftover into it where it then gets dumped into the garden. Most houses generate a good deal of compostable byproducts a year.
You can also get bags of the cheap ‘potting soil’ at stores like Walmart. Even off-sale they sell for less than $2 a bag. They are mostly raw wood chips but a few bags composted over the winter, especially with kitchen waste, make great spring planting soil. Just be sure to add high nitrogen fertilizer to the mix as the b bacteria that compost the wood use up available nitrogen and die off without supplemental feeding.
I’ve been looking at raised beds but there’s a problem of what to do when you get an invasion of something like nematodes or wilt virus. Here I can just plow under and spray the area with a disinfectant, to me large raised beds would be a bigger problem.
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I have to watch it with composting, because of “vermin” in the neighborhood. We can get free compost from the city, though, if we go and pick it up at their yard. They use the yard waste they pick up from us, and compost it over the winter.
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That works too but there are small sealed composters you can get are vermin-proof…though that doesn’t include two-legged vermin under the age of ten.
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Also, I have a small lot, so places to plant are limited. I can place pots and bags on the concrete drive and patio, or even on the grass. No digging up the lawn etc.
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I’m just interested in trying new types of standard veggies. Our market economy has led to a heavy standardization of certain vegetables like butternut squash and tomatoes, very few varieties are grown due to marketing and production needs. Places like Walmart will occasionally get outlying varieties but it’s a fluke.
We also like to bring stuff into Czarina’s office as the people there are mostly city folks and if they can’t find it in the Big Box they generally don’t know it exists. It’s also a treat to hear folks say they didn’t think something could taste that good, a sure sign they’re primarily exposed to commercial foods.
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That’s one reason I raised my own tomato plants this year – now I have plants I couldn’t buy at the nursery. I love squash, especially butternut. If you have good luck, let me know what variety you grew.
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Kobacha squash comes readily to mond, also yellow zucchini, it’s a bit sweeter than green. Gotta go look at my packs to see the others.
Also have Persian and Japanese cukes growing, supposed to have a slightly different taste than our commercial ones.
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I like yellow zucchini. Thanks for the suggestions.
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I also have the standard Waltham butternut of commerce fame, an acorn hybrid, an Argonaut hybrid winter squash, and a Japanese Uchiki Kuri winter squash. It’s all a rainbow of taste and we love baked squash and squash soup – especially with smoked ham.
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Ditto, except I’m not fond of acorn. I love Hubbard squash too.
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I like to roast them and make ‘pumpkin’ pies using the squash. Also the smoked ham an d squash soup I’d mentioned – it’s not really summer fare but does great in winter.
As this climate change has extended the growing season I’m thinking of putting in a slightly later crop of ‘baby’ pumpkins. I can get them to mature a bit faster by clipping blossoms and limiting the number of fruit per plant, I don’t need that many anyway.
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You ever made watermelon rind pickles? Used to have a good fresh from the farm restaurant in Chattanooga that served them with their salads. I would go over there, on the other side of town at least a couple times a month to get those pickles. Best I ever had, of any kind of pickle.
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Never have, just might try that this year. Gonna try a green and gold zucchini pickle mix too.
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Good morning, everyone! I just spent a few minutes watching a small brown bunny have his breakfast in my front yard. Apparently, I have some tasty tender weeds out there.
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Morning Stella!
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Funny I looked out my living room window and saw the same thing this morning. Maybe 5 feet away 🙂 .
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He didn’t see me, but he was sitting no more than two or three feet from the front sidewalk, just looking around for a while, then moved on to the weeds next to the walk up to my porch.
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My little rabbit saw me right away. Watched me for a short bit and then went right back to eating.
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We have a pair who are frequently hopping around our front yard. Seems a dangerous place, what with our dogs and cats.
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I’ve notice without my little doggy out there that the bunnies are moving in closer to the house.
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My Stella nearly got one a couple of years ago in my back yard. Poor thing squeezed between the chain link fence and the driveway and lost a clump of fur in the process.
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My girl used to chase them but because I don’t have a fence she was always on a leash so she couldn’t catch them.
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Many don’t make it around here. Usually they’re safe if they stay out in the front, but the other day I saw a stray cat get one. This cat is the largest cat I’ve ever seen, as big as a bob cat, coal black and bob tail. We see him around a few times a month, can’t get near him not that I would want to, he’s kind of creepy looking. lol
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Years ago we had a big pet bunny. We also had a cat who was a born hunter. We let the bunny loose in the house and the cat spied it. We were concerned about what she would do, but the bunny didn’t seem concerned at all. Finally the cat pounced…………and instantly got popped in the face by the back legs of the bunny. The bunny just went on with what he was doing………the cat leaped up onto the top of the fireplace and never came down until the bunny was gone. I guess it hurt.
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Happy Friday everyone, and good morning. I just read one of those Facebook memes. Says maturity is learning to walk away from people who threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals , or self worth.
Nope, I’d say maturity is the opposite actually. And no evangelization would ever have happened if the Apostles practiced that philosophy, let alone the one who sent them. Somber thoughts on a Friday.
I know, memes are mean to be liked or ignored, not commented on, but this one gets me. Sometimes I don’t get memes.
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Morning Menagerie! Sounds like a leftist meme and they are terrible at it.
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Don’t you love that we own the meme war 🙂 ?
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So much! 😊😊😊
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Thass why we heart Trump. He does NOT walk away from the cretins.
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Good morning. There are a lot of memes I don’t get, but sometimes I see some that have me laughing all day.
I saw one this morning shared by one of my Arkansas family members that had a picture of a wet muddy field with two fans and said FEMA had arrived with help. I’m not one of those who blame FEMA for crap, but I’m also not one of those that wants to be saved by FEMA or anyone from the government, so I found it funny.
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I hear FEMA and all I can think of is Katrina. Next comes their original purpose was to be a shadow government and step in to rule in case of a huge nuclear war.
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Something else that sticks in my craw about FEMA is that there will be all these people reporting their damage and possibly getting a check, although I doubt the state will part with any money unless they’re forced too. These same people will also accept all the donations of money, clothing, food, hay for ranchers, etc. that is being collected and raised.
We don’t need FEMA, people are very generous, neighbors can help each other a lot better than government.
Although in some areas local emergency personnel and even out of state emergency volunteers rescued a lot of people. Regular ol’ citizens did as much if not more rescuing and helping their neighbors. It should show people you really don’t need government to come to the rescue.
Of course everyone knows how I feel about citizens of other states having their tax dollars going to states with natural disasters.
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Gotta have some place for all of those Federal toads to roost lest be cloggin’ up productive business. Like any other Federal agency, when its purpose went away they had to reinvent themselves into some other creature to survive. Problem is they were an agency that really never had to do much except plan and when the reinvented themselves they reinvented into something that had a job. Poor SOBs were, and largely still are, unprepared for real work.
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I find them pretty good at giving out other people’s money and of course spending a bunch of other people’s money to support themselves.
I think though that is a job qualification for government jobs, being good at spending other people’s money.
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I’ve seen that one before. I always figured that there was more maturity in knowing both when to stay and when to go.
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Often, such as on the job, you can’t just walk away. You have to determine how to help that other person work well with you and other office personnel. Most people respond to kindness, to a smile, to an invite to lunch, to an offer of assistance on a project if your time permits. Work at being a good example.
In your personal life, it depends upon the level of toxicity. Walking away from an ordinary every-day difficult person when you might be able to work around it and make a friend in the process…that’s one thing. If a person is a narcissist or has another personality disorder, then be pleasant without encouraging a personal relationship.
We are, of course, commanded to love others as we love ourselves. Easy? Not! However, as with most things, the more you practice, the easier it gets. Calling upon the Lord to give you guidance and discernment on how to handle those who “threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals, or self worth” is an absolute necessity.
In today’s world where politics has become near-lethal if you oppose the Left, refusing to get into arguments is one of the ways to cope. More mature folk will be willing to adhere to the old adage, “We’ll just have to agree to disagree.” If the person you’re dealing with won’t accept it, then it’s on them, not you. In that case you continue to be good-natured, but simply not engage them in anything resembling politics and certainly don’t talk against that individual to others who may know him.
Reading Jesus’s “Sermon on the Mount” just might be the key to aid our attitudes in our personal and professional lives. It shows how Christ wants us to live. I think I’ll read (or listen to) it again today…Matthew 5-7: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+5-7&version=NIV
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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)
(Some of Menagerie’s Jack Daniels – Shhhhhh)
(Some more of Menagerie’s Jack Daniels – Shhhhhh)
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’ NC Nana! 🙂 🍸 (Beautiful)
Mornin’ bjosz! 🙂
Mornin’ Angelle Staria Literary Works! 🙂
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!
Pastries for coffee!
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Morning Nyet! Happy Friday! Thank you for breakfast!
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Good morning Nyet 🙂 !
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Today is doughnut day. I need to get some……….my hips are not wide enough. 🙄 Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Good mornin’!
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Good afternoon, Nyet! I’m just scarfing down donuts for brunch today. I’ll send over a box to share with other Stellars…
…any one of these will keep me satisfied.
Have a great day!
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Finally, a Catholic bishop actually…you know, bishoping. Bishops are our teachers. One of their primary, if not the primary role of a bishop is to be sure the faithful entrusted in their care are guided in the right direction, defended from error and scandal, scandal in this very important sense NOT having the same meaning you might be accustomed to.
Catholic bishops have much power and authority in their diocese and even the Vatican recognizes and defers to the authority of the local bishop in most cases.
Every single bishop across the world should be putting out this message. And making their priests enforce it.
Illinois lawmakers face consequences. I don’t know where in the world they are at, mentally, spiritually. But I hope to God, pray to God, that I will never choose anything over the Body of Christ. No Catholic remains Catholic after making such a conscious choice to pursue that path.
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/bishop-paprocki-communion-prohibited-to-catholic-lawmakers-who-voted-for-il
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Amen Bishop Paprocki.
My Byzantine Priest told parishioners that if they voted for Bill Clinton that they should not receive communion. I pray for him now as he seems to have accepted the Trump is evil lie. Sad and still unfathomable to me.
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I know some very devout Catholics who don’t like President Trump. The ones I personally know are far from the social justice warrior liberal typical in name only Catholic who hate him. I’m talking about some very conservative, very traditional and devout people.
I don’t get it. They seem to be waiting for The Perfect Leader to get behind. Which always makes me think of the old joke about the guy waiting on top of his house who eventually drowned, after sending away a boats and a helicopter.
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That’s the perfect analogy.
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I agree with the man on top of the house comparison.
I also think that the conservative priests who don’t like President Trump have not done independent research, I think they are stuck on the letter of morality rather than the heart of morality.
President Trump just called Nervous Nancy Pelosi, “evil, terrible and nasty”, the conservative priests are offended by this talk. They don’t understand that it is a well placed arrow at the throat of the evil that they themselves are fighting against every day.
“Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.”
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We don’t have enough priests, and I started to say just priests, but it really is pastors, rabbis, all faith leaders, who will call evil just that, publicly and courageously.
At the Basilica we are blessed with two priests who do just that and are being somewhat persecuted for it. Also, the parish has lost quite a few members, some of them the wealthiest in the parish. Membership is up, with our parish probably far and away the leader in new converts and reverts, and young families have gravitated there.
However, that doesn’t make it easy on these two when most priests are not comfortable with that and parishioners call the bishop at the drop of a hat, or fire off letters.
Me, I love them. I’ve said this before, and I think it is true for all Christians. I don’t need a priest, or anyone, to make me feel better about my sins. I try to do that, as we all do. It is in our nature to try to “explain away” our sins. I need a priest who will help me recognize and defeat that sin and become a saint. That’s what I need, and it isn’t really comfortable for me, or for them.
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When we attended the Franciscan chapel at Steubenville (about 4 years) one of the priests said straight from the pulpit that it is improper for women to come to confession dressed like whores.
I could have kissed him.
Agree with all of what you posted Menagerie.
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Neat stuff seen on Facebook.
I found this a few years ago. It is the complete broadcast of D Day, from the time of the first bulletin, early in the morning, and throughout the night and day on NBC radio – June 6th, 1944. Here is the Bob Hope Show D Day evening, No 46.
‘https://archive.org/details/NBCCompleteBroadcastDDay/CBD-440606_NBC2215-BobHope.mp3
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Stella, the quality of your posting, always good, is just awesome this week. Information, pictures, videos, and the research you have done to put this all together. I know how much time and effort you have put into it. It is a cut above even your high standards. Thank you.
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Thanks for the nice compliment, Menagerie! If it were not for the internet, and the fine people who share such awesome content, what I do wouldn’t be possible. It is both an awful and awesome time we live in.
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Very true. Information so readily available and so few care to verify or investigate.
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I’m listening to the Bob Hope broadcast right now. His opening comments are moving, and they are immediately followed by Ave Maria, and military music. Unabashed religious belief in God and Christ, and love of country, so different from what we usually hear today.
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NBC asks for prayer, and the archbishop of Chicago leads the listening audience in prayer.
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Triple like on this. A terrific, somber, poignant week of posts.
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If you want to listen, copy the URL after the apostrophe into a URL address window in your browser.
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Bob Hope, another multiple-war person fading into history.
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From the Times Picayune newspaper:
In the weeks before D-Day, British Intelligence was highly concerned about crossword puzzles. The Daily Telegraph’s recent puzzle answers had included Overlord, Neptune, Utah, Omaha and mulberry, words associated with the operation. Agents interrogated the puzzlemaker, a Surrey school headmaster; turned out it was just a coincidence.
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Closest estimate I can find showed that only 100,000 Jews who were in the camps, ghettos or hiding under German occupation were still alive in 2016 so the number is much smaller today.
It’s interesting how the government has flexible morals. It decried the Holocaust yet imported many ex-Nazi government officials to the US under Operation Paperclip. It decried the slaughter of Jews, Christians and other non-Moslems by Islamic forces in the Mideast yet imports hundreds of thousands and, under the rubric of ‘democracy’, welcomes elected Moslems who’d gladly slaughter Jews and Christians into our government.
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So I was asked this morning if I have a cheap baby goat for sale that I could deliver for a woman to raise in the house with her kids.
I told her we were sold out this year and wouldn’t have anymore kids until next year, but that goats do not do good alone and certainly do not do good in the house. She told me it wouldn’t be alone, she had a mini pig, 3 pet chickens and a pet goose in the house. One of her pet chickens is so cute and is setting on eggs. So I had to ask if one of her pet chickens was a rooster and she said they were all hens and she couldn’t wait for the babies to hatch.
I probably should have told her they will never hatch and not only that they will become rotten and hens sitting on rotten eggs usually causes them to explode and they smell horrible, but I didn’t. It’s probably a lesson she needs to learn for herself.
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She sounds like a Liberal who would vote for Hillery and believes in abortion up until 5 years old.
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Probably so.
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Anyone who has farm animals inside their house is beyond learning.
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Gives a whole new meaning to “being born in a barn” LOL!
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I will never understand that, especially chickens and a goose, that is just so disgusting to me. Geese crap more than chickens do.
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I know…demented…people who’ve tried to raise herd animals in a house and it NEVER worked well. Herd/range animals can’t be housebroken, den animals can and the reasons should be obvious. I know there’s probably someone out there who’ll say they housebroke a goat, horse or Guernsey but bottom line is…you don’t put range animals in the house. OK, icebox/freezer excluded but you know what I mean.
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Takes us back to the days when humans lived in one end of the building, and the animals lived in the other, or the animals downstairs and the humans upstairs – pre-1500 in England? They soon learned that it was better to have a separate building, even though the animals gave off heat.
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Humans lived upstairs from their animals in many cold-climate areas, a source of heat and it kept the stock, which was as valuable as family members, safe. Sort of presaged college dorms.
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It sure would be nice if some people would open a history book and learn from such things.
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There are even history videos, if they can’t or won’t read about it.
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They’re too busy watching stupid videos.
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Pigs can be housebroken and pigs are very smart. Their only downside is they taste GREAT!
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I’ve known people who housebroke pigs and I can see how easy it would be, because they will always poop in one place. We had one once that chose right in front of the gate as it’s pooping spot, drove me crazy. lol
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Pigs are smart enough to realize that poop coming out the posterior end requires food going into the anterior end. If eating regularly with virtually no energy output is a pig goal it will poop on the roof if you ask it too, they’tr smart. Just not smart enough to realize why we’re feeding them…
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I don’t know first hand, but I’ve been told that pigs don’t poop where they sleep, so their bedding stays clean.
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Generally pigs that aren’t forced to sleep an d live in sties are rather clean but unneutered boars to have a rank smell unless taken thru a 5-minute pig wash.
Even loose in a large pen they get filthy as they don’t have sweat glands and have to roll in mud to stay cool and keep from getting sunburn. If they’re in a sty arrangement they’ll roll in poop if it’s there just because they need to
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I wouldn’t say all of them are smart, we’ve had some stupid pigs in our day. Some though are super smart and you can easily teach them stupid tricks like sit, lay down, etc. Some are too smart for their own good, like the ones if they run out of water, even if they just drank the last drop will break free and find water, including learning how to turn on an outside water hydrant and drinking out of the hose.
Some are mean as hell and want to try to eat you before you eat them.
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The stupid ones taste just as good and you don’t feel as bad eating them.
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I’ve never felt bad about eating any of them. lol
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I can chew between tears.
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I’ve had them claim to me that they’ve housebroke goats, I call bull crap on that.
I’ve had my share of bottle baby goats in the utility room in a cage that I’ve taken outside several times a day to run around and play. Not one single one ever decided they’d poop and pee outside instead of where they slept. Goat pee stinks, that’s why as soon as I’m not having to feed every two hours, they go into the shop and soon after into the barn.
I’ve even brought newborn calves in and warmed them up in front of the fire, but as soon as they’re out of the woods, back outside they go.
Goats walk around with never losing a step crapping out goat pellets.
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Ranging animals have no reason to be careful where they poop or pee, they just take care of business as they walk along. Denning animals have every reason to control where they express as they have to keep the den clean-ish and identifying smells far away.
I don’t believe goats can be housebroken with out the assistance of an grill and a good jerk sauce.
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No teacher like experience.
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Fun gardening stuff.
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Yet more proof that white Americans of our age are inveterate racists! Just heard it in the racist TV music streaming channel so thought I’d bring it back before Youtube purges it during some PC act of penance:
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Love that! Thanks 🙂
bj
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I used speedy Gonzales as an avatar for a website. I was called a racist. So I made sure to never change it.
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This is the freedom that past generations fought like mad to preserve and that my generation is on surrendering in the name of “security.”
I hope that red wave is still going strong.
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Lots of noise in the neighborhood today. They are taking down a huge tree in the front yard 3 doors to the east of me. They have most of it out now; still working on the big lower trunk.
It’s warm (80) and sunny this afternoon. I planted my two big orange Ukranian tomatoes. They are both really tall, and still a bit slender stalked, as I kept them in the house longer. One is in the ground next to the porch, where I can use the porch post as a support. The other one I have in a large grow bag (7 gallon), just to see how it does in there. It still needs lots of support, so I am using a combination of bamboo stakes and a tomato cage. It is also near the side of the porch, so I can use that too if I need to.
I have a lot more tomatoes to plant. My DD got me a raised planter for the back yard, so I am planting my other 3 orange tomatoes in that planter along with basil. Those three tomatoes (and my cherry tomatoes) are really hardy and firm stalked, but not so tall. I put them out when it was still pretty cool, but kept them protected at night. They are much healthier plants. I’m going to try building a trellis out of wire fencing and stakes for that planter.
I have lots of cherry tomatoes, a couple of paste tomatoes, a Cherokee purple, several peppers (Jalapeno and regular bell peppers), and a couple of cucumbers that are still in pots, and more herbs – rosemary, parsley, thyme, oregano, more basil, marjoram etc. The cherry tomatoes that looked like they were going to die are flourishing after treatment with bone meal and a good granular fertilizer.
I may have overdone it! One thing I learned is how resilient tomato plants can be. Most of the ones that the cat snacked on when they were seedlings are doing great.
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Reminds me of one year when my mother and dad were living on the family farm with my aunt (in their 5th wheel trailer; they traveled in the winter). I was going up for the weekend, and my mother asked me to get her some tomato plants. The plants were little, so I bought a flat of 24 plants for her! She was astounded, but planted all of them, and we had tomato everything fresh and canned for months.
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Don’t be too sweet to the tomatoes, you will have lots of green and few tomatoes! They fruit because they think they’re gonna die!
In Scotland, they told me there was no way I could grow tomatoes without a greenhouse. Well, I had a southfacing wall at the end of my driveway so I planted some tomatoes in a growbag and showed them a tomato or two! The neighbours where jealous! Herbs will do fine just about anywhere. So will peppers. Chocolate mint has taken over my yard!
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I keep all of my herbs in containers, which helps, well, keep them contained! I had a similar experience with lemon balm at my former house. Dill can be a really bad invader too.
This year almost everything is going either in containers or grow bags (my first year with them.) I am trying to keep the tomato plants pruned (remove the suckers) so that they won’t be too foliage heavy. We’ll see, but I have always had pretty good luck with tomatoes here in Michigan. All of the indeterminates will either be staked or on trellises.
A south-facing sun trap works really well. I have one between my house and my neighbors’ house that has a white wood fence on the north. It is sheltered on 3 sides and faces south. Things do great in there!
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Barr Asking Questions the Media Don’t Want Asked
Posted: June 07, 2019 by Michael Barone
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2019/06/07/barr-asking-questions-the-media-dont-want-asked-n2547725
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The media, the Dems and some of the Reps. are all nearly hysterical about what Barr is doing. LOL
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Today is VP Mike Pence’s birthday, and President Trump’s is a week from today (flag day). Both are Geminis. I didn’t realize that until just now.
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“Temple Mount Sifting Project Unveils Artifacts from Time of David”
By Chris Mitchell – 06-07-2019
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2019/june/temple-mount-sifting-project-unveils-artifacts-from-time-of-david
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They are inviting people to take a vacation & help sift through the dirt. Be a part of dicovering history!
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Very enjoyable recap by Piers….
Piers Morgan on His World Exclusive Interview With Donald Trump | This Morning
Published on Jun 5, 2019
It’s the interview we all wanted – and one man got the UK scoop. Good Morning Britain’s Piers Morgan joins us the morning after his exclusive sit down chat with the President of the United States, Donald Trump who revealed his thoughts on the royal family, Brexit, gun control, climate change and much much more…
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Very interesting …
Civil War plant medicines blast drug-resistant bacteria in lab tests
A new study based on a mostly forgotten guide to medicinal plants, ‘Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests,’ focuses on three of the plants and shows they inhibit bacteria associated with wound infections.
During the height of the Civil War, the Confederate Surgeon General commissioned a guide to traditional plant remedies of the South, as battlefield physicians faced high rates of infections among the wounded and shortages of conventional medicines. A new study of three of the plants from this guide — the white oak, the tulip poplar and the devil’s walking stick — finds that they have antiseptic properties.
Scientific Reports is publishing the results of the study led by scientists at Emory University. The results show that extracts from the plants have antimicrobial activity against one or more of a trio of dangerous species of multi-drug-resistant bacteria associated with wound infections: Acinetobacter baumannii, Staphylococcus aureus and Klebsiella pneumoniae.
“Our findings suggest that the use of these topical therapies may have saved some limbs, and maybe even lives, during the Civil War,” says Cassandra Quave, senior author of the paper and assistant professor at Emory’s Center for the Study of Human Health and the School of Medicine’s Department of Dermatology…
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190522081405.htm
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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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A prayer for Justice Kavanaugh and Col. Flynn:
Prayer to St. Michael
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle;
be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do you, O prince of the heavenly host,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan and the other evil spirits
who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
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“MN Police Officer Mohamed Noor Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison for Murder of Justine Damond While Responding to her 911 Call”
by Jim Hoft – June 7, 2019
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/mn-police-officer-mohamed-noor-sentenced-to-12-years-in-prison-for-murder-of-justine-damond-while-responding-to-her-911-call/
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Good night! God bless!
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