Today is National Iced Tea Day. One of my favorite beverages!
There are many varieties, but I like mine plain, strong and really cold. I brew a gallon at a time, half Earl Grey and half Darjeeling. Nice and dark with a bit of citrus from the Earl Grey.
My grandson is a big tea drinker, both hot and cold. His favorite cold variety is an Arnold Palmer – half tea and half lemonade.
What is your favorite warm weather beverage?
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Yes, on the tea…
…especially Egyptian licorice and mint tea from Yogi.
A group of women friends and I would meet once a quarter for tea at various tea rooms or hotels around Los Angeles. We would dress for the occasion, often with hats. We’d also have tea gatherings several times a year at each others’ homes, using our tea services supplemented by special antique cups/saucers. Those were such fun times. Wonderful memories of wonderful women.
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That sounds like so much fun! Morning Lucille!
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Hey, sand! It was a lot of fun. An absolutely fabulous group of women…myself and 3 others met on the job in 1978. The rest were friends of one of my co-workers, plus my mother and my best friend’s mother.
Everyone just fit in right away…totally non-gossipy…by far the most unusual group of women I’ve ever been friends with, seeing each other through on many a downturn, illness, accident or breakup. Christmas was always held at the home of one gal and that was the only gathering in which our men were invited. Which was fine with them as they’d all rather be at a sporting event anyway during the rest of the year. LOL!
Four of the group have passed away; and I stay in touch via phone or email with the others. Miss each one of them and will forever.
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Such precious memories. ❤️❤️❤️
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There is a little tea room in my small town. Nothing fancy by city standards, but quite nice for a ladies treat day. I really enjoy going every once in a while.
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Small or elaborate, tea rooms are so relaxing. Love ’em!
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My poor wee British husband had never had iced tea in his life when he met me. He still only drinks it hot, with milk and sugar.
However, he had to learn how to make iced tea when he went to work in management for a large restaurant chain. He makes it better than anyone I know! Now he makes at least 2 HUGE urns every day! That’ll teach him.
My fav is Red Rooibus!
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My Brit grandmother by ‘tea in those little bags’. We still have a real tea strainer and a tea ball though living in the South, the American-Australia, out tea is culture is Brit-derived but someone decided to put ice in it along the way.
I can’t see me sitting down with a BBQ pulled-pork sammich and a cuppa hot cha, that tall glass of iced tea just tops that Southern food off perfectly.
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I have a couple of tea balls around here somewhere, and a collection of teapots. Don’t use them any more.
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My daughter in law had an Irish grandmother. Her mother loved her hot tea with milk and sugar and DIL still prefers it that way too.
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The Windsor Court, NO’s great British hotel, serves afternoon tea evey day. Used to go several times per year, but especially holiday tea, which included a glass of champagne or sherry. Yes! Dress up and wear hats!!!
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My mother and I got to go to The Empress in Banff for afternoon tea!
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I like hot and cold tea. Love Earl Grey, and in the summer especially I like cranberry tea. And I like kombucha, which is brewed from tea.
As far as I can tell, I’m the only southerner who never liked sweet tea, but I have converted my husband over to what my sons call the dark side. I like almost every kind of tea except anything with sugar in it.
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Shame, SHAME ah say, you should be aturnin’ in yah tall ice tea glasses anmd accompanying ice tea spoons…and any them thar combination ice tea spoon/straws you may have hidden. Do they let you vote?
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You know, strangely enough, in Georgia I get by with voting because I have picture ID, but when they enact the Sweet Tea Comprehensive Purge I’m going to be in hot water.
I may also be one of the few women down here who has never owned a single monogrammed item. I have a daughter in law who’d buy monogrammed toilet paper if they made it. If they do I hope she never finds out.
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I remember seeing a catalog back in the late 70’s or early 80’s that had things like monogrammed toilet paper. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was still someone offering ex-spouse, mother-in-law, politician names on each sheet.
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Any Sweet Tea Comprehensive Purge would be met with armed resistance down here, we’ve gone so far as to have an actual tea farm/plant locally, they sell locally. Our revolutionary tea cartel is already plowing the ground.
I still have some GI underwear with my name written in it, does that count as monogrammed?
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Why yes….. I’m still laughing….. let me know, if you find my flight helmet, my name is on the inside……
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How to be custom while still staying uniform. I may still have some AF clothing with the stamp consisting of the first letter of my last name and my last four. The AF has always tried to be chic.
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Morning Menagerie!
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Hey sand!
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When I married a Yankee and went up “Nawth” I asked for iced tea and they looked at me like I had two heads. What I got was a cup of hot water, a tea bag, and a small glass of ice. AND, I had to pay for each glass. 😯 My in-laws laughed at me for drinking iced tea in the winter………..while they drank their sodas. No wonder the South tried to secede from the Union.
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I get the feeling iced tea is much bigger down here than anywhere else in the country. My mama hated tea, I didn’t start drinking it until after I married.
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I grew up drinking it. I couldn’t have coffee until my late teens, but iced tea was always available. I lived in S. Cal. for many years. When we moved back, we knew we were in the South because of the availability of iced tea and especially of banana pudding on the menu. We could get iced tea in s. Cal.
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Yes, iced tea is big in California…but, then, early on there were a lot of transplanted Southerners who lived in the Golden State. It actually was a rarity to meet someone of my parents’ generation who had been born there.
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Having lived in IL, WI, NC, TX and a few other places I can confirm that the South is unrivaled in its reverence for iced tea.
I’ll never forget my first Sweet Tea !!!
I don’t know if it is like this everywhere but the folks I knew in the south added sugar to cold tea, when it was cold, not hot, so it gave the tea an entirely different flavor than what we do up north which is add sugar to hot tea and then let it cool.
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I don’t put sugar in tea, but my parents always added the sugar to their glass of cold tea.
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Have you had authentic southern sweet tea? It was a shock for this northerner!
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Doesn’t appeal to me – at all!
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Not my cup of tea, so to speak 🙂 !
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It’s yuk is what it is. Syrup, in all but thickness.
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Iced tea is a wonderful thirst quencher, and that is lost when it is loaded with sugar.
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Really? I live up north, and we always drank iced tea – even in the winter!
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Maybe it was because these were small town people who didn’t want me marrying their boy.
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I think you’ve got the succession issue down to a tea.
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My mother is a more religious iced tea drinker than I am. I remember the culture shock when we moved to Indiana. When we lived in Michigan, if you asked for iced tea it was de facto unsweetened. In Indiana, it’s de facto sweetened.
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It’s creeping into Michigan too. If I order iced tea at a fast food place, I’m sure to ask for unsweetened. Most of them at least are brewed tea now, instead of instant (nasty) iced tea.
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Noooo!!
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I hate presweetened iced tea!
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Tea around here is like air, it’s what we exist on. Southern sweet tea is standard but as I became diabetic (the sweet tea didn’t hurt there) I’ve become quite used to straight tea, no sweetener and just a dab of lemon.
I’ve tried green tea, white tea and others but few things make a hot Southern afternoon or a good meal complete like tea bag brewed plain old iced tea. Lotta ice.
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Czar well said. There are some of us who really like sweet tea. Now due to life’s adventures are not allowed to participate………I take it straight,, just like my aunt would make….
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Morning Col. Ken!
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Afternoon SAS
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My aunt too! That’s where I got the iced tea habit. Good morning, Colonel.
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Sweet or unsweetened? I really like tea, I love the taste of it, and to me sugar ruins it. I do not like sweet beverages much at all though. I really wish that dislike extended to desserts and all sweets, but alas, I do have a great love of sweets. Just not in tea or coffee.
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My tastes are exactly like yours. I do like cream in hot coffee, though. Don’t drink soda/pop very often (too sweet for me), but I love desserts!
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Afternoon Stella…….
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Gives you something to look forward to, at some point you may be allowed to tea-off again.
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Good evening Col. Ken 🙂 !
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Morning czar!
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And a glorious one, NO RAIN! My poor maters, peppers and eggplants have wilted due to too much rain so now it’s a waiting game to see how may survive.
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No rain here today, either. It’s beautiful and much cooler. Not sure if your son told you about the crazy storm here yesterday that came out of nowhere. It was crazy and this happened as a result of it:
https://twitter.com/breaking911/status/1137832121249280002?s=12
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That was really bad! I believe I read that the storm came in so fast there was no time for warnings. Sad,
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It went from a nice 6 MPH wind to pitch black and 73 MPH in minutes. 😦
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That is SO scary!!! Didn’t get as bad in my area as they were forecasting. I am thankful for that!
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Glad it was okay your direction. 🙂
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Yikes!
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No, he’s probably too busy out making money off of the storm, he’s in repair/construction.
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Yup – straight, with a wedge of lemon. Yum.
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Nyet: I can remember trying to explain iced tea in Russia. There little glasses of scalding tea set in cup-like holders were at every meal but ice, other than out on the sidewalk, was nil. I’m sure they were ready to launch a first strike over that alone.
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Yes, “lotta ice”. I often ask for another glass of ice. LOL And, most of the restaurants around here serve tea in 16 oz. glasses.
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I can’t imagine summer without iced tea…winter either for that matter.
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In all fairness czar, winter down here might not even be considered fall weather for most of our northern pals. Especially in your neck of the woods.
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I just say ‘winter’ to keep the snowbirds in Florida, we don’t need pale, overweight guys in Speedos and bathing caps on our beaches.
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Have a beautiful day folks 🙂 !
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Morning lovely!
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Evening Sand 🙂 !
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😊👋🏻
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Great subject Stella! I hope to join in later. Favorite tea; English Breakfast 🙂 .
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Darjeeling, English breakfast, Earl Grey, Lady Grey. Lapsang souchong in front of a fire.
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And Luzianne iced tea!
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Lapsang tastes like a warm toasty liquid campfire I love it! English Breakfast 90% of the time, Spearmint or Peppermint if I’m feeling ill, and that is the 3 teas I like 🙂 .
My daughters love almost all teas, I just brought the youngest one about 20 different types that she left here.
Drinking my English Breakfast as I type 🙂 !
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When my sons were in high school the first of the downtown coffee shops, way pre Starbucks, opened up in an old building that looks like it got transported from New Orleans up here. When my middle son was a sophomore and his older brother off to Nashville, we used to walk downtown and finish up there at the coffee shop.
Every morning I had coffee, he had hot tea and a blueberry muffin. They eventually tried to discontinue his brand of tea but he went on a campaign and they ordered and kept one tin just for him. The place is still open, Same owners, members of our parish. We often go there on Sunday mornings, but the morning tea drinker is no longer with us.
I have very good memories of those days before he got a car and I lost my morning companion for walks.
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A blueberry muffin!!!!!!!!!
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Yup, Odom ones too. I have never been able to match the recipe. My husband loves them too, and I can’t even get close to how they do them.
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Sigh. Good ones too, it should say.
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I was about to look up ‘Odom’!
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See, I just thought Odom was some type of very delicious blue berry 🙂 !
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Have you tried adding a bit of sour cream to your batter as part of the liquid? I found that a couple of tablespoons really improved my banana bread. Another tweak is to use brown sugar as all or part of the sugar.
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Never thought of it, thanks, I will try it.
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In all fairness we really like iced coffee too.
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My other two favorite muffins are Glorious Morning and Hummingbird.
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Now here is the latest rumor…….ADAM “Pencil Neck” , is really nervous, real nervous. Seems the NSA, Or FBI recorded a phone call, an hour long phone call, between him and Valerie J. This phone call and the transcription has been floating around the dark Web…..I can’t remember where I seen this story…….I call BS….. has anyone seen this story?
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I haven’t seen that particular story, but there are rumors floating around that he’s involved in some really bad things, which I will not discuss here, but if there’s any validity to the rumors…. he should be very afraid.
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Here, or next door. I read that same thing and I don’t read anywhere else.
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Yup. It showed up in my Twitter post yesterday.
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That’s where I had seen it, it was a Twitter post here, “C3” or another name…Stella you are amazing with that memory!!
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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!
Doughnuts for coffee!
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Morning Nyet! Morning Stella! Everything looks really good today! I’ll drink my favorite drink with it…. cold iced tea with 2 sweet n’ lows.
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Morning, S&S!
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I take that plate as is. Been eating too many doughnuts here, though. Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Morning auscitizenmom!
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Nye!!!!!!!!! Excellent breakfast, maybe some SOS for old times…….
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Good afternoon, Nyet! I totally missed your delicious fare today. I was trying to decide where to have some iced tea and got lost in travel books…finally decided Biloxi Beach…
…where I might just have a glass of Earl Gray iced…
…or find someone who will make me this…
Authentic Thai iced tea recipe (cha yen ชาเย็น) – street food style
Thanks!
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Evening Nyet 🙂 !
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Mornin’ kids!
https://twitter.com/TheFarSide_ish/status/1136250119848808448
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The caption: “Sorry ma’am, but your neighbors have reported not seeing your husband in weeks. We just have a few questions, and then you can get back to your canning.”
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Mornin’ Mom!
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Mornin’ Wee, 🙂
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Lol!
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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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Poor Charlie, but at least now his life has porpoise.
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Canned humor is beneath you czar.
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I’ll try to keep a lid on it.
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Afternoon Z’s!
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Just finished sending email to my Congressman on when will Republicans in Congress start seriously defending President Trump. I’m making a BIG pot of coffee.
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Afternoon Ms.WeeWeed!!!!!!!
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Afternoon Colonel Sir!
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Evening, WeeWeed! Mrs. Tuna looks more like a dolphin…
…than either a Bluefin or a Yellowfin tuna…
So was this a dolphin/tuna marriage (tuna are notorious for hanging about with dolphins and seeking their protection) and she got tired of his school always dropping by for a handout?
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Nah, she was pretending to can tuna to throw the fuzz off. Evenin’ Luce!
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Evening Wee 🙂 !
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Evenin’ Lovely!
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Attached, for your perusal, is Roald Dahl’s short story, “Lamb to the Slaughter”. One of my favorites, and very pertinent.
Click to access lamb-to-the-slaughter.pdf
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A case of fraudulent family illegal entry – this time the kid is infected with chickenpox.
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See, it’s Trump’s fault that these poor campesinos have to use sick children to gain access to the land of milk and honey we so greedily keep to ourselves.
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In a more serious vein, if we caught these thugistas slipping in, how many do we miss? I can’t help but see there are members in Congress who feel they’ll benefit from the US being turned into a Latin American-style violent kleptarchy, I see few other reasons for their continued refusal to stop illegal immigration from the area and their almost total lack of action in stopping the cartels from flooding the country with drugs.
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I begin to believe their goal is access to the massive cartel payoffs. And I am not convinced many aren’t already on that payroll.
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We think alike. Have accused Rep Tim Ryan of exactly that, being paid off by the cartels. Sen Rob Portman I accuse of being paid off by the cartels and the CoC. They never answer me, dunno why.
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Same boat for me. Senator Johnny Isakson has stopped even sending me the form letter and I may or may not get a reply from Rep. Tom Graves. Senator Perdue is still new enough to send me the standard reply.
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That is so sad and outrageous!
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Sorry, Stella, I should have come to the daily thread first rather than your Twitter. I posted this story there in commentary about Geraldo’s tweet!
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Our lovely First Lady…
First Lady Melania Trump’s Visit to the United Kingdom
The White House
Photo Credit: Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks First Lady Melania Trump takes a photo of children participating in the Be Best Campaign
https://www.whitehouse.gov/bebest/
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Good advice here. It’s all about how we use, or don’t use our time.
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Witnesses of NYC helicopter crash share videos, photos from the scene
https://www.foxnews.com/us/helicopter-nyc-videos-photos
The streets of Midtown Manhattan were filled with fire trucks, police cars and other emergency vehicles Monday afternoon as first responders headed to the area after receiving reports that a helicopter made a “crash landing” on the rooftop of a skyscraper along Seventh Avenue.
At least one person, identified as the pilot, was killed in the crash, the New York City Fire Department said. It does not appear anyone else was on board when the crash occurred at around 2 p.m.
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Apropos of our discussion a day or so ago, today honesty confronted reality.
I’d ordered an item from a MAJOR online service that shall go unnamed. I opened the box an lo, where I’d ordered one there was two. I decided to cal the order department and, after a long hold, got another Indian contact rep whose name is ‘Steven’ (no it ain’t).
I explained to Steven that I’d received two vice one item that I’d ordered and that I’d double checked my order on line and it showed only one so there’d been a mistake. Steve looks up the order and tells me that they’d seen their mistake and have billed me for the other. No one contacted me, their system recognized the error and instead of contacting me billed me.
Well now, they gave me the option of keeping it or sending it back so I decided that as I didn’t need or want two I’d just send it back. Sounds simple, right? Well they won’t send me a label, I have to wait for the UPS guy to show up tomorrow. That means I’m stuck here as we have one truck that services hundreds of miles of rural roads and when he gets here depends on where he starts and the number of stops he has. And there goes a day.
I love the way they cover their butts by recognizing their errors and putting the burden on you to make it right. Rather than notify you they charge you to make sure they get their pound of flesh regardless, don’t notify you, they make their mistake your problem.
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Sometimes if you push them, they back off. I did that last week when I ordered a set of four casters and received three. They wanted me to send the three back (they did offer a label and UPS pickup), and would reship the four. I said that was silly; why not send me just one? I pushed and sort of got my way. I didn’t have to send the three back, and now have seven.
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I couldn’t seem to find a use for a 2nd CB radio, that’s what I bought, and all I wanted to do was get rid of it. If it had been a double order of fine Sicilian anchovies or Japanese rice flavorings that would be OK but when you try to cook with a CB radio the food comes out electronicy tasting. Yeech.
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Well, I don’t really have a need for seven casters either, but I didn’t have to send back three, so there’s that.
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A few years back Czarina ordered a knife holder for me, it’s a freestanding wooden box loaded with hundreds of metal wires standing on edge, a bit large.
When it arrived it was in a much larger than expected box, half a footlocker sized. When we opened it there was whole case of them, six I believe. They were too big to keep and useless outside of storing kitchen knives so after a conversation with the company, where we had a bit of difficulty getting them to believe it, we finally got them returned.
It’s not a new problem, just irritating.
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Seven! I once bought a knife holder for Czar, but they sent a case (4). So I called, and they apologized for the error. Since they had only charged for 1, and I only needed one, I offered to send three back. They seemed soooo grateful, like they were just a little company and the loss would be significant.
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That happened to me once with rubber tips for chair legs. I needed four, and they sent me four packages of four.
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Walmart is terrific on customer relations. I’ve never had a single problem with them when the Customer Service contact is via their website and we do the typing back and forth bit. Each time they’ve told me the correct item would be sent immediately. They always say to keep the wrong order or return it to a local store. But the option to keep it is their first offer and so I take it since I don’t have private transportation to take a product back. I’m charged only for the item I ordered.
Last year it was my order of cheap paper towels. They sent me two packages of another brand that was of such top-of-the-line quality they’re practically like linen. The CS guy said to keep them. I’m still using them since there were 8 rolls in each package. LOL!
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Yeah, seems there are still some kinks in the commerce of the future.
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Listening to ex-Father Jonathan Morris right now on why he left the priesthood. Was hoping Menagerie had a thought on this.
My last Pastor (before I moved) was an ex-Priest who, rather than commit a sin with an affair in his parish, left the Catholic Church, married, and became a Lutheran minister. He was one of the better Pastors I’ve had, which admittedly have been few. But ex-Fr Morris said he did not leave to marry.
Are there many Priests leaving the Catholic Church? idk I’ve no memory of Priests leaving the Church like this, was curious.
Ex-Fr Morris was a shock, tbh.
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Many priests left after Vatican II, nuns as well. They spend many, many years in formation. Priesthood is a calling, one the Lord invites a man into, but the choice is his. God give his priests, who take permanent vows, abundant graces to live their vocation.
Holly Orders is one of the seven Sacraments of the Church. When a man makes those vows, at the hands of a bishop descended from the apostles, his soul is marked, changed by the Holy Spirit.
I try to remember to pray for our priests every day. Their sacrifice is on of God’s greatest gifts to the world. It is a sad tragedy when one abandons that vocation and gift of the Spirit.
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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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Ignore The Never Trump Losers Who Are OK With Liberals Winning
Posted: Jun 10, 2019 by Kurt Schlichter
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2019/06/10/ignore-the-never-trump-losers-who-are-ok-with-liberals-winning-n2547810
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I got this email a while ago from Brian Kolfage at webuildthewall.us.
THIS IS AN URGENT CALL TO ACTION:
The Globalists at the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) just showed up at our wall to LOCK THE GATE OPEN. They even invited the media to join them as they make another attempt to keep the flow of illegal human and trafficking open that our wall has shut off.
Our legal team at WeBuildTheWall has done everything we can to work with the IBWC but this latest media stunt has gone too far. We aren’t going to let a bunch of UN globalists trample on the rights of the Americans our wall is protecting
I need you to call the IBWC’s office at (915)832-4100 and tell them to CLOSE THE DAMN GATE. Why are they doing the bidding of smugglers and human traffickers by keeping the gate open? You can ask for Jayne Harkins. If you can’t get through keep calling and leave messages. Be firm but respectful.
The IBWC is half owned by Mexico We just had an entity 50% owned managed by Mexico open our gate using American police as muscle. Mexico just opened all gates In El Paso sectors by way of IBWC. @harkjay350 needs to RESIGN NoW!
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I got this yesterday too.
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