General Discussion, Thursday, June 20, 2019

This photo reminds me of the gardens of my youth – with zinnias and mums the soldiers guarding the tender plants.

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  1. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:

    Stellars…

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  2. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:

    “9 Flowers for the Vegetable Garden: Edible Flowers, Cutting Flowers, and Flowers to Deter Pests”
    https://www.thespruce.com/flowers-for-the-vegetable-garden-1403383

    Few flowers grow as easily and bloom as profusely as the annual cosmos. For the vegetable garden, choose the white or bright orange varieties, such as Cosmic Orange. They attract bees and maybe even better, green lacewings. These insects may look delicate, but they are voracious eaters, vacuuming up all manner of soft-bodied insects including aphids, scale, and thrips. Green lacewings are considered a beneficial insect, and making them at home in your garden will prevent pest insects from becoming a problem.

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  3. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:

    TRUMP’S LATEST STRATEGY IS SO BRILLIANT EVEN HIS OPPONENTS ARE IN AWE!
    Black Conservative Patriot

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  4. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    Have a beautiful day folks 🙂 ! Rain here for the foreseeable future, 56°.

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  5. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

    Mornin’ all!

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:

      Mornin’ WeeWeed!

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

      Woikin’ dat scenario right right now. We’re going to eat at a restaurant in NOLA we’ve been eating at for nearly 40 years. We’ve watched the owner’s kids grow up, take over the restaurant and have kids of their ow.

      It’s a Vietnamese place, Carl and his wife are the owners. They met in Vietnam, he was in the Army and she worked in her family’s chain of real Vietnamese restaurants. They married, moved here and eventually opened their own restaurant, giving it the same name as the chain the Commies confiscated (sam e name too).

      Originally the eaterie was only for the large Vietnamese population we had on the Westbank side of NOLA. It wasn’t segregated or anything, it was just it was designed for the – the menu was written around the walls at the low ceiling level on small blackboards and the wait and kitchen staff, other than Carl and his wife, only spoke Vietnamese.

      Over those early years there’d be a small group of us who’d, while still in the Army, would go there for lunch. We’d have various Vietnamese who’d been in the military stop by and talk with us and we’d see then Viet notables such as Nguyen Van Thieu and General Nguyen Ngọc Loan who lived in the area for a while. On Sundays you couldn’t even get in until later in the afternoon as the families would attend early church services and then flood the place for brunch/lunch.

      It changed over the decades as the local Viet population aged or moved on. It was still a 40s or 50s looking working-person’s cafe, nothing fancy and definitely showing its age, just great Vietnamese food with great people and great memories, ridiculously low prices and large portions. Then, just a couple of years back, the yuppiefication of the Westbank Walmart bought the small strip mall it had been in for decades and they had to move.

      Their new spot is in a small building they’ve owned for many years in an area that was ‘iffy’ but now is quite chic right by the new medical corridor No more used lino floors, all new wood. No more lights hanging from the ceilings, old wobbly chairs and tables, woodwork with sharp edges long gone, no hand-painted walls with memories. It’s all new with modern, big city, non-ethnic decor. The portions have downsized for more urnan vice working tastes (no more ‘extra fat/extra gristle 50 cents’, notes on the menu) and the tastes have changed slightly for, I guess, urban palates but it’s still good and still our place.

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    • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:

      Good morning, WeeWeed!

      Coffee will Kill You, Until it Won’t, and Other Fake Health News
      By Brian Joondeph – June 18, 2019

      Every week there is another health pronouncement saying what is now good for you and what is going to kill you. Unfortunately, the “what” is often interchangeable — what was supposed to kill you last week is now suddenly good for you or vice versa.

      https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/coffee_will_kill_you_until_it_wont_and_other_fake_health_news.html

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:

      Evening Wee 🙂 !

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  6. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
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    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_| (Night Train Express)
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    Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
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    Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕

    Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Doughnuts for coffee!

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  7. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

    Good morning everyone. Pretty sunshine now, but storms are coming.

    This is one of the best articles I have ever seen on prayer. Good stuff in it.

    https://www.catholicstand.com/learning-how-to-pray-takes-time-and-practice/

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    • Morning Menagerie! That was our day yesterday. It was beautiful most of the day and then around 4 pm the heavy rain and hail storms started up.

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    • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

      We got pounded again last night.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:

      Good morning! Rain almost every day for the next week. Thanks for the article!

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      • litenmaus's avatar litenmaus says:

        :0) Morning Stella….The good news is, we’re getting the rain and the crops are loving it. The bad news is, the contractor postponed his start date for another two weeks because of the forecasted rain.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:

          Bah on the postponement, but I’m glad you’re getting the rain you need. It is raining more than usual here, but not a huge amount at any one time, so it’s okay.

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          • litenmaus's avatar litenmaus says:

            Because we had so little snow cover this past winter the farmers were a little concerned about the winter wheat, however the rain that we’ve gotten in the last couple of weeks has been incredibly beneficial to the crops and the fields are really starting to look beautiful.

            ‘Bah’ sums it up really well. :0)

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

          Lasdt rain did in most of our garden, we’re still looking at cukes and squash though. Shoulda planted frogs.

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        • czarina33's avatar czarina33 says:

          I knew a man who grew up in upper Montana. When he was a teen his father gave him some acreage on their farm, and he planted flax. Weather was horrible for everything that year, except flax which grew wonderfully and made him some college money.

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          • litenmaus's avatar litenmaus says:

            :0) Flax does well here czarina, but it seems to take forever to ripen and the harvest season for those that plant it never seems to end. Kudos to the dad.

            We do have a few rogue young farmers that plant peas, mustard, flax & garbanzo beans, but in this area most farmers stick with the tried and true dry land crops of barley, oats and wheat.

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        • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

          I just cannot get a week of no rain to do my wood staining. I am so tempted, when the sun is shining so bright and has been all morning (not today though, raining now) to go out and get started on a porch or a handrail, but the professional in me knows that I have got to have about 72 hours of dry weather for everything to dry out before I can put that stain on, and that’s going to take a few days, given how much wood we have, then it needs to have a day or so dry before more rain.

          Not looking good for this last big project hanging over my head. Oh, how I remember that we loved all these porches, walkways and decks so much when we bought this place. Still do, but not for working on them.

          I really hope that it will appeal to a buyer that there is not one thing major here that has to be done, except they might want to get the floors refinished, there are some scratches and stuff, pretty minor though.

          We have totally new heating and air unit, well pump, water heater, roof about five or six years old. All the exterior work done. I keep telling myself that if it does not increase the value of the place it will at least be strong points in our favor with a buyer. Yep, I keep telling myself that, as I work and work.

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          • litenmaus's avatar litenmaus says:

            “I keep telling myself that if it does not increase the value of the place it will at least be strong points in our favor with a buyer.”

            It is hard for me to realize that it was only a year and a half ago that I was painting closet after closet after closet and telling myself the same thing Menagerie.

            I was talking to a contractor last week and he’d just come from my old home. He told me that the new owners were absolutely thrilled that there was not one thing they had to do when they moved in and they were so grateful for the work that I’d put into the place before I listed it for sale. That little bit of information made my day.

            Hang in there …(I know, some days that’s really hard to do) all your work will pay off for you. :0)

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          • czarina33's avatar czarina33 says:

            Can we see pictures of the porch when its done?

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            • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

              If I live long enough to actually finish it!

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            • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

              So far I have also painted the spare bedroom upstairs, troweled on a texture in the upstairs bath, because all the rooms were wallpapered by the previous owners, and the sheet rock people did not finish the walls, and then the paper hanger did not prep the walls, so I’ve either had to do extensive skim coating or a room got textured. This one had a finish I liked, but potential buyers might not, so I made it a solid color.

              I have also changed the Venetian plaster in my bath, which turned out to be one of the very best finishes I have ever done, I’ve troweled on a stone type mix to the counters, now they look like black stone, I’ve re-surfaced a pedestal sink, and I have one more vanity to go.

              Almost done, just need the rain to stop! And I think I would pay a couple thousand more for a new house if I could just find one I don’t have to paint. Which is not going to happen. I’ve only seen one house online with colors I liked and it sold almost immediately..

              Oh well. They usually do such a crappy job on the painting that is very probable I’d re-do it anyhow.

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              • czarina33's avatar czarina33 says:

                Were these skills learned during your years at Home Depot?

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                • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

                  I have a little artistic talent. Majored in commercial art in high school, which was a trade school. At Home Depot I was able to learn a little about faux finishes, which I had been fascinated with for some time. I left the Depot to start my own decorative painting business.

                  I took additional classes in Atlanta and online, but a great deal of what I learned was trial and error, heavy on the error part, especially at first. Fortunately I liked to experiment, and I used to do lots of sample and techniques in my shop.

                  The hardest thing I had to learn was to only show the work I could do fast enough for a profit, not the really complex stuff I spent hours and hours perfecting.

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    • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:

      What an excellent article, Menagerie! Convicting, thus timely, too! A great reminder that though God doesn’t reject a sincere but somewhat superficial prayer, He desires that deeper prayer–truer, fuller communion with Him–be a goal to set our hearts and souls upon.

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  8. glendl's avatar glendl says:

    Good Morning everyone,

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  9. jeans2nd's avatar jeans2nd says:

    Good afternoon Imaginary Friends.
    DIL left this morning. She and Wicked Son are driving back tomorrow, loading up the remainder of belongings in a UHaul, and leaving for good on Sat. Poor Old Evil Mom will be left totally alone, bereft, defenseless, with no solace, no one to care for her, woe is me, blah, blah, blah…

    Have i mentioned my clone – Obstreperous GDaughter – lives four streets up from me? And Insalubrious GSon stayed at school for the summer in Toledo? Think Wicked Son is taking his revenge on Evil Mom?

    DIL went to say goodbye to her mom last night. DIL’s mom lives in an “older folk’s home,” does absolutely nothing for herself, is grotesquely obese, and never leaves her Hoverround except to sit in her lift chair.
    DIL’s mother was “too tired” to move to her Hoverround, get in the elevator, and go downstairs to unlock the door. What kind of mother does that to her only child? DIL’s father rejected her at birth, and again a few years ago when DIL contacted him.

    The behavior of DIL’s mother broke my heart for DIL, and now I am pissed. Anger is a great emotion for dealing with sorrow and loss. Will continue my pity party another time.
    Have a Great Afternoon.

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  10. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:

    “10 Mental Health Benefits of Gardening”
    Few activities are more life-giving.
    Posted Jun 19, 2019
    https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/think-act-be/201906/10-mental-health-benefits-gardening

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  11. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:

    Oh, my…

    “DEVELOPING: Combat Medic Testifies That He, Not Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, Killed ISIS Prisoner”
    by Cristina Laila – June 20, 2019
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/developing-combat-medic-testifies-that-he-not-navy-seal-eddie-gallagher-killed-isis-prisoner/

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

      Remember the old days when, in the military, you got a medal for killing the enemy and not an indictment?

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      • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

        No. My first memories of war involve Sergeant William Calley. It was on the news every night at our house, and the papers had him on the front pages. I don’t remember the year that was, but I do not believe I was out of elementary school yet, maybe I was sixth grade or around that.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

          The alleged massacre was in March, 1968 in My Lai, Vietnam. His trial began in November of 1970 and he was ‘convicted’ in 1971. It was the anti-war Rats, progs and Communist sympathizers using one pawn on the big chess board to indict the entire war.

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          • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

            I was ten in 1968, and not sure at all why there was fighting in Vietnam. For some reason the arrest and trial brought the war into real, live action for me, something that made me work a little bit to try to understand.

            Later, in junior high and high school I would become a somewhat annoying person always involved in some cause or controversy. My first one was that I believed Lt. Calley (pardon my earlier error, I actually did know he was Lt.) was innocent. My second was getting a POW bracelet, and IIRC, I think that might have been the first letter I wrote to a senator or congressman.

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            • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

              I was leaving a tour in Nam in March of ’68…actually spinning down as I was scheduled to be wheels-up April 7th, late in the day, but on 4 April MLK was shot and plans were modified.

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  12. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    Unreleased for 34 years, Freddie Mercury “Time”.

    In October 1985, mere months after Queen’s iconic performance at Live Aid, Freddie Mercury was recruited by his dear friend, British Invasion pioneer Dave Clark, to record the track “In My Defence” for a star-studded concept album based on Clark’s sci-fi/rock musical Time. The session at London’s Abbey Road Studios went so swimmingly that, Clark tells Yahoo Entertainment, Mercury asked him, “‘Have you got any other songs?’ I said, ‘Well, I have got the title track.’ And that was called ‘Time.’ I played it to him. He was totally committed, which is where this all came from. He was amazing.”

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  13. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

    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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  14. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

    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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