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An MH-65 “Dolphin” helicopter flies with the U.S. Coast Guard barque Eagle in the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday, July 30, 2015. The barque Eagle is the only active commissioned sailing vessel in American military service. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Auxiliarist David Lau)
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Stellars…hahahahahahahahaha….
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Yes, she’s perfect to be on Joe’s ticket…
CONFIRMED: Governor Whitmer Begs Michiganders Not to Travel to their Summer Home — Then Her Cars Are Seen Parked Outside of HER SUMMER HOME!
By Jim Hoft – Published May 20, 2020 at 9:58pm
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/confirmed-governor-whitmer-bans-michiganders-traveling-summer-home-cars-seen-parked-outside-summer-home/
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Uhhh yeah, but that was business, yeah, urgent government business….yeah, that’s the ticket.
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Hilite of the evening was removing a foot-long rat snake from the living room. I was assisted by two cats and three dogs…looked like a civil service business meeting except there wasn’t any coffee].
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Good morning Stellars 🙂 !
Something I have never seen the Sears Tower black. The basement and sub-basements flooded, Chicago lost some of it’s local TV and radio stations because they use the tower to transmit.
This is the only one I have of the inside, sent to me by a friend. (This is a few days ago).
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How awful. 😦
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Now Wee if I happen to see the Sears tower while it is still down, and that woman comes to mind………..Brain Bleach please 🙂 !
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It is very dramatic, and quite beautiful standing amongst the lit buildings! Is it really still called the Sears Tower by locals? I can never remember the other owners’ names, so I always called it by its original name.
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Its legal name is Willis Tower . No one from Chicago calls it that (at least people I know) it will always be the Sears Tower.
Some folks get testy about it 🙃.
I think it looks eerily beautiful.
Whenever I am driving on the freeway in WI and the Milwaukee skyline comes into view I think of Chicago and how awesome our skyline is.
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Whenever I drive to Chicago and I see the skyline, it makes me happy. My favorite building is the Hancock Center, but there are others I like too. My daughter’s former employer is located in the Aon Center (formerly the Standard Oil building). I like that one too, because of the way it is sited.
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I love the skyline, maybe because I grew up seeing it on the way to our summer house and then on the way home, it just always says home to me.
So many neat buildings there from the Hancock to the Water Tower.
A couple people I went to high school with have recently contacted me and made me feel nostalgic for home.
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Morning, lovely! How terrible! Did the lake cause flooding, too? Makes me sick about the families who’ve been flooded out.
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Afternoon Lucille 🙂 , I was told that the Chicago River overflowed, with all of the rain they have Lake Michigan likely jumped out onto LSD but I don’t know for sure. Talked with friends and family there but not about what caused the major flooding.
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Could be, since the lake empties into the river, and not the other way around.
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That’s what I’m guessing but I haven’t seen any of the dramatic pictures of Lake Michigan covering LSD which we normally see when it happens.
It could just be that I haven’t looked and no one mentioned it to me.
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Chicago River Flowing Into Lake Michigan, People Rescued From Lower Wacker
https://stlouis.cbslocal.com/video/4553944-chicago-river-flowing-into-lake-michigan-people-rescued-from-lower-wacker/
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More information.
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Here’s another excellent explanation by Juan Browne yesterday…
Michigan Dam(s) Fail! Tittabawassee River.
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That’s in Michigan 🙂 .
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Mornin’ everyone. White, hazy sky here, no rain in sight. Our big pond out back is so low that there is what I call a “beach” around it. Normally the water comes right up to the grass. It is so low that they can’t even run the water fountain in the center. It pulls too much sand up into it when it is this low. We sure could use some of that water drowning Chicago right now. SMH
Last night I watched a new show on Acorn. Dead Still. It is a British show about a photographer back in the 1800’s in England who takes pictures of the dead for their families. There is a little British mystery show in it, along with some humor. I found it very entertaining. It isn’t gruesome. I might be wrong now that I think about it. It may be set in Ireland. Anyway, the accents are hard to understand and there was one sentence I never did figure out because, even though I managed to figure out what the words were, I didn’t know what they meant. And, this ^&(* laptop locked up so I couldn’t look it up.
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With the next season of TV series and movies on hold, I hope the stations pick up some stuff from previous years from other English speaking countries to fill in the spaces. Right now BBC America and PBS carry some of them, but I would be willing to watch more. I know many have been recommended here.
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Yeah, me too.
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I plan on watching this one too. I turn on closed caption for some of these shows (even Downton sometimes) to catch what they are saying. Some of the expressions would be impossible to understand otherwise.
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Yes, I always have CC on because I don’t want to have to turn it up too loud. It burns me that some shows have the people whispering to each other and then when something happens it is very loud.
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LOL Now that you point that out, I don’t think the CC knew what they were saying either because I don’t remember seeing it.
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Good afternoon, aus! I don’t know about that series…seems like a comedy with death as a leading character trait…LOL!
We’re in the sunshine at the moment but a few clouds will pass over between the sun and earth in a while. It’s forecasted as rain today, but ?
Wish this was me…
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This sounds like something we’d like. Never heard of Acorn TV; where’d ya find it?
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On my Amazon Firestick.
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Hmm. We don’t have one of those. Wonder if it would be on Amazon Prime, which we do have. Will have to check.
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Yes!
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I subscribe to Acorn streaming ($5.99 a month). More about it:
https://acorn.tv/
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Afternoon Aus, sounds like an interesting show…
And I’m sure Chicago would love to send you some of its water!
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Mornin’ all!
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Good afternoon, WeeWeed!
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Hola Stella!
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Morning, WeeWeed! I’m assuming you posted more than “Mornin’ all!” However, nothing else shows up on my screen. Dozens of posts at CTH are the same way. I think it may have to do with items posted from Twitter accounts…I haven’t been able to play Twitter vids ever. Now I can’t even see the cover shot of the vid or the captioning.
Whatever WordPress is doing, it doesn’t seem to be an improvement for those of us with old computers…but then what is? LOL! As Stella indicated, we should know what’s up with WP on June 1st.
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It’s one panel of a Dilbert strip, with everyone wearing masks, and the pointy haired boss saying “Who mumbled that? I can’t tell with your face masks.” & the caption underneath “mumble ventriloquists”
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Afternoon Lucy! Same with me – and the twit’s gonna die for me on the first, too.
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About 3 years ago the big boss scheduled a meeting during the Cubs/Braves single game to see what team would advance to the playoffs.
One of the managers and I had a bet on the game, everyone wanted to be home watching the game, the manager propped his cell phone up in between us and we put the meeting memorandum and our drinks in front of the back of his phone. That is the only fun meeting I recall 🙂 but face masks ….. hmmmm…
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Morning…..Woke up this morning to the first real rainstorm of the season and I had to turn the furnace on…just a wee bit chilly. A perfectly good day to curl up with a blanket and a good book….:0)
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📚🛏🌧🙂 Apparently one can convey your situation in emojis!
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Who knew? :0)
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Good afternoon, Menagerie!
“Woke up this morning and I wrote down this song….” Carol King, maybe?
Have a good read!
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I meant Litenmaus, of course…the brain is frazzled what with having to cope with WordPress’s strange changes, and the way everything is bouncing around on my screen even after I switched from Google Chrome to Safari.
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James Taylor, from whom Carole is now “consciously uncoupled”–the new virtue signaling phrase from the Left to signify a positive experience for both parties, whether married or just shacking up.
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??? I must be really out if the loop.
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I read they were just having a reunion tour, but he is married to someone else….
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Photo of a lava skylight in Hawaii. Creepy, since the lava tubes look like bodies: its called a Portal to Hell.
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That is really interesting!
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Afternoon everyone. We talked about salmon recipes a week or two ago. I fixed some Tuesday using my favorite rub. Then I got an email from the guy who sells it. I’ve used their chicken and pork rub too, but my favorite remains the salmon, which BTW, also works pretty good on pork. I think I’m going to treat myself and order a new flavor.
It does have sugar in it, if you are watching that, but as I use only a few spoonfuls over a whole side of the fish, I don’t think I’m adding tons of calories.
https://tomdouglas.securetree.com/Rub-with-Love/
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I think I might just have to have that toasted shallot mustard! Stella, have you had a favorite products cooking thread? If I missed one I’d love a link.
I see he has smoked paprika, which I cannot cook without. Not long, anyhow.
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I haven’t had a favorite products cooking thread yet. I did watch a video the other day about the best supermarket smoked paprika. Their choice (America’s Test Kitchen) was Simply Organic brand.
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Thanks, I’ll try that next time!
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Sounds yummy, where can I get some? We eat salmon at least once a week, having a freezer full of it!
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You can order it from that link or they used to have it on Amazon too.
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Love that photo of the Eagle, Stella! DH sailed multiple cruises on the Eagle as a cadet at the US Coast Guard Academy, and says it was an amazing experience. He graduated with the Class of 1972, back when the Academy still had all male cadets. In his day, the cadets did not wear safety harnesses when going aloft to furl and unfurl sail. Quite harrowing, he says, to be more than 100 feet above the deck as the weather starts getting bad. By the time his son was a cadet, in the Class of 2000, harnesses were being used. DH’s class also did not have a motorized windlass to raise the anchor; heavy spokes were inserted with several men on each spoke, walking in tight circles to raise it. They called it “Norwegian steam”.
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How fabulous, Tundra, that your husband served on this beautiful ship…
Photo enlarges nicely…
AMERICA’S TALL SHIP (some great videos under “about”)
https://www.uscga.edu/eagle/
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Lee Smith: Obamagate Began with Obama’s Iran Deal and His Domestic Spying Campaign on General Flynn Who Promised to Publicize Obama’s Secret Deals with Iran
By Joe Hoft – Published May 21, 2020 at 10:22am
Excellent recap article plus a link to Smith’s full article…
Journalist and author Lee Smith uncovered the beginnings of Obamagate in an article at Tabletmag.com (for the entire article, go to: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/russiagate-obama-iran).
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/lee-smith-obamagate-began-obamas-iran-deal-domestic-spying-campaign-general-flynn-promised-publicize-obamas-secret-deals-iran/
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