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EASY TACO CASSEROLE
This taco casserole gives a family-friendly spin to a favorite weeknight dinner.
By Anna Theoktisto
https://www.southernliving.com/recipes/easy-taco-casserole
10 Summer Casseroles Even The Southern Heat Can’t Stop Us From Making
By Nellah Bailey McGough
Summer in the South is hot, but so are those early days of fall. And no matter how high the temperature gets, we always turn to casseroles for the ease and heartiness. In fact, some of the best warm-weather casseroles come together with seasonal produce and very simple and short ingredient lists. Even the heat won’t stop us from turning on the oven for these end-of-summer recipes.
https://www.southernliving.com/summer-casseroles-11788178?
Have a great day!
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Hi Lucille!
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Hello to you, Menagerie!
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Mornin’ Lucille!
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Good mornin’, Miz Wee!
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Morning Lucille!
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Happy day to you, Stella!
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“Jaequan Faulkner had been selling hot dogs outside his home in North Minneapolis, just trying to earn money for new clothes. But one summer, a complaint came in: his stand wasn’t city-sanctioned. Normally, that would’ve shut him down instantly.”
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Good morning Lucille, awesome story, I hope and pray there is much more of this happening!
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Good mornin’, ern. Coffee’s ready!
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Morning ernn!
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Good morning ernnburn!
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Good morning, ernnburn! Amen! May this young man’s story inspire others no matter their age.
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Wonderful.
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Laugh of the Day (and read the comments, too)
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Good mornin’, Lucille! That’s a good one! Coffee’s ready, ma’am.
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Good day to you, Texan! Like one of the commenters said, this wasn’t his first time around. LOL!
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Mornin’ y’all!
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They finally said something true! Morning Wee!
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Good mornin’, Menage! Coffee’s ready. You gotta people today? 😉
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Yep, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday are now people days for me. Plus, field trips sometimes on Fridays. I’m going to have to go get some of those anxiety meds they’re trying to prescribe to 6 months old babies now. Or just put vodka in my water bottle. I hate vodka.
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Morning Menage! Good luck with the peoples!
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Thanks! We had a very good first day. I hope the other classes go as well the next two days. Hopeful start!
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Mornin’ Menage! Good luck today – I’ll be thinkin’ of you both!
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Wee, I’m seriously having this framed. Recently re-did the “kids’ room” to make it multifunctional and kind of a retreat for me, and I need pictures!
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Good mornin’, Miss Wee! Do these yahoo’s get up and eat a bag of those Sour Patch Kid’s candy every morning? They sure aren’t a happy looking bunch. Coffee’s ready ma’am.
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They definitely eat a bag of … something. Mornin’ T!
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😀 😀 😀
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Mornin’ Wee!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Good mornin’, and happy Tuesday, amigo’s and amiga’s! Looks like half the crew got up extra early this morning. I found this little beauty at a shop in Tijuana and thought you might like it. Calla lilies which were one of my MIL’s favorite flowers. Keep your head on a swivel and carpe’ your coffee!
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Pretty pot! Gracias, T, and I found us something for later!
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How ’bout that!
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Thanks T! Good morning.
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cheerful
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Mornin’ Tex! It’s lovely!
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‘afternoon, Miss Stella! I may have found a new stash of coffee pots from south of my border. 😉
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That’s a beauty, Texan. Would definitely be a prize in anyone’s coffee pot collection.
This mug would go great with it…
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What once would have been unthinkable, is certainly within the realm of possibilities after what we’ve learned in the last several months. Was the FBI involved in the OKC bombing? Maybe…….
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/was_the_fbi_behind_the_oklahoma_bombing.html
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I’m sure – looks like a whole bunch of “arkancides” happened, too…. wonder which crimes we were being distracted from, eh?? Perhaps a review of Slick and the Beast’s history of that era is in order.
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What I remember most about that is the poor FBI guy who had to sit in his car at the intersection next to the Nichols farm, out in the middle of nowhere. I passed him every time I went to visit my mom, who lived about five miles past there.
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Well, we know that the FBI was involved in the kidnapping plot of Big Gretch Whitmer.
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And, they were pretty inept at that. I don’t know which is scarier, that they do such things against the American people or that they are so inept.
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We only know about the times they were caught, which IS scary!
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Wow. I got nothing else. Shared with my husband, who also has long said that it made no sense that the building was completely destroyed by external only force.
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Mornin’ All. A little cool and cloudy this morning. But, it will warm up this afternoon.
Hope you all enjoy the day.
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Mornin’ mom! Same here, with rain.
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Afternoon Mom! 98* here, may get to 104*.
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Well, it is going to top off at 86* with 30% humidity here. Completely comfortable without air conditioning.
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Love these.
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Remember what happened during the Crusades!
The St. George’s Cross, a red cross on a white field, became the national flag of England and was adopted by Richard the Lionheart during the Crusades, later being used on royal standards and combined with the Scottish St. Andrew’s Cross to form the Union Jack in 1606.
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National Potato Day – I’m sure we can find some form of potato to eat…
National Aviation Day – remember the Wright brothers
National Soft Serve Ice Cream Day – good August food
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Morning czarina!
Potatoes or soft serve? I can’t choose.
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Can’t go wrong here, but I will put the ice cream at the top of my list! 😉
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‘Taters! Afternoon Czarina!
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Good day, Czarina! There must be an ice cream specialty company which makes potato-flavored soft serve ice cream, though I haven’t discovered one yet.
In the meantime, let’s send this Juyou soft ice cream maker over to Texan so we can have some coffee-flavored soft serve along with our mugs of the delightful brew…
…and we can celebrate the Wright Brothers…Orville and Wilbur….
…at the same time. See lots of photos here…
https://www.vrogue.co/post/23-photos-of-the-wright-brothers-flights
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I would love to have some of that ice cream.
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Yes, a very large soft serve way above the cone ridge would suit me fine….
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LOL. If I was still in Florida, that would be running down my arm before I got even partway through it.
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Here too!
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Good stuff.
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An amazing story.
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WOW!
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!!!!!!!!! I’d a had a heart attack or stroke on the way down…..
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Wow, no lie!
Unlike most of us, he would have experienced free fall previously. So it wasn’t totally unknown to him. But what a choice!!!…death by fire or splatting on the ground.
According to AI, in World War 2…”Gunners typically received basic parachute training as part of their overall military instruction. Training duration varied, but it often included a few days to a couple of weeks of instruction.”
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My sentiment, too.
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INCREDIBLE! He was 21 at the time. Here’s a newspaper article which was updated in 2017….
“Amazing story of the wartime RAF gunner who fell 18,000 feet from burning plane and survived”
Sergeant Nicholas Alkemade survived a crash into Nazi-occupied Europe, only to be incarcerated in a notorious POW camp
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/amazing-story-wartime-raf-gunner-153863
I looked up his out-of-the-ordinary surname and found…
“The surname Alkemade is believed to have Dutch origins, specifically deriving from the region of the Netherlands.”
https://venere.it/en/the-meaning-and-history-of-the-last-name-alkemade/
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Excellent article, “What Every Leader Should Know About the Power of ‘Quiet Coaching’.”
Learn about the “quiet coach” leadership style — a model focused on listening, empathy and thoughtful guidance over loud speeches.
BY ANDREAS JONES EDITED BY CHELSEA BROWN AUG 19, 2025
https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/what-every-leader-should-practice-quiet-coaching/495296
The website and media company, Entrepreneur Media also seem quite worthwhile as is indicated by the note they posted at the bottom….
“We are a proud American independent media company that has never taken a dime of USAID taxpayer money 🇺🇸”
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