General Discussion, Friday, August 22, 2025

Posted on August 22, 2025 by Stella

Day TWO HUNDRED FIFTEEN of Presidential recovery.

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  1. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    August 22, 2025 at 1:29 am

    Stellars….

    NY Philharmonic Concerts in the Parks 2025 – The Rooftop at Pier 17…

    THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER

    The US National Anthem played on UK’s most EPIC Cathedral Organ | Gloucester Cathedral

    Richard McVeigh, organist – Posted November 26, 2021

    “John Smith (the composer of the tune) knew Gloucester Cathedral very well and it was possible that he was chorister at this place and knew these walls and acoustic!”

    Have a lovely day!

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  2. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    August 22, 2025 at 6:56 am

    Mornin’ kids!

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  3. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
    August 22, 2025 at 6:58 am

    Good morning folks. Made it through a challenging week, I’m feeling good after a long cold, or whatever the virus of the day is, and week one of homeschool academy classes went well for my grandson. Peopleing for me was better than expected as well. We shall rejoice, and thank God!

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  4. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    August 22, 2025 at 7:13 am

    Good mornin’, and happy Friday! Looks like folks have been busy around here this morning. I’ve got the back-up breakfast going as well. Keep your head on a swivel and carpe’ your coffee!

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    • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
      August 22, 2025 at 7:30 am

      Thanks and good morning to you,T! Reckon we need the Force to deal with Friday….

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      August 22, 2025 at 8:05 am

      Thanks T, and good morning. We have a buffet this morning, you get choices, scrambled or fried, sausage or bacon. Now let’s mix it up, cuz I think fried eggs are better with gravy and biscuits.

      Cooked some deer tenderloin for weekend treat breakfast last week. I added bacon to the pan with it to flavor it, and make the grease for gravy. Left behind the browned bits from the venison cooking as well. It was the best pan of gravy I’ve made in all 49 years.

      I told my husband we could probably make ourselves rich in retirement by opening a breakfast only diner serving that one meal daily for a few hours, four or five days a week. He pointed out that you can just buy venison tenderloin wholesale.

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    • Stella's avatar Stella says:
      August 22, 2025 at 9:39 am

      Mornin’ Tex! Backup is always welcome.

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  5. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
    August 22, 2025 at 7:50 am

    Stella, have you ever done a breakfast recipe post? I don’t remember. I have been doing what I like to do this week, skipping breakfast. And I am trying to go back to more meat and egg protein, and lower carb. Here’s a good recipe for that, and you can make and store some. You might like this one, Stella.

    https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/recipes/a51155/ham-egg-cheese-roll-ups-recipe/?epik=dj0yJnU9c0tKai1JVm9hZ2VxdjN0bUVDZ1FkdDA0RVVzMzNfaWcmcD0wJm49QV9KY25WYlVSdG5LYnhDUlh2UlE2dyZ0PUFBQUFBR2lvVVRN

    Now, since they are an ingredient, let’s talk scrambled eggs. I used to not be picky about them, but I am now. My husband, wonderful man that he is, has had to cook for us several times in the last few years after my ankle injury and then later the ankle replacement. Never would I complain or tell him, but his scrambled eggs were just really bad.

    This made me think about what makes them good, so I watched some videos. One, which I cannot find anymore, was Gordon Ramsay. He has newer videos, but the technique and directions are a little different from what I remember of that one.

    Whip the eggs a bit, adding some air to them. I whip mine up pretty good, making them fluffier. I like to add a spoonful or so of heavy cream before whipping. Cook on low heat in butter. You want to cook slow, allowing curds to form. In this video, I remember that Gordon was so emphatic on low, slow cooking that he alternated taking the pan off the heat for a moment, even on low. I use a spatula to gently push the curds around as they start to form, and move the uncooked eggs around the outside into the center, removing them from heat again just before they set, because I don’t like hard cooked eggs. If you want to add seasoning and cheese, top while still hot in the skillet.

    Scrambled eggs are a dish we take for granted, but I’ve had a couple of people remark on my eggs and ask me how to do it since Gordon taught me how. I don’t really know why, but scrambled eggs with cream cooked well taste very, very different from when they are just tossed in and cooked fast and rough.

    Also, they are one of the rare breakfast foods I don’t use bacon grease to cook. 😀

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    • Stella's avatar Stella says:
      August 22, 2025 at 9:43 am

      I’ll take a look at that recipe, as it contains all things that I like. I must get back to low carb, as I am gaining weight! My grandson makes delicious scrambled eggs, and one of the secrets, I am convinced, is to add cream or half and half to the whipped eggs. There is science to that, but I can’t remember where I read about it. Butter definitely.

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  6. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    August 22, 2025 at 8:25 am

    Johnn Bolton had vistors this morning! More to come! 😀 😀 😀

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  7. czarina33's avatar czarina33 says:
    August 22, 2025 at 9:49 am

    National Neveer Bean Bettee Day – The celebration encourages both the spirit of generosity and sharing the joys of life with delight. Go out into the world with your family pet and plant the bean of love everywhere you go. Share it generously, like dogs do when they take care of us when we are sick or down. They give us all their love with abandon in the forms of licks and snuggles. Sometimes our furry friends do tricks and antics only canines know how to do. Other times, they even perform their own love song or woo woo. Every day should be a Never Bean Better Day to share all the love your dog stores up!

    National Surgical Oncologist Dat

    National Bao Day – a steamed Vietnamese Bun

    National Pecan Torte Day – looking forward to one

    National Tooth Fairy Day

    National Be an Angel Day – do a kindness for an old person

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  8. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
    August 22, 2025 at 11:03 am

    Did you guys see Cracker Barrel took a 200 million dollar plunge yesterday? Like I said elsewhere, we’ve stopped eating there for other reasons. Drastic reduction in portion sizes and food quality. Also, they have pretty poor service every time we’ve gone recently.

    That being said, I like the old logo better, but the whole updating stores, logo, selling beer, etc. is getting out of touch with the reason people are customers I think. The nostalgia of the stores was mentioned in a lot of commentary yesterday. And like my husband said months ago, I go to Cracker Barrel for gravy, not beer.

    Another female executive, CEO in this case, goes woke, and headed toward broke. Do I think female executives, managers, and business owners can do as good a job as a man? Heck yeah, I did for many years. But they often don’t.

    I don’t know what it is with women and the woke crap. It’s so often hypocritical, and very counter to our actual best interests. For example, the trans agenda in sports is very anti women.

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  9. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
    August 22, 2025 at 11:51 am

    Quick thing before I get back to work with the boy. My son, who is an owner/operator trucker with many years in the industry, and I were just discussing the arrest of the illegal alien who killed 3 people. He fled to California, the Lt. Governor of Florida went and got him, and threw the gauntlet at Newsom in a press conference.

    Secretary Duffy and Secretary Rubio joined the battle. Real repercussions coming to these states that don’t follow law and keep us safe.

    Here’s what my son added to the fact that Rubio just halted licensing the illegals. I had no idea about this. My son, who sometimes works with freight brokers, said there are a huge number of immigrant, legal or illegal, brokers who throw deals at their illegal alien buddy friends who drive, and they do it cheap, driving freight rates down for American trucking companies and drivers.

    It gets better though. Many, a great many of these drivers are completely uninsured. The paperwork they have to have to stay on the road, the papers that get checked by law enforcement officials, DOT, at weigh stations, etc. has been completely forged by the brokers for the drivers.

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  10. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    August 22, 2025 at 12:18 pm

    Afternoon All. Another cool morning with beautiful clear skies and a lot of sun. Hope you are not affected by the storm that passed by the coast. That looked really nasty. But, enjoy the day……remember it is Friday.

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  11. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
    August 22, 2025 at 3:32 pm

    This is one of the best things I’ve ever read on X.

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  12. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    August 22, 2025 at 3:33 pm

    A 22-minute presentation today well worth watching…

    Class of August 2025 (Ponte Vedra, FL) – K9s For Warriors

    Livestream of our graduation for the August 2025 Florida Class of Warriors at the Shari Duval Campus in Ponte Vedra, FL.

    Determined to end #Veteran suicide, @K9sForWarriors is the leading #nonprofit organization that provides trained #servicedogs to #military Veterans nationwide suffering from #PTSD, traumatic brain injury (#TBI) and/or military sexual trauma (#MST) — at no financial cost to the Veteran.

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  13. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    August 22, 2025 at 3:42 pm

    It looks like Louisiana is getting serious about child rape. I do doubt that this will fly. Some of the commenters think it would be better to put them to death because that is the only way to really stop them.

    https://americanwirenews.com/go-louisiana-child-predator-will-be-fully-castrated-under-states-new-law/?utm_campaign=james&utm_content=8-22-25%20Daily%20PM&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=Get%20response&utm_term=email#disqus_thread

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  14. Stella's avatar Stella says:
    August 22, 2025 at 6:00 pm

    Made another quart of refrigerator pickles today. I remembered to put in the cucumbers!

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