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Good mornin’, and happy Monday. I’m still spent after watching that memorial service yesterday, so moving a few minutes behind. Found this modern looking machine. Not real big, but rather sporty. Keep your head on a swivel and carpe’ your coffee!
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Good morning, Tex.
Easy to operate, just the thing for a Monday morning. Uncomplicated and easy to refill.
Thank you.
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Morning Reflection!
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Good afternoon, Menagerie!
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Mornin’ Tex!
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Not sure where my coffee pot went, but I saw it in my reply and then it went away. Try again here. (I see it)
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Thanks T. Good morning to you!
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Mornin’ and gracias T!
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Very modern
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Oh, wow. It looks like a bullet.
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Morning everyone. For those who’d like a different beverage, maybe later in the day, we Tennesseans have you covered! Have a sip of one of our more well known state products.
Who here has ever tried a drop of corn squeezins? Brewed well, it’s actually quite good. This time of year, I particularly enjoy apple shine. You take a quart of moonshine, some apple cider, add some castor sugar, cinnamon sticks and other flavorings, heat until the sugar is dissolved, cool, then put in Mason jars and leave for weeks. Heated a mite it’s a fine cool weather drink. Used to love to sip it out on the porch at the cabin, or in front of a good fire.
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Mornin’ Menage! 😀
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Very good! Morning Menagerie.
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Good morning Stella!
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Good morning Menage!
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Morning ernn!
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LOL
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Good morning aus!
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Oh Menagerie,
I have to give that a like. Sometimes you ‘gotta make do with what’s on hand.
(Disclaimer: I have never made moonshine. Distillation equipment can have more than one purpose.)
I’m not sure why making a small amount of moonshine is illegal, whereas some quantities of homemade beer and wine are allowed. Would the Germans and Italians revolt? I do realize moonshine is much higher proof. And potentially deadly when made poorly.
Many things do ferment quite naturally.
Apple shine sounds a lot better than apple jack.
Even cider will turn hard under the right conditions. And some people make sure to have the right conditions.
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True story, with apologies to my other friends here, who have had to listen to me bitch about this for years. I used to live in a cabin in the woods on the side of a ridge in Georgia. Had a relative who offered to give me his little still and help set me up. Perfect location, up on the ridge, and I think I could have been a great brewer.
That location was remote, and perfect. Could have been a great set up. My husband, for reasons that escape common sense, did one of his very rare interventions into my schemes and refused to let me have it, and the world lost a master brewer. Jerk face period, I reckon.
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Mornin’ kids!
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Truth. Can’t keep up, Wee.
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Mornin’ Wee!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Mornin’ Wee!
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Mornin’ Ernnburn!
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Good afternoon, Wee.
I’ve seen that lady before, uttering other pearls of wisdom.
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National Brown Butter Day
National States and Capitals Day
National Online Recovey Day – back up your info
National Family Day
National Girls’ Night
National White Chocolate Day – but not as good as brown chocolate
National Centenarians’ Day
National Ice Cream Cone Day – cone invented this date
Hobbit Day
National Elephant Appreciation Day
Dear Diary Day
Car Free Day – not likely. Got errands to rum…
Autumnal Equinox
American Business Women’s Day
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Mornin’ Czarina!
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Mornin’ Czarina!
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LOL
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Good evening, Wee.
Trying hard not to be crestfallen.
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Afternoon Reflection! It’s that time of year, for me. I heart spring and summer!
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Afternoon Czarina.
The autumnal equinox. Already. It’s official.
What a substantial list for a single day.
Hope your errands went well.
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Good morning Stella!
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Mornin’ All. Pretty chilly this morning. It rained a little yesterday. So, it was only 50* and is going down into the 40’s tonight. Guess it is time to turn the bathroom baseboard heater on. It takes a while to warm up. It will never get hot but it does take the chill off.
They just showed the scene where Trump had his arm around Erica at the Memorial and was hugging her as she laid her head on his chest. It was so touching.
Hope you all are enjoying the Fall. I sure am.
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Mornin’ mom! Try to stay warm. It just started raining here, and I have to leave to go for some tests at the doctor’s office.
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Today feels like the dead of winter in Florida. I used to love the “dead of winter”. I threw on a sweatshirt and I am warm.
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Mornin’ Mom!
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So true, so true!! Fall in Florida consists of only about 2 days and happens several months later than this.
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Afternoon Aus! In the forties here last night and we are starting to get some color on several trees, mostly red and orange.
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My son the history buff just sent this, with the comment that it’s the anniversary of the best and most well written insult in history.
“I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. You commenced your cowardly and contemptible persecution of me soon after the battle of Shiloh, and you have kept it up ever since. You did it because I reported to Richmond facts, while you reported damn lies. You robbed me of my command in Kentucky and gave it to one of your favorites—men that I armed and equipped from the enemies of our country. In a spirit of revenge and spite, because I would not fawn upon you as others did, you drove me into West Tennessee in the winter of 1862, with a second brigade I had organized, with improper arms and without sufficient ammunition, although I had made repeated applications for the same. You did it to ruin me and my career. When, in spite of all this, I returned with my command, well equipped by captures, you began again your work of spite and persecution, and have kept it up; and now this second brigade, organized and equipped without thanks to you or the government, a brigade which has won a reputation for successful fighting second to none in the army, taking advantage of your position as the commanding general in order to further humiliate me, you have taken these brave men from me. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and are a coward; and if you were any part of a man, I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them, and I will hold you personally responsible for any further indignities you endeavor to inflict upon me. You have threatened to arrest me for not obeying your orders promptly. I dare you to do it, and I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of your life.”
-Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, to Gen. Braxton Bragg following Chickamauga
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I knew of Gen. Forrest – I’d not heard of Bragg, so I went to read up on him. A very small condensation of his career:
“Bragg is generally considered among the worst generals of the Civil War.[1] Most of the battles he engaged in ended in defeat. Bragg was extremely unpopular with both the officers and ordinary men under his command, who criticized him for numerous perceived faults, including poor battlefield strategy, a quick temper, and overzealous discipline.[1] Bragg has a generally poor reputation with historians,[1] though some point towards the failures of Bragg’s subordinates, especially Major General and former Bishop Leonidas Polk—a close ally of Davis and known enemy of Bragg—as more significant factors in the many Confederate defeats under Bragg’s command. The losses suffered by Bragg’s forces are cited as highly consequential to the ultimate defeat of the Confederate States of America.[1]“
He tended to run away and blamed his underlings for his failures. I’m surprised his guys didn’t frag him.
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Well, he must have stayed the hell away from Forrest after that. Up on Missionary Ridge there’s a Bragg Reservation, a small park that I suppose must be named after him.
Unrelated fact, but Civil War trivia. My husband’s family moved to Chattanooga when he was 13 years old. They grew up in a very old house on a huge hill facing Missionary Ridge. Some of the Union soldiers mistook it for the Ridge, and dug in. In the middle of the city, this very large hill is mostly wooded, and there are some partial remains of dugouts lined with stone, and artifacts to be found. One of my brothers in law now owns most of the property.
Also, that rat bastage Ulysses S. Grant stole the stones being used to build Saints Peter and Paul’s where we used to be members. He used them for fortifications and the federal government paid something for them finally, in the 1890s I think it was. Probably a pittance. Anyhow, church didn’t get built for a number of years, and that was a danged shame too because it’s just a breathtaking and beautiful church, and built to a large extent by very poor Irish railroad workers who would have sacrificed greatly for those building materials.
But that’s war. I don’t think our grandchildren are being taught this, deliberately, but when we were kids, we knew that we lived on battleground, and that more was all around us, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold Gap, of course Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain. One of the guys from Texas I used to work with at Home Depot once said “You guys are still living in the Civil War.”
Once upon a time, it was that real to us. Last year’s visit to Gettysburg, Antietam, and Harper’s Ferry left me with the impression that it’s still that way there too, especially around Gettysburg.
I don’t think we should forget, and not for bad reasons, or division or North versus South, but for very human and deeper reasons.
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Coward Bragg, Braxton, had several cousins, etc. in the war, also. None of whom were yellow, so maybe it’s named after one of those Braggs. Maybe.
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One of my son’s best friends was a descendant of Bragg. He was in a lot of trouble in high school, but married and straightened out later and was a good friend to my son. I can’t remember if Braxton Bragg was an uncle or grandfather.
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I agree with you. It should not be forgotten. My family comes from that area, too.
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And to be clear, my remark about Grant was tongue in cheek. I actually do admire a lot about him.
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Still reviewing the entirety of the memorial service.
Psalms 116:15
Precious (Of great cost) in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
KJV
Never forget that God values His children highly.
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