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Franconia Notch State Park, New Hampshire…
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Likely thanks to Miz Stella, it showed up. I’m reminded of a Chinese proverb I read in college…”Patience! In time the grass becomes milk.”
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Good mornin’, Lucille! Coffee’s ready, ma’am.
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Good morning, Texan! I’ll be over later to partake in the delightful brew….
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Mornin’ Lucille!
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Good morning, Miz Wee!
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Morning Lucille!
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Good mornin, Stella!
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My previous Monday post seems to have disappeared into the ether. Maybe I’m not here either…gone, poof!
Have a great day while keeping each other informed and sane. Maybe taking a little jaunt to South Carolina would be just the ticket…
“This Charming Town Is One Of The Most Underrated Destinations In South Carolina”
This Piedmont town brings big energy.
By Tara Massouleh McCay – Updated on September 2, 2025
https://www.southernliving.com/anderson-sc-6536573?
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Good mornin’, and happy Monday! It looks like we’re coming down to the wire in NYNY, so I thought I would try to find something that reminded me of the city in its heyday. Art deco does that for me. Keep your head on a swivel and carpe’ your coffee.
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The perfect day for a fancy pot! Mornin’ T!
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Oh T, how I missed your coffee! Happy Monday, and thank you so much!
We should all start texting each other like old time explorers: “Dearest friend, the coffee has been consumed. The perils of this day are many, but I have survived thus far.”
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I like it!
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Beautiful pot! Mornin’ Tex.
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Beautiful.
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Texan, that looks to be a Clarice Cliff (1899-1972 British) pottery piece. Here are several of her cups for the sideboard today….
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Those are defintely some sporty coffee cups!
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Good morning to everyone. Home from our beach trip. I miss the watching the sunrise over the ocean as I have my coffee!
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Mornin’ Menage!
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Hey Wee!
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That is one thing I really enjoyed when we stayed at the beach.
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Here’s an article I just stumbled across about funeral processions. I don’t know if it’s a big deal where you live, but down here it certainly is. I think most places observe this visible sign of respect.
https://www.southernliving.com/why-southerners-pull-over-for-funeral-processions-11720363
Can y’all tell I’m putting off school? So not in the mood, either of us.
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That doesn’t happen in the city, but it does in the country. I noticed it at the funerals of family members.
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So, I had this happen last night. Have you guys ever heard of this?
We had just gotten home from a long road trip and not had a meal since breakfast, so we chose to order some food. I placed an order for something from a place I’d never seen before, Leo’s Italian Kitchen. I thought at first that the driver had brought us the wrong order. It came in a Logan’s bag, and was in their labeled to go containers. Opened it up, and it was kind of what we ordered, two chicken parms and mozzarella bread.
But the chicken dish was chicken tenders over penne pasta with what looked to be maybe a half a can of tomato chunks with some cheese. Bread was Logan’s rolls cut in half with cheese. So, I contact DD to tell them they have an illegitimate business on their app, someone buying a few things from Logan’s and making something else. Seems like who knows what kind of health risk.
DoorDash completely blows me off, even though I told them right up front that this was not a complaint seeking a refund, but concern about how they vet potential restaurants they do business with. Long story short, I post this on X under the DD account, and assure them I’m contacting Logans’s, and today the Health Department.
After that, I get a call from the Logan’s manager. Turns out that DoorDash has what the Logan’s manager called a ghost kitchen program. They want to offer more choices than they have in restaurants and they get other restaurants to “make” non standard orders. They used to send it in plain white packaging and bags, but cut that out, so Logan’s had no choice but to use their packaging. He said they do it with other restaurants, specifically Cracker Barrel as well.
You are paying for food from a non existent restaurant, getting something thrown together with standard ingredients from a place whose food you didn’t choose. I intend to follow this up today with a complaint to DoorDash’s corporate offices. I find this to be seriously unethical business practice.
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!!!!!!! I had no idea. Sounds like S’port’s idea of “Mexican” food, though. 😦
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Morning Menagerie! That’s awful. I never use Door Dash, and that is a very strange (and unethical) practice. Just read this on Wikipedia:
Sounds like a dodgy operation.
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Boy, I’ll say.
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I did an internet search on “Door Dash and Ghost Kitchens” and there are multiple articles about it. Apparently, it has been going on for a number of years. Here’s one article:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/food-dining/2023/10/17/what-is-a-ghost-kitchen-meaning/70606643007/
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I consider this a “scam”. And, though I rarely order l will remember this practice.
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Hello, Menagerie! That’s not only deceptive, but to not even inform your patrons that potentially unlicensed cooks are sending out food which has not passed inspection is plain revolting and probably illegal. Who are these outside cooks? What are their qualifications? Have their kitchens been checked out for pathogens, etc.
I’ve never used Door Dash or any food delivery except Walmart and that’s fresh produce only and not on-site cooked food. I don’t even order their baked whole chicken anymore.
Best of luck in getting to the bottom of it.
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National Coffee Day – just in time
National Fall Foliage Week – I’m off to start a fall foliage tour in Friday.
National VFW Day
National Urban Wildlife Refuge Day – like coyotes and deer? Raccoons and possums?
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Yay!! Coffee!! Mornin’ Czarina!
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Morning czarina! I’ll have another cup of coffee.
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Have fun on your trip.
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Good day, Czarina! Always wonderful to celebrate our wildlife friends…
And celebrating veterans of foreign wars from Idaho…
Plus having another day to celebrate coffee and autumn foliage…
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Mornin’ All. It is about 50* and so feels really cool out this morning. But, it looks like a beautiful day. It is supposed to rain in the middle of the night and early morning. Right now it is just beautifully sunny.
Hope you all have a great day.
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Mornin’ Mom!
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Mornin’ mom! Send some of that rain our way.
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I would, but I am not sure we can afford to share.
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Good morning, aus! Enjoy your Montana autumn.
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Instant karma! Protester berating ICE forgets to park car—watches it sink into lake.
https://thedailybs.com/2025/09/29/instant-karma-protester-berating-ice-forgets-to-park-car-watches-it-sink-into-lake/?utm_campaign=james&utm_content=9-29-25%20Daily%20AM&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=Get%20response&utm_term=email
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Okay, I will admit it, I couldn’t help but laugh.
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I saw that on X and I laughed!
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“Fury after woke NHS supports first-cousin marriages despite risk of birth defects – and oppression against women”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15140539/NHS-cousin-marriages-risk-birth-defects-women.html?utm_campaign=september29morningnote&utm_medium=email&utm_source=iterable&utm_content=morningnote
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You know this is the Muslim influence.
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Anything could happen in a religion started by a pedophile.
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Yes.
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From Being “Born Lucky” to Learning to Adapt After Autism Diagnosis, with Leland Vittert
This is a wonderful interview (I think this may be shorter than the entire interview on Meghan’s program today). He wrote this book as a love story to his father, and as a hopeful story for parents who are raising children who have been diagnosed with autism. Leland triumphed, and he tells that it was his father who helped him to get there.
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Here’s the complete interview, which starts at 51:00 in today’s show:
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Thank you, passed this on to my son and DIL.
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I was hoping that you would see it. He’s a lovely young man.
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Thanks Stella, wow, what a story.
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BREAKING: YouTube Agrees to Pay President Trump $24.5 Million Settlement Over 2021 Suspension of His Account
By Cristina Laila Sep. 29, 2025 4:20 pm
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/breaking-youtube-agrees-pay-president-trump-24-5/?
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News last night said $22 million will go to pay for the new White House ballroom.
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FBI Releases January 6 Pipe Bomb Lab Report; Witness Statement on Kitchen Timer Attached to RNC Bomb Blows Up FBI’s Narrative
By Cristina Laila Sep. 29, 2025 2:40 pm
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/fbi-releases-january-6-pipe-bomb-lab-report/
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Hidden from us all this time. Especially the timeline for the witness doing laundry and the video of the cop. How does the FBI hold its head up?
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