Day THREE HUNDRED SEVEN of Presidential recovery.
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Mornin’ Lucille!
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Good afternoon, Miz WeeWeed!!
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Good mornin’, Lucille! Beautiful places far away. I’d have to get one of those plane seats that makes into a bed to go that far. Coffee’s ready, ma’am.
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Good day, Texan! A private jet with all the luxuries….
If there wasn’t a signed confidentiality agreement on my last job I’d tell a very funny and revealing story about the time a famous super-entitled female singer put up a ruckus because the pilots of my boss’s Gulfstream IV, which she had chartered, refused to land at a fogged-in airport near her home and instead landed 12 miles away. Unfortunately her limo was at the original destination which caused her to wait in the lounge for 30 minutes! Oh, the shock of having to wait with the hoi polloi! LOL!
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Sounds like a fun story!
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Morning Lucille!
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Good day to you, Stella!
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Slovenian Luka Sulic’s arrangement of Antonio Vivaldi’s STORM performed at Union Chapel, London – April 19, 2025 – accompanied by Acies Quartet (Austria) and pianist Simon Kravos (Trieste, Italy)….
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Mornin’ kids! Who knew??
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Good mornin’, Miss Wee! They know….. Coffee’s ready, ma’am. 😉
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Mornin’ Wee! I wonder . . .
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Good mornin’, and happy Saturday! Looks like POTUS was not taken hostage by the incoming mayor of NYNY, so let’s move on. One for the campfire this morning. Keep your head on a swivel and carpe’ your coffee.
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Mornin’ T!
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Some days I think that’s enough, don’t you? 😉
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Mornin’ Tex! This should be a very interesting year.
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Hope you still have some black and tasty on the fire, Texan. Some mugs to go with your pot….
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Those are pretty wild for my delicate sensibilities! 😀
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There’s been a lot of activity as of late in MAGA-World, and it’s been hard to figure out who’s a good guy and who’s got a black hat. We’ve got to be diligent because there is a lot of pressure to turn MAGA into the Tea Party and watch it wither away. There are some out there who recognize this and are sounding the alarm.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/11/hey_republicans_get_ready_for_the_maga_reformation.html
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For some reason, I’m not seeing a lot of play on MTG’s resignation. We watched her 10-minute dissertation on why she’s so wonderful and that was painful to watch. An hour of Fox this morning and zip, zero, nada. Hmmmm.
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There was an offer she couldn’t refuse……wink,wink.
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I’m thinking she needs to take some time off to do something about that stiff, bleached hair and inept makeup application.
This is before your time, but I remember in Psych 1 we studied the meanings of unkempt, messy, dirty-looking hair on females and beards in males. It was supposedly due to mental illness depicted by a lack of clean and proper appearance.
That’s outdated now, but it makes me wonder….
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Family Stories Month
National Adoption Day
National Cranberry Relish Day – I open a can on Thanksgiving and use it again on Christmas then it languishes in my refrigerator until some clean out day later the next year.
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I like nearly everything cranberry! Mornin’ Czarina!
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Morning czarina! I love cranberry sauce, but not the kind from the can. It’s bland and made with corn syrup.
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(Sigh). I really only like the jelly in the can. The relishes are too tart for me.
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Good day, Czarina!
Family Story: My paternal grandfather was a Southern gentleman, born in Arkansas in 1876. He married my grandmother in 1898, their first child, a daughter, was born on New Year’s Day 1900. Next came a son born in 1903 and my father in 1905. After years of running company stores in Arkansas and Arizona, the family moved to California in 1920 where Grandpa worked for an oil company running yet another company store.
Somewhere in the early 1930s (I’m thinking 1931) he was able to purchase a 1927 Model T Ford Roadster Pickup from a fellow in need of cash as the Great Depression was finally fully arrived on the West Coast.
Though I looked quite some time for it, couldn’t find a jpg image, so click on the link for an almost mirror image of Grandpa’s Model T except for the color (he painted his red) and the bumper. Bumpers were later additions for cars with hand cranks since they often had electric starters installed. Such a truck was necessary for Grandpa since he had changed professions, becoming a painting contractor.
https://media.goodingco.com/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,q_88,w_1800/v1/Prod/Archives/AZ13%20—%20Scottsdale%20Auctions%202013/136._1927_Ford_Model_T_Roadster_Pickup_4019_jgk4zw
Grandpa kept that truck in perfect running order until he sold it to a young man in 1965 for less than $100. When I asked him why he sold it so cheap, he answered that was all the money the young man had to spend and he wanted the Model T to go to someone who really wanted to own a historic vehicle, 1927 being the last year Model Ts were manufactured.
That was Grandpa…a kind Southern gentleman to the end.
In 2013 the above Model T sold for $26,400 at Christie’s Scottsdale, Arizona auction. Who knows…maybe it was Grandpa’s.
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Interesting article posted April 20, 2017 by Matt Wolfe for the Automotive Hall of Fame….
YANKING THE CRANK
April 17, 1911, Charles Kettering Applies for a United States Patent for his electric vehicle starter
Though it has been in use for over a century, the electric vehicle starter is still an important component in every modern automobile. An invention of Hall of Fame Inductee Charles Kettering, the electric starter eliminated the need for a crank handle to manually start early automobiles and quickly became compulsory equipment on vehicles all over the world.
Kettering’s invention of the self-starter came at the request of fellow Hall of Fame Inductee Henry Leyland, the founder of Cadillac. Like all cars of the period, Cadillacs required the use of a hand crank to start. There was an inherent danger in this method; if the engine’s spark timing was not properly set, it could backfire and cause the handle to kick back and inflict serious injury.
https://www.automotivehalloffame.org/yanking-the-crank/
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Afternoon All. It was in the 30’s last night and is now in the 40’s. Looks like this is where we are going to be for a while.
I am still trying to get over whatever I have. Had to buy more Kleenex. Hope I will be able to go to church in the morning. I will have to wait and see.
Hope you all are well and enjoying the day.
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I feel like I have a cold, but I haven’t been out of the house for ten days (test at doctor’s office). In the chest only. Strange.
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Stella, may you be back to 100% health soonest!
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Afternoon Mom!
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Good afternoon, aus! A friend of mine attends a small church which has a call-in number for people to use to hear Sunday services and Bible studies. People who are savvy about setting up such things might do that for your church.
Get well soon!
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I am watching The Final Countdown, 1980, with Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen. It is about an aircraft carrier that goes back in time. I had forgotten how good a movie could be with really good actors and directors and why I don’t care much for a lot of the movies I see now. Also, I always enjoyed Navy movies.
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If it’s not too much “name dropping” for the week, let me know if you’d like to read a sweet tale about working with Martin Sheen.
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I would. I would. 🙂
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It’s just a short remembrance about working on a 1974 TV movie entitled “The Execution of Private Slovik” which aired on NBC in March of ’74. Much of the filming was completed outside the studio at various locations in Montreal and the Queen Mary berthed in Long Beach, CA. So the interaction was not major between the casting coordinator (me) and the actors beyond initial actor interviews and meetings with the casting director and then giving the actors their work calls the night before their first day of working. The movie was the true story of the only U.S. military serviceman to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.
Martin Sheen played Slovik. We’d always heard that he was very pleasant to work with and reports (the ever-present studio gossip–LOL!) revealed that remained true throughout the production weeks.
Most of the TV series episodes and the TV movies at the end of the filming have what is called a “cast party” on one of the sets used in the production. They don’t often include anyone but the actors, directors and producers.
The producers were very happy with how the “Slovik” filming went and believed the TV movie would be a big hit. Word had it that Sheen apparently indicated to the producers that he would like to have a full party with all of the office staffs who had anything to do with the production to be invited. The producers agreed. The huge party was held in the evening, and we sat at tables in a large room of the commissary munching on hors d’œuvres and having soft drinks.
Much to our surprise, Martin Sheen and his wife, went around to all the tables–those seating the executives, the other actors, and us underlings–and introduced his wife to everyone. This respectful action toward both her and the invitees was something quite unusual. We’d never heard about it happening before and we never heard it again regarding any lead actor. At that point in time, Sheen was simply a class act, start to finish.
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Wow. I love to hear stories like that about actors.
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Glad you enjoyed it!
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Popping in late, and enjoying the Gulf of America humor and the blessing of ZERO hurricanes. Especially for those on the coasts, but also those further inland.
Since the coffee’s always on, thanks to Tex, it’s a late cuppa joe and the pure pleasure of fine company.
Miss Stella and Aus, “Get Well Soon”, and I’ll be asking for that in my prayers, along with you.
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