Posted on 07/05/2008 4:09:50 AM PDT by lysie
Welcome to the weekend thread.
Here we are.
Good Morning Lysie.
Continued prayers for your Uncle’s family.
Good Morning. Everyone’s sleeping in today?
Good morning everybody. Condolensces regarding your uncle, lysie.
I’ve been getting ready for dinner guests tonight. Picked over two pints of blueberries that Wally World had on sale for $1.25 each to make (for the first time) a blueberry upside -down cake. We’ll see how it turns out.
Then made some rather sad looking deviled eggs as they were too fresh when I boiled them and they didn’t peel easily. Hopefully they won’t fall apart in somebody’s hand at the table.
Also made cole slaw and will have corn on the cob and barbequed chicken. Aged Swiss cheese on crackers for appetizer.
It sure does seem like Sunday today..
Oh, and I forgot campfire potatoes on the grill. Small potatoes wrapped in foil with olive oil, garlic, rosemary and salt and grilled in the packet.
Did McCain recently replace his campaign director? I’m behind on news, but this doesn’t bode well IMO. I don’t know the circumstances though..
Had bowl of grits with TWO fresh yard eggs for starters today, nothing better for sure.
Just wanted to get my day started so, am on go now.
Toby
Rain last night and more showers on the way...a very good thing.
If you run out of WW2 books to read, Toby, one that is absolutely fascinating is IN HARM'S WAY: The Sinking Of The USS INDIANAPOLIS And The Extraordinary Story Of Its Survivors, by Doug Stanton.
I bought it on the internet from the grandson of one of the survivors of this tragic sinking.
But there is much more story to that sinking....a court martial of the innocent Captain and his suicide years later for not ever being pardoned. The details of the survivors' ordeal was so vivid and gripping that I could only read a little bit at one time.
Good afternoon.
Big half page article on the back of the Sports Section in our daily rag with a great picture of Gen. Petraeus and some of the 1215 service members that re’d up at al-Faw palace at Camp Victory, Baghdad, yesterday.
Article went on to discuss that the military doesn’t cease operations to enjoy holiday (AP, of course) with some interviews. I couldn’t believe the very last interview. How the AP let it be printed I’ll never know. But when I read it, I said to myself, this guy really gets it.
Here’s the quote, “Back at Warhorse, Sgt. Jacob Fultz, 22, of Gardner, Kan., was focused on the day’s meaning. ‘It’s kind of like the flight’s never over. It started on July 4, 1776 and now it’s 2008.’”
This kid really gets it - eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. He sees that we can never let up on that vigilance so that anyone, foreign or domestic, can take away our Country, culture, or freedom.
Just my 2 cents.
your link doesn’t work, pb.
instead it opens a window so I can reply to jtill. I thought I’d lost my mind. Clicked on your link 3 times. Each time it opened a ‘comment’ window. I thought I’d mashed the wrong button.
Life become more difficult as we age. Perhaps it’s true that we’re older but wiser. But we’re easily confused, as well.
/johnny
Making hay while the sun shines. And spread thinner than butter on an august morning.
I'll be more humanlike when the pressure is off.
/johnny
I’m buying those 2 cents, jt! :))
PS: it’s worth a click to read the entire article even if it is from the Slimes
Hello
I haven’t been on chat here for ages. How are you?
You sound like a busy whippersnapper Toby. LOL, have fun buying gas for all your gas guzzlers.
LOL,LOL, I was thinking the same thing...I had to press the mouse 3 times before I realized...hey, I’m doing it right.
At least you have some bread and butter money, johnny. Just don’t overdo too much. Are you still our northern neighbor?
But I will be gone after September.
I'm too old for this, but I'm going to do it anyway.
/johnny
LOL...we’ve just had a peak in the nobama presidential window. We’ll be required to eat red/white,purple, green etc food, 50% fruit and veggeis, only organic. Kinda like muzzie food? NO dessert?
Back to Ketchikan? Oh, I envy you. We’re thinking of going up summer after next I want to be there for the salmon berries, red huckleberries and wild blueberries, maybe even some wild celery. We’re halfway committed to a cruise down the Danube for next summer or fall.
I read it. An incredible story. Thanks for posting it.
Take care of your arm IG.
I’m off to watch something that Roomey thinks is pretty good, I’ll probably fall asleep.
Till tomorrow, take care.
If the Slimes wrote that article, things are much much worse.
No fried food either. The Dems can waste so much time and effort on things that really don’t matter.
Hi cb, doing well here, good to see you.
No fried food?! These people really are Nazi’s.
LOL!
‘Night all.
Yes they are. They suck all the joy out of life.
Looks like one of those planted articles by Obama and the NYT to make it look like he’s a fiscally responsible person.
Good morning.
Hope you’re doing okay, lysie.......
How is your arm, IG?
Busy here with company. We’ve been on an eating marathon.
You mean ‘Dumbo’? Recemblence isn’t there, if you get my drift....
I gotta tell you, this ‘Dumbo’ really bothers me, he is not right at all and so many misplaced folks are going along with him, what they are going along with I surely don’t know but know it is dangerous, surely mind of right and wrong will see thru him, just not a good thing at all, it will be the ruin of this country, wanted by so many, in at hand. Hate it when I wake on the gloom and doom side in the morning.
I got to get ready for church so I can go over and sit with the kids while D and SIL gets ready and will work hard at getting my path on the positive side going, right now it is walking down the wrong path and it does not do me any good at all.
Toby
It has been reported, there have been NO COMBAT RELATED DEATHS IN IRAQ. How about them apples. And how many shooting, stabbing deaths in NY or Chicago, or LA, just on Saturday night?
>>misplaced folks are going along with him,
THe US has never put a lefty in there. He’s faking that he’s in the “center”
Maybe. And /or he’s worried that his coronation will occur amidst mayhem.
Hi Rav. You mean the US has never put a lefty in there that was on the left at election time, but head faking to the center, ala uox42. Yes, he’s head faking that he’s ‘center- right’ and he’s fooling those sheeple by the hundreds of thousands.
BTW, homemade sauerkraut is started. Mmmmmm. 3 weeks is a long time to wait.
/johnny
I’ve never cared much for sauerkraut..I think its the sourness(is that a word?...if not oh well...:-))
There's always good news to be had here..............The Victory Caucus...............most of which is ignored by the MSM.
The apple in the pan almost makes it sweet. BTW, it has been my experience that homemade kraut is wonderful!
I’ve had saurkraut “mellowed” like that with an apple, even some brown sugar and onion in it and it’s delicious.
I can only have a bit of it though as it doesn’t always agree with me.
Good Lord, we just had a pack of at least 3 dogs walk across our back porch! They need to be run off...with a shotgun.
Happy Birthday, HOB! May you have many, many more.
Lysie, prayers are continuing for you and your family as you go through this mourning period. (((Lysie)))
BTW, the deed is done.
HOW WAS THE WEDDING?
Do you have pics to share?
The wedding was very nice. Josh and Carlie made a lovely couple. It was great fun. They were so sweet together.
The RD was great. All the decorations looked lovely. My friends from Papua, as well as my sister and her husband, were major helps. The video made of Josh and Carly growing up and up until now was a big hit. Both the bride and her mother cried!
The reception was the most fun ever! Josh and Carlie had such a wonderful first dance. We all were clapping and laughing and hooting and hollering. It was great!
Then, they left their luggage unguarded. I got to thinking of some of the stunts that JT had done growing up.
I wonder if they'll ever get all the bird seed out of their clothes?
This morning we had a family brunch at a Cracker Barrel. We then packed up and went back home.
As Johnny says, “Life is good.”
PS The newlyweds are in Jamaica.
What can we expect from a bunch of courageless individuals who do not “report” the news. They talk and write about only that which they are told to print or say. I’ll bet not one in 50 have ever had the courage to put on the uniform of the United States Military. Bunch of spineless weenies.
Dog, I have a terrific recipe for saurkraut. Rinse the kraut, well. Fry up some bacon, crumble it and set it aside. Add just about 1 tbsp of flour to the grease, add the kraut, salt and pepper to taste, mix the kraut into the flour mixture. Thinly slice a sweet onion and add to the kraut. Add a pinch of salt to the onions. Add a bit of water, about 1/2 cup. Put the lid on the pot. Cook until steaming, add 2 Tbsp paprika mix into the kraut, mix well..careful, turn down the heat, as you don’t want to scorch the paprika, I use Hungarian Hot paprika, you can use sweet. Add your sausage or hot dogs. Wonderful. I serve mashed potatoes or butter/parslyed potatoes with this.
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