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Posted on 09/15/2019 5:02:10 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
Glad you two had a good time. It sounds like Gizmo behaved this time.
But there’s always tomorrow. :-)
You know me too well. LOL!
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He sure did. Without hesitation.
I hear ya. Maybe in October. LOL!
Guess I’d better head out. 7:30 came way too early this morning. I even went to bed “early”. And then couldn’t go to sleep. Bah!
See ya tomorrow!
I did let Giz out to go to the bathroom a few minutes. He always seems to want to be out for a time at this time of day. Not sure if he likes the dark or if he's just looking for something to bark at.
I know sometimes he'll just bark and I wonder if it's because he wants to go outside or just for me to play with him and let him nibble which he stills seems to want. He's approaching his 2nd birthday next month.
MAYBE in October. LOL! At the rate it’s going, we won’t cool off until November.
I’m surprised you stayed up so late. Must have found a good show or two to watch.
Sleep well!
Hey, when a pup’s gotta go, he’s gotta go. LOL! At least you’re awake this time of night to let him out so he isn’t miserable having to hold it.
Ya just have to try to figure out what he’s trying to say when he barks. It’s too bad we can’t be like Dr. Doolittle and talk to the animals, isn’t it? :-)
Wife and I visited Pall Mall last year,
York’s Home and Grist mill.
Extremely worthwhile visit.
Though beware there is literally zero in the small town.
Oh yes. I was seven HOURS on the “saddle” today, just cruising the back roads of SE MA, through cornfields, cow farms, and yard sales. The trees are beginning to get some color. It was nice.
Penny has no use for the bike so she stayed home and napped.
Howdy, EGC! (((hugs)))
Glad y’all had fun yesterday and that you’ll be able to get out to Chisolm Trail Park today. I hope he doesn’t run off like has has been. It’s hard to chase a young energetic dog! LOL!
Hope it has cooled off up there. It has here....a bit. I’m still wanting it to be more fallish! :)
Nope, it was the American Enfield. York actually preferred it over the Springfield.
It has cooled off here, and we’ve had a couple of days of gentle showers. I’m guessing the ‘monsoon’ has about run it’s course.
The State of Tennessee gave York a grist mill (in the sprawling metropolis of Pall Mall) in appreciation for his wartime service. It’s now become a state park and I stopped in there one day just to have a look around on the way back from visiting the York family homestead down in the Valley of the Three Forks.
When the park ranger (of the mill) greeted me I noticed his name tag read “York.” So I asked him half disbelievingly, “You’re not kin, are you?” He said he was one of York’s sons, Andrew Jackson York (b. 1930, the fifth of Alvin & Gracie’s eight children, and AFAIK still living).
We chatted a while and then it struck me to ask about the story Cooper tells in the film about gobbling like a turkey to trick the Huns into exposing themselves. And Ranger York told me to the effect that he had once asked his father the same question. And he said Alvin answered him, “It whar the only way I could think of to make ‘em poke their heads up.”
York was a member of an obscure denomination called the Church of Christ in Christian Union. His petition for CO status got turned down because the CCCU was too new (it only had been founded in 1909) and its members were too few in number to yet have been recognized as a “peace church” by the Selective Service. They had to put some sort of limits on it so that six fishing buddies from Pascagoula couldn’t plot to form the pacifist First Self-righteous Church and the next week apply for CO status to get out of serving in the military.
And to compound his problems, the CCCU was a sort of “free form” church. It did not impose doctrine on its adherents but instead encouraged them to read the scriptures for themselves and make their own interpretations. Consequently, unlike the longstanding peace churches, such as the Quakers and the Mennonites, the CCCU wasn’t — strictly speaking — a pacifist religion. That didn’t prevent York’s personal interpretation from being pacifistic, but so the Selective Service board, personal interpretation was immaterial.
York had for years resisted Hollywood’s efforts to glamorize his story and when he finally gave in and agreed to cooperate with the film makers, he had just one iron-clad provision. He had to be played by Gary Cooper.
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