What a sweet dog!Yeah, I have one who is getting up in age and is beginning to act like it. She is a sweetheart of a dog.
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A lap dog.Yeah, I have one who is getting up in age and is beginning to act like it. She is a sweetheart of a dog.
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Evening D league peoples!
Another day another wooden nickel.
Carry on!
Another day another wooden nickel.
Carry on!
I check out snakes a lot cause everybody is scared of them. I remove any poisonous ones. Alive preferably. Teach about Kings all the time.
I generally find the larger snakes where there is forage. Would nuts lure those pesky bushy-tailed tree rats to it? Paradise has many blessings. And none more impotent than Mama. My grizzly HATES all snakes. Can't tell on from another and don't want to either. Not interested. She wants them gone, plain and simple. She likes birds and lizards. Not snakes nope, no way. She told me that if I liked snakes too it was a personal issue.
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Just a quick interesting fact. 21 of the 25 most venomous snakes in the world live in Australia. Now most of these snakes are not aggressive like a Cobra, black Mamba or a rattler it's still fascinating.
NeotenousYeah, I have one who is getting up in age and is beginning to act like it. She is a sweetheart of a dog.
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Sorry to hear. Get well soon.Good morning D! Went for pre-op for back, have had many of these in the past, but ended up in the hospital with respiratory failure. Am fine and home now. Thank God I asked Him to guide my decision to have back surgery, he answered, and now it is canceled and may stay that way. That's all for now...………..
Louie Miller Barbecue. Opened 1949. I've visited once years ago. It's a local icon. Awesome eats.
Had to look that one up. Not sure which one of us (perhaps both) you were referring to.
Reading this thread while wearing a tee-shirt from the Cyclone Corral Bar B Que in Cyclone, Texas. I have a buddy, retired Army Lt. Colonel, who owned a little ranch near there.
I hope the D-League is off to a flying start.
Good morning from ATX. Currently 66°F Front moving in. Expecting 80s today. I'll take it. We hit 93°F yesterday.
Finally filed taxes last night. Glad that annual distraction is over. Looking at hiring a CPA next year because of mom's estate.
We'll check back later. Y'all behave.
Finally filed taxes last night. Glad that annual distraction is over. Looking at hiring a CPA next year because of mom's estate.
We'll check back later. Y'all behave.
Sure Happy
Good morning D! Went for pre-op for back, have had many of these in the past, but ended up in the hospital with respiratory failure. Am fine and home now. Thank God I asked Him to guide my decision to have back surgery, he answered, and now it is canceled and may stay that way. That's all for now...………..
I used a CPA to get me out of my trouble with the IRS that was started by me supporting Rand Paul.
I was sort of shocked by how little she charged. I will never do my own taxes again. I highly recommend a CPA.
Morning D-Leaguers. We got an early crew today.
It is a sunny 63.1°F or for the Europeans 17.3°C.
I have to mow, edge and trim today. Spring is always sneaking up on me. Derby day is not too far off. Easter is nearly here.
It is a sunny 63.1°F or for the Europeans 17.3°C.
I have to mow, edge and trim today. Spring is always sneaking up on me. Derby day is not too far off. Easter is nearly here.
Morning D. Greetings from the shanty.
More coffee....................................................
More coffee....................................................
Good morning D League
It is 66° with a nice cool Gulf Breeze. We expect 88° this afternoon, keeping my fingers crossed. I welcome some heat as it has been much too cool for me. From the comments it appears the D Leaguers are going to be busy today. I am going to tinker around with my pick up truck.
Trust you are feeling better this morning Railroad Kat and our prayers continue. Have a great day all.
It is 66° with a nice cool Gulf Breeze. We expect 88° this afternoon, keeping my fingers crossed. I welcome some heat as it has been much too cool for me. From the comments it appears the D Leaguers are going to be busy today. I am going to tinker around with my pick up truck.
Trust you are feeling better this morning Railroad Kat and our prayers continue. Have a great day all.
Beautiful day in suburban Ashland. Getting up to 85 degrees today, before the rain moves in, tomorrow. Hope you get to feeling better RailroadKat. Hope your respiratory issues get better and your back quits bothering you.
Thanks everyone. Yes God loves us all and I came very close again to leaving my wife and family. I was so convinced I started saying my good-buy's, we were interrupted and I started my recovery every minute until I was dismissed on Monday Morning. Starting to feel much better!..
Thanks to all!
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Afternoon D
Baked ravioli for lunch today...hit the spot.
Watching/listening to the Masters on my phone. Normally not a golf watcher, but the scenery at the Masters is something else. Everything is so green...we still got some brown going on up here.
oh well...gotta go.
Baked ravioli for lunch today...hit the spot.
Watching/listening to the Masters on my phone. Normally not a golf watcher, but the scenery at the Masters is something else. Everything is so green...we still got some brown going on up here.
oh well...gotta go.
I failed to say the type of snake it was. It was what we call a black racer down here. Similar to a rat snake but the rat snake is known to coil and a racer just takes off. The racer is very fast for a snake (thus the name racer). It is about as harmless of a snake you can find and is very valuable to keep down rodents, etc. The only problem I have with them is they kill chameleons and I like having as many of these folks around as possible. They keep the bug population under control.
I love the Ashland area. I love Jesse Stuart. I love Jesse Stuart's wife. I knew them both, in passing.
When I was a freshman in college, a chemistry major, I knew little about Kentucky literature. My sister was a whiz kid in English Literature, I was a dumb ass.
To get a couple days off I was given the opportunity to take these three egg-heads “English Majors” around campus to make sure that they were where they should be at the appointed time. It was a wonderful time to get a little time off.
The three were Jesse Stuart, Harriett Simpson Arnow and Robert Penn Warren. I had never read a book by any of the three. I instantly fell in love with Jesse, he was just a wonderful person. I instantly did not like Harriett. I could not figure out Robert Penn Warren. At the end of the week I had two new uncles and a very strange aunt.
Now years later after having read all of their books I know that in my ignorance I wasted a wonderful opportunity to get an education from three literary giants, but I think that they actually understood my ignorance, being a chemistry major.
In 1987 I was calling on Ashland Petroleum in Ashland, KY. I took an extra half day on my trip and went to look up Jesse Stuart’s place because at the time I could not get the first book he wrote, “Beyond Dark Hills” *see note below (circa 1938) as it was not in publication at that time.
Being an ass hole, I walked up to his widows house and simply introduced myself. It was Naomi Stuart, his widow.
She was old and sweet. She gave me an old smelly copy of the book and refuse to let me pay for it. A few years later she was dead. If you believe in the Jewish tradition that good works gets you into heaven, then Naomi Stuart is there because she had no reason on earth to befriend me, but she offered me food, drink and gave me a book without knowing me from Adam. She is in heaven folks. What a sweetheart. She would not let me call her Mrs. Stuart, it had to be Naomi. God bless her soul.
I have been blessed by a girl and a guy from the Ashland, Kentucky area. Wonderful people.
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Jesse wrote “Beyond Dark Hills” getting his masters at Vandy. His professor was Robert Penn Warren. It was supposed to be a few pages and Jesse’s book was over 100. So Robert Penn Warren gave him a bad grade. However, Jesse got enough money to get back the next semester. Robert Penn Warren told me, when I was stupid, that he had given Jesse a failing grade. Dumb Bert did not understand it.
My sister got a graduate degree from the same college in English Literature. She would have killed for the same opportunity that her science brother ignored.
May God bless those good people.
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I love the Ashland area. I love Jesse Stuart. I love Jesse Stuart's wife. I knew them both, in passing.
When I was a freshman in college, a chemistry major, I knew little about Kentucky literature. My sister was a whiz kid in English Literature, I was a dumb ass.
To get a couple days off I was given the opportunity to take these three egg-heads “English Majors” around campus to make sure that they were where they should be at the appointed time. It was a wonderful time to get a little time off.
The three were Jesse Stuart, Harriett Simpson Arnow and Robert Penn Warren. I had never read a book by any of the three. I instantly fell in love with Jesse, he was just a wonderful person. I instantly did not like Harriett. I could not figure out Robert Penn Warren. At the end of the week I had two new uncles and a very strange aunt.
Now years later after having read all of their books I know that in my ignorance I wasted a wonderful opportunity to get an education from three literary giants, but I think that they actually understood my ignorance, being a chemistry major.
In 1987 I was calling on Ashland Petroleum in Ashland, KY. I took an extra half day on my trip and went to look up Jesse Stuart’s place because at the time I could not get the first book he wrote, “Beyond Dark Hills” *see note below (circa 1938) as it was not in publication at that time.
Being an ass hole, I walked up to his widows house and simply introduced myself. It was Naomi Stuart, his widow.
She was old and sweet. She gave me an old smelly copy of the book and refuse to let me pay for it. A few years later she was dead. If you believe in the Jewish tradition that good works gets you into heaven, then Naomi Stuart is there because she had no reason on earth to befriend me, but she offered me food, drink and gave me a book without knowing me from Adam. She is in heaven folks. What a sweetheart. She would not let me call her Mrs. Stuart, it had to be Naomi. God bless her soul.
I have been blessed by a girl and a guy from the Ashland, Kentucky area. Wonderful people.
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Jesse wrote “Beyond Dark Hills” getting his masters at Vandy. His professor was Robert Penn Warren. It was supposed to be a few pages and Jesse’s book was over 100. So Robert Penn Warren gave him a bad grade. However, Jesse got enough money to get back the next semester. Robert Penn Warren told me, when I was stupid, that he had given Jesse a failing grade. Dumb Bert did not understand it.
My sister got a graduate degree from the same college in English Literature. She would have killed for the same opportunity that her science brother ignored.
May God bless those good people.
Great story, Bert. I was privileged to meet Mr Stuart in the late 70's. I was President of the Ashland Jaycees and we raised money to buy Jesse Stuart books for kids who could not afford books, and could not find some of his work in the library. The Jesse Stuart Foundation still prints and sells his works today. They have a facility on US 60, just as you come into Ashland. Very good organization, that pass on the Stuart's ideals. I always thought that Jesse Stuart was kind of like the Mark Twain of Ky.
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Just got my second quote for resurfacing our driveway. So far it's not as expensive as I thought it would be.
Hang in there RRKat!
Hang in there RRKat!
Great story, right down my line. I was required to read a few of Jesse Stuarts books in school and I loved them. They were the kind of book you couldn't put down and the books were about real "Americana". Same with Robert Penn Warren. Required reading and one of my favorites in school. I guess every child in America has read All The Kings Men. If not, they should. No one ever described in print a Southern politician any better.I love the Ashland area. I love Jesse Stuart. I love Jesse Stuart's wife. I knew them both, in passing.
When I was a freshman in college, a chemistry major, I knew little about Kentucky literature. My sister was a whiz kid in English Literature, I was a dumb ass.
To get a couple days off I was given the opportunity to take these three egg-heads “English Majors” around campus to make sure that they were where they should be at the appointed time. It was a wonderful time to get a little time off.
The three were Jesse Stuart, Harriett Simpson Arnow and Robert Penn Warren. I had never read a book by any of the three. I instantly fell in love with Jesse, he was just a wonderful person. I instantly did not like Harriett. I could not figure out Robert Penn Warren. At the end of the week I had two new uncles and a very strange aunt.
Now years later after having read all of their books I know that in my ignorance I wasted a wonderful opportunity to get an education from three literary giants, but I think that they actually understood my ignorance, being a chemistry major.
In 1987 I was calling on Ashland Petroleum in Ashland, KY. I took an extra half day on my trip and went to look up Jesse Stuart’s place because at the time I could not get the first book he wrote, “Beyond Dark Hills” *see note below (circa 1938) as it was not in publication at that time.
Being an ass hole, I walked up to his widows house and simply introduced myself. It was Naomi Stuart, his widow.
She was old and sweet. She gave me an old smelly copy of the book and refuse to let me pay for it. A few years later she was dead. If you believe in the Jewish tradition that good works gets you into heaven, then Naomi Stuart is there because she had no reason on earth to befriend me, but she offered me food, drink and gave me a book without knowing me from Adam. She is in heaven folks. What a sweetheart. She would not let me call her Mrs. Stuart, it had to be Naomi. God bless her soul.
I have been blessed by a girl and a guy from the Ashland, Kentucky area. Wonderful people.
*note:
Jesse wrote “Beyond Dark Hills” getting his masters at Vandy. His professor was Robert Penn Warren. It was supposed to be a few pages and Jesse’s book was over 100. So Robert Penn Warren gave him a bad grade. However, Jesse got enough money to get back the next semester. Robert Penn Warren told me, when I was stupid, that he had given Jesse a failing grade. Dumb Bert did not understand it.
My sister got a graduate degree from the same college in English Literature. She would have killed for the same opportunity that her science brother ignored.
May God bless those good people.
Being a native Floridian I'll bet you also like John MacDonald. I've read 4 of his Travis McGee books and thoroughly enjoyed them.
This may be one hell of a Masters. Look at that leaderboard! Yeah, yeah it's only the first day.
I have not read them but I am putting them on my bucket list. My cousin is an avid Travis McGee fan and has several of them.
The most famous Florida author in my school days was Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings who lived in Cross Creek, Florida. Her most famous work was The Yearling which was required reading by all school children in Florida when I grew up. It is a based on a true story and is a tale of Old Florida. A movie was made about the book in 1946 and starred Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman. Her books were about Old and Rural Florida from a time period from the 1880's to 1940's. Her books were a similar style to those of Jessie Stuart
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Carl Hiaasen is a modern day Florida author that I like. Well kind of like. Bad Monkey is still one of the funniest books I've read in many years. Other books are hit or miss. I'll certainly look into Rawlings though. Thanks for the suggestion!
Evening D league peoples!
Worked.
Got home mowed and trimmed the yard.
Had two beers. Could've done more they were going down smooth.
Played with boy. He's in bed
I'm sleepy lol.
Worked.
Got home mowed and trimmed the yard.
Had two beers. Could've done more they were going down smooth.
Played with boy. He's in bed
I'm sleepy lol.
Just finished my yard about 30 minutes ago, cleaned up and had my first beer and will be working on second.
Just found out the in laws booked a vacay at organge beach.
Love the shot. First thought actually, common mammalian behavior. I chuckled. Exactly what I expect in the oasis pile of puppies.Not sure which one of us (perhaps both) you were referring to.
I'm having one
Good morning and Happy Friday from ATX. Currently 55°F. Warming later to 82°F. Lovely. I'll take it.
Blue and White game today.. Season kicks off August 31st against Toledo. Go Cats!
Has Herro gone pro yet? Hope not.
We'll check back later. Y'all behave.
Blue and White game today.. Season kicks off August 31st against Toledo. Go Cats!
Has Herro gone pro yet? Hope not.
We'll check back later. Y'all behave.
TGIF
Happy Friday D-League. Full blown Spring in DC. Contemplating a trip Saturday down the Shenandoah Valley to see the trees budding out in the hills. It's not unlike parts of Kentucky so I try to get there as often as I can.
Have a great day.
Have a great day.
Good morning D-League
Today is another Chamber of Commerce day. The girl on the radio said the temperature right now is 63° and this afternoon it will be 84°. The county fair opens today and the weather will be perfect for that. I woke up this morning thinking about an oyster Po-boy so you know what I am having to eat. Oyster season ends this month so I am going to get a bunch while they are still fresh.
We have a spring football game this evening. Blue - White. I am anxious to see what we can expect this fall. I think we will be in good shape.
Have a nice day all.
Today is another Chamber of Commerce day. The girl on the radio said the temperature right now is 63° and this afternoon it will be 84°. The county fair opens today and the weather will be perfect for that. I woke up this morning thinking about an oyster Po-boy so you know what I am having to eat. Oyster season ends this month so I am going to get a bunch while they are still fresh.
We have a spring football game this evening. Blue - White. I am anxious to see what we can expect this fall. I think we will be in good shape.
Have a nice day all.
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