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[BBUK]

Shocking news for me: A guy I worked with every day before we shut down our office, not a close friend but a genial colleague, dead of Covid. I'd put his age as early 50s. I was working with him on a project so his boss reached out to me Monday and said he was sick with Covid so the work was delayed. Then we get this awful news.

Ironically I'm slated to get my first vaccination in the morning -- just before I drive to Kentucky to be part of my dad's 90th birthday celebration Saturday. I was thinking about blowing it off so I could get on the road sooner, but if it helps lower the chance I can catch and spread the virus, I'm going for it...

Sorry to hear you going through it. My daughter has gone through heck with people she is caring for dying left and right of Covid. She has been sober in her demeanor for a while now. I wish I could take away the pain she has endured. Especially with her new child..

Yes, I am about of the adage to go ahead and get the vaccine... (My wife and I will together.)

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Sorry to hear you going through it. My daughter has gone through heck with people she is caring for dying left and right of Covid. She has been sober in her demeanor for a while now. I wish I could take away the pain she has endured. Especially with her new child..

Yes, I am about of the adage to go ahead and get the vaccine... (My wife and I will together.)

Thanks BBUK...This was out of the blue...It makes me recall Warren Zevon's line about taking nothing for granted in life: Enjoy every sandwich.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

I now have to ask for, forgiveness! I thought I was a better man, but I was weak! I had to go out for a bit and when I walked by, they said, hey cord you know you want some, but I kept walking, but I just couldn't keep on walking. So I turned around and said yes I want some, so I bought me some chicken livers!!!! LORD please forgive me!!!!

Me and my wife sin in the same manner, especially if it is KFC livers.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Bertrand Spelunking Higginbotham. Has a nice ring to it.

The actual name is Bert Spelunker Higginbotham.

Dyed in the wool.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

When I was younger I played music with a group........it was mostly guys that I went to HS with.......we would go to a bluegrass festival every month from April to Sept.......a couple of them were hard drinkers.............one of them would say that, "his hang over was so bad.......he had to drink four beers before one would stay down.....and he wasn't too far from the truth......

. . . . . was his last name Higginbotham? 🤣

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Raise your hand if you had to take a bath in one of these when you were a little one. I did, if I recall grandma called it her No 5. Since we did not have a swimming pool she used it for the grandkids to splash around also. But you had to pump your own water.

Once they dug a well with an electric pump we hooked up water hoses to cool off. But that was after grandpa died and the boys got some "juice" for the house. Or better known as electricity.

Nope I never did.

We were white privileged folks. 🤣

 

[_Rooster]

Good morning D-League. I hope you party animals are recovering from your wild bacchanals on St. Patrick's day.
Free Solo documentary.

Pernell (2nd from left) sends me images of observations (feathers and birds) A very talented botanist.

*.pdf

Same for me. I would always buy the USA Today on Monday and use it to do my selections. They had info on every team that I used in filling out my brackets.

Me either 1st Time.

Went spelunking outside of town one time in college. Got kind of hairy a couple times . . . I loved the spelunking.

I have been in every cave in this area and there are more caves here than any place on earth. Spelunking used to be my middle name.

Bertrand Spelunking Higginbotham. Has a nice ring to it.

That would work Cousin Ding-a-ling.

Hope I NEVER know what that means...

You would have to be a Proctologist.

I now have to ask for, forgiveness! I thought I was a better man, but I was weak! I had to go out for a bit and when I walked by, they said, hey cord you know you want some, but I kept walking, but I just couldn't keep on walking. So I turned around and said yes I want some, so I bought me some chicken livers!!!! LORD please forgive me!!!!

Raise your hand if you had to take a bath in one of these when you were a little one.

More than one.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Shocking news for me: A guy I worked with every day before we shut down our office, not a close friend but a genial colleague, dead of Covid. I'd put his age as early 50s. I was working with him on a project so his boss reached out to me Monday and said he was sick with Covid so the work was delayed. Then we get this awful news.

Ironically I'm slated to get my first vaccination in the morning -- just before I drive to Kentucky to be part of my dad's 90th birthday celebration Saturday. I was thinking about blowing it off so I could get on the road sooner, but if it helps lower the chance I can catch and spread the virus, I'm going for it...

Get the shot.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Sorry to hear you going through it. My daughter has gone through heck with people she is caring for dying left and right of Covid. She has been sober in her demeanor for a while now. I wish I could take away the pain she has endured. Especially with her new child..

Yes, I am about of the adage to go ahead and get the vaccine... (My wife and I will together.)

Get the shot.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Get the shot.

Without doubt. I was going to anyway, but now...My last exchange with the guy was a video call about ten days ago, and he seemed to not have a care in the world...

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Me either 1st Time.



That would work Cousin Ding-a-ling.

You have to wear the badge of being related to me.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

You have to wear the badge of being related to me.

I have met Rooster. He is a fine person.

I am proud to be related.

He ain't as dumb as me and I really regret that!

 

[wildcatdonf]

Get the shots.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Get the shots.

Gonna try later this month or early next month.

 

[awf]

Me and my wife sin in the same manner, especially if it is KFC livers.

I recently discovered duck liver.........it was nothing short of wonderful..........I am thinking about putting a few ducks in a cage and gorge them on whole corn.........a little home made, Hillbilly faux gras......

 

[BBUK]

Bunch of Poindexter liver, heart, gizzard, lizard, snake eating mugs....

 

[awf]

Gonna try later this month or early next month.

I was going to try to go online.....then it said you had to call.......the Director has been silent.........normally she would be all over me......

 

[AustinTXCat]

Chick-fil-A tonight. Picked up a wrap and chicken noodle soup for wife. I got a Cobb salad with small sweet tea.

Life is good.

 

[Ben101er]

Spring coming to North Austin. Redbud blooms for about one week now. We're about a month ahead of KY and TN.

Tree (large bush) on the right may have possibly died from the big freeze last month. I'll give it a few more months.

Looks like you will be cutting grass, soon. I am spreading pre-emergent this weekend, but probably a month from cutting grass.

 

[Ben101er]

Chick-fil-A tonight. Picked up a wrap and chicken noodle soup for wife. I got a Cobb salad with small sweet tea.

Life is good.

I really like their chicken tortilla soup, but it is seasonal, and they have already quit serving it. Got our 2nd Covid vaccine today. Hopefully, we will not have any side effects, but if we do, 8 hours of fatigue is worth not getting the virus.

 

[Ben101er]

Growing up, you either ate what food was on the table, or you went hungry. That's how I acquired my taste for livers and gizzards. Listening to your gut growl wasn't much fun. As for my daughters, a team of mules couldn't drag them to a plate of livers.

I believe that I would eat bark off a tree before eating gizzards.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

No other spelunkers?

 

[Ben101er]

No other spelunkers?

I have explored Carter Caves, just a county over from us. Several bat species. However, it isn't one of my favorite things to do. Give me sunlight, and green grass, preferably with 18 holes.

 

[warrior-cat]

I do too, I really like them and their kissin' cousins fried chicken or fish gizzards.

Well, I'm wrong.

 

[warrior-cat]

My foster grandparents had a place in Glendale, KY that had a huge cave on it........you could drive a tractor trailer in the mouth........it was in a big sink hole........people used to come from everywhere to go splunking the cave...one group from Wisconsin stayed in there for two days......lot of fat rabbits came out of that sink hole.......

After moving from Louisville to Vertrees Ky when I was 16, we started climbing down into caves that were around in our area. There are more around there than what most people would think.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Looks like you will be cutting grass, soon. I am spreading pre-emergent this weekend, but probably a month from cutting grass.

Yes sir. Cutting front and back this coming Saturday. Second time since August last year.

 

[AustinTXCat]

No other spelunkers?

Yes, but only occasionally. I've cave dived twice with scuba equipment in FL. Explored a few caves in KY and Germany. Nothing on the level you've done. I've also worked mining, but that's not really exploring.

 

[warrior-cat]

More than one.

[/QUOTE]
Wow, did not know they had a picture of me before I took the shot of the drug Mostlyhumana. My wife actually calls me Monkey Boy when she needs to get something out of the higher cabinets in the house. She is 5' 10" and I am 5'9" with about a 6'3" wingspan. Her brother is taller than both of us and I can still out reach him.

 

[UK_fan_41102]

Me and my wife sin in the same manner, especially if it is KFC livers.

KFC livers are the best.

 

[BBUK]

KFC livers are the best.

Do they serve; S-car-gots? Same thing...

 

[AustinTXCat]

Neighbor across the street turned off our water and other 3 nearby houses during big freeze last month. At first, I was somewhat offended until I realized later during the deep freeze that they saved our pipes as well as their pipes and other neighbor's pipes.

Gladly walked across the street this afternoon and handed them a $25 gift certificate for HEB grocery store. They saved our butts many hundred$. Awesome neighbors. They were honored. We're happier. Water pressure is now better than before. Our old, 27 year-old hot water heater cranks better than ever. We may get another year out of it.

 

[BBUK]

Neighbor across the street turned off our water and other 3 nearby houses during big freeze last month. At first, I was somewhat offended until I realized later during the deep freeze that they saved our pipes as well as their pipes and other neighbor's pipes.

Gladly walked across the street this afternoon and handed them a $25 gift certificate for HEB grocery store. They saved our butts many hundred$. Awesome neighbors. They were honored. We're happier. Water pressure is now better than before. Our old, 27 year-old hot water heater cranks better than ever. We may get another year out of it.

Good to hear. Great to have good neighbors. I'd have never thought a water heater in SA would go more than 10 to 15 years with that white stuff they call water in Texas. I had a whole house water softener with an RO system, I took a five gallon bucket of calcium out of the bottom of the water heater when I bought the house back in about mid-2005. Even had two exterior spigots installed to where I could wash our car (When there weren't restrictions.)

I liked HEB's and Bill Millers... (They didn't sell S-car-gots either.)

 

[UK82]

Thanks BBUK...This was out of the blue...It makes me recall Warren Zevon's line about taking nothing for granted in life: Enjoy every sandwich.

It's a pity for Warren Zevon. The man was an excellent musician and most people only remember him for "Werewolves of London" and "Lawyers, Guns and Money". Similar to Box Scaggs only being remembered for Lido Shuffle and Lowdown.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 50°F and clear. Winds may slow later. Today's high should reach 70°F or so. Beautiful.

This week marks my one year anniversary of working from home. It's been one heck of a year. Based on everything we're hearing, I doubt we begin working back in the office before summer. Even then, we'll continue working from home, alternating days or even weeks.

Happy Friday!

Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.

 

[BBUK]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 50°F and clear. Winds may slow later. Today's high should reach 70°F or so. Beautiful.

This week marks my one year anniversary of working from home. It's been one heck of a year. Based on everything we're hearing, I doubt we begin working back in the office before summer. Even then, we'll continue working from home, alternating days or even weeks.

Happy Friday!

Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.

I started working from home March 3rd last year. How time flies. Not complaining but I have worked much more than I worked in the office. (I guess the commute time has something to do with that.) MAN I love chocolate caramel....

I started eating real dark chocolate and it drastically curbed my sweet/ sugar addiction. I don't have the cravings I once did and can stay away from the sweet chocolate a lot now. I'd never pass it up previously. The real dark chocolate is an acquired taste as it doesn't really taste good but man it was a near life-saver for me. A very small quantity daily now of the 92% or 95% variety has cut my sugar intake some 80 to 90%. I am thankful!

Oh, I DO hope you all have a day to where you can be a change-agent for someone else that is in need. God bless you for submitting to God's plan for your life. If you have not, please submit to God's will in your life as God is faithful and will provide for you better than you can provide for yourself. (It IS hard to let go of your control but you will never regret making that decision.) You can come to know true peace and joy. God Bless you all and your families!

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Good morning D League. I’m standing in line outside to get my vaccination in 33 degrees, then leaving immediately for Kentucky. My father’s 90th birthday is tomorrow and we’re surprising him.

Line moving. Have a good day!

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Just watched a news conference by our governor. Our schools will NOT teach "Critical Race Theory" He said it is not worth one red cent. Florida schools will teach American History and not some fantasy that grew out of an Ivy League think tank.

Another nice gesture by the governor is to give every police officer, firefighter and first responders a $1,000 bonus paid for by the State of Florida. $1,000 is not much compared to what they do for us but it does let them know they are appreciated and respected.

 

[cordmaker]

Good morning D, cold here in the Berg, not much going on today.

I mentioned a couple days age that a storage cabinet that I wanted at Home Depot went up in price $60 in one day, I just clicked on it yesterday just to be curious to see what it cost to have it delivered, $210!!!! So I started looking around and found the same one at Menards $231 with a 11% rebate, making it $205, may have to go to Owensboro today or tomorrow and get it.

The strawberries we got I believe were the best I have had in a while!! We are going to make some strawberry Bread with glaze tonight!!!

Tried to watch some basketball last night, just couldn't get interested!

I hope the D, has a goodun and prayers and safe travels!!!!

 

[Ben101er]

I started working from home March 3rd last year. How time flies. Not complaining but I have worked much more than I worked in the office. (I guess the commute time has something to do with that.) MAN I love chocolate caramel....

I started eating real dark chocolate and it drastically curbed my sweet/ sugar addiction. I don't have the cravings I once did and can stay away from the sweet chocolate a lot now. I'd never pass it up previously. The real dark chocolate is an acquired taste as it doesn't really taste good but man it was a near life-saver for me. A very small quantity daily now of the 92% or 95% variety has cut my sugar intake some 80 to 90%. I am thankful!

Oh, I DO hope you all have a day to where you can be a change-agent for someone else that is in need. God bless you for submitting to God's plan for your life. If you have not, please submit to God's will in your life as God is faithful and will provide for you better than you can provide for yourself. (It IS hard to let go of your control but you will never regret making that decision.) You can come to know true peace and joy. God Bless you all and your families!

I really like dark chocolate. Besides the health benefits, now milk chocolate just doesn't taste the same as it did before. Well, my wife and I got our 2nd vaccine, yesterday @ 3:00 and neither one of us have had any ill effects. Hopefully, if they were going to show up, they would have done so by now.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Morning folks. It is 41.7°F and overcast. That is 18° cooler than yesterday morning. We are supposed to top out at a blazing 54°.

I must start working on taxes. My CPA will see me April 6. I am running out of time.

I did not watch basketball last night. No interest. In fact I am half way mad at the way the NCAA is handling it. All in one state with limited participation by the schools.

I was really proud of my friend and Senator Rand Paul dress down Fouci stupid mask wearing. If you did not see it I suggest you watch it. Rand deals with science and Fouci is now a political hack for Joe Biden.