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Good Memorial Day morning from the Nature Coast.
I woke up to the smell of burning woods and a thick cloud of smoke coming from the swamp. They are doing a controlled burn for fire prevention. This occurs two or three times a year right before the rainy season starts. By burning off the undergrowth we do not become California.
It is 69° and mostly sunny with a 2% chance of rain. We should hit 85° by midafternoon. Should be a great day to grill out and hit the pool. They say we will have record crowds at the beaches and boating on the Gulf. More tourists than ever. The word is out.
Today is a day to honor and remember. I know we all have someone in the family or extended family who made the ultimate sacrifice. For those we are grateful and will never forget them.
Trust all have a great day and I will take my steak very rare.
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I woke up to the smell of burning woods and a thick cloud of smoke coming from the swamp. They are doing a controlled burn for fire prevention. This occurs two or three times a year right before the rainy season starts. By burning off the undergrowth we do not become California.
It is 69° and mostly sunny with a 2% chance of rain. We should hit 85° by midafternoon. Should be a great day to grill out and hit the pool. They say we will have record crowds at the beaches and boating on the Gulf. More tourists than ever. The word is out.
Today is a day to honor and remember. I know we all have someone in the family or extended family who made the ultimate sacrifice. For those we are grateful and will never forget them.
Trust all have a great day and I will take my steak very rare.
Cool again this morning in the Buckeye State, but quickly getting up to the low 70s.
No plans today in that we usually do our Memorial Day grilling, activities on the Sunday of. So today will most likely be a day of yard/garden work. Ground should be dry in the garden....been since Friday that its rained.
Was thinking of Sawnee's post above...
Do know of a couple ancient relatives who died in the Revolutionary War.
Y'all have a great Memorial holiday.
No plans today in that we usually do our Memorial Day grilling, activities on the Sunday of. So today will most likely be a day of yard/garden work. Ground should be dry in the garden....been since Friday that its rained.
Was thinking of Sawnee's post above...
....and fortunately I can't think of any in my family history. I'm sure there's some. From WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam (recent history) ... can't think of any. In fact in WWII, I had probably 8-10 uncles, on both sides of the family...and my Dad...who went off to war and came home safe. I'm sure both grand parents were thankful/grateful for their prayers being answered.
Do know of a couple ancient relatives who died in the Revolutionary War.
Y'all have a great Memorial holiday.
Happy Memorial Day to everyone.....I didn't have anyone who got killed in the wars...........a lot who served but none who payed the ultimate price.........grand kids are coming today to see if they can splash the water out of our 18 x 36 pool.......I would fill it up every day if they was here just to watch them..........there is nothing that compares to having happy children around laughing and playing........
Too much. It was nearly $4,000 for the house and shop, but it is the good stuff and they replaced two gutters and a few down spouts.
Ben I don't recall the exact price per foot.
They screw it to the gutter.
Like most two/three story houses, we've got gutters I can't to even with the biggest Little Giant they make that I've got out in the garage. Plus I'm getting too old to try to get up there to clean out gutters.
So I've thought of those type gutters/gutter protection/etc......but dang!
It is 50.3°F and sunny today.
Yesterday Sherry and I made our rounds for "Decoration Day" as dad called it. We went to four different cemeteries to take flowers for our parents, sister, brother-in-law, grandparents and worst of all my grandson. It was cool but perfect sunny weather.
You all have a wonderful day.
Yesterday Sherry and I made our rounds for "Decoration Day" as dad called it. We went to four different cemeteries to take flowers for our parents, sister, brother-in-law, grandparents and worst of all my grandson. It was cool but perfect sunny weather.
You all have a wonderful day.
Up here they advertise Leaf Guard all the time on the TV station I watch mostly (METV). The gutter that has the roll over type top where the leaves are supposed to just go over the top and drop to the ground while the rainwater rolls into the gutter. Their commercials seem to me to be the kind of product where the salesman gets in your house...gives you the sales pitch...and then puts the high pressure squeeze on you to sign on the dotted line. Couple years interest free, free Lowes card (or something), will give you $500 for old gutters, etc, etc.
Don't know anyone who has bought them, but I would imagine they're more than what Bert paid.
Don't know anyone who has bought them, but I would imagine they're more than what Bert paid.
My brother and I were talking about that yesterday. My Mom and Dad's grave is fairly close to where he lives and he decorated them Saturday. We were talking about how fewer and fewer people seem to do that....and that the younger generations probably don't even know about it.
I can remember as a kid going to a cemetery in S. Ky. Memorial Day weekend and the place was full of people doing what you did yesterday. Today...not so much.
If'n you are handy they are very easy to install.......The best place to by gutter gaurds is at an aluminum siding dealer.........just slide them up under the shingle........(not the starter course) and put two screws in the front of them.......The ones I installed are aluminum with tiny holes in it.......they work pretty good except you need splash guards in the corners where there is a valley........which I have never gotten around to.....(it's only been 8 yrs..)
Good morning D-League. It's currently 51° and foggy, with partly cloudy skies and a high of 75° expected later today.
Everyone stay safe on this Memorial Day.
Everyone stay safe on this Memorial Day.
You don't get much less "unhandy" than me.
Now more than ever we need to remember and appreciate the brave men and women that sacrificed their lives to protect the freedoms we so dearly cherish. Freedom should never be taken for granted.Good Memorial Day morning from the Nature Coast.
I woke up to the smell of burning woods and a thick cloud of smoke coming from the swamp. They are doing a controlled burn for fire prevention. This occurs two or three times a year right before the rainy season starts. By burning off the undergrowth we do not become California.
It is 69° and mostly sunny with a 2% chance of rain. We should hit 85° by midafternoon. Should be a great day to grill out and hit the pool. They say we will have record crowds at the beaches and boating on the Gulf. More tourists than ever. The word is out.
Today is a day to honor and remember. I know we all have someone in the family or extended family who made the ultimate sacrifice. For those we are grateful and will never forget them.
Trust all have a great day and I will take my steak very rare.
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Hey, Bert. Slight change in itinerary. I plan on arriving up there around 2 pm on Saturday, July 10th. My original plan may have been July 9. I can't remember dates I gave y'all during our visits last month. At any rate, looking forward to seeing y'all again.
Decorations Day was a huge event when I was young. We had large families and many uncles and aunts would travel thousands of miles to meet at the gravesite of loved ones who had passed. From California, Arizona and of course Ohio where most had to gone to seek work. Some from Michigan also. It was the one day everyone tried to be together.
Daddy's roots were Pike County, KY and that is where we all went. The cemetery and church graveyards would be full of people and every grave had a flower on it. The people made sure of it.
I doubt if many do that anymore. In fact I was appalled listening to the radio this morning. Someone was interviewing people about the meaning of Memorial Day and only about 20% knew. Some admitted they didn't care and some said America's wars were to spread Imperialism. Now where did they get that idea?
Sunrise in KY horse country. Love it.
The tradition is still going on in Southern Kentucky. We had a lot of company yesterday and we went during church hours for less traffic. We spend a lot of money on Memorial Day weekend, not on flowers, but a lot of money for the cemeteries. We give $500 to each of the cemeteries as they have little sources of revenue to mow and keep things up. I give even more to Smiths Grove Cemetery as that is my big project.
It costs $800 (it is that low because it is competitively bid) to mow the Smiths Grove Cemetery. Over the course of the year that ends up being a lot of money. If you can afford to donate to your families cemeteries please do. They usually need it.
I am really proud of the changes that have happened at Smiths Grove. I think that it is a sign of loving the folks that went before you. I will bore you with one of my pictures made just after we reworked the chapel:
You are on the planner.
Good morning D-League. I hope everyone has an enjoyable Memorial Day.
It was my honor to get to know many impressive military people during my run as a conflict zone reporter. Some I remember today: Men like Lt. Comdr Scott Speicher, who I met on the USS Saratoga shortly before Operation Desert Storm. A few weeks after I met him in 1991 he was shot down over Baghdad. His body wasn't recovered for nearly 20 years.
And men like Lt. Col. Terry Crowe, who I met in Tal Afar Iraq in 2005. He had the thankless job of trying to train Iraqi soldiers, and that got him killed in an ambush. (I wrote this short piece about his death for the Houston Chronicle if anyone is interested. The format is a little choppy but should be readable - keep scrolling...)
And also Major Megan McClung, who was as Gung Ho as any Marine in Ramadi in 2006. I met her earlier in the year. She was later killed escorting journalists covering the war.
On that note, I knew quite a few journalists, some well enough to call them friend, who were killed in war zones or badly injured and still dealing with that. I don't want to take away from the military sacrifices today, but those men (and one woman) are missed as well.
It was my honor to get to know many impressive military people during my run as a conflict zone reporter. Some I remember today: Men like Lt. Comdr Scott Speicher, who I met on the USS Saratoga shortly before Operation Desert Storm. A few weeks after I met him in 1991 he was shot down over Baghdad. His body wasn't recovered for nearly 20 years.
And men like Lt. Col. Terry Crowe, who I met in Tal Afar Iraq in 2005. He had the thankless job of trying to train Iraqi soldiers, and that got him killed in an ambush. (I wrote this short piece about his death for the Houston Chronicle if anyone is interested. The format is a little choppy but should be readable - keep scrolling...)
And also Major Megan McClung, who was as Gung Ho as any Marine in Ramadi in 2006. I met her earlier in the year. She was later killed escorting journalists covering the war.
On that note, I knew quite a few journalists, some well enough to call them friend, who were killed in war zones or badly injured and still dealing with that. I don't want to take away from the military sacrifices today, but those men (and one woman) are missed as well.
Beautiful Bert, thanks for sharing. That is the America I love.The tradition is still going on in Southern Kentucky. We had a lot of company yesterday and we went during church hours for less traffic. We spend a lot of money on Memorial Day weekend, not on flowers, but a lot of money for the cemeteries. We give $500 to each of the cemeteries as they have little sources of revenue to mow and keep things up. I give even more to Smiths Grove Cemetery as that is my big project.
It costs $800 (it is that low because it is competitively bid) to mow the Smiths Grove Cemetery. Over the course of the year that ends up being a lot of money. If you can afford to donate to your families cemeteries please do. They usually need it.
I am really proud of the changes that have happened at Smiths Grove. I think that it is a sign of loving the folks that went before you. I will bore you with one of my pictures made just after we reworked the chapel:
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Morning D, remembering all those that sacrificed their lives for us today!!!
Yawl have a great day!!!! Prayers!!!
Yawl have a great day!!!! Prayers!!!
You will be one ahead of us SC, that's ok!
I have seen some crazy schiff next door at the druggie house, but this morning takes it to another level!!! So a truck pulls in, two guys in the truck, they set there a few minutes, one puts on a wig and hat, gets out, gets something out of the toolbox, I thought it was a gun, don't know, but a few minutes later BOOOOOOOM!!! I run to the door and there was a cloud of smoke out by the truck!!! The front tire on the truck just exploded!!!!! One guy comes out of the house, looks at the tire, kicks it and tells the other guy, yea it's flat!!!!!
Are your neighbors some kind of reality TV show? I would like to tune in and watch that.
Going to watch a good war movie this evening. I am thinking of going way back for a WWII movie staring John Wayne. They Were Expendable . Filmed in Key Biscayne, Florida in 1944 and on the big screen in 1945
https://ok.ru/video/307440126627
https://ok.ru/video/307440126627
It would make a good one, scene from Up in Smoke Is it flat man, Cheech, yea but it's just flat on the bottom!!!!
As I've told you before, I give you great respect because you and those like you went to those places of your own free will to let the public know what was going on.
Thanks Bernie. I can remember young kids in places like Iraq and Afghanistan saying to me, "Who'd you piss off at the newspaper to be here?" And when told I came of my own free will saying, "You must be a F---ing idiot." But the truth is, I always felt privileged to be in a place where I could tell the stories of people willing to put it on the line for the country.
After I wrote that piece I linked above -- which was really focused on the topic of how badly the training of the Iraqi Army was going -- I heard from Lt. Col. Terry Crowe's family who saw the piece in one of the many newspaper my company owned, and they were grateful someone had been around to chronicle his sacrifice. That really meant a lot to me, and summed up why it was worth it for me to be there.
You were talking about the female marine being gung ho. At DaNang, the bomb dumps were a couple of miles off base for safety reasons. The marines had a bomb dump right across the road from ours. The ecp's (entry control point) to each were within easy speaking distance, so we'd talk sometimes. I read a story once about the mindset they wanted in a marine. The commander was talking to a hundred marines. He said this is an important dangerous mission and probably only one of you will come back alive. All 100 marines were thinking, those other 99 poor sob's are all going to die. The impression I got from my chats was the trainers had succeeded in getting the mindset they wanted.
Another quick story. DaNang was occupied by several branches of service and several countries. Each was committed to a certain section of fence line for security. We had a guard tower right in the middle of the marine's encampment and were responsible for the fence line surrounding their camp. They didn't like that at all (and I can't blame them). One night one of them threw a hand grenade at the base of our guard tower just to let our man know he wasn't welcome.
Another quick story. DaNang was occupied by several branches of service and several countries. Each was committed to a certain section of fence line for security. We had a guard tower right in the middle of the marine's encampment and were responsible for the fence line surrounding their camp. They didn't like that at all (and I can't blame them). One night one of them threw a hand grenade at the base of our guard tower just to let our man know he wasn't welcome.
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We are all blessed by sacrifices for liberty.
Thanks Bert! I was going to post it still lives in my family. Memorial Day is a very BIG deal.The tradition is still going on in Southern Kentucky. We had a lot of company yesterday and we went during church hours for less traffic. We spend a lot of money on Memorial Day weekend, not on flowers, but a lot of money for the cemeteries. We give $500 to each of the cemeteries as they have little sources of revenue to mow and keep things up. I give even more to Smiths Grove Cemetery as that is my big project.
It costs $800 (it is that low because it is competitively bid) to mow the Smiths Grove Cemetery. Over the course of the year that ends up being a lot of money. If you can afford to donate to your families cemeteries please do. They usually need it.
I am really proud of the changes that have happened at Smiths Grove. I think that it is a sign of loving the folks that went before you. I will bore you with one of my pictures made just after we reworked the chapel:
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- Good Afternoon, D-Leagueanites and Lurkers.
- Slept in this morning. Tired.
- Saw 2 Turkey Vustures cleaning up the remains of a squirrel that did not make it They are huge birds.
- None of our realatives were killed in the wars.
- I have been thinking of my dead realtives this Memorial Day.
- Lola is lying at my feet enjoying the quietness of the day. Love Bug.
- You know the drill:
- As you were.
- Carry on.
- Be careful out there.
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Thanks to all those who laid down their lives for our country - and to those who came out maimed.
Thanks to those who have been in the line of fire.
And thanks to those who never were in the line of fire but were prepared and stood ready to be in the line of fire.
And ... the correspondents who often were with those in the line of fire.
War is Hell.
Thanks to those who have been in the line of fire.
And thanks to those who never were in the line of fire but were prepared and stood ready to be in the line of fire.
And ... the correspondents who often were with those in the line of fire.
War is Hell.
For Geography/weather wackos - checkout the weather pattern and visually grasp the Colorado Plateau of the 4 corners area. Visibility being over 100 miles, looking north I can see the southern edge and cloud formation over the fire climax forest community that surrounds the plateau (Painted Desert) that drains through the Grand Canyon. Linky
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Finally finished front and back yards. Crazy humid out there. Grass had grown so high in our back yard that mower ran out of gas half way through cutting. Drank lots of water.
Hope y'all enjoying this Memorial Day.
Hope y'all enjoying this Memorial Day.
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