Well, rain came down shortly after I left. Walked about 20 minutes. Not too wet. I'll wait until later. Should hear from daughter soon.
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He is a good man. If I ever get him down here he will be eating things he never heard of. I bet he would gave a gator gizzard a try, just for the fun of it.
He might even try an alligator gar and eat like a Seminole
I draw the line at a gar. They are horrible. I know. I had one that had been pressured cooked.He is a good man. If I ever get him down here he will be eating things he never heard of. I bet he would gave a gator gizzard a try, just for the fun of it.
He might even try an alligator gar and eat like a Seminole
I will eat one if I am starving, but until then I am with BBUK and the gizzards!
Hell it is worse than carp. Pressured cooked carp is nearly as good as canned salmon but gar is not GOOD.
I thought the part where he tried to enlist in WW1 but his parents wouldn't sign for him, but as soon as he turned 18 he did! I think I saw a drawing of him, where he was wounded in the leg, it had over 200 marked on it?A really sad photo. He caught a machine gun bullet to the head on an island near Okinawa, six days after Roosevelt's death. I've read lot of Ernie's stuff, including his account of Waskow. We don't hear a lot about the campaign in Italy. It was an awful campaign. I had an uncle who served in Italy.
I draw the line at a gar. They are horrible. I know. I had one that had been pressured cooked.
I will eat one if I am starving, but until then I am with BBUK and the gizzards!
Hell it is worse than carp. Pressured cooked carp is nearly as good as canned salmon but gar is not GOOD.
I caught one of those once, not that large but a big one. I'd have had to waste that bugger if I knew he had a ....gizzard... I let him go...
Now I could sit down and eat with Austin anytime, anywhere. Lee's Gizzards are to die for. They are last meal worthy. Our closest Lee's is in Ocala. I drop by often, just for their gizzards.
Sir, that would be my LAST meal for sure...
Jan makes lamps out of whisky bottles for her craft shows and then makes an appropriate shade for it. I'd never heard of it, but we came across a Jesse James bottle of bourbon (made in Ca). The crossed revolvers reminded me of it as we were looking for an image to put on the shade. We found a picture of a 45 caliber revolver once owned by Jesse James. Several years ago, it sold at auction for 1.6 million dollars.
Yes they are terrible. Trash food personified. But the Seminoles love them. My grandpa would cut the line if he caught one. He wouldn't even bother "getting the thrill" of fighting with it on his line. Grandpa went fishing to get something for supper. Catch and release was not in his vocabulary.I draw the line at a gar. They are horrible. I know. I had one that had been pressured cooked.
I will eat one if I am starving, but until then I am with BBUK and the gizzards!
Hell it is worse than carp. Pressured cooked carp is nearly as good as canned salmon but gar is not GOOD.
I will pass with you on gar and eat a baloney sandwich. Fried
After doing OSUT in Missouri, it would be #50 on my list. It was nothing but one BFR. My flight home from was messed up, so they said I could stay over in St. Louis, or fly on to Pittsburgh and stay there the night. I was off to Pennsylvania.
About right (Bureaucrat=0) + (Politician=0) < 0 really smells. No doubt about it.
We all jerk in circles here in the D. It's natural for humans to follow the leader. Been doing it since time began.
I remember Blue law discussions in my family. It wouldn't hurt after church . . . what about a man who works 6 days a week taking his son fishing to put food on the table for his family and neighbors.
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Yeah, gar sucks. Tried down in FL a couple times. Not a fan.I draw the line at a gar. They are horrible. I know. I had one that had been pressured cooked.
I will eat one if I am starving, but until then I am with BBUK and the gizzards!
Hell it is worse than carp. Pressured cooked carp is nearly as good as canned salmon but gar is not GOOD.
Just returned from a bicycle ride to Cumberland Gap and back. 8 miles round trip. Good workout. Heading over for visit with daughter and granddaughter.
Sunday after church and am headed to Church's Fried Chicken on Gulf to Bay Blvd. They better have me a mess of gizzards.
Thank something anyway...
How do they compare to KFC's?
I like them better but it might just be the location. KFC is not very good down here. We also have Bojangles and they are my favorite.
But I pretty much like all fried chicken
Just returned from a bicycle ride to Cumberland Gap and back. 8 miles round trip. Good workout. Heading over for visit with daughter and granddaughter.
Bert Reynolds Bandit Darvel to Lance Armstrong...
Thanks for posting Chief. Ernie was so close to surviving everything from the Blitz in London to North Africa, to Sicily, to the Italian landings, to having the house he shared with other correspondents on Anzio Beach hit by an aerial bomb, to the D-Day landings and the hedgerow battles in France to the end of the Pacific War. It only takes one unlucky moment.A really sad photo. He caught a machine gun bullet to the head on an island near Okinawa, six days after Roosevelt's death. I've read lot of Ernie's stuff, including his account of Waskow. We don't hear a lot about the campaign in Italy. It was an awful campaign. I had an uncle who served in Italy.
But what a legacy throughout America. When I was a young boy in a town of 900 in Kentucky of the 1960s - twenty years after WW2 - there was a local man who'd been mentioned in a favorable way in one of Ernie Pyle's dispatches. People still singled him out!
How does Michigan dirt compare to Ohio dirt?
Come on man... That's a reasonable facsimile thereof....
Have you ever read Rick Atkinson's trilogy on WW2?
Yes I have, Chief. Really terrific work. Especially the middle volume on Italy - my favorite by far. I need to read that again soon.
The Church's chicken here went out of business. They sucked. The chicken was bland and tasteless. There were a couple of other chicken places here too including Golden chicken but, they died out too. Popeyes and KFC are the only ones to survive here.
I know what that Church's specialty must have been....
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The downfall of KFC is one of the great disappointments of my lifetime. They tell me there are still some individual stores that are still good but I have not found one in many years. I get up the nerve to try again every couple of years and every time I say never again. KFC once sued the Colonel for badmouthing their food. Youtube has many exposes of the horrors of their food and operations
Speaking of fried chicken....the Mrs wanted some tonight so we went to a small town in Western Ohio to a restaurant that is known for their fried chicken. Probably my all-time favorite chicken place. Kind of a German restaurant in a German town...but the chicken is great. They used to also make their own brewed beer but stopped doing that years ago, but still have their brand that is now brewed by someone in another town. Restaurant has been there forever...maybe the '30s.
That volume was the reason that led me to comment on what a horrible campaign that was.
Ian W. Toll has done a comparable trilogy on the war in the Pacific. Have you read those?
I still read a lot of WW2 history. I dabble some on Korea and Vietnam. I like narrative history. My short term memory is pretty much shot so I don't remember much of what I read anymore. I do it for the pleasure of the moment I am reading it
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I will give you a little unwritten history of Viet Nam. I was assistant ncoic of security at Tan My LORAN station near the village ofTan My. Our planes and ships used it for radar navigation. When the top man was gone, I was in charge. We had some locals doing menial work on base. Encluded was a sweet teenage girl named Bien who I spoke to every day. My job was to protect people and equipment. I was concerned about non military working on base, but it was set up before I got there by people above my pay grade, so I kept quiet. One night the Viet Cong raided the village and killed all those who worked for us to set an example, encluding a sweet innocent teen age girl. This has haunted me every day of my life for the last 50 years.
We are having a FLOOD here in the Berg, glad I got the yard mowed!!!!!
We got almost an inch of rain in about 45 minutes! Headed your way Bert!!!!
Send some to Bert. He is about to dry up and blow away
This was Colonel Kurtz's point In Apocalypse Now. You could not defeat an enemy who had the will to do horrible things like that but you're not willing to do those horrible things as well. We did horrible things like that during WW2 (indiscriminate bombings of civilians, etc). We have not been willing to do that since then without punishing those who have done so. Obama, for instance, would not allow bombing ISIS oil storage tanks because of the pollution it would cause. Perhaps that is the reason we haven't conclusively won a war since WW2?
Chief - Ive heard of the Toll books but haven’t read them. On my list.
Eric Bergerud’s books on the Pacific War are worth reading - Touched by Fire on the ground war and Fire in the Sky on the air war. And John Toland’s The Rising Sun is still a classic, as is Eugene Sledge’s memoir “With the Old Breed.”
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I've read Old Breed and A Helmet for My Pillow - after watching The Pacific series of course. I've read some of Toland's stuff as well.
Toll's trilogy is very similar in writing style as Atkinson's.
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