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[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 62°F and clear with periodic clouds. Today's high expected around 90°F.

9,000 vehicle crashes so far this year in Austin. Yikes!

Austin Police Officer killed in vehicle crash last week. Someone took picture of ATX Mayor Adler caught sleeping during memorial service. He's catching hell over it and rightfully so.

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

 

[UK_fan_41102]

Good morning D-League. It's currently 38° and foggy here in Eastern Kentucky. This afternoon will bring mostly sunny skies and a high of 68°.

Everyone stay safe out there today.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Good morning D-League. Rainy and cold in the east. Ready for the last bits of the influence of Ian to blow through.

Really feeling like basketball weather though. I remember all the cold, rainy October days when I was a kid getting up before school to go running a few miles as preseason basketball conditioning, telling myself every step it would all pay off. And of course it has, with hip replacement surgery coming up in December and knee replacement surgery some time after I finish rehabbing.

Not much happening my way besides work and commuting and sleep. I’ve fallen into the habit of watching Law and Order reruns for an hour or so at night before bed. I never watched the show back in the 1990s when it started - traveled a lot and worked lots of nights. I’m enjoying the show — what I find remarkable is even the liberals in 1990s NYC would clearly consider the positions of today’s “progressives” insane.

hope it’s a good day for everyone.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

 

[BBUK]

Good morning all,

Hi ho hi ho....

Have a great day!!!

 

[warrior-cat]

Morning Legionnaires!

54° this morning with the high headed for the mid to upper 80's. Still no rain so, I have not cut the grass for a couple of weeks, and it still looks almost freshly cut. Will just knock down a few of weeds with a swing sickle and be done. Probably just have one more cut before the season ends.

Semi busy day to day. Working out this morning, walking the monster after, then dusting and vacuuming the house. Have 2 softball games tonight, 6:30 and 8:30 game times.

Going fishing tomorrow late morning to early afternoon. Supposed to be the best times during the fall. We shall see.

May God Bless you all today and keep you safe. For those hurting may he take away the pain and calm the waters.

Ya'll be cool.

 

[berniecarbo]

Morning Legionnaires!

54° this morning with the high headed for the mid to upper 80's. Still no rain so, I have not cut the grass for a couple of weeks, and it still looks almost freshly cut. Will just knock down a few of weeds with a swing sickle and be done. Probably just have one more cut before the season ends.

Semi busy day to day. Working out this morning, walking the monster after, then dusting and vacuuming the house. Have 2 softball games tonight, 6:30 and 8:30 game times.

Going fishing tomorrow late morning to early afternoon. Supposed to be the best times during the fall. We shall see.

May God Bless you all today and keep you safe. For those hurting may take away the pain and calm the waters.

Ya'll be cool.

My dad used to call the sickle an "idiot stick". guess who got to be the idiot most of the time?

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Good Morning All,

Waking up with a strong cup of coffee and a nice sun rising. We should have a bright, bright sunshiny day. Our temperatures remain pleasant with overnight in the 50's and 58° at the present as we get up to 79° by mid afternoon. No rain in the forecast. We got plenty last week.

Yesterday we took care of our medical insurance for next year and met with the agent. To say I am pleased would be an understatement. No premiums and almost all medicines are at no cost. Very low co payments and coverage has been expanded including dental and vision. I have a PPO and this gives me the ability to go a specialist without a referral.

Today is the start of Hog Hunting Days. It is an organized hunt put on by the county to get rid of feral hogs as best we can. Last year over 500 hogs were taken out. It is pretty much open season on hogs down here all year long but this is an organized hunt with dogs and hunters always look forward to to. I have seen them take out an entire lawn overnight. ROOT HOG OR DIE

Take care all,

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Morning Legionnaires!

54° this morning with the high headed for the mid to upper 80's. Still no rain so, I have not cut the grass for a couple of weeks, and it still looks almost freshly cut. Will just knock down a few of weeds with a swing sickle and be done. Probably just have one more cut before the season ends.

My grass grew so high the past couple of weeks I might have to bring in a hay baler. Last week we could not mow because of the hurricane and the grass must have grown 10". So today I am going to spend a little time outside doing yard work and loosening up these muscles. Keep moving as grandpa would say.

 

[berniecarbo]

Good Morning All,

Waking up with a strong cup of coffee and a nice sun rising. We should have a bright, bright sunshiny day. Our temperatures remain pleasant with overnight in the 50's and 58° at the present as we get up to 79° by mid afternoon. No rain in the forecast. We got plenty last week.

Yesterday we took care of our medical insurance for next year and met with the agent. To say I am pleased would be an understatement. No premiums and almost all medicines are at no cost. Very low co payments and coverage has been expanded including dental and vision. I have a PPO and this gives me the ability to go a specialist without a referral.

Today is the start of Hog Hunting Days. It is an organized hunt put on by the county to get rid of feral hogs as best we can. Last year over 500 hogs were taken out. It is pretty much open season on hogs down here all year long but this is an organized hunt with dogs and hunters always look forward to to. I have seen them take out an entire lawn overnight. ROOT HOG OR DIE

Take care all,

Being a lover of boxer dogs, I have to post this. I read a story several years ago about how in Louisianna they were breeding dogs to hunt feral hogs. The breed they came up with was so mean that the handlers couldn't deal with them. They started breeding those dogs to boxers to get a more people friendly dog.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Good Morning All,

Waking up with a strong cup of coffee and a nice sun rising. We should have a bright, bright sunshiny day. Our temperatures remain pleasant with overnight in the 50's and 58° at the present as we get up to 79° by mid afternoon. No rain in the forecast. We got plenty last week.

Yesterday we took care of our medical insurance for next year and met with the agent. To say I am pleased would be an understatement. No premiums and almost all medicines are at no cost. Very low co payments and coverage has been expanded including dental and vision. I have a PPO and this gives me the ability to go a specialist without a referral.

Today is the start of Hog Hunting Days. It is an organized hunt put on by the county to get rid of feral hogs as best we can. Last year over 500 hogs were taken out. It is pretty much open season on hogs down here all year long but this is an organized hunt with dogs and hunters always look forward to to. I have seen them take out an entire lawn overnight. ROOT HOG OR DIE

Take care all,

That reminds me of something the old folks (younger than I am now, but still...) used to say around Kentucky when I was a kid: "I haven't had this much fun since the hogs ate my little brother." That hog could eat my little brother, and he's about 6'4'' 225 now.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

That reminds me of something the old folks (younger than I am now, but still...) used to say around Kentucky when I was a kid: "I haven't had this much fun since the hogs ate my little brother." That hog could eat my little brother, and he's about 6'4'' 225 now.

Hogs can be one of the most dangerous species. I remember when I was about 6 years old a boy fell in a hog pen and the hogs maimed him for life. His right arm and left leg were useless and he spent his life as a cripple. Hogs can do some real damage to property and life.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Hogs can be one of the most dangerous species. I remember when I was about 6 years old a boy fell in a hog pen and the hogs maimed him for life. His right arm and left leg were useless and he spent his life as a cripple. Hogs can do some real damage to property and life.

Sawnee - This is one of those stories the Yankees never believe when I tell it, but according to my father it is true.

Back before I was born in the late 1940s or early 1950s, one of his adult cousins in Bracken County set out in the fall to butcher a hog, and later that day the family found him dead.

What they pieced together was that when the cousin shot the hog in the head to kill it, somehow it was a glancing shot to his skull that knocked the animal down and made him appear dead. But when my dad's cousin went into the pen to slit his throat to drain the blood, the hog reared up and pinned him against a wall of the pen, crushing his ribs and causing internal bleeding.

People died in lots of haphazard ways in rural Kentucky in those days, but that one was remarked upon within my family on into my boyhood in the 1960s.

 

[berniecarbo]

Sawnee - This is one of those stories the Yankees never believe when I tell it, but according to my father it is true.

Back before I was born in the late 1940s or early 1950s, one of his adult cousins in Bracken County set out in the fall to butcher a hog, and later that day the family found him dead.

What they pieced together was that when the cousin shot the hog in the head to kill it, somehow it was a glancing shot to his skull that knocked the animal down and made him appear dead. But when my dad's cousin went into the pen to slit his throat to drain the blood, the hog reared up and pinned him against a wall of the pen, crushing his ribs and causing internal bleeding.

People died in lots of haphazard ways in rural Kentucky in those days, but that one was remarked upon within my family on into my boyhood in the 1960s.

I had an uncle who was only a few years older than me that I hung out with a lot. His FIL raised hogs, so I was around them enough to know I didn't want to be around them any more than I had to.

 

[UK_fan_41102]

Just saw where Kentucky legend and icon Loretta Lynn passed away. RIP.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Just heard Loretta Lynn died at 90. Bad news but 90 years ain't a bad run.

 

[vhcat70]

As for the actual game of soccer, the first goal I saw scored was waved off. Why? BECAUSE THE GUY HAD BEATEN THE DEFENSE DOWN THE PITCH. That's off-sides. In basketball terms, a break-away dunk would be waved off because you didn't let the defense catch up and get behind you. That's when I knew the game was not for me.

Hmmm. Football and hockey have offsides. I mean a WR isn't allowed to stand behind the D before the snap.

Soccer offsides has a pretty straightforward & understandable definition even though it can be hard/debatable to call & see:

Player on team with the ball can only be offside if all of these three are true when his team last kicks the ball: 1) he's on the offensive half of the field, 2) ahead of the ball, and 3) there are not two D players between him and the goal line - one of which is almost invariably the goalkeeper. And the sideline ref tells you where that offside line is at any point because he lines up even with it - which is why he constantly moves up & down his half of the field as the D players move. Once the other team deliberately plays the ball, there is no offsides. And the player can move himself back onside.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Just heard Loretta Lynn died at 90. Bad news but 90 years ain't a bad run.

Sorry, I was redundant.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Really sad about Loretta Lynn. Beginning when my kids were very young, on everyone of our 3-4 road trips from Maryland to Kentucky each year as we approached the eastern Kentucky mountains I'd play her music for them. To this day, my 25-year-old daughter is the rare DC young woman who lists Loretta Lynn as her favorite artist.

So many great songs. I made sure my kids could sing along with the great Kentucky anthem Coal Miner's Daughter. And my daughters favorite became "You Ain't Woman Enough."

Here's one of my favorites.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Just heard Loretta Lynn died at 90. Bad news but 90 years ain't a bad run.

This is a sad day for me because I admit I had a huge crush on Loretta Lynn when I first heard her music. She is in my mind the greatest female country artist in music history. Emmylou Harris is right by her side with Patsy Cline and Tammy Wynette right there with them but Loretta had a much longer career and she was one of us.

She was the kind of woman you better not mess with. RIP and thank you for the memories.

 

[_Rooster]

I have never watched a soccer game in my life.

I watched my granddaughters play before they discovered softball.

Yep, soccer is something beyond my understanding. Heck, where I grew up in a rural atmosphere in a small school, football wasn't even a thing, let alone soccer.

What's to understand?

 

[RunninRichie]

Good afternoon D-League. Doing some more…you guessed it…..genealogy, today.

Looked at my x3 or x4 great grandmothers family. Her mom (and my x5 grandmother) was an oldham. Looking through the oldham family name turns up some seriously cool stuff. And the best part? They’re all blood related. (Thanks grandma)

First up, we have Major George Oldham. Major for the continental army in the american revolution. In north carolina

“
In early 1776, George Oldham was a Private, who was soon promoted to Ensign, under Capt. Matthew Jouett/DeWitt and Col. John Hogan in the Northern Orange County Regiment of Militia. This company marched towards the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, but they were too late.

In 1779, George Oldham was commissioned as a Lieutenant under Capt. Matthew DeWitt and Col. William Moore in the Caswell County Regiment of Militia. This company was at the battle of Briar Creek, GA on 3/3/1779.

In March of 1780, George Oldham was commissioned as a Captain under Col. William Moore in the Caswell County Regiment of Militia. His company was attached to Col. Ambrose Ramsey (Chatham County Regiment) who got sick and returned home, then attached to Col. John Collier (Randolph County Regiment), and was at the battle of Little Lynches Creek, SC (8/11/1780) and Camden, SC (8/16/1780). He also led his company at the battles of Haw River (2/25/1781) and Guilford Court House (3/15/1781).

In 1781, George Oldham was commissioned as a Major under Col. William Moore in the Caswell County Regiment of Militia.

On 5/1/1783, George Oldham was commissioned as second Colonel in the Caswell County Regiment of Militia, alongside Col. James Saunders, both of whom served until the end of the war (assumed, records are incomplete).

George Oldham was born c.1749 in Prince William County, VA. He married Susannah Hensley c.1775 in Orange County, NC. He died on 3/30/1840 in Anderson District, SC.”



The Oldham’s also have a TON of confederates. In alabama, and south carolina. Could be more states but i’m only scratching the surface of the Oldham family name.

Here’s John Shelby Oldham, 20th alabama infantry. https://images.findagrave.com/photos250/photos/2014/176/64823823_1403831101.jpg

His father served in the 2nd alabama cavalry. From 1862 until the end of the war. (Both survived)

There’s another Oldham boy. Marion Oldham, who was in the 11th alabama infantry. Under command of Robert E. Lee and the army of northern virginia. He was mortally wounded during the seven days battles and died in 1862.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Good afternoon D-League. Doing some more…you guessed it…..genealogy, today.

Looked at my x3 or x4 great grandmothers family. Her mom (and my x5 grandmother) was an oldham. Looking through the oldham family name turns up some seriously cool stuff. And the best part? They’re all blood related. (Thanks grandma)

First up, we have Major George Oldham. Major for the continental army in the american revolution. In north carolina

“
In early 1776, George Oldham was a Private, who was soon promoted to Ensign, under Capt. Matthew Jouett/DeWitt and Col. John Hogan in the Northern Orange County Regiment of Militia. This company marched towards the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, but they were too late.

In 1779, George Oldham was commissioned as a Lieutenant under Capt. Matthew DeWitt and Col. William Moore in the Caswell County Regiment of Militia. This company was at the battle of Briar Creek, GA on 3/3/1779.

In March of 1780, George Oldham was commissioned as a Captain under Col. William Moore in the Caswell County Regiment of Militia. His company was attached to Col. Ambrose Ramsey (Chatham County Regiment) who got sick and returned home, then attached to Col. John Collier (Randolph County Regiment), and was at the battle of Little Lynches Creek, SC (8/11/1780) and Camden, SC (8/16/1780). He also led his company at the battles of Haw River (2/25/1781) and Guilford Court House (3/15/1781).

In 1781, George Oldham was commissioned as a Major under Col. William Moore in the Caswell County Regiment of Militia.

On 5/1/1783, George Oldham was commissioned as second Colonel in the Caswell County Regiment of Militia, alongside Col. James Saunders, both of whom served until the end of the war (assumed, records are incomplete).

George Oldham was born c.1749 in Prince William County, VA. He married Susannah Hensley c.1775 in Orange County, NC. He died on 3/30/1840 in Anderson District, SC.”



The Oldham’s also have a TON of confederates. In alabama, and south carolina. Could be more states but i’m only scratching the surface of the Oldham family name.

Here’s John Shelby Oldham, 20th alabama infantry. https://images.findagrave.com/photos250/photos/2014/176/64823823_1403831101.jpg

His father served in the 2nd alabama cavalry. From 1862 until the end of the war. (Both survived)

There’s another Oldham boy. Marion Oldham, who was in the 11th alabama infantry. Under command of Robert E. Lee and the army of northern virginia. He was mortally wounded during the seven days battles and died in 1862.

you are hooked dude!

I will pray for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[_Rooster]

you are hooked dude!

I will pray for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Richie is hopeless right now. Bug bitten and not even half-way on one leg

 

[vhcat70]

I skied on one leg even though I have two. Didn't work out too well.

 

[Catfan in Tn.]

Opryland Hotel with Christmas wreaths displayed outside. 🤬

 

[starchief5]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 62°F and clear with periodic clouds. Today's high expected around 90°F.

9,000 vehicle crashes so far this year in Austin. Yikes!

Austin Police Officer killed in vehicle crash last week. Someone took picture of ATX Mayor Adler caught sleeping during memorial service. He's catching hell over it and rightfully so.

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

My wife makes tacos just about every week. Enchiladas about once a month.

 

[starchief5]

I skied on one leg even though I have two. Didn't work out too well.

I used to caddy for a guy with one leg. He had a prosthetic leg but took it off when he played golf and used crutches. He played pretty decent golf on that one leg.

For ATX: He was Clyde Enix, the founder of Enix Jewelers in downtown M'boro.

 

[starchief5]

Sawnee - This is one of those stories the Yankees never believe when I tell it, but according to my father it is true.

Back before I was born in the late 1940s or early 1950s, one of his adult cousins in Bracken County set out in the fall to butcher a hog, and later that day the family found him dead.

What they pieced together was that when the cousin shot the hog in the head to kill it, somehow it was a glancing shot to his skull that knocked the animal down and made him appear dead. But when my dad's cousin went into the pen to slit his throat to drain the blood, the hog reared up and pinned him against a wall of the pen, crushing his ribs and causing internal bleeding.

People died in lots of haphazard ways in rural Kentucky in those days, but that one was remarked upon within my family on into my boyhood in the 1960s.

Butchering a hog was the occasion for a neighborhood social gathering when I was a kid - usually around Thanksgiving time.

 

[BBUK]

Hello All,

I do hope your days went great. Been diligently performing above and beyond.

I am thankful.. I will type a little more later, "God willing and the river don't rise."

 

[UK82]

Opryland Hotel with Christmas wreaths displayed outside. 🤬

Poor Thanksgiving. The forgotten holiday when it comes to business.

 

[BBUK]

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[berniecarbo]

Opryland Hotel with Christmas wreaths displayed outside. 🤬

Quite a few years ago, the Opryland Hotel bought new lamp shades for all their rooms from a guy from California who bought them from china. When they arrived, something was wrong with everyone of them. The guy called me up begging me to take a crew to Nashville and go room to room and fix them. I could have charged him about whatever I wanted, but I wasn't about to bail him out of his Chinese mess. I often wonder what he did. Maybe he flew a crew in from china?

 

[AustinTXCat]

I used to caddy for a guy with one leg. He had a prosthetic leg but took it off when he played golf and used crutches. He played pretty decent golf on that one leg.

For ATX: He was Clyde Enix, the founder of Enix Jewelers in downtown M'boro.

If I'm not mistaken, Clyde Enix moved to FL. One of the relatives opened a jewelry store down in New Tazewell.

 

[BBUK]

If I'm not mistaken, Clyde Enix moved to FL. One of the relatives opened a jewelry store down in New Tazewell.

I remember that store. Never had money to buy anything but I remember it.

 

[*CatinIL*]

Rest in Peace Loretta...you were a treasure!

 

[berniecarbo]

Was talking to a guy today about workers. He needs 40 workers, so he hires 50 workers to try and keep enough people there to get product out. Today he was six workers short. 50 workers and 16 people fail to show. what a world!

 

[BBUK]

Was talking to a guy today about workers. He needs 40 workers, so he hires 50 workers to try and keep enough people there to get product out. Today he was six workers short. 50 workers and 16 people fail to show. what a world!

It all comes down to leadership. No, not business leadership as it should be but the farcical government leadership on whom despots rely. (Yeah, I mean it.)

 

[MdWIldcat55]

I see Aaron Judge got 62. What a remarkable season —without question one of the greatest by an American League player ever.

 

[vhcat70]

Poor Thanksgiving. The forgotten holiday when it comes to business.

That was never its intent imo. It's about family & love, not business.