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Who has not had the seasonal experience of the Christmas tree light bulb issue?
Our painting for today is a painting of a snowman and horse drawn sled by Terry Redlin.
The musical offering is twofold; music and a light show to the tune of Three Ships Sailing by the Piano Guy.
Over Black Coffee and Gunpowder Tea
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It is time for list making. 🤔😎
Some days life’s vicissitudes are almost more than one can endure. For instance,
As I have no art prepared for today, music will have to substitute.
See the face on the doggo left side, I seen that look this Am
I turned on CCR’s Midnight Special, you know where they march you to the table and you see the same ole thing. Yeah, well being 15 years of age, that’s like 76 years in human time, She had a rabbit once, took it a vet, he said it needs hay, some grass and water, so ma what you feed him? “any G’damn thing I bring to him”, that rabbit lived almost 10 years, coyote went through the cage.
You ever go school where some were allergic to peanut butter, no, me either, sure, I think we all knew one fat kid, so what, he’s fat, made a great goalie. Not sure your mother, thinking ours hated us, we never ate off 12-inch plates, she had them, just never used them, only 10-inch plates here.
Here, I’ll show you something, Trisoduim phosphate, you know what is, it’s cement cleaner
Reading through The Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act, there’s only one solution to making people healthy again which will produce healthy babies, America needs her Sons & Daughters, put bounties on Lobbyists anywhere d.c. 500 miles should be about right.
Ivermectin, a potential anticancer drug
How do you show the people the truth, sometimes… you have to walk through the darkness before they see the Light.
Me, I’m just waiting for Black Friday videos, dog don’t think such terms, his belly does his thinking
Sippin a coffee with a smile, Rush is greatly missed by many, that lovable fuzzball would be causing the leftardo’s to completely lose their minds with no return trip ticket. If he was asked to fill a cabinet position, congress would have eating each others fingernails down to quick. Don’t know if you ever the story of Thanksgiving as told by the mayor of realville.
For whatever reason a prayer came to mind, seems to fit the situation from that to this one;
“Lo, there do I see my father. Lo, there do I see my mother, and my sisters, and my brothers. Lo, there do I see the line of my people, Back to the beginning!
Planning ahead is a good thing as in what to do with your leftovers, aka Mustgoe’s
What people after stuffing their face, lay around, putting the Buddha, I had to look up to find what the Tubi was, here’s an idea, instead of snoring go walk it off.
I betcha Bill can get your ass movin straight away
sure is quiet out here
It’s FriYAY! Time to let off a bit of steam and have some fun.
This editor rarely makes entertainment recommendations. He realizes not everyone likes the same thinga and what one person likes, the next might hate. However I am about to make an exception. Y’all should watch Letterkenny.
Happy 249th Marines!
Editors note: The USS John Basilone DDG 122, a flight IIA Burke destroyer commissioned on Saturday in New York City. The Basilone is the last of the flight IIA Burkes.
Welcome to all things (maybe not all) Halloween. As per usual for such topics, snacks are available.
I have been collecting humor for just this occasion. As per usual, my good friend SufferforSnakes has provided many to assist with laughter.
On a personal note…
Share if you have any.
L-R Aaron Judge, Juan Soto, Garett Cole, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Mookie Betts, Shohei Ohtani
As most of you know, this Editor is a Yuge baseball fan. His love of the game dates back to the 1970’s and his love of the New York Yankees dates to the 1978 season. That season marked the Yankees 22nd World Series Chamionship. They beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4 games to 2.
This year’s series is a rematch of that 1978 series. It kicks off tonight at Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles a few minutes after 8 pm EDT tonight. This will be the 12th time the two teams have met in the Fall Classic, with the Yankees leading the Dodgers 8-3.
Tonight’s starters are Gerritt Cole for New York and Jack Flaherty for Los Angeles. Cole, who spent the early part of the season on the IL, has a 3.31 ERA in 16.1 innings over three starts this post season. Flaherty has struggled this post season after putting up decent numbers during the regular season. He’s notched a 7.04 ERA in 15 innings over three starts.
This series has the chance to see 5 former MVPs play. Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton have all won League MVP honors in thier careers and all 5 are likely to play this in series. The previous mark is 4. That happened 9 times before, most recently in the 1971 series between Baltimore and Pittsburg with Boog Powell, Brooks Robinson, Frank Robinson and Roberto Clemente.
This series also features the top three sluggers in Judge, Ohtani and Soto. The three led MLB in OPS, Judge at 1.159, Ohtani at 1.036 and Soto at .998.
I try not to make predictions, especially when it comes to sports. So instead, I’ll give my keys to the series.
For the Yankees, their pitching has to stay hot. The NY staff has a team ERA of 3.65 for the post season, and they need to keep that up. They also need their bats to get hot. Offensively, Soto and Stanton have done most of the heavy lifting for the Yanks.
The Dodgers need to find a way to get to the Yankees pitching staff in a way nobody else has this post season. Jack Flaherty needs to look like Jack Flaherty, not whatever it was in his appearance vs the Mets.
All in all, I expect an exciting series, but it has the potential to be one for the ages. Only time will tell at this point.
Do I have the answers to life?? No, I can only answer for my life. Others must look inside themselves for what life’s answers mean to them. That life is not fair only points up the axiom that all must judge for themselves what life means to them, their progeny and their loved ones.
Life is not a journey to the grave to arrive coiffured and well preserved, but rather to slide in broadside, totally worn out, exclaiming WOW!!! WHAT A RIDE!!!”
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A life well lived can make this statement have great meaning.
The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.”
Theodore Roosevelt – 26th President of the United States (1858 – 1910)
This president faced many sad events in his life, but he never surrendered to despair.
There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man’s desires, he does not live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived to long.”
Johan Georg Zimmerman – Swiss physicist (1728 – 1795)
Long life does not necessarily mean that you have lived according to God’s plan, but it does show that you have used God’s gift of free will according to your own desires.
I would so live as if I knew that I received my being only for the benefit of others.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca – Roman philosopher (4 B. C. _ 65 A. D.)
That we all might live so selfless would be a gift to mankind.
Life is sown thickly with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
Francois Maria de Voltaire – French poet (1694 – 1778)
To dwell on ones misfortunes robs one of the ability to overcome the trials and travails of life.
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire; not too near, lest he burn; not too far off, lest he freeze.”
Diogenes – Greek philosopher (412 – 325 B. C.)
Too close and the corrupt may contaminate us, too far away and we may not recognize the corruption.
To my way of thinking, to blunder through life void of conviction or purpose, is as vapid as a cloudless night sky without moon or stars.
Walt 2024
The VA has proclaimed this week, October 21-25 Veteran buddy check week. The VA established Veteran Buddy Checks to encourage peer-to-peer connections among Veterans. The goal is to reduce isolation, support peer crisis intervention, and increase access to both VA and community care and services.
As a part of this program the VA offers the VA SAVE training program. This training helps to develop the skills you may need to effectively ‘check in’ with buddies in crisis. It also helps you to recognize the various symptoms of a Vet in crisis and teaches you how best to deal with them. Your editor took it a few years back for the first time, and it was well worth the 30 or so minutes it takes to complete.
Another part of the program is the pledge to talk to ten. This pledge is a way to increase Veteran outreach among the community.
This is also a good time to reconnect with your Basic Training/Boot camp buddies that you’ve lost contact with. Both RallyPoint and Together We Served offer resources for finding a lost comrade-in-arms.
If you or someone you know is in crisis, dial 899 and press 1. That’s the number for the Veterans Crisis Center and is the fastest way to get help.
Here are some other ways to contact the VA for assistance.