There’s a land that is fairer than day,
And by faith we can see it afar;
For the Father waits over the way,
To prepare us a dwelling place there.
In the sweet by and by,
We shall meet on that beautiful shore;
In the sweet by and by,
We shall meet on that beautiful shore.
–Sanford F. Bennet and Joseph P. Webster
20+ lbs.
Good to go for a few months.
Hit the link for a photo of T. Boone Picken’s amazing personal library.
I don’t think that you can get a better sense of the sort of meaning than from what is in every bookshop in this city… .
Douglas Murry
via Powerline
Powerline’s The Week in Pictures.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/06/the-week-in-pictures-prince-of-whales-edition.php
I picked up The Literature of American History: A Bibliographical Guide (1902, reprinted 1966) and was skimming through the section on “Educational History,” and came across these two titles (grabbed screen shots at Archive dot org).
Here’s the blurb in The Literature of American History:
Together these two works, which are really companions, present a full view of Oberlin history for it first half century. The first one presents the colony and the college in their mutual relations particularly, while the jubilee addresses deal almost wholly with prominent phases of college work and influence. The books are strongly marked by Oberlin thought and feeling.
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The founding of Oberlin is an interesting story. You can read or check out The Colony and the College at Archive.
Lamenting the degeneracy of the Church and the deplorable condition of our perishing world..
Turned around from the sink and there she was. I think she’s 14 or 15 years old, maybe more.
Eleven hours drive time including gas and rest stops and a 30-minute Superior Chinese Buffet lunch stop somewhere in East Texas. Tacos on a Chinese buffet were new to me.
The crappie are in the freezer.
TTYL
We caught about 50+ crappie (pronounced ‘croppy’) this morning. We are taking pounds and pounds of crappie fillets back to Mississippi. There is a fish fry in our future.
It was a beautiful morning, atypical for Texas this time of year. Started off almost chilly. Met up with the guide at the local gas station / country store / grill. Got a breakfast sandwich and more coffee. Made our way down to the 4000 acre lake and commenced to fishing and telling fishing stories.
Over the years, I’ve fished many times with Mr. Big Food’s Dad, Mr. Big Food hisself, and a Guide. The men take great care to not catch anything bigger than I. Don’t know how they do it, but they always manage to celebrate my biggest catch of the day.
The Guide even staged this photo.
Mr. Big Food was pretty proud of the two giant cats he caught. Nasty looking things, IMHO. But sometime in the future, a catfish filet from this lake will land on my plate and it will be delicious.
Until then, it’s happy trails avoiding the interstates on our way back home.
I am not going to eat liver mush. I don’t care.
APPETIZER SANDWICH PIES
Makes 4 pies
1 hard cooked egg, chopped fine
1 Tbsp mayonnaise or Miracle Whip, plus more, for spreading on bread slices
Dash dried dill weed
Dash salt
4 ½ oz can deviled ham
1 tsp prepared horseradish
1 tsp prepared mustard
8 oz package cream cheese, softened
2 Tbsp crumbled blue cheese
2 medium unpared cucumbers, scored
6-7 inch round loaf rye bread, unsliced
EGG FILLING
Combine egg, 1 Tbsp mayonnaise or Miracle Whip, dill weed, and salt.
HAM FILLING
Combine deviled ham, horseradish, and mustard.
CHEESE FILLING
Beat cream cheese and blue cheese until fluffy.
TO ASSEMBLE
Slice cucumbers thin and cut slices in half. Cut 4 ½-inch horizontal slices from center of rye loaf and spread each slice with mayonnaise or Miracle Whip. For each pie, spread Egg Filling evenly in center of each slice. Ring with Ham Filling, then with Cheese Filling. Overlap cucumbers atop. Cut into wedges and serve.
There are fish involved.
Origninally published March 2015. These are awesome.
Named after the Texas Hill Country town started by German immigrants
FREDERICKSBURG POTATOES
Potatoes, pared and sliced lengthwise into eighths
Cold water (to soak potatoes)
1 tsp butter or bacon drippings for each potato used (or more fat, if needed), melted
Salt, pepper to taste
A few caraway seeds
Soak potato slices in cold water to cover for 1 hour. Preheat oven to 400o. Drain potatoes and pat dry. Drizzle melted fat over potatoes, turning to coat evenly. Arrange in a single layer on baking sheet (lined with aluminum foil for easy clean up, if desired). Bake until potatoes are browned, turning occasionally. When done, sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste, and a few caraway seeds.
Looks a lot like the Farm.
Via Powerline’s The Week in Pictures and its a good one. Stay tuned.
We miss you.
This evening, storms rolled through and I remembered how y’all would appear on the apartment porch, and we on the patio, afterward.
May 27. Possible kidnapping attempted; Lawnmower fire
May 28. Two vehicles reckless driving (a.k.a. drag racing); horse loose
May 29. Child custody dispute
May 30. Gas spill
May 31. Fire safety check
June 1. Possible sick dog in house
June 2. Woods fire
June 3. Animal problem
Those are not all. There were a few MVAs (motor vehicle accidents), some medical calls, a fair number of suspicious persons, and a “pregnant lady with sharp pains.”
I want to go back to the days when the internet didn’t work and you fixed it by pulling the plug and waited for 60 seconds.
June 6, 1944– Tonight’s communiqué just in from D-Day invasion headquarters summarizes the news. “Allied forces,” it says, “have succeeded in their initial landings in France; and fighting continues.”
Lowell Thomas was the Walter Cronkite of radio. Beginning in 1930, he broadcast twice each evening on CBS radio. It was said that his voice had been heard by more people than any other man’s in history.
So this evening, 75 years ago, this is what Americans– whose husbands, sons, brothers, and fathers were among the “tens of thousands of men”– heard.
