Today is Missy’s 2nd birthday. That’s Missy on her first birthday. We have no special plans for today. 🙁
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Beautiful clothes! Girlhood’s fresh beauty knows no glory like a a dashing dress that heightens the bloom on glowing cheeks and sets new stars in sparkling eyes. Nothing stirs a lover’s heart like the one woman gowned with that artistry wherein every line and every tone bespeaks her own intimate and individual charm. And wise
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Continuing the conversation about King’s speech and Civil Rights, Mr Big Food Senior. says, My favorite analysis of the American civil rights movement says it started in 1783 when Massachusetts passed a law that banned slavery between its borders…I can’t find anything earlier than that…but…that wouldn’t be news, would it?…Love from Texas, Well, that would
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Mr Big Food’s Dad emailed me this afternoon. He’d read the previous post on the Smithsonian’s re-write of King’s Dream speech. Mr. Big Food’s Dad says, You can see the original speech by googling George Raveling…He has the original document MLK gave him at the conclusion of the speech 50 years ago…He was one of
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This, Dear Friends, is why one does not rely solely on the World Wide Web for factual information. This is why one has books. I thought today would be a fine day to do a little reading at lunchtime and as I take some breaks from the ever-so-satisfying task of cleaning the workshop. And so
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Philosopher Confucius born 552 B.C. Saint Saint Augustine born A.D. 354; “Christian thinker” Philosopher and inspiration to America’s Founding Fathers John Locke born 1632 Chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier born 1743; father of “modern” chemistryPoet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe born 1749; “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” Philosopher Georg Wilhelm
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I hear, via the World Wide Web, that there’s a #waronboys out there in parts of the “civilized” world. Seems boys who will be boys are no longer welcome in the “civilized” world.That’s too bad. To love hikes and camps and horses and dogs… . Here’s the real #waronboys: I’m a Libertarian. Raise your kid
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Sunday Supper This was a perfect dish for supper after a productive weekend. ONIONY STEAK AND POTATOES 1 lb round steak 1 Tbsp oil 2 ½ C water 1 envelope dry onion soup mix 4 medium potatoes, sliced 1 ½ tsp salt ¼ tsp pepper 14 ½ oz whole green beans (drained if canned, thawed
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I know what you’re thinking. I admit, it doesn’t look like much. But in fact, it was really quite good– and very different for an okra dish! So if you don’t like okra, give this a try. “An unusual cooked okra side dish that comes from Barbados. It is served mainly with fried or steamed
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I have been looking forward to this day for almost four years. Two cars in the two car garage! There’s still work to be done, as you can see. But Today is a Mile-Marker. There are two cars in the two-car garage! You should see the trash pile! I still have to sort through Daughter
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Alt. Title: Idiots, Imbeciles, and Morons.I must say, other than a brief review of the facts, and stumbling across some common business procedures, I’ve been doing a spectacular job of not paying attention to “Common Core”– the system by which Federal Government Initiatives guarantee future generations will star in Idiocracry. During the prologue, a narrator
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Smokin’ This year, as last, Daughter C invited Mr. Big Food to grill some dogs & burgers for the cookout following the Department of Art’s Convocation. I hear tell Convocation– the calling together– went well. This year the TARDIS was featured on stage. (Photo of the TARDIS in the spotlight as soon as Daughter C
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No. We are not going to name it.We are not going to call the vet. We are not going to bottle feed it. We are not going to keep it for a pet. UPDATE Taken through the bathroom window.
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Here’s a question for ya. https://www.bigfoodetc.com/2013/03/updated-happy-birthday-party-daughter-c-photos-with-minimal-captioning/ If the TARDIS is a time machine, why am I carting it around rural Mississippi?
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From the Preface to Junior Business Training by Frederick G. Nichols (American Book Company, New York, 1923) a text book for “boys and girls in junior high schools.” The book has two parts, the first aimed at every one, “regardless of his vocational aim.” Page 16: Cash Account. The task, as illustrated above, was to
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Same tree after a little bush hogging Note the web See? I feel sorry for City Mice Dogs. I know they have their Dog Parks and such, but it just doesn’t seem to me that they have the opportunities to express themselves as Dogs– and I’m here using the word “express” as in gene expression–
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Recall that the 17th Amendment was not even a twinkle in Lincoln’s eye. He was trying to get the legislature of Illinois to elect him as a United States Senator.Thus, he had to debate Douglas, the incumbent.Douglas was a little s^%# who– at least on my reading (which isn’t much)– had no real convictions except
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Call me old fashioned– go ahead, I’ve been called worse– but I think there are just some things you should know by heart: the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America, the opening split infinitive to all things Star Trek, the words to White Christmas, and the multiplication tables up to about
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4′ x 8′ Mr. Low-Man-on-the-Totem-Pole-Who’s-Tasked-with-Following-My-Little-Blog-and-Your-Little-Life has not shared with me, his employer, what large surface areas in your home look like. In my home, large surface areas which are not used for their intended purposes on a regular basis become large surface areas (LSAs). LSAs can hold a lot of stuff. Before I moved all
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but some nights… make me want to shake my child and remind her that this is not City Life.I was in the Bunkhouse peacefully contemplating how to rearrange the Bunkhouse when Miss M exploded through the door because there was A SPIDER and I needed to do something.Truth be told, as she shined a light
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