We did it! Mr. Big Food, two friends and colleagues, and I put on an in-person conference at a hotel on the Gulf of Mexico. There were hugs & handshakes as folk saw fit according to their comfort levels. There were excellent talks. Socializing, even! The person who’d been most timid about participating said she
We wound up at a B&B in Columbus, Mississippi recently. The house was originally built in 1846, and there have been three subsequent additions, all done in keeping with the original architecture. The home is owned by a widow whose husband was an antique dealer. She gave us a guided tour. She loves silver. We
It’s quite remarkable, isn’t it? I don’t think it’s necessary to sit around all day thinking about it, but it is good from time to time to recall that people were engaged in the same things thousands of years ago that we today engage in. We shop, prepare meals, eat, bathe, sleep, make homes for
Just to give you some perspective, in the first picture– looking down into the excavation– I’m standing near the pedestal (second) with the map of the project (third).
Jaffa Gate entrance into the Old City of Jerusalem, and the Armenian Quarter. I think the tower in the background of the second photo is The Tower of David.
Here’s a question for you. What do you suppose this is? Let’s go around to the back side. Fine example of Communist Block Architecture, don’t you think? Here’s a clue. Bailey Middle School. Grades 6-8. Lovely, isn’t it?
UMMC has the only Children’s Hospital in the state. I cannot imagine how much it would suck to have a kid in the hospital. Period. Amazon Wish List. WalMart Wish List. The Amazon list does not go through my Amazon store. If you scroll far enough down you’ll get to the books.
In the next book, which is currently being written in my brain, Miss Missy’s School will take a field trip to Rainwater Observatory in French Camp, Mississippi. The question is, which of these two programs should we request? There are telescopes under the domes!
Our pal, Andy, who has been enjoying the recent boy talk, commented on yesterday’s “What is a Boy?”. It took all day, but this post finally reminded me of a poem I wrote years ago for a friend … Tiny Giant I had a tiny body onceso often rapt with joy.It turned the wheels of tiny
Originally posted February 2018. Do try the exercise. It’s fun! For every observable property φ conceived by us to be an objective feature of the world, we must concede the possibility that φ be sensorily detected by means other than the particular means used by us. Paul Churchland, Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind, Cambridge University
And crappy old books. Get this. Mr. Big Food has [shudder] two empty bookshelves. Headphones ran out of electrons. Fortunately, I brought along a few extra packages of them. Department of Redundancy Department. More highlights of the day– just as we were walking out of the house today the lights went out. Will they be
I have only looked at the Powerline’s The Week in Pictures early this morning before we left the Farm to head to Starkvegas and day two of #DSPNIII. Sorry. Virtual workshops are weird. That’s Ann-Sophie’s laptop. She’s in Indiana. I had hoped we had put qualia behind us by now. Sadly, we have not yet.
And the most amazing thing? This started PRE-Covid! They are everywhere. Four of us were standing around outside and one robot managed to negotiate the space between us. So Ole Miss. Two flagmen have apparently lost their jobs. We didn’t have to wait too long. My God the roads in this county are absolutely horrible.
Surprised me. And the fact that Off Square Books– the one with the ridiculously overpriced crappy old books– was not open was a real bummer. But other than that the trip to Ole Miss (That School Up North) and Oxford was fantastic. Big Bad Breakfast was unbelievable, as always. More to come.
This post, from just one year ago, is the essence of Blast from the Past. Laid out on the bar in the Bunkhouse are all of the nonperishable things we needed to do the Cold Salad Tailgate for the Kentucky game. (Menu at bottom. It was great!) In a couple of weeks, Mr. Big Food
Russell’s Warehouse Antiques & Estate Jewelry, Greenwood, Mississippi. That is a hand cut crystal punch bowl adorned with sterling silver sitting on a three piece mirror and sterling tray set. The the ladle is also sterling and crystal. You cannot tell me that the entire set up wouldn’t look simply beautiful on my dining room
Turnrow Book Co. Nice. Lots of Delta stuff of course. Wonderful Kids Section. Found something for our grandson, ‘Phen. Linch cafe and coffee shop upstairs.
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