Some gave all, all gave some. Many of my kin served, but the only death I know of was in the Civil War, a great great great great great uncle who was 45 when he died, and wasn’t in combat. I remember that today, but know nothing else about him. Who and what do you remember?
This almost looks like cosplay, but I haven’t seen whatever show it might be.
I bet she stumbled right after this. Unless this is the stumble.
Gauge expanders disgust me. I’m sad that the algorithm picked this and didn’t push it into the trash bin.
Better and monochrome.
Monochrome sex cultist.
Is that an adam’s apple?
Have a good day, and please take time to say a prayer for the fallen.
UPDATE: MJ
Welp, that’s it. I’m on board.
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Cool and rainy Monday. Perfect for avoiding lawn mowing.
Pretty good job, Leon. For the last girl, I don’t see how she tucks in that stance. Brilliant!
I hear ya about git. After rcs, cvs, and svn, git is just playing with your mind!
I have to get lawn furniture, mulch, and then mow.
I’m remembering my uncle Carl. KIA in France in August 1944. They gave my mother the telegram at school to bring to my grandfather rather than drive all the way out to the farm. 60 years later, she still cried, remembering the horror of it. Casualty Notification Officers have a tough, tough job, but that has to be better than a piece of paper from the War Dept.
https://is.gd/bcoch_question_mark
Urgh, fire is over 4,000 acres now. Getting really tired of the smoke.
Murph is 20 in honor of Micheal Murphy .
is- in.
Google has a nice doodle for Memorial Day. Just kidding. They only honor commies, socialists, and SJWs.
Bing, on the other hand, gets it.
This post has been updated to reflect my current predicament with our nominee.
Good morning.
Roamy, check your phone.
And your White Privilege.
Might be fashionably late. Everyone else here is still asleep. Rocketboy’s girlfriend is still here – windshield gets repaired tomorrow. Will also find out about replacing hood – she may be driving back to MO with gorilla tape holding it down if her parents feel the work here is too much.
Mini-me had a good birthday yesterday, though she ditched us for dinner with the boyfriend.
I pay a lot more attention to the military holidays now that I’m older. My family has been very, very fortunate. I’m not aware of anyone having been killed in action while serving, for which I am extremely grateful.
I’m also grateful to the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who did make that ultimate sacrifice, and to the families who made that with them.
Working in the yard on a hot day. Guess I could be a lot worse off…
Got chairs and mulch. Gonna have a second cup of coffee then go empty the truck bed and mow the lawn. I better find something to cover my neck with.
Comment by leoncaruthers on May 30, 2016 10:26 am
Got chairs and mulch.
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Wooo, exciting, “He’s on a rampage!!”
I have to re-weed and mulch the blueberry bed.
The garden is awesome so far this year. Some purple Osaka mustard self-sowed last year in a really good spot. It’s already big and I’ve been picking the biggest leaves and making sandwich wraps out of them the past few days. Hot and cool and crunchy on my roast beef with corn relish. Life is awesome.
The sugarsnap peas are about chest high and started flowering a couple days ago. So there will be sweet crunchables by the end of this week.
Looks like the shallots I planted last Fall will be maturing some time in June, too.
/gardenblog
/foodblog
/happinessblog
/suckit
https://is.gd/_found_a_hornets_nest
Workout was good. Beat my last time by six min.
Sam’s has the coconut bites. Do not buy if you don’t want to eat the whole bag.
http://creativesnacks.com/products/coconut-chips
Crap, that reminds me I have a coconut in the freezer
Wooo, exciting, “He’s on a rampage!!”
You have no idea. I just mulched SO HARD.
Actually I just covered my walkway through the garden. Then I burned a bunch of amazon boxes while I ran the garden sprinkler and decided I could mow tomorrow.
A friend gave me some squash and some cucumbers out of his garden. He also gave me some brisket and ribs off his smoker. Guess which selection I’m more pumped about.
Yeah, yeah, I’d be more pumped about brisket too, but plants are easy and hot chicks at work get impressed when they see the size of my curcubits.
One of my neighbors at the lake was hosting a party and running their smoker most of the day. It was torture. We have a crappy gas grill out there soon to be replaced with a better one. The Weber Genesis and PBC live at home.
What’s the Charbroil one you recommend at Lowe’s Laura?
L to R
Mare
https://is.gd/YAFpnH
Broil King.- Canadian Weber.
Thanks Scott
I’ll grab it before next weekend
The one we have is barely working after only a few years
Paula thinks it’s a Walmart special
There was one brand at Home Depot that would start to rust while still in the store.
https://is.gd/yUa8TY
We’re cooking more on the grill there now compared with our first couple of years and this one is barely cutting it. At first we worried about theft but it’s pretty tame there and we have full time neighbors that don’t miss a thing. That makes peeing off the back porch difficult
Just did a walkabout in the garden.
I cut over forty scapes from my shallot bed. Looks like I’ll be harvesting >120 shallots or thereabouts. Nifty! That’s gonna make a lot of roasted shallot burgers. Not a bad return on $3 worth of heavily discounted shallot bulbs two years ago. Lowe’s doesn’t know that Dutch shallots keep for a year or more.
I walked past my blueberry bed that needs weeding and mulching. Didn’t even look at it.
Walked into the house and grabbed a beer. Slumped into place behind the computer. My whole body is saying “Give up.” I’m going with it.
Hate, hate, hate it when I give my employer all my physical energy. This happens too often on Mondays.
Oh, but I made customers happy and emptied the rolling racks and kept the shelves full all weekend. So I got that going for me.
https://is.gd/lZTLjJ
Lauraw – that is exactly how I am today. I just have nothing left to give my garden.
I worked 10 hours straight on Saturday night (plus friday night shift) then 11 hours straight yesterday.
Tomorrow morning I have to be in AA at the crack of dawn for an ortho thing for Erin.
ugh.
Maybe a protein shake will help?
You just have to concentrate on being a less effective employee, Carin. It’s for sure our lazyass young coworkers do not drain themselves for the job.
I had one young lady to help me yesterday for about half an hour before she claimed the sun was giving her a rash and she went indoors to the AC.
She’s a chubby 20 y/o puertorican girl, with the complexion of a cave dwelling fish’s belly. Chica never sees the outdoors except for between the car and the curb. Too busy indoors with eating, playing video games, and fucking.
She lives in a house with family members and her baby daddy. In addition to having part time jobs which they suck at, they all collect welfare. I just heard recently that she and baby daddy like to go get weekly massages.
I can try, lauraw, but people keep wanting food and drinks. ANd they look at me like they expect ME to bring it to them.
I hear ya. The work has to get done. I kind of wish I worked for tips.
https://is.gd/nTPaFI
https://is.gd/quotation_mark_tips_quotation_ mark
https://is.gd/__Erin_question_mark__NOooooo
Does it count as a meat-up if no alcohol was involved?
That’s iffy.
What meat involved?
Mr. RFH and I met XBrad and extended family at the Space and Rocket Center.
DId you at least drink after meeting xbrad? I mean, that’s the logical assumption …
They only have beer on Thursday nights.
I ate a late lunch, no booze yet.
I’ve got to try to garden just a little before I start dinner. Today has been a bust. I spent Kohls cash. That’s all I’ve done.
I did get a nifty little sundress.
Nobody had a flask?
1) did the murph – 47 min 35 seconds (6 min off my previous time0
2) bought meat for dinner
3) bought a few more bedding plants
4) spent KOhls cash
5) brushed Moose.
There. That’s everything.
We bought meat.
Buffalo burgers on the grill tonight.
Have a lab test in a couple of days, so I’m on alcohol probation. That kinda blows.
Other than that, just started two weeks of vacation. Sleeping in, lunch dates with Mrs. Phat, and doing at least one task off the ‘list’ a day. Life is good.
Hamburgers and hotdogs pending.
I didn’t use the “snake” method on the ribs yesterday, Scottw, just made a pile of charcoal on one end of the grill, with a water pan over the heat and the ribs at the far side. I ate the leftovers for breakfast. Yum.
6 tom plants in the ground
I need a drink.
Normally this is a lot easier, but it involved laying this red plastic crap on the ground, removing all the lower leaves and tying them up.
ugh.
Any of you gardening freaks ever grow Swiss Chard? Not sure I spelled that right.
Got a bed of chard seedlings in right now, PG. Grew a bunch last year too. Good stuff.
A safe Memorial Day to all. My family lost nobody in combat that I know of, though several members have served or been civil service in DoD. But I’ve had friends not so fortunate.
For all those who gave that last full measure, this unworthy civilian salutes.
My greens this year are mustard and GKH, no chard. Lettuces don’t come out right in my soil for some reason, too bitter. I’m taking a chance on the GKH.
https://is.gd/zLfS0Y
Leon, if you find any wild lamb’s quarters growing on your property, let it go to seed and capture some. That stuff is delicious sauteed with oil and garlic just like spinach.
*high-fives Pupster*
OK, just looked up GKH and it seems to be a close relative of LQ. Awesome.
I’ve got it all over, Laura, I generally pick a few of them to just let go and eat leaves whenever I walk by. I’ve got plantain, too, but that’s a little too bitter and seems to congregate around the driveway gravel.
The LQ are basically everywhere in my yard. If I look for more than a minute anywhere I’m standing I can find some. They are tastiest when they’re shorter than my knee.
Lucky duckie! I spent years eradicating it whenever it showed up in my garden. Derp.
The friend who Gave me the squash and cucs Reid to foist some Swiss chard off on me. It looks like it might be ok to roll and smoke. But eating it is out of the question.
LQ? Little queers?
They are tastiest when they’re shorter than my knee.
I heard your mom say that as well.
Lamb’s quarters. I don’t remember why it’s called that but the Algonquin word for it basically equates to “white man’s weed” because it followed white settlers everywhere they went. It’s an edible “weed” that grows really well in the Midwest.
Swiss chard is pretty tasty, Pendejo, you gently sweat it with some buttah and lemon and it’s a nice side for a steak.
Hey, if you don’t like cooked greens you just don’t like cooked greens, man. Pass that stuff over here.
Chard is actually a type of beet. It does not make the big root. But the leaves have a little of that beet-greens sweetness in them.
I pulled a dandelion yesterday clearing out the bed that had a tuber big enough to saute. I briefly considered trying it. I’ve heard you can roast the roots and get something close to a coffee substitute, but you can also eat them. I bet a few generations of careful breeding could get you close to a beet in root size.
*claps hands to wake everybody up*
All this entertainment isn’t free, people. $5 from each of yuz for continued GardenBloog.
$8 each to make us stop.
Leon, Mom eats the dandelions. Cooking them is weird, but they are pretty good.
You put the cleaned greens into an empty pot, pushing them down firmly. Then you add water just to the level of the packed greens or slightly below.
Bring to a simmer and cover. Cook until the big tough stems are soft.
Ladle some greens and their liquor into a bowl, add salt, pepper, garlic, and a little slick of good olive oil. The greens have a pleasant texture, and you can twirl them up on a fork similar to how you eat spaghetti. This concoction tastes very similar to artichokes. Both being members of the thistle family, this makes sense.
When the whole pot of greens has been refrigerated, you can drink the chilled liquor alone as a wonderful tonic. It really does make you feel good.
I showed off the almost-finished pumpkin mound this afternoon, as well as my “fight fire with fire” mint garden that was slowly winning the war on my jewelweed.
Oh, I eat dandelion greens and flowers raw. I only weed them out of my garden. Anywhere else in the yard they get a pass.
.grelB
We used to have the raw greens in our salads when Nonna was alive, but after she passed we kind of didn’t do it anymore. I’m not as keen on bitter flavors as Mom is.
*packs Sean firmly into a large soup pot*
*covers with water*
*hauls pot over to the stove*
I hate beets too. Come the apocalypse, my ass will have to get awful hungry before I change my mind.
I don’t really care for beets or radishes. When the apocalypse comes I hope I have enough seed potatoes saved.
Bow wow yo yippie yo yippie yay…
Snoop Dawg say “fuck that shit ” to the new roots and advises his fans to boycott. Says he’s tired of hearing about the past. Wants to talk about today. Not be reminded of bad shit from 100 yrs ago……..
Good for him. But, well, it was a little longer ago. 100 years ago blacks were free, Republican, church-going, and had a slightly lower out-of-wedlock birthrate than whites.
Thanks, LBJ!
*scrubs back with brush, oblivious to laura slicing carrots into pot*
Wait…I saw this on a cartoon once.
Dead.
Low carbon footprint blog.
NHL on!!!
Good for him. But, well, it was a little longer ago. 100 years ago blacks were free, Republican, church-going, and had a slightly lower out-of-wedlock birthrate than whites.
And don’t forget that they had their own schools and water fountains, couldn’t marry those dirty ass white women, could only serve as cooks and stewards in the Navy or Stevedores or certain select combat units in the Army. Oh, couldn’t own houses in certain neighborhoods because of the covenants and restrictions, were legally not allowed to reside in Oregon under the Oregon constitution and in many areas largely lived in abject poverty. Let’s not go too far in romanticizing life pre-LBJ and the great society.
Well, who the hell wants to marry a dirty ass white woman, anyway?
*scrubs back with brush, oblivious to laura slicing carrots into pot*
“This hasenpfeiffer is raw!”
Your mom isn’t the marrying type.
i know. i just wish that she would stop working the corners by the bus station. At least work the oil fields
“Dirty Ass White Woman” is unquestionably Amy Grant’s most underrated album.
OK, I shouldn’t have to say this but obviously I was making fun of the miscegenation laws – I have the feeling someone is going to think I seriously meant that as a description.
We play a game called “The people you see on Central”. Get points. The other day, I saw a transexual Indian hooker, 2 drunk Indians leaning against a building drinking, and a drunk sleeping on a bus stop bench. Dan saw a couple of methhead hookers trolling for customers and 3 bums. Today, we got one methhead hooker. That’s it. Holidays suck. We did see a lot lizard at the truck stop and the Breaking Bad RV.
FakeChad…never apologize. Shows weakness. These people thrive on weakness.
KEEEEEEEEL HEEEEEM!!!!!
Oh that wasn’t an apology just a clarification. Now if they are going to be mad they can be mad about the correct thing.
That sounds like 99 up in Seattle or basically the entire city of Portland
Comment by Sean M. on May 30, 2016 9:39 pm
“Dirty Ass White Woman” is unquestionably Amy Grant’s most underrated album.
Seanm wins the award for best LOL for the month of May in the year of our Lord, MMXVI. Eleventh hour and shit.
https://is.gd/soDqqw
Oso, I saw a pitifully skinny probable meth head chick going into a 7-11 in Odessa today. She was wearing a paisley print sun dress and she was so fucking tatted up on her back, shoulders and arms, that you had to look twice to make sure she wasn’t just wearing a long sleeved jacket. I didn’t check her teeth.
APD doesn’t even bother moving the drunks, prostitutes, or panhandlers along. At least when we were featured on Cops, we could laugh at the street life.
My big pet peeve right now is all the jaywalking. This isn’t Cali. We don’t have to stop you dumb asses. Kid got hit the other day. Jay walking on a blind curve in a part of town without sidewalks.
Thank you, PG. Though I should note that it has been established that if you did not actually laugh out loud at that, you are officially a Dirty Ass Liar.
I laughed out loud and then some. I didn’t roll on the floor laughing my ass off. Or spew some sort of beverage on my keyboard. But I did Laugh Out Loud. Amy Grant was the perfect reference in that case.
Thanks. I had also considered Celine Dion, but, yeah, I think I made the right choice.
I grew up(sort of) in Portland in the 60s.
I had no idea that Oregon was run by the KKK from the 20s to the 30s.
Of course, at that time, they were going after the Catholics & the Irish, but I repeat myself…
I think Celine may be Canadian, and so like Alanis Morrisette, the baseline assumption is that she IS a Dirty Assed White Woman. Same thing with Adele being a fucking Brit. Cyndi Lauper and Madonna are definitely Dirty Assed White Women. So limited humor there. Nicole Nordeman is to obscure. Nicole C Mullen is black, though she sounds white. Amy Grant is like the fuckin’ Goldilocks of that joke.
Yeah, Crispy, I think I linked this here before, but when I first read it, it was a definite, “Oh, shit, really?” moment…
http://gizmodo.com/oregon-was-founded-as-a-racist-utopia-1539567040
http://tinyurl.com/j9ahcyv
I got squishy hugs from Roamy today, and you did not.
Sean you did. That link was very much wow
I work right down the street from the Golden West Hotel that they talk about in that article so when I read the article I was like wow who knew.
Sean,
Here is the first part of a three part series of “The Klan In Oregon”.
I had no idea…
Just had a Dan Moment™–Saw a chick whose ass would have made leon weep. I was all, “GodDAMN!” Then, she turned around and was probably about 14, and Chris Hansen peeked out from around the corner and asked to have a word with me.
HAHAHA!!! Dan had another Dan Moment last wknd!
Hi Sean.
Some guy here just got all shitty with me because I wouldn’t let him use a credit card with some woman’s name on it.
Him: “That’s my wife’s card.”
Me: “Sorry, I can’t accept a credit card without a matching photo ID.”
Him: “Really? You’re really gonna do that?”
Me: “Yeah. Company policy.”
He proceeded to pay with wadded-up singles that he put on the counter like it was some kind of imposition.
Look, dude, I don’t know you, and I don’t know your alleged wife. Get the fuck over yourself.
Hey, he worked hard for those wadded up singles. Blue haired grannies get grabby.
Never mind.
Too many $100 Million homes on the market
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/business/a-worrisome-pileup-of-100-million-homes.html
Say a prayer for the common foot soldier
Spare a thought for his back breaking work
Say a prayer for his wife and his children
Who derp the fires and who still till the earth
I like it