But as long as the weather cooperates, I think I’ll get there. Yesterday rained just enough, and not too much, so I could work as long as I was able. It was hot, but no direct sunlight for most of it, and there was even a cool breeze for part of the day. Late afternoon the sun came out and started to broil me, even though it was in the low 80sF. So I looked around and found an umbrella to set up for a little shade. Then the wind picked up and a storm blew through… but after I went back to work outside and reset the umbrella. Adapt improvise, overcome.
I got almost all of the chimney removed, except for the firebox insert, and the hearth. Indoors, I removed the top 2 ft of the fireplace above the mantel. I could be quicker, just pulling the whole wall down and letting it break apart on the floor, but I’ll have a heck of a mess to clean up and it goes pretty fast removing one brick at a time.
I did a better job staying hydrated too.
Today I have to get all the brick work out, and start the process for roughing in the new opening. I have to support the ceiling joists temporarily during that, and I hope I have enough materials. I was planning to make a Lowes run once I had the wall and ceiling open and knew for sure what I’d need. Pretty sure I need at least one sheet of plywood for the roof opening, and one sheet of drywall to repair the ceiling. I’ve got studs and wall sheathing. And plastic sheet if I have to just cover the whole thing and staple it up to make it weather tight.
Then Friday, I’ll install the window, wall and ceiling sheathing, and button up to head home. Still have to be up early Sat morning for the A/C guy to install the new unit. I have a feeling I’ll be back up here soon to do the trim out and final finishes. And it just occurred to me that code will require an outlet in the wall under the window. I’ll have to at least install the box and romex up to the attic. Without opening walls there’s nothing nearby to grab, and none of the old system is grounded anyway. Fractal.
Always be working. And stacking doesn’t hurt.
nick
Here I am, having worked all night. I’ve been busy on things other than paying work and probably would have skipped this but a sudden expense dropped on me and I need the money. (Tooooootally unrelated: Children. Bah. Who ever thought they were a good idea?)
More executor stuff today, inconveniently timed so I won’t be able to get more than a couple hours’ sleep. Meh. I’m tough and can get through the day. I’ll complain about it, though. And then something for the kid tomorrow, also inconveniently timed so that I’ll lose the chance to do some paying work. Children. Bah.
Poor you. Sounds familiar.
Megaproject is grounded for the time being. I am dropping tools at the end of work hours today, and someone else will have to babysit it. No longer my problem, for a while, at least.
Eeek! Sounds dangerous. Don’t go all unintentionally sparky…
Thursday. Good morning. Last work day of this week, and last for a while for me. Glad of that.
Mr Ray, you have shared your history before, but it strikes me each time anew how resilient you are to have come through that and still come across as a reasonably sane and grounded individual (apart from the flatulence). Well done.
I can’t think of any more meanings for “grounded” to use up, so I will stop here. Have a good day.
It helped having a couple of good neighbors, closest about a half a mile. I would spend time there when something was really bad. There were times at dinner when my aunt would say something that would really set my uncle off. That would result in him hitting me with his fists and I would run out of the house. I would sleep in the barn for a couple of nights. I would eat a meal or two at the neighbors and scrounge food from the well-stocked panty.
The rest of the family despised my aunt and uncle for stunts they pulled. When each one died the general consensus from the family was “good riddance”. They were just flat out mean to the entire family. My uncle was injured badly in WWII in a tank that rolled down a hill after being struck with a German round. I really think he had PTSD before anyone really recognized PTSD and there was no treatment.
My uncle really like outdoors and dealing with animals. Hence the farm. He always treated the animals really well. Stray cats or dogs were taken in, treated for any injuries and then well kept. My uncle really liked to fish and hunt. My uncle wanted to be a forest ranger and work for the state park system. My aunt decided that job did not have enough “status” and my uncle became a teacher. I think my uncle would have been a different person if he had become a park ranger.
Whenever anyone came to the ranch to buy cattle my aunt would show up outside and act like she was the expert, basically strutting her stuff. My aunt craved status and recognition. I think she was also jealous of myself and my brother and would say things at dinner that really set my uncle into a violent rage. Then sit back with a smirk on her face.
But it was not all bad.
As terrible as things were living with them, I was better off with them than my mother in California. I would have gotten in significant trouble. My mother was more interested in herself and chasing men after the divorce. I would have been left alone a lot and that would have been a recipe for disaster.
I was kept busy on the farm. I earned money. I had my own car by the age of 17. My own small Honda motorcycle at the age of 16. All paid for by my own money.
I learned skills on the farm. I was running a tractor, cutting hay, raking hay, bailing hay, at the age of 11. I could build and maintain fence. I knew how to plow, disc, and otherwise maintain fields. I could move a quarter mile of irrigation pipe, 40-foot lengths of aluminum pipe, 60 feet twice a day. I learned to operate a D2 dozer at 14 years old. At 16 years after I got my license, I was driving a small cattle truck all over Oregon, northern California and southern Washington delivering cattle.
I stayed in contact after I left for the military as I was hoping for an inheritance. Yeh, greedy me, but I figured it was owed for the abuse. Best laid plans never played out, and all I wound up with was $400.00 that was left in the aunt’s checking account when she died.
If you are bored here is the link to the Word document. http://www.raymondthompsonphotography.com/Special/TheOregonChronicles.docx
That is mostly a running joke and has no real basis in fact. I do have my moments. Such as getting off an airplane and ripping one as I am walking up the aisle. The moans of disgust from the those further back in line is hilarious.
I do have times when I realize what I am doing, or about to do, reflects on my past and I stop myself, most of the time. A few times it has caused problems in my career.
I have zero sympathy for those that do something terrible and then blame their childhood. My biggest comment is “bullshirt (-r)”. I have been through worse and have done nothing terrible. But some would say the year is still young.
The new Highlander should be in Atlanta tomorrow. Pickup should be on Tuesday if everything goes to plan. I don’t know how accurate delivery dates are with Toyota. Last I heard the vehicle had left the port, such port being in Indiana. I suspect the delivery times are reasonably accurate.
The dealer has to install the towing hitch and other preparation. Admin Service 949.00. I have no idea what that is, but it is non-negotiable. There is a title fee for $18.00 and license plate fee of $25.00. I have to pay those even though I will be registering the vehicle in TN, not GA.
Finally got some rain yesterday, 9mm or so (about ⅓”). Hopefully more coming tomorrow.
Despite how dry it has been, our little meadow produced about 4 bales of hay. Which I threw away. Stupid, because the lack of rain means farmers ought to be desperate for hay for the winter. However, the farmer I usually give it to is in the hospital, and neither he nor his family can be bothered to mow their own fields, or find some other solution, much less collect hay from other people.
I’m slowly losing patience with the town, as far as helping with the hiking trails. I’ve been making notes of which trails need what kind of repairs. I’ve identified a budget that is meant for exactly this. However, I want to coordinate any work with whoever has the overall responsibility – I doubt they want me haring off on my own. So…who is that? Now begins the finger pointing: not me, them. Not us, look over there. Nope, try the first guy. WTF? Someone must be responsible for the work, someone coordinates it. If that someone doesn’t raise their hand soon, I’ll find some other place to spend my extra time…
Wife and I got our second-and-final shingles vaccination yesterday. Both of us are under the weather today, which is probably why I am grumpy. Grrr, grump, woof.
A pleasant 80F out at sunrise here in the high desert. The high yesterday was only 106 Fahrenheit, rather than the 109 predicted, but averaged 104F for hours with 15% humidity and 20mph winds.
I ran the swamp cooler until dawn, the low humidity helping keep everything cool.
I also ran a quarter inch plastic line to the birdbath and cracked the water faucet just enough to have a steady dribble all day. Birds being prey are are being very cautious about landing with the changes, but I think overall they enjoy having a cool and damp refuge.
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Hot weather is boring, btw, I like to get outside and do stuff.
I have heard reports of people using AI to figure out medical billing issues, to dispute over-charges, duplicate charges, mis-charges. Might be worth a shot, for $1,000.
@Nick: I probably missed it when you said, but what is replacing the old chimney and fireplace? Do you have some sort of central heat that you’re going to use instead?
He’s making a new chimney out of the bones of his defeated enemies.
I have negotiated as far as I possibly can on this vehicle. It is to the point where the dealer is close to saying, “fine, don’t buy the vehicle, we can sell it this afternoon”.
re: shingles vaccine
Point 1: I, too, took the vaccine, at my doctor’s (well-paid) advice. Paid for by the pharma company. Before I got my Covid education.
Point 2: How to lie with statistics.
This article from a sympathetic source tells you about the Shingrix vaccine.
One way to read that is: Your chance of getting shingles unvaccinated is less than one-in-a-hundred. Getting two shots reduces that by about ¾, to 3 per thousand. Absolute risk reduction: about 6/1000. Advertised risk reduction: 75%. Similar but smaller numbers for PHN. (5-in-ten-thousand vs. 80%).
I think it should be a crime to advertise drugs using relative risk reduction without also quoting, in bold, the absolute risk reduction.
That does happen. Well, sounds like a great vehicle, should be a blast to drive.
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Weirdly, no wildlife at all out back. No birds at the feed & breadcrumbs, no rabbit scrounging about, even the hummingbird is weirdly absent.
I don’t see any scary dogs or cats or coyotes about, so it is strange.
The weird neighbor is doing something in his side yard near my house, but that’s a good 75 feet away, it wouldn’t normally be enough to scare all these creatures off. Perhaps it’s the heat.
@EdH, I’m putting a picture window in place of the fireplace. The chimney was poorly built to start, then was severely overheated, the flue tiles were cracked, and he’d installed an insert with heating tubes and a fan. Even if the chimney was safe to use, the insert meant not seeing the fire. We could have had repairs done, but since it’s a floor to ceiling 6ft wide brick fireplace, on the LAKE side of the house, we decided that opening that up for the view was a better use of the money.
I have two new woodstoves and can install one in the corner between the window wall and the interior wall if we decide to go that route. Currently we use propane and a central forced air furnace/aircon for heating and cooling.
I’ll leave the slab intact and if someone wants to put in a modern fireplace and chimney with flanking windows in the future, it would be straightforward.
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In the last hour it’s moved from 80F to 82F. Bright overcast. Good thing I have the inside brick to remove in the afternoon heat. Will I run the A/C the whole time?, oh heck yah, ‘Merica!
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And WTAF Germany? Rivers of ice in the streets? Roads turn into rivers of ice in Germany and France as freak hail storms and howling winds hammer Europe
God’s trolling Eurostan.
n
I always wonder if the skulls of my enemies are dishwasher-safe…
I don’t disagree, but how many people understand statistics?
Deserved. The MSM is still bombarding us with heat warnings, even though the heatwave is over. For example: “The Matterhorn is melting!”
It’s the very fact that people don’t understand statistics that infuriates me. They can be led by the nose into believing things that aren’t so.
If I tell you that your 10 in a thousand chance of getting a (very painful) disease could be cut down to 3 in a thousand, a poker player should realize that means you’ve got 100-to-1 odds against it in the first place. The reduction may be worth it, or it may not. It’s a personal risk analysis.
But if I tell you “I’ve got this 75% effective vaccine” against the disease, you could assume, and you are INTENDED to presume, that you are reducing the 100% chance of getting the disease down to 25%. Not down from 9/1000 to 3/1000.
None of which also informs you that, in the US, by consenting to the drug, you are forfeiting any right to sue the manufacturer. And they haven’t done any long-term studies about all-cause mortality of these drugs. Which have a direct impact on your immune system. Or any studies about the vaccine against placebo (except for one vaccine).
@Nick: That sounds like a great upgrade!
Oh, no! My Toblerone!!
Not only very painful, but also potentially life-changing. My late mother lost the sight in one eye to shingles. I will certainly give the vaccination serious consideration when I am old enough to be in the recommended cohort.
I agree with you about the misleading use of statistics. Alas, so few understand the numbers.
Are you at least decorating it with the bones of your enemies?
Check my figuring here, but isn’t it July? And isn’t Europe in the Northern Hemisphere? So isn’t Europe currently in the middle of Summer?
So if they’re being hammered with hail, yah, they’re being trolled.
Not yet. Not yet.
And ultimately, maybe more useful at the end of the driveway.
It sure is a good thing that the schools teach things like fifty-seven genders and “White people invented slavery” rather than anything useful like filling out income tax forms or understanding how we’re lied to with statistics, misleading graphics, and selective presentation of facts.
One of the summers that Spare Kid stayed with us, I think the year both of the girls turned 13, I had them studying basic statistics and then the use and misuse of statistics. We’d do things like read a medical news article written for the general audience, spot the dubious or misleading statistical claims, and rewrite the article to be informative rather than alarming. I have no idea if it helped them be more savvy targets of propaganda, but it didn’t hurt, anyway.
I also had them go through a number of Shakespeare plays (by watching performances with a copy of the play in hand), read some classic literature like Austin and Dickens, practice cooking techniques they hadn’t done before, and learn some basic car maintenance like oil changes. Slave driver, that’s me, but they didn’t seem to mind. (Other than whining about having to wake up before noon and not being able to be on tablets or computers all day.)
He’s being subtle and just using baby bones.
We’ve had the debate here several times since the sickness kabuki began, but JAMA is not a scientific journal, no matter what “fee fees” it offers the leftist reader looking for an excuse to keep wearing their armband -er- mask and keep accepting the ”vaccine”.
New England Journal is a place to start if you are looking for real science, but they have their bias as well.
I believe that The Scarlet Pimpernel may well ride again before the decade is out, maybe even literally as the left strives towards limiting mobility.
While the book is not considered great literature, the concepts introduced are becoming relevant again.
Sink me.
See also: Scientific American, Science
(With the note that I haven’t bothered to look at either in many years, so maybe they’ve kicked out the activists and returned to neutrally presenting science.)
JAMA has never been a peer reviewed journal. It is a trade publication akin to Aviation Leak -er- Week.
I’m a Keeper Of Odd Knowledge so YMMV, but I give it five years before the AMA’s full plan for most of you starts to take hold.
In the interim, your MBBS will see you now.
And, yes, I know Wikipedia says otherwise.
“New details emerge on Kroger shooting suspect following Cypress shooting”
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/kroger-cypress-shooting-suspect-22347800.php
Why does it seem to be always be an amish person nowadays?
Over The Hedge: We Are Going To Need A Bigger Planet
https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2026/07/16
Yup. They have few predators but us humans.
Canada’s Wildfires Expose the Nation’s Green Hypocrisy
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/07/16/canada-wildfires-n2679550
They are hypocrites for failure to practice good forest management and prevent the wholesale spewing of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from burning wildfires.
But they are murderers for letting their toxic–that’s “toxic” in the proper sense of the word–pollutants degrade the atmosphere. The impact on health is severe, and some of those impacted die prematurely. Murderers.
The PLT’s and the U.S. EPA tried to force a rule into lawa a few years ago that would give the U.S. government iron-clad control of any combustion process, and thus the entire economy. One of the primary tools they used to claim the need for that legislation was computer simulation showing the “excess deaths” caused by particulates, without regard for any benefits such as keeping homes warm, and without regard for costs. That same tool could be used right now to estimate the cost in human life of the Canadian wildfires, and those results could be used to put the screws on the Canadians.
If I were advising Trump I would advocate simply closing the U.S.-Canadian border during these events as a way to get their attention.
Or a Kroger chain.
“A Texas cathedral???”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-texas-cathedral.html
“I had to laugh at Japanese visitor Nobunaga’s description of his first time at a Buc-ee’s gas station. A couple of excerpts:”
Ok, that is both true and funny.
“Report: Iran Orders Houthis to Close Strategic Red Sea Strait if U.S. Escalates”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/07/report-iran-orders-houthis-to-close-strategic-red-sea-strait-if-u-s-escalates/
“Reuters: “A significant amount of Gulf oil has since been diverted to the Red Sea through a Saudi pipeline, and the waterway now carries around 7% of global energy supplies.””
It is time to nuke Iran. This crap will go on forever otherwise.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“At Least 1 death reported as historic Texas flood emergency unfolds”
https://www.chron.com/news/article/kerrville-flooding-texas-river-22347552.php
“Hector Nieto, a public information officer with Travis County, said STAR Flight crews have been conducting rescue missions in Kerr and Gillespie counties as emergency crews respond to rising waters and dangerous conditions along the Guadalupe River.”
Back to back annual historic floods. This sucks.
The odds would be STRONGLY AGAINST that supposition. Ditto National Geographic, which never pretended to be “science” but which usually – until the mid 1990s – PRETENDED to be objective.
CF Conquest’s 2nd Law: “Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing.”
“Fast-food chicken giant quietly closed 207 U.S. restaurants”
https://finance.yahoo.com/small-business/articles/fast-food-chicken-giant-quietly-020842717.html
“KFC closes 207 restaurants across the United States in 15 months ”
Bummer, our KFC closed several months ago and became a Taco Bell.
All of this rain and my back pond at the office is still not full. Bummer.
Back to back annual 100 year historic floods
Fixed it for you.
Nuking Iran won’t accomplish much other than killing a whole lot of average Iranian/Persian civilians. I strongly suspect that all the people we really want to eliminate are in deep bunkers. So what we REALLY need to do is to locate those bunkers and drop some of those deep-penetration bombs to go down and kill the rats in the tunnels.
Someone here has anger. About his druggy wife and her what seems to be right in his face cheating. So he’s here. I don’t want him here but gotta be Big Brother, I let him talk. I make supper, he has a couple of beers to chill. I don’t have anything useful to say. He’s got to figure this stuff out on his own.
Talking about stuff to do around here…. after he said my Internet was pretty slow… yeah, stand here and look there. Can you see the NanoBeam in the window? No? That’s why the ‘net is slow. He got out here with a set of loppers and started loping.
My back hurts just from watching. But ‘net speed is up from 35 mb to 140. And he’s had a beer. And has a second beer going and he’s out lopping more brush. Because now he sees what needs to be cleared.
Boy is getting a little bacon wrapped steak and french fries for his supper. He’s earning it. He needs to eat. He’s so so skinny.
Coming down buckets here at the moment. Huge crashing thunder and big lightning too.
I got done removing all the brick before it started slamming down, got the hole boarded up, and took a shower. Put on clean clothes. Plan was my buddy would drive me to Lowes in his big truck, so I wouldn’t have to move the window out of mine. I think we’ll wait a bit. And I’ll skip the drywall this time.
n
@paul, sounds like your brother is getting a little therapy.
Beer, brother, physical labor, good food well earned.
And time away from a troublesome wife.
As long as it’s a break and not fleeing, it’s all good. He’s got to go back and face it when it’s time.
Oh, and facing an addict is really, really difficult. There’s a whole program called AlAnon for that.
It’s a larger version of that whole “take care of yourself FIRST” thing. I know from experience.
My late mothers last non-Hospice GP had a legitimate office in Clearwater, FL, but she also ran a second “pill mill” practice out of an abandoned KFC in Citrus Park, a swanky suburb outside of Tampa.
https://patch.com/florida/westchase/pain-clinic-doctor-charged-unlawful-opioid-distribution
Yeah, she’s doing hard time in a “pound it in the a**” Federal Prison these days.
I’m frankly surprised. I figured a couple of foreigners not dealing on the street would get country-club prisons.
They must have irked someone.
Someone here has anger. About his druggy wife and her what seems to be right in his face cheating. So he’s here. I don’t want him here but gotta be Big Brother, I let him talk. I make supper, he has a couple of beers to chill. I don’t have anything useful to say. He’s got to figure this stuff out on his own.
Drugs and / or alcohol are the worst. People get into it for the getting away from a mostly perceived reality problem. And then their view of reality gets way worse and their inhibitions go out the door. A little bit of pot is ok. A lot of pot is a freaking disaster. So on and so forth with the so-called more effective drugs, cocaine and heroin.
My wife’s BFF lost her youngest daughter to heroin last year. I suspect that she had fentanyl mixed in but who knows. It could have been intentional, she knew how much to use from her active usage for several years.
Oh, and facing an addict is really, really difficult. There’s a whole program called AlAnon for that.
It’s a larger version of that whole “take care of yourself FIRST” thing. I know from experience.
I totally agree. Your brother needs to take care of himself first and AlAnon sounds like a good start.
You might want to find a local meeting and take him to it as a start.
My customized Fortran to C++ translation tool blew up on me yesterday and I just spent several hours modifying every line of code myself in the 750 line problem child subroutine. I am really hoping that this does not happen again. Or very often, that is a time killer, probably 12 hours to fix up the detritus.
Back to back annual 100 year historic floods
Fixed it for you.
Oh, it is much worse than that. Back to back annual 1,000+ year historic floods.
Central Texas gets these gully washers following I-35 going south and the water can come up quick and just destroy everything in its path.
Santa Anna’s supply army from Mexico in April of 1836 camped 1,000+ wagons, 16,000+ mules, 2,500+ men, 3 generals, and 1,500 female camp followers between the banks of the East Bernard and West Bernard rivers. Just about 40 miles west of what is now known as Houston. A tremendous rain storm caused the two rivers to join together with a minimum of four feet of flowing water in the camp. Most of the soldiers, mules, and camp followers drowned in the ensuing disaster. There is a town there now called Spanish Camp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Revolution
There is a book about this, “Sea of Mud: The Retreat of the Mexican Army after San Jacinto, An Archeological Investigation” by Gregg Dimmick:
https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Mud-Retreat-Archeological-Investigation/dp/0876112157
And a video, “Mexican Army in Texas: The Sea of Mud”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjWWcM1_K8
Federal investigation.
Hillsborough County Sheriff and the Hillsborough State Attorney were MIA.
She shoud have found a suitable location within the city limits. I watched a pill mill operate with seeming impunity for nearly a year in 2009/10 on my way to/from work near the Yucs’ stadium.
TPD even directed traffic!
This is the kind of “leadership” TPD had in 2022, around the time the indictment was handed down.
https://www.fox13news.com/news/tampa-police-chief-resigns-from-position-after-flashing-badge-in-golf-cart-traffic-stop
I think the bigger scandal was that the openly gay Mayor hired a straight woman to run the Tampa Police Department.
I remember those events from my tenure in San Antonio from December 1973 until March 1988. Returning from downtown San Antonio on my way home from work, there were a couple of low spots on I-35 that were to be avoided. Every time it rained hard there was a car or two in the low area.
Behind my house in Live Oak there was a large drainage canal, dry most of the time. But when it rained that thing was full, almost reaching my fence a couple of times. Since I left the city has widened and deepened the channel somewhat which should help the flooding. But with these recent frog stranglers it may not be enough putting several houses at risk.
There was a pill mill about 1,000 feet from my house. It was advertised as a pharmacy and operated for about 3 years. Until it was discovered it was actually an illegal drug distribution center. Why it took three years is beyond me as most people in the area knew what it was. It did not help that it was across the highway from the elementary school and should have been shut down within three months.
The next owner razed the interior of the building and started to build individual rooms and was going to make it into a lodging facility. But he did not get the proper permits and was quickly shut down. The building has been vacant for the last three years.
Inside the city limits? Yeah, they knew.
The pill mill I drove past in Tampa every day had cars in the parking lot night and day, featuring plates from every state within 24 hour driving distance.
New Mexico was the furthest west I saw. Minnesota was the furthest north.
What ultimately did in the operation was a neighbor who had the clientele hopping his fence to urinate in the backyard while they waited their turn in the portable MRI truck.
Getting no response from TPD to complaints, the neighbor, a professor at University of Tampa, called around to the local news stations until one finally rolled a van.
Interestingly, it was not the station located just a few blocks away but rather the Faux News corporate-owned affiliate.
Lotta rain here, but nothing to speak of in the city north of us with the Lowes. It was mostly dry our whole trip and just started sprinkling when we got back to the house and unloaded.
Had a really good chinese buffet with real chinese people working there… frog legs deep fried, soo goood.
Think I’m gonna take my meds and get to bed. No tiny little fire tonight.
n
frog legs deep fried, soo goood.
I can’t tell if he is for real or just messing with us.
I’ve eaten gator, shrimp, clams, mudbugs, hundreds of different types of fish, deer, squirrel, octopus, squid, raw fish (yellowfin tuna, so good). But I doubt that I have ever eaten frog legs.
Real Bird’s Nest Soup.
Don’t ask where the gelatinous strings in the soup originate. You don’t want to know.
In the depth of the great depression, my mother ate frog legs. Once.
She said it tastes like chicken. And she never ate it again, for the rest of her life.
Did anyone here watch the Trump speech tonight?
https://rumble.com/v7cueci-the-trump-speech.html
Trump made some incredibly serious accusations, backed up with FBI and CIA reports that he unclassified.
If anything in these reports is provable, then a number of people will be arrested very soon.
And our relationship with China will continue to deteriorate.
If anything in these reports is provable, I’ll be surprised.
FIFY.
(and I expect the downvotes. That’s OK, it’s my opinion. You can have your own opinion. But [IMHO] he has a significant track record of unverified and exaggerated election claims.)
“Here’s the Trailer for the Stallone Biopic “I Play Rocky””
https://rumble.com/v7ctmka-heres-the-trailer-for-the-stallone-biopic-i-play-rocky.html?mref=1wxk5&mrefc=3
That was partially made with an AI. I cannot tell if it was a real trailer.
I have read the story of Sylvester Stallone. He is definitely a self made man.
https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/celebrities/sylvester-stallone-interview/