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Post by epaul on Oct 23, 2023 22:29:05 GMT -5
Hooray!
Green Bay is next!
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Post by epaul on Oct 23, 2023 18:16:54 GMT -5
The nut roll war is on!
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Post by epaul on Oct 23, 2023 16:04:47 GMT -5
All I can say is that Jif has been very good to me.
I met my wife, Charlene, while we were each reaching for the last jar of Jif Natural Crunch. Our arms brushed... and we agreed to share it.
Our first child, Anna, was conceived during a peanut butter party that got a little frisky.
And Jif was the name of my first Golden Retriever, Woody.
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Post by epaul on Oct 23, 2023 9:31:54 GMT -5
Sunny and nice today. But, it sounds like winter might be on its way by mid-week. I hope it gets lost.
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Post by epaul on Oct 23, 2023 9:22:11 GMT -5
Bottom line, yes, we've done a lot that, but we've also done a lot of this. And we aren't done doing either that or this. But, let's strive to do more of this than that. And then we and planet will be at least ok.
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Post by epaul on Oct 23, 2023 9:17:15 GMT -5
There is enough about us to paint any picture.
I'm reminded of something Casper told me once. He said inside of each human there are two dogs. One is a dumb ugly, greedy Goldendoodle, the other is a handsome, noble, and charitable Golden Retriever. They are fighting over the same bone. Which one will win? The one you pet.
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Post by epaul on Oct 23, 2023 9:07:49 GMT -5
The aftermath of Ken Burn's Buffalo series isn't the best time to have a discussion concerning mankind's deeds and nature. Peter Coyote's droning voice against that unrelenting sea of human depravity and plunder had me looking for the bottom of my whisky bottle. And I'm an optimist.
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Post by epaul on Oct 22, 2023 15:11:20 GMT -5
Any win over Buffalo is a happy event. And this was a great win.
Shannon can take a bow, too. The Auburn kid did great.
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Post by epaul on Oct 22, 2023 15:07:37 GMT -5
Jif and Skippy both have their "natural" versions and low sugar/salt ones, but my personal favorite is Jif's new "FC Delight" with 5 grams of TCH per serving.
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Post by epaul on Oct 22, 2023 13:03:34 GMT -5
I side with Jif in the peanut butter battle, but this is a case of Skippy is there and Jiff isn't, and availability trumps.
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Post by epaul on Oct 22, 2023 12:29:34 GMT -5
Heading to garrison this afternoon for a Chad Elliott show. Dinner tonight will be the opilio crab legs I got from caputo’s for the amazing price of $6.99 a pound. Don’t know what we’ll have with them yet. I suggest butter. Melted butter. There are lots of good recipes for melted butter on the internet. And they are real easy.
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Post by epaul on Oct 22, 2023 11:18:31 GMT -5
I'm at a bit of a loss. No Vikings today. I suppose I can walk around in circles for a while, that will kill part of the day. After that? Don't know. Maybe something will occur during the circles.
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Post by epaul on Oct 21, 2023 21:34:01 GMT -5
They have a new to me "Skippy's Nut Roll". And man! is it good. Same thing as the regular one, except the filling is peanut buttery, and they nailed it! Only time will tell if has the staying power of the original Salted Nut Roll, but the first two have been Wowsers!
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Post by epaul on Oct 21, 2023 19:31:01 GMT -5
The rest of us have moved passed that now. < past > Rick speaks Canadian, a subtle language that requires words to function like a Swiss Army Knife. For example, their most common word, "eh" means, depending on context and placement: oh? yeppers! what? see! um... offda! hold my beer. maybe. maybe not. pass the puck, hoser! you agree with me, yep? I have to scratch... avert eyes! more dip please. yo, mama! you too? more beer! Quebec, can't live with them... how come you guys get four downs? is that smell your feet or mine? another scratch coming. how bout dat! and ehh.
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Post by epaul on Oct 21, 2023 14:36:53 GMT -5
Peak color.
Except for the damn ash. Really, it just dropped all its leaves overnight. One day of color, then a big dump. Can't even see the sidewalk... or the driveway.
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Post by epaul on Oct 21, 2023 14:30:13 GMT -5
(sorry, James. And you weren't around for most of it. So, all's cool!)
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Post by epaul on Oct 21, 2023 14:25:32 GMT -5
I think the problem is that we just end up blaming all white people for all the world's problems when, really, it should just be the British.
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Post by epaul on Oct 21, 2023 9:57:15 GMT -5
Morning.
Up to the farm.
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Post by epaul on Oct 20, 2023 19:21:00 GMT -5
* and we never put posters on our wall about those other Indians of the Americas, such as the Aztecs and other Meso-American tribes who liked to play soccer with the freshly decapitated heads of their slaves and dumped virgins into volcanoes every time they needed a shot of rain. If not derailed by the European invasion, guess what fun loving bunch would have come to slay, enslave and rule over most of the Americas?
The Aztec Empire made the Roman Empire seem like a bunch of flower bearing hippies. But they don't count as Indians, apparently. Not wall worthy. No cool quotes.
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Post by epaul on Oct 20, 2023 19:11:34 GMT -5
It is always "Man alone of all animals is such a greedy pig". It is never "Man alone of all animals has taken steps to be less of a greedy pig."
Nothing but negativity and loathing. No credit for as a society, as a race, as individuals, for having developed the highest degree of concern for the environment and our role in it this planet has ever seen. Instead, we scold ourselves for being thoughtless, greedy pigs, compare ourselves to a golden harmony that never existed, and tell all who will listen that it is too little too late.
(great, so we are turning our kids into environmental nihilists who will stick their hopeless heads ever deeper into their idiot phones because all is doomed).
There is more environmental concern and environmental action now than ever. Period. Individual, group, governmental. Period.
As for that poster on the wall with a picture of that symbolic "Noble Savage" saying all that neat stuff about brother moose and sister squirrel all living in green harmony, the North American Plains Indians that actually existed had no unique "green" gene that separated their behavior from that of any other group of hunter gatherers who hunted and gathered at any other point in the planet's history*. They did what they needed to do to survive. Period. Just as the hunter gatherers who hunted and gathered over in Europe thousands of years earlier did.
There are no "greenie" bonus points to be handed out for not doing what you are technologically not capable of doing. There are, or should be, however, some bonus points for backing away, even if only on occasion, from what you are technologically capable of doing for the good of the planet and the other life forms on it. Never has the welfare of the planet and its life weighed more heavily in decisions made by individual, groups, and governments. Never.
Too little, too late. Who knows. But of all the animals this planet has spawned, today's human animal has taken steps no other animal, human or otherwise, has taken. Steps that have cost in order to benefit the planet. And one day, Aqua will have to ride a solar-powered scooter in order to get to the bow and arrow range because of them.
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