Memorial Day weekend

I’m hoping for a fairly calm weekend. Our bike ride on the Baldwin to Jacksonville Rail Trail yesterday seems to have worn me out a bit! It’s finally payday, but Duffy has my ID and check cards, so no early shopping to beat the crowd! Picking up Miss Bee at 1130, then we’ll go pick up the necessaries – like coffee, cat food, and eggs. Sunday we plan to go to the beach at Mayport with the kids. Monday, I want to make my yearly visit to the National Cemetery at Jacksonville. It tends to storm that day. Fitting, somehow…

Take some time to remember and be grateful.

Old Guard Soldiers honored America’s heroes during Flags In, May 23. More than 1200 Soldiers placed flags at every gravestone and columbarium niche within the cemetery.

Be safe, watch out for the other guy, and thanks for stopping by!

Moore, Oklahoma

You’ve seen all the stuff on the news or video online – I haven’t, but I don’t have to. I not only believe how horrible it is, I could almost quote every politician who speaks about it for the next eternity – just so much blather.

I will never trust Red Cross or United Way or any other well-known ‘charity’ whose salaried employees make more than double our household income. However, there are some charities that do good work and really ARE charities. Catholic Charities, the Salvation Army, and Mercury One come to mind.

Text 80888 to donate $10 to Salvation Army. Click here to donate with Catholic Charities. Click here to read about and donate to Mercury One. Your donation to any of these charities will go to those who need it, not some bureaucrat or well-compensated figurehead.

Now, go hug your family and friends. While you can.

Deep Dish Chicago Way

Reblogged from The Camp Of The Saints:

Chicago Tribune reporter and columnist John Kass learned about The Chicago Way as a teenager.

In his latest column, he recalls a specific one of the Sunday gatherings of his large Greek family during which the discussions they would have after dinner would cover every subject under the sun:

One Sunday, I must have been 12 or 13, I decided to ask what I thought was an intelligent question that was something like this:

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I cannot, in any reasonable way, come up with a solution where 'reform' works to 'fix' this Nation. The Feds are involved in every area, every crevice of our daily lives. The Figurehead in the White House is only a part of the problem, in my opinion. His advisers and his Fellow Weasels are everywhere. And their Followers and Fellow Weasels are the ones who run things on a day-to-day basis - department heads, office 'managers,' and even the lowly cubicle-dwellers who answer the phones and send out the emails...they won't be replaced, no matter who sits in the Oval Office or Congress. They have a union, there's NO getting rid of them. Tyrants don't have to be the faces you see on tv, do they...

Best. Mother’s Day. Ever.

We went campering at Crooked River State Park in Georgia again. That yearly pass has more than paid for itself.

Site #28. We set up the new tent just in case Kaylee’s parents got to come up.

Colouring in her new colourboook.

Chatting with Grandpa

Mother’s Day morning hike, with Kaylee using her new stick

Stretch during the stand-up break

Break time behind the Nature Center

Think she likes that stick…I gave her my old ones, we only used one each because it’s a flat hike

Along the nature trail

I love this view…

Time for a long break in the observation deck

Grandpa, you want some jello?

Packed up and ready to go home. What a wonderful 25.5 hour weekend!

Duffy brought me roses when he came home from work Saturday – maybe the first Mother’s Day flowers he’s ever gotten for me. They are lovely!

After we got camp set up, we rented a tandem bike. Duffy had brought his bicycle, and I rode it while he took Kaylee. Her feet didn’t quite reach the pedals, so she rode with her feet propped on the crossbar. I haven’t ridden a bike for fun since about 1968 – but I had a blast, and we’re now in the market for a bike for me. I’m better at taking their pictures than I am at biking, though! I took a video of them riding that bike, but can’t get it to play here. If you want to see it, it’s on my Facebook page.

When I took Kaylee home, I got my Mother’s Day card and present from her mama – a painting she did! It’s lovely, and on my new ‘mantle.’ Gotta get it framed soon!

Gotta run now, y’all have a WONDERFUL day, and thanks for stopping by!

Anyone else feel like they need a shower in bleach after this week?

Are We Lumberjacks has a post with the title BenghaziGate. I think you should read it. I have to agree with his conclusion, as it’s the first thing I thought of when I heard the original story. We were all lied to – and continue to be lied to – so The Current Occupant wouldn’t look like a pussy before the election. See, I didn’t need him to leave Americans to be slaughtered to know he’s a preening, cowardly pig, but evidently I am in the minority on that one.

Paco has links to more places where this treachery is discussed.

Why Did Hillary Clinton and Obama want Ambassador Stevens Dead?

Reblogged from A1A South:

Why did they want the Navy Seals dead? After listening to the testimony today (and most of the people that the committee want to talk to are still blocked), the only conclusion that I can draw is that the terrorists may have killed them, but Hillary and Obama were responsible for putting them in harm's way, removing security, and then refusing to back them up.

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I couldn’t say it any better…