Tag: lincoln
-
Where’s Chuck? Friday 7.31.15
I’m on vacation, but I planned ahead. Presuming that we stay on track, we’ll be seeing a lot of cool things–here’s what I hope to see today. Most of our time is going to be spent here… But the Nebraska state capital, otherwise known as “the penis of the plains” should be worth a quick…
-
VACATION!
By the time you wake up and read this–by the time the WordPress robot publishes this–I’ll be two large travel mugs and a couple hundred miles into our big vacation, having slipped off in the foggy pre-dawn morning on our way west, and we hope to stay on vacation for several weeks. I’ve lived in…
-
Wednesday Words of Wisdom: Abraham Lincoln
In honor of Donald Trump’s bizarro news conference announcing his candidacy for President, I give you a good old Honest Abe twofer. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” “He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas better than any man I ever…
-
What Did You Do on Memorial Day?
I woke up, did some chores, went to the home improvement store to buy some gardening supplies, visited a friend to drop off a box of onion starts I’d grown from seed, ran by the grocery store, went to the feed & supply store to buy some tomato seedlings to replace the few that got…
-
So: What The Hell is Cinco De Mayo?
I grew up up rural western Pennsylvania, and I never even heard about Cinco De Mayo until I was grown up. I mean: hell, we didn’t even have tacos until the 1980s. Not in the town where I lived. Even after I first heard of Cinco De Mayo, I just assumed it was another one…
-
Thanksgiving Food…For Thought
Way back in April, I followed a link to the awesome photo above, which itself had been taken from a twitter post by “Cleveland Frowns” and read through a few, mostly outraged, comments. The overall tones of the discussion were understandably angry, with a strong dose of condemnation over the general disrespect and insensitivity of…
Old Road Apples 