Washingtonians

[Ogress]

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We had the firepit roaring this afternoon, in the rain. Sat out there anyways, in the rain. Now I'm chilled to the bone.

That guy emailed me back about your roos. He's gonna call Scott tomorrow! He sounds excited!

I hope he is able to take one - they are a very docile, nice breed. I am very happy with mine. My 2 black orpingtons from CGG are also very nice birds - I may need to give away one of them too - I have to see if everyone still continues to get along. They are much bigger than the barnies.

 

[broodytood]

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That guy emailed me back about your roos. He's gonna call Scott tomorrow! He sounds excited!

I hope he is able to take one - they are a very docile, nice breed. I am very happy with mine. My 2 black orpingtons from CGG are also very nice birds - I may need to give away one of them too - I have to see if everyone still continues to get along. They are much bigger than the barnies.

Aren't the Orps massive! I have at least 4 of them, 5-6 Marans , 3 Olive egger and then 3-4 Am roos. I have like 16-18 roos right now! All still small except the Cuckoo roos so they don't fight too bad yet.

 

[broodytood]

I gotta go to bed tonight so I can fight this cold! Night all!

 

[TouchO'Lass]

The Missing Man: As you enter almost any military club, you will see a table that seems to be set for diners, yet is never occupied...

The table is round -- to show our everlasting concern for our missing men.

The tablecloth is white -- symbolizing the purity of their motives when answering the call to duty.

The single red rose, displayed in a vase, reminds us of the blood shed by our loved ones, in dignity and courage.

A slice of lemon on a bread plate is to remind us of the bitter fate of those who volunteered to protect this great country.

A pinch of salt on that plate symbolizes the tears shed by their families who forever grieve.

A Bible represents the strength gained through faith to sustain those lost from our country, founded as one nation under God.

The glass is inverted -- for they are unable to be with us to share this days celebration.

The chairs are empty. For the ones who will never return.

I raise a glass to Bob Dignon, who took my Dad's watch in the engine room that night in 1942. Who enlisted with me Da', cuz they were childhood buds. Who died that night in the Solomon Islands. So my Dad didn't.

Slai'nte!

"If you are not willing to stand by these colors, you'd best find another flag!"

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Watching dvds with my husband, gone sort of input-only after a difficult day.

(What kind of difficult? The kind when you discover that the one stray blackberry cane tip-rooting on the wrong side of the fence has been joined by twenty more).

Going to bed now.

 

[hallerlake]

TouchO'Lass :

The Missing Man: As you enter almost any military club, you will see a table that seems to be set for diners, yet is never occupied...

The table is round -- to show our everlasting concern for our missing men.

The tablecloth is white -- symbolizing the purity of their motives when answering the call to duty.

The single red rose, displayed in a vase, reminds us of the blood shed by our loved ones, in dignity and courage.

A slice of lemon on a bread plate is to remind us of the bitter fate of those who volunteered to protect this great country.

A pinch of salt on that plate symbolizes the tears shed by their families who forever grieve.

A Bible represents the strength gained through faith to sustain those lost from our country, founded as one nation under God.

The glass is inverted -- for they are unable to be with us to share this days celebration.

The chairs are empty. For the ones who will never return.

I raise a glass to Bob Dignon, who took my Dad's watch in the engine room that night in 1942. Who enlisted with me Da', cuz they were childhood buds. Who died that night in the Solomon Islands. So my Dad didn't.

Slai'nte!
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"If you are not willing to stand by these colors, you'd best find another flag!"

Slai'nte!​

 

[Chicken Rustler]

TouchO'Lass :

The Missing Man: As you enter almost any military club, you will see a table that seems to be set for diners, yet is never occupied...

The table is round -- to show our everlasting concern for our missing men.

The tablecloth is white -- symbolizing the purity of their motives when answering the call to duty.

The single red rose, displayed in a vase, reminds us of the blood shed by our loved ones, in dignity and courage.

A slice of lemon on a bread plate is to remind us of the bitter fate of those who volunteered to protect this great country.

A pinch of salt on that plate symbolizes the tears shed by their families who forever grieve.

A Bible represents the strength gained through faith to sustain those lost from our country, founded as one nation under God.

The glass is inverted -- for they are unable to be with us to share this days celebration.

The chairs are empty. For the ones who will never return.

I raise a glass to Bob Dignon, who took my Dad's watch in the engine room that night in 1942. Who enlisted with me Da', cuz they were childhood buds. Who died that night in the Solomon Islands. So my Dad didn't.

Slai'nte!
http://bestsmileys.com/usa1/15.gif

"If you are not willing to stand by these colors, you'd best find another flag!"

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Yesterday we put flags on my Uncle Jim's grave, who went from island -hopping in the south Pacific in 1943 to SP school and guarding the gates at Hanford, where some of his Uncles' farms had been taken for mysterious purpose, and Uncle Chuck, who started by busing tables at the NonComs mess in Bremerton, used his CCC experience to join the SeaBees, build runways in the Sleutians and later the Solomons, also ended up as a SP for awhile and shows up in pictures of the trials at Nurnberg, moved from the Navy to the Airforce and was in Korea running Radar, both during the Police Action and after, and then in Viet Nam, when his active service got terminated by a mine under his Jeep; retired as a Lt. Col.

And Ron, a neighbor for generations, who was in one of the earliest infantry units into Viet Nam and came home and never quite got his life right and died young.

Today, weather and joint pain willing, we'll go to the Olympia Cemetary and there will already be a flag on Dad's grave; he went into the Army in early 1941 and was a Corporal by Pearl Harbor, in a truck company mostly made up of Texans and Oklahomans: they hit the beach in Normandy about the eighth of June, 1944, and drove fuel and ammunition to the front line troops sounth as far as Paris and then North, through the Bulge, into Holland and Germany, horrors and hazards all the way.

And I will worry about Cousin Nathan, on his fourth tour at Bagram, and Tommy, in an Marine Rifle company about due to come home, and the young men I do not know whose cars and trucks and motorcycles pass my driveway at 4am on their way to roll call at JBLM.

And yet I know my Grandmother, a pacifist Quaker who saw the best of her sons go off to war, and Ron's parents who kew he was fragile but saw him drafted anyway, my paternal grandparents who needed the money my Dad's enlistment bought, and my great-grandmother who thought there had to be a better way: all of them were veterans too, in their own way.

"There's never been a good war or a bad peace" is a diplomat's statement (Benjamin Franklin, to be precise) "War is Hell" is a soldier's (Sherman, who created his own brand of Hell). For the troops in the field and the families at home, the words are less glib: for them, war is a daily presence, fifty years, sixty years after it's over.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

WOW it looks like somebody fergot yo close the coop door yesterday. Yup all the chooks and peeps flew the coop. Only one left is a fat old moulting roo.
Hope some of em come back to the coop and tell of thier adventures this weekend.

 

[Chickielady]

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The Gorton's fisherman's hat is standard fishing foul weather gear made by a company called ' Grundens.
Made in Portugal, I have one.

Need me to post a pic ?