Roan Highlands
Carolyn took three days off from work, so she had to get up early this morning to make up for missed time. We are still eating leftovers; I like turkey when it is fresh from the oven, but after it sits for awhile, it has a taste of fat to it, and I cannot stand to eat it. There is plenty of other stuff like green beans, deviled eggs, mashed potatoes, corn, macaroni and cheese, her super homemade dressing with cranberry sauce, candied sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie, sweet potato pie, and probably a few other things I can't think of at the moment. Life is good.
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If I were President Obama, I would be afraid; very afraid. In fact, I would most likely fire the head of the Secret Service for allowing the party crashers into the White House at a State function. You and I cannot send the president, his family, or his staff an email without it being checked many times for subversive activities such as containing a letter bomb, yet these shrewd citizens waltz in to one of the most secure places in America, make themselves at home, and have encounters with the most powerful people in the world. The Nicholas Cage movie National Treasure no longer seems so far-fetched. As bad as our Homeland Security Agency is, it surely works better than the president's personal body guard unit.
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Gasp! Was Tiger Woods and his missus having a spat which caused him to leave home in a snit so as to cool off and then he wrecked his Cadillac? Is his wife again pregnant and she roused him from sleep to go to the store and fetch her ice cream and pickles? What will his official sponsor think of him driving a different brand of car instead of the Buick he gets so well paid to promote in tv, magazine, and newspaper ads? Rumor has it that I really don't give a damn about any of it!
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Dubai goes belly-up! Indoors man-made ski slopes in the Arabian desert may not have been a good idea. Folks, try to help these poor oil-laden people out; plan to soon spend your next vacation on the beautiful Persian Gulf on a home-made island chain shaped like a palm tree. Be sure to buy a souvenir from the gift shop located on the ground floor of the tallest building in the world. See the Iranian and Iraqi oil tankers sailing by all day long. Be thrilled as American military jets from huge aircraft carriers fly overhead on their way to and from dropping bombs on Iraq in order to secure your freedom. Phooey!
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Carolyn took three days off from work, so she had to get up early this morning to make up for missed time. We are still eating leftovers; I like turkey when it is fresh from the oven, but after it sits for awhile, it has a taste of fat to it, and I cannot stand to eat it. There is plenty of other stuff like green beans, deviled eggs, mashed potatoes, corn, macaroni and cheese, her super homemade dressing with cranberry sauce, candied sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie, sweet potato pie, and probably a few other things I can't think of at the moment. Life is good.
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If I were President Obama, I would be afraid; very afraid. In fact, I would most likely fire the head of the Secret Service for allowing the party crashers into the White House at a State function. You and I cannot send the president, his family, or his staff an email without it being checked many times for subversive activities such as containing a letter bomb, yet these shrewd citizens waltz in to one of the most secure places in America, make themselves at home, and have encounters with the most powerful people in the world. The Nicholas Cage movie National Treasure no longer seems so far-fetched. As bad as our Homeland Security Agency is, it surely works better than the president's personal body guard unit.
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Gasp! Was Tiger Woods and his missus having a spat which caused him to leave home in a snit so as to cool off and then he wrecked his Cadillac? Is his wife again pregnant and she roused him from sleep to go to the store and fetch her ice cream and pickles? What will his official sponsor think of him driving a different brand of car instead of the Buick he gets so well paid to promote in tv, magazine, and newspaper ads? Rumor has it that I really don't give a damn about any of it!
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Dubai goes belly-up! Indoors man-made ski slopes in the Arabian desert may not have been a good idea. Folks, try to help these poor oil-laden people out; plan to soon spend your next vacation on the beautiful Persian Gulf on a home-made island chain shaped like a palm tree. Be sure to buy a souvenir from the gift shop located on the ground floor of the tallest building in the world. See the Iranian and Iraqi oil tankers sailing by all day long. Be thrilled as American military jets from huge aircraft carriers fly overhead on their way to and from dropping bombs on Iraq in order to secure your freedom. Phooey!
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7 comments:
Carolyn's feast sounds wonderful. The leftovers are such a reward for a several days' worth of planning & cooking.
Hope your weekend was good. I think there were some good ball games on... (?)
Dubai is a disgusting waste of everything.
Sunday evenings are peaceful.
Most of the leftovers are now gone, and it will soon be back to peanut butter sandwiches. :-)
I watched a few games; Lady Vols and UCLA, Alabama and Auburn foofball, plus Tenn. and kentucky football. Watched the Colts play and also the Titans.
Hope y'all had a great weekend.
The crashers at the White House is actually a very alarming situation.
I can not even believe people would do that in the first place.
Some heads are gonna roll for that.
We not hear about it but it will happen.
Me like deviled eggs.
What are those balb spots on the mountains? Fields or clear cutting.
Crashing the White House hasn't happened since Andrew Jackson was elected.
As for the bald spots; they are called bald spots, or just "balds". Cherokee legend says that a giant god came down to earth and walked across the mountaintops and the balds are his foot prints.
Some of them have been around since before the first known white settlers to the hills. No one really knows how they got there. Some are results of early white farmers clearing land for pasture. Anyway, they are covered in short, tundra-like grasses, especially the ones on the higher elevations like the ones pictured. They have become so ecologically important, that they are now kept clear of intruding brush and trees which would soon swallow them. On Roan Mt., one example is Gray's Lily; it is found only on a few of the high balds of our region.
http://www.ashevillenatural.com/grayslily.html
I've gotten long-winded again.
Thanks, Mark
BTW: I went to college to learn to be a naturalist.
I did a nice job of misspelling bald. It would be nice if blogger had a spell checker in the comment box.
I like the Cherokee legend. It is so cool how American Indians are so connected to the land.
Thanks for the lesson.
If you had not mentioned it, I would not have noticed the spelling. The legend also shows how easy it is for a deity to be invented.
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