Subdeacon Joe

From Nashville, 1863 That $10 would be about $260 today. More pricing in the Confederate States

Idjits.

And you can never get everything back where it had been. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIMkKkqODS5/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Joke menu printed in the newspaper in 1863, referencing the Seige of Vicksburg. During the American Civil War, the South could not import food from the North because of the blockade. Different parts of the South were affected differently, but by 1863, pretty much everyone felt a pinch. The biggest issue: coffee. Without real coffee, Southerners made it out of sweet potatoes, peas, and some desperation. During the siege at Vicksburg, Confederate soldiers ate whatever they could to stay alive, including the mules on this menu. American Civil War: 1861-1865. From the local newspaper in Eureka, California in 1863.

Don't carry your ID in that wallet. Cop stops you, you pull that out to get your ID, cop sees it and you got some 'splaini' to do.

The place referred to in the above https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood Ditto. Don't buy the Kerry Gold, but for "eatin' butter" we like Amish Roll Butter. Almost as rich and much less expensive. For cooking I use whatever is the least expensive.

I put the butter in the pan for the first side, and often sprinkle some of the grated parm that usually comes in a green can on, then put the sandwich in the pan. Then I'll put some pats of butter on the top, or maybe use a vegetable peeler to shave off some curls of butter onto it. And, if using the parm, sprinkle some on the top. I've always kept the in use butter on the counter. Spent the first 30 years just having it on a small plate on the counter. Later got fancy and bought a butter dish with a cover. It's never around long enough to go bad, and I've often had it out for a week or so. But then, our weather is temperate, and our humidity low. No days of 95 F with 200% humidity, or whatever your average is there in FL...something like highs in the 90s and lows in the 80s with 150% humidity?

My wife was using the TV for a PlayStation game, so I didn't get to the game until the 6th. "WOW! Scoreless in the 6th! This could be interesting!" And the idjits in MLB management think low scoring games are boring.

It became "traditional" because self rising flour was one of the foods the BIA graciously gave to Indians on the Rez. SR Flour, Lard, and water, maybe some extra salt. Mix. No oven? Fry it up! My wife and I frequently remark about how many "traditional" Old World foods rely on New World ingredients. Then we realize that our "recently introduced foods" were introduced half a millennium ago. That's enough time to become "traditional." More than enough time. Look at our own history. Only 250 years old, well next year for that, but we have "traditional foods." Biscuits and Gravy, Fried Green Tomatoes, Cornbread, New England Clam Chowder, Tex-Mex on May 5th. We can say, "Well, that's similar to XXX that German/Italian/Irish dishes, so immigrants were trying to replicate those from their native lands." Which means that until you get into molecular gastronomy, there are really no new dishes at all for 5,000 years. And even those you can say are just modifications of other dishes. So, my take is that, for practical matters, if there is a dish that someone says, "We need to make sure that we have your Suffering Bustard for (event) again this year" it's traditional.

If you've make a Grilled Cheese Sandwich, you've made toast that way. I've been doing it for over half a century. Usually in the pan I've used to cook sausage or ham in. When I was doing War of 1861 reenacting I usually brought both cornbread and soft bread, and would often cut a slab and toast it that way. One guy, in his 40s, stared at me like I had 3 heads and blue skin. He'd never seen anyone do that. I thought it was something everyone did. I didn't know that it was "the only proper way" to do it.

That was GREAT! That long, towering foul was exciting.

They were only "The Good Old Days " because I WAS young and I WASN'T good.

Heck of a way to win the home opener. Bases loaded, count was 3 - 1, batter hit a towering foul just right of the foul pole. Count now 3-2. Next pitch just low and outside for ball 4.

You know that there's a Coyote involved.

As found on FB Firazah · Follow snSopodrte6cMgA4Pf cl5atf lcm:90 p39mtau 71mir58cl1c2914315i · The USS Saratoga shed her hefty 8" guns like a snake sloughing off old skin, ditching them in January 1942 at Pearl Harbor while limping toward Puget Sound, her hull nursing torpedo wounds. The repair pit stop doubled as a golden ticket for a jaw-dropping overhaul: a sleek starboard blister bulged out her frame; a minimalist pole mast shot skyward; her superstructure got a brutal trim; and she bristled with firepower—four twin 5"/38 mounts, tricked out with directors and radars, plus eight single 5"/38s and four 1.1" quads, elbowing out the outdated dozen 5"/25s. She got a tech upgrade too, flaunting SG surface search radar and SC-1 secondary air search radar, while swapping every last .50-cal for a fierce pack of 32 20mm guns. To keep her trim, they hacked 20 feet off her stack—a ruthless weight-loss hack for a ship reborn in battle-ready glory

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/mudmarch.htm War correspondent William Swinton wrote of the deteriorating conditions the army faced: Burnside ordered the army to return to their original camps on January 22. The retreat began on the 23rd. Fortunately for the Federal troopers, the rain slowed significantly. Unfortunately, they had to return using the same roads they had destroyed during their advance. It would take some men until the 26 before they made it to their original camps on Stafford Heights. Exhausted, the Army of the Potomac hit rock bottom after the Mud March. So, too, did its commander, Ambrose Burnside. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_March_(American_Civil_War) https://www.hmdb.org/PhotoFullSize.asp?PhotoID=6237 https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=230177

That mechanism is pretty cool, isn't it?

In the SCA I knew people by their SCA name for 15 years, and where they lived by the SCA group. I had no way to contact someone other than by calling the head of that local group and asking for the person by the SCA name. Can't call information and ask for the phone number of William the Lucky out of Montagne du Roi. On another matter, I had to call "Jack's Powder Keg" to get powder for our Civil War artillery unit. Needed to have the proper forms sent to me so I could buy powder. Called the number, "Office of Judge John Somehingorother." (pause, pause) "Um....is this Jack's Powder Keg? Or am I in serious trouble now?" (laughter from the lady on the other end) "Yes, this is Jack's. We get that a lot. How may I help you?"

It looks to me as if the the way the net moved allowed his body to keep moving forward, but forced his left arm backwards. One of the commentators mentioned that it looked like a subluxation of his elbow or shoulder. Good call from a former player as the reports are saying he dislocated his shoulder. Amazingly, he's only on a 10 day Injured Reserve. At the moment, anyway. From the way it looked and how he reacted I was thinking he was out for half the season.

That game was at Oracle Park, San Francisco, so an unfamiliar park. I don't think it would have mattered, though. Running, sprinting, like that he would have easily overrun any warning track. Watching the replays of it during the game he might have been better off without the net. I grabbed my phone to get the replay to show my wife 20250406_154249.mp4