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Opening day just around the corner!
My Rangers and Astros are now in the same league and the same division.
Dashes the hopes of an all Texas World Series but give us double opportunity to beat the A's and the a n g e l s.
Baseball!
This year we intend to do lots of canning n preserving.
in the past we just eat the fresh stuff n keep going.
Last year the daughter started an herb gardening and intends to double it's size this year.
Built a greenhouse but have yet to put on the plastic.
Charcoal and wood here.
Do any of you brethren compete in the many BBQ events?
I don't compete, but I'd like to drop in and visit, see the smoker and maybe sample the wares.
Don't know if this is the right place for this thread since one could find himself having a spiritual experience in the garden as I do, or like Thomas Jefferson, find himself developing a great deal of one's personal philosophy while digging and planting in the dirt.
How many of you brethren...
"But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well as individuals, by the clamors of an impatient avidity for immediate and immoderate gain." ~~~~ James Madison
"Enlightened statesmen will not always...
Proverbs 26: 20-21
v. 20 "For the lack of wood the fire goes out, And where there is no whisperer, contention quiets down."
v. 21 " Like charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire , So is a contentious man to kindle strife."
It all sounds quite unusual.
Ill ask again, "what is your grand lodge jurisdiction, and what is the name of your lodge?"
How and from whom did you learn the EA work?
we would like to help but there needs to be some clarification on your part.
"No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when Knowledge is diffused and Virtue preserved. On the contrary when people are universally ignorant, and debauched in their manners, they will sink under their own weight without the aid of foreign...
"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."~~~~President of the...
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."~~~~William Ellery
"Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence."~~~~Alexander Hamilton