miguelito

From Traces of Texas: "We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father's name." ----- Sam Houston's speech to his troops before the Battle of San Jacinto, which happened 187 years ago today

"Although the game starts normally enough it becomes increasingly surreal as it proceeds through its more than 2000 innings and weeks of play. Visitors to the game include the President of the US and Leonardo da Vinci. Players die or disappear and the later stages of the game are played in the pouring rain that increasingly threatens the town. The statue of the Black Angel from the local cemetery ends up playing in right field and batting .300." The book gets even weirder than that.

Keep the brooms handy. Sweep or get swept.

put the phone down and help that good boy!

What would cause the buds on my pepper plants to fall off? I see the flowers form, then the buds, then they fall off. I don't see a lot of bugs on those plants. Is it too much water, not enough, chilly mornings? Is it lupus?

You son of a bitch.

I gave Kelenic a lot of shit last year because he deserved it. It's nice to see him kicking ass this year.

At Irish shrine, Biden meets priest who gave Beau last rites By Darlene Superville, Colleen Long and Jill Lawless ASSOCIATED PRESS KNOCK, Ireland — President Joe Biden was moved to tears on Friday during a stop at a Catholic shrine when he discovered that a chaplain there had performed last rites for his late son Beau Biden. “It was incredible to see him,” Biden said later during remarks at the foot of a cathedral in nearby Ballina. “It seemed like a sign.” Knock Shrine is a pilgrimage site where, according to Catholic lore, the saints Mary, Joseph and John the Evangelist appeared near a stone wall in 1879. Biden touched the remaining old wall, and toured the site with priest Father Richard Gibbons. Gibbons said he discovered earlier in the day that the Father Frank O’Grady working at the site was the same one who had performed last rites, a ceremony in the Catholic faith that spiritually prepares people for death, for Beau. It’s common in the Catholic faith for priests to move around to different posts during their lives in the church. O’Grady is a former U.S. Army chaplain and was formerly assigned to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., where Beau died in 2015 from brain cancer at age 46. Gibbons said he did not know about the Biden connection until Friday. “I told the president that,” Gibbons told BBC Ulster. “He wanted to meet him straightaway, so he dispatched a Secret Service agent to go and find him.” He said it was “a wonderful, spontaneous thing that happened.” “He was crying and it really affected him,” Gibbons said of Biden. “Then we said a prayer, we said a decade of the rosary for his family, we lit a candle. Then he took a moment or two for private prayer.” O’Grady told Irish national broadcaster RTE that he was summoned to meet the president. “He gave me a big hug, it was like a reunion. He told me he appreciated everything that was done,” he said. “I hadn’t seen him really in eight years since Beau died. His son Hunter was there too, so we had a real reunion.” O’Grady said of the president, “He has been grieving a lot, but I think the grief is kind of going down a bit. We talked a little bit about how grief can take several years.” After the visit to the shrine on Friday, Biden toured a hospice center that displays a plaque commemorating his son. Biden was in Ireland this week with his sister Valerie and son Hunter, touring his ancestral home and meeting with the nation’s leaders. https://apnews.com/article/biden-beau-cancer-knock-ireland-0b52c7f9fa4e4c135dd49f0c00bdc473

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjbaSg_r_qo/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link This guy has a talent for 'ruining' music. not pictures, I don't care.

Stand-up triple, with bases loaded.

I guess that Simple Minds song didn't resonate with your class.

Kelenic goes yard, 4th game in a row.

"Next to last" has fewer syllables than "penultimate." And fewer letters. I've never liked the word "penultimate," even when used in a cromulent manner.

"OLIGARH" Is he a pirate? Arrrrrh.

I really should mulch my garden.

Yeah, a grandfather Munster clause.

Man, only a few more feet out, and he would have landed in ankle-deep water.

Not today, Cubs!

Well we could give Greg polio and see what happens.

It's your fault. Flexen's too. But also yours.

We have at least 24 hummingbirds buzzing around our 2 feeders. So much fun to watch and listen to them.