Eclipse
On this date in 2017, I was lucky enough to live more or less on the line of totality
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On this date in 2017, I was lucky enough to live more or less on the line of totality
wow
We haven’t eaten there in years. Wife liked the Chicken Pot Pie, I liked the Meatloaf.
Cracker Barrel Faces “Bud Light” Moment====================
Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino is steering straight into a “Bud Light” moment – learning nothing in recent years – by abandoning the restaurant chain’s half-century-old logo that symbolized nostalgia for rural Americana and the “old country store” experience.
Instead, the company has embraced the woke rebranding of many other household names.
The soulless rebranding of the new Cracker Barrel logo has sparked backlash across various social media platforms among conservatives.
The previous logo once featured an older gentleman in working-poor clothes, leaning on a wooden barrel, which historically held crackers and dry goods in general stores.
In fact, the name “Cracker Barrel” comes from how people a century ago gathered around barrels in country stores to talk, eat crackers, and share stories.
The greater understanding of the barrel is that it symbolizes community.
(Now? The barrel represents a vessel filled with hydrochloric acid, for storing dead fag bodies.)
I don’t mind these people as long as they do not touch my food.
That’s called, “Letting down your defenses”.
How do you know if they touched your food or not?
BTW, human DNA exists in the air that is exhaled, as well as nasty diseases.
There are certain entities on this planet that I don’t want to have in sight and the number of those entities is increasing all the time.
Hog Killers
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Looking back, I don’t see how we kept so many bellies full.
There were seven people in our five-room house, a bunch of dogs and at least two hogs, all fed from the same table.
After we ate firsts and seconds, Mom made extra gravy and splattered it on the sidewalk by the backdoor step for the dogs, and they licked it up with leftover biscuits, potatoes and bones.
In those days, dogs didn’t choke on chicken bones, and they didn’t die from chocolate.
Dogs didn’t start suffering from these things until the communists tricked liberals into buying dogs at the mall — in the mid 80’s, I think.
https://www.al.com/life/2024/11/jd-crowe-the-hog-killin-a-double-murder-family-tradition.html
Very well told story in that link.
I remember once when I was less than 12 years old going to my friend’s farm in Sudbury in late fall. She was a tough girl from a crazy family.
Her brothers got the pigs drunk with vodka while I was there. My protests on humanitarian grounds were met with typical teenage boy scoffs and derision. The pigs went mad and crashed through the fence around their pen then charged through the vegetable garden churning up everything in their way. Nobody seemed to care much. The next day I saw my friend’s grandmother strangle some old chickens using a broomstick to twist their necks.
I grew up on a farm – a horse farm in cow country. We had chickens too. They liked to sleep in the stalls and roost on the backs of the horses. When I arrived back to my Midwest home I went straight to the stables and told our animals how lucky they all were. My dairy cow neighbors were kind to their cows.
The horses and cows got along fine, chickens too, but horses don’t much like pigs. I don’t much like people who are mean to animals. Even if they have to be slaughtered there’s a way to do it.
Saw this out there, some where, the other day and thought I’d save it to a HD for future use.
Maybe someone here can benefit from it.
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We’ve always stressed how important an emergency fund is to your finances.
If you don’t have six months of fixed expenses saved, you could be in trouble if something unforeseen happens (like losing your job).
If you’re falling short of that mark, it might be time to consider a side hustle.
You can work the job until your emergency fund is stocked, then move on.
Here are some of the best side gigs to try.
Online Surveys.
You can get paid to take online surveys at sites like Branded Surveys.
The pay isn’t much, but do enough of them and it will add up.
A quick online search will bring up several different online survey options.
Here are a few more online survey sites to start your research:
Swagbucks
Kashkick
SurveyJunkie
Inbox Dollars
Survey Savvy
Website Testing.
You can test sites and apps for some cash at sites like UserTesting, TestingTime, Userlytics, and Userfeel.
These sites offer a wide variety of items that need to be tested, at various levels of time-commitment and pay.
Check online reviews for website testing to find the best option for you.
Create and Sell Crafts Online.
If you have a passion for creating handmade or homemade artwork or creative products, you may be able to make a little extra money selling those products on Etsy, Handmade Amazon, Facebook Marketplace, or CrateJoy.
Ride Sharing.
Uber, Lyft, and other companies are always in need of drivers.
If you don’t mind driving, this is an easy way to make some extra cash.
Grocery Delivery.
There are also several money-making options for delivering groceries.
Here are a few ideas:
Instacart
Shipt
SparkDriver (Walmart grocery delivery)
Food Delivery.
You can make some quick cash delivering restaurant orders through sites and apps like UberEats, GrubHub, and DoorDash.
Pet Sitting.
If you like pets, sign up to be a pet sitter through sites like:
Rover
Care
Wag
TaskRabbit
Fetch Pet Care
You can get paid to watch someone’s dog at their house or you can have the dog stay with you.
You can also get paid to walk dogs.
Online Tutoring.
Have some special skills you’d like to share with others?
You can tutor online and get paid for it via sites like:
Tutor Ocean
Varsity Tutors
Tutor.com
Chegg
Smartthinking
Package Delivery.
You can get paid to deliver Amazon packages through the Amazon Flex program.
The best thing about this is the “flex” part.
You can sign up for blocks of time, and then deliver packages during your available times only.
Freelance Work.
If you have some extra time and a marketable skillset like graphic design, copywriting, website development, digital marketing, or another skill, freelance work could be a great side gig opportunity.
To see what freelance work is in high demand, check out sites like these:
Fiverr
Upwork
FlexJobs
Toptal
Rev.com
Freelancer.com
Other Side Hustle Ideas.
There are so many different ways to make extra money in your spare time.
For many people, it just takes a little imagination and work to find something that works for them.
This could include things like starting a blog or YouTube channel, washing cars, power washing houses, renting out your unused garage or basement space, running errands for someone, mowing lawns, selling baked goods, giving music lessons, and the list goes on.
You can always search online or ask friends and family for ideas that might suit you.
There’s no shortage of side gig ideas out there, it’s just a matter of finding the one that works best for you and getting started.
Many thanks, Ghost. Very thoughtful of you.
Jean beat me to the WOW!
Speaking of celestial sights, I saw this earlier this week as I headed out for my pre-dawn walk. That is a waning crescent moon, and immediately to the moon’s right is Venus. Above and to the right of Venus is Jupiter. If you extend the Jupiter-Venus line down all the way to just above my neighbor’s roof, you can see Mercury. To the left of the moon are the stars Castor and Pollux, which are the two brightest stars of the constellation Gemini.
Beautiful.