120 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 1-19-13”

  1. First? Good morning!

    For dinner? Bean and Barley Soup

    As for the quote, it goes along with another alternative question. I just saw a question on an e-mail subject line about what is a life-long learner. So when I saw the quote I was thinking that so much goes with my question of what are you spending time on learning or what do you expect to spend time on learning for the rest of your life?

    I know the Bible is a definite for most on this site. What else?

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  2. Thanks, AJ. I was just about to wish Happy Birthday to Robert E. Lee, and you had posted that fine quote. Yesterday, the Virginians celebrated Lee-Jackson Day. Today, Texans celebrate Confederate Heroes Day!

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  4. When I worked for the SC-DOT testing lab. Lee-Jackson day was an official holiday. I didn’t get a holiday, I just couldn’t work that day.
    In DC, federal employees used to get Inauguration Day off so they could attend the parade.
    I never did.

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  5. I once wrote an essay about not growing, changing, and learning making is like stagnant water . Flowing water is clean and fresh and life giving . Stagnant water grows mold and other yucky things

    Silas is a sweet sweet baby . He is nursed but his Mommy has h on a schedule. Yesterday he had gotten his two month shots AND was passed back and forth with tthree

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  6. strangers. He barely fussed. As I predicted he adores me. Oh and I changed my first boy diaper ever! Mr. P was disappointed I didn’t get “christened” I simply told Silas this was MeMe’ s first time and to work with her . See? He is already smart.

    I also got lunch at Chick & Ruth’ s yesterday . I had the Reuben. Mr. P had crab cakes . Good thing he is a food sharer . 😉

    I am off to prepare for my day!

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  8. Last night for dinner the Kid and I tried making spaghetti tacos. For those of you who do not follow children’s television it is a dish made popular by the characters on I Carly. They were…interesting. The show is suppose to be for girls but I know the Kid and his friends watch it because they think the girls on the show are cute.

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  9. Ricky, I thought you lived in the Houston area. I lived in Fort Worth from Aug. ’57 to Jan. ’62. It was Cow Town in those days. You likely don’t remember the stockyards.
    They are a tourist attraction now.
    I took Chuck and his family out there in 1997 so he could see where he was born. Linda wanted to see a Texas Ranger. I told her the only way she was likely to see a Texas Ranger was to rob a store.
    Mary, middle GD, wanted to see a “Ghost Town”, wo we drove just a few miles toward Abilene. I told her that if she wanted to see a “ghost town” should look a Corinaca, SC.
    😦

    When I was there, They built a fine airport halfway between Fort Worth and Dallas. Unfortunately, they named it Amon Carter Field.
    All the Dallas traffic used Love Field.
    They seem to have gotten together. DFW is a fine airport today.

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  11. What is for dinner? I, also, have no idea. This week it belongs to one of the fifteen year olds. But I tend to eat separately as I am continuing to try to bring the blood pressure down to where it should be. I will be having some of the chili I made earlier in the week. For breakfast, a couple of eggs with onion and peppers and venison salami. Well, husband will have half so that will only be one egg. But still lots of onion and peppers. Gotta love that onion, right Chas?

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  12. I like the quote, AJ. And Robert E Lee was the finest gentleman of his era, even if he did fight for the Confederacy. Although, the more I get into the “Civil” War, the more I see that except for slavery, the South was doing the only logical thing: protecting state sovereignty. I see it more now that the Washington bureaucracies are taking away more of our rights.

    FYI to Ricky Weaver (and others interested): You said yesterday that you live NW of Fort Worth. I’ll be down that way at Easter for the 2013 Fellowship Conference at Lewisville Lake east of Denton. If you are able, come hear great preaching and enjoy felllowship. It started out as a gathering of some like-minded churches in Northeast Missouri, and San Antonio and Denton, Texas, which wanted to get to know each other better, so three years ago, we all met “half-way” in Norman Oklahoma. So many people from around the country found out and showed up that we had 300 at a church big enough for 250. (Between the four or five churches there were a combined 200 at most.) The next year the pastor in Denton reserved the Camp Copass center and that is where the next two meetings were held. If you come, ask for me. Though with 600 people there, it may be hard to find one who knows me, as I only know the ones from up this way well.

    As for the QoD: whatever Mrs L fixes.

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  13. What’s for dinner? Probably something thrown together to snack on as hubby is out patrolling the back country and will not likely be home for supper. Good thing he loves his job – it’s -25.6F out there right now. (I keep having to convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit) 🙂 I just had to check the spelling of Fahrenheit!

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  15. What’s for dinner? I have no idea. Partly it depends on how hubby and I are feeling. It may be spaghetti.

    Anyone who would like a good source for a great variety of rubber stamps with heart designs, check out http://www.123stitch.com/Rubber_Stamps_Love.html

    I already have more than enough heart-shaped stuff for the little girls’ valentines I make every year, but they’ve got some good ones and I may buy a couple.

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  18. Beef stew made last night.

    I’ve had company all week and today she is hosting a letterbox puzzle day. It’s been fun learning about letter boxing–a hobby that got her outdoors and hiking. She’s lost 27 pounds in the last two years!

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  19. I have no idea what I’ll make for dinner. Monday through Friday I always cook pretty much the same things so I don’t have to work at figuring out what to shop for and cook, but the weekends I leave open to make different stuff. The problem is thinking of what that should be, especially if I don’t find something good on sale to help me choose.

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  20. Being a lifelong learner covers all kinds of stuff. I read books (currently two on prayer and one on worship, plus a variety of fiction), and find interesting and informative articles online (science, current events, history, health, odd things I never would have thought about).

    I participate in Toastmasters to improve my communications skills (not just public speaking – I’m currently doing an advanced manual on interpersonal communication, which is harder for me than public speaking). I’m learning a lot of new stuff at work, not just the technical stuff (I’m the admin for student systems software at a college) but people skills also (which is much harder for me).

    I learn how to cook new stuff when I want to eat something different, or when I want to make meals healthier. Last weekend I made some delicious dark chocolate nut bread (quick bread, not yeast bread), not as sweet as the chocolate bread I had been making and which my husband had suggested I make again. (It was my birthday the next day so I made what I wanted, in place of a cake.)

    Right now I’m trying to learn more about leading a handchimes choir. I’m not the director, but I volunteered to lead a session next Saturday, going over techniques and exercises (as well as talking about worship and the role of music in worship), because usually we just jump straight into playing songs to do in church, and I thought it would help to work on the basics first.

    And being a parent, there’s always more to learn. The age my sons are now, it’s mostly learning to let them step out and do things on their own, while still providing encouragement and support in ways that won’t interfere with the lessons they need to learn on how to do things independently.

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  21. Dinner is still HOURS away for me. I still don’t know even what’s for breakfast, which I need to figure out shortly. I’m out of eggs. But I think I have enough oatmeal.

    Then I’m off to work today, doing the solo Saturday shift. I’m scheduled to do a phone interview with the author of ‘unbroken’ in just a few hours, yay. That was tough to arrange. Other than that, though, I still have to make cop calls and hope-hope-hope that no one gets shot or knifed or otherwise killed on my shift. After the author phone interview, I’d ideally like to spend most of the rest of the day just working on that feature story that’s due by mid week.

    Spaghetti tacos?? Yikes. Sounds messy.

    It should make it into the 70s, today out here. 🙂 The nights are still cold, but our below-normal temp days are warming up at last.

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  22. The real question is how do you hold it together? Is the spaghetti the taco shell? Or do you put spaghetti into taco shells? Do you have to wear a bib to not spill everything down your shirt? (Which is why I never eat tacos; I prefer burritos anyway).

    Loving the ideas behind a Donna’s FB post by Gene Veith: http://tinyurl.com/b7xhzty

    What absolution DOES Oprah provide?

    In the meantime, a friend is reading a book called The Testament of Mary, which is turning the biblical story upside down. Written by a, surprise!, disaffected Catholic woman, it denies everything we believe true about Scripture.

    Takes me right to the stories about the end times where people will love the lie rather than truth. And what good comes from reading such a story, I ask. What do you take away when you’re done? Anything good, proper, life affirming or full of hope?

    Grrrr.

    I’ll be in Job most of the morning. That should cheer me up! 🙂

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  23. I’m trying to picture what a spaghetti taco is, too. I like spaghetti and I like tacos, but, hmmm…how does one combine that?

    The first time I ever had a taco was in 1977 at the age of 14 when we traveled to our aunt and uncle’s in California. I am glad I don’t have to travel to anywhere but the local grocery store to get me some taco fixins these days 🙂 Yum!

    Education quotes: one of my favorites is this by Mark Twain. “I have never let school interfere with my education.” 🙂

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  24. Tacos is my plan for supper tonight.

    I have to admit, I have only seen ICarley a few times and absolutely hated it. The characters are very snotty and disrespectful. If the children want a food they see on the show, they are sure to mimic the rest. That includes their view of girls, of course.

    One of my prayers–good shows with good values, good heroes, good stories, good stories, good laughter about things we wouldn’t be ashamed to laugh about with the Lord. That includes showing evil, but in the way it used to be portrayed–as a negative and in way that assumed we had some imagination. Same with sex.

    I am thinking that if you aren’t a life-long learner, you must have your head in the sand. Hard to do that today with all the media bombardment.

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  25. Never heard of spaghetti tacos. Fish tacos is another one I can’t really imagine (and which doesn’t sound good).

    When I was growing up, though, an occasional meal was something we called “Mexican hot dogs.” Not sure where we got the recipe or the idea, but you take a wiener, put it in a crunchy taco shell, put a small slice down the middle the length of the meat, insert cheese into the slice, and put the whole thing into the oven briefly (let the meat heat and the cheese melt)–watch it, though, since it makes the taco shell crunchier but you don’t want it to burn. My family added guacamole and/ or (maybe) salsa. I only ever had them with the cheese, but it was an easy and tasty meal, and a bit different. Unfortunately my hubby doesn’t like crunchy taco shells, so I can’t make it for him.

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  26. I have never heard of doing that, Cheryl. I can see where it would be good; kind of like a corn dog with cheese.

    I did have a friend who used to grind hotdogs and cheese, spread it on bread and then toast it all. It was a quick easy thing to make and I did it several times myself. It isn’t worth taking out the grinder, though, for just one or two. We both used an old fashioned grinder, so I have no idea how it would work with the newer ones. This was long before you could buy hotdogs with cheese in them, BTW, and I would think your Mexican hot dogs were also, Cheryl.

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  27. Lifelong learning. Well, I’m an avid reader (at least 50 books a year), and a lot of those books involve learning, whether that is the purpose or part of the result. I read plenty of biographies and other history, some theology, some practical books (such as books on art or writing). I also read a lot of fiction, and through fiction one can learn things, from “practical” to historical to a greater understanding of people.

    Of course one continues to learn through reading Scripture as well, though knowing God and not “learning” is the primary purpose.

    Some of my reading-to-learn has been deliberate (e.g., when I moved into an all-black neighborhood in Chicago, I read many books, fiction and nonfiction, to try to understand black culture and black people a little better), and some of it has been a mere interest in a subject (e.g., reading a lot of biographies, especially those of authors I like and a lot of memoirs set around WWII).

    Oh, speaking of such memoirs, my husband found out (and ordered for me) that the final volume of The Last Lion has finally been published! Anyone who doesn’t know the story, the author was writing a three-volume biography of Churchill, and he died before he wrote volume three. He had notes for it, and had started writing it, and he chose the man who would finish it. But there was some question whether it would ever be finished and whether it would be as good as the first two. Amazon reviews are mixed as to whether it is as good; apparently it is much longer than the other two, though (and they’re plenty big). To be honest I haven’t even read the first two yet, partly because after I bought them (used) I heard that there was some question whether the set would ever be finished, and I’d rather read a completed set. (I’d also rather wait till a series is complete, or nearly complete, before reading books that are being released one book a year). But it was sweet of my husband to look it up on his own and then order the book when he saw that it has been published!

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  28. Chas, I have lived near Fort Worth (with a couple of exceptions) since 1969. However, since Tarrant County now has almost 2,000,000 residents, it sometimes seems like we’re living in Houston.

    Peter, Thanks for the invite. Camp Copass was where I learned I was getting old. I was about 40 and went as a sponsor on a high school retreat. Playing Capture the Flag I was embarrassed to discover that a heavy-set girl was the only student I could catch. Luckily, another student sprained his ankle and then there were two that I could catch.

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  29. Cheryl- try your Mexican hot dog in small wheat tortillas. When our children were young, we used to make them by putting a slice of cheese on the tortilla, then the dog (already pan grilled), a little salsa (or catsup and mustard), then put in the oven long enough to melt the cheese. Your husband may just like them that way.

    As for how to make spaghetti tacos- you got me on that one!

    Oh, and Mrs L was just washing garbanzo beans, so I guess we’re having some kind of soup tonight.

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  31. Mumsee, dinner at night except on Sunday was the way we did it growing up, and generally still the way I do it. My husband has stated a preference for the larger meal at noon, but in practice he usually just wants a sandwich or something simple. So if I’m making an extra-big meal, I try to do it as a late lunch/ early supper and “split the difference” that way. He’s willing to have just two meals (plus snacks) in a day sometimes, and I’m not.

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  33. Mumsee- dinner is a hot lunch on the farm or the evening meal in the city. Having married a farm girl, we compromised- breakfast, lunch and supper during the week, and breakfast, dinner and supper on Sundays.

    And I don’t consider myself any more normal than anyone else around here. Except Drill. He’s not as normal as any of us!

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  34. Here’s something I found in the comics:
    Those who can do, and those who cannot go into politics to tax those who can, for the benefit of those who won’t (From 9 Chickweed Lane, January 18, 2013 by Brooke McEldowney).

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  36. My dad grew up on a farm, and wanted to call the meals, “Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper.” And, in his home, Dinner was the main meal.

    But, all of we non-farm folk (and my dad’s wife and all of his off-spring) always do “Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.” (Supper generally being a synonym for dinner, although it *can* imply a slightly smaller meal.)

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  37. BTW, my Dad’s wife is my mother. So, I have no idea why I phrased it that way. They’ve been married once each, to each other, over 50 years. Don’t know what’s with me today!

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  44. Here is a link for a recipe very similar to the one I use for Bean and Barley Soup. My son and I really like it. My husband does not seem to care for it. I think he has never eaten much barley in his life and does not care for the texture. I chose the recipe because my husband likes kidney beans, but he does not like them this way. It is one of the best soups I have ever made in my opinion.
    http://allrecipes.com.au/recipe/6000/bean-and-barley-soup.aspx

    The beans and barley are really good for control of blood sugar. I have rosemary growing in the yard so it is nice to clip some fresh to use in this recipe. When I do the soup the rosemary is boiled in the broth like bay leaves to flavor the soup and then removed instead of chopped finely like the linked recipe instructs to do.

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  46. The beans are why I have been having my chili every day for dinner. An attempt to get the blood pressure down. Last time Husband called for a refill, he was told I have to come in for a blood test because the medicine can mess up the liver. I want off. But not badly enough to lose the weight, apparently.

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  47. Me: breakfast, lunch, supper
    Hubby: breakfast, dinner, supper
    1st Arrow: breakfast, lunch, dinner
    The rest: I don’t know, they just sit down and eat
    Oh, and 6th Arrow: the first meal is pronounced breakfixt 🙂

    And our whole family is extremely normal.
    Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha!

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  52. BTW, we usually called it breakfast, lunch, supper. Though the big meal (whether Sunday lunch or a weekday supper) was sometimes called “dinner” instead. I think we pretty much only called it “dinner” on Sunday.

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  53. Does anyone know (without looking it up) what temperature is the same in Fahrenheit and Celsius? (That is, you don’t have to say “that’s so many degrees Fahrenheit,” because the number is the same.) One of my favorite trivia questions, and people usually don’t know. . . .

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  58. I’m not going to change to Kare2013, I probably wouldn’t realize you were talking to me 🙂
    Most people my age in Canada know that piece of trivia as we were in school when we switched from Fahrenheit to Celsius. Our parents continue to use Fahrenheit and our kids only use Celsius.

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  59. All I know is that I ain’t gonna change.
    As for learning something new. I vowed after the Naval War College that I was never going to learn nothing again.
    Somebody said, “Ignorance is bliss.” I don’t know where that came from. But the more I know, the worrieder I get.

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  64. This afternoon, 3rd and 6th Arrows and I went to get a few groceries. 6th Arrow was skipping and dancing her way around the store to the music that was playing (a bit too loudly, in my opinion) over the speaker system, when suddenly the power went out in the store. It was a little before 5:00 pm and cloudy, so not much natural light was coming through the windows at the front of the store anymore, and we were in the middle of the store, so it was pretty dark. Not only that, but the music had of course stopped suddenly, and it was eerily silent. It only took about 5 seconds for the lights to come back on (but no music), but it was strange how everyone just seemed to freeze when the power went out.

    Afterward, a much more subdued 6th Arrow decided the best place to be would be in 3rd Arrows arms. 😉

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  65. Ooh, scary being in a dark grocery store. Seems like a scene from one of those end-of-the-world movies.

    Thanks for the newspaper column link, JaniceG, lots of truth in that.

    Long day at work for me with the interview with Laura Hillenbrand (what a nice woman!) followed by stories about a 17-year-old boy (standing outside his car) getting hit & killed by a 55-year-old drunk driver 😦 and a home invasion robbery in which the thief took an iPhone which led deputies right to his door a couple hours later (via the GPS).

    Wrong thing to steal.

    As I was leaving work, I noticed a street closed off by the mall so I called the police when I got home but (thankfully) that was just a traffic accident that didn’t sound serious. Whew. I kept thinking “just pretend you didn’t see the closed street, just pretend you didn’t see the closed street” … Glad it wasn’t anything thing required another story after I’d come home!

    Now I’m tired but the dogs really, really, really want to go for a walk, of course.

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  66. You mix the spaghetti with the sauce then put in in the taco shell same way you would put taco meat in it.
    Kathaleena, I agree that they characters are not always nice people. This is pretty common in the preteen live action sit-coms for kids. My son doesn’t watch them that often but when he does we end up talking about how some of the characters are rude and mean and how things would not go that well for them in the real world.

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  69. Kare got the right answer first. Yep, -40 is where they converge. A temperature I’d rather not experience. I have no idea what the coldest in “thermometer reading” I’ve experienced, since in the winter Chicago news never bothered to give that, only wind chill. But I’ve experienced wind chills of -65, and that is brutal.

    I’m staying home from church since I don’t feel very good. I got dressed for church and everything.

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  70. -42C windchill right now. We’re staying home from church as well, since I had some issues with the Jeep and my husband hasn’t had time to take a look at it yet. No sense being stranded by the side of the road in this cold.

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  71. We are close enough to Canada to get both the C and F temperatures. We had -60F not far from here and have had -40 at least on several days. I remember driving my daughters to school on many -20 days. I had some long stretches of highway with no homes, so I hoped to not breakdown. This was before I had any cell phone.

    The wind and humidity make a big difference in how it is felt, of course. It can be well above 0F and still feel very cold. I dislike cold with wind. At least you can dress in many layers and there are lots of wonderful products now to help keep you warm. There is only so much you can take off to get cool in a hot place.

    Kbells: wise way of dealing with that.

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  72. Kare, you are cooling me down. I can almost hear the wind whistling and feel the sting of the frozen snow. It is rather soothing, as right now, I’m in day four of a nasty cold that hangs around the sinuses and is settling in the lungs.

    Janice’s QoD: I have seen the quote of the day in a shorter and more humourous form: “When your education’s finished, so are you.” Right now, I am learning a new language and culture (actually, more than one, as my teamates also come from other countries). It is something that I expect to do for the rest of my life – not neccessarily in the same place that I am in now, and perhaps in more than one place – learning about people in order to share the truth about their Creator.

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  73. May roam around the Naval Academy today . I pointed out to BY how good the Midshipmen look in their winter blues yesterday . I may bring her back in the Spring to see how good Choker Whites look 😉

    BG has fallen in love with the two dogs Moose and Molly . Mr. P and I are trying to decide how to get Silas home without his parents noticing . I still can’t believe what a good baby he is .

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  74. An interesting article in The Times-News about a man whe died recently. He was married 71 years and a WW II veteran. In discussing his WW II navy experience. his wife said, “he left on a train in East Flat Rock and came back on one. He just walked in one day.” On mail, “Sometimes we would get two or three letters at one time, other times a month without anything.”

    Young people who read about WW II in history books will never understand what really went on in those days. Today, a soldier in Afghanistan can communicate with his family daily. In WW II, at least most of the people were counted for.
    During the Civil War, and others, the wife just waited and he never came back.

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  75. We did not go to church today, too much illness. Instead, one of the fifteen year olds braided my hair for me. He is the Ethiopian. You can imagine my hair does not look like I normally keep it.

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  76. The move to metric has led to some haphazard results. I have no clue what Fahrenheit means likewise I use metric volume measurements. Yet in daily use of linear and mass measurements, I use imperial measurements but get annoyed when science non-fiction books use imperial measurements.

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  77. Hwesseli, that’s the same for me too. Cups and teaspoons for baking. Litres for gas. Kilometres for distance, but the road grids are mile by mile. Carpentry is whichever is the easiest to remember or write down before heading out to the saw in the shop. (don’t like eighths and sixteenths of inches) I mostly think in Celsius for weather.

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  78. They just selected the top 3 liberal Westerns of all time:

    1. She Wore a Yellow Pantsuit;

    2. A Fistfull of Foodstamps; and

    3. The Privileged, the Disadvantaged and the Aesthetically Challenged.

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  80. Checking in to say “hi” & let you all know that, although I don’t comment too often, I do read all the comments, & pray for all the prayer requests.

    The next 2 weeks are going to be busy with babysitting, as Emily will be working more hours to help cover for her boss’ vacation. Don’t forget about me!

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  83. An exotic new ‘do for Mumsee. Nice.

    I love braids; a co-worker long ago did my hair (when it was super long) in a french braid but I never really could get the hang of french braiding my own hair (though I can do just a regular braid easily — and when my hair’s on the longer side sometimes I’ll still braid it for fun when I want to get it off my neck at work for a little while.

    Boy, it’s like summer out here today, 77 degrees and really, really, SUNNY. As in get the sunglasses out, it’s so bright out there it’s blinding.

    Weird since last night I dreamed it was snowing in L.A.

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  84. And speaking of hair, I have to say I really do love the new hairstyle Michelle Obama is sporting now with bangs. Fresh, cute, and becoming.

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  85. Mumsee, one thing that was fun to me about my time in inner-city Chicago was when little girls would do my hair. When they did it, I left it for the rest of the day if possible; if they happened to come by again later, they could see I was still “styled.”

    The only problem is that I have a lot of hair and never once did they do it all. They’d start on one side (usually the left, I think), and put in several braids. Then the girl who was braiding or someone else would be unhappy with the look, and the finished ones would be taken out. They’d start over repeatedly on the same side, and never actually finish the whole thing. I’ve never been able to braid my own hair (though I can do a nice French twist if it’s long enough). My mom told me repeatedly that I read some book when I was nine which included a girl learning to braid when she turned ten, and I vowed to learn to braid at age ten myself . . . problem is, Mom is the only one who remembered either the book or the vow, and try as I would, I simply never could do it.

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  87. Funny thing. Switched over to the NFL playoff during a commercial break in whatever D3 was watching. Saw that SF was ahead and I said I was glad. D3 says, “Go Whoever is playing against the 49ers!” Then I said it was Atlanta. She asks, “Georgia? In that case, Go 49ers!” She is hard core Union in just about everything, even things she has no other care for, like football.

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  90. Hi all. It’s been a lazy Sunday as youngest is sick with some type of upper respiratory infection. Lots of snuggling and napping and tissues, tissues, everywhere!!!

    My husband talks incredibly loudly on the phone. I have to hold the phone a few inches away from my ear when speaking to him. I’m afraid he’s going to need a hearing-aid early.

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  91. RickyWeaver: Glad to know a fellow Texan on here! We actually live in Spring, close to Tomball and The Woodlands, if you’re familiar with the area. We rarely get to Ft. Worth, but if you’re ever in Houston, I’d love to meet for coffee or something!

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  97. Speaking of names for meals, as we were yesterday, MIL, FIL, and BIL came over for the noon meal. When they were leaving, I told them thanks for coming over for lunch, and (without knowing I had been having this discussion here about lunch/dinner, supper/dinner, whatever) my MIL started talking about what they had called meals before the newfangled breakfast-lunch-dinner order.

    Breakfast was the first meal, dinner was the big noon meal, supper was the evening meal, and lunch came between breakfast and dinner, and between dinner and supper!

    Sounds like my kind of meal plan 😉

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  99. Hey, here’s a question for old-timers, maybe Mumsee or Michelle. I was telling my husband about something, and telling him I lost the “bookmark” when my old computer crashed three or four years ago, and I realized someone else here might still have it bookmarked. (I don’t remember the name of the site, or the World poster who put it together.)

    He wasd going through the American presidents one at a time, starting with Washington, and reading biographies about them. Then he’d post a brief bio, complete with pictures as I recall, along with a “suggested reading” list of a few books about the man. He was up to president number 12 or so last time I saw the site, quite a few years ago now; if he kept it up at the steady rate at which he was moving, he may well be finished by now, or very far along. I’d love to look up the site again (I was curious what he was going to do with Lincoln, and I really did like the work he had done overall), but without remembering anything other than what he was doing, I don’t think google would do much to help me find it. If anyone remembers even his name or, better, has a link to the site, I’d appreciate it. (Newcomers on here might too.)

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  111. Cheryl- I still have Big Mo’s Presidents Review bookmarked and occasionally get non there to read. I got as far as Lincoln back when he was doing the series. He stopped back in 2008 with Benjamin Harrison, but the site is still accessible.

    Kim: Are the keys too close together on your smart phone, or is there now a BY in your life along with BG?

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  115. Happy Monday to all the East Coasters, and to everyone else as it arrives!

    “Monday, Monday…” (if I knew how to make music notes on this, I would) 🙂

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  118. When are Kim, Mr. P and BG heading back home? I think Kim said, but I forgot. Anyway, prayers for safe, uneventful travel back like they had for the way up.

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