tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33455940512675861382012-01-23T20:24:43.285-07:00Just some thoughts that run around the brain pan. When I catch a really good one, I'll post it. The Bear.The Bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11869159914476840555noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3345594051267586138.post-70998522754577994872011-05-20T15:57:00.001-06:002011-05-20T15:57:10.414-06:00

I received an email today with a link, well knowing the person as an outstanding friend, I had no problem watching the video. THEN THE BLOOD PRESSURE WENT UP! Yes here I go again on my soap box, but instead of rambling on for hours and hours, I'm just going to post the links to the video, and to some of the news articles. And I'm going to try something different today, I'm going to try and insert

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In the line at the store, the cashier told the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bag because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized to him and explained, "Wedidn't have the green thing back in my day."The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. The former generation did not care enough to save our environment."He was right, that generation didn't

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Been keeping track of our starter plants inside the house, combonation of different melons and cucumbers. We have regular flowers starting to sprout in pot outside, along with some sunflowers, no the edible version, but I'm sure gotta be nice to see them growing. Will post the pictures on the photo page. Here is the link for these pics. http://bearcavenm.blogspot.com/

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Well the garden has been tilled and plowed, seed has been planted and we are now seeing green coming from the ground. Not money, but food. Future food that is. Another little treat for me, Bethie had started some cantaloupe & cucumber seed in some small cups. Well the cucumber is coming up like gangbusters and the cantaloupe see is too.I tried my hand at some cantaloupe seed and watermelon seeds

The Bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11869159914476840555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3345594051267586138.post-77198483946665284092011-04-13T16:50:00.001-06:002011-04-13T16:50:35.132-06:00

I have seen this commercial several times and each time I wondered how this baked chicken tasted. It's from the French's Fried Onion website (http://www.frenchs.com/recipe/crunchy-onion-chicken-RE1309.html).I have my "Bears Oven Fried Chicken" recipe that I have altered to the flavors that we like, and I remember eating this for the first time, helping move some furniture for a friend with a

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Last month when we got the new fridge installed everything was going great. Then a couple of days later, I smelled something musty, and there were wet spots on the floor again! First thing to go through my mind, the new line didn't hold. Well I was not to happy about that, as you could guess. So I pulled the fridge out again only to find a leak. But no where I thought it would be. Instead it was

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Our new refrigerator has an ice maker and water line. What does this have to do with a small world? Well, when the new fridge was put in, I guess all the moving around disturbed the already weak valve. And before that, water had been dripping (us not knowing how bad), when Bethie stepped on the tile and there was water coming up between the cracks I pulled out the fridge to take a look. What did

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I sit here at the computer going through the mail, reading about NPR and their mistakes. Commenting on other posts about how some people make choices in their lives and that they are having to live with those choices, and their consequences.As I'm going through my email, I get this one from the preacher/teacher/friend at the Oakey Boulevard Church of Christ in Las Vegas. Talking about a football

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Well we have started 2011, we have a new congress, but too bad Dirty Harry Reid is still going in the Senate, and his "bride" Nancy Pelosi is the new minority leader. Too bad we couldn't get rid of them completely. What else has happened, well for the first time, the Constitution was read in the House of Reps, in it entirety. Republicans liked it, and I have heard that some Democrats liked it,

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Lately I have seen a lot of mention of the public education system, most of it bad. But, I can understand a bit of it, I went through this system in two states. Now that I have been out of the system for 20+ years, I can see what is coming out now, what was in, and what should be in the school system. From my perspective, first of all, what is my perspective; my perspective is that of one who

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The start of September, while some people in a town in the west are still sweating from the 100+ degree heat, we here in New Mexico are sitting at 73 degrees. There was a cold front that passed through Thursday night; there was some cool air, but mostly a good steady breeze. Come Friday morning, there was something different in the air. It was crisp, cool and clean. This should be the start to a

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It's 7:46am the weather thing on my sidebar says it's cloudy and 68* here in Clovis, which is about right. Nice! Let the puppies out to run in their yard, Twister took off and with the dew on the grass, it looked like a very small boat on green water with the dew popping up behind him, just like little "rooster tails". I think Scout was looking for some birdies to come down and make her breakfast

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Yes I'll admit, there are things that I'm just an old softie about. Take last night for instance, we actually the past 2 days. There has been a cat meowing very loudly near the apartment. That is not really unusual but last night it sounded like it was in pain or something, I thought it had been trapped inside the garbage can, you know those big monstrosities. So I was going to try and get it out

The Bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11869159914476840555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3345594051267586138.post-28133222523874967162009-10-05T22:16:00.000-06:002009-10-05T23:09:57.089-06:00

Well the camp was set up, and as usual we were running right on time, about 3 hours late. We also were running ahead of schedule as we got our camp set up before 10PM.This is my tent. It is packaged as sleeping 6-8. If you are using cots 2. If you can see, we were sleeping on a slope. Not to bad, but it was interesting to continue sliding about 4 inches down hill.The green tent in the middle is

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Well next month I'm going camping, it's been a long time since I have gone camping. Many years actually. 10-2 Todd, Adam and I plan on leaving around 5pm. That will give me time to get my gear into Adams truck. Granted we're not going far, up on the mountain, but it's out of vegas. And this time I won't be sleeping in the bed of a truck or on the ground. I've got me a cot, good and sturdy. Being

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Today was actually rougher than I had actually thought at first. August 30th 1903, Crawford Travis Anthony was born, my grandfather, we all called him Pa or Pa Daddy. January 26th 2002, he passed away. Maybe we shouldn't dwell on the past, but we shouldn't forget it either. For the good times we should always remember, the bad times we should always learn. I know that I'm not the only one who

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This is a touchy subject for me, but one that I need to work on.As many know I have a friend (yes Scot I have a friend), Mike LaBonte. Last year, he was notified that he was being deployed again over seas. Well he left about two months ago for Afghanistan. He is First Sergeant, and in charge of more stuff than I care to think about. His wife Kim, is home with their two boys (like they would be

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I, every now and then, read some other blogs from online newspapers. I'm going to try and copy and paste a couple of postings from one particular blog. At the end I'll also post the blog website.Note the dates on the posts as well.Is The Bible Inerrant?August 2nd, 2009, 5:49 pm by apetty Is the Bible without error? No! It has many errors. Many Christians have thought that if God inspired the

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I know that this is a bit late, this spot of news actually occurred yesterday. As whomever reads this will know that I was trying for a new job, and had gotten that job. Well on Tuesday I was to report to my old job at the brown palace, while on my way, I was notified by Verizon Text Messaging, I DIDN'T HAVE TO GO IN! I GOT TO GO HOME AND MORE SLEEP!Today, the 19th, was my actual first formal day

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Well there is only one more day at the brown palace. Well maybe, I actually may not have to go in tomorrow and push boxes around. I'm hoping that I can actually crawl back into bed and sleep until 7:30. But if I can't, JUST ONE MORE DAY!!!!!!!

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I consider myself patriotic. My wife and her (my) family patriotic, her father and his brothers all served. Her Grandfather, was a veteran during. Then I was told, yes by my wife, about a yahoo article that calls the Alamo a tourist trap. This was written by Andrew Harper, who we thought was a real person, but to find out just a bunch of rich snobs who can't stand patriotism. If you want to read

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