63 thoughts on “Renfro Home”

  2. found this on youtube.  any of it look familiar, craig?

    Daniel Boone National Forest, Cumberland Falls, Split Bow Arch and Big South Fork.

  3. Great photos of Kentucky royalty!  The Colonel!  A job creator…for me, my first!  I wore that red and white striped dress.  Southern manners always abounded at KFC…the chicken breast was called a ‘kiel.’  As a young girl at the counter taking orders?  Pretty abusive when the drunks would come in for their bucket of chicken.

  4. Presumptive Prez is having a diorama made of his new geo-political order.  Like Obama, Europe tinkering is most important.  trump should have saved the Berlin Wall and had it moved.  Currently, thousands of Cubans are at the Mexican border waiting to be processed.  They go to the front of the line.

  6. Trump’s Asymmetric Warfare
    Charles Blow

    There is no way to sufficiently sully a pig or mock a clown. The effort only draws one further onto the opponent’s turf and away from one’s own principles and priorities.
    There is no way to shame a man who lacks conscience or to embarrass an embarrassment. Trump is smart enough to know what he lacks — substance — and to know what he possesses in abundance — insolence.
    So long as he steers clear of his own weakness and draws others in to the brier patch that is his comfort, he wins.
    As MSNBC’s Chris Matthews said in December, this is asymmetric warfare. Conventional forms of political fighting won’t work on this man. Truth holds little power, and the media is still enthralled by the monster it made.
    He is hollow, inconsistent, dishonest and shifty… and those who support him either love him in spite of it, or even more disturbingly, because of it.
    He has waffled or equivocated or backtracked on tax plans, releasing his tax returns , his proposed Muslim ban abortion and any number of issues.

  8. pictured here, my 3d-great grandfather’s barn — Bennett Hiatt (1799-1879)

    Patd, that video looks a lot like the scenes around here — thread pic above is from the deck of my cousin’s cabin where we are staying. As we drank morning coffee on Saturday we watched a Bald Eagle catch a fish. Quite a show.

  10. Jace,  saying moving sucks is like saying water is wet. Of course for me the unmoving is worse.

    Thanks for the sentiment for LP, but he graduated a year ago – he’s just transferring for his second year from a school of 2400 to one of 28,000. He wanted a “real” college experience.  We’ll see how this works out.

  12. https://youtu.be/v0r9GVHdk3M
    Published on May 15, 2016

    The ‘Last Week Tonight’ host extended an open invite to Trump’s ‘publicist’/alter ego John Miller to drop by the show.
    This week was a bizarre one when it comes to former Celebrity Apprentice host Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president.

  14. Pogo,

    Sounds as though LP has given this some thought. My hunch is that it’s going to work out just fine. He comes from good stock.

  15. Craig…  I bet there’s some mighty fine bass in that lake.

    Jace…  (((((JACE)))))))….   hope that makes moving a tad bit easier..  🙂

  18. Jace–the only thing you can do is, one box at a time. Don’t shirk on packing stuff properly no matter the temptation. If you are going to have helpers during the moving process, have all your booze and beer out of sight. Have plenty of gatorade and snacks. Be safe!

    Flatus–who has been moved more times than I can count

  20. moving  yikes –Mr. C and I moved twice in five years – we thought about giving everything away

  22. Every time some cable news fantasist talks about something being in Trumps wheelhouse I know they have a Trump Butt imprint on their face

    that is a bull— line used by Trump

    Trumps path to the whitehouse is paved with a bullshit commercial use of our airways and rights of way by whores (and I don’t mean sex workers)  The commercial media’s attempt at news is pathetic and dangerous to democracy which depends on a free press

  23. Hummm, a very interesting read about  the Koch bros.   seems the left wing war is having some effects.

     

    Short and his lieutenants had come to Wichita to present Charles Koch with a detailed, eight-figure blueprint for derailing the Republican front-runner on Super Tuesday, when eleven states would vote. They hoped to get the green light to hammer Trump with ads in the states where he was most vulnerable……………………………………..

    But there was an unwelcome surprise awaiting the Freedom Partners delegation inside a conference room at Koch Industries headquarters: A number of top executives and advisers from across the Koch enterprise had been invited to attend the meeting, too. They represented the so-called “corporate side” of Koch World, which had long warred with the “political side” of the empire, particularly over the consequences of the brothers’ campaign-related activities. And there was another surprise in store: After the Freedom Partners operatives presented their proposal, Charles, whose money and approval his aides were soliciting, asked everyone present to cast an up-or-down vote. Most were vehemently opposed, but Charles still had the last word. He shrugged: The majority, he said, had spoken. The meeting, reported here for the first time, confirmed what some Koch insiders had begun to suspect: That the brothers’ political decision-making was increasingly being influenced by their business and public-relations interests, and that as a result, their investments in electoral politics at the federal level were diminishing. While the vote-taking that day was unexpected, several of those present say, the outcome was not.

  24. Pretty country!

    That pic of you, David, and, your dad (and the Col.) would make a good holiday card.

  25. jace, take heed to flatus’ “Don’t shirk on packing stuff properly no matter the temptation.”  the better the pack, the longer it can stay in the box, pushed to the back of the closet or in the attic, maybe never have to see again until the next move.

    more advice: write in big letters on all sides of box what’s in it.

     

     

  26. Also on the box, what room does it belong in, makes for faster sorting by untrained and clueless.

     

    Jack

  27. wall st journal:

    “I am endorsing Trump’s bid for president and strongly encourage my fellow Republicans — especially our Republican elected officials, party loyalists and operatives, and those who provide important financial backing — to do the same,” Mr. Adelson, chairman and CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corp

    [….]

    Mr. Adelson spent close to $100 million in the 2012 elections in support of Republican candidates and causes, including bankrolling a super PAC that supported former House Speaker Newt Gingrich‘s presidential campaign. Mr. Gingrich is now considered a potential vice presidential nominee for Mr. Trump.

     

    which came first: Sheldon’s endorsement; his money in cash; or donnie’s promise to take care of newtie by putting him atop the vp list, sharing the limelighted media space and letting him share toys and play nice with chris and ben?

  28. Pat, I saw somewhere  that Newt would be open to the VP position. Ya know if  it gets all the way down to  the newster. Things really are as good as we think they are.

     

    Jack

  29. I see in Nevada that the Bernie bros were demanding special treatment. It seems that the Democratic party had the audacity to ask them to become Democrats. …..

     

    Jack

  30. jack,, that room identification really works good color-coded when one has a lot of volunteer helping hands to contend with.  I taped easily spotted colored sticky notes to walls, doors, floor etc with room/function name which corresponded to matching notes or color dots on boxes and furniture pieces.

    most helpers love it and cuts down on questions and confusion.

  33. Boxes marked kitchen ended up in the bedrooms, and the linens were dumped in the kitchen. Whoever thought movers could be illiterate ?

     

    If only we had color-coded . . . .

  34. I remember a ’40s song called, In The Nude, or sumpin.’

    Deadbeat Donald and the Nude Grinch.

    Jazeus, it’s Christmas in May !

  36. Moved a distance of a hundred miles in 1992. What made it interesting was my pet cockatiel, Kiwi. I “seat-belted” his cage in the front passenger seat. He loved it! Sat totally engrossed, looking out the windows … every time we hit a bump the comb on top of his head would go straight up. Woo Hoo! He was a great bird.

  37. We used rolls of sequential numbers. Each item being loaded separately had its own number. As each box was filled, a number sticker was stuck to the box, and the number and a detailed (somewhat) record of its contents entered on the shipment inventory.

    As examples:
    43 —  Men’s bike
    44 —  Women’s Bike…
    67 — Dining Room Sterling silver wedding presents etc.
    68 — Dining Room Good china
    …
    79 — Garden stuff
    …
    84 — Spare room Work Clothes.
    This did a couple of things. It provided enough information, along with receipts, to start an insurance claim, and it didn’t give the movers’ helpers an indication of which were the high value items. Understand that the helpers are often casual workers working just for the single job.

    Have one person at the truck directing the people carrying the boxes where each numbered box is to go. Don’t leave the truck unattended. Check the items off as they are unloaded.

    No beer, etc., until the whole job is done and accounts are settled.

  38. Flatus, I would be looking for the list while it was being unloaded.  Prolly would be back on the counter in the old place.

  39. Flatus is correct that you use rolls of sequential numbers.  But BEWARE. On a company move in 1969 from New Jersey to California we got scammed with the use of a duplicate number.  It was a wardrobe box of winter coats and of course the move was in May.  We noticed the missing check mark on the shipment inventory and of course when we went looking for the missing box we found the number.  It must have been a couple of months before we noticed the missing coats.  The moving company did pay up, but not at replacement value.

    On every move after that, I checked for duplicate number.

  40. Well, it looks like we have a new business model: Trailmix Packing & Moving

    Newt? Be careful what you wish for, although,  what trouble could a veep  possibly cause? Ask Dick Cheyney.

  41. Well.  I have to admit I did not know the oldies thing published.  I was out of communications for a while. . .okay a couple of days.

    One of the fun songs of life is Shaving Cream.  Not well known to youngsters.

     

  42. I never paid much attention to the actual frying of the Gospel Bird except maybe peripherally…….even though I’ve accepted it as a fairly constant occurrence in my life………..but OldSea that recipe you posted looks like the real deal…….for me the proof is only found in the eating……

    .my only delving into creating Gullah cuisine myself was once I asked Anna Bell to show me how to make the scratch biscuits…..she showed me but it’s since slipped away from non-use……

    though I can say that generally it’s more like Sander’s original recipe than really crispy stuff…..sometimes quite messy messy……

    ah, me…..here I go tap dancing down memory lane…….

  44. Hey all you trail hands.

    Thanks for the advice and encouragement. Actually Cheryl is a great packer and list maker. I write terse notes on the boxes like,’this is my great grand mothers tea set, drop it and you will know God sooner than you think’. Kind of a long winded way of saying FRAGILE!!

    Mostly I have been tasked with lifting,logistics and linguistics. I’m so so at the first two but I have the last one down cold.

     

    Thanks all.

    jace

  45. Reminds me of the old saying:   I’ve forgotten more than I’ll ever know.

  46. My greatest moving experience was from a one room with kitchen and bath 3rd floor walk-up at 23 Music Square East in Nashville to down Murphreesboro Rd a piece…..we managed to get a pickup directly under the window and schlup! Everything not breakable out the window, the mattress first which plopped perfectly into the truck bed.

    it was a short day……course there ain’t a lot to move in a one room flat, but wow was it quickly done……..

  47. Sturgeon,

    Never under estimate the value of gravity. I’d much rather be dropping down into a truck than pushing up into one.

  48. New Rule For Moving.

    If I haven’t used it in a year it goes to Good Will. Mmmm… make that 6months.

  54. sturge- i hear you.  once met a gullah woman while riding on the silver meteor to georgia.  she taught me some gullah magick- which i have since forgotten,but  know it involved animals encountered.

  55. Preakness Post position draw is tomorrow afternoon.  So far I have the following bets:

    XR up on Nyquist, Brody’s Cause, Stradivari; Patd on Exaggerator; Pogo with Gunrunner; and myself with Stradivari, Exagerator & Lani

    Contenders List

  57. Jamie…  Rick will take Nyquist again.  My derby mount, Brody’s Cause, is going to skip this race and wait for the Belmont  So I think I’ll take Gun Runner for the Preakness.  Of course if we see the possibility of another Triple Crown winner, I’ll be tickled pink…   so I’ll secretly be rooting for Rick and Xrep to win.

  59. Tony, both Sherrod Brown and Elizabeth Warren have a major problem in that their respective governors would probably appoint a Republican to replace them and jeopardize control of the Senate in a great year for expanding the numbers.

    Renee, I have your entries

    Just saw an interview of Rana Foroohar on CNN about her book Makers & Takers that looks like a must read for needed changes in the banking laws.

     

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