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Good morning, good people!

We all got past Christmas, and now New year's celebration looms! All that food! All those beverages!

We learned a cooking lesson the hard way on Tuesday, and that is, the effects of eating Great Northern beans that are under cooked. Maybe by less than 20 minutes. Not the best start on enjoying the holiday it was supposed to be. Thank goodness, the episode was over in 24 hours. NEVER AGAIN.

Typically, this is the time of year we are in the Hill Country. Music venues in Fredericksburg, Luckenbach, and Albert. I ran across this video by sheer accident, and I hope you will skim through it long enough to see what we see in Fredericksburg at the beginning and Luckenbach at the end. Also, the locals that were interviewed sound a lot like me...heavy Texas accents. It is all charming, historic, an ambience impossible to duplicate.

Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Friday Night Photos your once a week escape from the day to day insanity of the world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music or whatever else you find of interest that helps tune out the madness.

Happy Holiday season everyone. With all the talk in the open threads the last few days about the meals being planned for yesterday I trust everybody got enough to eat. Hope you all had a wonderful day with family and friends.

Due to being under the weather last week and inclement weather this week, it's been a while since I got out with the camera so tonight is a mix of a few new photos, a few leftovers from previous outings and a few recycled (previously posted) photos.

Seasonal Colors

I have posted more than a dozen emails from Republican bots that somehow imagine that it makes sense to flatter me with effusive praise for my patriotism and my long standing support for the Trump Cause.

After I ignored several of the appeals, the tone shifted to scolding me for not responding to previous duns.

This morning, it goes back to flattery:

Mike Johnson, 56th Speaker of the House

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Morning - been enjoying the videos Lookout has been including the past few Sundays on regenerative agriculture and the direct farm to consumer business model. While viewing them I suddenly realized the stories were showing a lifestyle I grew up within and has been a part of my adult life, both as producer and customer.

My folks a rented run down farm when I was a toddler. City kids wanted to grow food. They came up with a plan of two primary revenue streams: cream from a small dairy herd to be sold to the local Co-op and extra milk fed to market hogs. Their town jobs kept up with the expenses of the growing enterprise. Life was good until a forced sale of livestock during a down cycle. It took several years to recover.

Ranchers and Farmers keep trying. After the rented farm changed ownership they bought the run down hobby farm with only a 900 sq ft house, because the place had a nice barn and root cellar. After trying a little of this and a little of that, they settled into a cow/calf operation and did direct sales of grass-fed beef.

Happy Holidays!

Today is Christmas, one of the winter holidays! Woot! Hope the holidays are good for you, and you are enjoying them with (or without) family and friends! Usually we all have a good meal for Christmas dinner, and I'm definitely looking forward to that.

Here's some music to enjoy while doing whatever you are doing on this Christmas day! (or any other day, really ).

The Ramones - Merry Christmas (I don't want to fight tonight). The band that helped started some of the music I really got into... Punk! New Wave! And this song could, unfortunately, represent a lot of people's holidays with friends and family. Heh. Pogo all around the room!