CaptainMike, cheap cigar, or unusual high speed brain activity.
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I'm way too tired and lazy to post pics right now. But I have Big Bob Gibson's BBQ Book by Chris Lilly and Tennessee's Civil War Battlefields: A Guide to Their History and Preservation by Randy Bishop on my nightstand.Comment
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Fixed that picture for ya... you focused a bit off center.Originally posted by lonnie mac View PostI don't read books. Funny that way. I love reading schematics and such, recipes, I could wrap up in a warm blanket with a beer and devour a whole service manual.
This is what I usually do!
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In the woods today, but I'm reading my way through the Jack Reacher series, currently on "tripwire". I don't normally read fiction, but I haven't been able to put them down. I did read Aaron Franklin's book recently, loved reading that one.Comment
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Just picked this gem up from a local spot. Looking forward to starting this tonight.
Henrik LMK where I can get a Swedish version! 😂🪵🪓
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I just split up a ton of oak, so I am thinking I am going to grab a bunch of pallets from the warehouse and set up a plat form down at the sauna. Then I am going to build one with all the fresh split oak. I will make sure to document it. CaptainMike
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Learning..
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STEbbq I’ve had the Brave tart for a few years, and picked up the Salt Fat Acid Heat about 3 months ago, just have not opened it up yet,
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My daughter gave me this for Christmas, but so far I’ve just scanned a few pages.
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Common men with uncommon valor
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ItsAllGoneToTheDogs it's a very good book with a lot of insights into the USAAF air war in Europe. I read The Mighty Eighth first, and it was a bit technical and stats driven, where MotA offers many firsthand accounts and offers a glimpse of not just the air war, but how it affected the flyers. It also illustrates the love/hate of the relationship with the British during our invited "invasion" of their homes. I'm a little disappointed that it focusses so much on the B17 crews... -
...and leaves a lot to be mentioned about the B24 and fighter crews. I'm only about 1/3 of the way through it, so perhaps those folks will be covered later. As far as the show, I'm a bit frosty to it. The men who made Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers are not the same men they were back then, and I fully expect them to f@ck it up. I hope they prove me wrong.
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I find myself taking refuge in this great document from time to time lately...
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The finest national charter in the history of mankind. It has been subjected to unending usurpation since September 18, 1789Last edited by CaptainMike; January 15, 2024, 08:43 AM. -
Yes and Amen! I carry a copy of the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution in my back pocket at all times, along with an American Flag Bandana!
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As recommended by CaptainMike I recently finished the trilogy that started with this book:
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Dude! Try listening to the Unauthorized History of the Pacific War Podcast! It's great.
I'm going to buy this book right now.
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Not currently reading, but I will never forget reading this one.
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CaptainMike I read that when Mack was a baby. When I finished it, I did some research and learned that Sledge had gone on to become a professor of ornithology at the university in Mobile, AL. I reached out to to him by phone, and one of the staff took the call and told me he had passed away the day before. -
Wow, Dave! That's amazing. They were truly our Greatest Generation.
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I will show you what I am reading as soon as I finish coloring.
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I have always been deeply fascinated with history, and started reading serious history before I was 10 (I was just a wee bit precocious as a kid). In recent years, the vast majority of my reading material has been historical in some way, whether straight history accounts (big fan of Susan Wise Bauer's series on the Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Worlds) or historical fiction. One reason I have always loved JRR Tolkien's work is that he composed an entire world history of Middle Earth in great detail. I ate that right up. Most recently, I just started Ken Follet's Pillars Of The Earth, which tells the tale of the construction of a medieval cathedral over many years.
In recent years, I find reading about times gone by to be a lot less upsetting than reading about current events - the past is a place of refuge for me. Even when reading about very dark times and grim events, at least you know there was resolution eventually... one of the biggest appeals for me is to learn how people lived day to day in those bygone times, which I find much more interesting than events affecting the "bigwigs". I'm also super deep into family history and genealogy (I have a few hundred shy of 10,000 people in my family tree on Ancestry), and that really helps provide detailed information on those lives. Just wish I could get even one of my younger family members interested enough to delve into this so that someone can take over when I'm gone...Last edited by DaveD; January 15, 2024, 04:13 PM.Comment
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Pillars Of The Earth is a remarkable book!!
Reading and understanding history is the key to understanding the future. Things aren't looking too good right now. War in eastern Europe, war drums beating in the western Pacific, failing global economies, global civil unrest ad nauseum. Sound familiar? -
CaptainMike Yer darn tootin' it does. The parallels to the end of the Bronze Age are really staggering. (Don't forget war in the Middle East as well...) And it won't be long before there are mass migrations as people flee regions that climate change is making uninhabitable. The so-called "Sea Peoples" who appeared out of nowhere to end the Bronze Age were likely also fleeing some kind of environmental disaster - climate was changing rapidly then as well (although for natural causes). Scary. -
(cont'd) There is also evidence that there may have been a large volcanic eruption around the time of the close of the Bronze age that may have driven migrations, but geochemically it is a real challenge to measure the ages of the samples that are only a few thousand years old. The plus-or-minus is large and makes it hard to unambiguously assign a correlation to human movements.
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A mans gotta eat. I am a fairly simple guy. I find beans soo complex. Cannot wait to cook my way thru this beaut.
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The most recent books I've read is this US Civil War trilogy by Shelby Foote. You might remember professor Foote as a prominent narrator in Ken Burns' Civil War documentary. Again, if you want to understand the future, study the past. The similarities and ideology to current events are eerie.
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