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walkinghorse said:
Good morning!
Hot here, possibly a record high for the date later in the day. Made 95° yesterday per our thermometer.
A big T storm came close last night, lots of rumbling, but broke up before it got here.
Just some light rain, to add moisture to the air, YEA????? 😕
T storm off to the west towards Does Moines but moving SW.
Wife just finished working on the horses feet for the day, hopefully finish tomorrow!
I have been out checking out the trailer, removing covers, tire pressure, etc.
Horses now in the pasture, so happy!
AC feels good for us old folks!
Maybe #1 in invention listings! 😁 Maybe #2 🍺 ??
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He said number two.
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SW MP15 said:
Just got back from a Breakfast Run. I had to stop at my Amish Store for Mator's. Can't have a weekend without my Organic Amish Mators!

Then went to Hardie's and got us all Gravy N Biscuits. Drive thru was around the block, so I went in. What a bunch of idiots. Place was slammed and they were messing up orders left and right. No one working there could speak or understand ENGLISH! I had to tell the girl 5 times, no, I ordered 3 gravy n biscuits. She still didn't understand and kept trying to give me, God only knows what? And acted like I was the one that was crazy! I thought an older lady was going to hurt one of them! They kept messing up her order, over and over.

And these fools want $15 an hour? They owe me money for standing there waiting on them to get my simple little order right for 30 minutes!

I was having a good morning till I got to Hardie's!

Breakfast Rant Over!
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I think I would've just have a PowerBar.
 
USS Thorn DD-988

- Spruance-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Lieutenant Jonathan Thorn (1779–1811), who took part in Decatur's expedition to destroy the captured frigate Philadelphia in 1804.

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Namesake: Jonathan Thorn
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down: 29 August 1977
Launched: 3 February 1979
Acquired: 21 January 1980
Commissioned: 16 February 1980
Decommissioned: 25 August 2004
Struck: 25 August 2004
Motto: Sharply Perseverant
Fate: Sunk as a test/target 22 July 2006
 
If I drift off to sleep after I cook up a bit of dinner, I want Homer Bast's comments for his command on the USS Yolo this date 1945 to be posted here. Therefore:

June 11, 1945

No raids this night. All appreciated the first night's rest we have had in some time. Breakfast over I worked at my desk until the messenger brought me a dispatch announcing the location of a new storm. Except for securing a few things, there was little to do but wait for additional reports on its location. Looked over the ship, found several compartments unkempt, and then went to the bridge to observe the workings of those on duty - mes¬sages, voice, flashing light, semaphore. Most of our fresh pro¬visions are gone, and except for dry stores we are a water ship. After lunch SOPA ordered all vessels to execute a typhoon plan. In its first stage it is nothing more than a notice to be ready to go to sea. After a movie, but before going to bed, I went to the bridge and gazed shoreward. Okinawa was Times Square all over again. The entire island is aglow with lights. Highways are alive with cars with lights blazing. Trucks haul coral from the lighted pits for the aircraft runways while steam shovels chew into the earth. Overhead the stars are bright but a nasty wind whips the water's surface. Far to the south a bombardment goes on and the dull booms of the guns reach us.

At 1900 the LCS(L) 122 splashed the first of 3 Vals at picket station 15. The second crashed her but the raging fire was brought under control as they downed the third plane. The ship had 11 killed and 29 wounded, extremely heavy
 
Saturday prenevening!
5:30PM CDT, evening, for normals?
Hot, 91°, but not as hot as forecast. Humidity only up to 47%, so OK I guess?
Ate a light vegetarian dinner. Tomato and swiss cheese on whole wheat sandwich, fresh cantaloupe chunks! Tomatoes were not homegrown, though ours are doing OK. Cantalope was excellent! 😄 Maybe some lemon sherbert later? Maybe not?

Some random thoughts:
Tried an electrical flash when I was young, 34,000v. Arced from an OH line to a crane boom to me on the ground touching steel being moved. Cautious now, but you never know?
Been trying to watch the Belmont Stakes. Would be OK, except for the blathering TV announcers, TV experts, non-useful factoids, digging up dirt interviews. Ended up a win by a nose, literally! Creator in a photo finish! Separate winning horse for each of the big 3 races.
Amazing how so much time is wasted to get more advertising money spent. 1984 is true!
Event is secondary anymore in most anything! 😛
Spell check is the most useless application on an electronic device! Wonder if it is just as bad in other languages as it is for English? 😏
Interesting to watch the thunderstorms pop up on radar, buildup, move around and then dissipate as fast as they popped up. According to the local news several areas of Iowa have had power outages, downed trees, and other wind damage from storms last night and today.
Have a great remainder of the weekend! 😊
 
kwselke said:
June 11, 1945

...At 1900 the LCS(L) 122 splashed the first of 3 Vals at picket station 15. The second crashed her but the raging fire was brought under control as they downed the third plane. The ship had 11 killed and 29 wounded, extremely heavy
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From Fighting Amphibs: The LCS(L) in World War II

LCS(L) 122 won the Navy Unit Commendation for her actions over two days. On June 10, 1945, the ship rescued 99 men from the destroyer USS William D. Porter (DD-579), which sank after being hit by a kamikaze. Porter lost no men as LCS(L) 122 and three sister ships picked up all men after the kamikaze strike. On the following day, June 11, a kamikaze plane hit the base of LCS(L) 122's conning tower and caused losses of 11 killed and 29 wounded. Lieutenant Richard McCool received a Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroic actions after the hit. Despite being wounded by shrapnel, he led the crew to save the ship and went to several compartments to bring out men trapped by flames.

Damage after kamikaze plane hit LCS(L) 122 on June 11, 1945. Plane wheel can be seen at bottom.

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Three LCS(L)s near destroyer William D. Porter as she sinks below water on June 10, 1945

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Lieutenant Richard M. McCool, Jr., USN, is presented with the Medal of Honor by President Harry S. Truman at the White House, Washington, D.C. on 18 December 1945. The medal was awarded for "conspicuous gallantry" while in command of LCS 122 off Okinawa, Japan in June 1945.

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Just got done mowing,not as fast as I used to be for sure! Lok's ski pic was pretty close to right,had to raise the blade in some areas that were holding about an inch of water,25 HP and the water was choking it down to a stall. Grass at the house was so tall and thick I had to raise the mower to the highest setting to push it through,man I am getting old! Now to shower and eat! Drift on!
 
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