bersaguy

I had some friends go to Memphis one time back years ago and they learned right quick, getting lost in Memphis and driving into the wrong neighborhood does has consequences if your not on your toes. They went into a neighborhood and made a turn onto a dead in street because there was no sign. When he realized what he had done he was trying to turn around when about 8 guys surrounded his car with his family in it. As luck would have it a police car was driving past the end of the street and stopped and tooted his siren and all the guys left and he and his family were able to get out of there with the policeman showing them which way to go.

Lets hope Trump Trumps this guy right out the door as soon as possible..............jmho

My son called me yesterday evening. My oldest grandson and my youngest 11 year old grandson both took a Doe each yesterday evening so they now have 2 more hanging in the cooler at the processors. They are trying to top off their freezers now. I made Venison Chili today and had some of it for supper tonight. From what the weather lady said it will come in handy next couple days. I made enough to freeze 3 containers. Now I am thinking about making some homemade Venison Vegetable soup and have it and freeze some tomorrow night. Makes for nice quick suppers when I don't want to cook..............

Back years ago before I got my CCW permit I had a deputy badge and ID and it was issued by the Cheatham County Sheriff at the time. I carried it many years and never had any issues even when that sheriff was no longer in office. The new sheriff honored most of them unless you got in trouble.

Well, I got a great Christmas present from my son and youngest Grandson this morning. They just filled my freezer up with about 160 lbs of processed assorted cuts of deer meat. They killed two 8 points and a 6 pint and had it all processed and it is now in my freezer. I will have some great eating for a year now......................

The news medias are all Monday Morning Quarterbacks and never get anything right and that is why I quit listening to them. I think it is remarkable that more people were not killed and I credit the city officials and Emergency personnel for their decisions for saving so many lives...............jmho

"Rather give it through Dolly than the Red Cross." Jeb48 quote I would also make a donation to Dolly long before the Red Cross. I learned back on 9/11 just how bad the Red Cross is operated at the upper levels. There was multi millions of dollars donated to the Red Cross but very little of it made it to the people that were hurt and it was shortly after that the CEO of the Red Cross quit and left and so did a very large sum of money that was never accounted for. I also saw on the local news that hundreds of people showed up to donate blood at all the Red Cross locations in Nashville and 1000's of units of blood were donated. Far more then the Red Cross had room to store. The hospitals of which Nashville and surrounding area has many offered to take any blood that the Red Cross had no room to store because they did have room to store the excess for them. They were not going to use the blood but store it. They would have purchased any of the blood they used that was stored for the Red Cross but rather than allowing the hospitals to take and store it the Red Cross allowed all that wonderful lfe saving blood to spoil and then disposed of it. That was it for me and the Red Cross. I have not given any more blood or money to them.........................

Even though I seldom expect anything to happen that would actually require a long gun but recently I have been thinking about it. I have drawn the conclusion that if I am going to go anywhere that I might be in a situation to need a long gun I will put my Emperor Assault shotgun in my Jeep loaded with the 3 inch Magnum BB rounds and a belt of extra rounds. I figure if there is a mob situation and I have to use my long gun It will have a spreading effect that will hit more than a couple bad guys................jmho

I have 1 gun sticker on the back glass of my Jeep. It reads "Gun Safety means using both hands" ! I do have a sign on the front of my house that reads..........No Trespassing If you need me to explain it I will tell you in 12 Gauge! and has a picture of a12 gauge Pump Shotgun in the middle of it. I don't guess that is to much?????

I don't think I have ever owned a pair Of Levi's in all honesty. I always thought Wranglers were more comfortable and now when I buy a new pair of Jeans I have found that the prewashed Faded Glory jeans at Walmart are very comfortable and affordable and I can carry my gun with me to buy them.............jmho

+1 on the borrowing..............lol

I'm sure if there is an all clear to begin going to both towns by all means go. I'm quite sure that all the small businesses that survived this terrible situation will appreciate having you there. Now is not the time to turn away but the time to turn forward and help those that you can with your tourist business. I have already spoke with my daughter and Son in law about planning a trip as soon as we can make arrangements. Every little bit helps them move forward...............jmho

First off I am very sorry to hear about Sarge and your loss!! I am not looking forward to the day that I may lose Kasey. She has been with me almost 14 years and I bottle fed her from birth. She is just a mutt but she is my mutt and my friends that know me well say they are concerned that if either one dies they will probably lose the other shortly. I have checked out Faithful Friends and they will be who I use if I out live her. My closet friend B.T. has already told me he will care for her if I go first. He will carry out all my plans for her when the time comes. I have made sure I have tons of pictures of her so she will always be with me in heart and mind. I plan on being cremated also. I don't see any sense in putting the burden of a Funeral on my family and friends................jmho

I think she has always been a class act and has always been a generous person when she sees a need for something that needs doing..............jmho

I think the main issue is that folks in East Tennessee and other surrounding states that stretch from the Smokies through the Applachian mountain chain are not as use to facing a forest fire as the people out west are. We seldom have drought conditions as bad as this year and tey have been facing these conditions in the west for many years so they know more how to plan on escape routes. Last time we had conditions close to these was 2013 when they did have a few fires in the Smokie Mountain Park but were contained quickly. I think in 2013 we also had the La'Nin'a weather system in the Pacific which is a dry warm weather system.

I think it is a total shame that this is happening. I heard when the fires were first discovered that they said many of them were arson. If that is true I hope they catch who ever did this and make a real example of them to discourage any of this in the future.............jmho

Maybe they will get some of this rain we are getting which should help some. Can only hope!

I can't figure out how to put up Christmas avatar on new format.............

I think I have gained 15 lbs just reading the menu's being posted here..................

Happy Thanksgiving to all the folks and folks families on TGO. Good advice David and thanks for another great year here on TGO. I plan on staying home with the mutt as I hate traveling on holidays. I'm sure family will stop in and see me as they always do and they always bring food. Some edible some not so much but I never tell them that. I don't want the edible stuff to stop coming...................

Back when I was growing up before moving south at age 17 we never had turkey. I was an avid hunter at a very young age and my state always had an early Goose season and I was responsible for our dinner bird and every year we ate goose. Sometime a Canada goose and sometime it was a Snow goose but goose was on our table. When we moved to the Ranch/Farm with my grand father the Thanksgiving dinner most times was a country ham out of Grandfathers smoke house with all the trimmings. Like some have mentioned my family was not much on turkey so when I had my own family it was a country with all the trimmings. Love the smell of a ham slow cooking all night in the oven. Makes the whole house smell great.............jmho

Those countries have never been known for their intelligence and selling the firearms probably would have only made the War Lords stronger over there. All the money in those countries are in the hands of a few and most villages are starving to death while the War Lords live like kings. I watch those commercials all the time about all of the starving children over there and they recieve zero help from the few in power. Back many years ago there was this big plan for farmers here to send them corn for planting and American farmers sent tons of corn to the poor villages. Did they plant the corn? No, they ate it. I saw a commercial recently asking for people to donate money to buy a goat for a poor family over there and the family would have fresh milk for the children and the family could sell off any extra milk. I would guess that 95% of the goats sent got ate by the starving families........that is just a guess but if they ate the corn that they should have planted they would also eat the goat. It is a shame that all those children are starving but you can't help people that don't or won't help themselves...................JMHO

Fantastic for the gentleman and hope he gets another big one at 104.............................

Well, since I am not smart enough to really understand what the video is actually trying to say I do know that when I saw the words politically correct that was enough to where it didn't really matter. Those kids are just being brainwashed as normal by any type of politically correct leftist group and that is how many teachers teach these days. I thank GOD that my daughter in law got her teaching degree and she home taught all of my grand children and will begin teaching the great grand children soon as they are old enough.......................

I just wanted to take this time to wish everyone on TGO and their families a very Happy Thanksgiving and hope the day is special for all!!!