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My Mom and My father in law would LOVE this. Sadly both have passed.
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My Mom and My father in law would LOVE this. Sadly both have passed.
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I’m sorry to hear that. Did they ever get to see him in concert?
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My Grammie and my Stepmom both loved him. They'd both enjoy that documentary, too. We used to have an annual Halloween party at my dad's house in Charleston, and my stepmom would bust out the karaoke box, and everybody sang, it's a requirement for attending. She used to sing a lot of Elvis songs. I've sang my fair share, but I'm also sang the Gilligan's Island theme song, my greatest karaoke moment.
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I don’t think people who weren’t there at the time can truly appreciate what a monumental feat this was. A group of young American players going up against the Soviet machine.
They weren’t supposed to even be competitive. This wasn’t an underdog story like “slightly worse team wins.” It was “no realistic path to victory” territory.
That iron coach drilled his team like never before, and it paid off. They had the stamina, skill, and sheer determination to give everything they had against an almost almighty adversary and they pulled it off.
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So I grew up believing that beavers needed to be wiped out. If there was a beaver dam in one of our creeks, my Dad got right to work to kill it and clear the dam but I was never sure why. Most of my neighbors still feel this way but there are some progressive types that are actually building fake beaver dams that they call "beaver dam analogs". This got me reading up on it and I came across this guy...
He had a stream that his cows drank from that he remembered flowing year round when he was a kid but in recent years it had been drying up in late summer every year. He imported beavers and once they were established the stream runs year round again. This blew my mind and got me all excited about beavers. I haven't actually done anything about it, but I think beavers could be beneficial on parts of my ranch.
So now I'm pro-beaver, but down by the river I have a creek crossing where we brought in a bunch of concrete guardrail posts and made a place where I can drive across the creek on the posts. It worked great for a couple of years but this summer a beaver built a dam just downstream from it and now my fucking crossing is under 4 feet of water so I'm conflicted between my new-found pro-beaver attitude and a strong desire to blow this fucker up.