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Indeed it was! Now we take little children for rides on our ponies. We did that just this morning, and the kids, mostly 3 to 5 years old, learned a lot about horses.

Horses have been part of "building civilization" for perhaps 10,000 years, but undoubtedly for 5000.

Sounds great! Good luck with the turkey. As mentioned above I've smoked turkey breast a number of times, but never a whole turkey. Sounds delicious! Love smoked salmon, but I'm out of it right now. Next spring/summer I'll catch some coho or steel head out of Lake Ontario only a couple miles north of me. No problem getting 10 or more pounds of fillet on a day of fishing.

Cooked a whole turkey on a spit over a wood campfire some time back. Awesome. I plan on building a fire pit in my yard next spring so maybe I'll give that another go. You have to have the patience of a saint, though, as it takes a long time to roast it over a fire without burning the outside to a crisp, LOL. Had a great campfire cook with me the last time and he knew all the tricks on cooking big meats over a fire the right way. He's passed on now - RIP, Tom, my friend.

I've enjoyed using hickory or mesquite wood to my (non-electric) smoker.
I build the fire with oak and add a log of aromatic wood after the smoker
is up to temp and the meat/fowl/fish is in the smoker. If it's a longer smoke
I add another stick of aromatic wood to the oak later, too. This has given
tasty results for me: pork shoulder, pork loin, beef rib roast, salmon/catfish
fillets, turkey, chicken. I plan to smoke a turkey for Thanksgiving using this
method.

Sounds wonderful!

Although sweeter woods are usually recommended for fowl I thought I'd try mesquite with BBQ seasoning on a turkey breast and, wow, it turned out great with that "Texas" BBQ flavor! Now this Upstate NY boy ain't doing it any other way, LOL! Yum-Yum!

I bought a bag of Jack Daniels oak chips, but haven't had a chance to try it yet. Looking forward to the day. I figure on a pork loin. Have you done it?

Free the Lobsters!!!

George Eastman created his first camera in 1888. He made roll film before that. Eastman Kodak was formed in 1892 so it looks like Bram Stoker was in on it early. I have yet to read the original "Dracula" and it's now on my list. I was working there for the 100 year anniversary and still have the commemorative pewter plate. The company was huge. Today it's just a shadow of what it was.

IIR Black and white were soccer balls and we didn't have those until high school.

No... It not intelligent, just predicting the next word.

Probably not.

Don't forget Canned SPAM !

"[Canned] Sardines, [canned] Tuna, eggs and " pork shoulder and chicken thighs.
(Why am I buying them beef if I don't buy it for myself because of its high price?)
Cereal? Snack junk food? Soft drinks? No, no, and no.
I'd 'encourage' them buy Vitamins D, C, A, E, and Zinc.

Don't get me started. LOL.
I would mandate that the "On Snap" LOGO be tied to ANY / ALL social media accounts.

B/C if we are HELPING you eat, MAYBE you shouldn't be posting... Unless it's to be a "Counter Example", and then it should be obvious.

Also, think about how easy it becomes to have the AI follow these accounts, and scan their posts, locations, etc. etc. And determine if they are scamming SNAP...

I LOVE the idea of making everyone reapply every so often; otherwise, this sort of becomes permanent.

That racist won't believe me.

How do we get that to work? Anyone with any ideas? Can we get the lawyers to let us try it??

Now that is funny -

Yeah - I used to take pictures of stuff that I wanted to be able to look back on and enjoy. Did not ever try to get a candid shot, just wanted to remind myself that at "that" particular point in my life I was able to enjoy being wherever I was at the time. I have snaps from my '72 trip to Italy, a place that I thought that I would never get to go to - went with the Latin Club I joined when I was taking Latin in HS. Those picks mean more to me, and bring back more memories, than the digital pics I have from Italy in 2016. Funny what brings back good memories, and what is just kinda - yeah, that was fun...

Ditto on the hickory and mesquite.
Been using a lot of oak lately from 2 trees that came down on the property. One was over 100 years old.

Absolutely! You need to tell Jasmine Crockett that.

Some 35 or so years ago my wife and I had the opportunity to enjoy some of that old lifestyle. We owed our lawyer more than we could pay, so we took him and his family out for Thanksgiving dinner 20 miles away with our horse-drawn carriage. The weather was almost miserable, so we all got to sample 18th-Century travelling. The experience was unforgettable, and reminded us quite well of the conditions that George Washington endured even when things were going well.

Want to try this for yourself? Find someone who owns a good pair that he drives to an ample wagon. Choose an ill-paved country road and a restored old inn that has facilities for tying horses. Select a day with sleet or snow. Dress warmly and use a good carriage robe or two. Wear gloves.

¿Lo sabe? me gusta la palabra no-binario porque estoy binario. No estoy binaria.

Me dino was quite young when I read Dracula. Don't recall the Kodak but I was impressed by how well it was written. I was already weaned on classic horror movies.

Well, I did grow up about as segregationist Deep South as you can get in one half hour to the Florida line in Dothan, Alabama.
It was approximately 1970 when I shared a canteen with a black Marine and imagined people in Dothan pointing and screaming at me.
Just because you were raised to be a racist doesn't mean you had to turn out that way.

What you just described has a far, far away been there done that "feel" to it.