Gleaning Facebook: Homemade Playscape

 I love it! Let's see... our granddaughter is due on Earth in April. Reckon I can get this set up in our backyard by the time she's the age of this kid? With the levee and the river, what modifications could I make? My place is gonna have to have some attractions if I'm gonna spoil her to the extent I intend. 

Gleaning Facebook: Imagine

And then imagine that he bragged on a recording about sexual assault, encouraged Russians to hack John McCain's campaign, and lied over 2000 proven times his first year in office. By the way Michelle would have to be his third wife. And a soft-porn star herself.

AND he wore a brown suit and slightly exaggerated a feature of his signature legislation.

Gleaning Facebook: Porn & Racism

From two posts today:

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Will Mink
I can only imagine how outraged his supporters would be if Obama had some of these things going on... they would be singing a completely different tune, which to me, means that they would be two-faced hypocrites. Defending it for one and condemning another. That, in itself explains credibility of their statements and arguments.

Terrell Shaw
Some on the right thought Obama's tan suit was unpresidential. 

Jeff Beard
Hey! At least Trump wears dark suits. Or ill fitting polos and khakis with ugly hats.

Jackson Williamson

Christy Davis
They've decided to take away firearms from people who have permission to obtain medical marijuana in Hawaii. So people who legally obtained the guns are having to turn them in to get the medicine the state has legally given them permission to legally purchase and legally use.
One more time, for those in the back: the government is taking away their guns.
Not Obama's government. Not Clinton's government. Trump's.
And the crowd goes... silent?

Terrell Shaw
Wow... got a link?

Christy Davis
https://www.leafly.com/.../surrender-your-guns-police...

http://www.miamiherald.com/.../nati.../article187082303.html

Howard Smith
I wonder if Trump now thinks his porn star "girlfriend" is a, what is his word..."shithole"...just using the president's word. If I have offended you and not the president...well...you are part of the problem.

Chris Ozment
Trump has a long standing reputation of not paying contractors, bankrupting his companies, defaulting on loans, etc. I'm sure there are several dozen other porn stars out there who were promised payment but never received it. At this point, I'm thinking it's a good thing that he has actually paid someone.

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Those who have been paying attention have known that #DonnyTheGrabber is a racist for all the years since this...

Howard Smith

In my opinion, Donald Trump IS a racist.

Gleaning Facebook: Kids Deserve An Excited Adult

 Teachers are afflicted with human emotions, physical limitations, and foibles as much as anyone else. They will have rotten days. But we have a high calling, and more often than many realize, teachers are the only warm, reasonable, consistant, loving adults in a child's life. Be the adult in your room, but don't forget joy and even silliness.

(The following is from Kids Deserve It by Todd Nesloney and Adam Welcome)

A Woods Colt

Columbus Turner Shaw

Meet my great grandfather Columbus Turner Shaw, and his fiddle. This is a scan right out of my grandmother’s “The Shaw Family” album. She had two others: “The Wilkerson Family” and “Our Family”. Almost every time I visited her for years and years, she and I would get out those three small albums, and we would pour over the pictures as she told me about the relatives I’d never known and  we’d talk about  the much younger images of those I did know.

Every family has scandalous and sad stories that are told quietly and privately as well as the funny ones, and touching ones, and proud ones. As long as my grandfather lived, Mama Shaw was kinda forgetful about Lum’s daddy and his people.

“What was Louisa’s father’s name?” I asked.
“David,” she replied.
“David what?”
“David Shaw.”
"His last name was Shaw?!"
"Un-huh."
“Were she and her husband cousins?”
(pause) "I don’t know?”

After Daddy Shaw was no longer there to overhear, she was willing to spill the beans. Or maybe at sixteen, she thought I was old enough to know.

Lum Shaw has been gone for 60 years and the “shame” is 130 years old or so. Now it’s just a human interest story, so I’ll spill the beans, too.  Y'all are old enough to know.

Lum was part of his father’s “other” family.  He was what we euphemistically might call a “woods colt.” Louisa, the sharecropper’s young daughter had borne several children for a well-to-do landowner.

John Treadwell kept his second family well-housed. Over the years he gave Louisa at least three houses. During our drives around Conyers and Lithonia Mama Shaw pointed all three out to me, but I could show you only one of them now. Before the depression Louisa’s little family owned a fair amount of land right where I-20 crosses from Rockdale to DeKalb County.  His “legitimate” family never recognized the connection. The descendants of the illegal union have spread around the world. At least two have worked in the White House advising presidents. And I can't be too upset about them since I owe my very existence to their misbehavior.

My grandmother said that Lum was embarrassed when he had to fill out some paperwork (was it draft papers?) because he had to admit that he was "illegitimate."

Columbus Turner Shaw kept his father’s picture on the mantle, even after his marriage, but his stubborn beloved, Minnie Ziporah Wood Shaw, would turn it to the wall whenever he left the house.

John Treadwell  (I may have inherited his hairline.)

They were a musical bunch. As you see, Lum played the violin. His daughter Lillie Maud (Named, I suppose after Minnie’s twin sister Maudie) was an expert pianist and the youngest boys, Alton and Alvin played guitar. The eldest of his sons, my grandfather Grady, played trombone.

Minnie and Columbus Shaw with their elder three children, 

(l-r) Lewis, Curtis and Grady (my grandfather)

Besides his musical skills Lum was also an expert cabinet-maker and is said to have built furniture for lots of the upper crust folks in Atlanta including at least one governor.

He had a stroke and was an invalid for several years before his death in his seventies. His was the first funeral I ever attended and I remember it vaguely. Minnie lived to 97, but dealt with dementia for a decade or so. She was a small and beautiful old lady, always tidy and with gleaming white well-coifed hair. I sat with her on our back porch in Rome trying to coax some family stories from her. My brother David running in and out of the house kept interrupting us. Each time he did, time and again, Granny Shaw would grin wide and ask with complete innocence and delight, “And who is THIS!”

Louisa Shaw's grave, Shaw Family cemetery, between Lithonia and Conyers, GA:

Louisa Shaw
Born Aug. 31, 1842
Died Feb 26, 1932
She was a kind and affectionate wife, a fond mother, and a friend to all.

I've written about this before here:

http://aloneonalimb.blogspot.com/2010/09/louisa-s-little-cemetery.html

Gleaning Facebook: The City Clock at Yellow Door (Plus)

If you see an interesting image of the City Clock, share it at the "Clocktower Collection" Facebook group. Here are a few I've seen recently...

You never know when you are going to see a new image of the City Clock. A truck pulled up beside me at the light at the mall. I whipped out the old iPhone and captured it for posterity.

Some of Ken Blacktop Gentle’s Clocktower prints at Yellow Door.

A Clocktower photo from Yellow Door Art & Antiques

This painting is also at Yellow Door. I am not sure whether this is one of Ken Blacktop Gentle’s or someone else’s

More painted ceramics at Yellow Door Antiques and Art.

Yellow Door Antiques and Art has a wonderful group of City Clock ceramics

 

Gleaning Facebook: 25th Amendment Time?

 In my opinion #PutinAsset gave sufficient cause to invoke the 25th Amendment at 7:49 this evening. How can he still have the support of a third of Americans? This 70-year-old juvenile is the current successor of George Washington? That is obscene.

#TomGraves? #DavidPerdue? #JohnnyIsakson?

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Laurie Craw Bragging about "size" again. It's time for women to lead the nuclear powers of the world. They would just brag about their kids and not even think about blowing up the planet.. 

Michael J. Burton I hate to say it being an old misogynistic codger. But you may be right.

Laurie Craw There would have to be a whole cultural shift for female leaders to behave differently from the males. So far, female heads of state are not much different from the men when they get in power.

Michael J. Burton Laurie Craw well two female republicans objected to destroying health care

Laurie Craw That was hopeful, for sure.

Frank Norris In my view, both Kim Jong-un and President Trump have the characteristics of megalomaniacs. Yes, a certain amount of ego, use of power, and perhaps even bluster are important to become leaders at a certain level, but extremes hardly ever lead to good.

George Barton missile size is next

George Barton The 25th amendment is only temporary, more like laid off. He can claim he is ok to be president and be approved to return to office by a Republican controlled senate.

Terrell Shaw Have no illusions that Pence will invoke, but he should.

George Barton This is got to be a fake tweet, he does not use the words "very" or "great", and says "please".