I’m a man who likes his breakfast with plenty of coffee.”
–Lou Bradshaw

Yeah, I know pard, it’s graylight and that means I’m burnin’ daylight.  But the coffee is ready, that’s what counts.  Come on in an have a seat, I’ve your cup ready.  
Well, are yuh ready for tomorrow?  That’s the day folks are makin’ such a fuss over right now.  Daylight Savings Time is over!  Now I was on that thing called FaceBook yesterday and folks are plenty confused.  Most of them are makin’ a fuss that daylight savings time starts tomorrow.  No, no, no, why pard, even you know that tomorrow “normal” time resumes.  Confusion even about the time.  I think those folks need to start drinkin’ some of my coffee; that’ll straighten their thinkin’ out.
Ahhh, good this morning!  I musta held my finger in the grounds for just the right length of time this mornin’.  Back to tomorrow’s doin’s.  Some folks were rantin’ about ol’ Ben Franklin startin’ daylight savin’s time.  Reckon he did mention it, but the first time it was used was back in the Great War; that fuss in Europe back in 1917.  I always wondered about why Ben wanted it, for what use would it have been back then?  In fact, there weren’t even time zones back in his day; the railroad hadn’t appeared yet.
Yep, tomorrow mornin’ good coffee and “normal” time.  Hmmm, “normal” time; what in the world is that?  I, for one pard, think we should just leave time the way the good Lord meant for it to be.  If that be normal time, then leave it, but I’m a-thinkin’ that what we say is normal is off some.  Why I reckon, though it’s light here in East Texas it’s still not gray light over there in the Davis Mountains, yet it is the same time.  Now, how can that be?
One thing I know, well two, I need another cup of coffee and the other is that time sure plays with our minds.
Well, happy normal time tomorrow pard, get that extra hour of sleep and then wake up with a smile for it’ll be the Lord’s Day.  Oh, I forgot to mention, and then I’ll stop my ramblin’ and let you get on down the road.  Did you see where the President and his wife were handin’ out candy on Halloween and one man now wants to sue them.  Seems his child, a black boy was given a sucker, as were all the kids there.  Now his father is upset because the President is trying to cause diabetes in his child.  My mercy! What a world we live in!
Time for you to be goin’, know how I know that?  The pot’s empty.  Have a good day, and check that cinch!  No tellin’ what might happen or what you might be charged with if you went and fell off.

A cool north breeze made him shiver a little, as he built a fire and made coffee.”
–Paul L. Thompson

Yeah, I know pard, burnin’ daylight.  But it was so dark and the cold came last night and I shivered all the way down to my toes, and that bed was so comfortable.  But the coffee’s goin’ now, strong, hot and black.  Sorry, I didn’t see you last week.  I was out on the trail on my ol’ steel mount.  But back now, ahhhh, tastes good.
Yuh know pard, sometimes I get a mite concerned over what it’s gonna be like, say ten years from now, should the Lord be tarryin’ that long.  Craziness and foolishness abound.  Most of those millennials don’t have a lick of sense and they are supposed to be the up-an’-comin’ job force.  Realize this too that they will be the lawmakers.  Aye, aye, aye…let that sink in.  It will be like Rehoboam listening to the counsel of the young men.  You think there’s craziness in the land now and the verge of anarchy; what will it be like then?
Take some time and read the prophets.  The Lord gets plenty angry with Israel and Judah.  Let me get another cup, and I’ll tell you one of the things I noticed.  Ahhh, gizzard feels better now.  He was angry over the perversion or lack of justice.  Oh, they had the magistrates, but they were corrupt.  Just look at the one verse in Micah about what the Lord requires, “He has showed you, O man, what is good; what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.” (6:8)
Just take that last phrase, “walk humbly with thy God.”  Listen pard, there little or no humbleness when man challenges the very essence and character of God.  Morality, humpf, what is that?  God’s morality is flaunted.  I heard they were discussing which of the commandments were no longer valid, and the used of the name, Jesus, was censored.  
Well, take care of yourself and yourns, for the day is becoming wicked, and more like the days of Noah when man’s heart was continually evil.  Hmmm, maybe I’ll make another pot.  Say, and don’t you go a-mountin’ without checkin’ yur cinch.

He poured himself a cup of the hot, black coffee and it burned his lips as he tried to take a drink from the rim of a tin cup.”
–J.S. Stroud

Door’s open, come on in and sling yur ankles under the table. The coffee is right strong and hot. I pondered the times I burnt my lips on a tin cup. Yuh think I would learn my lesson, but how do yuh check how hot the coffee is unless you try and taste it? There’ve been times it was so hot I burnt all the hair off my tongue. Well, this coffee is hot, but sipable, in fact, yuh can swallow a gulp.
We were out the other day and Annie remarked of a sight not seen up here in Maryland country. No trucks! Go into a parking lot and nary a one can be seen. Made me long for good ol’ Texas. Can’t even blink an eye without seein’ one. Let me grab the pot, I’m ready for a refill, how ’bout you?
I sure get weary of all the craziness. People want to put me in front of a firing squad because I belong to the NRA. One chucklehead said the Republicans and the NRA were at fault in the Las Vegas shooting. Then if this racial issue isn’t stopped sooner or later something will give. Do you think the Chiefs and Raiders’ lines are really not protecting the quarterback as they should? Hmmmm, another reason not to watch the NFL. Everything is racist, and it riles my gizzard that is wasn’t racist a year ago. Remember, Michelle reading Dr. Seuss to students, and now it is racist if Melania gives it to a library. There’s definitely something more goin’ on.
Yuh no what, though pard? Through all the junk, the Lord is still in charge. We fret way too much over things, and so much of it is way beyond our control. Ahh, but the good news is that it is always under His control. Wait, listen! Hear that? You can set yur timepiece by the geese here at Shauna’s. They fly over every mornin’ at the same time. That made me think of a question. What are geese called in flight? On the ground it is a gaggle, but just don’t fit to say, “a gaggle just few over.”
The plan is to go hiking today. Let’s finish this pot and then we can be about the day’s doin’s. Be sure and check your cinch, I’ll be a checkin’ mine and probably will tighten the belt before traipsin’ off in the woods.

Ten minutes after rising, he had the stove heated and the coffee pot on.”
–C.J. Petit

Come in, come in, put good coffee on this morning.  Feels good out there, 53 degrees here in Germantown, Maryland.  Ahhh, that first cup always hits the spot, but the ones that follow aren’t bad either.  I read where yesterday was National Coffee Day.  That surprised me, for I thought every day was coffee day.  
Say, I’ve got a question for yuh.  Out there is Hollywood on the Walk of Fame there are five categories:  film, television, music, radio, and live performance.  Who is the only person put on the Walk in every category?  A clue, let me sing it, “I’m back in the saddle again…”  Don’t hold yur ears.  It’s our ol’ pard–Gene Autry.  How ’bout that; somethin’ I didn’t know.
“Nother cup?  See, told yuh it was good coffee this mornin’.  I caught my daughter the other day puttin’ some of that sweet stuff in it.  Yuh try and raise them properly…  At least it was just sweetner and not that flavored cream–that almost makes my ol’ gizzard flip thinkin’ ’bout it.  But we went to the Amish Market again; that’s my favorite place to eat up here.  There’s a refreshin’ atmosphere there, and no it’s not outside.  Very busy, but friendly, and courteous.  The waitress wrote on the back of our check, “Jesus Loves You.”  I made sure I grabbed her on the way out and told her, that He loves her too.  Things like that just help to make a person’s day; at least it did this ol’ fence post.  Somethin’ positive, instead of all the junk and lies the media throws our way!
On the way to the Market a fox ran out in front of the car.  Rare to see them with so many people livin’ near.  Guess even in the middle of this postmodern, enlightened civilization there are still some throwbacks from the ol’ days.  And on my walk yesterday, a nice, 4-point buck came out of the woods in front of me.  I haven’t seen that big un that I saw a couple weeks ago again.
You be sure and have a good week.  We’ll be headin’ back to Texas in a spell; yuh better be lookin’ for us.  Go out there an’ ride tall in the saddle, but before yuh sit up there, be sure an’ check yur cinch.