I heated up a canteen cup of coffee with a sterno tablet. I had to hover over it to keep the rain from drowning it out.”
–E.B. Sledge
Yippi-ki-yay, Pard, it’s Saturday. Just wanted to let out a hoot ’cause the Lord done blessed us with another day together, and that the coffee is ready, hot, and ready to be guzzled. I was readin’ ol’ Sledge’s quotation. I’ve made coffee a few times over sterno, but more often over hexamine tablets. I had a little tripod with a center disc large enough for a tablet. My cup would fit nicely over it, and I could get one cup hot enough with one tablet. I was just reading that they were banned last October. Another good thing done away with ’cause of the fools out there. Next they’ll be takin’ matches, ’cause they start fires. “Course these modern matches, the light everywhere kind, don’t light everywhere. Probably not enough phos’rus on the tip.
Heard that the blueberries are ripe and ready for the pickin’. Now if’n I could just go get the daughter and girls to pick me some, maybe even send the Missus to help, I could have me a blueberry pie, or blueberry muffins, or blueberry cake–well, yuh get the picture. When I was a teenager, ‘back in the sixties blueberry pie was my favorite. Mmmm, imagine that with a cup of this brew. Wouldn’t that make the gizzard sit up with delight; might even get a howl from it.
On a more serious note, I want to share something with yuh. Maybe it’s more of a comical, stupid, foolish note, but behind it sits the lies of the pit. The pope, in all his splendor and pseudo-glory has made a proclamation. He said this on 60 Minutes, “We are all fundamentally good. Yes, there are some rogues and sinners, but the heart itself is good.” My, my, is he self-deluded or not? The prophet of old, Jeremiah, said this, “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9) Perhaps he should also take a look at Proverbs where the heart is described as foolish, perverse, wicked, proud, haughty, evil, and other such things. Why even the sage Paul recognized that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”