Tom White

Tom White

@twhite10.bsky.social

Woodworking, gardening, flyfishing, bread baking.

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In Dryden, Washington, a Red Delicious got together with a Golden Delicious and whooosh! we have Cameo Apples. The highlight of mid October!

Dorie Miller, a Navy hero with schools, foundations, streets, community centers, auditoriums, American Legion Posts, a VA medical center, and a US Navy frigate named after him. An aircraft carrier USS DORIS MILLER (CVN-81) is under construction. Don't let them change the name of that ship.

If branches fall in your yard, you pick them up, tie them up, and carry them to the curb for pickup. Or, if you're total white trash, just throw it over the fence for the neighbors to deal with.

At the Battles of Saratoga, General Benedict Arnold served with near-reckless heroism, and was desperately wounded in the leg. He went on to become the most despicable turncoat of his age. An 1887 monument to his military genius at Saratoga celebrates his wounded leg, but does not mention his name.

Benjamin Warner (1757-1846) bequeathed his knapsack to his son thusly: “This Napsack I caryd Through the War of the Revolution to achieve the American Independence....and whilst one shred of it shall remain never surrender you libertys to a foren envador or an aspiring demegog." NO KINGS

After mixing everything, I slap-n-fold for 5 or 6 minutes to this song in my head: "Somewhere out on that horizon Far away from the neon lights..." Looking for something of the same vintage, same beat, more uplifting. #Sourdough #breadsky

I'm reading some Walt Whitman: his civil war poetry and notes about his time as a volunteer hospital assistant. Our fathers left us clear paths to follow. Explicit instructions. Yet we are blind. "I rose from the chill ground and folded my soldier well in his blanket, And buried him where he fell."

Great-grandmother Louise (1869-1960) was well known for her homemade bread, and her beer. So I made this one with lager instead of water: 120g 12:60:60 levain 420g lager 20g whole rye 430g Sir Lancelot bread flour 150g whole wheat 10g salt #Sourdough #breadsky

Site of the Battle of Fort Griswold, Groton, CT Sept. 6, 1781. After a hot battle, the vastly outnumbered Connecticut militia attempted to surrender the fort, but were massacred by British troops commanded by the most notorious and despicable turncoat in American history. NO KINGS!