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Hi there, my name is Tony Burgess (my friends call me T-Bird) from Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. I am a believer, bleeding heart, idealist, and blogger. I'm married to Laura the Soup Diva and a dog dad to Frankie, Cody, and Mikey. Daily I work for a blood bank recruiting donors. My blog is where I chronicle and curate the sacred, serious, and silly things in my life. I am a member of The Episcopal Church. Thank you for connecting with me. Grace, peace, and love!

Nineteen Years Ago

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Nineteen years ago, newly married, setting out for an adventure of a lifetime. Today is the anniversary of Tony and Laura.

Quote Of The Day

Let all you do be done in love.

1 Corinthians 16:14

Ready For The Future

Three years ago I began to experiment with WordPress due to Yahoo buying Tumblr where I had been a long-time blogger. What began as a trial here turned into me moving my whole blogging to WordPress. I have been grateful for all who have followed, commented and checked out my blog over these past three years. As I said in this post I started getting ready for the future and from where I stand my blogging life is so much better here. I have bought into this service in more ways than one. Once again, thanks! (This was my first post from way back then).

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I am not a doomsday sort of guy but with Yahoo making significant changes to Tumblr I want to be ready for the future. My “shadow” blog will be at WordPress where there seems to be a creative, connected community already in place. They seem to have a solid platform there too. Once again I will be blogging as usual at Tumblr, I am not going anywhere my friends.

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Something About Taxes

Working on taxes tonight and looks like the cost of the software to prepare them will be more than what is owed to the federal government. Turbo Tax is $59 and what is owed will be $5 as it stands right now. I am grateful it wasn’t more than that but still. Paying taxes is not fun but what it goes toward is important into keeping community and country going. No taxes no roads, schools, community services, military, first responders, etc… all those folks need to get paid and we need their services. I am cool if everyone is paying their fair share but you know the one constant in life is death and taxes.

Oh, Hello Monday, It’s You Again

Guess what? It’s Monday again. Let’s greet Monday as a new day although we wish we could pretend it isn’t Monday. All I hope is that Monday will be good to me and I will try to be good to it. Have a great day everyone. Grace, peace and love.

Scotch Eggs

Scotch eggs are great for anytime especially breakfast.

Laura B's avatarThe Soup Diva

  • 7 medium eggs
  • 1 lb log ground pork sausage
  • 1 cup bread or cracker crumbs
  • 1/4 cup flour
  • 1 tbsp dried parsley flakes
  • 1/2 tsp ground mustard
  • 1/2 tsp onion powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • Dash of nutmeg (optional)

Add 1/2 inch water to medium sauce pan and bring to a boil on medium high. Carefully place 6 eggs in pan with large spoon or tongs, cover, and steam for 7 minutes; remove from heat and run cold water into pan for 30 seconds. (If you stop at this point, you have perfectly cooked soft boiled eggs, which are delicious as well!) Add ice to pan and allow eggs to cool completely while continuing preparations.

Cut sausage log into 6 equal slices (about 1″ each) and flatten each to about 1/4 inch. In small (cereal size) bowl, stir together flour, mustard, onion powder, and salt; in another bowl, beat remaining egg…

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