It pains me to say...but those who warned me early on to separate my politics from my BBQ content were right! So those that enjoy the BBQ content follow over @ the new Weekend BBQ Vibes Twitter handle. It will be strictly BBQ. Over here will be personal. 👇 x.com/Bud421946271749?t=uhCG…

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Good evening Eastern NC !!

Pirate football will never be the same without the legend that was Jeff Charles. RIP 🙏

When your kids are all grown and you're happily single. Life becomes alot more simple and enjoyable. No patience for any bullshit. My tree is up Merry Christmas, Y'all !! 👋🎅🎄🤣

Very Nostalgic!! I love it!! 🎄 Shoutout to Faith, NC!! 👋🎅🤶

Georgetown South Carolina was founded by the son of the founder of the First Baptist Church of Charleston which was the first Baptist church in the south and the mother church of the SBC. Both men are buried in Georgetown. The marker is hard to read in the picture so the inscription can be read below. In this cemetery is buried William Screven, first pastor of the earliest Baptist church in the South. A native of England, he ministered to the Baptists there before migrating to Maine, establishing a Baptist church in Kittery, Maine in 1682. By 1698, he had led his church to Charleston, S.C. He later moved to Georgetown, exerting his Christian influence until his death in 1713. Elisha Screven, founder of Georgetown, was a younger son of William, who owned and lived his final years on these Winyah lands. To promote settlement here, Elisha planned a town, to be called Georgetown, which reserved lots for Anglican, Presbyterian, and Baptist churches, as well as for a school and other public buildings. Retained in the plan was this Screven family cemetery. The town had been laid out by 1730.

Yes!! You're old enough to drink Diet Sundrop now!! 😅

FACTS!!! It's like they have bought influence on the platform!!

Worth a read. If you're in the area consider taking some time to help if you can. If you have any old wreath hanging around donate it here. 👇🇺🇸🎄

Good morning from Eastern NC !! It’s a quiet, cool start out here this morning. If you head toward the little crossroads just south of South Mills, where the county line between Camden County and Pasquotank County, NC gets faint... that’s where you’ll find Morgan’s Corner. On maps it might show up as Morgans Corner or near South Mills, but if you’ve spent any time around these parts you already know where I mean. That corner got its name from a long-time family and a store that people came to know. The old family home nearby is the Morgan House built back in 1826... a two-story frame dwelling that stands just off the road. Over time, as the Morgan name stuck and a country store was built in the area during the early 20th century, the old crossroads once known as Hintonsville or “Hinton’s Corners” gradually came to be called Morgan’s Corner instead. If you ask an old timer, they’ll tell you that it was never much of a town ... mostly just a stopping point, a place where travelers and locals met up, filled up, and carried on to the a NC coast. A store. A few houses. That kind of quiet country crossroads. But because the Morgan family name stayed tied to the land and the store, the name stuck long after Hinton’s Corners disappeared from official maps. So when you pull up in the morning... or stop by that store before turning east toward the coast, remember: you’re not just at a random crossroad convience store. You’re at Morgan’s Corner. A bit of living history in Camden-Pasquotank country. Hope everybody has a good morning.👋☕️

Damn!! So which is it? DARPA or climate change trying to take me out? 🤣

An authentic Babe Ruth from his playing days is why this one stands out to me, even if it’s not the most meaningful card in my collection. I’ve got cards that mean more to me personally, but this one — my early-1930s German Sanella Babe Ruth — is easily one of the most interesting pieces I own. There’s just something different about holding a card that was actually printed while Babe Ruth was still stepping into the batter’s box, still hitting balls into the upper deck, still shaping the entire game of baseball. The first thing that grabs you is the German text on the back calling him “der Amerikanische Baseballkönig beim Schlag” translated the American baseball king at bat. And the artwork on the front fits that title perfectly: Ruth mid-swing in a full lithograph illustration, the crowd behind him a painted blur from baseball’s golden era. What makes this card so interesting to me is where it originally came from. It wasn’t part of an American gum set. My card started out in a Sanella Margarine package in Germany around 1932–1933. It was one of the collectible pictures meant to be glued into a sports album called the “Handbuch des Sports.” The back even mentions Sanella’s trading service beginning in February 1933 for collectors who were missing cards ... a little timestamp from a world that feels almost unreal now. It blows my mind that this card survived everything Europe went through in the 1930s and ’40s, crossed an ocean, and ended up in my hands decades later. That survival alone makes it a conversation piece. Condition-wise, it shows its age in the way you’d expect — gentle wear, a bit of toning, those soft corners that come naturally with a card pushing a century old. But honestly, that’s part of the charm. It looks its age in a good way. I’ve got plenty of cards I’m more sentimental about, but this one? This one is just fascinating ... a true playing-days Babe Ruth that took the long route from a German margarine box to my collection.

Please provide a link to these "polls"? Thanks, -signed NC natives skeptical of our states politics

Just remember when she tries to influences you and lecture you 👇

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Good morning from Eastern NC !! Winter down here has its own rhythm. The air turns crisp, the fields fall quiet, and the wind pushes through the pines in that steady way that lets you know the season has settled in for a while. And on a cold morning like this, it is worth remembering that one of the most respected heavy bands in America did not come from Los Angeles or New York. They came straight out of Raleigh in our own North Carolina. Corrosion of Conformity started in the early eighties with Woody Weatherman, Mike Dean, and Reed Mullin grinding it out in Raleighs underground scene. They played in rooms so small you could feel the amps shake the floorboards, and in winter you could sometimes see your breath when the heat was not working. Over time, with Pepper Keenan stepping to the front, their sound shifted into that thick, groove heavy, Southern metal that fans all over the world recognize. And the respect they earned runs deep, even among giants of the music world. Metallica, the biggest metal band on earth, have long been fans of COC. When the two toured together, James Hetfield did not hesitate to praise their work. He even pulled Pepper aside once and said, That is a great record. Praise like that does not come easy. Then there is Zakk Wylde, one of the most recognizable guitar players in rock and metal. Folks around here know him well for playing guitar for Ozzy Osbourne, bringing that roaring tone to some of Ozzys biggest tours and albums. Zakk has always shown love for Corrosion of Conformity. When Black Label Society toured with them, he made it clear he respected the weight and the honesty of what COC brings to the stage. When someone of Zakks talent calls you the real deal, that speaks for itself. If you want a COC album that fits a cold Eastern NC morning, Wiseblood is the one. It is heavy enough to shake the frost off your windshield but smooth enough to settle into easily. It is always the album I recommend first. I wore this album slam out in High School and I'm still very fond of it today. And for many younger fans, the first time they ever heard COC was not on the radio or in a club. It was in the Guitar Hero video games. Songs like Albatross and Clean My Wounds turned into winter break anthems for kids hammering away on plastic guitars, discovering our own Carolinas heavy band without even knowing it. So as winter settles across Eastern NC, with frost on the grass and smoke drifting from chimneys, it feels right to remember a band that carried our states sound across the world. Good morning Eastern NC, where the air is cold, the stories run deep, and Corrosion of Conformity will always be part of our music roots. Rock on to some NC Southern Metal !! 🤘🎸🥁🍻 youtu.be/yvsQsao1F88?si=Tlxz…

100% correct. They will blame the midterms on everything else besides Trump and the GOP's failures.

Its working so well many on the right have turned into using tactics of the left. It's very telling actually.