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Paul Reid

@pepper99.bsky.social
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Reporter, author (The Last Lion-Winston Spencer Churchill, Defender of the Realm 1940-1965), Boston native and lifelong Red Sox sucker, Proud owner of a 1960 Martin D-28, Dog lover. Former restaurant critic. Live in the North Carolina Blue Ridge. Dog lover

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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I'll take it . . . Wordle 1,757 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Erin go Bragh, kids! (And that be Kerrygold buttah. Nothing like it)
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Churchill's funeral was on a Saturday, 61-years ago today. Skipped my usual TV cartoons that morning and watched the proceedings for hours. And then it was off to youthful adventures and misdeeds and the years passed by and somehow our paths crossed again 50-years later. Life is funny that way.
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Hey 🐝: participator is a damned word . . .
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Homemade Meatball subs! They're not just for breakfast anymore!
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
DOJ filing criminal charges against Fed Chair Powell? Powell's rebuke of Trump was Powell's Joe Walsh moment. . . , when, 70-years ago Walsh asked Senator Joe McCarthy, "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" Trump does not. Big mistake on Trump's part. Big mistake.
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Dig in kids!
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Christmas sunset tonight in the Blue Ridge, 4:54pm. Sun left with one final burst of glory. Happy 2026 all (one hopes).
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Five days in a row now I got the pangram first 🐝, and five days in a row I didn't get no stinkin' badge. Also,"nepo" is a word. Do better 🐝
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Is there a Vegas betting line on the over/under as to how soon we'll see "The Trump-Lincoln Memorial?"
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Happy 151st Birthday to Sir Winston! And if I may allowed to shill, this makes a perfect gift for the history lover in your family.
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Happy Thanksgiving from the Blue Ridge!
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I'm hungry. Thus: Scottish smoked salmon with all the accouterments. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Well this was like playing roulette . . . Wordle 1,576 5/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Sneaky one today, sneaky. . . Wordle 1,562 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Kristi Noem has ordered Homeland Security to train 1,000 new guard puppies in order to assure she has an ample supply of dogs to shoot.
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Good night from the Blue Ridge on this helluva swell equinox. Well, except for the Tylenol insanity lunatic morons.
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Good afternoon from the aptly named Blue Ridge of North Carolina, with the first blushes of fall's russets and yellows..
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
How many children have been killed in school shootings since Columbine? Can't get a hard answer from Googling. Several Hundred it seems. Can you name ONE of those children? Yet Charlie Kirk said their deaths were necessary to protect his "2A" Constitutional rights. Reap the whirlwind Charlie.
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I'll take it . . . Wordle 1,542 3/6* ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟨🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 04/09/2025
Finally got the boxed set! Hat tip to @authorsimonread.bsky.social for the inspiration (and hi @pepper99.bsky.social!)
The beautiful boxed set of The Last Lion by William Manchester and Paul Reid.
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
More fake news! Giuliani suffered a "spinal injury" in car crash. How, since he doesn't have one?
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
third 2 in 4 days. Buying a Powerball ticket tomorrow.Wordle 1,534 2/6* ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Got no letters in the wrong place, but quite a slog . . .weird Wordle 1,526 5/6* ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Today's butterfly in the Blue Ridge
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Good afternoon from the flutterby . . .
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I'll take it. Sneaky Wordle today . . . Wordle 1,519 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Ain't nothin' like a Cohiba 58 Behike and a glass of Rioja at the local wine bar.
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Good beevening from the Blue Ridge
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
I'll take it . . . Wordle 1,505 3/6* 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Nasty Wordle today . . . Wordle 1,497 5/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I'll take it . . . Wordle 1,492 3/6* ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Wordle roulette Wordle 1,484 5/6* ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
I'll take it . . . Wordle 1,477 4/6* ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I'll take it for sure . . . Wordle 1,475 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
How green is your valley . . .?
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Hey Spelling 🐝 , tontine is a word. And as I sip my cool drink in the miserable heat, I am reminded, so is mojito. Geez.
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I'll take it . . . Wordle 1,458 3/6* 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I'll take it . . . Wordle 1,457 3/6* ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I'll be heading out now to buy lottery tickets and a 20-year old Port . . . Wordle 1,453 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The moon Friday from my front yard. The tiny white speck in the lower right is Alice Kramden.
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Wordle roulette strikes again Wordle 1,450 5/6* ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
This calls for a wine . . .Wordle 1,449 3/6* ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Hosta la vista, baby . . .
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
In celebration of our 47th president, I made Trump Tacos today. They crumble easily and are empty.
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I am being surveilled . . .
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
How green is my valley here in the Blue Ridge? Really, really green today. Expect to hear a jolly basso HO HO HO any minute.
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Used to go to this local diner to read the Times, and dive into the owner's beautiful sausage, egg-over easy, and cheese biscuit, with her hash browns and sausage gravy on the side. Now I leave the paper at home, so as not to ruin my repast.
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Paul Reid @pepper99.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Just a thought: If Trump, after bungling tariffs and much else, sends, say, 10,000 troops to Greenland to "secure our security" or some such bullshit, just to divert attention from his failings, China will invade Taiwan the next week.
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