Thursday, January 27, 2005
If one sets mouse traps, one should check them daily even if they have been empty for weeks at a time (no, that peculiar smell wasn't my socks).
Just another beautiful day down in the boondocks. This morning not long after sunrise, little Rima the Sheet-eating Dawg, was napping next to the greenhouse fence. The first of the male mockingbirds this season made an aggressive appearence, ran off the little Carolina Wren that has had this spot staked out since before Christmas, landed on the fence directly over Rima's head and shat on her. Statement made!
It's still early but the Sandhill Cranes are deciding to move North, could mean an early thaw. This year I've got to rig up some way to audio record the huge massing of owls down in the East creek valley when they have their annual mating sing-fest. If I succeed, I'll post it. 10,000 lunatics. That's the best description, has to be heard to be believed.
Ever use one of those vertical rotisseries advertised all the time on teevee? I inherited one a few months ago and decided to try it out night before last with a whole fryer. Dried-out jerky on the outside, rather raw in the middle. I de-boned the poor bird and made a good meal for the critters with the jerky and a pot of stock with most of the rest. Tonight I'm simmering up fresh carrots, onion, garlic, celery, peppers, mushrooms, tarragon, and pepper in the fat, adding the cut-up chicken and thickening to fill a couple of pie crusts. Lately it's been difficult to get in to cooking but a couple of nights with zeroed ambition and canned tuna & crackers for supper ain't making it. The pie will last me until Saturday and since it's supposed to be drizzly all day, it's probably time for mass meal making. Big batches of curry & sweet and sour sauces, fire up the old Wedgewood and bake a batch of various pot pies, maybe a pork pot roast simmered in hard cider (excellent), and a kettle of catfish gumbo. Freeze in single servings after LABELING and DATING! A few weeks ago I was exploring the geology of the chest freezer trying to determine what was in the various layers of frost-bitten mysteries and if a labeled bag was found in a particular strata, it was a fair chance the adjacent layers were of a similar epoch. There were quite a few mystery meals circa AD 1996. The dawgs ate well..
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If you haven't read '60 Minutes' Document Expert Slams CBS Report, it's hardly worth the time. I found it far more interesting that Marcel Matley's last big job was authenticating the Vince Foster suicide note for the Clinton administration. If you want to play around with that, here's a pre-typed Google search you can start with. Poor Vince, he shoulda kept better company.
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Put your coffee down. Click link. Enjoy!
Hillary Clinton gets religion and an AK47
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Jonah Goldberg always has something interesting to say and this missive fits in well with the Frontline program I linked in the last post.
Don't take the president's word for it - take Zarqawi's
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Kiddie prOn? Actually I think she has it on backwards.
Prom princess or porn queen?
Just another beautiful day down in the boondocks. This morning not long after sunrise, little Rima the Sheet-eating Dawg, was napping next to the greenhouse fence. The first of the male mockingbirds this season made an aggressive appearence, ran off the little Carolina Wren that has had this spot staked out since before Christmas, landed on the fence directly over Rima's head and shat on her. Statement made!
It's still early but the Sandhill Cranes are deciding to move North, could mean an early thaw. This year I've got to rig up some way to audio record the huge massing of owls down in the East creek valley when they have their annual mating sing-fest. If I succeed, I'll post it. 10,000 lunatics. That's the best description, has to be heard to be believed.
Ever use one of those vertical rotisseries advertised all the time on teevee? I inherited one a few months ago and decided to try it out night before last with a whole fryer. Dried-out jerky on the outside, rather raw in the middle. I de-boned the poor bird and made a good meal for the critters with the jerky and a pot of stock with most of the rest. Tonight I'm simmering up fresh carrots, onion, garlic, celery, peppers, mushrooms, tarragon, and pepper in the fat, adding the cut-up chicken and thickening to fill a couple of pie crusts. Lately it's been difficult to get in to cooking but a couple of nights with zeroed ambition and canned tuna & crackers for supper ain't making it. The pie will last me until Saturday and since it's supposed to be drizzly all day, it's probably time for mass meal making. Big batches of curry & sweet and sour sauces, fire up the old Wedgewood and bake a batch of various pot pies, maybe a pork pot roast simmered in hard cider (excellent), and a kettle of catfish gumbo. Freeze in single servings after LABELING and DATING! A few weeks ago I was exploring the geology of the chest freezer trying to determine what was in the various layers of frost-bitten mysteries and if a labeled bag was found in a particular strata, it was a fair chance the adjacent layers were of a similar epoch. There were quite a few mystery meals circa AD 1996. The dawgs ate well..
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If you haven't read '60 Minutes' Document Expert Slams CBS Report, it's hardly worth the time. I found it far more interesting that Marcel Matley's last big job was authenticating the Vince Foster suicide note for the Clinton administration. If you want to play around with that, here's a pre-typed Google search you can start with. Poor Vince, he shoulda kept better company.
* * * * * *
Put your coffee down. Click link. Enjoy!
Hillary Clinton gets religion and an AK47
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Jonah Goldberg always has something interesting to say and this missive fits in well with the Frontline program I linked in the last post.
Don't take the president's word for it - take Zarqawi's
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Kiddie prOn? Actually I think she has it on backwards.
Prom princess or porn queen?
