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Grinning like a possum eatin' hornets

Wait till I get warmed up on ground fault interruptors!

Nuttier than a fruitcake! LG, saw a dis/hc/tlc show about that one during disaster's week. Bummer.

marie-louise, I may be completely off base, but it sounds as if the jet orifices either might be clogged or even the wrong size. I'm assuming that all your repairmen checked the thermocouple. Gas stoves are kind of like gas heaters- once you realize there are few parts- you can get the confidence to read up on it, then be a genuine pain-in-the-butt to your repairman.

Jensen, what did you expect? We have got to blame someone, and if Canada wasn't there to blame, we might have to take responsibility for some of this. I can plainly tell you have not been here long enough-the national pastime is passing the buck.

Aw,hell, I knew Holsteins had bad attitudes-but I guess I would too Can we get a group rate?

My "beloved" SIL's kids are 14 (girl) and (17) boy, and I would not be seen with them at a hog wallow. They would embaress the pigs.

The stories are two of my alltime favorite books, which got me restarted on Robert Graves, Talbot Mundy, Robert E. Howard, and L Sprague deCamp. Last winter I checked out all 7 videos and watched straight through. And yep, I think the old novels give a lot more credence to the food.

It was one of Augustus' favorite expressions...it meant pretty damn quick. Actually in the books he says it a lot more. But I think Seutonious says he actually used it, so Robert Graves made it part of his character. I hope that's the correct spelling for Seutonious

Life is just a bowl of cherries. Quicker than boiled asparagus (OK, I liked " I, Claudius").. Slower than molasses in January. An apple a day... There's more than one way to sk..... oops.nevermind.

Anna, that's food book heaven. "Snow cones and pine needles"- in the immortal phrase of fifi: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

You're talking apples and oranges. You have to break eggs to make an omelette. Texas weathercaster's old saw: Chili today, hot tamale.

Thanks!

Torakris, I will so enjoy this- and like jackal10 already commented, it's cool having a "Double-Header" with you and helenjp giving different menus. I've always been fascinated by your pictures, maybe now I will install Japanese on my machine. Thanks in advance, and your beautiful family made me smile. The middle girl looks like quite a scamp. I'm very lucky to have very respectable shumai available to me here. It's probably sacrilege, but I like to use hot chile oil or hot chile vinegar for a dip sometimes,as an alternative to soy or chinese mustard. What's everyone else use?

I've got another question, Jackal10. You spoke of Guest Nights. I am totally ignorant of these and this: "The rule for Guest Nights is that you can take anyone except your current or another Fellow's partner." What's the purpose of a Guest Night? Is it to allow someone who normally would not be able to see the college a chance to mingle? What manner of meal is prepared? And you mentioned you no longer had to pay; for those who do, what's the cost? I see a blog with pictures of one of those. Personal aside, I've not forgot your trees. By the way, I guess I couldn't leave well enough alone--I am sitting up with 23 degrees, and about 14" of snow outside. Which wouldn't be bad, except it is accompanied by 25-40 mph winds,turning it into blizzard visibility. The vehicles are ordered off the interstate and the Dept. of Public Safety is escorting all to Lincoln Center in town, where the Red Cross is set up to bed them down for the night. Hush my mouth next time!

The USDA and related agencies are too diverse, too spread out over too many areas, and the foot soldiers do the work while the bureaucrats unravel it, or worse, deceive when they have info contrary to the policy line. Last month it was hep. A in green onions; the health depts. jumped into action at that. The list goes on and on: alar, aflatoxins, brucellosis, CWD, BSE. For every person working overtime to try and effect real change,unfortunately there's usually 3 waiting to write fairy tales or downright lies in order to go along with what those on high want. While we ponder what the small producers are up to, the mega meat concerns have a big old paw in this. Don't think there's not $$$lobby bucks$$$ at work here, too. Look at how long it took Big Tobacco to admit cigarettes might cause cancer. For some folks, raising cattle is an honorable trade, one they are proud of. For others, it's simply another investment. For those sort of folks the health of the animals, and ultimately the consumers is a secondary concern.

Definitely the Leslie Mansfield. Although they are both good, the Mansfield work is far more detailed. Mary Gunderson's is good for using quotes from the journal and then aligning them with a recipe. "Buffalo Boudin Blanc" in the style of Sacajawea's hubby, Toussaint Charbonneau- sorry, I love that name- had to stick it in somehow. Anyway, most of the recipes in both books are moderned up, so you'll cook them.

"The Lewis and Clark Cookbook" by Leslie Mansfield.2002 "The Food Journal of Lewis and Clark; Recipes for an Expedition" by Mary Gunderson.2003 Okay, so everybody up here is gaa gaa about all this stuff coming up. My little ol' landlady got them for me.

Or needles.

Had some down in Texas, but we called 'em raccoons and skunks

John Whiting, I want you to know that I am going to read your work. I do wish you could find a way to get the essay you put up here into the mainstream. For people are so reactionary about these situations, not realizing it's been years in the making, now years in the undoing.

The scariest thing I've heard or read so far is the post that John Whiting made here. What he relates that Yorkshire Cattleman saying (can we call him a Yorkie?) is pretty much what the Cattlemen here at the auction have been saying. I have some cattle out by Shepherd, they were born here, bought here, and are being raised here. Am I concerned-yep- but I am just as concerned that right now we got a bad storm going through here that I keep getting alerts for. And it's guaranteed that would be what the fulltimers would say.

Foodie 52, ahm ashamed of you! Yew know it's the Ro-Tel! By the way, can you take canned goods?

I do eggs like that, in a way, because I just let them sit in the water till it's lukewarmish. I pour that water off and save it to pour on my houseplants, stick them in coldwater, then start peeling. Always works. The plants like this water. Unsalted, of course.

A downer cow can mean many, many things. Some dairy breeds, particularly Holstein, are regularly bred to produce a bigger and bigger calf as they age, and end up birthing with a prolasped (sp?) uterus. They get paralysed if the arteries get too much pressure, they break legs. These are not only unfortunate, but expensive. It is my belief that that cow was sent in good faith to the packer, and that the positive on the test was totally unexpected. The dairy has 4000 cows. The incubation indicates to me that there will be more traced back to the mama herd.