Manitoulin — change is in the air.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

11 hours ago, suzilightning said:

and then there was the adult red tailed hawk that got too close to the eagle nest at Duke Farms here in NJ.   He became lunch and a snack for the young eaglets.

 

Duke is not far from here.  At the library in the springtime we watch the Duke eaglecam.  That hawk deserved a Darwin award.  And last I looked the film clip was still there...but right now I couldn't find it.

 

This is probably it:

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Bald-Eagle-Defend-Nest-Hawk-Duke-Farms-Video-200608201.html

 

[DesertTinker]

1 hour ago, Kerry Beal said:

I've been on call since 6 pm today - I spent about 2 1/2 hours at the hospital sorting a few things out - drove back down to the dock the sailor who had forgotten to put on his boat shoes and went up on a wet deck earlier this morning (3 broken ribs). Since then for some reason I went down the rabbit hole and have been going back through my very first blog from Manitoulin here. I think it might have been a picture or something that led me back there - but it's been 2 hours and I'm finally back to 2018. 

 

I've had a couple of calls since then - but nothing I've had to go back in for - so I'm hoping for a civilized night. Saturday of Haweater weekend that can be a bit of a crapshoot.

 

 

Thanks so much for the link to your first blog. So much backstory that I missed.

[RobertM]

Hoping you had a quiet night......a very quiet night

[Kerry Beal]

15 minutes ago, RobertM said:

Hoping you had a quiet night......a very quiet night

Sadly not! 

[Anna N]

Good morning. Going to be a hot one but still cooler than at home:  28°C vs 32°C. 

 

Kerry spent much of the night in the ER so we are moving slowly today. 

 

Breakfast was a simple toasted omelet: 

 

 

I did make some rather sad looking pot stickers yesterday. 

 

 

Far too large and the wrappers were too thick!  Oh well. We ate them anyway. The filling of shrimp and pork was tasty. 

 

[Kerry Beal]

 

Leftover Laarb for me 

[Anna N]

We had this crazy idea that we would go into town for lottery tickets and grab some lunch at Elliott’s (which recently re-opened after a fire). The number of cars in the parking lot suggested this was not the best idea. 

 

Kerry did a quick u-turn and we grabbed lottery tickets but not before snapping this just for you!

 

 

All ready for the parade!

 

We then grabbed poutine for me from here

 

 

 

before hightailing it home ahead of the parade. 

 

 

[rotuts]

Someday I hope to try Top Notch Poutine.

 

maybe w a side of Scrapple 

 

for perspetive.

 

why do I mention these two ?

 

neither seems to have traveled very far.

Edited August 5, 2018 by rotuts (log)

[Anna N]

6 minutes ago, rotuts said:

Someday I hope to try Top Notch Poutine.

 

maybe w a side of Scrapple 

 

for perspetive.

 

why do I mention these two ?

 

neither seems to have traveled very far.

 

This was a long, long way from any sort of Top Notch anything!  You can’t win them all. 

[rotuts]

that's why I stipulated ' Top Notch '

 

Ive had TN Scrapple

 

I hope you are not suggesting there is no TNP ?

[Anna N]

7 minutes ago, rotuts said:

that's why I stipulated ' Top Notch '

 

Ive had TN Scrapple

 

I hope you are not suggesting there is no TNP ?

 There is indeed top notch poutine and I believe it’s even available somewhere on the Island. This just wasn’t it.   As for top notch scrapple — that,  like miltary intelligence,  is an oxymoron.

[rotuts]

Sad , so very Sad

 

@Anna N

 

you have not had TNS.

 

that being said , 

 

although the Jones refrigerated or Fz is quite good 

 

if   one knows how to prepare it.

 

but the very best I guessing can only be obtained in the Philadelphia Area

 

there are several fresh versions and refrigerated etc

 

i was fortunate to live in the area

 

some time ago

 

for three months.

 

I knew about Scrapple

 

as my father fried it on occasion for Sunday after church eats.

 

he was a fan

 

as am I.

 

 

 

[lindag]

Mom, who was from Pennsylvania Dutch country loved Scrapple.  My Dad, however, was from the Deep South.

So we never had Scrapple at home; in fact, I have never tasted it.  There is still time though.

[Okanagancook]

I just read Kerry’s first blog post.  Very well done indeed.

The story about not being allowed to swerve to avoid hitting a deer reminded me of an incident last year.  It happened on a very narrow road along a lake.  A driver hit a deer which bounced off the car into the lap of a cyclist travelling on the other side of the road.  What are the chances of that...the cyclist was injured quite badly.  The driver had nowhere to go.

 

[rotuts]

@lindag

 

since you are in Big Sky

 

look fior Jomes Scrapple

 

it will be Fz

 

 

would you find it , PM me

 

or maybe we might start a very short Scrapple Tread ?

 

it seems like Im taking over this thread 

 

No No No

 

Im trying 

 

to educate

 

the LunchLadies

 

nothing more.

[chromedome]

2 hours ago, rotuts said:

Someday I hope to try Top Notch Poutine.

 

maybe w a side of Scrapple 

 

for perspetive.

 

why do I mention these two ?

 

neither seems to have traveled very far.

 

Well, in the last few decades poutine has traveled from small-town Quebec all  the way across Canada, and made hesitant inroads into the States. Quebec to Vancouver is...I dunno, 4000km? Pretty far, from my perspective.

[Anna N]

2 hours ago, rotuts said:

Im trying 

 

to educate

 

the LunchLadies

 

nothing more.

 The Lunch Ladies have tried scrapple in Pennsylvania Dutch country no less and declared it unfit for human consumption.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

3 minutes ago, Anna N said:

 The Lunch Ladies have tried scrapple in Pennsylvania Dutch country no less and declared it unfit for human consumption.

 

Cook it longer.

 

I actually like scrapple.  It's just that I don't like the idea of scrapple.

 

The brand I was partial to was Hatfield:

http://www.hatfieldqualitymeats.com/our-products/product-detail/scrapple

 

[Anna N]

Just now, JoNorvelleWalker said:

Cook it longer.

 We were eating in a restaurant. 

[Tri2Cook]

4 minutes ago, Anna N said:

 We were eating in a restaurant. 

I always like when people who like something I don't like try to find a way to make me like it. "Well if you cook it until it's black and crunchy, melt half a pound of cheese on it, douse it in lots of mustard and hot sauce,  wrap it in six layers of swiss chard and tuck it in a well toasted pita, it's actually not bad." 

[Anna N]

1 minute ago, Tri2Cook said:

I always like when people who like something I don't like try to find a way to make me like it. "Well if you cook it until it's black and crunchy, melt half a pound of cheese on it, douse it in lots of mustard and hot sauce,  wrap it in six layers of swiss chard and tuck it in a well toasted pita, it's actually not bad." 

Well put!

[Kerry Beal]

One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Byrrh

 

 

[rotuts]

" Pennsylvania Dutch country "

 

is more or less a tourist trap.

 

just saying 

 

nice quilts

 

if you have an eye for Top Notch Stiching

 

TNS

 

P.S.:

 

""  We were eating in a restaurant. "

 

A Ha

 

they did want to move you along

 

and didn't cook it properly

 

my guess.

 

Scrapple takes longer to cook properly than one might think.

 

I dont mind

 

would not want it to travel further.

 

So , maybe our Western Canadiene's Friends might review

 

Poutine in Vancouver ?

 

doubt the Top most Top

 

but looking forward to current evaluations.

 

Edited August 5, 2018 by rotuts (log)

[rotuts]

P.P.S.:

 

they have Hatfields near me

 

when the Heat Breaks 

 

Im on it.

[JeanneCake]

@Anna N why was the scrapple in  box, without even a coating or something to protect the food from the box or vice versa?  I myself have never had scrapple so I don't know what I'm looking at.  Besides gravy, I think....

 

ETA For crying out loud  I can't even read correctly today: poutine! not scrapple.   I still have never had either one though....

Edited August 5, 2018 by JeanneCake (log)