I’m getting in the mood to cook some hearty cool-weather fare myself. Beef Burgundy sounds about right. I think this strip from 2011 tells a simple truth, at least when I’m in the kitchen. Despite washing bowls and utensils as I go, the culinary detritus eventually gets ahead of me, even with those classic “one-pot” dishes that I love so much. Boeuf Bourguignon, in the French, is beef simmered in wine, of course. The great Julia Child’s recipe is a go-to standard for this dish, and it reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from Julia: “I often cook with wine; sometimes, I even pour it in the food I’m cooking.”
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218 responses to “Behind the Scenes”
And Rick, I swear that when your body works better, your mind does, too.
Except perhaps in the case of the young man Trucker mentioned…based on his thought processes, or lack thereof, I believe that his head *is* too small. 🙂 But yes, gym/exercise addition is a thing. I suspect it of a female of indeterminate age at my gym. She’s near-anorexic thin; works at an insane pace; and, I’ve been told, has been known to snarl at anyone who speaks to her while she is working out. She reminds me of Grace Jones, the singer/actress/model who was in the James Bond film.
Debbe, since emb mentioned witches above and all the stores have their Halloween stuff out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrfBR1Rh5Ps
Rick my VA dietician was less than subtle with me. She handed me a graph of my weight gain over the last 4 years. Ugly, ugly, ugly, but effective. I am doing the life change slow but steady, 17 lbs loss so far, but working hard to make the life change effective and permanent.
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Everybody else is listening to Garrison Keillor? No, out for a Sat. night tear. Peace, emb
Rick, back when I was fifty, I was 5’10”. Now, 16 years later, I’m 5’7″, probably due in part to the compressed fractures of several vertebra just before I was diagnosed with osteoporosis, and probably caused by it.
Ursen:
I have heard from many sources that, for the majority of people, slow and steady is the wisest course.
It seems that you also received a wake-up call and that you took it.
Congratulations!
You’re on your way.
Sideburns:
I am truly sorry to hear about the osteoporosis.
I have seen its effects in my family, and I know the pain that it can cause.
Does any chance exist for a medical remedy for the vertebra or the osteoporosis?
Possible remedy for fractured vertebrae is called kyphoplasty or balloon kyphoplasty. Needles inserted into affected area and bone cement injected. Balloon version has inflatable sac inserted and expanded to achieve normal size/shape, then the cement is injected and when it hardens it maintains the vertebra in a more normal position.
I don’t think you can reverse osteoporosis though.
Rick in Shermantown, sideburns, and others with medical concerns (that probably includes the whole village) might want to give this site a look: http://www.merckmanuals.com/home
They have a print version of the book too, and I would highly recommend it because it takes the technical medical information and translates it into something most of us can understand. I have a copy and it is very useful in understanding medical procedures.
Wife RN used to buy new Merck manuals as they came out.
Peace, emb
Mark when I did workmen’s comp cases, Mercks was the well worn bible when you wanted to understand obscurity. They are available even in paperback I understand now?
Spent part of my day dealing with replacing my phone and computer, trying to get my internet server working and desktop computer to even come on. Tomorrow I go for tutorials from a lovely young lady down at ATT on the tablet, when the new phone comes Monday I go back for tutorials on that too.
Got a simpler notebook or skinny laptop or something to travel with to replace the old clunky one and I suppose I can find a tutor for that one, someone suggested Craig’s list and meet them at McDonalds. If I master those three I will then tackle the Apple since I paid for coaching there anyway.
Other than that, my return flight was pretty uneventful, sat next to a gorgeous female aide to the governor of one of our western states, I know she was for real because she knew the correct names of most of the guys I went sailing with out there with no prompting. She and I hit it off terrifically, hated to have her deplane in Denver. Then on to Tulsa with a 29 year old entrepreneur who owns five McDonalds and did not inherit any. That made me have hope for the youth of America and hard work. He began at 16 with McD and intended to own his own, skipped college except U of McD and must have the strongest work ethic I have hit lately.
Anyway, I am off to bed after I brush my teeth and skip the bath I think until morning! I got in at 2 a.m. last night and have dealt with computer disaster and got a great haircut and manicure and pedicure to offset the tragedy/travesty.
Oklahoma has a ton of obesity. I am not clever tonight but it is highly noticeable, especially
when you just left an area of healthy people who eat organic or at least healthy and walk and bike everywhere.
Love, Jackie
Anonymous loves that song, Ghost. Randy Newman the composer is a great favorite of mine and I remember that version from the day.
You do realize I am traveling alone I hope? I love the people I get to meet and interact with, I have seldom met anyone that bores me or depresses me, travel is as interesting as you make it.
Although I must confess I am leaning toward the bikini bottom and tee shirt with no bra and flip flops, toothbrush in one hand and credit card in other hand wardrobe for air travel. I hate going through the security, having a terrorist on the plane would be worse of course.
On subject of employees firing themselves, my minion, female, had decided to quit long before she quit wanting to be paid, so she just stopped working. When told she had to fill out a time card like everyone else was doing (my accountant requested of course) she went ballistic and quit. I have filled out many such cards, no one has a problem if they are actually where they are supposed to be at times put down.
Love, Anonymous
When I owned flower-gift-candy-balloon shop, things got hectic frequently. We used to say we could get a lot done if the customers would just leave us alone.
Jackie, the Villagers are happy you are at home, under your own name, after a safe trip where you made new friends, as usual. I bet Dickens and the other pets were glad to see you.
Jackie, I have a suggestion on tech tutoring. Instead of taking whoever you may find on Craigslist, how about getting in touch with your nearest University or Jr. College’s computer science dept. Bet they could point you to a student who would be willing to teach for side money. Or there might be free classes at your local library or “senior center”. Glad you had a great time in Washington, but it’s always good to get home. Welcome back.
Like these, Jackie.
https://library.universalclass.com/i/librarysubjects/computers.htm
Mark, just saw your posting on Manna Co-ops. I loved that gorgeous co-op I kept patronizing in Port Townsend, the one I put the photos on Facebook with the celloist and other instrumentalists playing out in parking lot. Busking with a cello and an upright piano on wheels!
Your Alabama ones look awesome. I used to do the boxes in Houston which were fun, you’d never know what your were getting. I bought some kale crackers and sesame seed crackers, small brie cheeses, hummus, pear, apple, pistachio cherry shortbread and a fantastic whole wheat, cranberry chicken salad sandwich for my flight home from the co-op, a store so fantastic they made Whole Foods look like sliced white.
Incidentally, the Safeway there was fantastic too, best one I have ever seen and I used to sell to Safeway. Obviously, this was a small town whose inhabitants considered eating an art.
Jackie, try this website. It says they have a pickup site in Eufala.
http://oklahomafood.coop/
I knew he was back, I didn’t know the new ones were on here.
http://www.gocomics.com/bloom-county/2015/07/20
OMG! They are hysterically funny! I haven’t gotten past Senor Steve and the Singing Mariachi and I am laughing so hard I had to stop and rest. Twenty five years have given Berkley a freedom of expression he didn’t have before. I am back reading another comic again, Jimmy I can’t help myself. Sorry.
Good morning Villagers….
What a brilliant full moon outside my computer room window.
Thanks OB, for the info. And I can look out my bedroom window to see the eclipse, if it is clear as it is now.
Gal…good for your for standing your ground. As head of a housekeeping department I had my share of “gotta let you goes”….and they are not fun.
So the surrounding fields are full of chicken poop…they hauled manure yesterday and at least two feet or more was pumped out. I had ‘help’, the daughter of the owner of this farmer brought in her two children and a friend. So I had two 10 year olds and one 8 year old. I told the father of the 8 year old I want him to come work for me in a few years…he caught on quick and was a good worker.
Spoke with The Boss yesterday too. Reminded him that ‘Skittles’ (Dakota) was working with me today. I also told him I wanted an apology from Dakota, and he said I would get it. You just don’t tell your supervisor to “shut the ____ up!” He told a co-worker the story and said he was tired of hearing me “b^tch” all day….he also failed to tell so called co-worker exactly what he said. The Boss says Dakota is this (forefinger and thumb used) from being fired..
I don’t understand it, when it’s just Dakota and me, he works fine, But when other teens are around, it becomes a &issing contest. Maybe last Sunday was “Talk Like a Sailor Day” 🙂
Mark, I couldn’t get that link to play, will try later…
GR 😉 , thanks for the translation, and I had a pretty good idea what alteration meant too, to many ‘p’s’…….
Good to see Bloom County back….I absolutely love Bill the Cat.
Glad to see you made it home safely, Jackie.
Ya’ll have a blessed day…
GR 😉 and Mark, speaking of witches……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaC-WDrvmUQ
Hi Debbe. I would have probably drowned him in the chicken poop pit. When my late husband’s sailing partner said that to me and then promptly went and got the two of them stuck in the mud exactly as I had told him would happen I gave serious thought to leaving the two of them out there in the two to three foot muddy waterless bay of goop until they turned to skeletons.
Florida Bay is probably like a chicken poop vat!
They are little boys acting tough, of course, so alone you can be his friend but when his co-teens are around he has to show off. It’s that simple.
Back to bed, Charlie woke me up with howling like a werewolf and I thought I was in a hotel room with one outside howling. Love, Jackie