Several of you expressed interest in my remarks about drawing with a felt-tip pen versus drawing with a pen point dipped in ink. More specifically, a lot of you wanted to see what I meant. This made me think further on the matter, and I will share some of those thoughts next week. Today, unfortunately, there isn’t time to do justice. So, I am posting two cartoons, one from 2010 and one from earlier this year. The first cartoon, the former, was drawn with a not-inexpensive high quality felt pen. The other was drawn old-school. The difference is subtle, but there is a difference. Look over them, if you’re interested, and we’ll talk about it next week.
247 responses to “Draggin’ th’ Line”
Good to see all are getting on well, enjoying the winter weather, and busy in the kitchen.
Jackie et al.: Here it is, live, wide angle view. Fixed webcam is atop a tourist info bldg. at SW end of Lake B. Area in foreground is a structured but natural wetland, local wild plants. Structures out on lake are fish houses, for spearing or angling, or just to get out of the house. There are scores of them out of view on the right, at the S end of lake. Lake froze late this yr, but dates by which houses must be off the lake have not changed. I don’t partake, and don’t have them memorized. Game warden does.
Mississippi R. flows N into lake a block E [to right], flows E out of lake about a third of the way up the E side. Downtown is W/NW of this bldg. BSU a mile or so N of webcam.
http://www.paulbunyan.net/weathernews/webcam/lakefront.html
Peace,
Rain on top of snow = Disaster. My patio’s roof is tearing away from the house.
‘Thibodaux I guarantee is a Cajun scientist.’ How so? Some info you haven’t listed? Not all French names are Cajun. Don’t forget the Voyageurs. Il y a beaucoup de French surnames here, some of them fairly common on 3 nearby reservations. Another local Ojibwe surname is Fairbanks. Others will come to mind after I click Submit.
Peace,
Reason I thought scientist was she had waded out in Mississippi River in knee boots to do a scientific test on the river and reason I thought Cajun is my friend she replied too is from Baton Rouge on Mississippi River.
But I may be wrong because Thibodaux may be common up there.
I had guessed she was up there with a university or maybe some sort of river work.
My female cousin is with Corps of Engineers and she has lots of river involvement.
My photo of Ghost Kitty on Facebook has 46 individual likes and several comments. He is so beautiful. He does indeed look like Sylvester P. Puddycat but we already had a Sylvester who is actually a mackerel Tabby.
Sometimes our cat names bear no connection to what they resemble. Wasn’t it Sylvester who used to say “I resemble that remark?”
OR was that Albert the alligator in Pogo?
Jackie, wasn’t it a comedian on the radio who used those words? In memory I can hear him, don’t recall who. Villagers, any idea?
My late husband used to quote it. Not sure where?
Apparently Groucho Marx, the Three Stooges, Garfield, Leg horn Rooster and a host of others.
EMB, the background shows some blinking lights so I know that it is a camera, but why isn’t the water in the foreground moving?
The snow is coming down on Old Faithful and there are people out walking in it!
Trapper Jean, pork and butternut stew sounds great! I’ll have to try that. I make one with pork, sweet potatoes, and green pepper, which go well together. Right now, I’ve got a pot of beef, barley, and mushroom soup simmering. Running late because I seriously sliced a finger while mincing the garlic for the soup. I had to apply pressure and elevate for quite a while. At least the garlic ensured that the blood wouldn’t attract a vampire.
Next time smash your garlic with flat of Japanese chef’s knife. I smash them in skins and then remove skin easily. It isn’t usually necessary to mince after doing this, just pickup pieces of garlic left with blade of knife and push into pot.
Good Jamaican stew that uses pork, sweet potatoes and greens (mustard, turnip or kale, collards).
Oh dear, Smigz! So sorry this happened to you. My doctor told me a while ago that he did the exact same thing while mincing garlic! I have been very mindful of this hazard and always take care to hold the garlic down on the cutting board with a fork, an ordinary stainless steel dinner fork. Hoping your finger heals well.
Jackie, that Jamaican stew sounds good, too. I’m not a kale fan but like turnip greens and collards. I’m sure I must have had mustard greens in mixed greens at restaurants, but don’t know what they taste like by themselves. How would you describe them? I had smashed the garlic with a santoku, but still wanted a fine mince for the soup—I love garlic and like the little bits in my bites!
Charlotte, it should heal well, but I take both a low-dose aspirin and flaxseed oil capsules daily and consequently bleed like crazy from even a small nick. The cut is right at the inner junction of two joints so it is in kind of a bad spot, but it will get me out of doing the dishes tonight! 🙂
Jackie, in the Three Stooges, it probably would have been Curly. And a good line gets copied, so who knows who said it first? That’s Foghorn Leghorn, by the way, to give him proper credit. According to what I have read it was a takeoff on a Senator Claghorn character from a radio show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x_FzCWl2nc
Smigz: Do you use fresh mushrooms with your beef and barley? Best version I ever had used a combination of fresh and dried. I’ve always regretted not talking the deli owner out of the rest of the recipe.
Just because I’m the southernmost Villager, usually, that doesn’t mean we didn’t also feel the need to fix something hearty this weekend. Yesterday I made a Cuban-inspired stuffed boliche, served with black beans and yellow rice. Unfortunately the website for the recipe that I used seems to have disappeared and the others that I’ve found are much more complicated. Next time I’m using the desktop computer (much easier to type there) I’ll try to summarize my simplified version.
Quebec has found a great use for beets:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/beets-cowansville-road-salt-quebec-1.3926225
I wish I could cook with mushrooms. Unfortunately my better half doesn’t like them and she has been a real sport trying them occasionally.
It has been a while since I made a swineapple. You take a pineapple, peel, core and halve it. Fill it with pork rib meat (or pork loin, etc.) seasoned with your favourite rub. Wrap the whole thing in bacon and smoke until it is done.
Dinner was small catfish filets pan sautéed in whole wheat pinko crumbs, quinoa, a sautéed veg mix of shredded stuff, about ten different kinds, done with garlic and olive oil, butter, corn made with bacon and cheese sauce and corn bread.
Ok, I ate one fillet, a half cup of everything else. This is only “real” meal I eat, just one plus sometimes a diabetic drink and English muffins for breakfast.
Gary, the runoff of beet based road grip could look kind of scary. But it gave me a chuckle. Pacific Northwest used pulverized red rock for a while. The simple approach of Swineapple begs to be attempted. Any complements received will be credited to you.
I really should eat better before reading here. Hunger pangs. I’m used to leaving chili on simmer for as long as there is chili remaining, blending flavours. But some of these mouth-watering ideas have me thinking that would be the wrong approach for those stews.
Jackie, I continue to be disappointed with Verizon. When it works, it is fine and does everything as contracted. But that is the best it ever gets, so average experience is below par. I’m open to learn about other services. Verizon is the benchmark for continuous reception in this area. Others make good selling points, but it all comes down to: you have to buy it to experience it. Refunds available, but you have to fight for it. I just realized, I need to guarantee bill payment to someone who already has a contract, and try theirs for a weekend. You just helped me out, thanks.
ATT told me the truth. Their service is tied to only areas of heavy population. Out where I am on boonies it sucks and in all the wide open spaces of the West it doesn’t exist.
Before I forget about the mystery of the bloody paw marks, cooking dinner I looked at pale green counter tops and there was a trail of bloody red cat paws across entire counter and Mark’s mama’s skinny black cat Spotty jumped off!
I panicked how he’d cut his feet so badly until I noticed the leftover blackberry cobbler sitting on counter.