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I’m working on the new book, tentatively entitled “Arlo & Janis after Dark,” and here I am giving away the merchandise. Yes, production of the new book is behind schedule, but I think it’s going to be a lot of fun. And yes, it’s mostly old material, but if you’re worried that you’ve seen a lot of it already, think how I feel.
387 responses to “‘Oft Go Awry’”
Expect -25 or so tonight, -40 or lower wind chill. Glad I’m indoors. Peace,
Jackie, I have troubles finding iceberg lettuce with any substantial green to it any more at the grocery. Seems it has been decided to grow it for the white heart material only. That’s the part I used to punch out, and leave for animals, preferring the green leaves with romaine. I know it can still be found, for restaurant buyers at least. P.F. Chang’s lettuce wraps have huge beautiful leaves. So far only dandelion and kale are to weedy tasting for me. My father on the other hand, considered all vegetables fresh or blanched as ‘rabbit food’. Baked, grilled or boiled, preferably with a substantial sauce was more his style.
So my salads are mostly spinach, with assorted other greens to avoid boredom. Your add-ins list is wonderful. But I wasn’t sure they all fit with your new needs, so was shy to say. What you described is flavorful enough for a complete meal! But it takes a BIG bowl to keep me from grazing in the unhealthy cabinet later.
It’s tomorrow morning in Kenya, and warmer. What on the right in the webcam the other day was hippos. Wide angle webcam fooled me into thinking they were smaller. Several, of course, are young. Peace,
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/african-safari-camera
71 degrees where I am now. (Sorry.)
“I didn’t claw to my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegitarian”, perhaps?
My views on sauces that drown instead of accent (admittedly out-dated):
Everyone knows the British cannot cook a decent meal. The secret is neither can the French. But they cover everything with different colors of butter so you can’t tell. Go Mediterranean for food that tastes how it was grown.
GR6, I like your travel destination. How timely. They don’t call them vegitables though?
Omit the first “to”.
Having to use a small tablet. Small laptop I use for travel is being difficult. Should have kept running Windows 7 on it.
Tiny keyboards do not improve one’s typing skills. Nor do tiny screens improve one’s proofreading skills.
Ghost, how about sending some of that warmth our way? Will you have to kill me if you tell where you are? I am assuming Florida or the Keys.
Morphy all those goodies still added up to a healthy 300 calorie salad including the dressing. The secret is small portions, not what most people pile on at a salad bar. The way I lost this weight was by counting calories and measuring portions. And exercise. That simple.
I shoot for 1000 calories per day because I can’t do it on 700, 500 or 300 per day which I admit to having lived on consistently for years to stay tiny body. Now I shoot for better than the average bear as Yogi used to say.
Note for Ghost I reward myself for good behavior with unnecessary things. Tonight I bought three new European bras in Merlot, chocolate and cream, Bordeaux Marseilles.
Sounds like a good French menu doesn’t it? Healthier than eating although the Red wines might be allowed in small servings of 3-4 oz.
71 balmy degrees in Pensacola.
My family has asked me what I want for Christmas. Well, you can imagine, there isn’t much an 83 year old person needs or wants, but I’ve been trying to write a list. Dark chocolate, dark roast coffe, pecans — after that I was stuck. But yesterday’s comic strips, two were joking about fruitcake, which reminded me how much I love fruitcake! So I posted on Facebook that I really like it and want to get some for Christmas presents. This simple statement drew some rather odd comments. What do you guys in the Village think?
It’s bedtime in NH now and I’ll get back to this tomorrow. Sweet dreams everyone!
Wow, the place picks up late on weekends! I’ll bow out after this.
Jackie, That’s doing it right, I’ve been told. Those smaller numbers are kind of scary.
Remember the ‘all-day’ jawbreakers kids in the 70’s liked? They often started out like three or four inches across. I know it’s a younger age group but this leads somewhere. We had been traveling cross-country in the family RV. Noisy things back then, like school buses. Difficult to get someone’s attention without shouting, if they weren’t looking at you. I had licked this candy down to a manageable size, and so was enjoying rolling around in my mouth cheek to cheek and leaving it rest there while I was reading. Just exactly the way a dentist might hate.
Dr. Heimlich’s maneuver saved me that day. My father had learned it at a work certification in the previous year, before our summer trip that year. Had never expected to use it, and was scared he was doing it wrong. Roadside on I-60, traffic zooming by.
Glad to hear the good doctor’s death was not caused by choking.
Oh, Charlotte, fruitcake is one of those things I did not understand people about.
I must have had ‘traditional’ or ‘home-made’, good fruitcake when young. Because I could not understand the running jokes year after year. Then in college, I learned what ‘store-bought’, or more accurately door-stop and paperweight fruitcake was. So for all the bad stories, just know there is such a thing as good fruitcake. Alcohol content may vary.
Charlotte, I love fruitcake too. I used to make my own, but haven’t done it for quite some time. Used to soak them in rum.
Sorry, forgot my Interstate #’s.
US routes had some big 60’s series numbers. I-70 is the big one.
For those who are interested, I am posting pics of Jackie’s truck, Trigger, after the accident.
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As you can see in this picture, the exhaust pipe is bent in a U and touching the right rear tire. Photo #2 shows the right rear fender and the amount of damage done when the Honda Civic hit it. Photo #1 shows the right rear door of this crew cab pickup. So it wasn’t a complete T-bone, looks more like an angled strike.
Jackie, word you are looking for is “primordial”.
The storage fees were almost $4000 so thank God for my very experienced cousin guardian who finally got the insurance company to move on it and pay the fees which were their fault, not mine. Trigger is still not being worked on yet but there is hope.
Miss Charlotte, Morphy and Laura, I too love fruitcake which is result of being raised on homemade good fruitcakes and fantastic Texas made fruitcakes sent around the world by oil field contractors. I will post a link but they are expensive.
Russian Rocks and tiny fruitcake mini bites are my favorite Christmas cookies. And yes, I used to make my own, along with plum and figgy puddings, steamed in a special steaming pudding pan. With hard sauce.
So, what fruitcake company in Texas am I trying to remember Mark?
Collins Street Bakery in Corsicana, Texas. Here is link. I love them but no longer eat any. Grew up on these and Granny’s homemade ones, in no way alike.
https://www.collinstreet.com/
A local barbecue joint has some lovely signs on its walls. My favorite is “Vegetarian: Native American for ‘lousy hunter’.”
Good read, as Writer’s Almanac usually is. Last line = another reason to quit smoking.
http://writersalmanac.org/episodes/20161218/
Peace,
Fake news flash-Trump going to Oak Island to drain the swamp.