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But I don’t know what it is?
larger
Looks like clematis.
Pretty. This growing at the farm?
SK was thinking clematis, ya got a link to mallow?
We spotted this one in an old farm yard that’s now part of the park we walk through along the Sheyenne River in West Fargo.
I’ve got it growing in my garden (perennial), but it also grows wild …
mallow wild
I don’t think so since it seems to be on the edge of the original farm house yard.
info and pic
Hi, NDD,
Maybe a hyderanged ya?
I don`t know if you remember a black rattlesnake I posted a few weeks ago. I had been documenting his life with us for about 10 months. Today an idiot from a city told a nieghbor there was a bif deadly snake in my field, so he took it upon himself to kill it, then stut about like a big man. What a f..king idiot. So now the full moon is up & “THE SHAMAN” IS DEAD.
I put this together from tonight`s full moon & a sculpture of a medicine man shot through the head with an arrow by a jealous rival.
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I remember that snake!
Hi,OLIVIA
I`m very sad that a person could just kill like this person did today, & that`s the reason I kept his location a secret. I photographed it almost a year ago, & scooted it to my woodpile down in the field where I would always check up on him. Then my girlfriend thinking one of the dogs had brought my beret down in the field, went to pick it up but realized it was the rattler coiled up in the sun. We have parrot feeders down there & the ground squirrels eat the fallen bird seeds. The squirrels are then food for the snake & everyone got along.
I`m really angry so I`m outta here for tonight, but you can here the ocean like I am now if you listen here. Goodnight all you others in greenland.
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{{{knuckle}}}
just bought himself some very bad karma.
No excuse for that…it’ll be back.
That`s the truth.
Goodnight dada
great image, must have been a damned powerful rival or the medicine man would have “seen” the danger, and avoided the rival entirely.
Last I heard I had a buffalo looking after me.
59º Lt. Rain
100% Humidity…still…
gills are beginning to form.
Hi SK, NDD, O, EnEssAy….et al…………………….
Hey dada! How are you?
long time, no see…what’re you up to these days/nights?
Decided to write a book. Have been spending most of my time on that. Stopped in earlier to see how everyone was and also because I needed a break from it.
you said you were thinking about doing…excellent news!
Hope it’s going well and your being here isn’t a sign of writer’s block…
It’s tougher than I thought it would be. I mean, the Part D stuff I was cranking out here was so EASY!
Some of this is really difficult.
trying to write a book. I have trouble writing comments here sometimes…I’m very definitely visual.
talking with my brother today, rain here at the farm;
July total rain = 0.55 inch
June total rain = 1.00 inch
May total rain = 1.25 inch
potential crops yields have already been affected.
This is shaping up to be a drought year at this rate.
parked down in the 4 corners area and it’s pulling moisture up from the gulf…an early start to the monsoon season?
Needed the moisture as we’re about 1/2 of where we should be.
Unusual for it to be this sustained tho. It started raining and drizzling Fri late and hasn’t really stopped…been a very strange year so far.
Did it cool down for you this evening? BTW, got your e/m…don’t worry @ it…:{)
It’s 77 on the thermostat — I just checked — and that’s on the main floor — upstairs is worse. I’m not sure why it’s so fing hot in the house b/c it’s not that hot outside. I’m sweaty and hot and pissed off.
Other than that I’m just fine. 🙂
How about you?
don’t sound fine to me…:{) Can you open an upstairs window and put a fan in it and suck outside air into the house to cool it or blow it across the bed?
That’s what I do at night…but it’s generally cooler here at night than it is there I suspect.
Did you get to the market?
and didn’t get too wet in the process.
I had to change the dinner menu however, too much rain to fuss w/ the grill, so made a green chili and pork stew…came out pretty good for spur of the moment.
Are you a good cook?
one I’m particularly fond of is grilled shrimp and scallops w/ pepperoni and a balsamic vinegar and olive oil drizzle served over very thin sliced provolone cheese…combine w/ grilled portabella mush., fresh spinach salad, fresh Betard, and a nice Sauvignon Blanc or a French White Burgundy…yummy!
That’s an interesting combination!
Sounds great otherwise … well, maybe not the scallops. 😉
that turned out very well. I really like shellfish, crabs, oysters, seafood in general…if it swims or lives in salt water I’ll eat it. That’s one of the reasons I like to get near an ocean, really fresh seafood!
Whata ya got against scallops? They’re very good.
They’ve always been rubbery … and I’m not familiar w/ them or mad for them enough to try preparing them myself.
this way I’ll show you how it’s done. It takes very little time to cook. That, and whatever marinade you use, if any, makes a big difference.
Too many people overcook seafood in general. It should be med. rare at most.
outside temp is 13C, I got so many windows open I was getting chilled, so I had to go downstairs for a jacket, and brew some hot chocolate to wash down my Pepperidge Farm Milano Double Chocolate cookies.
it’s 15ºC here, and the rain has stopped, at least for the moment. And somebody’s cat just got into it w/ a skunk in the alley so the air has suddenly become somewhat ‘aromatic’…:{/
clearing the sinuses!! 😉
Hope you’ve got a duvet to snuggle w/ tonight.
Actually, I do have a down sleeping bag that unzips flat, that I use in the winter, and since the heated waterbed downstairs is covered with debris from the BNF’s past… due to cleaning and reorganization spree in that bedroom, I’m bunking upstairs, so I may yet need my duvet. Other than that, not much else here to “snuggle” with.
And I didn’t realize that they were still in use … As for snuggling, grab an extra pillow. And a down sleeping bag is not a duvet … for shame! 🙂
Well I guess we’ll find out.
As I recall the pile contains a number of dresser drawers, 3 pair of cross country skiis/poles, 4 sleeping bags, including MY DUVET to name a few of the items.
Sorting through my belongings here would do justice to an archeological dig, ha!
That must be some reorganizing … 🙂
Vee half a terrible susceptibility to entropy.
31.9C here, hotter than hades
That’s pretty cool. I like to cook and I am pretty good, but I am hopeless without a recipe. I just don’t have much ability to make things on the fly.
or try to replicate dishes I’ve had in restaurants. Lots of experimentation, and some spectacular failures along the way.
I only have 1 cookbook, and I only use it for reference, esp sauces…I can never remember how to do them because I rarely do.
I own lots of cookbooks. What I like to do is read three or four recipes for a dish, study how they differ, and then combine them to make what I think would be good. Lots more work, but it works.
I have quite a few cookbooks, but a lot of what I cook are things like Rice-a-Roni that have the instructions on the package, or grilled meats where the instructions are basically “watch the temperature probe until it hits 160°.”
Right now though I’m looking for a recipe for honey mustard. I used to be able to find a very good brand at the local store, but I don’t think they make it any more. I can’t even find it on the Internet, and it’s my second favorite condiment on hot dogs (the first being chili, cheese and onions).
The Internet has a few suggestions although usually it finds me things that are made with honey mustard, not a way to make it from scratch.
absolutely the best honey mustard sauce I ever had, made in N CA. I found there website once, try google for Larrupin Sauce, I think you can order from there.
I’m on dialup, or I’d do it for ya. Currently at 24K, sh*t it used to be 31.2, then 28.8, very frustrating.
This is the brand I usually buy:
Beaver Honey Mustard
I’m glad I looked. I didn’t think they made it any more.
I did find a recipe that looks promising that I might give a try. It calls for white wine vinegar, but I might try it with cider or raspberry vinegar instead. I’ll go look for that Larrupin sauce and see what I can find.
I used to pour it over lox, on cream cheese, on a wheat bagel… very tasty.
Bleah. I’ve been camped in front of the fan for several hours.
keeping you out of mischief lately?
What would be the fun in that?
Temp must have dropped 10 degrees easy! Ahh, comfort!
Evening all. Still too hot to sleep.
Yeah, but I’m going outside in the rain for awhile. Nite all!
You’re all making me feel guilty. No rain, but that’s normal. Mild temps, (61 right now, with forecast high of 71 for tomorrow). Pleasant as can be.
Oh the Horrors…I am drinking what should be a kick ass ail, only to find it substandard. sigh. It’s Monty Pythin;s HOLY *gr*Ail. “Tempered over burning witches.” Sadly, it is barely mediocre. How dare they defame the Python with a bad ail! Travesty. :>)
[cue twilight zone music] I just got back from the store where I purchased a bottle of wine and a six pack of new-to-me beer. Blech! I feel ur pain.
Hey Manee! I love to try new beers, but this one is a one-shot only thing. Luckily, it is only a pint, so no great loss. I’m just bummed ’cause it had a really great label. :>) It’s a british beer, so I should have known. Probably be better warm. :>)
I’m a fan of honey/wheat type beers so picked up Lawson Creek’s Honey Wheat. Thought it would be in the safe range, but it’s much too sweet for my liking. I want to pour a bottle of salt into it 🙂
That’s a new one on me, but I don’t tend to like wheat beers and a honey wheet does sound really sweet. Have you ever had honey mead? It’s really sweet, but I have a soft spot for it. Maybe because it isn’t trying to be a beer. :>)
you believe that I’ve never had mead at all? I hear good things, so perhaps I need to rectify that deficiency soon. hehe
I would actually. It’s pretty hard to come by and the majority that I have had is home brew. It helps being a pagan! Pagans love to home brew mead and absynthe and stuff. It’s kinda like the white port in a weird way…a heavy sweet drink, and way more potent than it lets on to be. :>)
and here you are!!!
Wanted to tell you I’m drinking Jarritos Mandarina, best orange soda I’ve found since Orange Crush, which we had when I was a kid.
Stumbled over a Mexican groc store in rural MN picking up deck materials, so I bought a 24 pack, ha!
summer drink you’ve got there NDD. 24 pack? Looks like you’ll be set until you’re sick of the stuff. I’m still trying to coax my tia’s horchata recipe out of her, mmmmm
I tried a new brew this wkend from one of the local micros…Avery 14’er ESB…very tasty!
that sounds like good stuff. My favorite micro is from the Four Peaks Brewing Co. in the Phx metro area. It’s called Kilt Lifter. Good stuff.
ROFL…that is a great name for a beer. You will have to bring some to the next meet and greet. I’ll being along some Hemp Ale or Eye of the Hawk ale.
I really like the local micro breweries…we’ve got quite a few of them here and the Liquid Mart usually has specials on them every week.
Gotta keep the ol’ beer gut in shape…I’ve got too much invested in it…:{)
Hey Dada. I just love microbreweries. The best beer I’ve had comes from small, local breweries. The west coast has a lot of them, but I have also run across some from Colorado. I think the mountain air is conducive to fine beer taste. :>)
Night all. I’m slipping fast. Pleasant dreams.
see ya around this week
and hope ya get some cool breezes.
over here yawl…yer fallin’ off the page…koyaanisquatsi…out of balance.
but my horiz pieces are 3.5″ dia cedar, so I’ve been having some “entertainment” with my sawzall making the holes in the end pieces, for which I’m using the 5/4 X 6 decking, since I have some left and can save a trip to my lumber yard, some 25 miles NE of here.
dude, those are fence posts! How the hell did you come to that?
Buy ya books, send ya ta school…look what happens.
Vell, mahn, it vent sumtin’ like dis. First MS NDD, as you recall, was not enamored mit da metal vuns. Den vee look for some vood, dat vood be 2.5 to 3″ but dere vus nuttin’ in da hole of the metro area. So den vee call to Detroit Lakes MN, some 50 miles east. Day half nuttin’ like dat eeder. But they say Pierce Bros may have sumptin’ since day are log home bldrs. I say, I know Pierce Bros, since all my interior would in the house came from their papa and mama’s mill some 26 years ago, cedar and pine V-groove, and oak bull nose.
Dere is no sheet rock on the first or second floors, and what little is in the basement may yet find a home in the dumpster. Obviously, I don’t tape sheetrock. One of the few things I never learned to do.
Vell, back to the Pierce Bros. Day say day half 3″ cedar, I say that’s what I lookin’ for. I say I need 12 4′, and 6 5′, day say they be ready to pick up Sat morning.
My friend Bob and I drive 75 miles from Fargo to Pelican Rapids, MN. Nice drive through lake country in MN. Arrive there, nothing cut. No 3″ only 3.5″. Same price. I say, Maynard said he had 3″. Maynard’s bro says, “He lied.” OK! So we get 3.5″ cause vee are dere ya know. And none in da metro area, remember.
So we load them in the back seat of my 83 Chevy, caprice, “pickup”. But the muffler be draggin’ So we stop in Pelican Rapids for a nice breakfast. Buy tarp straps at hardware store, (what you city slickers call bunge cords). We drive one side of auto up on curb and attach strap to hold muffler up. I say muffler will burn rubber, Bob say, nah. I say find me some squashed beer cans or sumptin. Bob finds a sqashed rusty coffe can, so we use that.
I say that ought to last a week or two, maybe a month, Bob says, two years. We make it to Fargo muffler dragging again. Strap burnt off.
Drive auto up on ramps, attach stainless steel wire to hold muffler up. Bob says it will last for two years. So far so good. Made it to farm no problem.
So now vee yoos 3.5, eet veel vurk out OK. I very innovative in da pinch!
Will send photos next week when I return to big city.
Tank you fer your concern, “grasshopper” still hopping.
That was a good story NDD!
It was a very late last night and I’m toast.
Since Chris didn’t post any DH vids tonight…praise FSM…here’s a little Miles and Trane for ya…So What c. 1958
Enjoy
Catch ya on the flip
G’night all, pleasant dreams.
Peace
Sleep well.
it’s been another great eveing at BT. Guess I’ll hang it up too, so whoever is left, night night to you too, Manny, Omir, enessay, et al…
Hope ya caught my reply above