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Posted on 05/05/2004 7:57:51 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
New verse:
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I have never had agarita jelly! That one sounds like something I'd like to try too! Since I am not working this summer I am determined to scour the countryside for prickly pears too. I like to make jelly from them but they are the pickiest sort of fruit to work with. Last year I got some but you really have to use them the day you pick them or they turn nasty. And they are only good to pick for about 2 or 3 days so you have to be right there at the right time and be ready to do it!
If you make jelly you will probably start to like doing it. Funny thing is, I don't even eat jelly much. I prolly don't finish a pint a year. But, for some inconceiveable reason I just love making the stuff! Kinda of an addictive hobby IMO.
If you like jalapeno jelly I also have this incredibly awesome recipe for apricot-jalapeno jelly if you want it. That one is my friend Marty's favorite of the jellies that I make. Besides just eatin' it, she uses it as a glaze over anything she cooks on the grill. It is really nice to make unusual stuff like that and have someone appreciate it so much! :-)
Maybe you have a brownie :)
brownie, in Celtic folklore, household spirit associated with farmsteads. Brownies help with chores, but, if criticized, they will make mischief, such as spoiling crops. If payment other than food is offered a brownie, he vanishes from a farm forever.
I need to move far enough south to get fresh peaches. They don't grow up here.
"The Battle of Helm's Deep is over. The battle for Middle-Earth is about to begin."
Cool observation. Do you happen to know if Jackson took the latter from Tolkien's text? I don't remember offhand.
That sounds good! Do the habaneros stay "hot" after you mix them with the peaches?
And managed to charm the socks off the both of them...at least in the book!!!
Pippin is really quite a character :) Didn't realize it until my last reread, but he's got so many aspects to his personality, and he really develops over the course of the story.
Thanks for looking that up! Interesting editing on PJ's part.
No fresh peaches!!!! Why that is worse than horrible cold!!! Tell me is ain't so!!! ~covering head in despair~
Cast bullets scare me at those velocities. Can lead up a barrel so badly, it's like applying body solder to the inside of the barrel. When I have a need for speed, jacketed bullets are the way to go. Easier to clean up jacket fouling than lead fouling.
As the jelly sets up, the habaneros get hotter! :-)
In any case, I've never seen peach trees up here! There were a few in Rhode Island...but here we have apples and cherries, but not too many other fruit trees. I can remember being amazed when we visited my grandmother in Indiana because the next door neighbors had a big plum tree.
I could deal with that. Still want my four seasons, though...but I'm thinking a bit about the midwest these days...maybe even southern midwest.
It sounds like the crew of Olympia could use a bunch of Hobbit Hole knives sent in the name of WA freepers.
That sounds perfect! :) The hotter the better IMO.
Here's the toast I'm giving to Jeanne later tonight at dinner (30th):
To you
And to us
To the remarkable happiness that we’ve found
That has already lasted for eternity, and will for another
And to our children, who are a part of that happiness
And I don’t doubt that you and I, and all of us, were together in a past life
And will be in the next
With all my love
I drink to you
And to us
The kids flew in for the occasion, so will be with us.
They're all out at Tropical Chinese, so I'm getting a chance to compose this.
Beautiful toast!
Even when they were little kids we always wanted them with us on anniversary dinners...never wanted a break from the kids like alot of couples I know, instead, couldn't get enough of them.
So Hair and Ecurbh, are you guys real excited about getting married shortly...or is it the calm before the storm ;-D
I remember, the week before I got married to Jeanne, I was congratulating myself on how calm I was. However, I'm sure that was a delusion, because I lost 10 pounds that week without noticing it even happened.
Well, I would love to lose ten pounds without knowing how it happened!
For me, I am pretty calm about the decision to do it... worried more about whether I will look fat and whether everyone will have a good time visiting here!
You'll look beautiful, which you are, and everyone will have a great time, of that, I have no doubt at all.
Well, then no worries! ~grins~
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