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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
So - what was your feeling about coming over as it relates to your chicken issue? We never really finished that conversation. You want to cook that up and eat before you come over? That way you don't have to share it. :~) Or you can bring it over and cook it on the grill, we wouldn't even make you share it that way either, we've got our own chicken :~)
y'all'r'makin'me hungry
Well...it'd actually be easier to cook it over there, of course, being as how you've got the gas grill. And I'd be happy to share it, if'n you aren't sick of chicken. ;-)
I also have bagged salad.
But on the other hand, I do need to do some laundry and stuff, so I'm kind of feeling like I should get stuff done here. Maybe I should just do the chicken in my toaster oven.
How's that for a non-answer? I'm good at those.
So when ~can~ you come over then? With or without your chicken :~)
Hour and a half, I guess.
Or I could just come early for Jack tomorrow evening.
Heh... that's up to you if tomorrow is better :~)
I hate to stand in the way of laundry.
Eh...mostly I just need to get it into the dryer. Guess it doesn't need much input from me after that. ;-) Then...well, if I *could* use your grill, it'd save me some work. Lot easier than the toaster oven.
Got the suet hung up. Now to see if anyone notices my feeder...
OK - we're flexible! Get your laundry into the dryer and then come over with your chicken :~)
You better eat, I wouldn't wait on us... we may end up talking about this chicken all night :~)
How was the Brunswick Stew? LSA made guacamole and we grilled burgers. hmmm. guacamole.
Mmmm...guacamole...
The grocery had a sale on the smooth green type of avocado. I've pretty much never had that kind...hope I don't regret picking some up. But they were only fifty cents each!
They aren't ripe yet, though.
It was okay...needed to add a little more black pepper at the end.
Now I have a good supply of leftovers to take to werk.
hmm. LSA said she hasn't seen that kind of avocado either. Let us know how they turn out.
Leftovers and a microwave are the 'brown bag' brigade's best friend. Quite a few of us hit the microwave at noon.
http://www.avocado.org/about/variety_chart.php
They look like the kind on the far left. I think Haas are much more common...but they were also more like two bucks each. I usually only get those when they're at the height of their season and hence pretty inexpensive. But I do love 'em...
***minds his ps and qs and heads off to bed***
Steve and I were in the shop...we finally got it all cleaned out and dried out from the flood. So we were sitting there in the shop, resting.
Earlier, Steve had started a fire in the BBQ pit to burn some old credit card statements and stuff...so Joshua came in and said "I'm burning some grass." We didn't think anything of it...we thought he was burning you know, handfuls of grass...tossing them on there. Well, apparently not.
Matthew came in the shop and said "We need some water...the grass is on fire." Steve and I looked at each other and then jumped up and ran out to find a huge swath of our backyard knee-high in flames! Well, it was about a 15 by 15 foot area (between the garden and that tree by our shop, OT) and growing fast. I'm talking amazingly fast. It was traveling toward the back fence and toward the tree.
We tried stamping it out and that did no good at all so we grabbed some blankets we just happened to have out drying and did pretty good with them but finally Steve got a big piece of wet cardboard that my floorpans had come in and had been in the yard under the snow and he started putting it out with that and it worked. (Remember, the outside spigot was the one that burst a few weeks ago and it just capped off for now.)
We finally got it out, then ran the hose from the spigot in the garage out there and sprayed it down real good.
Joshua was hysterical. I have no hair on either of my hands and I burned my left hand when the blanket I was using picked up a burning twig and I grabbed it. I was covered in front with suet.
Had it kept going in the direction it was going, the tree might have caught on fire...that would've been bad, but not likely...I don't think. Also, the back fence still has a layer of thick ice in it's shade, so I think the flames would've stopped at that boundary.
Had the wind been blowing a different direction, it very well could've burned our house down.
I've been kinda shaking ever since.
Well... it coulda' been worse... :-)
Don't all parents have a moment when the kids come close to burning the house down? Maybe it was just me... I still remember when Mom asked me what I was doing with the chemistry set in the garage. I said "Oh, I'm making rocket fuel". The look on her face was priceless.
Glad you got it under control quickly.
Hang in there...
Heh...
There were so many mistakes made that led up to this scenario that I can't even begin to number them.
Most disasters consist of an improbable number of small accidents happening in just the right sequence. I'm grateful you had some "circuit breaker" that derailed that sequence.
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