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Posted on 05/03/2008 8:48:06 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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!
I don’t think I’ve ever known who were on the 1967 Steelers defensive line.
Well, we got the second coat of stain on the windows, this cool spell worked out in our favor big time.
How did the second round of clear filming the sunroom go?
Well....it didn’t - ran out of film and didn’t feel like going to the box store for more stuff.
So I watched the Cubs lose instead.
Sorry about the Cubs. I watched a rare Indians win earlier today.
Heh... losing’s nothing new to Cubs fans. :)
We seem to have a better than normal team this year, though.
Yep, the Tribe won’t be going back to where they went last year, and it’s their own fault.
Hmmm....the Tribe is trailing even the Royals in the standings.
That kind of sucks.
It does indeed, but if I get on a rant about it I’ll probably get a timeout.
By the way... when did the bridge toll go up to $4?
It just went up in June. Seems there wasn’t enough traffic on the bridge to bring in the revenue they had forecast, so they approved the next increase six months earlier than they’d planned.
It’s classic liberalism: If you’re not selling enough of something, raise the price to make up the difference.
And then they wonder why traffic volume goes down again. It’s breathtaking, really. All I can say is that all the economists at the DOT went to Evergreen. Nuf said.
Oh... but then this comes from a state governed by the party that— at the national level— thinks we should add some big taxes to barrels of oil in order to bring the price down.
Yup. Thems the ones.
Why can't they point with pride to Michigan, which has a six-year head start on them? We're taxing ourselves into a depression, and will probably amend the state constitution to cut back on judges and state reps, 99% of them being GOP. The wonders of a RAT monopoly.
A few more years of this, and Michigan will be like North Korea without the nukes. And it will still be Bush's fault.
And yet, the party I’m voting for seems to think that the best way to beat them is to roll over and play dead. sigh.
Yeah well, but at least you guys have had that type of representation for a long time. It’s rapidly erroding into Virginia.
Somehow even though the state budget has gone from $17 billion to $34 billion in the last seven years (Mark Warner, Tim Kaine), they can’t seem to find 3% of that to address the transportation needs. They ~need~ to raise taxes.
In a rare showing of spine, the GOP House stopped them and presented an actual workable plan that didn’t raise taxes. But the ‘rats voted it down. An actual win for us, but the media doesn’t portray it that way.
Don't we get Bastille Day off or something?
My Huguenot ancestors would think that we should...
Baby bunnies are doing fine...even the ones that were born on their cage floor. There was obviously more fur packed in around them yesterday and their tummies were bulging, so Hyacinth has apparently settles down and intends to raise them.
We bred the does again yesterday, so that means in four weeks when the current litter is ready to wean, the next litter will be ready to be born. Then we’ll re-breed them again and in four weeks the first litter will be ready to be butchered, the second litter will be ready to wean and the third litter will be ready to be born...and so on. Every four weeks (actually every 31 days) we re-breed the stock.
We had a heck of a time breeding them last time...trying to get the does into the cage with the buck was difficult due to the fact that the does don’t like to be picked up and would thrash wildly! It worked but it was very stressful and they have claws like razors.
This time, we put up a small corral with some extra fencing we had from the old garden. It was grassy, peaceful and shady. Then we just opened the cages and kinda pushed them out into the grassy corral where they frolicked around, nibbled grass and did what rabbits do. Afterward, we put the does back in their cages but let Joshua sit in the corral and pet Buck.
It was very easy and stress-free.
Aww, poor bunnies. So just when they’re ready to enjoy life themselves you’ll eat them?
Yes, that’s right! Either we’ll eat them or trade them or give them to someone or sell them.
The interest in them is amazing! It really is a very healthy meat and people are apparently looking for it.
Still, I told Steve if he brings a butchered rabbit in looking like a butchered rabbit, I’ll get sick. I want it cut into chunks. It looks just like chicken pieces when it’s chunked up.
Mmmm... chicken... I made some real fried chicken the other night using panko crumbs (Japanese style breadcrumbs, some grocery stores sell them). They’re so light that they made a really lovely crispy crust. I’d never made fried chicken before so I was happy how it turned out.
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