Now it’s up to Chicago
Well, the Anaheim Ducks failed me. Now it’s up to the Chicago Blackhawks to eliminate the hated Detroit Redwings from the Stanley Cup playoffs. That’s what we like to see! It’s kind of a tough situation, though: the Blackhawks (who I believe will end up winning this series) absolutely humiliated the Stars this season at […]
Stream of Consciousness II
The NHL playoffs have started. I’m disappointed with Anaheim. I so want Detroit to be eliminated in this first round. Don’t care that the Stars now have a Detroit guy as GM, or perhaps kind of because of it. On the other hand, now that the Stars will no longer be part of the Pacific […]
Animal Control
No, not our pets, the wild ones outside. There was an obviously sick little skunk in wandering around our yard this morning. He was outside the pool yard fence, but as I shooed the dogs inside he slipped through the wrought iron fence into the yard. I urged the dogs inside (“RUUUUN!), then looked back […]
Stream of Consciousness
I remembered the Mastercard bill just in time. Since going paperless on a lot of our bills, I have trouble remembering them, even though I put reminders on my calendar. Of course, having a paper bill come in the mail doesn’t always help. I finally put both the gas and electric bills on autopay, after […]
Follow up
The corned beef was great. I bought two, while Kroger had them on sale, and I baked the smaller (2 lbs pre-cooked) one for St. Paddy’s Day. It was delicious, fall-apart tender, with intense, rich corned beef flavor. The mashed potatoes were , from Cook’s Illustrated Best Recipes and, really, there’s no way they’re not going […]
Corned beef & dog
Soooo…what’s been going on with you? Here? Oh, not much. I rescued a dog. A nasty dirty, horribly matted Shih Tzu*, who was moseying down Johnson Road (my street) in Southlake. I was driving home Tuesday afternoon when he wandered into my lane and started walking towards me as I approached. My choices were to […]
Horsey kind of morning
This is what I posted on Facebook: We were out late last night at a Official Dallas Stars game (which went to a shootout), and even later after being stuck in the astonishing traffic on 114 WB (one HOUR to go from the 121 merge to William D. Tate). So I was still asleep at six this […]
Wow!
Encyclopædia Britannica sends out an “On This Day” email every day (go here to sign up —it’s usually pretty interesting). The edition for today, 2/1/13, highlights an amazing fact: You wouldn’t think their influence would have been felt that far, would you? Even more amazing is the fact that the distance they mention, 32.7 million […]
Does anyone know…
…what I did with the paper window shades when I took them down last Fall? I came across another one I need to store with them. Anyone? No? Yeah, me neither. That’s what my memory is like these days. Oh! And the mystery dinner. Not great that night, cooked in the slow cooker. But the […]
Mystery dinner
So you take a grass-fed, antibiotic-free cow and butcher it. Cut it into more or less standard cuts, then take everything that’s left over and cut that into small pieces. Slap all those together, label it, “Stew meat,” and let some hapless home cook try to make something from it. I don’t doubt the quality […]
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