Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.

[Baymule]

We walked to the rain gauge during a break in the drizzle. So far, 1 1/2 inches.

 

[Baymule]

It stopped raining, we went outside and slaughtered that mean rooster, he is now chilling in a bowl of ice with some salt sprinkled on him.

Now the sun is out, steam is rising and I hear more thunder.

Like you LS, we are in recliner mode. Butt drop disease will get you every time.....

 

[Devonviolet]

One thing a rainy day is good for..... a duck egg frittata with minced onion, fresh mushrooms topped with Swiss cheese. And a whole wheat roll spread with home made peach jam.

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Hey, your eggs look like what we had for breakfast, only ours had chunks of pork, rather than mushrooms, and homemade goat milk Chévre, rather than Swiss cheese. YUMMY, none the less! BTW! Ours was made with duck eggs, as well!

 

[Latestarter]

Yup, had sunshine and blue skies for a bit but started graying up and just heard thunder so came on to check the radar... Looks like the recliner is the best place for you right now Bay. Seems the thickest of it is right over you. DV probably isn't doing much better... Looks like she may be getting poured on as well. Looks like I may get some sprinkles but the thickest is south of me. I can see lighter sky behind the gray mass. Looks like good old @CntryBoy777 might be dealing with a little moisture problem over his way too. YUP, we got plenty of humidity.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Yeh, we've had sprinkles to drizzles and back to sprinkles most of the day.....been keeping an eye on the radar and it seems the storms are weakening as they cross the river. We can use the moisture so not going to complain...for now...

 

[goatgurl]

@Baymule your breakfast looked yummy. like you and @Devonviolet I had duck eggs for breakfast too, just eggs and toast with a cup of coffee. dang I love those things. @Latestarter that spaghetti looks pretty tasty too. i'll bring the salad and rolls.
we have been having our share of rain too. i'm not going to gripe because my pond still could use some more water.

 

[Devonviolet]

We had thunder & a few sprinkles, but nothing serious. Before it was over this morning, we ended up with a total of 5 inches!

We did make it to the fellowship meal in time to eat leftovers. No one, but me ate our yummy salad. Oh well, I enjoyed it! And we did get to enjoy fellowship with our friends. That was the most important reason to go anyway!!!

 

[Bruce]

You all better break out the emergency life rafts!!

I can picture poor, abused, Trip standing in a lawn chair staring in at the cool, dry, comfy owners with that puppy dog look begging to be let in.

I'm SURE you can Joe!! Mel has probably melted you with the same look.

I'm becoming less and less impressed with hormel pork products.

Given I can now only SOMETIMES find "uncured" (AKA nitrate free) bacon at ONE store, AND it isn't always satisfactory (you mean there is supposed to be some LEAN in there??) I've got my name in with Farmer Brown and his wife for a pork belly. Even if I just cure it with salt and maple syrup, no smoking, it will be:

• in the freezer where I can find it
• have a good meat to fat ratio

Mrs. Farmer Brown said the belly will be 10-12 pounds. That should last a good long time though I suspect it may be hard not to eat more than we should since there will be more in the freezer Will be interesting trying to get reasonably thin and uniform slices without a slicer. Not sure I want to fork over for one since I've never had a need for one before.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Ya need a sharp knife and a hair pick.....of course a new never-been-used one....lay it on top of the chunk of belly and atrt your slices between the tines of the pick.....once they are started ya just need a steady hand until ya get to the end....use it to cook with as it will be thicker and will be great in some beans or peas....

 

[greybeard]

All that stuff must be from that hurricane that hit Mexico....

No.
Remnants of TS Franklin are out in the Pacific ..West of Mexico. This is all Pacific North West moisture laden cool air , getting trapped between frontal boundaries. It runs out of energy on it's way south, becomes stationary and begins to slowly slide off to the East.

Will probably happen again next week when the next PNW front moves down. (from this morning's sat/radar shot..I added the black arrows to show direction of movement)