JJ,

Thank you for the coonkin cap.  Great site.  I may try some of those suggestions from the kids project page with the grand babies.  They look like fun

Hey folks,  If  you don't here from me for a bit, it's because we don't have wi-fi, at the place we're staying at in PA.  (Hopefully they do though.)

Jan,  have a safe trip to PA, yourself.  Let me know it they have any new whittlers at GE.

JJ,

You have a safe trip and have some fun 

Rabbit and gumbo.  Fresh vegies and "found meat".

Home made ice cream...

We stopped for the night in Virginia.  I had "liver and onions", at Shoneys.

Got some crappy wi-fi, but I can check in.

If we get to do nothing else , the rest of the trip,  I'm a happy guy  tonight,

Stopped by a CASE dealer, on the way up,  and found a Seahorse that I wanted.  (Last Seahorse that they had too,)

Amber Bone Seahorse.

Can't wait to check in at the shop in Lancaster...

Later...

Well at least you have somethng to do trying out that new knife.  Congrats JJ

I want to come to dinner :(

Great gadzooks. 

Left home with high's at 106.  High, here, in PA, yesterday was 104.  Cool front is heading this way and it is supposed to hold the highs at around 90, beginning tomorrow.  (Might need a jacket.)

I liked the Amber bone scales on my stockman, Robert.  I think that these would do well with a "Pocket  Worn" treatment.  The edges are a might severe and do better slightly rounded. 

We scheduled our arrival, so that we could pick up some BBQ chicken that a local Amish man does on Saturdays.  That along with a helping of "Shreaded" potatoe salad all washed down with a bottle of Birch Beer.

Picked up a few local peaches to try out.  Last time it was too early for good pits.  We'll see.

Stay cool, y'all...

Headin' to the pool...

Later.

JJ,

I am hoping for the cold front.  I could do with about 40% less humidity!!  Leaving early tomorrow, all the housesitters have thier keys and their days to be here.  Nice to have single friends that want to stay at the pool house for a few days.  Will let ya'll know how the trip is going

It cooled off to the high 80's on Wednesday and Thursday.  Heat advisories on Friday.  Hate to miss the opportunity to see you in Titusville, but I think I'm ready for home.

Still looking for a home computer. Hope I'll come across a good "Back-to-School" deal, next week or so.

Stephen,

I counted 6 deer and multiple coons on the road.  Donnie was going to fast for me to grab them coons to make kabobs and caps darnit!!  JJ did you get diner food??

Just stopped in for a cold one,  By the time you stop to fetch the supplies, they done gone from raw to well done...  Temps as high as they have been, make you want to organize a roadkill hunt. (Someone on the tailgate with a cooler to catch the critters on the way down after being hit.)

Told told the girls that the state animal, for West Virginia, was "Roadkill Critter". 

I kinda like the two Guist brothers on the show.

Jan,

How was your trip?

"River Rats",  that must be a universally applied term.  They're called the same in the lowcountry, here in SC, also.

Amen, Robert;

These TV reality shows only want to show the sterotypicial people.  If they showed more "normal" folks, the show wouldn't attract a following.

Robert,

Florida has it's own version of that also.  We call it the florida disease.  People get here and just want to hang out and party.  They don't even have to leave society!  We actually have a beach on the other side of the bridge named "unemployment beach"

80% of my deit is food that I caught, killed or raised in my garden. I still buy alot of stuff to go with the things I come up with. I call that living off the land a little bit. Some hunt and fish and collect food stamps and welfare and call that living off the land. I worked hard for my retirement but some want it for nothing. We wonder why our country is in trouble. To me the biggest word in the dictionary is "Responsibility"....Whoops..there I go again.

This was the largest one that I could find, Stephen.

How bout some hush-puppies and fries too?

The cooking system has come up as a joint effort of Brahma Kumaris India and Solare- Bruecke, Germany, The solar reflectors in the cooker produce steam which used to cook vegetables and rice for up to 18 000 people. The steam can reach temperatures of 650 degrees Celsius at the focal point of the reflector, hot enough to cook food in massive industrial pots of 200 and 400 liters. On days of peak solar radiation the system can apparently cope with 38,500 meals per day.

Tobert,

LOL, how was the catfish.  My mom , brother and his wife had never had crawfish (imagine?)  So last Tuesday night I made crawfish etouffee.  Even the 2 year old loved it!!

Sounds like everyone's been eating well...Catfish and crawdaddys,  yum.

Don't know about investing in all that Indian and German apparatus.  All we need to do, lately, is hit the local Wall Mart parking lot.  It's 102 out here now.  Set out that big fry-pan and get to cooking.

Don't think I've said anything before, but when we got back from PA, our refrigerator had gone out.  Lost everything inside.

One of the things was a bottle of homemade hot pepper sauce.  Picked up some cayanne, jalapino, and habanarro peppers over the weekend to make up some more.  Basically just pickeled peppers, in white vinegar, we like it on "Greens"

Made 2 pints of jalapinos, for those that like milder flavors,

2 bottles of mixed, with all three, for a more robust flavor,

and 1 jar of the habanarros, for the insane.

Bring on the collard greens.

JJ,

I make mine with just Cayannes but haven't been able to find any hot ones lately and the winter killed my bush.  Love them greens

Robert,

I will have to try that

TOO HOT when you can cook outside without assisted heat

Got a great Habannero recipee that's similar.  (Almost a Tabasco recipee).

I wanted some of the hot vinegar sauce, though, for the greens.  Tabasco for most everything else though.