I guess it'll all depend on what you're gonna do with the turtle.

Well, I cleaned it to cook. Turtle meat sells for more than rib eye steaks, over here. It goes for $15-$17 dollars a pound. That little turtle after I cleaned it weighed 2#s, so that's at least $30. I just happen to love Turtle and I cook it every year for my Birthday.

now thats some good eatin robert it sounds like you came out like a champ on that deal sir.....and ron you can come over and cook a bacon sandwich any time you like sir mmmm---mmmmm-gooooooodddd

Thanks Stephen, If I find out that those knives are worth alot more than I paid that young man, I'll pay him a little more. I'm a fair man.

those chops with okra n' greens looks deee-licious, miss jan! yum!

but, being a city boy like i am, i'm curious to ask robert how he prepares his turtle? i don't reckon i've ever tasted turtle meat and i'm curious to know how you cook it?

i don't think you can make chicharones out of turtle meat can you, j.j.?

Well Ron, my favorite way to cook it is in a gravy, either a brown gravy or a Sauce Picante but a turtle soup is really good and the way alot of people cook them. I can't afford to buy turtles and knives, so I try catch my own. It's a real delicacy over here, because they are hard to catch or very expensive to buy.

thanks, robert! i have heard of turtle soup. i think what threw me was the comparison to a rib-eye. i was trying to picture a fillet o'turtle laid out on the barbecue like a big ol' flank steak. i've never dressed one out so i have no idea of even how the meat might look coming off a turtle, let alone how to cook it. like i said, i'm pretty much a city slicker. i hope you enjoy it however you decide to cook it!

yummmmm, turtle in a Sauce Picante

Boiled Crawfish for supper! YaHoo! I'm treating myself to some good food before my surgery. I probably won't beable to boil any for a while after the operation. Oh well I'm gonna eat good tonight.

and what a great dinner that is Robert. What did you fix with them Crawfish?

We had potatoes, corn, onions and plenty of select crawfish. We had ice cream and cake for desert. They had one of their college professors to eat supper with us, so I had to watch what I had to say.  Not to much opinion, one way are the other. I made out okay, just keep on smiling.lol 

Well dinner sounds wonderful Robert.  Nice that the girls are comfortable inviting a professor, I take it he is not Lousianna born?

No Mam, but we're braking him in right.

It has flooded south Louisiana with the recent storm, at least we have not had the killer storms that others have had. It has been bad for alot of folks so for this spring I hope all of ya'll make it okay through this very bad wheather. God Bless.

Prays are happening for them Robert

Dropped my knife in the bucket and no one wanted to get it out!

Nice looking mess of mud bugs, Robert.  My youngest would do dammage to that pot.  (So would I.) 

i think that knife will need a good boiling before somebuddy grabs it robert...

we are all praying...

i could put a serious hurt on that batch of critters. fo'sho! yum!

That is one beautiful batch of bugs there Robert

Well today is corned beef and cabbage with potatoes.  Happy St Patricks Day :)

Pass the corned beef, please!

Fried chicken and cole slaw today

That sounds good, Jan! As a youngster growing up in Southern California, Sunday always meant fried chicken with mashed potatoes n' gravy, topped off with some of Cordelia Knotts boysenberry pie. The pie, of course, would be topped off with a heaping scoop of vanilla ice cream!

You may recognize the name, "Knotts?" That would be the name of the world famous Knotts Berry Farm. Cordelia Knotts was the wife of Walter Knotts and they were the folks who turned a roadside berry stand into the now famous amusement park of the same name.

But it didn't become a world class theme park overnight. It evolved from a real Berry Farm and roadside stand where the berries were sold to a Restaurant with a wagon train circled around a camp fire and a Western Ghost Town.

As a boy in the 1950's I spent many a Sunday afternoon dining on Miss Knotts fried chicken and then sitting around that campfire on a log, listening to some old-timer spin a yarn about the Wild West. Those were magical times back then.

Thanks for the chicken, today, Miss Jan! In addition to satisfying my hunger it also conjured some fond memories! Happy Sunday to y'all!

Fried chicken, yum yum, I love that chicken, and Ron I never met a pie I didn't like. I've never heard of that kind but would be willing to fight my way through a taste test. One slice at a time...lol

Ron.

Knotts Berry Farm, been there but was VERY young.  Had no idea about the beginnings.  That does sound like a wonderful time for a Sunday dinner though and to a young boy I would bet it was magic!

Robert! Boysenberries are a cross between a European Raspberry and a Black Berry. The marriage of those two makes for one of the sweetest, tastiest, and sinfully delicious berries on this planet! Toss a few of those bad boyz into a warm rich blanket of crust--top it all off with some 'nilla eye-scream--and you have a sweet sweet vision of heaven in your tummy! Yum!

Need I say more?

Wow, do they sell the berries or the plants somewhere? I have Blueberries and Strawberries in my garden but I could find a place for them.

Jan, yep! When I was young Knotts was primarily just a restaurant out in the country with this funky old Ghost Town like you'd see in the Western movies. I can still remember the spooky old house that was there where some old guy who was dressed as a prospector would demonstrate how water would actually run up hill and how you couldn't stand up straight. Everyone would be leaning over while the water would be flowing the wrong direction in the trough. It was definitely magic for a boy of 10! The best part, as I recall, was that they didn't even charge admission! The restaurant and surrounding attractions were all free! That really was a lonnng time ago! *scratches head* Back then a Sunday drive was something you waited all week to do. Now, Sunday is the day you're glad to stay home so you don't have to do any driving and fightin' with other crazy drivers on the Freeways. Ouch!

Wow! I'm having all kinds of flashbacks today. It all started with your fried chicken, too! lol.

Try 'em, Robert! I guarantee you'll like 'em! In fact, next time you're at the market look and see if you can't find some Knotts Boysenberry preserves? I think they're made by Smuckers now? If you're familiar with that Brand? But, at least out West, they still have the Knotts name on 'em. Try the preserves. You'll love 'em!

Another good west coast berry...

Olallieberry

Predominantly produced on the West Coast of the U.S. the Olallieberry is a cross between a youngberry and a loganberry.  The juicy, sweet berry is excellent for pie making, preserves, and even wine.

Okay, gang! All that talk yesterday of chicken dinners, pie 'n such put me in a nostalgic mood to start sniffing around the web for some vintage Knotts Berry Farm memorabilia. Here are a few of the things that I found.

A menu from 1955!

Fast forward to 1970...

Observe that the price for a chicken dinner only went up .75 cents in 15 years.

Below is an aerial view of the park in 1953...

And finally a 1949 brochure and map of the park...

I lied! I have one more picture that really puts things into perspective in relation to "Then & Now." Look at the sign in front of this 1965 Service Station...

And, for anyone who might be interested, I am also attaching a link to a fantastic online Photo Album containing more than a thousand vintage photographs from around the world showing snapshots from a bygone era. You will find the link directly below this paragraph. Cheers, my friends!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mytravelphotos/favorites/page1/?view=lg

Bet it costs more than 3.00 to eat a chicken strip in the park LOL.  Great items and awesome link Ron Thanks

Well, I got a rabbit eating on my straw berry and blue berry plants, I put some bug powder on them but if he don't get the message, he may find out what rabbit gumbo is!

My momma always used Cayenne..they don't seem to like it

I gotta keep a bar of soap, in a knee-high, to keep deer from eating on my fruit trees.

Fried rabbit sounds good though.

JJ,

I use dawn to keep the mosquitoes and no see ems porpulation down.  Just a couple drops in a bowl of water works

Most of my garden is fenced in but this is a new part that's not and the rabbits are a pest.

My grand girl is going to state rally this weekend she has been going since she was a sophmore. She placed her first year and won last year. I am hoping she does well this year, even if she doen't win, I will love her for her effort. Although, I really want her to win, I need just need to stay low key about it. Sweat.....it out....Pawpaw...lol If you think I'm proud, you're right, I can't help it.

Robert,

She will do her best and it's nice to see how proud you are.  

PS, we want her to win also

Well folks, the results are in and {before I go any futher, I love her win or loose} She has won "Best Actress" and "2nd place in Advanced Math"! Pawpaw is as proud as a peacock....lol

congratulations to you and your grand girl, mr. peacock!

Congrats to her and you Robert..I know she has worked hard

Yep, she desevers a little credit, after all...lol...thanks

You should be proud, Robert. Congratulations to her.

"PawPaw the Peacock".  You be sure to tell your Gran' girl that we're happy too.

Thanks to all, Pawpaw Peacock!