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General Discussion, Saturday, March 9, 2019
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Think like a giraffe today.

Whatever do they say?
Do they like a dram of water
Or some new bright yellow hay?
I don’t know.
Your guess is as good as mine.
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Good morning, Lucille! Happy Saturday!
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Thanks, sand!




I’m visiting Ventura County, CA today…this scene is the bike path for the area called “The Rincon” on the Pacific Coast Highway…I remember my mother talking about traveling through The Rincon going toward Los Angeles on a date with my father when they were first engaged…
I’ll be relaxing here for the entire day…
…perhaps watching the surfers enjoying a bright, sunny day on the water…
And then head back south to L.A. via the PCH which cuts through Point Magu Rock at Camarillo, the city where my brother was born in 1937…
Memories….
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Very nice! 😊😊😊
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Beautiful! Sure wish we could reclaim California from the liberal loonies.
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Amen! Such a terrible shame what’s happening all over the state, but especially the big cities which once were such fun both to live in and to visit. I remember San Francisco in the 60s…an absolutely beautiful, incredibly exciting city, and safe even during the Flower Power era.
Downtown Los Angeles is overrun with rats (both political and animal). The city is in the throes of a typhus epidemic which they are trying to keep under wraps as much as possible. The L.A. TIMES, even though being a good little sycophantic leftie publication, has reported on it. However, if they really cared, they would be actually doing something grass roots about it, like calling upon all the other downtown businesses to privately fund daily clean-up, rodent removal, and being at every City Council meeting demanding the city take all the illegals, derelicts, drug addicts and drunkards off the streets.
Do health hazards mean anything to Mayor Garcetti? Who knows, but the rumor is he’s contemplating a run for higher office, maybe the Presidency since the Newsom family and their cohorts in crime (Pelosi and husband Paul, plus the Brown family) have the governorship all sewed up for two terms. The corruption is immense.
Highest taxes in the country…see this article from a year ago…
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasdelbeccaro/2018/04/19/the-top-four-reasons-california-is-unsustainable/#18cdf0163a23 It’s sickening!
I still have a lot of friends in California. Most would like to get out except being away from their children and grandchildren would make it a wrenching move. But I’m so very glad to have moved when I did.
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I have a best friend still in San Diego. She and her husband want to move to Texas. They are not lefties. But, she has a grandson and is afraid she will never see him again if she leaves.
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I’m with you there, Lucille (glad to have moved when I did). I lived in Venice and Santa Monica from 1974 to 1980. It wasn’t as socialist then as it is now, but bad enough. And way too crowded.
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Giraffes are sooo cute.
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ALL YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE PASSION FLOWER AND THE PASSION FRUIT
http://miratico.com/all-you-should-know-about-the-passion-flower-and-the-passion-fruit/
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Sooooo pretty!
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We have them growing as weeds n the farm but the coons and possums get them long before we do…sorta like how persimmon trees keep on popping up on their own.
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They look like something put together by a committee….
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Exploring The Ruins of This Forgotten Military Fort
Published on Mar 3, 2019
Fort Macomb in New Orleans, Louisiana is hidden from most people. It’s covered in thick brush and overgrowth and its walls are slowly breaking apart. Sad to see a place with such amazing history to be so neglected.
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I love these old places – DH and I went through Ft. Jackson (well, parts – they’re always working on the old forts) and what strikes you immediately is how SMALL/SHORT the tunnels and ceilings are.
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Have you been through the old Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine? If I remember correctly, it is where they imprisoned Geronimo. Built of coquina.
When I was in junior high we visited Fort McHenry on the way to D.C. My husband and I visited one near Savannah I think. I love the old forts too.
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No – we never made it to St. Augustine….. I’ve done Vicksburg, though, and plan on going back this year.
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My son and I went there several times when he was around 9. We found it really fascinating.
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We have a few old forts from NOLA south along the river. Some are just about gon, the river’s reclaimed them, while a few are in some states of reclamation. When we lived in Utah the city got interested in trying to locate the old forts/trading post the city was founded on, seems they just built over it.
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Ft. Jackson was in so-so shape back in 2004 – I’m sure Katrina didn’t do it any favors….
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The hurricanes (Rita too) didn’t help, the Fort was underwater for a month, but it was named a National Historic Landmark which will allow it to deteriorate at a higher state of indifference.
Lotta folks don’t know that Ft St Philip is right across (and in some places ‘in’) the Mississippi from Ft Jackson. It’s in even worse shape but that’s what the state does best.
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I love checking out old forts. I thought this one was very interesting…………although ticks and chiggers kept going through my mind. And, snakes.
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DEET and boots.
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I thought you said you love checking out old farts.
reporting for duty!
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Joshua! So glad to see you! 😊👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻
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thx
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LOL
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As a matter of fact, when we go exploring old forts we see lots of old farts….
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Mornin’ y’all!
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Morning WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ S&S!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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And they said the Gorbachev Foundation could never amount to much.
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Mornin’ Zs!
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Cloudy, humid, dreary… a very Democratic day.
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Umhmmm – here too.
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Good morning, WeeWeed! “We will bury you!”
Vid notes: “Khrushchev shoe banging video 10-12-60 – THIS IS THE REAL VIDEO…This is the video of the Nikita Khrushchev shoe banging incident October 12th 1960, 3 weeks before the 1960 election in which JFK beat Eisenhower’s VP, Richard Nixon. We do not have the original audio, unfortunately!” The comments at YT are fun, too.
Reagan tells Soviet jokes…
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Afternoon Lucy!
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Laughed and laughed! We need more clean jokes like those!
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Evenin’ Wee!
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LOLOL!!!!!
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https://twitter.com/LisaMei62/status/1104362394313199616
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“Come on, Hillary, GIVE IT UP!”
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Thank you every one for your prayers, thoughts and beautiful words.
I am headed back down to my mom’s house this morning.
Everything happened so quickly that it is a blur.
My dad had an undiagnosed urinary tract infection, undiagnosed because he refused to go to the doctor. My mom finally convinced him to go on Wednesday. After the urgent care visit they stopped to pick up an antibiotic prescription but it couldn’t be filled. My mom took him home did a few thing and then left to run an errand and pick up the prescription. My dad was up and watching television when my mom left.
When my mom returned my dad was on the floor semi-conscious.
He was transported by ambulance to the ER. He never regained consciousness. He was on a ventilator, IV blood pressure medication, 24 hour dialysis as his kidneys had completely shut down, after 12 hours on the antibiotics and dialysis his septic numbers were still moving in the wrong direction.
His vitals continued to fluctuate, his fever (103) was masked by the dialysis.
His body simply shut down.
Through all of this we had the best doctors and nurses that I have ever interacted with.
Thank you again and again for you prayers and kindness.
❤️🙏🏼
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My heart hurts for all of you lovely. I prayed for all yesterday at adoration. I am so sorry for your loss.
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Thank you Menagerie. I have no words for how I feel. Your prayers are more appreciated than I can express.
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Hugs for you and your mom, Lovely. I’m so, so sorry.
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Thank you Wee. Such a sad time.
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{{hugs}} ❤ ❤
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Thank you Aus ❤️🙏🏼
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Lovely, I am so sorry to hear about this. I am praying for comfort for you and your family at this difficult time.
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Thank you Mary. It is hard for me to wrap my head around it all.
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I can understand. My mother died unexpectedly, years and years ago. It was a shattering time.
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Thank you Mary and I am sorry you had to experience the this with your mom ❤️🙏🏼.
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The prayers of family and friends, those who love and care for you, are invaluable at such a time. I’m sure those carried me through. You are surrounded by prayer, too.
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Thank you Mary.
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I am so sorry Lovey.
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Thank you Michelle. ❤️🙏🏼
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This must be terribly shocking and traumatic for your family. I have heard of this before; the facts don’t make it any easier.
I will continue to pray for you all.
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Thank you for your continued prayers Stella ❤️🙏🏼.
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Lovely, my heart aches for you and your mother.
Prayers for peace and acceptance
but love to you all.
Bad things seem to happen unexpectedly…hard to understand.
I guess we are not so much in charge.
Prayers
Joshua
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Thank you Joshua ❤️🙏🏼.
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All Stellars are with you in spirit, Lovely, praying and weeping with you and your dear family. May the God of all comfort give you His peace and grace to endure.
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Amen
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Thank you Lucille ❤️.
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Lovely… I’m so sorry. It’s just heartbreaking. Wish I could give you a big hug right now.
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Thank you Sand, and thank you for the “air hug” ❤️.
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You’re welcome. Wish there was something I could do. Please know that you, your mom, and your daughters are in my prayers.
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Thank you Sand.
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Lovely, thank you for sharing the details with us. It was what I suspected from your first mention, a few days ago. Urosepsis is common in elders, and has a high mortality rate. Part of the problem is that UTI is often completely asymptomatic (or mostly so) in elders. Men especially tend to ignore mild symptoms, and the infection can progress quickly–which it sounds like it did in your dad. I am so sorry for you, your mom, your whole family. Saying prayers now for the repose of his soul.
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Thank you Tundra, thank you for your prayers ❤️.
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I am very sorry for your loss. Sudden like that leaves you spinning for sure. I know you are a very strong person but take a moment for yourself too.
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This is lovely. ❤
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Beautiful.
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Beautiful. Thank you Gil ❤️.
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Lovely, may the Lord be with you & your mother providing His Peace that passes understanding, Grace, Mercy, Comfort, Rest, Refreshment, Hope, & Love.
May He strengthen & sustain you. May He enfold you in His everlasting arms of love…
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Amen. Thank you Valerie.
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Many at the Treehouse are praying for you too…We love you & grieve & pray…
In Christ’s Love & Peace
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Thank you Valerie.
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Lovely, Valerie brought the sad news over at the CTH Prayer thread.
I am so sorry. May God Comfort you and your family.
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Thank you ladypenquin, thank you for your prayers, ❤️.
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Lovely, I was so sorry to hear of your loss. I know exactly what you described happening to your father. I’m an RN, and while those kinds of infections are not common in men, they do happen, almost asymptomatic, or so mild one doesn’t think it’s serious. I know this must be hard for your mother – she’ll go through all kinds of second-guessing, but she shouldn’t. Sepsis is one of those horrible, rare complications that happen. In another person, it wouldn’t have happened. The elderly are more vulnerable. Take care.
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Thank you ladypenquin.
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I am so sorry about this, Lovely. My prayers are with you and your family.
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Thank you Tessa ❤️.
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US News and World Report has attacked the New Orleans Touro hospital as having a really high rate of complications with mothers delivering babies. It’s one of about 120 hospitals nationwide the publication attacked.
The Touro doctors and the hospital are explaining that the hospital takes in a really large number of innercity women on Medicaid and when you look at these women’s rates of obesity, high blood pressure, poor nutrition and prenatal practices, diabetes, etc, etc, etc you get a picture of a group prone to poor outcomes due to personal habits.
The article owners are saying that the hospital is blaming the victims for what they suggest is poor hospital practices but hospitals for years have been bemoaning the innercity’s poor personal habits and the effects it has on pregnancy. The hospital also points out that the article’s writer only used available billing codes to determine the basis for the article and not individual patients’ charts that would show causation…but the various privacy acts all prohibit that without patient permissions and that’s unlikely.
I can see local tort lawyers just lining up at the courthouse on Monday, filing suits for the damaged patients against the hospital that has been putting itself out for them for decades. At some point hospitals are going to crank back Medicaid patients and leave them to the state owned facilities – then watch the stats climb.
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I wonder if the other 119 hospitals have the same problem.
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I’m betting.
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Woo Hoo! FINALLY, after over 5 months, we have our new ovens in. Whatta mess that was, 3 holidays sans ovens.
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I know what you mean. I cooked several holiday meals in an electric roaster and a Cuisinart toaster oven. Congratulations!
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I used the smoker, slow cooker and tabletop roaster oven. Results were great but the irritation, trying to time the meal and shear irritation was…irritating.
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However, one bright spot was discovering cornmeal waffles instead of corn bread.
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I don’t have a waffle iron, but I love my Cuisinart countertop oven with convection. I have a pot roast in it right now. I often use it rather than my gas oven, if what I am cooking will fit! I even did a small rib roast in it for Christmas a couple of times.
I think my roaster does a better job with a turkey than the regular oven does too.
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To me it makes a less dry turkey but I like the convection to get a quick brown crispy skin. You can have the meat on the turkey, pile my plate with crispy skin.
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The electric roaster I have now wasn’t expensive, but it does brown the turkey really well. The last roaster I had didn’t do that.
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Ours met the two criteria we had for it: (1) big enough to fit/cook a 12# turkey and (2) it was immediately available at Walmart. It wasn’t expensive and fits right in there in line with our slow cookers.
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That pork roast I did in the roaster worked great. I cool smoked it for 6 or 7 hours then wet cooked it until it fell apart. Went great with the BBQ on cornbread waffles and we’ve been using it in ramen, tacos and braised cabbage. Being without an oven wasn’t all bad.
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“cool smoked”–what’s that?
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I have an electric smoker that allows me to control the smoking chamber’s internal temperature. The chamber stays at or just below 100-degrees F so that it doesn’t really heat the meat that much. I get minimal cooking and maximal smoke flavor.
I can also make the temp lower by smoking in cool/cold weather and opening fully the top vent. Allows me to smoke things like hard cheese without turning it into a semi-gelatinous goo, great foe raw Gouda and mild cheddar.
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Thanks for that completely new to me & interesting info!
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The electric smoker isn’t that expensive and uses briquettes that have had the resins removed from the wood so you get a milder, less sharp or hard taste. Does great pork and beef, super chicken and turkey, you can do your own fish (I’m going to do lox) and the bacon is to die for and soooo easy to do.
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Thanks for the details. We have a more conventional smoker that my husband has used a few times to tremendous success & rave reviews. It does take most of the day & require a lot of babysitting so I’ll mention the electric kind to him & see if he might be interested. Grilling & smoking is definitely his domain.
Have you done jerky ever? We used to buy venison jerky from a small meat market that sadly went out of business years ago. Whenever the elusive whitetail hunt is successful again we hope to try some jerky creation with the bountiful riches of the North Woods!
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I just bought no-stick jerky trays for the smoker, I can smoke and dry in it. I’m going to try some beef jerky first to get the hang – keeping plentiful supply of antibiotics handy in case I screw up.
I was looking at a more conventional smoker but the variances in wood quality and the fact that I just ain’t doing large batches anymore moved me towards this. I love the ability to get different woods in the pucks and the standardization in batches is a plus.
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Thanks for this useful info…I pass it on to our family meat-master!
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BTW, I’m NO FAN of that jerky crap made out of meat paste squirted onto a tray for drying. Firmly chilled beef sliced with a sharp knife after a marinade and smoked is, to me, the only way to go.
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Hopefully that also works well for venison!
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Venison was meant to be smoked – try apple wood.
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Thanks. We’ve also enjoyed it in “beef burgundy” in the crock pot over mashed potatoes. It’s a bit tricky on the grill because it’s so lean.
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Did you marinate it?
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A number of years ago, a chef at a top restaurant in this area was a master at preparing game, and had a big game dinner every year. Anyway, we had dinner there at Christmas time one year, and I ordered a special that had a beef steak and a venison steak on the same plate. The venison was the best meat I ever ate. I’m sure he aged his own meat, and it was just superb.
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Venison is super when you handle and prepare it correctly. A good part of it is what the deer eat – I remember in Utah the mule deer from certain areas having a noticeable sage brush taint while others who grazed on the large fields of silage were far tastier.
Except for the fact the deer look at me with those big Keane eyes they’re great food. They are relatively fat free – gotta cook ’em with added fat – and lend themselves to a number of cooking treatments.
As for beef, I’d say most of what you get in the big eastern areas is feedlot beef. Out here with farms and ranches all around we get range/grass fed beef and there’s a noticeable difference in taste. You get a Wally World ‘premium’ steak and cook it right alongside one from our local butcher and you’ll notice the difference.
People have moved away from healthy meats. There was a documentary on an off channel about how diabetes is rampant on a Dakota
Indian reservation and it was brought into remission on test subjects by bringing them back to a native diet including real range fed buffalo meat and whole grains. With the fall of hunters and the rise of deer as pests we may see more healthy meat on the market.
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Not exactly…
“I’ve done a modified version of “beef burgundy” in a crock pot with chicken. We usually have boneless skinless breasts so I’ve used about 6-8 breasts, a can of cream of mushroom soup, a can full of wine, & a packet of French onion soup mix. I cook this in the crock pot most of the day & test for doneness (the meat falls apart). Often I add a small can of mushrooms & their juice, cut onions & garlic, & sometimes celery to the pot, usually under the meat. We especially like it served over mashed potatoes, though it could go over noodles or even rice. It’s easy & delicious!”
With venison I make sure to trim off all the visible fat for it has a weird texture that’s kind of gross in the mouth. The veggies, like noted above, are usually put in the crock pot first, then the meat laid on top. The French Onion Soup Mix Packet is sprinkled generously over the meat & the canned soup & wine is poured around the edges. Since this takes many hours to cook slowly it may have the effect of marinating for the flavors definitely permeate the meat.
I copied that recipe from a blog post here, fyi:
That actually was mostly a conversation originally from Stella’s Place…& the Beef Burgundy Recipe is also mentioned here:
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Yeah, sounds good. The venison fat is not what we’re used to eating, our mouths are more set to that squishy feedlot fat. I trim it and layer a good smoked bacon, sometimes with fresh apples and apple juice. If the venison steak seems to have a strong flavor or blood you can soak it in milk (whole, not 2%) or buttermilk (real, not that store ‘cultured’) and that will mellow it out.
Venison goes well with wines, onions, garlic, all sorts of stuff. It’s good, good fer ya and is a locally produced, renewable, fair trade, green product.
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Thanks, Czar…gonna have to convince Michael to read our entire conversation for all the goodies you’ve shared (a tall order w/my man!). Appreciate your insights!
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If the animal died for our nourishment the least we ca do is honor it through our treatment.
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Definitely!
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Czar has to have a waffle iron b/c GGS expects to have waffles every morning he visits us. Just a little spoiled….
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Female Head (La Scapigliata)
Leonardo da Vinci, his Life and Artworks
https://www.leonardodavinci.net/
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That image appears in Drew Barrymore’s Cinderella tale movie, Everafter…beautiful work by a master. Thanks for sharing!
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…where “da Vinci” is creatively played in a supporting role also…
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You’re welcome, Valerie. The image is otherworldly.
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Yes
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Think about the model, young & beautiful, 450 years ago. So many things have happened since she lived. So many young & beautiful people since then. And into the future…
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Morning, race fans! Iditarod continues apace, with most of the field of 51 dog teams on the Yukon River. Weather is being a huge factor right now. It is warm and wet, which is a miserable combination for dog mushing. Temps are hovering at or above freezing and the precipitation keeps varying from snow to freezing rain to outright rain. That makes for a slow and sloppy trail. Runs need to be shorter with more rest so the dogs don’t overheat. Ideal temps for running sled dogs are between 10 below zero and 10 above; being up in the low 30s is just nasty and dogs hate it. Warm spells like this are common in Alaska in the wintertime, and Alaskans routinely complain about it. We’re a long way from winter being over; sub-zero temps are highly likely throughout March and into April.
Checking the front end of the race, I find with surprise that Pete Kaiser has the lead! It’s an anomaly since he has not taken his 8 hour rest on the Yukon yet and most of the other teams have. He has left the checkpoint at Eagle Island and is headed for Kaltag, which is the last checkpoint on the Yukon, so he has to take it there. Aliy has also not taken her 8. She has been resting at Eagle Island for about 4 hours, so I suspect she is taking it there. But she could move out in the next hour or so and do it at Kaltag. Weather conditions and the energy level of her team will weigh heavily in the decision.
Anchorage Daily News has a nice article on Aliy today, with a sweet video of her talking to a bunch of children in Shageluk who asked for autographs. I can’t link it because ADN only allows 2 free articles a month, and then you have to pay; and of course, I’ve used up my freebies. Go to adn.com and scroll down to “It’s autographs and a good luck charm for Two Rivers musher Aliy Zirkle in Shageluk” to read it.
The folks documenting the race for Aliy’s kennel also talk about the warm weather here:
http://spkennel.com/2019/03/id-friday-afternoon-on-the-yukon/
Unfortunately they can only post a screenshot of the Iditarod Insider video you see at their link. I wish y’all could watch it, it is really gorgeous. But behind the paywall.
Today will be a day of slogging it out. Those 65 miles from Eagle Island to Kaltag will be grueling, but likely not an in-your-teeth wind tunnel like it can be.
Go Aliy! Go dogs!
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Just wondering but now that beer is starting to come with nutrition labels on it and a nutrition label is required for prepared food stamp/SNAP items will we see a move by some users to make beer a SNAP-eligible item?
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It already is. They sell their snap for cash and buy whatever they want.
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Oh yeah, like the old food stamps became a de facto secondary currency before the SNAP cards.
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Louisiana started letting them get cash with the cards, and some were using it to gamble in the video poker machines nearby.
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Which probably goes, in the thinking process, to explain why so many are on food stamps in the first place.
“Da devuh made me do it!”
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This is an email I received from Brian Kolfage of Webuildthewall.
This week we are holding two Town Halls. One in Cincinnati on Tuesday and one in Detroit on Thursday. These events give us an opportunity to showcase the impact that our lack of border security has on every state. No community in the country is unaffected by the mayhem flowing across our southern border.
It’s also an opportunity for us to answer questions about our historic project. I know you want to hear about the progress we have made securing agreements with private land owners, engaging engineering and construction designs, and all the other progress we have made. This is your chance and you can participate from anywhere!
Both the Cincinnati and Detroit Town Halls will be broadcast live on One America News Network and streamed live on Gateway Pundit and our Facebook and YouTube pages!
We also want to give you the opportunity to ask questions! If you would like to ask me, Steve Bannon, Kris Kobach, Sheriff Clarke, Brandon Darby, Tom Tancredo, or Angel Parents Mary Ann Mendoza and Steve Ronnebeck questions you can submit your questions in advance to Jennifer Lawrence via any of the following:
Via Twitter: @JenLawrence21
Via Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JLaw11/
If you’re able to join us in-person in Cincinnati or Detroit we’d love to see you!
Thu, Mar 14, 2019 7:00 PM EST
Michigan We Build The Wall Townhall
Faith Baptist Church, Warren
Tickets
Tue, Mar 12, 2019 7:00 PM EST
Ohio (Cincinnati/Dayton) We Build The Wall Town Hall
Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, Cincinnati
Tickets
Thank you and God bless,
Brian Kolfage
President WeBuildTheWall Inc.
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I got that one too. I won’t go in person, but I will watch it on OANN.
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I really hope that something substantive comes of what they are are trying to do.
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I saw somewhere today that Sheriff Clarke, Steve Bannon and, I think, Brian were refused accommodation at one of the hotels. Just out and out had their reservations cancelled and told they weren’t welcome.
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Hm. Just like the Dems used to do to the blacks in the south and other places.
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Stella, I pulled a serving of a frozen noodle dish I had made out of the freezer for dinner today. It was egg noodles and ground turkey with some cream sauce of some kind on it. I remembered it had almost no flavor at all, was really bland, and I had considered just throwing it away instead of keeping it. It was that bad. But then, I thought of the Better than Bouillon that I had in the fridge. So, I put just a 1/4 tsp in it since it was just one serving. That made all the difference in the world. It actually was very good. Thx for the tip.
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It’s good stuff.
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CTH/Sundance gets big mention at thegatewaypundit today…
HUGE: New Evidence Suggests Nellie Ohr Was Working for CIA When She Passed on Junk Trump-Russia Dossier and Info on Trump Children
By Jim Hoft
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/huge-new-evidence-suggests-nellie-ohr-was-working-for-cia-when-she-passed-on-junk-trump-russia-dossier-and-info-on-trump-children/
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Also at Gateway…
Covington Catholic Student Nicholas Sandmann to Hit CNN With a Lawsuit for Over $250 Million
by Cassandra Fairbanks – March 9, 2019
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/covington-catholic-student-nicholas-sandmann-to-hit-cnn-with-a-lawsuit-for-over-250-million/
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Found this story about an unvaccinated child. Sickening. And after it was all over, the parents refused to finish the course of vaccinations for tetanus.
https://www.wrcbtv.com/story/40097774/unvaccinated-boy-nearly-died-from-tetanus-cost-of-care-was-almost-dollar1-million
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Child abuse; no doubt about it.
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Unbelievable.
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lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
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Amen
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Amen.
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A prayer for Justice Kavanaugh and Col. Flynn:
Prayer to St. Michael
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle;
be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do you, O prince of the heavenly host,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan and the other evil spirits
who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
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Amen
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Amen.
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Since it is only 5:35 PM in Hawaii…a view of Sunset Beach, Oahu…

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