Text 34451, 104 rader
Skriven 2006-07-24 13:58:26 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 34333 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
Ärende: IQ Test
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23 Jul 06 13:14, Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Roy Witt:

 CS> *** Quoting Roy Witt from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 CS>> Snicker, ok.  That could take a weekend!

 RW>> He always enjoyed that sort of thing. I couldn't stomach 'Bullheads'
 RW>> though. They tasted like mud, which is the enviornment they lived
 RW>> in. river never saw a day of clear water, in fact it was named for
 RW>> it's co Yellow Creek. As was the other river around that area,
 RW>> Pecatonica, whi in the indian language it was derived from meant;
 RW>> muddy water.

 CS> Would that be a varient of catfish perchance?  I'm notfamiliar with
 CS> 'bullhead' for a fish but it might be descriptive?

Yeah, they're really catfish...they get the bullhead name because they
have little horns next to the pectoral fins. Grab them wrong and you'll
find out how sharp they are, pretty quick. Since cats lay on the bottom
most of the time, whatever's in the bottom of the water will be injected
in the wound and your wound will be infected within minutes.

 CS>> Sounds like a good trade!  Our neighbor in Virginia Beach had a tree
 CS>> swing in our communal tree (grows technically on his side but just
 CS>> barely) so we added the other stuff like some flower pots and a
 CS>> little table to the side so you could set down your iced tea and
 CS>> stuff.

 RW>> That sounds like a nice setting for relaxing on a hot summer
 RW>> evening.

 CS> Thats what it was.  Rather pretty looking too.  The only 'hassle' was
 CS> really minor (had to shift where I park slightly so the swing could
 CS> be fully used as it went slightly over my driveway at full
 CS> extension).  I used to park my car there so the tree would help keep
 CS> it cooler in high summer. Like I said, minor adjustment and the
 CS> driveway was a double wide so very easy to shift a few feet over and
 CS> still get mostly shade.

That's what most Texicans do here. No driveway, no problem, just park
under the tree in the middle of the lawn.

 CS>> stuff from their garden and trim our rose bushes come the right time
 CS>> for that.

 RW>> Heh...my dad was getting up in years and tried to climb a ladder on
 RW>> th bottom side, rather than walk around the fence to get to it. He
 RW>> had pu over the fence to get it to lean on his garage to paint the
 RW>> sides, of course he couldn't do it and fell on his butt. Maybe when
 RW>> he was young he could, but at 70+, he wasn't able.

 CS> Yes, long before my father in law died, Don was taking care of that
 CS> sort of thing for them.  They lived only 2 miles away and his Mom
 CS> would pick him up.  We kept it up til we left Norfolk, having spent
 CS> our last weekend there fixing up everything we could at her house.

Is your house rented now or moth-balled? I had a bad experience with
renters last year and sold off my rental in SD...I went back there in
November to remove some things from storage in the garage overhead and the
place had been trashed in less than six months. I was glad that someone
else got that headache. If I do it again, I'll only buy property that's
close enough for a quarterly inspection.

 RW>> It was always around Xmas time that I'd go visit with my folks. They
 RW>> h plenty of stuff from the garden in the freezer. I know that when
 RW>> they left-overs, mom would put them in old frozen food containers
 RW>> that she saved from 'frozen dinner nite' when they were both
 RW>> working. She wasn' much of a cook and dad liked everything burned,
 RW>> so it turned out to be happy marriage.

 CS> Heheh Well, My Mom is a lovely woman, but her cooking wasnt up to my
 CS> levels and we used to pray for TV Dinners as a kid. <grin>.

LOL! Rather than eat the burnt offerings, I just grabbed the peanut butter
and made myself a sandwich. My dad would always say; All the more for me!

 CS> Don by the way, is a very good cook so we take turns.  He made beef
 CS> jerky last night (still drying out a bit) with my Korean sauce
 CS> (something I get a jug of everytime I get to Korea but cant give you
 CS> a name of as there's no 'enlish character set' used on the bottle).

That's ok, I've noticed the lack of oriental food stores here...so
whatever we get in the H.E.B. supermarket, is what we have to use. Besides
that, they cater to Texas beef and pork eaters and not much else. There is
an oriental section, about 4 foot wide and 5 or 6 shelves high.

 CS> Added all sorts of things to that in a blender and used as a
 CS> marinade.  Major yummy and Charlotte and i keep snitching some warm
 CS> from the drydrator as it goes along.  We also had canned asparagus
 CS> (which we happen to like canned and soft like that) and rice, with a
 CS> mild dashi (fish broth) soup starter to which Charlotte added a
 CS> handful of 'kangkoon' (Hollow stem spinach, Asian) to the bottom of
 CS> each bowl.

Made a brisket this weekend...it was yummy and nearly all gone this
morning...I experimented with a 'rub' that I found in the spice rack,
mesquite smoked it in the BBQ for a couple of hours and then finished it
off in the oven for another 6 or 7 hours (kept adding a ten minutes for
open oven door as Nancy put things in to keep warm)...


Roy
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