Archive for July, 2009
Farmer’s Almanac Summer Weather
The coldest July in over 67 years. No days this summer over 86 degrees. Snow in June! Listing these facts, you might think I am talking about somewhere like Alaska. But I am not, these are weather facts from the Midwest and Northeast. Those parts of the country have been having an unusually cool summer. I couldn’t help [...]
Simple Grilled Buffalo Chicken Wings
Traditional buffalo chicken wings are fried, but I have found that grilling them over a charcoal grill and then adding hot sauce give the wings a better taste and hopefully less fat than frying. After cutting up the wings I place them directly on the fire to start with only pepper added. After searing all sides, [...]
Moving A Dryer
I spent at least 45 minutes trying to figure out the tie down straps and ratchet. I was trying to secure a new dryer that I bought. I had to get it upstairs using a dolly. The big problem was that the strap was so long. When I tried to tighten it using the ratchet, the long strap got [...]
Father Daughter Song
I am always on the lookout for a well written, heart tugging Father, Daughter song. I have a pretty good collection, but yesterday I stumbled, (if you can do that on a computer) across a great one. It is a country song from last year by Darius Rucker. I have 3 or 4 of his [...]
Whipping Up A Ragu
They come in bunches and once I saw almost a dozen homegrown tomatoes on our counter-top, I knew I had to do something. It was time for some pasta and homemade sauce. I took about 6 of those tomatoes and dropped them in boiling water for about a minute to remove the skins. After letting them [...]
Pimento Cheese
Got the first red pimento on my pimento pepper plant. So what to do? Make pimento cheese of course. [vms=7546] I managed to get my mother-in-laws secret recipe. She adds a little more mayo than I did, 1/4 cup per 4 oz of cheese, and 1/4 tsp of vinegar, 1/2 tsp. of sugar, 1/8 tsp [...]
Grilled Pizza
I am still mesmerized by making the perfect homemade pizza. I have got my dough down well for cooking in a 500 degree oven with a pizza stone. I decided to try it on my new Smoky Joe grill. I am thinking that I could get that small grill hot with a lot of charcoal. [...]
Pictures…27 years later
The strip of negatives have been sitting in my garage for 15 years, before that I am not sure where I had them. The negatives were given to me from someone I don’t remember. He or she shot pictures of a chili cook-off that I participated in at my first weather job in Beaumont, Texas. I [...]
Squirrel Wars
With a tomato half eaten on the deck and another knocked off the plant, we knew that the squirrel was back. My wife first saw the critter a couple of weeks ago when are tomatoes started coming in. I put up a net to stop him or her from getting to the plant. Somehow, the [...]
A Ticky Situation
After spraying for weeds yesterday, I was washing up and changing clothes and saw something on my stomach. Upon further inspection I saw it was a tick. I got the tweezers out and tried to gently pull, and as I did, it appeared to me that the tick was getting in deeper. So now I [...]
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