MOPanfisher

My cold frame went crazy in the last few days, lettuce and radishes suddenly big enough to pick at, gonna be a little wilted salad very soon. Stopped at WM on way back from KC and saw a beautiful BIG red beefsteak tomato plant, it is now mine, needs trimmed back a little bit, but in a few more days it can go into ninth final home (mineral tub) and begin it's summer work. Strawberries and looking great, have one that is blooming, have covered it the last few days, but soon there will be more, not sure how many bags of sugar or boxes of sure-gel wife has stashed but it's several!. Gotta get a few containers set and ready before next week so wife can do gardening.

I have one made by clients at vet clinic where daughter works, had border collies on it and a space for a filterm cartridge she says. Strangers stop me and want to talk about it, social distance killer. Fortunately my allergies cleared up recently, so at least something is workin still.

We go through a lot of eggs too. One of the things mom can and will eat for breakfast, so at least gets some protein. Get them locally good dark yellow/orange ones from chickens out earing bugs and such, even have a rooster, so says the bullseye in them.

Working on supper too, thawed a round steak, tenderizer the bejusus out of it, garlic olive oil, house seasoning, and going for a quick sear on gill to med rare. A yellow squash sautéed uo and a couole little taters in mocrowave. Ads a spoon full of cottage cheese for mom and done. If it was any easier a politician could do it.

Got home from KC and was a bit peckish, not enough for a full meal so here is a little snap love, don't judge I forgot to look for Pickled Pigs Feet! Saltines with a blob of cheese whiz, and a shake of Tequila Lime seasoning I saw on a shelf. Couple slices of smoked venison summer sausage and viola, redneck snack.

Stopped for gas on way to KC this morning. $1.39 I believe it was. Fishin Wrench, you say nobody is buying stuff, but think about all the tackle and tools you have snuck in over the years, stuff coming in somehow.

I don't even have any kids at home now, just me, wife and mom. I can't believe that we are running at least one and usually 2 loads of dishes every day. I am sure it has some to do with me trying to do most of the meals to help wife out, but I still get a fair amount of piddling around done. Laundry about every day too, don't know why/how.

Dang it now I want a fish sammich!

You finding a lot of Nutria over there around Bennet Springs?

Welp my plan for the asparagus omlette got derailed by a request from wife for a pizza on the Italian flatbread.soooo. one of the flatbreads, a lot of marinara sauce, pulled out a couple baby portabella and sliced them, some Genoa salmon and wife pulled out a small of of mozzarella cheese. Built it all up with a litthe extra Italian seasoning. Popped it into microwave to try and melt/warm it up. Was sacred to go very long at a time so a few short cycles. Cut it in 4 pieces before I thought to take a photo, wife says is very very good. Sure smells good. Looks like hell though.

Your wife is handy to have around sir. She sounds like a keeper if she didn't give you to much grief over it.

He is a good one for sure, if I had him I would try to smoke him just because.

Well I decided to make another batch of flatbread this morning. Recipe is silly easy, couple cups of flour, A TBS of salt, Tbs of olive oil, Tbs of baking powder, a shake of parmesan cheese, and a cup or just under of water. I added a lot of garlic, and was trying to add some Italian season mix and my bad arm gave a twitch and basically doubled it so I just mixed it in. While doing all that I was heating up the cast iron skillet. The dough makes a kind of wad if slightly tacky dough ball, cut it into 4 pieces and with a little more floe to be able to roll it out into about an 8 inch flat cake, spray a shot of olive oil spray into the skillet and toss one it. Brown it as much as you like on each side and repeat until all 4 are dine to your liking. I broke off a piece of it while still warm and it is fabulous, very Italian flavor. I like bread and really lie this flat bread. No rise needed, takes maybe an hour or so from start to turning off the skillet. I am going to put a combination of the asparagus recipes into action tonight. Will take a few young tender shoots and toss them into a skillet for a few minutes with some butter, then remove and pour in a well whipped egg or two, add a slice or two of black for us ham because have it, and a slice of provolone cheese or something, and make a nice asparagus/ham/cheese omlette for my wife. She loves that sort of stuff, and I am no Oneshot so I have to work harder for a one armed guy to have a chance at love!

Very true, but we have had a vaccine for Smallpox for a long time. However even though some years back there was talk about destroying the last of the research viruses of Smallpox due it being wiped out. That was scary, smallpox could easily make a comeback 50 years from now if vaccines go not of use for it. There is no doubt in my mind that other governments, etc. have made attempts to weaponize it for possible use if needed with a modified version that the old vaccine wouldn't work on, but a new version they would have would. Same for many viruses. Any government that would consider a weaponized virus that they cannot protect their own people from would be STUPID. Of course I like to read books about various terrorist organizations and whacko groups that would happily create a virus that would wipe out a huge percentage of the world population and take their chances and either let God protect them or have their own special vaccine for them.

I don't believe there are any actual vaccines for COVID 19 yet. There a lot of labs working on it, the first and quickest thing they try is exsiting vaccines to see if they work, then modifying them to see that will work, then going to the long route of creating new. The last choice will take time. Even if China were to say we have a vaccine I doubt that I would trust them.much if at all.

I just haven't bought intone lab grown virus thing yet, I may be a fact I just haven't quite got there yet. The sheer number of animals, viruses, bacteria, protozoans, and other pathogens that are in the natural world are beyond my comprehensionn. Compared to th number of labs working on such a thing, I just have to think that a species jump is the basic blame/bass for it, and as we should expect more in the future. Who knows what the next round will come from. Maybe from a dig, that jumped to a cow and all the growth hormones we use in dairy and bed cattle causes it to mutate to one that isn't as easily transferred, doesn't move as fast but absolutely laughed at any and all attempts we throw at it. Over the course of 5 years it slowly chews through 20% of the world population. Hey maybe I need my own video to show.

Well I am watching and listening to the video. I am most certainly not a virulogist or epidemiologist, but I have more than enough biological background to follow along. A lot of what I am getting from it is that epidemiology, virology, seismology, meteorlogy, and several other "ologys" have a lot in common, using absolute facts, basic science and plugging in most likey scenarios and then the low end and high end options along with personal bias dang near anything could be possible and will be predicted by someone, from total destruction to humanity to a minor blip on history. The T cell connection and information is concerning fir sure, however this information and study line is in just beginning, I learned more about T cells and stem cells over that last few years than I really wanted to. There are YEARS/Decades of study to follow on these lines. A lot of the postulating that it must be lab created because there are currently no drugs that work well for it. Well when a virus jumps across species lines like this one did, we had nothing to fight with YET, but a lot of science and pure human diligence are being directed toward new treatments..

Excellent way, you can roll them in aluminum if you don't want to dry them out. I have found very few ways that I dislike asparagus. Mushy out of a can is the worst but I can open a can, drain it and eat them right out of the can. Not proud of that but there it is. Partially cooked and rolled into an omlette is another excellent way. And on occasion I will eat them raw as I pick them, the big tender ones especially, just try not to think about stray dogs that might use the asparagus patch to mark their territory.

Just for the record if Oneshot does produce a massive collection of photos for proof, PLEASE don't include me on the mailing list. 😨

Man goto a dr. Appt, come back and am almost completely lost now. But I aint giving up to Oneshots exploits, I once drank a warm beer while riding in a Dodge truck, I aint skeered.

I have never covered my asparagus bed. Heck I just leave it until March and then mow it down to the ground and salt the crap out of it to kill back the grass. I have some very salt tolerant fescue clumps by now. I give it a light fertilizer dose in fall an again in spring but that's again but it. Cooler weather seems to slow it down and the bigger ones, jersey giant I think are always again but little later than the old Martha Washington stuff that was always there. Hoping to get and plant more of the big ones. I quit mulching my strawberries several years ago, they get whatever leaves fall onto them over fall and that's it. Come spring I blow and take them ckean, give them a shot of fertilizer and water if needed. Past year I dug them all up, topped off the raised bed with good black dirt and replanted, had to water them pretty regular. This sprint they lop great, if it gets too dry I sit there in a chair and water them. I may lose out on most of my garden this year but by dang it I have too much work in these strawberries and am NOT gonna let them go. Even pull a few weds out so they are clean except for a foot or so in the middle that I can only get by crawling into the bed, which I can only do if wife isn't around. These around re old school berries, they don't store or ship well but flavor wise they are awesome. Nothing I like better than to see a couple little kids up there picking and eating ripe strawberries with juice all over their faces and hands. Of course strawberry jam and fresh berries for supper and good too. Checard my Thornley blackberries out yesterday, they are looking good, even spreading out where I dug and put the ends of some of the big canes into the ground. When I die someone is gonna have a heck of a place with apples, pears, peaches, cherries, blackberries and strawberries, but until then I am gonna enjoy them.

Cool, I have only tried Indian food once, and truly didn't care for it at all. Some things like curry just don't agree with me, but one example doesn't make a rule. I do love Mediterranean foods, and the thought of some seared rare meat, tadziki sauce etc with some fresh greens from my cold frame are sounding really really good with the flatbread. I can picture it in my mind, cute little mixed pile of meat, greens (lettuce, beet greens etc.), maybe some Feta chrese and olive piecea, And a shot of tadziki sauce or balsamic vinaigrette Of course that isn't what it would actually look like, it would be a mess I am sure, but if I close my eyes?

Dude, I don't even know what you typed? LOL, but i could go with some rare seared beef and mushrooms etc. I am still wanting to brine and smoke some fish, but need something a little more substantial than crappie fillets, maybe I need a big old buffalo, as I seem to be short on salmon around here? and thin slice some up to go on top maybe. Heck as these things cool they are even better, wife better not be late or all she will get is photos.

Have had people tell me that morels grow all in one night and are done when the sun touches them. Have had to show them time lapse videos of the growing over several days, not sure they believed it even then. I have made a coupleasure of ill- advised (by wife) forays through pasture looking, but found none. My best spots are on the other side of the fence, and not quite willing to risk crossing one armed YET. Reports from friends are that the crappie are getting better and moving in to bank about dark on nice evenings. I had build up my nerve to try late yesterday, glad I didn't go, it began to rain and turned COLD about the time I would have been there, such is life in MO in April. LOVE IT.

I suspect the reason some pundits are saying respirators aren't working because the red blood cells aren't carrying the O2 as effeciently. That is likely true, however what the ventilators dons force relatively pure oxygen into the lungs instead of room quality air which is much lower in O2, so they don't have to be as efficient to carry enPugh O2. Much like having an O2 bottle or O2 concentrator feeding you higher level oxygen when you have COPD etc. The entire game right now is support the body, and treat symptoms, prevent othe infections and the body has to fight the virus on its own. Other therapies such as anti-body etc may have a lot of promise and are being pursued by a lot of labs. As an aside since I am a curious feller, while I was at last Dr. Appt I asked why anti viral drugs like Acyclovir, which I have been given and will get again to treat and prevent Shingles virus infection, aren't being used. Dr. Explained that Acyclovir is very specific to Shingles and doesn't really have much effect on other viruses. I didn't get into the list of HIV anti vorals because I simply don't even know enough to ask questions. However I do have a great trust in doctors, not as much th medical system, (but that is a whole mother conversation) but drs and nurses and research. I guarantee that there is a lot of expirimentimg going on in university labs, govt labs and private labs to find a treatment that really works well. I do think some will be found, but it does take time, and of course the gold standard will be an effective, produceable, afford able vaccine. What I have learned from my medical situations is NEVER GIVE UP THE FIGHT.