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About the same up here. I’m tired of all this!

Any Van Morrison fans out there? I love the guy. Just watched an excellent move “Belfast” that he did most of the sound track for. Watch it! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12789558/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

It was a nice little pocket-water stream along the way. It would have been fun for some up close and personal dry fly fishing for hungry 6-12-inch trouts. Oh, and it was paved .

Those’ll work!

Nice! You got my reference! I'll never forget the first time I saw that movie. My dad loved westerns and took my brother and I to see it at the thee-ater (his pronunciation). I was 13, my brother 11. It wasn't what he expected

I didn’t watch the whole thing, but from what I saw at the beginning it looks wonderful!! I love the little streams.

I was trapped in my brother’s garage with two guys smoking cigars and two women smoking cigarettes. Too far from the TV, people talking over the announcers, officials and commercials and making stupid comments. (Not the missus). We left for home at halftime because I knew I didn’t want to sit through Headly Lamar, or whoever. From what I saw after it was not for us at all. Plus the smoke was making me sick I miss the days when there were great halftime shows. Petty, McCartney, etc. It would have been cool if Trump had ordered Paul out of the stands and made him perform!😀

We did the Vail Pass Bike Path a few years back. Man, that was a heck of a hill! We took a bus to the top and pretty much coasted down to Copper Mountain. Spectacular scenery and the only thing that hurt was my hands. I’d do it again, but take a fly rod along as it flows a sweet looking stream much of the way.

Alright, let’s talk Super Bowl National Anthem, OK? I’m gonna toss out some options and ask for a vote. Add anyone you might like. Me: 1. Chris Stapleton a couple years back when we last played Philly. 2. Whitney Houston, whenever that was… Didn’t like that John Batiste guy much last night.

It takes me about a half dozen to get it right. Just hope yours are from the later ones

That’s tempting!

They are a lot of fun. We let the kids pick the class, and I'm glad they picked Thai because it got us out of our comfort zone and into something new to us cooking wise. Both the slaw and the pad Thai had a lot of cilantro in it and they offered to leave it out, but they all like it so we left it in. Raw in the slaw and cooked in the pad Thai. I've gotta say I was glad it was in there. We did the painting thing several years back. Once was enough for me.

We did a cooking class last night with my daughter and new son in law. We’ve done a few at this place and they’ve all been good (KC Culinary Center in Overland Park). This one was Thai food which is something the missus and I have very little experience with. SIL is an adventurous chef and eater so this was right up his alley. It’s part eating, part learning and part cooking. The chef had a background teaching culinary so she had the skill set for this. She started us off with a lettuce wrap with chicken and Thai basil that was made ahead. Lotsa interesting flavors and very good. Next we made a slaw with cabbage, red peppers, edamame, garlic and cilantro with an Asian ginger peanut dressing. Then we did a shrimp pad Thai with cabbage, noodles, peanuts, sauce, etc. The recipe is about a mile long. Really fun to cook and explore all the new things, and it was all outside our normal zone. The slaw was delicious as was the pad Thai. So many new flavors for us and skills learned (like cooking rice noodles correctly) Dessert was a black rice pudding with mango and coconut cream. Oh, dang! Kind of expensive, but split the cost across education, dining, entertainment and family time budgets and it’s cheap (almost).

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Clever!

Well, I could use a little motivation to blow the cobwebs off the vice, and clear all the s$&t off my work surface, so put me down as a maybe 😀

I was doing some calculations over here on the sidelines and I thought you guys might have overdone it on the food. It’s really satisfying to be totally right. The sucky part was missing out on the food you guys enjoyed. 😀

Grandmother??? That’s the Marine is coming through. 😀

Almost gone! It’s been around a looong time!

That pyramid of Vienna Sausage cans made me smile. Nice presentation!

Did the plunge happen?

Should be quick. Get their Venmo address, dismiss. 😀

We like O. G. Zuppa Toscana too. We have made a knock off recipe that is really good. This Pasta Fazool we made was simple and really good. We’re on night #3, and that’s pretty rare for us.

What I’ve heard is crane ranchers are reluctant to organize and promote their product because of their herds tendency to fly away. Supposedly there’s some new technology being developed that will curtail the escapes and bring SHC to your local grocery store soon, at a super premium price. PM me for details on a stock that is ready to skyrocket! But don’t tell anybody, because it’s kinda hush hush now.

Concerning Sand Hill Cranes, I’ve always heard “Ribeye of the Sky”, but don’t know of any firsthand partakers. Anyone eaten some that they can comment on?