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I'm having a hard time picturing what this 150 k boat is like. Can anybody post a pic of something close??

Everyone on the planet should have a free dropbox.com account. It shows up like a folder on your Mac or PC (gotta get the free app for a smartphone) and you can copy a file out there. It then syncs with any other device you have. Put the file your dropbox 'public' folder, and you can share the link with anybody, or can click on the picture icon here and paste in the location. Like this:

Still waiting on that first real tomato. Looks like Celebrity will be the one. Getting a few Sun Gold cherries a day, which is good for a little snack here and there, but I want me some maters! I have one Cherokee purple that I started indoors in February -- a very healthy looking plant, but about the size it should be on May 1st. I'm sticking with it -- it's the 'little tomato that tried'. Pruned out a lot of diseased tomato leaves -- need to spray tonight. Been pulling red and yellow onions the last couple weeks -- not very good size, from ping pong to pool ball. I have a second variety of yellow onions (Alisa Craig) that still going strong -- I hope they get a little better size with the additional time. Garlic and shallots to come soon too. First round of bush beans are winding down (Dragon Tongue, a really tasty wax bean), and the first round of pole beans are just starting to produce. I did second plantings of bush and pole beans (Rattlesnake) in the space available from spring lettuce and peas. The pepper plants are finally taking off -- the rabbit is finally leaving them alone after I sprayed them with a hot pepper spray -- but they've got a long way to go. Cylindra beets slowly but surely growing to size.

Well guys, it was a busy weekend and didn't keep up on this thread or cook much either. The cupboard was pretty bare -- I had Spaghetti O's for breakfast yesterday (no kidding), some left over pork loin for lunch and dinner, not really lunch or dinner time -- just whenever I slowed down enough to eat. Marty -- that stuff all looks great. I think the tortellini tops the list, but the potato soup sure sounds good too. Don't know what chants taste like, but I love mushrooms. rps -- the polenta and chicken looks great too. I'll have another load from the CSA today -- having a hard time keeping up, but have a vegan friend who's taking some each week.

I guess I could pick out the cucumbers Seriously -- not a cuke fan, but I love stuff like that.

Just not a fan of chick peas, so hummus is a stretch for me. I have had the Sabra stuff Chief mentioned, and it is pretty good though.

Nice!!!

Dayum! Company coming?

Wait ... what?

I ate up the chard before the Germans got here.

Us city boys are used to having stuff right under our noses.

While the rest of you were firing up the grills, ness was looking at the inventory of perishables and decided to do it indoors. Had a pork loin, some taters, cabbage, and beans all crying out to be et. Decided I'd go German with stuff, just sounded good. Seasoned the loin heavily with salt, pepper, rosemary, thyme, sage and caraway. Browned in in the skillet, then put it in the oven. Meantime, needed to use up some veggies from the CSA so I braised cabbage with cider vinegar, brown sugar, apple butter and more caraway. Also did some CSA potatoes in the skillet, and steamed some Dragon Tongue beans from the garden. Did a pan sauce from the loin -- roux from the pan juices, added a little German white wine to deglaze, then added a little milk and parsley. Finished it with a little cold butter and a touch of apple butter. Tasty! I got lucky.

Oh, I just checked. They're closed week days. Tomorrow would be your best opportunity to rid yourself of those while they're still fresh

I never saw the movie. That's a good thing, right? I mean -- June???

Spoken like a true nurse! I'm glad Marty hasn't turned himself inside out right there on the kitchen floor, but if he was to I feel like he couldn't be in better hands. I should tell you that, according to my research, you should limit your chanterelle intake to 100 grams a day and also monitor the urine output. If it exceeds 67 cc in a day, it is recommended that you load up 1 kilogram of your best, fresh chanterelles and drive north about 2 hours and dispose of them. I know a location that is accepting surplus chants, if you're interested. Remember, this is in BilletHead's best interest.

Take my advice--just go ahead and lose this one. Maybe you'll snag a June Cleaver in your next life, or the one after that.

Gauge? Age?

I always tried to do 6. It didn't work.

Ok, that's just plain mean spirited.

Where are you?

Ha! It was a county park, and not in the 'off-leash' area. And, I was actually in the woods, nowhere near a fairway (not unlike a lot of the time when I am playing golf). I was looking in the bare spots between the vegetation. Lots of dead leaves, some mossy spots around dead trees. Some rocks, but not rocky. Pretty damp, and the temp was around 75. According to Weather Station Mongo, in the last week, we broke 90 degrees just three times -- 6/28, 29 and 30. It's 62 out there right now!!! That's not helping, right?

There's a refresh thingy up top. Need to go all the way up to see it though. Worst case, close OA, reopen.

Shrimp, Swiss chard, honey-glazed baby carrots. White wine, parsley and butter pan sauce over all. It's official -- I really don't like chard all that much.

One of my dad's sayings comes to mind: 'Rode hard and put away wet.'

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