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Our dogs have beaten the grass down to almost nothing in the back yard. It's gonna be a friggin mess when this snow melts. I always tell them to wipe their feet before they come in, but they never listen.

Linguine and clams. Trust me, there are clams under there. The missus loves this, easy to do and everything was already in the pantry.

Cracked open the first of my latest batch, made back in August. This one was carbonated, the others were still. All of them have been pretty dry. I’m very pleased with this one. It’s very good now, but it will only improve with age. The missus says I need to start some more. That’s probably the best compliment I could get.

What a mess at the MIL’s place. Apparently they got a new roof last summer. This snow/ice combo exposed the shoddy work. She started getting drips from the ceiling Thursday. When she got back from breakfast Friday a portion of the ceiling had collapsed and she had a couple inches of water in the floor. Fortunately they got a crew on it immediately and got her stuff moved out of the room and into an open room. So she’s in relatively good shape but there’s a lot to sort out. Lots of damaged furniture, etc.

If only there was a really, really, really rich guy that's big into conservation. *Real* conservation, not the kind with an admittance charge.

We got about an inch or two on top of what's left of the 11 inches + ice we got last weekend. It was handled easily with the leaf blower. My poor MIL lives in a senior living facility near here that is dealing with a major water infiltration. According to her there's three inches of water inside her apartment, water into the electrical that has the fire alarms going off, and the fire department in there. Sounds like an absolute disaster. Luckily we'll be able to have her here until this is figured out.

This was an absentee ballot🤪

I vote gumbo! 😀

Talked to a guy in Boston today. I asked if he was getting any of this weather. He said, ‘What weather?’ 😀 Boston folks are interesting.

This may help, at least in KC. -- our traffic reporting system https://www.kcscout.net Click on the "Cameras" box to see their locations, then click on the blue camera icon to see a live shot.

Scooped part of the drive and the walk twice yesterday. The missus is out there this morning taking off about another 2-3 inches. The official event total at KCI is 11 inches. It is windy enuff around here that it's drifted and there's a pretty wide range of depths, but 11 is probably close for us. The city pretreated Saturday night, but the plows haven't made it here yet. Don't care -- not going anywhere. 8 degrees here right now.

Same here, and about the same numbers. Kinda hard to tell the total because it’s blowing and snowing About ¼ inch of ice under it, but we pretreated the sidewalk and drive. Lots of traffic problems around town.

Soup season! Chicken, andouille and shrimp gumbo: Vegetable beef:

I heard it’s sposta snow.

I remember you telling the story of that trek to catch Greenbacks. Beautiful area!!

There was a guy on here years back, Kyle Kosovich (sp?), that built some long boats and tried to make a go of it doing similar trips. I did find a website, but it looks to be inactive. http://www.longboatoutfitters.com. I always thought those boats looked pretty cool.

I haven’t bought or test-casted enough rods to confirm this, but I suspect there aren’t any modern fly rods from name manufacturers that are so bad as to impede the fishing of a competent caster. I’ve fished with a lot of different rods, some mine, some borrowed, and some are definitely better than others. But I can generally adjust my cast to get the job done. Way back when I bought a bamboo blank and finished it with really pretty hardware. It’s a beauty, but I ought to just hang it on the wall because it’s not pleasant to cast. But I have fished it with success. I guess if that’s all I had that’s what I’d fish.

Wow! Nicely done! It’s fun to explore new things. We’re actually taking a Thai cooking class next month with my daughter and son-in-law. This is going to be a new cooking experience for the four of us. Wifey and I haven't had a lot of Thai food.

Christmas Eve dinner. Baby brother smoked a bone-in pork loin (dang), family favorite cheesy potatoes, bourbon maple glazed carrots, etc. Appetizers galore including cheese fondue down there on the end. Some of the goodies. Shortbread Brie with Marty’s honey Limited edition fruitcakes for family and friends that appreciate it (insert tired fruitcakes jokes if you must, but this ain’t that) Cookie exchange at our house a couple days before ensured we have way too much and will need to regift or pitch. No pics.

Many years back I was fishing and put the fly into tree. I walked over to the branch and pulled it down towards me. Got the fly down to me and noticed a spider coming down the branch, so I let go. The little hook sunk into my index finger and the spider was still coming down. I pulled back down, ripped the hook out and let the branch snap up. That sent the spider straight up and then he came back down somewhere on me. FUDGE, only I didn’t say fudge. I did the dance and started taking stuff off but never did find him. The whole rest of the day I was haunted by phantom spiders.

When you wait until the last minute to buy your wife a Christmas card: Li’l help?

Within walking distance of my dump😀

I saw something the other day that was new to me: choice beef tenderloins and whole briskets at Walmart wrapped with a cable and with an anti-theft thingy.

Tastes like chicken!

The guy shot it walking away, called the sheriff’s office to report it and ask what to do, they called MDC, he was read his Miranda rights, admitted to what he did, signed a written statement and now he’s got a misdemeanor charge and got his weapon confiscated. I’m not sure when the whole Facebook thing happened along the way, but it doesn’t seem to be a factor or evidence in the legal case against him. Sounds like the guy didn’t know what he did was illegal and has cooperated.