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Post by epaul on Aug 15, 2023 20:18:07 GMT -5
I made my favorite green bean casserole, Warm Asian Green Bean and Rice Salad.
A cup of cooked brown rice 1.5 lbs cooked green beans, cut into 1.5" pieces A couple handfuls of roasted cashews handful of roasted or raw unsalted sunflower seeds
1 tsp mustard, 1.5 tbsp rice vinegar, 2 tbsp sesame oil, 1.5 sunflower oil, as much garlic as you can take.
I double the recipe and follow it loosely. Sometimes I kick up the soy sauce and cut back on the oil. Sometimes I add a teaspoon or two of peanut sauce. Sometimes a hint of chilli sauce (Charlene gets mad if it becomes too noticeable).
Make the sauce. Set aside. Cook rice and green beans. Mix all in bowl. Toss in nuts. Serve warm.
(I no longer roast raw cashews, I buy them from Sam's. No more burning, charred nuts. I get the lightly salted ones, add no other salt elsewhere.)
I have a bumper crop of pole beans. I do this dish three times a week.
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Post by epaul on Aug 15, 2023 12:32:37 GMT -5
Comes with pickup:
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Post by epaul on Aug 15, 2023 12:28:49 GMT -5
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Post by epaul on Aug 15, 2023 12:24:22 GMT -5
Good Day!
I feel fall in the air. For the last week or so, it has been sweat pants in the morning and an extra blanket at night.
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Post by epaul on Aug 15, 2023 12:15:32 GMT -5
Go Auburn!
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Post by epaul on Aug 15, 2023 12:13:36 GMT -5
Road Trip!
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Post by epaul on Aug 12, 2023 19:52:37 GMT -5
Science Fictiony, granted, but fifty years from now, giant CO2 suckers may well be employed as part of system earth scientists use to manage the composition of our atmosphere, keeping its composition, as regards climate, within a certain determined range. This could include the release of captured and stored greenhouse gasses as well as just the removal.
Macro climate will come to be, if not controlled, managed.
To anyone who thinks this to be too far-fetched, I will put five bucks on it!
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Post by epaul on Aug 12, 2023 15:41:40 GMT -5
Anything by Sousa.
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Post by epaul on Aug 12, 2023 12:41:57 GMT -5
Those old fingers can still fly! Good job!
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Post by epaul on Aug 11, 2023 11:25:03 GMT -5
The brain notices the new, the sudden, the different. Keeps us alive in the jungle. But, with time, the "whine" will become the normal, the safe, the singing birds in the trees, and, while there, will be the background normal unnoticed... unless noted upon.
Time will tell if the hearing change affects guitar building, but if it does go to hell, you can always build banjos...
or move your love of wood in a new direction. I don't know what direction. Sailing ships, airplanes, clocks?
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Post by epaul on Aug 10, 2023 9:45:44 GMT -5
Morning.
I'm looking at what appears to at least a nine-foot tall sunflower in the park's garden across the street. Don't know how I missed it till now. But, it opened up today and the yellow-rayed head is huge. Looks like there are a couple more that will be opening up pretty quick. Usually they have Cannas in the background and I just thought the tall green this year was the same. But, no. Exciting stuff!
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Post by epaul on Aug 9, 2023 8:59:58 GMT -5
Morning.
Just another day in paradise.
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Post by epaul on Aug 8, 2023 9:42:30 GMT -5
Morning.
Barley is off. And I didn't run into anything with the truck. Was fun to be a farmer again. Now it's back to being a Social Un-influencer. I'm going to bleed Calvin Klein blind.
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Post by epaul on Aug 6, 2023 22:54:41 GMT -5
I thought I found a backdoor to the article, but, maybe I didn't. The article I found had a section stating that the problem with a negotiated settlement was the fear that Putin would regroup and invade again later on in hopes of getting more goodies.
Sounds like I found the wrong article.
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Post by epaul on Aug 6, 2023 22:47:13 GMT -5
If a missile is fired at a NATO jet protecting Ukrainian airspace, the launcher firing that missile is taken out.
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Post by epaul on Aug 6, 2023 22:28:31 GMT -5
And NATO and the US needs to take the gloves off concerning the offensive potential of the arms they supply Ukraine with. And in very private channels, convey to Putin that NATO will take to the skies if needed to protect the territory Ukraine now holds.
Carrot and Stick. The carrot is Crimea and a sliver of a land bridge. Ensure that Ukraine has plenty of sea access to the south.
(those easternmost regions of Ukraine haven't been very happy members of Ukraine, anyway. Cultures and borders are a mess. Ask the Basques about borders... or any number of cultural clans stuck inside a map they had no say in drawing.)
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Post by epaul on Aug 6, 2023 21:45:46 GMT -5
This is Putin's one chance at Ukraine. It didn't go the way he thought it would. NATO stepped up. And now, his only hope to pull off his Ukrainian dream is Trump. And he will hold tough for as long as that hope lasts. But, if that hope goes away, he will negotiate. And if Ukraine understands where their bread is buttered, they will negotiate. There is plenty of Ukraine left without Crimea. And borders in that part of Europe are an arbitrary fiction at the best.
And if there is a negotiated settlement, and Ukraine is then admitted to NATO, there will be no "second try" by Putin. NATO's air superiority and superior weaponry across the board will insure that. Russia's massed forces couldn't roll over Ukraine when it was Ukraine alone, imagine the rout if NATO had been in the skies. Don't have to imagine. The war would have been effectively over in a week.
Putin may have dreams, but he doesn't have the time or the resources to have a second go at it. He will die or be "retired", and someone from a different generation with a different dream will look at Ukraine and say "Nyet! Not worth it. And I don't like the Chinese, I want to dance the economic and cultural fandango with my fellow Europeans."
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Post by epaul on Aug 5, 2023 21:00:01 GMT -5
I had a pet crow as a kid. His name was Charley. I climbed a 50 foot spruce to pluck him from the nest. I fed him canned dog food until he was old enough steal kibble from Woody's dog bowl.
Charley was very tame and clever. He would come when called and loved tease Woody by sneaking up on him from behind and pulling his tail.
I feared (wrongly) that he wouldn't survive the winter, so in late fall we drove 30 miles south and turned him loose near the first flock of crows we found... and drove away fast so that he couldn't follow.
I also had a pet magpie. Also tame and very clever. Come fall, she joined up with a flock of magpies and flew south with them.
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Post by epaul on Aug 4, 2023 20:49:13 GMT -5
Everyone is missing the big point here...
ALAN, HOW HELL ARE YOU, BUDDY!
Real glad/Happy to see you (a digital see).
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Post by epaul on Aug 3, 2023 11:39:49 GMT -5
... but the lead singer, Bizfeeder Nemoy never returned from a bathroom break... Oh man, tell me about it. Happens darn near every gig.
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