Friday Music

Highway to Hell is the sixth studio album released by the Australian band AC/DC in 1979.

Living easy, living free
Season ticket on a one-way ride
Asking nothing, leave me be
Taking everything in my stride

Sometimes you have to have a little Friday music frivolity....

 

You May be Excused

Found on the web...

1.      "Don't listen to his words. Look at what is in his heart."

2.      "Don't take his words literally."

3.      "Let me clarify what he said."

4.      "He intended it as a joke."

5.      "I think what he meant was . . ."

6.      "What he said is not entirely supported by the facts."

7.      "He fights fire with fire."

8.      “Genuine president expressing himself genuinely.”

9.      "Just trump being trump."

10.     "Wait until he matures in office."

11.     “It’s not terrible but it’s kind of the classic Trump in that he overstates things.”

12.     “Maybe he was being sarcastic.”

13.     “While I find it hard to believe I should have to defend the President on this . . .”

14.     “It is not unusual for staffers to hear him bluster about things. That doesn’t mean it’s real.”

15.     “The president speaks for himself,”

16.     “The tweet speaks for itself.”

17.     “Maybe you should get a sense of humor.”

18.     “He’s new to this.”

19.     “He wasn’t meaning to give a factual statement.”

20.     “He was misinterpreted.”

21.     “The president will use whatever language he wants to use, obviously.”

23.     “He was being rhetorical.”

24.     “The president's style is the president's style.”

25.     “Mar-a-Lago stirs him up,”

26.     “He was paraphrasing.”

27.     “The tweet was simply sloppy and unfortunate.”

28.     “He was trying to be cute.”

29.     “I’m not going to make judgments on what the president does. That’s up to him,”

30.     “Give him time. He's learning on the job.”

31.     “His comments were unfortunate but his heart is in the right place.”

32.     “This is how the forgotten men and women of America talk at a (Wisconsin) bar,”

33.     “It will actually resonate with his base, not alienate it,”

34.     “There’s a large segment of voters who it resonates with as anti-P.C. ‘straight talk’.”

35.     “Let's judge the President after 4 years and not on what he says.”

36.     “I don’t recall him ever saying that specifically.”

37.     “He is a flawed man, I am a flawed man. God will take care of it...”

When I was a youngster I was taught to ask to be excused  from the dining room table.  Mom and dad were sticklers for manners.  So, speaking of manners I don’t know which is more troubling. 

The lame excuses or the number of lame excuses....

Sunset

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Lounging around with my three girls over a glass of Merlot.  View from the city porch.....

Tweet of the Absurd

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This morning's tweet from the  Golden Throne included the above.

President Trump is now blaming the stock market for the stock market going down.

Some days I think I've stepped thru the looking glass and into a bizarre parallel universe.

No Vegans Allowed

Not that I have anything against vegans - I'm acquainted with some pretty cool vegans.  it's just that this is an adaptation of our favorite spinach lasagna recipe from the Moosewood Cookbook that involves meat.  Lots of meat.  The Moosewood Cookbook is a recipe book written by Mollie Katzen when she was a member of the Moosewood collective in Ithaca, New York.  And Mollie is all about vegan.  This recipe builds-upon Mollie’s Moosewood Spinach Lasagna with a couple of shortcuts and no tofu.  Spinach is optional.  Consider it the meat lovers version.

Two jars of marinara sauce

¾ pound ground venison

¾ pound of Italian sausage

Large can of sliced mushrooms

12 lasagna noodles

2 cups ricotta

2 beaten eggs

Salt & pepper

1 lb. shredded mozzarella cheese (more is better)

½ lb grated Parmesan cheese (more is better - go big or go home)

Mix the ricotta with eggs and salt and pepper to taste.  Add a dash of nutmeg too.

Fry out the venison and sausage and add the sauce and mushrooms. Add diced onion, garlic green peppers if you care.  More spices too.  Cast convention to the wind.

 

Spread some mushroom/meat sauce in pan.  Add 1/3 of the noodles (If you are math-challenged that is 4 noodles),  1/2 ricotta/egg filling, more meat sauce,  ½ of the mozzarella, four more noodles, the rest of filling, more sauce, remainder of the mozzarella, the last four noodles, sauce  and parmesan.   Whew!  There is no sin in going heavy on the cheese - more is mo' betta.

 

 

Cover with foil and bake 60 minutes at 400 degrees.   Uncover and bake up to an additional 30 minutes.  Let it rest for 15 minutes before serving. 

 

 

This is good chow.  Deer camp food.   Serve with garlic bread, salad and a bold red wine.   

 

Can be made in advance and frozen.  If frozen be sure to thaw in the fridge for 24 hours before cooking.

Raising a cheer to the carnivores....

Nocturnal Visitor

The cedars in the yard are showing sign of having been browsed.  This, following a thorough spraying with deer repellant. 

And fresh tracks in the fresh snow on the driveway....

Same Deer - Different Time

One of the things about trail cameras is that from time-to-time you might think you've seen the same animal more than once.  Of course, the critter would have to have some sort of identifier or distinguishing characteristic to know it is the same one.  Antlers make the job easier.

Like this buck from the close of last October.

The only reason I remember this one is that the antlers set it apart from many of the other one and a half year old bucks.  The forked antlers.

Here's a picture of him in the same location from a couple of weeks ago.


I had this fork horn in the crosshairs during the gun season - Thanksgiving day.

It's neat to see him around.