Blogger beta won't let me upload an image this evening. Go here to see it. I am getting boatloads of hits over at Townhall! Now, it doesn't surprise me that people stop by from U.S. government networks during work hours (right offhand, the FDA, and the Forestry Service come to mind, but mysteriously, not the EPA). It does somewhat surprise me that I'm getting hits from people using the Washington State government network. Maybe it's U.S. Forestry people at home after work hours, using VPN. Or the infamous ALFs and ELFs measuring me for a casket.
I'm also getting lots of hits from really random places here in the U.S. and abroad. Most so far have done search engine queries on "Lord Monckton." As far as I know, I'm the only blogger over at Townhall to even write about his open letter to Senators Rockefeller and Snowe. After writing two opinion pieces about Putin and the Russian natural gas takeover he's doing, I only got a few hits from ExxonMobil employees, who have reason to be concerned--but none from the Feds. Odd. At least I don't have the Russians all over me for MHO.
On a more upbeat note, since I've been home on vacation all week with SJ, I've been cooking up a storm. The boysenberry pie I made this afternoon was awfully good, with a little melty vanilla ice cream on top. I always make my pie crust from scratch because it's so darned easy; I never did understand why mom always bought hers frozen. She claimed she couldn't make it, but the sawdust frozen ones couldn't possibly have been any worse than her handiwork.
The weird thing is that I don't like pie crust at all, and pretty much avoid eating even my own pie crust (I'll eat the filling!), but everyone else raves about how great and flaky it is. If it's saturated with a dairy product, maybe I'll eat it, but otherwise I treat it like pizza crust--eat what you have to, but leave the edges!
On the menu for Christmas is:
New Year's will feature duck, as it always does around here. Orange sauce is optional. We usually toss it in favor of something else, even though it's one of those weird really easy "simmer it in water" packages that comes with the neck and guts.
We always simmer the bird carcasses after they've been picked pretty clean, for broth. The broth freezes really well. So, we're semi-nuts, but if we are going to do the whole holiday shindig, we'll get what we can out of it.
I'm also getting lots of hits from really random places here in the U.S. and abroad. Most so far have done search engine queries on "Lord Monckton." As far as I know, I'm the only blogger over at Townhall to even write about his open letter to Senators Rockefeller and Snowe. After writing two opinion pieces about Putin and the Russian natural gas takeover he's doing, I only got a few hits from ExxonMobil employees, who have reason to be concerned--but none from the Feds. Odd. At least I don't have the Russians all over me for MHO.
On a more upbeat note, since I've been home on vacation all week with SJ, I've been cooking up a storm. The boysenberry pie I made this afternoon was awfully good, with a little melty vanilla ice cream on top. I always make my pie crust from scratch because it's so darned easy; I never did understand why mom always bought hers frozen. She claimed she couldn't make it, but the sawdust frozen ones couldn't possibly have been any worse than her handiwork.
The weird thing is that I don't like pie crust at all, and pretty much avoid eating even my own pie crust (I'll eat the filling!), but everyone else raves about how great and flaky it is. If it's saturated with a dairy product, maybe I'll eat it, but otherwise I treat it like pizza crust--eat what you have to, but leave the edges!
On the menu for Christmas is:
- 11 lb. turkey
- mashed yellow turnip/rutabaga
- mashed potatoes
- cran/orange sauce
- bread dressing
- pumpkin pie
New Year's will feature duck, as it always does around here. Orange sauce is optional. We usually toss it in favor of something else, even though it's one of those weird really easy "simmer it in water" packages that comes with the neck and guts.
We always simmer the bird carcasses after they've been picked pretty clean, for broth. The broth freezes really well. So, we're semi-nuts, but if we are going to do the whole holiday shindig, we'll get what we can out of it.
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