chicharrones de harina

Chicharrones de Harina

We picked up Chicharrones de Harina at the latin grocery store the other day on the way to Ft. Collins. We called team Ft. Collins to find out exactly what we were buying while at the store (no one spoke English at the grocery store) but the combination of my mobile virgin constant phone static and my inability to read spanish words proved to be a barrier. I have googled them now and find they are made with rendered pork fat and flour apparently. Plou and I have both enjoyed them.....I with Valentina Salsa Picannte Mexican hot sauce extra hot (have you tried the sauce? very good!) and she plain. Have any of yall tried this food ? Just wondering.

The people of walmart

click here daily for a good laugh....

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

fun tee shirts

learned what it looks like .........

to see a very tall man sleeping on a sorry ass blow up bed that deflates halfway down and he puts pillows under the sorry ass blow up bed to try and sleep............and would probably be better off sleeping on the floor.

Ready to Ride

Stephany and Zoolander ready to leave from Colorado Springs to Reno!

How Bizarre, how bizarre...

Yea, so Ribhard actually awoke from a nap the other day singing in key while still half asleep, "Every time I look around, every time I look around..."

How Bizarre How Bizarre

Once you get a funky song stuck in your head..you cannot get it out..you start humming it...singing it...thinking about it...looking up Indonesian Youtube versions..lyrics.......till it runs it's course and weeks later slowly fades....

WTF

Part of me wants to kill it and the other part kind of wants to name it. It is fucking huge, and it is eating stray cats and taking hostages in the corner of our patio. Can you see its fangs? (it's upside down)

Alarming News!!!

As you know, the mighty WindStar van died a few months ago....so we bought this old 98 Subaru Outback a few weeks back. We now have matching old blue subbys. The car came with a keyless entry alarm system. This was all well and good until the alarm began to go off at odd hours....like 2 AM in the morning outside my bedroom window...at the Lowe's parking lot...and sitting in the parking lot at school. I called the local Subaru dealer to see how much it would cost to kill it. They said maybe free and maybe $100....they would need to examine the situation. So I hopped my fat ass down there and slid into the service lane. The service writer...who honest to god looked like Alfred E. {what me worry?) Neuman listens to my tale of woe, calls the service department and Jimmy says it will be a few hours and maybe $210. I did opine that was a bullshit price and burned rubber leaving the service bay. Drove over to the Sound Advice place at Uintah and Circle....Johnny said $50 and will take about an hour. I shook on the deal...walked across the road and strolled up and down the aisles of Cheers Liquor Store....a delightful store with many many types of alcohol. Thought about Valencia and her no pocketbook story....which incidentally made the Gazette the other day.............a tale that needs to be discussed on the blog....anyway..I now have Merlot (5 ltr $12.00 box) and no alarm going off. Life if good.

no mo sticky mess

Dear Heloise
The cup that comes with the liquid laundry detergent was always a complete sticky mess. I found that if I throw it in with my load of laundry, it gets cleaned with the load. I just need to be sure not to throw it in the dryer. Now my loads are fresh and my cup is free of the sticky mess.
John J. Garland, Flowermound, TX

Stool Transplant

Was reading the Wall Street Journal about a medical condition called - Clostridium Defficile or “C.Diff” - it occurs when you've been exposed to "Broad spectrum" antibiotics during a surgery, or to fight off an extreme infection. Essentially, the antibiotics do an excellent job killing the bacteria - but they also end up killing the "good" bacteria in your stomach - which leads to the aforementioned condition.

Anyway in the article it said that lab-mice had "Coprophagia" or "coprophagous"  tendencies which is defined as the act of, or desire to, "eat dung" and they found that in mice that had C.Diff - if they ate "dung" - it in turn replenished their stomachs with the "good bacteria" - thus eliminating C. Diff.

The article continued in 2003 "...18 patients over a nine-year period who had recurrent C.diff and had "stool transplants" performed -- i.e. where doctors took "stool" from a person close to the patient, such as a spouse, and inserted it through a tube into the patient’s nose and from there to the stomach. The study found 15 patients had no more recurrences, Two patients died of unrelated illnesses and one patient had a single recurrence of C.diff after the "stool transplant"

I'll open this one up for comments...

An Afternoon in Flowermound

An Afternoon of Teabagging
The Flower Mound Library will host a class from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, September 19that will teach participants about the art of teabagging. Dan the Man Fuller, author of Teabagging Time Entertaining, will discuss his/her book about the history of afternoon teabagging, teabagging etiquette, teabagging types, traditional teabagging menus, new ways with teabagging, and holiday and special occasion theme teabagging. Dan has written many articles for newspapers and magazines including Victoria Magazine, Texas Runners and The Saturday Evening Post.

Christmas In July...

Announcement: Baybo gets Boan a new puppy!!!!

Heard that Baybo tripped over it recently -- Hope your ankle heals soon! Anyway - I couldn't figure out how to embed the movie they sent but here's the link...

http://www.warmandfuzzyfeeling.com/

News From the Villiage ....

Yet "Another" reason not to move to Florida ...



http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20090809/NEWS01/908090319/-1/SEVENDAYS

Brief thoughts from a public bathroom

So I am standing at a urinal in KC yesterday. I look down and see the brand name of the automatic flusher: "Toto". And I am thinking to myself is this ironic or what...my first thought was "Toto we are not in Kansas anymore"..followed quickly by "Toto we are in Kansas".

I wonder if the people that spec'd,bought, and installed the flushers were slightly influenced by the brand name Toto? I am thinking that in Kansas, brands like Kohler, Sloan, Moen, or American Standard didn't have a chance.

These are thoughts that flush through ones mind as one stands at a urinal with time on ones hands.

The old fashion ways........

I was talking to my youngest daughter the other day....I asked her if they use a Garmin or Tom Tom...she said no "We do it the old fashion way......we GOOGLE"

I am thinking time sure flies by when you get older.

pork rinds vs msg

I was talking to boan about MSG...and so I am looking at stuff in my food...and as I was eating pork rinds out in front of Publix tonight...I checked the list..." pork rinds and salt" were then only ingredients in the bag............I feel better already.

Pop Quiz

Please use a #2 pencil, and no cheating.

1. Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?

2. How important does a person have to be before they are considered "assassinated" instead of just "murdered"?

3. If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a stupid song about him?

4. If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?

5. What color does a smurf turn if you choke him??

Stuck with the Evidence

...yea, so we've been cleaning out the house this summer - motivated by some rat-capades and the growing realization that we now have too much crap in two houses. Anyway, Ribhard has beseeched me not to buy any more bottled glue, glue sticks, or tape products. I do have a tendancy to stock up on some things (see hairclips, writing pens), often underestimating the stock I have at home when distractd by the glitz of a new item on the store shelf. We all know Ribhard to be a patient and mild-mannered soul ("the zen master", as Valencia calls him), so, whenever he beseeches me, I have to figure it's pretty serious. This morning he offered this evidence after cleaning out the laundry room drawers and pantry.

you can spend a thousand dollars, have 7 people out to see where a rat is getting in your house...and still be no better off than the day the rats arrived. We have, however, cleaned up about 20 boxes of attic stuff we didn't need and have gotten rid of now...so I guess we are making progress....wish barry was here to help me with home depot runs.....speaking of which...I now am the proud owner of a fine set of knee pads!