Hot again, certainly as hot as Houston, although it takes a while longer to get there, and really only in the sun. In the sun it was over 105F yesterday, but real temp was probably high 90sF. Today is supposed to be similar.
Slept late but did eventually get to work. Spent hours mowing and edging and then blowing the debris. By then I was pretty done with being in the heat. I used a duster brush thing to get the spider webs off of the outside of the house, the eves and the fascia and then I called it quits. Family arrived while I was laying on the floor cooling down.
Had dinner and played a game, then suddenly it was midnight.
Today I’ll do more cleanup and I’ve got a bunch of red white and blue decorations to put on the dock. Our local fireworks show is right over the lake in front of our lot so we have people join us on the dock to watch. I might have to do some minor repairs to deck boards as well as the decorating…
W will want to get the boat in the water, I’m sure. It will be a full day.
I’m calling it a prep, as we are deepening our ties to the community, and making good memories for the kids. If things go crazy that will help them.
Stacking is easy, joining an existing group is hard. Do both.
nick
Idle curiosity, how big is the lake? Not exact measure in square feet or acres, but is it a pond with pretensions or is it a real lake? More importantly, what is the lake’s size divided by the typical or maximum number of people on it on a given day?
Didn’t forget. I copied Cromwell’s title from 400 years ago, then got curious and looked into why Wales wasn’t mentioned.
Nah, he’s pure southern European, as is evident by face and physique, while I am almost pure northern European, as is evident by face and physique.
Being an executor is time consuming and aggravating. Especially when no one told you in advance that you got the job. And the relatives are coming out of the woodwork…
I hope they undertook appropriate resuscitation measures! Cold drinks, foot and shoulder massages, exclamations of wonderment at all the work done, etc., etc.
Enjoy your national holiday break. Sounds like it got off to a good start.
Friday. A day of rest, so of course I woke at 4am. When W1 got up around 6, I was able to turn on the radio, and that got me back to sleep until around 11. I was tired…
No real rest for the witless, though. I need to catch up today on a lot of stuff that went on the long finger because of megaproject. Time to get up and busy.
Have an excellent day!
Ever since the night after the Brexit vote, I’ve believed that Nigel Farage has a date with destiny in 10 Downing.
Sorry SteveF.
Whether or not Farage works out as PM, it will set the Left’s hair on fire in Britain.
Watch the Nick Shirley video from the British protest against the PM two months ago. Shirley gets more love from the crowd there than he does in the US.
There should always be a Britain, led by British people. Real British people.
Ah, that is disappointing. I always thought it looked kind of cool on TV: Edward Fox, custom suppressed rifles, garrottes, poison, intrigue and all that.
I expect that was Vladimir Vladimirovich’s plan for him too. Recent revelations about Nigel’s unexplained financial dealings might derail it, though.
Happy 3rd of July. That just doesn’t ring right does it?
Things to do today. Pool, BBQ and fireworks coming up.
New Research Suggests Moderate Egg Consumption Is Linked to a Longer Life, Doctor Breaks It Down
https://creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/story/new-research-suggests-moderate-egg-consumption-is-linked-to-a-longer-life-doctor-breaks-it-down-150000967.html
So two generations of the quacks and government running amok and giving “guidance” that had no scientific basis, resulting in excess death and increased disease.
How much more?
First approximation, more than all the deaths in war, plus all the deaths in automobile accidents, plus all the homicides in the U.S. during that time.
Have to refine the calculations, but maybe even add in all the damage caused by the Fauci Abwehr’s Needle Brigade.
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I have six pounds of butter in the refrigerator and I’m going to use it.
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If the government has the power of life and death and tells you that you must do something for life, you can bet there’s at least an equal chance that the result will be death.
“Happy 3rd of July. That just doesn’t ring right does it?”
Think of today as the “PRE-4TH”
Happy Independence Day (observed)
I normally have a pound or two in the fridge and 6-10 in the freezer. Plus reserved bacon fat. Plus several pounds of lard (purchased) and sometimes lard or tallow that I rendered myself. A quart or two of olive oil and a varying amount of coconut fat.
Drippings from cooking most meats, eg a pork loin, are contaminated enough that they’re not worth attempting to render. Instead, I make a pot of rice using those drippings and give it to my chickens. They eat it very enthusiastically. White rice doesn’t have much nutrition for them but a dish every now and then is ok.
I do have a container (cannister? tube?) of vegetable shortening for making cookies because kids complain that cookies with lard taste funny. (They still eat the cookies, mind you, but they complain about it.) And usually a small bottle of vegetable oil for some other recipes which I can’t make come out right when I use melted lard. Presumably the old-time recipes called for lard but the modern recipes have been tweaked for vegetable oil and I haven’t been able to figure out the reverse tweak. But that’s OK. I’m just waiting for my mom to die or be put in a home so I can get the cookbooks from before I was born and a couple of her mother’s from before my mom was born. Hmm… I’m her health proxy and a few other things. I can probably make a call on Monday and have her put in a home. Hmmmmmm………
Regardless, today is the Federal holiday as well as the observed day at many private employers.
“I do have a container (cannister? tube?) of vegetable shortening for making cookies because kids complain that cookies with lard taste funny.”
Butter.
You might try leaf lard.