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Stock in Frito Lay

Yesterday afternoon I noticed that I had way to many tomatoes laying about and, rather than feed them to the compost pile, I’d crank up some salsa.

The problem is that they were not Roma tomatoes but rather Bonny Best and Besser (cherry sized). What the hell, it was bunches more work but I did want to see how it would work out.

So I pealed and cored roughly 10 cups (drained) added 2 medium bell peppers, 2 banana peppers, 10 jalapenos, 4 cloves of garlic, parsley, oregano, and 3 medium onion and cooked it for about 20 minutes in 1/2 cup of vinegar and 2 Tbls of lemon juice. Of course I used a little canning salt and ground black pepper. A 20 minute water bath was used to seal the jars.

This produced 5 pints of absolutely great salsa. I wolfed down an entire jar in one sitting and in the process devoured half a bag of Doritos. Doritos are made by Frito Lay and I’m in the market for many more bags this summer!

Roma’s are producing some ripe fruit so expect that I’ll be canning daily throughout this next week.

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On the Farm Next Door

I may have mentioned that the neighbor just to east of my place is a big-time hunter. He spends all year working on different areas of his roughly 500 acres of woodland; feed plot here, roads going there, fields in beans or corn. Normally he and his friends come up on a Friday and work through the weekend.

About 11 this morning I get a call from my son in law in Huntsville (50 miles away). It seems that one of the guys that was working had gotten a truck stuck and ‘went down’ in the general area of ‘along the trail on the northeast portion of his property. Somehow he was able to get a text out to the property owner (also in Huntsville) about where he was and that he was in trouble. No other info available and, given the very spotty cell service here, no other info would be available. So off I go.

I find the guy and he is down ‘hard’ he can’t get up, and owing to his more than 300 lbs, I can’t get him up. I drive over to where I heard the another guy working a skid-steer in the woods. Even if he had cell service, and he didn’t, he would have never heard his phone. We go back to the guy that is down and use the bucket on the equipment, slid under the big guy to get enough leverage to get him on his feet. Leaving the big guy with the skid-steer we go down the trail another 5 or 6 hundred yards and yank the stuck truck out of the ditch.

None of us are as young as we used to be. When it gets hot and humid out and you find yourself in an area that will likely not have cell service…don’t do stupid stuff! Wedge a little margin for error in all of your plans, take water, have a firearm handy.

Be prepared and safe as you enjoy your weekend.

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Dice

There are probably not a lot of folk who remember Andrew Dice Clay. His comedy routine was beyond insulting. Here is what he would probably say if he were still on stage today.

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When Idiots Are In Control of Your Life | Creating A Nightmare In Leftytown

A Seattle, Wash., councilman implied that a new effort to clean excrement off the side walk outside the local courthouse could be racist Tuesday.

The crime and smell of urine and excrement have gotten so bad outside a King County courthouse that two judges are scrambling to find ways to fix the situation, reports the Seattle Times.

King County councilmember Larry Gossett isn’t a fan of one solution to power wash the feces from the sidewalks to tamp down on the smell. Power washing the sidewalks is too reminiscent of civil rights activists being hosed down, he said.

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Madness North of the Border

Jessica Yaniv, a transgender woman, has filed a suit against Maria Da Silva for refusing to wax her balls. She’s filed the same claims against fifteen other women who refuse to to do the same.

“The people that discriminated against me are forcing their beliefs on society,”

According to The Post Millennial, Yaniv has requested “Brazilian” bikini waxes from 16 Vancouver-area estheticians even though there are other waxers in the immediate region who offer a “Manzilian,” a different procedure specifically designed for waxing male genitalia.

Full story on this madness here.