Let's visit.....

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Originally Posted by seven of nine

Easy on the voodo, some of that stuff is bad karma!

Not if the Voodoo keeps a thief from robbing an elderly person of their life savings. That's good Karma, plus scambaiting is fun and the only Voodoo doll I use is Yemaya, she does no harm.

[Reziac]

What do you want for YOUR birthday??

Charleston Daily Mail - West Virginia News and Sports - Food and Living - W.Va. dad makes son cannon to fulfill birthday wish *

[seven of nine]

That fellow for my Dad! just kidding pop, stop that thunder now
I have been to a few civil war reenactments, they are not kidding how you feel that cannon in your chest. Curiously the "water bearers" pass out pickles to the men also. They say it was for salt replenishment.

[Reziac]

If you live in the desert and work outside in the heat, you get very aware of needing salt, and not just salt but potassium etc. as well. You can lose enough salt through sweat to get into serious trouble, and then plain water doesn't cut it. Pickles, being packed in brine, contain salt and various other electrolytes. Vienna sausages (juice and all) also work well, as do ramen flavour packets. (Gatorade or beer also work, but not as well as you'd think.) Anyway, pickles are a good idea for strapping lads sweating in the sun as they haul those cannons around (haven't they ever heard of horses?

[seven of nine]

Gee, we are really onto the cooking/survival book aren't we?

[Reziac]

You gotta be when you hate cooking as much as I do

Tho one of this week's projects (if I get around to it) is an attempt to make cottage cheese! Supposed to be very easy. Ha, we'll see about that!

[seven of nine]

Cottage cheese and cantaloupe for supper tonight.
Thanks for the idea.
BTW the skeeters are awful right now, all the extra rain has them carrying off my dogs
Is this Alaska?

[Reziac]

No no no, cottage cheese (dry curd please) with sugar and cinnamon, or with lemon pepper...

Dry curd never goes bad -- it just turns into hard cheese that tastes rather like Swiss cheese. Can't buy dry curd here, it's all thick white slop which goes bad very fast, hence the wild idea of making my own!

[seven of nine]

I never thought about it, you must keep me updated!

[rickers]

I'm heading east down the high line starting early in the morning and we're taking the whole famdamly and our camera. We're going to inspect a property I have had my eye on but I'll try to stop for a few pictures along the way if we pass anything photo worthy. We may stop for a soak in Sleeping Buffalo Hot Springs if it's not too hot.