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What I did on my summer vacation!



1. Didn't make tamales

I was going to make tamales. But I kept forgetting to take the recipe I'd printed off from the net next door, when I went home. I looove tamales. Have eaten the most excellent ones at the little tamale shack halfway between Dallas and Austin. Have made 'em a couple of times in the last decade.

Had the corn husks and the cooked chicken and the masa harina, and of course all the spices. Didn't have the initiative. Making tamales is too much like baking. I hate baking. So the chicken will become chicken salad. I love chicken salad.


2. Listened to music

Just one music. My new mp3 of No.2 singing and playing 1952 Vincent Black Lightning at a folk fest about a decade ago. Over and over. Me listening over and over, not him playing over and over. It is one of the most beautiful things I have heard. If we were 16 instead of ...., I'd have worn out the 45 by now. (Duh, 45, not 48; how time flies and memory fades.) Let me just click that start button again ...

If anybody would like to hear it, I'd be happy to email the mp3; I had him make me a copy without the artist name on it, so I'm free to share it with the world at large. Send me a PM with an email address, and I'll pass it on, probably later today, because I have to get some sleep sometime.

(Bonus: I'll also send you an invite to open a Gmail account, mainly because Gmail will nag me to do it and it's the easiest way to stop the nagging. You don't need an invite anymore, but if you have one, the link will take you straight to the page for the very, very simple process of setting it up. My suggestion is to get an account in yr GR screen name, or whatever approximation thereof you can get. It makes a handy place to get/receive GR-related email, and as long as you don't make your username your real name you can give it out to anyone without privacy concerns.)

This is a version of 1952 Vincent Black Lightning by the author/composer of the song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxKTzwaEa2o

Britain's own guitar god: http://www.richardthompson-music.com

I like No. 2's way better. And not just because Richard Thompson hasn't proposed that we be married by Elvis in the desert. And I'm sure everybody reading is just dying to hear No.2, not Richard Thompson.


3. Sent French postcards to No.2

WARNING: if you are distressed by risqué photos from the 1920s, and/or if your name starts with P and is a euphemism for, um, another word starting with P, do not copy and paste this url:

http://www.thepracticalromantic.com/thumbnail_pages/romance_09.htm

(I'm not a major fan of naked lady pix myself, but 'tis all in the spirit of play, as those bold enough to click will see. There are lots of other romantic/cute things there, for anyone looking for new ecards.)


And then, naturally, deconstructing the social and political messages conveyed by said postcards with No.2 ...


And of course -- counting down the days until I get to make out at the top of the Ferris Wheel. Unless I chicken out between now and then. Certainly you will all be the first to know if that happens. Well, better second to know, I guess.


Gotta run ... new messages in the inbox ...

Not read this yet but welcome back

~~~~~~ !

Kathryn B, you have told us in the past that if we see you at silly o'clock we are to tell you to Go To Bed

I have read it , and I still say - welcome back!

xxxxx mick

Does virtual going to bed count?? I'm working on that one ...


Silly o'clock. I like that one. Learning a new language is such fun. ;)

Kathryn I can't work out what time it is there but do get some sleep...!

making out at the top of a ferris wheel requires you to be 'bright eyed and bushy tailed' :))


xx

It's 5:15 a.m. Tomorrow is a civic holiday here in Ontario!

Only problem is that the gummint office for which I have a job 5 weeks overdue is in Montreal ... where it isn't a civic holiday tomorrow. Today that is, for you.

But yes, time to go. I've just been bade g'night by No.2, who is of course in a two hours later time zone.

Lots of time to rest up before the ferris wheel still. I'll disclose the date when it arrives. ;)

Lots of time still, too, to bore the assembled masses with the dithering and blithering ...

Welcome back Kathryn

~~~~~ Ann!

I'll wave hello more later ...

Seems like I was hardly gone at all, doesn't it? Except for all the hilarity my absence caused in my absence. ;)

Morning Kathryn... welcome back!

Still not sure why you had to go and play elsewhere, but as long as you had fun ;¬))



I'm off to google tamales cos I've never heard of them!!

Love

Daff xxxx

lovely to see you again Kathryn - seems like no time at all

Ann XX

Have googled and am back.... next time you have a holiday, would you make them and send them over, please...... they sound scrummy.

If there is a next time, I mean!

Love

Daff xxx

Very good tamale recipe here:

www.sonofthesouth.net/tamales/Tamale_Recipe.htm

It's the one I was going to use -- comes with good clear instructions for the lengthy process, and pictures, because if you've never done them, it's a little difficult to envision.

Basically, it's a spicy chicken/pork mixture (I happened to have both on hand and cooked, but ordinarily I'd just do chicken) in a corn flour dumpling/bun thingy, which is cooked in a corn husk. You spread the batter on the husk, put the meat mixture on that, and roll up the husk and then steam them for a fairly long time.

That recipe makes a big batch, but as it says, it's not something you want to be doing every day. Dang they're good, though. I haven't found a Mexican / Latin American restaurant here that serves them, or I wouldn't even think of making them.

Oh, Daff -- why I had to go play elsewhere:

http://www.smartalexinc.com/cards.asp?minorCatID=16

Do not use that source to tell people's horoscopes at GR. Even with askerisks. ;) Or Dick ... or the name that means the same thing ... will report you!

My name, by the way, means "pure and chaste".

How anyone could suggest my posts were anything but ...

wmsl Kathryn... I'm so pleased I learnt how to c & p from one of the kind people here, lol.

I have sent the link to my hubby and some friends.... it is so funny.

I am very very crabby, but there is absolutely no benefit in it for me, lololol

I am a kept woman, however ;¬)) There must be some benefit in that????

Love

Daff xxxx

Nobody wants to listen to No.2 singin' and pickin' the classic tale of star-crossed lovers composed by your own excellent Richard Thompson??

Not a romantic bone in your souls ...

pure and chaste-----hmmmm - sure you don't mean chased!!!

Hee hee. All over cyberspace. ;)

With any luck, all over the desert. With guns!