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***Preparation For The Ball***

***Preparation For The Ball***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** As I’m posting this….. My fully armed chili is being distributed and dispensed….to unsuspecting riders….. They are partaking in my sumptuously prepared dish of multiple bean chili…(and sausage)….. Tomorrow is our last Fox Hunt of this Season…and we look forward to next year….. And after the riders have trailered their mounts home….. …..bathed their Hunt horses…showered themselves…and otherwise readied themselves for our annual Hunt Club Ball (this evening)….. Their gastric appliances have been…

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***Swamp Gas***

***Swamp Gas***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** The mark of a good (self-professed) writer is one who picks timely…interesting…appropriate blog posts….. I’m none of those things….. And this post probably illustrates that completely….. The up-coming fart innuendoes are both immature and inappropriate….. …..(but really funny if you think about it)….. And I figured…because I’m only writing this post to my friend Pascal…it’s only a musing between him and me…so it doesn’t matter….. *****(Remind Me?  Who’s Pascal?)***** Pascal is not to…

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Ahhhhh…Boxing Day

Ahhhhh…Boxing Day

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I’m thoroughly…but pleasantly exhausted….. And here we are…the Day After Christmas….. Boxing Day is always high up on my list of favorites….. Here in the U.S.A. it’s not really recognized as a Holiday…but…in Great Britain it certainly is….. And it’s a tradition that I like to wholeheartedly embrace….. Deadlines have been met (or swept under the rug or totally forgotten and/or ignored)….. Dinners have been made…presents have been wrapped and unwrapped…it’s a day…

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*One Of The Best Days*

*One Of The Best Days*

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Don’t get me wrong…I Love Thanksgiving Day…and Everything it brings to the Table….. It’s a Holiday with the Best of the Family at its Heart….. But the Day After…now that’s Heaven….. No rushing…No cleaning…No cooking…No baking…No aching back and feet….. …..(and for the most part the dishes are “mostly” washed and put away)…(mostly)….. I’ve always enjoyed the crunchy…semi-burned…thoroughly unpresentable nibbles that never make it to the serving tray…and they’re unceremoniously left behind in…

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We’re Tired~Happy~But~Exhausted

We’re Tired~Happy~But~Exhausted

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* But we did it….. One more Halloween Hunt Club Tea under our belt….. There were about forty people at our Guest Hunt event last Saturday….. I believe a good time was had by all…but honestly…I’m still cross-eyed tired….. But we got everything down to the host’s ranch ahead of time in the morning….. We were set up before the field came back in….. I think they got on a coyote run…but I’m really…

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~Hunt Club Halloween Tea Prep~

~Hunt Club Halloween Tea Prep~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Today my daughters and I are in a whir…baking and cooking….. Tomorrow is our Halloween Tea at a local ranch where we Fox Hunt….. It’s a Guest Hunt…so there should be more riders and guests than usual…maybe around forty….. …..it’s a little hard to estimate the amount of food to prepare and bring….. …..so it’s better to over-do rather than under-do………….too little food & drink is just a bummer….. We’re going to have…

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Let’s Talk Peanuts

Let’s Talk Peanuts

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I know I’ve done at least one post in the past about peanuts….. …..particularly…boiled peanuts….. But because they’re so good…I thought they warranted another go-round….. …..I love those slimy little things…they’re addictive….. My northern Ohio relatives think I’m crazy…(for a lot of different reasons)…but specifically regarding the boiling of raw green peanuts….. They just don’t get the wonderfulness that is the boiling of a peanut…and the savoring of its innards….. It’s a Southern-thing…

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Yellow Or Green Pea Soup

Yellow Or Green Pea Soup

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* It’s Hot Outside!….. It’s another Hot Month in Sunny Sub-Tropical Florida….. Air Conditioning is a lifeline to be taken advantage of at any & all opportunities….. I suppose it’s not really the season for soup…but our freezer is over-flowing with frozen pork and ham bones….. I needed to make room…I need to do something with all those frozen bones…(it sounds like I’m trying to get rid of murder evidence doesn’t it?)….. But…my go-to…

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~Let’s All Eat Cake~

~Let’s All Eat Cake~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I have good friends….. I have good friends who took pity on me & my recent culinary attempts…(i.e. fiascos)….. Doctor Brigid is not only a great vet…a brilliant surgeon…but she’s also one hell of a baker….. …..(btw: she told me if I get a fresh pork roast she’ll show me how to stitch on the pig skin)….. …..(good times…good times)….. …..(hey…don’t judge me…I want to know that pork roasts can rest easy…knowing I…

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~To Bake…Or Not To Bake~

~To Bake…Or Not To Bake~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Well…it appears…that’s the question….. …..or maybe it’s not much of a question…maybe it’s just been a badly illustrated answer….. I recently baked a cake for my Birthday…(and yes…this old broad got older)….. I used the cast aluminum chicken hen pan that I recently found on eBay….. It’s a cute two piece pan…made so when you put the baked halves together…it can sit up on the tray…like a setting hen….. Much like the two…

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