Mountain Bangers

A light and flavorsome meal is featured. It is gathered from the barnyard, the garden, and the orchard.

1. Heat Italian (turkey) sausage with ham slices on low until browned in crock-pot.
2.  Boil rice (of choice) with a low heat warm with olive oil while mixing greens (of choice), peas, and mushrooms (Scrambled egg is an option).
3. Add an avocado, banana, and strawberry salad.

Invite Cabernet Sauvignon or one of her cousins.

Butterfly Bush

Me grandmother had her one....I gots one!
Caught me first butterfly on hers when I was ~ 3 yrs old.

Meet the Rev Jessie Duplantis.

The good Reverend is asking his followers to fund  a 54 million dollar airplane to aid him in his mission.  It will be the 4th plane in his collection.  Duplantis reportedly lives in a 35,000-square-foot plantation home built in the late ’00s at a cost of $3 million. His net worth has been estimated at $50 million.   Jesus, is there no decency left anywhere.  

elephants of india

                                          

As part of the Holi – the Hindu Festival of Colors to celebrate the arrival of spring – the Elephant Festival has become a large tradition.  In Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, each year elephants are paraded, bejeweled, and painted. The end result is a fabulous transformation from a grey behemoth to a wonderful palette of colors and designs.

On this Memorial Day; A favorite haunting lament by Dick Gaughan, whose voice and guitar I love so well. (he's retired from music and works in computer coding now).

Farewell to Sicily

The pipie is dozie, the pipie is fey
He wullnae come roun for his vino the day
The sky owre Messina is unco an gray
An aa the bricht chaumers are eerie

Fareweill ye banks o Sicily
Fare ye weill ye valley an shaw
There's nae Jock will murn the kyles o ye
Aa the bricht chaumers are eerie
[Puir bliddy swaddies are wearie]
Fareweill ye banks o Sicily
Fare ye weill ye valley an shaw
There's nae hame can smour the wiles o ye
Aa the bricht chaumers are eerie
[Puir bliddy swaddies are wearie]

Then doun the stair an line the watterside
Wait yer turn the ferry's awa
Then doun the stair an line the watterside
Aa the bricht chaumers are eerie

The drummie is polisht, the drummie is braw
He cannae be seen for his wabbin ava
He's beezed himsell up for a photie an aa
Tae leave wi his Lola, his dearie

Fareweill ye banks o Sicily
Fare ye weill ye sheilin an haa
We'll aa mind shebeens an bothies
Whaur kind signorinas were cheerie
Fareweill ye banks o Sicily
Fare ye weill ye sheilin an haa
We'll aa mind shebeens an bothies
Whaur Jock made a date wi his dearie

Then tune the pipes an drub the tenor drum
Leave yer kit this side o the waa
Then tune the pipes an drub the tenor drum
Puir bluidy swaddies are wearie
[Aa the bricht chaumers are eerie]

Nehemiah's Jerusalem

Nehemiah's time was about the second half of the 5th century B.C.  Jerusalem at this time is estimated at about 30 acres in area with a population of ~4500. 
Jerusalem at the time of Jesus was ~230 acres and ~40,000 inhabitants.
Jerusalem today is of almost 50 square miles in area with ~763,800 residnets

Shetland Pony

Research conducted by the University College Dublin, Equinome Ltd and the University of Cambridge suggests that the modern Thoroughbred sprinter got its speed from one gene of a single Shetland pony .

Shetland ponies originated in the Shetland Isles, located northeast of mainland Scotland.