Thanks, everybody! I was feelin’ a bit nostalgic today.
long story short:
We adopted a rescue in ’98: Lulu, who apparently had been on the street a while. Two weeks later, she had 4 puppies. Although she was a tiny little Shih Tsu, she probably mated with a fairly large dog.
We already had two rescues, but I couldn’t bear to give the pups away, so we kept them all…..Lulu, StelBel, Quincy, Andy and Josie plus the 2 “uncles” we already had: Stashyu and Jake. Quincy, the last of all of them, passed on in 2011. Now, I have Maxwell to carry on, and I’ve had him since ’11.
On the Jersey Shore, when I was a teen, there were boardwalks 3- 5′ above the sand, so I always identified with this song. It provided a modicum of privacy. Even more private, at night, were the lifeguard boats turned upside down on the sand.
A Concert for George
(tribute to George Harrison with some familiar faces, including his son, Dhani Harrison, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr)
Before my time, but once the preeminent Western hero of the silver screen, as well as the PURPLIE sage.
This movie is as much fun to watch for what it isn’t as for what it is….
Somehow, calling it a “film” in snooty tones would be pretentious.
It’s a whiz bang shoot-em-up in Old Howlywood style… the bad guys are bad, the Good Guys are impeccably saintly..
…
BTW, Stel….
Thanks for disarming them.
Much better for the pups to run around with dog biscuits than guns!
Our sweet Cleo is fond of bombs and bazookas….
but she’s a baaad influence on impressionable puppies.
I’m glad Tom Mixbasset is more sensible.
…
And… psst…. don’t believe the rumors about Tom… it’s just his name.
In Howlywood, gossip is an industry.
I’m sure he’s really all basset. 100%
And even if he weren’t, so what.
Breed, like fur color, spay status,, original tail length and even sexual orientation…
is another of those things that we all know don’t matter, even if 100 years ago people whispered.
…
An aside… (from me? Who woulda thunk.)
Some years ago, I owned a great, quite collectible, Tom Mixbasset “Secret Lookaround” ring… a cereal premium from the 1930’s or 40’s….
It was made of flimsy brass-plated tin, a square top, with slits along the sides, the inside fitted with a sliver of mirror.
You peered into the slits and the mirror showed you a sliver of scenery in a different direction….
…
The idea being, that just in casethe bad guys saw you standing there like an idiot, holding up your ring to your face and squinching your eyes to try to look inside,
…. they’d never guess exactly where you were examining a tiny strip of grass.
Hah! Sneak attack.
…
Anyway, I had a houseguest… a friend of a friend who needed a place to stay for a couple of days…
And she apparently also need a few pieces of vintage jewelry, among other things I didn’t realise till she left town.
Thanks… I was trying to post a couple of pictures of one earlier, taken from eBay, but my usual image hosting site was down.
I suppose I should have linked to the listing.
…
Yours is actually the very similar (and even more collectible) Stanhope ring… stanhopes have a tiny cylindrical glass viewer, that magnifies a picture inside.
Lookaround rings are more common and apparently less valuable…. $30-77 or so on eBay.
They have a thin slot through which you view a mirror strip, rather than an image inside.
There were apparently a LOT of different Tom Mix rings… including a magnetic one, a flashlight, and a couple of types of whistles.
They were still very popular in the 1940’s, even though Tom Mix hadn’t made a movie in a decade.
The above is not a recipe I’ll be looking for; these, on the other hand, I know to be delicious.
From:
My mother’s cookbook (in my mother’s handwriting)
“Cabbage Rolls”
Credited to a family friend: Claire MacDonald
1 1/2 pounds ground beef
1 medium to large onion, chopped fine
1/2 cup raw rice, washed and drained
1 large green pepper, chopped fine
salt and pepper
1 tin tomato soup
1 good size cabbage
RECIPE INSTRUCTIONS / NOTES FROM ME
Instructions for recipe
Cook the meat in large fry pan just till it is no longer red. Remove from heat. Mix in the rice, onion, and green pepper, a dash of salt (canned tomato soup is very salty), pepper, quite a bit.
Soften the cabbage leaves by placing cabbage in pot of boiling water for few minutes. Then remove with large fork. Cut leaves off at the base and return to pot while you fill the softened leaves with the meat mixture. Keep three of four of the large outer leaves to cover the top of the casserole. Take each leaf, place a large spoonful meat near the base, and roll up, tucking in sides as (you-edited in by me-) go.
Use up meat mixture softening leaves and filling as you go. When casserole is ready, pour over the tin of tomato soup and enough water to cover. (This is a good time, too, to rinse out those almost empty catsup bottles. It adds flavor). Cover with outer cabbage leaves. Place lid on casserole. Bake in 325 to 350 deg. oven until well cooke 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
Notes from me:
Seriously, do rinse off the rice in cold water to wash the rice dust from it.
This recipe is transcribed as written in the book . It is written in “mum-speak” (I can hear her voice.)
It is all there, and it’s all accurate. Read the parts that are unclear to you until they make sense to you (they will, I promise).
where the heck does a hunter shoot down a kielbasa? I thought those critters
hung out in meat packing places.
and for that matter, where does a hunter shoot down some egg noodles?
I’m thinking it’s a hunter’s stew because that’s what his wife packed for him to take out on his hunt.
I have looked, and looked, and looked.
Every piece of art Kenton Nelson has produced just seems “slightly off” to me.
What is “off” about it, I don’t know, it just is (since they’re all like that, maybe that’s what he wanted / he’s definitely honed his talent to a skill).
A hearty congratulations to you, Plods !! It’s been a long time coming! I hope that everything from here on out goes quickly, smoothly, and safely!!!!!
That’s such wonderful news, Plods. For your sake, I hope that lungs become available soon. (For the donor, not so much. But I hope their family finds comfort that the lungs they donate have found a good home.)
Transplantation for most organs is such a bittersweet thing.
May you receive these new lungs soon and then go on to live long and prosper.
(human version)
(the famous StelBel with her brother, Quincy, on their regular back-of-the-couch perch c.2004. RIP)
Awww…. I see the family resemblance.
Lovely room, too.
Who’s a good doggy?
I love the freedom the doggies have. You can tell they’re well-loved!
Thanks, everybody! I was feelin’ a bit nostalgic today.
long story short:
We adopted a rescue in ’98: Lulu, who apparently had been on the street a while. Two weeks later, she had 4 puppies. Although she was a tiny little Shih Tsu, she probably mated with a fairly large dog.
We already had two rescues, but I couldn’t bear to give the pups away, so we kept them all…..Lulu, StelBel, Quincy, Andy and Josie plus the 2 “uncles” we already had: Stashyu and Jake. Quincy, the last of all of them, passed on in 2011. Now, I have Maxwell to carry on, and I’ve had him since ’11.
[I finally caught what must have been a glaring error to everyone else all day, and corrected it. Better late (by10 hours) than never!]
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I first saw this introduced by Martha Quinn of MTV.
That doesn’t look like a place to waddle to.
Paddle, on the other paws…
She’s not singing about San Pedro Nolasco…. which is a tiny, rugged, mostly uninhabited, nature preserve…
People go sport fishing in the surrounding waters, but usually don’t come ashore.
…
There are lots of San Pedros…
The one most people think she’s singing about is a beautiful resort island off the coast of Belize, on the other side of North America.
But Madonna herself said she doesn’t remember having a specific place in mind…
Just a generic Spanish resort island she dreamed up… possibly named after seeing a road sign for the Southern California city of San Pedro.
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…
On the Jersey Shore, when I was a teen, there were boardwalks 3- 5′ above the sand, so I always identified with this song. It provided a modicum of privacy. Even more private, at night, were the lifeguard boats turned upside down on the sand.
I’ve loved this song ever since it first came out. My mom loved it, too!
I’ve been to the Jersey Shore back in the 90’s. I envy you living there during its heyday in music and summertime partying.
That’s where we’d head in the summer. Bumper-to-bumper on the Garden State Pkwy, or Rt-9.
It’s been ages since I heard this. Now I’ve got my earworm of the day.
The human, Zane Grey’s 1912 book version cover.
Edited at 09:38 E.S.T.
Published in 1887, “A Study in Scarlet,” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (the first Sherlock Holmes) did not cast Mormonism in a very good light either.
Love that palm tree. They are one of the things I miss most about California…….I know this isn’t California.
Yeah, should be pretty easy to tell Idaho from California.
Yes, didn’t have to deal with snow and freezing temps in California. Getting down in the teens this weekend…..and I don’t like it.
How do you keep all the water inside that square?
In spite of the motion, with waves hitting the sides, i don’t see a drop leaking into the comments…
And all the vintage pictures seem safe.
All the magic is behind the scenes!
A Concert for George
(tribute to George Harrison with some familiar faces, including his son, Dhani Harrison, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr)
…
We love that concert! DVRed it when PBS ran it a few years ago. Watch it every couple of months.
The human Tom Mix seems a lot angrier than Tom Mixbasset.
The Mixbasset clan is known for being mellow…
Oooh, Tom Mixbasset….
Before my time, but once the preeminent Western hero of the silver screen, as well as the PURPLIE sage.
This movie is as much fun to watch for what it isn’t as for what it is….
Somehow, calling it a “film” in snooty tones would be pretentious.
It’s a whiz bang shoot-em-up in Old Howlywood style… the bad guys are bad, the Good Guys are impeccably saintly..
…
BTW, Stel….
Thanks for disarming them.
Much better for the pups to run around with dog biscuits than guns!
Our sweet Cleo is fond of bombs and bazookas….
but she’s a baaad influence on impressionable puppies.
I’m glad Tom Mixbasset is more sensible.
…
And… psst…. don’t believe the rumors about Tom… it’s just his name.
In Howlywood, gossip is an industry.
I’m sure he’s really all basset. 100%
And even if he weren’t, so what.
Breed, like fur color, spay status,, original tail length and even sexual orientation…
is another of those things that we all know don’t matter, even if 100 years ago people whispered.
…
An aside… (from me? Who woulda thunk.)
Some years ago, I owned a great, quite collectible, Tom Mixbasset “Secret Lookaround” ring… a cereal premium from the 1930’s or 40’s….
It was made of flimsy brass-plated tin, a square top, with slits along the sides, the inside fitted with a sliver of mirror.
You peered into the slits and the mirror showed you a sliver of scenery in a different direction….
…
The idea being, that just in case the bad guys saw you standing there like an idiot, holding up your ring to your face and squinching your eyes to try to look inside,
…. they’d never guess exactly where you were examining a tiny strip of grass.
Hah! Sneak attack.
…
Anyway, I had a houseguest… a friend of a friend who needed a place to stay for a couple of days…
And she apparently also need a few pieces of vintage jewelry, among other things I didn’t realise till she left town.
Ha! I bet she never found the secret mirror.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/123609348867?hash=item1cc7b0fb03:g:KbIAAOSwJ7RcSNPb
Thanks… I was trying to post a couple of pictures of one earlier, taken from eBay, but my usual image hosting site was down.
I suppose I should have linked to the listing.
…
Yours is actually the very similar (and even more collectible) Stanhope ring… stanhopes have a tiny cylindrical glass viewer, that magnifies a picture inside.
Lookaround rings are more common and apparently less valuable…. $30-77 or so on eBay.
They have a thin slot through which you view a mirror strip, rather than an image inside.
There were apparently a LOT of different Tom Mix rings… including a magnetic one, a flashlight, and a couple of types of whistles.
They were still very popular in the 1940’s, even though Tom Mix hadn’t made a movie in a decade.
…
OK… the site is up again….
Here’s one just like mine:
southern fried cabbage
The above is not a recipe I’ll be looking for; these, on the other hand, I know to be delicious.
From:
My mother’s cookbook (in my mother’s handwriting)
“Cabbage Rolls”
Credited to a family friend: Claire MacDonald
1 1/2 pounds ground beef
1 medium to large onion, chopped fine
1/2 cup raw rice, washed and drained
1 large green pepper, chopped fine
salt and pepper
1 tin tomato soup
1 good size cabbage
Cook the meat in large fry pan just till it is no longer red. Remove from heat. Mix in the rice, onion, and green pepper, a dash of salt (canned tomato soup is very salty), pepper, quite a bit.
Soften the cabbage leaves by placing cabbage in pot of boiling water for few minutes. Then remove with large fork. Cut leaves off at the base and return to pot while you fill the softened leaves with the meat mixture. Keep three of four of the large outer leaves to cover the top of the casserole. Take each leaf, place a large spoonful meat near the base, and roll up, tucking in sides as (you-edited in by me-) go.
Use up meat mixture softening leaves and filling as you go. When casserole is ready, pour over the tin of tomato soup and enough water to cover. (This is a good time, too, to rinse out those almost empty catsup bottles. It adds flavor). Cover with outer cabbage leaves. Place lid on casserole. Bake in 325 to 350 deg. oven until well cooke 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
Notes from me:
Seriously, do rinse off the rice in cold water to wash the rice dust from it.
This recipe is transcribed as written in the book . It is written in “mum-speak” (I can hear her voice.)
It is all there, and it’s all accurate. Read the parts that are unclear to you until they make sense to you (they will, I promise).
your mom’s handwriting is astonishingly similar to the WordPress computer font
Indeed!
Funny!!
You need to at least par-cook the rice before mixing it in.
Trimming the stem of the cabbage leaves, longitudinally, makes them easier to roll. Marth Stewart has a good video on this (but don’t use her recipe).
Add some kielbasa and bacon, and a few egg noodles, and you have Hunter’s Stew.
where the heck does a hunter shoot down a kielbasa? I thought those critters
hung out in meat packing places.
and for that matter, where does a hunter shoot down some egg noodles?
I’m thinking it’s a hunter’s stew because that’s what his wife packed for him to take out on his hunt.
(or her husband packed it for HER)
I was already wondering about what looks like the ham in the one you posted.
Ham, kielbasa and bacon!
This guy might be hunting AT a meat packing plant…
Or a smokehouse…
Or a Kroger or Safeway.
Kenton Nelson
I have looked, and looked, and looked.
Every piece of art Kenton Nelson has produced just seems “slightly off” to me.
What is “off” about it, I don’t know, it just is (since they’re all like that, maybe that’s what he wanted / he’s definitely honed his talent to a skill).
Born 1954, Pasadena, California.
his work appealed to me, somehow—and that, alas, is what you guys have to
occasionally suffer through—here’s another
and one that Stel ol’ bel would like
Nope. Don’t like it.
LOVE IT !!!
.,
Iron man.
“Sunset” (1988) anyone?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096193/
One of our all-time favorite movies! The main character (who we never see) is none other than Candace Girard (spelling?)
I had to do a double-take! (since my actual name is Candice Girouard (pronounced the same, though).
Since you weren’t sure of the spelling, Wikipedia says: “Candice Gerard”.
Every time we watch it, I think of you!
Again, brought over from “The Comic Strip… .” Slightly risqué, but funny.
And this one is from today’s “Ripley’s”
Some cannibals like thumbs. Like pig’s knuckles, they just have to be cooked right.
More purplies than you can wag a tail at by Stel-Bel
Good morning Philm poster buffs.
National RAK Day
Y’all make a friend while being kind (((((HuGz!)))))
Thanks … I’ll fix it. The first image is usually the right date and I’m running on 2 hours sleep.
I’ve finally lost the 65lbs. Saw my pulmonologist yesterday.
I’m officially on the Lung Transplant list!!!!
A hearty congratulations to you, Plods !! It’s been a long time coming! I hope that everything from here on out goes quickly, smoothly, and safely!!!!!
I agree with Stel!!! This has been a long time coming! CONGRATULATIONS dear Friend!
xoxo
Mazel tov! And good luck!
Glad to hear that!! I know it wasn’t easy. Good luck and keep us posted.
YES!
Good job! 65 lbs, that is a lot! Good luck with the transplant!
That’s such wonderful news, Plods. For your sake, I hope that lungs become available soon. (For the donor, not so much. But I hope their family finds comfort that the lungs they donate have found a good home.)
Transplantation for most organs is such a bittersweet thing.
May you receive these new lungs soon and then go on to live long and prosper.
Congratulations! You are really earning those lungs.
Cool!
Wow!
Great going, Plods!
CONGRATULATIONS! 🎊
You’ve worked hard for this….
I think we’ve all been really impressed by your efforts….
and now it’s paying off… can’t wait for the next step.
Congratulations, Plods! If your doctors are half as determined as you are you’ll be with us for a long time yet!
Beautiful poster…kinda sexy! I think I would rather be amid a hail of biscuits than a hail of bullets.