Interesting spot. If it’s sloped like that all around, you could build a castle in there and it would be very difficult to attack. With enough water and food, you could endure a several years long seige.
But…drive by with one ice cream truck, and you have them at your mercy!
Well worth the time, 🙂 and when the narrator / creator (I can’t find his name) jumps to the origins of “House”, just from one set of lyrics posted I think it also branched another way down to Marty Robbins’ “Streets of Laredo.”
The research is really well done, and its narration actually concludes at 14:08.
From 14:09 to 15:07 the narrator states the conclusions he has drawn from his research; I cannot argue that he is wrong.
The balance of the video to 16:41 is a low-key enthusiastic selling of a subscription to the site.
I hope she doesn’t do that too often. It looks like she puts a little strain on the hinges.
I know that the perspective is a little odd, but this side does look like is, …lower? A bit?
1.) I went looking for more by Robert LaDuke.
2.) My search was far more successful than I would have believed possible.
nighthawks, if I’m giving away one of your “secret-stash” sites, I apologize.
The link below will lead you to a blog site called Artist of the day; described by its owner as:
“A blog about artists of any medium, country or time” — and it is
I left the link destination as the works of Robert LaDuke, but the link picture is actually a work by Bob Dylan done in 2013 depicting a bell tower in Stockholm, Sweden.
Herb Alpert and Jim Carrey also have some of their works here (they too have real talents trained to skills).
Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Annie Leibovitz, Andrew Wyeth are names I’m sure you’ll recognize.
PEOPLE !, this blog site is really good.
You can get lost here. You might not recognize the artwork or the artist, but you’ll recognize the talent. The owner has a very good eye.
not at all. I had never heard of it. So thank YOU for. posting it
Alexikakos
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2 years ago
@ (from yesterday)
So QT is related to Florence, that’s who’s in yellow, one of the 14 Bowman’s wolves created by “Ecosystem’s Unlimited.”
I hope she’s got Florence’s brain too (introduced as Florence Ambrose, a ships engineer / now a doctor?).
I like Mark Stanley’s sense of humour.
Thanks for posting that link.
Nope. QT has a one track mind.
If you derail it, she just finds a new focus and she’s back on the tracks again! 😀
DennisinSeattle
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2 years ago
It would be easy to make a crack about Vanilla Ice playing music that he is not colored for. But I think he is honest in his approach to the genre and never pretends he is not white. And he has gotten some acceptance on that basis.
DennisinSeattle
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2 years ago
Petula is not singing about downtown Seattle, these days. I hope for improvement.
Having spent two whole, long-ago, pre-cell-phone, pre-internet days in Seattle, just trying to find a business, at an address in a higher numbered block, on a street that didn’t go that far…
which turned out to be nowhere even close to where I was looking, but on an island in another part of town…
and then accidentally getting stuck on a highway leading out of town at rush hour, with all the exits blocked so we couldn’t get off and turn around…
what I remember most about Seattle is how spectacularly easy it was to get lost.
Sorry you got lost, Susan. Seattle’s street grid is very logical – in its own way. You just have to know where the East and South numbers start, and that is not included in the “Welcome to Seattle” package. Mail deliverers still get confused – we are at 705 South on a certain Ave, and our mail often goes to 705. Come visit and I will show you around!
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Let’s all go over to StelBel’s house… I remember once she offered to make us all pancakes.
You’d still do that… um… wouldn’t you, Stel?
…
I thinkthere are only about 20 of us.
That’s like… a box of Bisquik… and 40 eggs …. plus the ones for the batter…. better get 4 dozen…
and let’s say… um… 4 pounds of bacon… plus a pound or so of turkey bacon… and maybe a pound (?) of veggie “bacon”…
Do you think a pound of butter will be enough?
Gosh… this is so nice of you.
…
Oh yeah… maple syrup.
Better get a bunch.
None for me, though, thanks.
When I was very small, my adored grandfather taught me to eat my pancakes the way he liked them… I still do.
…
No butter, no syrup… but dry, sprinkled with granulated sugar.
Crunchy.
Yeah, yeah… I know. Well, you don’t have to eat them, then.
My father was (about half seriously, I think) angry with him for years over his teaching me not to put butter and syrup on my pancakes “like a normal person.”
C’mon… at least Grandpa didn’t get me to like his beloved watermelon sandwiches on buttered rye bread with salt.
Let’s hear it for Grandpa! I can tell he influenced you. NIce memories! After reading the comic, I am all ready for pancakes ~ don’t think I could eat a dozen, though. And how nice of StelBel to invite us. I’m in ~ although I don’t think I can make it there in time for breakfast. Maybe she will save me some.
We had relatives in New England so we grew up with real maple syrup on our pancakes. If I don’t have any I will whip up a fresh fruit topping.
happyhappyhappy
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I actually have the morning off. !!!
So i shall have something i saw on FiB. Thaw out some toaster waffles and dip them in french toast batter.
There will be plenty of butter and warm maple syrup. And possibly even a little peanut butter.
Actually i used an electric griddle. It’s the first time that i’ve had it off of the top of the refrigerator in about two years. I had to clean dust and cobwebs off of it before using it.
I also found another place that reeeally needs to be cleaned.
I revived our teppan last year when lockdown was strict enough to allow only one visitor per household – so we couldn’t visit even our single friends as a couple, but they could visit us.
We use it on a regular basis now on the living-room table. Great fun! – I store the teppan (=electric griddle) upright.
Alexikakos
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I think I posted this once before on Sherpa, and I know I’ve posted it on “Pearls Before Swine (but they’re pancakes!).”
It’s my grandmother’s pancake recipe and no pancake chain or commercial mix producer has any chance of matching the flavour (yes, flavour) or texture (yes, texture) of the pancakes this recipe produces, as long as they stick to their
we’ll-tell-them-what-they’ll-end-up-with-on-their-breakfast-plates-are-pancakes
recipes.
From:
From: My mother’s cook book.
My grandmother’s pancake recipe.
Pancakes
1 cup whole milk
1 1/2 to 2 teaspoons baking powder (I always use 1 1/2)
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
Flour
1 egg
1/4 cup whole milk (3.25% milk fat)
Recipe instructions.
Pour the 1 cup of whole milk into a bowl. Add the baking powder, salt and sugar, stir briefly.
Add enough flour while stirring to make the batter a little thicker than you want. (the batter will briefly show the stirring swirls)
Add the egg and the other 1/4 cup of milk, and stir in.
Heat a frying pan or cast iron skillet on medium high heat (a little over half the dial) and add enough cooking oil to cover the bottom of the pan completely.
When the oil is hot pour an 1/8 of a cup of batter into the centre of the pan.
Let it cook until there are bubbles on the top of the pancake. When the bubbles appear, flip the pancake over and cook the other side about half the time of the first.
Put the cooked pancakes on a plate in a warm oven until you’re ready to eat.
Continue pouring batter until you have the number of pancakes you want. Add, and heat, (before adding batter) more cooking oil as necessary.
The batter keeps reasonably well for two days in the fridge if it’s in a sealed container. The batter won’t rise as high when cooked, but the pancakes still taste good.
Serve with butter, and syrup of your choice. (Real maple syrup tastes best.)
Notes from Me: Susan, If you’re not already using a family recipe, try these your way.
I’d bet this will come very close to childhood memories.
My mother’s pancakes were made with Bisquik… and so are mine.
I have made them from scratch, and they can be great… But Bisquik is so easy, and I like them.
My own recipe notes….
Both the mix and my own pancakes have some sort of fat or oil… I notice yours have none, except the little fat content in whole milk.
…
I don’t use a recipe any more… if I’m starting with plain flour, instead of biscuit mix, which is rare any more, I put in a little melted butter.
I do always measure the flour..
Baking powder formula is about 1 tsp per cup of flour… along with more like 3 tbs of sugar, not one measly tsp… The tiniest pinch of salt, and a tsp of vanilla.
I mix all the dry ingredients in the bowl before adding liquids, then egg. Never baking powder into liquid.
Sounds like mine are sweeter and richer than your mother’s.
…
I NEVER, though, put oil in the pan… I like them brown but not fried.
If they’re short enough, they don’t stick, especially in my non stick pan… which should always be hot enough that drops of water “dance” before pouring batter.
Everybody prefers different pancakes… But you can hardly go wrong.
I don’t like pancakes made with other pancake mixes, or restaurant pancakes, as much as the above.
Some people prefer that thick, bready texture, and the taste of added malt and other flours, but I don’t.
…
Occasionally I make crepes or blintzes… That batter is unleavened, richer, and so thin you pour it in the pan and pour the excess back into the bowl…
Turn it to brown the other side for crepes, or wrap brown side up for a blintz, then brown the outside in butter.
(I prefer tags to keep long recipes out of the forum.)
Robert LaDuke
Interesting spot. If it’s sloped like that all around, you could build a castle in there and it would be very difficult to attack. With enough water and food, you could endure a several years long seige.
But…drive by with one ice cream truck, and you have them at your mercy!
That’s the idea behind the Citadel in Aleppo. Minus the ice cream truck.
Caption:
“Frontal view on the Citadel of Aleppo” (sic)
Thanks for posting that.
Homer’s description of Troy said that the lower walls were sloped.
…
…
The first time i heard that it was the version Joan Baez did.
Well worth the time, 🙂 and when the narrator / creator (I can’t find his name) jumps to the origins of “House”, just from one set of lyrics posted I think it also branched another way down to Marty Robbins’ “Streets of Laredo.”
The research is really well done, and its narration actually concludes at 14:08.
From 14:09 to 15:07 the narrator states the conclusions he has drawn from his research; I cannot argue that he is wrong.
The balance of the video to 16:41 is a low-key enthusiastic selling of a subscription to the site.
Pre rinse.
I hope she doesn’t do that too often. It looks like she puts a little strain on the hinges.
I know that the perspective is a little odd, but this side does look like is, …lower? A bit?
What a good doggie. She’s going to unload the dishwasher, or get the doggie dish.
Spot checking.
1.) I went looking for more by Robert LaDuke.
2.) My search was far more successful than I would have believed possible.
nighthawks, if I’m giving away one of your “secret-stash” sites, I apologize.
The link below will lead you to a blog site called Artist of the day; described by its owner as:
“A blog about artists of any medium, country or time” — and it is
I left the link destination as the works of Robert LaDuke, but the link picture is actually a work by Bob Dylan done in 2013 depicting a bell tower in Stockholm, Sweden.
Herb Alpert and Jim Carrey also have some of their works here (they too have real talents trained to skills).
Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Annie Leibovitz, Andrew Wyeth are names I’m sure you’ll recognize.
You can get lost here. You might not recognize the artwork or the artist, but you’ll recognize the talent. The owner has a very good eye.
Wow, great find!
I just bookmarked the page. Thanks, Alexi and NH.
not at all. I had never heard of it. So thank YOU for. posting it
So QT is related to Florence, that’s who’s in yellow, one of the 14 Bowman’s wolves created by “Ecosystem’s Unlimited.”
I hope she’s got Florence’s brain too (introduced as Florence Ambrose, a ships engineer / now a doctor?).
I like Mark Stanley’s sense of humour.
Thanks for posting that link.
Nope. QT has a one track mind.
If you derail it, she just finds a new focus and she’s back on the tracks again! 😀
It would be easy to make a crack about Vanilla Ice playing music that he is not colored for. But I think he is honest in his approach to the genre and never pretends he is not white. And he has gotten some acceptance on that basis.
Petula is not singing about downtown Seattle, these days. I hope for improvement.
In Petula’s singing or in downtown Seattle?
…
Having spent two whole, long-ago, pre-cell-phone, pre-internet days in Seattle, just trying to find a business, at an address in a higher numbered block, on a street that didn’t go that far…
which turned out to be nowhere even close to where I was looking, but on an island in another part of town…
and then accidentally getting stuck on a highway leading out of town at rush hour, with all the exits blocked so we couldn’t get off and turn around…
what I remember most about Seattle is how spectacularly easy it was to get lost.
…
It was also very pretty, though.
And probably looks totally different in 2021.
Sorry you got lost, Susan. Seattle’s street grid is very logical – in its own way. You just have to know where the East and South numbers start, and that is not included in the “Welcome to Seattle” package. Mail deliverers still get confused – we are at 705 South on a certain Ave, and our mail often goes to 705. Come visit and I will show you around!
Let’s all go over to StelBel’s house… I remember once she offered to make us all pancakes.
You’d still do that… um… wouldn’t you, Stel?
…
I think there are only about 20 of us.
That’s like… a box of Bisquik… and 40 eggs …. plus the ones for the batter…. better get 4 dozen…
and let’s say… um… 4 pounds of bacon… plus a pound or so of turkey bacon… and maybe a pound (?) of veggie “bacon”…
Do you think a pound of butter will be enough?
Gosh… this is so nice of you.
…
Oh yeah… maple syrup.
Better get a bunch.
None for me, though, thanks.
When I was very small, my adored grandfather taught me to eat my pancakes the way he liked them… I still do.
…
No butter, no syrup… but dry, sprinkled with granulated sugar.
Crunchy.
Yeah, yeah… I know. Well, you don’t have to eat them, then.
My father was (about half seriously, I think) angry with him for years over his teaching me not to put butter and syrup on my pancakes “like a normal person.”
C’mon… at least Grandpa didn’t get me to like his beloved watermelon sandwiches on buttered rye bread with salt.
Those are weird.
Let’s hear it for Grandpa! I can tell he influenced you. NIce memories! After reading the comic, I am all ready for pancakes ~ don’t think I could eat a dozen, though. And how nice of StelBel to invite us. I’m in ~ although I don’t think I can make it there in time for breakfast. Maybe she will save me some.
I always liked my pancakes with jelly, not syrup.
What??? No ketchup??? Philistine!!
(just kidding)
Syrup unless I have fresh strawberries or peaches. Then fruit and whipped cream (the spray can kind).
We had relatives in New England so we grew up with real maple syrup on our pancakes. If I don’t have any I will whip up a fresh fruit topping.
I actually have the morning off. !!!
So i shall have something i saw on FiB. Thaw out some toaster waffles and dip them in french toast batter.
There will be plenty of butter and warm maple syrup. And possibly even a little peanut butter.
This sounds really great!
It was very good, but it made a mess of the toaster…
ummmm, make them in a skillet?
dear Henry, dear Henry
Actually i used an electric griddle. It’s the first time that i’ve had it off of the top of the refrigerator in about two years. I had to clean dust and cobwebs off of it before using it.
I also found another place that reeeally needs to be cleaned.
I revived our teppan last year when lockdown was strict enough to allow only one visitor per household – so we couldn’t visit even our single friends as a couple, but they could visit us.
We use it on a regular basis now on the living-room table. Great fun! – I store the teppan (=electric griddle) upright.
I think I posted this once before on Sherpa, and I know I’ve posted it on “Pearls Before Swine (but they’re pancakes!).”
It’s my grandmother’s pancake recipe and no pancake chain or commercial mix producer has any chance of matching the flavour (yes, flavour) or texture (yes, texture) of the pancakes this recipe produces, as long as they stick to their
we’ll-tell-them-what-they’ll-end-up-with-on-their-breakfast-plates-are-pancakes
recipes.
From:
From: My mother’s cook book.
My grandmother’s pancake recipe.
Pancakes
1 cup whole milk
1 1/2 to 2 teaspoons baking powder (I always use 1 1/2)
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
Flour
1 egg
1/4 cup whole milk (3.25% milk fat)
Recipe instructions.
Pour the 1 cup of whole milk into a bowl. Add the baking powder, salt and sugar, stir briefly.
Add enough flour while stirring to make the batter a little thicker than you want. (the batter will briefly show the stirring swirls)
Add the egg and the other 1/4 cup of milk, and stir in.
Heat a frying pan or cast iron skillet on medium high heat (a little over half the dial) and add enough cooking oil to cover the bottom of the pan completely.
When the oil is hot pour an 1/8 of a cup of batter into the centre of the pan.
Let it cook until there are bubbles on the top of the pancake. When the bubbles appear, flip the pancake over and cook the other side about half the time of the first.
Put the cooked pancakes on a plate in a warm oven until you’re ready to eat.
Continue pouring batter until you have the number of pancakes you want. Add, and heat, (before adding batter) more cooking oil as necessary.
The batter keeps reasonably well for two days in the fridge if it’s in a sealed container. The batter won’t rise as high when cooked, but the pancakes still taste good.
Serve with butter, and syrup of your choice. (Real maple syrup tastes best.)
Notes from Me:
Susan, If you’re not already using a family recipe, try these your way.
I’d bet this will come very close to childhood memories.
My mother’s pancakes were made with Bisquik… and so are mine.
I have made them from scratch, and they can be great… But Bisquik is so easy, and I like them.
…
I don’t use a recipe any more… if I’m starting with plain flour, instead of biscuit mix, which is rare any more, I put in a little melted butter.
I do always measure the flour..
Baking powder formula is about 1 tsp per cup of flour… along with more like 3 tbs of sugar, not one measly tsp… The tiniest pinch of salt, and a tsp of vanilla.
I mix all the dry ingredients in the bowl before adding liquids, then egg. Never baking powder into liquid.
Sounds like mine are sweeter and richer than your mother’s.
…
I NEVER, though, put oil in the pan… I like them brown but not fried.
If they’re short enough, they don’t stick, especially in my non stick pan… which should always be hot enough that drops of water “dance” before pouring batter.
Everybody prefers different pancakes… But you can hardly go wrong.
I don’t like pancakes made with other pancake mixes, or restaurant pancakes, as much as the above.
Some people prefer that thick, bready texture, and the taste of added malt and other flours, but I don’t.
…
Occasionally I make crepes or blintzes… That batter is unleavened, richer, and so thin you pour it in the pan and pour the excess back into the bowl…
Turn it to brown the other side for crepes, or wrap brown side up for a blintz, then brown the outside in butter.
(I prefer tags to keep long recipes out of the forum.)
spicy guacamole
oooooooooo… this looks sooooo good!
Had some with lunch today. 🙂
.
Uh oh. Nighthawks is pickled again.
.
So cute!
Claude ALWAYS thinks with his stomach!
You say it like there’s something wrong with that…
Cleo woke up as soon as she heard “pancakes.” Typical.