First it rained and it rained and it rained. But it is amazing what you can find under 50 years’ worth of detritus. My dad painted the orange painting on the left and the one you can’t see beside it. [Never put up photo’s or pictures you like with thumbtacks, framed in paper frames. Your daughter will come along and pull them all out, taking hours, only to burn their faded and curled remains.] 7 body bags of refuse and a massive bonfire revealed this piece of heaven and once it got cold I slept in here and hung a curtain over the kitchen door, banishing the evil bedroom wing of the cottage.
A glimpse at the evil bedroom wing:
The before and after front porch:
Beautiful in both directions, the first heading towards the Chute, that is a waterfall leading down from Go Home Lake, and the next two are towards the Narrows, leading out into Go Home Bay proper, and then the open bay.
[This is a photo of the perigee moon at dawn on August 11th.]
There was a lot of dirt inside, and we [a royal we, as in my brother and sister-in-law who appeared with chainsaw and gloves] felled the forest that was shading the cottage so badly:
The last supper [and I wish I were kidding, because that night things took an ugly turn and an ignominious retreat was struck as I got rushed down to the hospital in Penetang the next morning for one of my exciting gastric events]:
[A wonderful little tourtiere and a tomato and basil and feta salad.]
But the internet was inaccessible, the cell phone only worked for texts, without even an emoticon, and that was sporadic too. Which was a blessing in disguise for there was a little time for this:
Angie and crew will reappear next week, as today is my wedding anniversary [473rd] and also my wonderful mother-in-law’s birthday [39th] and now by the miracle of my tortured insides, we are all together unexpectedly, a day early.
Missed you all, truly, and can’t wait to get in on the knife conversation!
and EO, i also am guilty of lurking Zero Hedge.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-22/secret-playbook-internet-trolls
Looks great xty. Wish I was there right now. I’d toss a bobber off the dock, then go take a nap, only to come back and find my minnow gone. Repeat. 😎
The loon fishes off the point, in easy bobbing range, and the water drops off nicely. I am definitely going to go back to my childhood and start lamely fishing again. We used raw bacon on hooks.
Naughty lurking!
there is value in some, many of the articles there. the comments are worthless however.
some of what is discussed in the above article was going on at TFMR and almost certainly still is. and not to sound too much like a nut job myself, but people are tracked for going to such sites as TFMR and Zero Hedge too. what can one do? i just choose to ignore it. i am on so many lists by now that i no longer care. i knew about much of this stuff already years ago because of my telecom work. had i told anyone at the time, they definitely would have thought i was nuts.
what kind of bacon should i get Xty? i suppose you shouldn’t fish with any bacon you would not eat yourself. who wants to catch a fish that will eat crappy bacon? ya just gotta wonder what else it had been eating then. yuck. 😛
I was thinking it would be a great place for a blog retreat. And much easier for you to enter Canada than for me to enter the States, all things considered and the grass being so much greener here, perhaps.
Another excellent blog says “F’ it” with the comments. I don’t blame ’em.
http://pragcap.com/housekeeping-turning-off-the-comments
Welcome back, Xty- I/we missed you.
As a matter of fact, I did know it was your anniversary, plus I found out a lot of other juicy tidbits about you as well. You see I was worried that some mishap had befallen you, so I Googled high and low to try to find out if you were o.k.
That’s when I found your wedding picture from 473 years ago. (Judging by your feet, I would have to say that you have certainly aged well.)
To save you the exercise of going back through all 143 comments on last thread, here’s my one and only salient contribution- my new favorite song. Comes from a movie I never heard of, but now intrigued, I have summoned it to my abode by post.
I like it so much that I wish it be played after I am burned up.
This wanna be politico from Iowa touts her pig castrating skills in this campaign ad.
Krugman explains how economists who make a career of warning about inflation are actually right wing politicians in drag.
And why. All the better to push for cuts in social programs, tax cuts for the wealthy as “stimulus”, and of course tight money means a weak economy which leads to lower labor costs, which is awesome for the employer class. Duh!
Hawks Crying Wolf
though Krugman makes some points, the overall presentation is as usual totally partisan. there will be no fix to this country economically until we get some new leadership that can cut it with the “us and them”, liberal/conservative crap. neither side has everything right. every day older i get, the more i realize that even if we had 10,000 political parties, and ten times that as many candidates, one could always find one more guy they agree with more, maybe even by actually running for office themselves. so either we need to do away with the two party system altogether, or politicians need to get back to representing the voters, who land overwhelmingly in the fat part of the normal distribution curve, you know in-between the wing-nuts and the bleeding hearts. rant off. 😯
but i had logged on to comment on my theory that Go Home Bay probably was named long ago by some locals that didn’t like the turistas settling in and building up the shores of their remote lake, ruining the fishing with motorboats, and in general destroying the serenity that the city folks had sought in the first place.
a very good theory wouldn’t you say? but i was wrong…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Home_Lake
Since we were recently on the topic of cast iron, I will relate my serendipitous find. It was a rainy day today, so Ms. Dude decided to clean out a closet that could not be stuffed further. I know for a fact some of that stuff had been in there for 25 years. Yeah, some was mine, but it was stuff worth saving- evidenced by the fact that the 2/3 truckload I took to the dump/recycle place was all hers. It had apparently covered up some of my things and, out of sight, out of mind, I had forgotten I even had it. I don’t remember getting this cast iron, but I assume it came home from the same dump place- someone’s trash, my treasure.
Top left is a Griswold #8 camp kettle with tripod legs. It’s lid belongs to the front Wagner. I had turned it upside down hoping to show markings, but didn’t show that great. Back left I assume is a Lodge, post 1960 with a “cf” marking I think may mean “chicken fryer” as it is deeper than a regular skillet. And the lid doubles as a griddle. It either came from her Grandma, or I bought it at auction for $5. Don’t recall exactly as we had more that went camping with the kids and never returned. It’s what I use, and will use tonight for liver and onions. Pork liver- I don’t think you’ll find it very easily, as all the commercially produced hogs have livers that are just plain eaten up by the drugs they feed them to grow fast. This liver came from my son’s pig – he doesn’t use that shit. I bought a half of a pig from him and had to ask specifically for the butcher to save it for me since they are in the habit of throwing all pig livers away. It seems that finding good pig liver to eat is such a thing of the past that no one does it any more, not only that- don’t even know it’s possible. It was a delicacy when I was kid.
This came from a Mason Williams poem, also wrote “Them Moose Goosers”, etc in the 60’s.
Nice looking iron there, Dude.
Chicken Fryers are awesome. As close as you can get to one pan that can do it all. Skillet, dutch oven, deep fryer, all in one. Last year I was outfitting some nieces and nephews with their first cast iron, and I recommended chicken fryers. I figured they could start there, find out what they mostly use it for, and then follow up with a more specialized pan later.
Looks like we all better buy another pair of woolies. I was hoping for a “reversion to the mean” after last year’s deep freeze.
OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC PREDICTS ‘SUPER COLD’ WINTER
i am doing a sirloin tip roast today, but in the slow cooker, and not in the Dutch oven. too hot to run the gas oven, and too hot (for me) to use the charcoal grill. i think today i stay inside in conditioned air. the slow cooker is on the back porch. oh, by the way, it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity. argh.
nice find(s) Dude. those will clean up perfectly.
the final descent is happening over at the puke puddle. the all consuming vortex of negativity and hate has moved to the DOTS thread. i think it is educational to read. be warned though that i feel sick to my stomach, and pretty down on humanity after reading it. but as i have said before, hate and even evil, which is what i believe it is we are dealing with there, eventually destroys itself. it can no longer be denied that Fix & Co are destroying anything at all “good” that TFMR had left.
EO – don’t misread or personalize my comments on Krugman – you probably didn’t, but just in case. i don’t think we have found an economic system that works yet. none of them address the problem of who can be trusted with the power/money/authority. i will admit that Keynesian economics worked for a while in the USA, but we had the world’s reserve currency and could run deficits, and also were on a gold standard which limited the ability to over do those deficits, for a while. i also will admit that what happened after Reagan accelerated the demise of the system. much of what the wing-nuts blame on failed Keynesian policies were actually caused by the dereg, anti trust diluting, trickle down crap of the so called Reagan revolution.
so there ya go. i like to ramble. glad to call you all my friends. hope you are getting by m44. rant off.
No sweat, peckerwood. Agreed, there is no single answer. More likely it’s the constant push-pull and compromise that keeps us on whatever sort of even(?) keel we might sometimes achieve.
What turns my crank is how the disastrous losing streak of the doomsaying, inflation hawking, hard money crowd, and their refusal to entertain any sort of alternative economic theory, or even a tweak to any of it at all, has revealed them all to be just rank agenda driven politicos.
Not that there is anything wrong with being a rank agenda driven politico, but when you are dishonest about it, and go around pretending to be an economist or an investment advisor, and send untold millions of dollars of your gullible confirmation seeking readers’ money straight into the shitter, while you push your agenda, then I have a problem with that.
It took me a long time to realize this song was written about economists. 😛
SSJ and Cris over there are coming to the same conclusion(s) i did, but unfortunately a few years later than me. did you see the posts on disinfo and disruptive internet strategies? all you need is a few really good trolls; their tricked followers will do the rest. sorry Craig, the goal of some of these characters all along was to render your site ineffective and impotent – from the perspective of free and intelligent exchange. that is assuming that you aren’t involved in the delusion. in that case Stane has mostly used you and your blog for her own ends, and is with purpose ruining your site.
this ties into your comment also EO. yes, rank agenda driven politicos. the financial sites are teaming with right wing corporate shills.
this was recently e-mailed to me. this is actually pretty close to being on topic! most of us here live in the Great Lakes region also so make sure to check this out.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewziegler/great-lakes-facts-that-will-blow-your-mind
a Salon article demonstrating that “liberal media bias”. um, no. this is in fact exceptional and honest journalism. quite refreshing really.
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/24/cornel_west_he_posed_as_a_progressive_and_turned_out_to_be_counterfeit_we_ended_up_with_a_wall_street_presidency_a_drone_presidency/
That’s a really good article. Nothing in there I can argue with, believe it or not.
And now here we are with Hillary waiting in the wings. It’s depressing I know, but if she’s got the muscle to keep goons like Rand Paul out of the White House, then I have to support her all the way. This is what we’ve been reduced to, but it is what it is. The lesser of two evils is about the best we can do. The risks are just too high if it goes wrong.
When I was young, I wanted to make idealistic political statements by voting for doomed fringe candidates. Now, I just want to make sure the Nazis don’t win. And I’ll vote for anyone who can beat them.
For all Obama’s faults, he did keep McCain and Romney out. And perhaps even more importantly, kept Palin and Ryan out of the VP spot. He’s still a hero for that (but not much else).
we agree on way more than we don’t. in fact, that is what i meant by the fat part of the normal curve. neither party is representing guys like us (neg 1 to +1 sigma) at all anymore.
and the country has drifted so far right since Reagan that guys like Obama run as Democrats now. by his 2nd term it was beyond obvious that he was another neocon.
oh i wish i could say more about Paul Ryan. i am privy to some stuff living in his home town. maybe someday when i have my own blog! 😯 the hypocritical bastard has even stood in my front yard during a parade.
dinner time. roast beef with mushroom gravy, and a nice salad with fresh pickings. and i will be eating roast beef sandwiches for a few days. later.
weird. i was going to play “Comfortably Numb”. seriously! i still will. really glad to see ya m44. i think we got that wave in the air.
i think i am going to order this book. look at these reviews and see if maybe you have another one of those “Aha” moments.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0743284437?tag=commondreams-20/ref=nosim