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A maple syruping adventure with chili and NASCAR — yee-haw

Posted on March 30, 2009 by unfinishedrambler | Comments Off

This past Saturday instead of being the slugs we normally are, The Wife and I ventured forth into the world. We even had a goal or a few goals in mind: producers of maple syrup near us that were taking part in a “maple syrup weekend.”

We visited a few producers, but unfortunately I didn’t get very good photos of the process.

Beneath that smoke is sap bubbling that will be distilled into maple syrup, and where there’s smoke, there’s…

…yep, fire which was used to bring the sap to the right temperature to boil to make maple syrup.

However, The Wife did get a good photo of me with this delicious chili that was made by a brother of one of the owners of Butler Family Maple in Farmington Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania:

I think this was my third bowl and that isn’t just any normal cornbread in there. That’s maple cornbread, of course.

On one of the roads up to Butler Family Farm (<— See link for more lack of photos of actual process), we passed a house with a unique mailbox. The mailbox itself was made in the shape of a tractor trailer with the stenciled signatures of NASCAR's 2008-09 drivers on it, and behind the mailbox was a track that included models of NASCAR cars.

This to me was the highlight of the trip, except that the person who made it had the No. 3 in the middle of the track, with myself being no Dale Earnhardt Sr. fan (may his soul rest in peace). However, the person at least included my driver Jeff Gordon in it.

I’ll leave you with this video made and narrated by The Wife, who was afraid the owner was going to come out and tell us to get off his property. Personally I was just hoping not to interact with any fan of the No. 3 car, and luckily, we made it out without any physical altercation.

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Sunday Shout-Out #11: Tacky Raccoons

Posted on March 29, 2009 by unfinishedrambler | Comments Off

This week’s Sunday Shout-Out goes to Bunk Strutts @ Tacky Raccoons, whom I met over at Humor Bloggers Dot Com.

He’s one of the new folks over there, and unlike some of those other hosers over there (yeah, you know about whom I’m talking, don’t you? I don’t have to point my finger at you, do I?), he’s actually funny.

On his front page, he’s even prepared The Ruff N’ Ready Sample Plate for you to get a taste of his own absurd take on the world.

Favorite posts this week:

1. Bunk Strutts @ Tacky Raccoons yesterday encouraged his readers to put their lights on last night in 28 MARCH 28 8:30 PM PARTY LIKE IT’S 2009.

2. Meg @ Prefers Her Fantasy Life celebrates a birthday and blogoversary and announces a breakup all in the same post.

3. VE @ VE’s Fantastical Nonsense gives his analysis of the Vicki Lawrence song “The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia” in The Night the Logic Went Out of Lyrics.

4. JohnnyBTruant @ The Economy Isn’t Happening comes out from behind the apple in Heeeeere’s Johnny!

5. Joel Klebanoff @ Stuff and Nonsense talks about Going Down on Traffic and how he plans to boost his readership by including in his blog posts “words and phrases that people use when searching for porn.”

6. Jenn Thorson @ Of Cabbages and Kings shows why you should Hide the Children, Subversive Cabbages are Here! in a wrap-up of posts that have earned her being banned at public libraries. I know of what she speaks as I’ve been at the library and couldn’t access her befouled site.

7. Margaret @ Nanny Goats in Panties celebrates her ninth wedding anniversary in Hawaii earlier this week.

8. moooooog35 @ Mental Poo (yes, I did cut and paste to make sure I got all the o’s in there) shares how he became The Cookie Pimp at his workplace for his daughter.

9. My wife, Shieldmaiden96, @ Dispatches From The Northern Outpost gives you the lowdown on the latest college craze, inserting beer into your anus, in Rollin’ With The EMS Homies (link there to another of her blogs; like me, she’s not monoblogamous).

10. My sister, Lisa, @ Boondock Ramblings thinks Hmmm…maybe we’ll just find a new church after her experience in church last week.

11. And in case, you missed my post about the chicken barbecue last Saturday with the men’s chorus to which I belong and the concert that night, here’s a link to it: Off on one terrible chorus and going down in flame.

What caught your funny bone this week? Let me know in the comments. Also until I get CommentLuv working again, please feel free to leave a link to your latest post with your comment, so we all can check your own hilarity.

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The Sunday Salon/Weekly Geeks: Leave a link to your reviews of books I’ve reviewed

Posted on March 29, 2009 by unfinishedperson | 4 Comments

I am combining this week’s Sunday Salon with this week’s Weekly Geeks.

1. Write a post encouraging readers to look through your archives (if you have your reviews in a particular place on your blog, point them there), and find the books that they have also written reviews. Tell them to leave a link to their review on your review post. For example, I’ve written a review for Gods Behaving Badly and Jane Doe leaves a link to her review of Gods Behaving Badly in the comments section of my review.

2. Edit your reviews to include those links in the body of the review post.

3. Visit other Weekly Geeks and go through their reviews. Leave links for them.

4. Leave a note somewhere on your blog to let people know this is your new policy.

5. Write a post later this week letting us know how your project is going!

So to that end, here is a list of the books I read in 2008 and a list of the books I’ve read in 2009 (not updated yet). The books I reviewed are underlined and hyperlinked to the posts; most are archived on my Just A (Reading) Fool blog (which has since been combined into this blog along with two other blogs I had). See if there are any books that you have read and reviewed also. Please provide a link to your review on my review, and as your reviews come in, I will add them to the bottom of my reviews.

I also will be adding a note here on the sidebar this afternoon, letting readers know of the new policy, and will start visiting other Weekly Geeks this afternoon to cross-reference what we’ve both reviewed.

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Forkin’ around

Posted on March 28, 2009 by unfinishedrambler | Comments Off

Which one of these forks is the best fork?

If you chose the second from the left, you would be right; at least, it’s the best fork for me. I’m weird like that.

If my wife hands me the wrong fork, believe me, I let her know. She asked me the other night if I needed to take my own forks with me like Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets. I told her, “No.”

Well, at least, not yet.

Speaking of weird like that, I’m going to go off on a fork theme in the tradition of VE’s Fantastical Nonsense.

Sometimes you just need a big fork…

Credit: Madslauritzen