[Magdalen] And away it goes....

[Grace Cangialosi]

My father once went to replace the air filter and found it packed with dry dog food. Didn't need replacing after all--just emptying!

> On Nov 24, 2016, at 6:22 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Reminds me of a story on Car Talk, in which a woman called in with her
> problem, which was that when she operated the heater of her car, dog food
> came out the heating ducts. The brothers Click and Clack absolutely lost
> it, laughing at this strange image.
> 
> It turned out that things were as they suggested: The lady had a dog, and
> the dog food was stored in a corner of the garage, and so forth...  The
> little mousies had been enjoying this source of great food, but were also
> storing it away in a secret place (so far as THEY knew) against the time of
> some future famine. Unfortunately, their choice of storage location, which
> turned out to be the lady's car's heating system, was now busted. Poor
> little guys, just trying to get along.
> 
> I shall always have the image of dog food pouring out of the heating ducts.
> 
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> 
>> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 5:47 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> When I took the top off the smoker, I discovered that a pair of wee mousies
>> had made a nest in it! I felt a little guilty evicting them, especially
>> when one looked up at me pleadingly, but I explained to them the it wasn't
>> Section 8 housing and tipped it over, spilling them and their nest out on
>> the porch and sending them scuttling off in opposite directions. Well, I
>> hope they find each other, but *not* in my smoker again! I did feel a bit
>> as if I'd thrown Mary and Joseph (mouse-variety) out into the cold, but we
>> have enough trouble with the wee beasties, and if they'd come in through
>> the basement they might have faced Kali the black snake. The circle of
>> life.....
>> 
>> So the chicken is now merrily smoking away, and the sweet potatoes waiting
>> to be baked. No pear kuchen got made, so we'll have some Goya coconut
>> pasteles instead. Pumpkin pie is just "meh" to S/O.
>> 
>>> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dawn, Becca and I met Dawn's sister, niece, and nephew (from Winterset,
>>> Iowa) at the huge truck stop in Oak Grove, MO, and had their buffet for
>>> Thanksgiving. YUMMY!  For $15.00 per person it's a deal.  They'll do it
>> in
>>> December from Christmas...and we'll be back.
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Chicken brining here, apple chunks soaking, getting ready for a trip to
>>> the
>>>> electric smoker where they will repose for a couple of hours before
>>>> finishing in the oven Cornbread stuffing, baked sweet potatoes, and
>> gravy
>>>> will finish our simple meal. I may or may not get a pear kuchen made,
>>>> depending on how the other work goes; I'm working on a commission piece
>>>> that absolutely, positively has to be finished by Sunday.
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Charles Wohlers <
>>>> charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> And I've just set the leek & potato soup to boil. Pumpkin for pumpkin
>>> pie
>>>>> has been cooked. So what's left is to put the pie together, bake it,
>>> and
>>>>> then roast some brussels sprouts, jerusalem artichokes & cauliflower.
>>> All
>>>>> the above from the garden (well, not the cauliflower). We'll go up to
>>> our
>>>>> neighbor's later, who is taking care of turkey, etc.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Meanwhile, it's snowing here on the frozen tundra, so we'll have a
>>> white
>>>>> Thanksgiving.
>>>>> 
>>>>> And, if anyone is trying to get to Eleanor Braun's today, they might
>>> get
>>>> a
>>>>> tad confused:
>>>>> https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/11/22/massdot-apologi
>>>>> zes-for-cod-cape-sign-dartmouth/bpmdTMDf96Jk7maly3BcxO/story.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> Chad Wohlers
>>>>> Woodbury, VT USA
>>>>> chadwohl at satucket.com
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -----Original Message----- From: M J _Mike_ Logsdon
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2016 11:37 AM
>>>>> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>>>>> Subject: [Magdalen] And away it goes....
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanksgiving dinner, that is.  Crock Pot Sausage Soup (not kielbasa,
>>> for
>>>> a
>>>>> change), and with a special green ingredient.  I'll only give detail
>>>> later,
>>>>> IF it turns out okay.  It's in the tradition of the kielbasa soup
>>> recipe
>>>> my
>>>>> mom handed off to me, but even before she became as delicate as she
>> is
>>>> now
>>>>> I'm sure she'd fine mine today way too spicy.
>>>>> 
>>>>> This is the first time I've actively tried to cook for going on
>> months
>>>>> now, that's how depressed I've been.  Maybe the 4-day weekend perked
>> me
>>>> up.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> If no one has told you that they love you today,
>>> let me be the first.
>>> brud
>>