Anyone for a nightcap?

[LilyBart]

eewww. I can imagine them all coming crawling out of all their holes, in a mass exodus

Yuck. I saw my first huntsman the other day. It was sat on my patio *nods*


It was the size of my hand *shudders*


Um a nice glass of cab sav I think

I had to look up what a huntsman was. Pretty gross if you ask me:

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii156/lotus3273/800px-Huntsman_spider_white_bg03.jpg

But every region has their buggy cross to bear, I guess. This is mine:

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii156/lotus3273/scorpion.jpg

These buggers, scorpions, hide everywhere. Never put on a shoe without shaking it first. Don't reach into the linen closet blindly. Don't even remove a picture from the wall without checking behind it first. They're ugly, and their sting hurts like hell.


And I am drinking cocoa. Listening to Christmas music and admiring the decorations that are thus far in place in my house. It is actually cold here today. And if I hadn't known better, I would have expected snow. The sky just looked that way today.

~LB

 

[Netzach]

Ok, so the mosquitos here suck, but I have about another 8 months before I have to think about bugs.

NYC here I come. I need those beers it seems.

What's with this trend toward so hoppy you can't stand it? I'm disappointed with this IDP.

 

[LilyBart]

Ok, so the mosquitos here suck, but I have about another 8 months before I have to think about bugs.

NYC here I come. I need those beers it seems.

What's with this trend toward so hoppy you can't stand it? I'm disappointed with this IDP.

Good luck in NY! Was Madison good (besides the beer haul)?

And what does IDP mean?
I have an old, full brain. I don't process things so quickly anymore...

(We have to post a lot so we can get to a new page. ITW won't come back if she has to look at icky bugs. )

~LB

 

[intothewoods]

Good luck in NY! Was Madison good (besides the beer haul)?

And what does IDP mean?
I have an old, full brain. I don't process things so quickly anymore...

(We have to post a lot so we can get to a new page. ITW won't come back if she has to look at icky bugs. )

~LB

I disabled photos.


They're still disturbing, even in their html code.

 

[midwestyankee]

I disabled photos.


They're still disturbing, even in their html code.

Quoted to preserve the über-geekiness of this statement.

 

[LilyBart]

I disabled photos.


They're still disturbing, even in their html code.

Ha ha! We need to work on this ITW.
I hate bugs...especially when they show up in my bathtub. But their pictures don't scare me.

Take a deep breath...

~LB

 

[CutieMouse]

I'm posting...

 

[CutieMouse]

to help...

 

[CutieMouse]

get rid...

 

[CutieMouse]

of the bug-things.

 

[CutieMouse]

Because ew.

 

[intothewoods]

Because ew.

I officially love you.

 

[intothewoods]

I officially love you.

A lot.

 

[LilyBart]

of the bug-things.

I'm sure ITW appreciates your efforts. I didn't realize I would ick anyone with a few pics.

I saw your reading list...I just finished Omnivore's Dilemma and loved it. Are you liking In Defense of Food? I have it on my list for the next read.

~LB

 

[CutieMouse]

I officially love you.

The dammed page still hasn't flipped over.

GAH!!!

 

[CutieMouse]

I'm sure ITW appreciates your efforts. I didn't realize I would ick anyone with a few pics.

I saw your reading list...I just finished Omnivore's Dilemma and loved it. Are you liking In Defense of Food? I have it on my list for the next read.

~LB

Very cool book; I'm about two-thirds the way through it.

I am not usually such a girl about bugs, but that hunt-thingie is scary as ****.

 

[LilyBart]

Very cool book; I'm about two-thirds the way through it.

I am not usually such a girl about bugs, but that hunt-thingie is scary as ****.

I'm looking forward to the book. I like his research and style. (And while I've always been a label reader, I read in a different way since OD. And I think about corn in a whole different way...)

On the other topic, which I hope will help flip the page...
Well then, this is time for all of us to circle around minx1 since that bugger is what she found on her patio.

I hope you squashed him good, minx1.

~LB

 

[midwestyankee]

I'm looking forward to the book. I like his research and style. (And while I've always been a label reader, I read in a different way since OD. And I think about corn in a whole different way...)

On the other topic, which I hope will help flip the page...
Well then, this is time for all of us to circle around minx1 since that bugger is what she found on her patio.

I hope you squashed him good, minx1.

~LB

After reading American Fried, I vowed to never again consume ground beef. Now, when I do, it's under entirely controlled conditions.

After reading Omnivore's Dilemma, I vowed to stare at labels to get the processed corn syrup out of my life. I haven't fully succeeded but I'm down quite a bit. So much, in fact, that my second left thumb is starting to wither away.

 

[CutieMouse]

After reading American Fried, I vowed to never again consume ground beef. Now, when I do, it's under entirely controlled conditions.

After reading Omnivore's Dilemma, I vowed to stare at labels to get the processed corn syrup out of my life. I haven't fully succeeded but I'm down quite a bit. So much, in fact, that my second left thumb is starting to wither away.

The silly thing is that everything in In Defense of Food is stuff I've (generally) known for years... my balance re: food has gone a bit wonky now that I just cook [or don't] for myself. When I was feeding an army? Everything that could be from scratch, was. I'm hoping that reorienting myself with the background knowledge will help with revising my eating habits...

 

[LilyBart]

After reading American Fried, I vowed to never again consume ground beef. Now, when I do, it's under entirely controlled conditions.

After reading Omnivore's Dilemma, I vowed to stare at labels to get the processed corn syrup out of my life. I haven't fully succeeded but I'm down quite a bit. So much, in fact, that my second left thumb is starting to wither away.

Didn't the corn thing shock you? It did me.
And we wonder why diabetes is on the rise.

More, now I feel guilty for wanting real sweet summer corn. Like, I have enough corn in my body-and am-pissed-off-that-the-corn-space-was-wasted-on-ick-corn.

Ick is the word of the day today in my house. Remember Peewee's Playhouse word of the day? Having a chuckle. I should be screaming the word "ick" right now.

(Are we on a new page yet?)

~LB

 

[Sir_Winston54]

After reading American Fried, I vowed to never again consume ground beef. Now, when I do, it's under entirely controlled conditions....

Haven't read either book, but having worked in an Army commissary meat department as a youth, I much prefer grinding my own ground beef, and now can do so, as I have a kitchen mixer set that includes a meat grinder. And I can keep the fat content down to where I like it - just enough that all I need in the frying pan is a bit of salt, and there's only about a tablespoon's worth of grease to pour off after it's cooked. I can also grind up excess chicken, ham, turkey, etc., to make sandwich meats. If I were really ambitious, I could even make my own sausage. Maybe I will when work/financial needs allow me a little more time. I homemade sausage when it's spiced and aged right.

 

[midwestyankee]

Didn't the corn thing shock you? It did me.
And we wonder why diabetes is on the rise.

More, now I feel guilty for wanting real sweet summer corn. Like, I have enough corn in my body-and am-pissed-off-that-the-corn-space-was-wasted-on-ick-corn.

Ick is the word of the day today in my house. Remember Peewee's Playhouse word of the day? Having a chuckle. I should be screaming the word "ick" right now.

(Are we on a new page yet?)

~LB

I'd read some bits and pieces of the corn story but I didn't have the whole scope of it. It's really a pox on our country's health. Diabetes is up, much of the country's rising obesity can be laid at the feet of King Corn, and we're going to be paying the consequences for a couple of generations at least.

 

[CutieMouse]

I'd read some bits and pieces of the corn story but I didn't have the whole scope of it. It's really a pox on our country's health. Diabetes is up, much of the country's rising obesity can be laid at the feet of King Corn, and we're going to be paying the consequences for a couple of generations at least.

In Defense of Food spends a lot of time talking about how we've gotten so concerned with the nutritional value of XYZ, and so skittish about "bad" things instead of the big picture, that despite all the low fat/bad carbs/blahblahblah we're actually eating a worse "healthy" diet than we did at the turn of the century. We've screwed with nutritional balance in the name of science, and our bodies can't cope - which is why we're eating "healthier", but obesity, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc are through the roof.

(Oh, BTW - sipping a white merlot the roomie handed me)

 

[LilyBart]

Haven't read either book, but having worked in an Army commissary meat department as a youth, I much prefer grinding my own ground beef, and now can do so, as I have a kitchen mixer set that includes a meat grinder. And I can keep the fat content down to where I like it - just enough that all I need in the frying pan is a bit of salt, and there's only about a tablespoon's worth of grease to pour off after it's cooked. I can also grind up excess chicken, ham, turkey, etc., to make sandwich meats. If I were really ambitious, I could even make my own sausage. Maybe I will when work/financial needs allow me a little more time. I homemade sausage when it's spiced and aged right.

Oh, Sir_Winston...you should read Omnivore's Dilemma. It is really rather enlightening. And it may make you think twice about which beef you buy to grind yourself. Really, I'm not so sure its the fat you have to worry about as much as the sugar. OK, really, there's a balance.

But corn-fed beef is such an f***ing marketing ploy. Cows are not meant to naturally look for corn. Read the book if you can.

~LB

 

[midwestyankee]

Oh, Sir_Winston...you should read Omnivore's Dilemma. It is really rather enlightening. And it may make you think twice about which beef you buy to grind yourself. Really, I'm not so sure its the fat you have to worry about as much as the sugar. OK, really, there's a balance.

But corn-fed beef is such an f***ing marketing ploy. Cows are not meant to naturally look for corn. Read the book if you can.

~LB

Worse still: much of the cholesterol that we get from consuming beef comes from the cow's inability to digest corn properly. Beef from grass-fed cows is very low in cholesterol.