June 30, 2014
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smarter
For lunch, we had salmon with stewed acorn squash, the snap beans brother George brought us from his garden yesterday and our own home-grown tomatoes. Avocado on the side.A little later, Humberto drove up with grandson Christian on his new motorcycle, bringing the two dozen Colombian empanadas Mary ordered. $48. He threw in an extra empanada at no additional cost.
Christian and Humberto.
They stayed a while. Mary whipped up some beef and rice for them.About then, the technician from Mr. B's came knocking at the door. It was Brad Thompson, son of my old highschool classmate, Kevin.
Helper and Brad Thompson.
He had come with his young assistant to clean our air ducts. Mary has been suffering from some kind of allergy and blamed it on mold. She may have been right. Brad found lots of gunk to clean. What's more, the ac unit wasn't draining water. He corrected it. He also advised us to leave the thermostat set to Auto and not On for the fan. The bill came to $400.All that done, Mary and I settled down to watch Germany disappoint Algeria 2-1 in overtime.
Nothing goes better with coffee than a Colombian Herpito and some achiras.
Deborah came by in a huff. She had had a run in with folks at First Farmers and needed to vent. She did.
After a light supper, I ventured out to check on the tomatoes and continued on to the outpost. No teasel flowers were yet reachable from my scooter. Grrr. So, out of frustration, I snapped some mature Curly Dock.
Curly Dock (Rumex crispus)
The treat that goats dream about.
I seldom see this humble plant without remembering when I was about eight years old, playing with my brother and sister in the back lot of our farm on Pea Ridge. I would strip the seeds off the Dock and feed them to goats. Goats will eat anything, I was thinking. Then, I decided on an experiment. Holding Dock seeds in one hand, and shelled corn in the other, I offered both to a goat. Lo and behold, the goat shunned to corn and ate all the Dock! Are goats that dumb... or maybe just smarter than we know?I returned to the house. Too much to do in the office. Sigh.
75.8 °F, clear.
Comments (10)
HAHA! I love the look on the helper. Suspect he wasn't thrilled about helping or getting his photo snapped! I had salmon for dinner - baked in foil so it was moist and tender - seasoned with a little dill. I'm curious about what a herpito is? Is it a cookie? What flavor is it??
Goats don't get the credit for brains that they deserve. Much smarter than sheep by far!
Curly dock is another interesting plant that I've never seen before!
I was sooooooooo happy with Germany's win! I've been a fan of Ozil - he played in the last World Cup and I was happy to see him again this year. Also, Miroslav Klose is a Yugo (we still refer to anything Serbian as "Yugo"), so my family naturally cheers for him as well.
I've never heard of Curly Dock. It looks like a fun and pretty plant.
you got a lot of interesting stuff today that I never knew lol
I don't know much about goats but they would try to eat my top and will eat trash. LOL
The Columbia food looks good. My aunt is from Gutemala sorry can't spill it and left when she was young and came to the U.S.A. and her family had the best food and her mom lived with my cousins and she taught my auntie.
I like Cuban food and I think it that might be why.
Smart man- listen to him. The AC set to auto is much less strain on the system, and thus, more cost-effective.
The Colombian food, and the salmon, look and sound fabuloso, as always.
maybe they were created to eat dock???? LOL! Who knows with goats. I love salmon, myself ~
They guys do not seem to thrilled about this!!! lol
Your meals are fantastic and I love salmon.
Flowers are unusual to me.
blessings
frank
I like goats, but am not one. I have never heard of curly dock before, and would have chosen the corn. Nice to learn something new, especially with accompanying pictures. I also learned aboutherpito and achiras from this post.
Is curly dock a wild plant of used as foof ?
In friendship
Michel
By the sounds of it she is having "run ins" with lots of folks in town (starting to get embrassing).... I'm afraid someone needs to cool her heels & maybe even get a psychological evaluation :/