what is life in five easy pieces ( Read more... )

heading to Portland on the 13th  be back on the 19th
rescheduled from last month when all the RAIN we've been having  caused several mud slides that closed the tracks
well i guess that's what you get with 42 days of RAIN
if it only took 40 days to flood the earth, than the place musta been muuuch smaller waaay back when
--Rick

Get a load of this...
There is an exact unit of volume called the butt.

See Webster's dictionary:
Butt: a measure of liquid capacity equal to 126 gallons or two hogs heads.

From another dictionary:
An English butt is 2 hogshead of 54 imperial gallons each or ~129.7 US gallons (i.e., a UK butt is apparently slightly bigger than a US one).

A Spanish ( Read more... )

Tis the season for traditions, so here's one my mom used to  make every year ( Read more... )

Well  what do you know, i got myself a real live Pen Pal!
haven't had one of those sense Jr High school way back before 'Al Gore' invented the internet :P but I've got one now and fired off my first letter in..... Daaamn 36 YEARS! wow, well it should be fun

will let you all know when i get one back
--Rick

(anyone else want to get in on this send me a

on the 4th i turned 50, 
wow what now?
it went well so far so perhaps i'll start "blogging" about that if anyone really cares :P
looks like it is going to be an interesting year
--Rick

I have created a new single page of cuteness called "Cute Bun Says:"  
she brings you cute  sayings  advice, inspirational messages and interesting quotes.

updates every M-W-F
http://cutebun.smackjeeves.com/
go check her out and get a little Cute Bun in your Life

--Rick

yup the big 50 is getting close, i found one of those '100 things to do before you die" videos, i have a good 25% down now so what does that say?
 some of the stuff doesn't really interest me but still, is it time to write a bucket list already??

i did some pasta rotini with sauteed garlic and bacon crumbles with some Greek oregano salt and pepper ( Read more... )

Yup, I've decided to write about what i love, so i now have a blog LJ just doesn't seem to do it for this kinda project so here it is if you want to check it out

http://thechefisin.blogspot.com 
this blog will be about food humor and life  and you, my lucky readers will pock up some ( Read more... )

yup last day of the month, and it has been quite a ride it's raining out (and i'm a but surprised it's not snowing)  more later just wanted to get this out
--Rick