Memnison Journal

The Brits are getting into eating squirrel; especially those darn Yankee Grey Squirrels.
Mr. Griffiths is a fan of the meat, likening it to a slightly oily rabbit. “We started selling squirrel a few years ago, after the owner of our local pub bragged about winning a squirrel-eating contest,” he said. Then, he said, the [...]

…not as easy as the water one.   A worldwide high demand for milk products grew along with a worldwide boom, and producers went nuts trying to keep up with it.  In places like China, they turned to all sorts of ugly gimmicks to stretch the milk, and fed cattle contaminated feed to produce more and [...]

The US has a significant honey and honeybee problem - we only produce about half the honey we consume.  Part of that is because of massive bee ailment problems, part because pollination pays better than the honey,  and the stuff that is coming into the USA is often adulterated or watered down - and in [...]

What I can mention is that the New Year’s Party was a good time, though a little frazzling.    I also spent a good deal of the day in the library with Rich Rostrom, who stayed over and was helping me with getting all of my stuff out of the closet under the stairs in the [...]

Day three of the Sissy visit: pictures at Susan’s photo-blog.
Susan:
Today was the American Girl Place shopping spree. The girls got up and showered. Dash was a happy dog since she got to shower with me and then with the girls. I poked my head in the bathroom to see if everything [...]

The complete set is here at Flickr.  A sample after the cut:

This was a very odd Christmas for me; some really high points and low points. Some old traditions unexpectedly brought back, and some things mucked.  Julbord and full holiday report after the cut:

Haven’t completed the Julbord report yet.  Here’s an article from the Washingon Post on a Swedish food setup, and how a proper smorgasbord works out…with recipes.   I disagree on the idea on a side story that you can get much in the way of a set of goodies out of a local Ikea, though.

Went out and got prescription reading glasses today; my prescription is +1.75, and they work very nicely.  Worst part was slipping and falling HARD on the slick tile floor just inside the Vision Works store; as I’ve said before, with my cruddy balance, I learned long ago to fall down the best way I can [...]

Jeremy Piven gives up a Broadway starring role because he’s been eating too much fish, especially sushi; apparently the extreme exhaustion / fatigue he was suffering was because the fish had passed on to him rather stratospheric levels of mercury…
…and the ticket holders are asking for refunds.
At least one person associated with the play seemed [...]

Barones Pizza, a local joint, has gone under due to the  Lisle’s city fathers’ dumb decision to redo the ‘downtown’ Main Street of our village.  The local businesses on the two blocks have been hurting a lot - especially since the whole area has been torn up all summer and fall from the construction to [...]

Well, pawnbrokers are doing well from the frantic sales of the desperate, including tapped-out mortgage brokers.   Business is up 20%!
Things are so grim that investors are willing to snap up US Government securities that will be worth less than the amount that the investor put in in the first place.   Reason?  They’re really secure, and [...]

No more Polaroid film.  Digital’s killed it.
Whole Paycheck Foods is having problems, and people are going for store generics everywhere in grocery stores.
Mark Penn can’t imagine how he hurt the Clinton campaign for President.
China is having serious upsets and problems due to the recession elsewhere; if nobody buys the stuff you make, [...]

Partially the fault of Paul Riddell, and partly for Mark Evans.

How to clean and cook a squirrel
Dog cuisine…Korean style this time
Wild game at Grizzly’s Lodge in Gold Coast Chicago

Zimbabwe is a complex subject, and the complexities have gotten a whole lot rougher on the inhabitants as time passes by.   Europeans under Cecil Rhodes marched in in the ned of the 1800s and took control of the land from the local chiefs, and passed out all sorts of claims to white settlers, who set [...]