Sunday, November 24, 2024

You Try And Title This Shit


I stole that image from Facebook today. I had to. That cat's face is just too good. I sent it to the kids on the group text because that's what I do and so do they. We're just a barrel of monkeys around here. 
Rachel replied that it looked like the cat was saying, "Are you fucking joking right now?" and Hank said the cat looks like it's saying, "Is this how you see me?"

Anyway, you're welcome if you, too, thought it was amusing. 

God, I've been so boring today. Absolutely boring. Describing my day would be about as interesting as describing cutting fingernails. 

I'd started some sourdough sponge last night and made up the dough this morning. That was about the most interesting thing I did. It's still rising and if things go as usual, it will fall before I put it in the oven. In fact, I should probably go preheat the oven and the iron vessel I'll be baking it in. When I'm making sourdough these days, I feel like someone with two left feet on the dance floor. I am just not finding the rhythm which causes missteps and ungainly results. 
Oh well, not the end of the world. 

I worked outside digging in the ground and uprooting things that I don't want in that same space I've been working in for months. This is my hobby now, I guess. My only find today was an old paintbrush, buried for who knows how long. It was in two pieces and the brush part was gross and disgusting for some reason. Sort of like someone's hair, long buried in the ground. I'm glad I found the handle part first because if I hadn't, I would have thought maybe I was digging up a body. Or at least a head. 

Yeah. I'm reaching here. I've been thinking a lot about the picture of the people I posted yesterday from the Facebook group about the history of Roseland and Sebastian. There's just so much I love about it and even though I didn't know those people, I can get such a sense and a feeling of them and that time and place. It strikes a very strong chord in me. 


Here's another one that tugs my heart for sure. That was the old Wabasso bridge that stretched from the mainland and went over the Indian River. And yes, it was made of boards, and yes, anyone who ever went over that bridge remembers the way it sounded and felt as you drove over it. Such a beautiful place then, a tropical jungle, mostly untouched and unspoiled. Now that whole area is filled with rich people houses, huge things perched precariously on dredge islands and on the banks of the river. The road that bridge was part of ended in the Atlantic ocean and that's what we took to get to the beach. 

I better go bake that bread and make some soup. Tonight's soup will be venison and vegetable. I should have had it cooking hours ago but I didn't. La-di-dah. 

I promise I'll try to create some excitement tomorrow. Or, you know- maybe not. 

Here's a picture of Mr. Moon and our own beloved orange cat. 


She was getting some Mr. Moon love. And that is a good thing to get. Trust me.

Love...Ms. Moon

Update:




Looking pretty good. Feel like maybe I've found my cha-cha shoes even if my ballet slippers are long gone. 


Need a vegetable? We got 'em all. 

34 comments:

  1. I love that cat photo ... Talk about a WTF look!
    Your bread and soup look delicious!
    Maurice and Glen are a bonded pair!

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    1. That cat could not look more contemptuous, could it?
      Yes, Maurice loves her daddy.

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  2. well YUM!
    The cat pancake and the blank cat- "really hoomin"?"...
    Your brain is never boring, Mary. You could walk us down a beige path and it would still be NOT BORING!

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    1. Oh Lord, walking down a beige path is my idea of hell. As you know. I'll try to avoid that situation.

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  3. I first thought you meant over the bridge as in over the side of the bridge and wondered what noise that would make? AAAAAAAAAAAAGH?
    Your soup and bread look like a match made in culinary heaven. And Mr Moon's lap is obviously feline heaven.

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    1. Oh no. That would be bad. Sorry.
      The soup and bread were terrific. And Mr. Moon's lap is Maurice's favorite lap in the world.

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  4. The cat in the photo could be Maurice's double. I do think Maurice would give the pancake and/or twin a good swing of the paw with claws out.
    Glen and Maurice are very tight. Purring and no claws there.
    Your bread and soup look delicious.
    The Roseland wooden bridge is beautiful.

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    1. I'm not sure what Maurice would do if confronted with the pancake. Probably look it, snarl, and run away.
      Oh gosh. I remember that bridge so very well.

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  5. When I was very small and we went to visit Aunt Laura and Uncle Frank on their farm we crossed the Cuyahoga River on the rickety-rackety bridge. It was wood planks. We knew every turn before the bridge and then held our breath hoping it would not fall down. Oh, the horror when it did fall down, under a truck that should not have been on it.

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    1. Yes! There was always that possibility of sudden collapse! I don't know that it ever did. And get this- part of that old bridge has been taken to Disney World and plays some part in one of their...somethings. I should look that up.

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  6. The pancake cat is saying "Am I a joke to you?"
    That's a lovely picture of Man and Cat, with a very contented cat face.

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  7. That cat is thinking "oh no! Ralph, what have they done to you" And then "What did you do to my buddy?"
    Maurice is looking blissfully happy. The bread turned out well and the soup too. I love that old bridge.

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    1. Haha, River! That's good!
      Maurice is very happy on Glen's lap but boy, does she get pissed when he has to get up.

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  8. The cookings look wonderful. I’d much rather have cha cha shoes! Maurice looks like she’s in cat heaven! Those first two cat pics are wonderful. And I’m with Rachel.

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    1. After trying the bread, I am thinking it would be more like clogging shoes that Cha-Cha shoes. But worth putting butter on. Low bar there. What isn't?
      That cat is so pissed.

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  9. At first I honestly thought the cat picture was of your cat. It's a hoot isn't it!

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  10. The pancake and cat did, in fact, make me guffaw. My daughter lives on the Indian River in Fort Pierce. I'm familiar with the area and Sebastian. When we go through Yeehaw Junction (which is now almost a metropolis to this country girl) I know we're close. Sadly (to me) my daughter is selling and moving to Boulder, CO....no more warm beaches and lazy rivers....
    Patricia

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    1. Oh, no! Fort Pierce is a beautiful place! I've been there quite a few times. It's got an inlet too, just like Sebastian.
      Colorado is definitely a different planet from the east coast of Florida.
      I so remember Yeehaw Junction.

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  11. The bread and the soup look great and smell delicious! You, dear Mary, are never boring and neither are your posts! :)

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  12. I made a casserole the other night but I was actually using the wrong recipe, it was the recipe for sloppy joes. I had to doctor it but it ended up ok, just not great. Then I hid my oven mitts on myself and found them a few days later. Everything I touch lately seems to go for crap. Sigh.
    That bread looks lovely, and risen.
    And old photos, I love them. I love seeing how the area used to look, here and where you live.

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    1. You have reminded me I need to make some sloppy joes. I haven't done that in years.
      Glen and I are constantly losing things. "I just had it! Right here!" But as he says, we don't really lose things. They always show up eventually.
      Old photos of places we know so well now are incredibly interesting, aren't they?

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  13. we had chicken noodle soup last night. Marc makes it from the bones and dregs of whatever rotisserie chicken we had since we just don't roast whole chickens any more.

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    1. It's hard to rationalize roasting a chicken when store-bought rotisserie chickens are so damn good. And cheap, too. I could eat an entire one myself.

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  14. That picture gave me a good laugh. And, you know how we have talked about the similarities in our husbands before? I have to tell you. Tim has the same flannel pj pants. Your bread looks very nice. I have some shopping to do today, and one of the things on that list is whole wheat flour for my sourdough. But listen to this...did you know about 'dry starter'? You can actually take your active starter and 'paint' it on a piece of parchment, let it dry completely, and then peel it and break it up into little pieces. You can store it in a jar, no need to feed. You reconstitute it by putting it in water and then 'feeding it' with flour to kick start it.

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    1. Yes! I have heard about drying sourdough but I've never done it. I think whole wheat does a better job of feeding the starter and I often do half that and half white flour. You'll find what you like to do.
      Funny that our guys have the same flannel pajama pants.

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  15. That looks like some yummy food. Ever since we got a new cabinet painting in our kitchen, I've tried spending more time in there cooking. I think soup and bread is on the menu tonight. Thanks for the idea!

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    1. Wow! That's pretty cool. It makes sense that you'd want to be in a room that made you happy more than a room that did not.

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  16. I just. bought some sourdough starter from King Arthur, and it's humming along in my fridge. When do you think I should make my first bread? I've made bread a million times but I'm not too experienced with sourdough.

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  17. I think Hank's description of the cat photo is spot-on: "Is this what you think of me?" LOL!

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