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Right then, this is a hard post to write…

No, I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth; and I apologize for the delay in posting.  I have so much to tell you, but will save that up for future posts.

In the meantime: I think I was feeling a little blah after my show.  I spent so much time first thinking and planning it, then making work and promoting it – that  when it was all said and done I felt like I had nothing interesting to say.  As well, I set up the light box and spent a lot of time photographing all of the pieces that needed to be photographed.  That takes a lot a time, boy, does that take a lot of time.

Then, on the evening of Dec. 14th my Mom went into the hospital.  I spoke to her on the 15th, as well as the Doctor.  I spoke to the Doctor again on the 16th – her COPD had caught up with her and they were doing the usual things they do to get oxygen into her blood.  At noon of the 17th the Doctor knew what they had tried wasn’t working and he told me “if you want to be here at the end” we’d better get on a plane.  We dropped everything, found a kennel that could take the cats (luckily), cancelled my friend’s Christmas visit, and booked a flight for the next morning 7 am.  Then, at about 7:30 pm our (EST) time on the 17th, the Doctor phoned back to say my Mom had died.

The good part of this story is that she had her faculties until the end, and was able to tell the Doctor that she didn’t want aggressive treatment; and she didn’t linger and suffer.  We should all be so lucky to be in this position at the end of our lives.  She told me about a year and a half ago “I’ve had a good run”.  She also told me she was going to hold on until I finished school – I keep thinking about that.

It really wasn’t until last week that I started to feel back on track.  Grief works it’s own way and on it’s own time.  Even though I have been thinking about writing this post for the past two weeks, today is the first day I definitely decided to open wordpress.  And yes, this has been very difficult to write.

My Mom and I at the top of the Malahat.

I’ve been plugging away slowly on a commissioned piece, which I will show you – but not until after Valentine’s! As I said at the beginning – I have lots of things to talk about and plan on being back on track!  As a hint – there is color involved and new pieces(!) of equipment!

I’ll be back soon.

Take care,

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  1. Sending Prayers & Hugs, lost my Dad a few years ago Dec. 21. It does get better with time, I think your getting back to your regular schedule will help a lot. Just remember to take good care of yourself as you transition through the grief process.

  2. I know the feeling and the amount of grief it brings. I lost my father 14 years ago but I never forget him. He is with me each time I feel I am creative and an art lover. The gone person who has taught us anything, specially a father or a mother, is always with us through their transmitted knowledge. It stays and goes on from generation to generation. Keep getting stronger and there is no shame to feel the blues.

    • Thank you very much Bethania. I agree with you and certainly have been reflecting over the past months how much my Mom (particularly) taught me. The care she took was really an outstanding gift.

  3. Valerie…I’m very sorry to hear about your mom.
    After I lost my sister suddenly in August, I really began to feel the depth of grief. I’ve never lost anyone that was there my whole life and it’s still very difficult to live with the fact that shes gone.
    I can honestly empathize with you and hope you find comfort in your memories after the sorrow subsides.
    Your mom was indeed fortunate to be able to make the decisions she made in the end. A quiet peaceful end is what we all wish for isn’t it?
    She looks like a sweet person.
    I recognized the Malahat summit in the background…such a lovely spot for a photo of you both.
    Take care.

    • Thank you very much Kerry. I felt so bad when I read (on your blog) about your sister – but I just didn’t have the right words to say how sorry I was.

      You’re right, my Mom was a hit with my friends and my partner! We were lucky to have a sunny-ish day on the Malahat for that photo!

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Reach for the Stars: Jenn Varney’s Quilt

Ladies and gentlemen, we have another Reach for the Stars quilt finish! Jennifer Varney of Hudson, New Hampshire is one of several quilters across the country I met virtually last year as we each worked on our own version of a star sampler quilt designed by Terri Krysan and featured as a series project in Quilter’s Newsletter. Over the course of 2014 our little band of stargazers shared pictures, compared notes, and cheered each other on.

We all made changes — some great, some small — to the design. Jenn chose to make a smaller quilt with fewer blocks and to use a straight set rather than putting her blocks on point. Here is her finished quilt:

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The muted browns and blues are offset by shots of metallic gold, giving the quilt such a rich look. The center medallion shows this off especially well:

JV's center medallion
Lorri Wurtzler of Seventh Heaven Quilting in Nashua, New Hampshire did the longarm quilting. I hope you can see Lorri’s lovely quilting in this close-up . . .

JV's RFTS block detail
. . . and this one:

JV's RFTS quilt detail
By changing the setting, Jennifer reduced the number of blocks (not counting the center medallion) from 16 to 12. If my math is correct, her quilt measures about 60″ square, perfect for a lap quilt or throw. And wouldn’t it look terrific on a wall?

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  1. Rosalee says:

    Absolutely gorgeous–love the colors and pattern!

  2. Diane says:

    What wonderful works of art! Makes me realize that the original quilt and other versions (with different fabric, pattern changes and size) produce unique art. Love them all!!

  3. Charlotte Quiroz says:

    Very nice! I really like the color combination.

  4. Sandy says:

    Beautiful!!! Definitely inspires me!

  5. How fantastic!! And even quilted and bound too! Great job Jennifer. It will be a prized possession for sure. Lovely setting and revamp of the original design.

  6. Carol Lagace says:

    I would like to purchase the entire quilt pattern for Reach for the Stars by Terri Krysan.
    Thank you

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NAACP attendees credit Romney for showing up, despite boos

HOUSTON -- Mitt Romney likely didn't win any votes at the national NAACP convention on Wednesday, but the African American atendees gave the presumptive GOP nominee credit nonetheless for trying.

The crowd gathered in Texas for the civil rights group's annual meeting booed Romney for vowing to repeal President Obama's health care reform law.

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks before the NAACP annual convention July 11 in Houston, Texas.

"I'm going to eliminate every non-essential, expensive program I can find. That includes Obamacare," Romney told the overwhelmingly African American membership gathered for his address, as a chorus of boos forced the candidate to stop his speech for fifteen seconds, then veer off script to defend his position.

But this audience was never likely to be a friendly crowd for the presumptive GOP nominee, with African American voters supporting President Obama over John McCain 95 to 4 percent in 2008, and with current polls showing a similar split in this election cycle. Romney made note of the tough room with a joke at the start of his remarks.

"I appreciate the chance to speak first – even before Vice President Biden gets his turn tomorrow," Romney said. "I just hope the Obama campaign won’t think you’re playing favorites."

Several attendees said after the speech that while they appreciated Romney appearing here, he would never win their support.

"I give him kudos for coming here, I really do. He had nerves," said Betty Bush, a retired auto worker from Alabama, who then added she could think of "nothing," that she agreed with in Romney's remarks.

"I thought it was courageous for him and gracious of him to come, and we really appreciate that," said Steven Goings, who traveled to Texas from Monterrey, California for the convention. "Certainly I disagree with most of what he says, but that's to be expected."

The candidate made several attempts to reach out to the black community specifically in his speech: highlighting his father's work on civil rights in the 1960's, pledging to improve the job market for blacks, who suffer from a disproportionately high 14.4 percent unemployment rate, and highlighting his education reform work as Massachusetts governor.

Romney's comments on education -- specifically his often-told story of protecting charter schools in Massachusetts with the help of the black caucus in the Massachusetts legislature -- appeared to be the most popular element of his speech today, here in the home city of the successful KIPP charter school system.

"We need Obamacare," said Liz Cotton, a grandmother from Virginia, when asked what she thought of Romney's speech, adding:"I agree with him on Charter schools. I think charter schools are really good."

Campaign officials said they were pleased with the reception Romney received overall, noting many of his positions -- including pushing back against China on trade issues -- earned notable applause. Several political analysts also noted today that Romney's audience today was broader than just those in the room if he could appeal to moderates and independents just by showing up at the convention. (As the Republican nominee in 2008 John McCain also spoke to the group, as did then-Senator Obama, who begged off this year citing scheduling conflicts)

But on the economic argument that he could be a better president for people of all colors in America -- the core of Romney's campaign message -- Romney appeared to make little headway with this audience.

"I wouldn't say there was nothing to his argument," said Goings, offering faint praise, and adding that he would "certainly" be voting for Obama again this year.

Romney was interrupted with boos twice more for criticizing the president in the course of a twenty five minute address to an audience that was likely the least-supportive one he has spoken to all campaign season. He earned only smatterings of applause for his policy positions, but ultimately receiving a brief, cordial standing ovation from the several hundred attendees as he wrapped up his remarks.


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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

David Maloney Blows the Lid on "Reproduction" Reels

David Maloney Blows the Lid on "Reproduction" Reels

David Maloney posted this recently on Reel Talk and I thought it deserved the widest possible audience because it's a very important subject. Knowing what to look for when it comes to forgeries is the key.

Fake Reels

by David Maloney

Here's where a small segment of the fake reel problem begins (For example, the Meisselbach Featherweight). Check out these two fine gentlemen from India. It turned into quite a cyber challenge, but I found 'em.

Indian Reproduction Reel Merchant #1

Indian Reproduction Reel Merchant #2

These reels, as we all know, have been around for a while on the auction sites. They usually have their brass knobs completely removed, or replaced by an antiqued wooden knob that has been through a tumbler, not unlike the method used on bogus "Mikko" fish decoys.

Here lately, it seems that a few of the charlatans from India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan have begun to ratchet their trickery up a notch, from their decade old practice of cloning Moscrops. I came across a wooden Nottingham type reel the other day that was a reasonable facsimile, at least to my eyes, un-reel!

I realize these foundry, and stamping facilities owners are just trying to put food on the table like everyone else, but surely they know good and well where these reels are going, and what some people are doing with them. Disguising their wares behind such terms as antique imitations, brass handicrafts, and decorative artifacts, just to cover their rears, is almost laughable.

That being said, it's nearly as much fault of the hucksters at antique fairs and swap meets peddling boxes of this junk out of their car trunks. The worst culprits to me, however, are the few ever present folks who act all dumb and innocent when they falsely describe this trash on the auction sites, adjacent to their intentionally blurred photos. It's the future of our hobby that's going to suffer, alongside the new collectors who unknowingly waste their hard earned money.

I know these counterfeits won't directly effect any of us much, if at all, but if we don't get a handle on this, the general public is going to stay away from our hobby by the boat loads out of fear of buying a fake reel. The authentic minnow traps, fish/duck decoys, and small Winchester collectors have all been hit hard, and aren't worth what they could be, or should be, because of this. Where does it end? Reel patents expire, and there's usually no trademarks infringed upon, so I suppose the only way to keep this menace at bay is though education, and exposing this "fishy" tackle for what it is, as soon as it hits the market. To quote the steadfast Barney Fife "You've got to nip it in the bud!...Nip it!".

What's next?.....BAMBOOzling the rod collectors!

There, wasn't that a happy little story.....Sheesh!

Many thanks to David for putting the pieces together. I'd seen these fakes but to know where they come from now, and the lengths makers are going to fabricate them, is amazing. So keep a watch out people!

-- Dr. Todd

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Flair Shoots: Carly for Mizuno

A while ago we posted about model Ben Kirby shooting for Mizuno and their latest sportswear.
Well he wasn't the only model to shoot with them.

Pro-Footballer Curtis Jacks and Fitness Model Carly Newson also travelled down to Dorset to show off the new Mizuno Wave Inspire 8 trainers.

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09 August 2010

Flash Tutorial : How to create vertigo animation

There are many situations where interesting Flash animations can be applied, in games, flash widgets, as website effect etc. Some animations require slow frame-by-frame making process and some can be created quickly using free community shared tools.

Spiral tool can be found on author's website. After you download it and install it, you can take a look how this tool is created by opening your Flash Configuration folder. On Windows this folder should be located at C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Flash CS3\en\Configuration\Tools. Among others you will find files: Spiral.xml, Spiral.png and Spiral.jsfl. Simply open Spiral.jsfl with your favorite text editor to see Spiral tool source code.

You can use newly installed Spiral tool directly from Tools panel (see image below).

Flash Spiral Tool
When you are satisfied with spiral you created convert it to movie clip and add simple rotation code to it:

import flash.events.Event;

addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, rotate);
function rotate(evt:Event):void
rotation += 5;

Click on image to see live demo.

That's just a starting point. You can go further and make all kinds of complex vertigo animations. Simple adjustments would be to change drawing line size, style and color. Combine few different spiral lines with different rotation speeds to get even more complex vertigo.

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The Food and Drink Supplement

Food Food Food

The trip has been as much about tasting new things as it has seeing new things.   So I felt it only appropriate to include in my final blog of the trip the food and drink special.  Its been a real treat, but there are a few stars amongst them:

Rijtafel – A mixture and taster of all different dishes such as satay and sweet and sour flavours.

Babi Guling – Suckling pig spit roasted with the most amazing crispy skin on top
Nasi Goreng a fried rice dish with either seafood or chicken that comes with a fried egg on top.
Soto Ayam – a clear soup with lemongrass, ginger and chicken and tumeric.

But the highlight of the Bali food was the meal after the Bike ride, it was about 6 different dishes all authentic and all tasted absolutely wonderful and we sat on the floor to eat  from a  low table in the traditional way – so all round that was by far the most traditional and flavoursome meals of the trip.

Some of the tastiest dim sum I have ever had both in Chinatown in Thailand, or at the market and street vendors in Hong Kong.  Lots and lots of prawns done in different ways.  And some which were more like little crayfish, and were a bastard to get into but once you did the meat tasted sweet.

Savoury Sticky rice in Thaliand  – which is one of the tastiest things I have ever eaten served wrapped in a bananaleaf , but is slosely followed by the sweet sticky rice with taro- Like rice pudding but the rice is dyed different colours, was just pudding heaven.

Glass noodle sausage, which was a pork sausage mixed with rice, garlic and fish and oyster sauces, but served with a little green ginger and lemongrass sauce, which was just a great combination.

Thai noodle rolls wrapped with mint, carrot and dried shrimp and chilli dipped into a that tasty gingery sauce.

Some things I tried but did not care for, black rice pudding served as a sweet in Bali – chocolaty rice pudding but with some spices in I didn’t like. Also jellied octupus which nearly made me vomit.   The only thing I didnt like in Thailand was something which looked like a scotch egg, but had fish round it instead of pork meat and it was just way too fishy and way too salty for me.

Beer Beer and More Beer

I present for you below a range of the beers I have either gotten slightly, mostly or absolutley drunk on during my travels.  My favourite was Tsingtao a Chinese beer you get in Hong Kong.  And Chang from Thailand came a close second.  Bintang and Bali Hai were the two brews available in Bali and I preferred Bali Hai – Bintang was a big gassy and made me fart.

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The Secret Life of Literati Spelling Bees

Tonight we went to a swanky spelling bee put on by IRA SILVERBERG to benefit the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses at the Diane Von Furstenberg Studio in the Meatpacking District.

It was a lot like the spelling bees we remember from growing but instead of our principal, BOB MORRIS from THE NEW YORK TIMES Style section was the MC with the Oxford English Dictionary‘s JESSE SHEIDLOWER serving as the evening’s judge, and instead of the geekiest kids in our class, some of the biggest names in publishing were vying for top honors.

So actually it was nothing like the spelling bees we remember from growing up.

Follow our friend Ron Hogan’s play-by-play of the competition here; after the jump our photos of JONATHAN ADLER, JONATHAN BURNHAM, DAVID CARR, MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, BRAD GOOCH, HEIDI JULAVITS, WAYNE KOESTENBAUM, MICHAEL MUSTO, SARA NELSON, and ROBERT SIETSEMA, along with our educated guesses on what they were like in high school.

BTW Gawker, ALEX KUCZYNSKI was a no-show this year and the word “sacrilegious” still cropped up (maybe Morris is behind the conspiracy). “Botox” — another Kuczynski favorite — was also on the fashion-themed list.

We’re fairly certain she would have gotten that one.

Brad Gooch and Brooke Geahan – Best All Around
Michael Cunningham – Most Talented
Jonathan Adler -Most Artistic
Heidi Julavits – Teacher’s Pet
Sara Nelson – Most Likely to Be Rembered
Robert Sietsema – Most Adventurous; Michael Musto – Life of the Party
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Brown Valley Lithic Point Reproduction by Ivan Imel

Item BR60

This Item Sold on 26 October 2007 for $48

Similar artifacts for sale are often found on the Lithic Artifact Reproductions web page.

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This reproduction of a Native American Browns Valley (Transitional Paleo) lanceolate, spear or atlatl dart point was made by Ivan Imel from Lubbock, Texas. This lithic reproduction is not signed or dated. Length = 77 mm (3 in) : Weight = 18 gm

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Thursday, October 3, 2013

Cooking 101

Just checking in... I wanted to share this past weekend the Mr. & I had one of the best Date Nights ever! We attended a cooking class. I know you're probably wondering 'how in the world did I get him to agree to that!' It happened after much grooming and a little coerced measures.

So here's the deets! On the menu for the evening was Lobster Ravioli, Parmesan bread, salmon croquettes, and cannoli for dessert. We made everything from scratch, yes I said from SCRATCH! I never knew how fun it was to make fresh Italian pasta and bread from scratch.

Here are a few pics in action from our night.

Pasta in the making.

The finished product. Yum!!

Oh, and our Parmesan bread.

And for dessert cannoli and crepes made from you guessed it, scratch.

It was that good!

And here we are with the Master Chef.

What a great night. I even learned a few cooking techniques along the way. Thanks to Cooking 101.

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A cooking class date night sounds like a blast! Food looks amazing!

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In the lovely Yorkshire Dales are ruined abbeys and stately mansions with beautiful gardens. In particular, the classical eighteenth century landscaped water gardens of Studley Royal adjoins the ruins of Fountains Abbey, and every variety of garden and planting, grace Newby Hall, near Ripon. In the heart of Wharfedale is the scenic garden of Parcival Hall and near Harrogate, the Northern Horticultural Society’s extensive Harlow Carr Botanical Gardens. We also visit a number of smaller but equally characterful gardens like the Hollies which has the national collection of Philadelphus and the late Sybil Spencer’s renowned garden, York Gate. Stone Cottage

For the first three nights, the tour stays near Harrogate and on the fourth day we move North to the fourteenth century castle ruins, formal gardens and planted quarries of Belsay Hall in Northumberland and the nearby, charming walled garden and lakes of Wallington. That night we stay at the old stone farmhouse of Shield Hall where gourmet dinners are served. Returning through Derbyshire, we visit the impressive herb and walled gardens of Hardwick Hall built by Bess, Countess of Shrewsbury, in the sixteenth century.

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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Of loaves and fishes.

Balik emek. © Ryan Schierling
I was driving. An English gentleman on the radio was talking about the most transcendental sandwich he'd ever eaten, so I was all ears and stomach.

He described the sun setting on the banks of the Bosphorus, where fishermen would grill freshly-caught mackerel, place it in a lightly-toasted crusty loaf and garnish it with thinly-sliced onions, sea salt and a squeeze of lemon juice. The last rays of daylight, the smell of fresh sea air mixed with smoke and grilled fish, this simple preparation and sublime sandwich… I'd been transported.

I was salivating. I was exceeding the speed limit. I'd forgotten where I was going, so I turned and went home. I told Julie that we needed to go to Turkey, or Istanbul, or wherever the banks of the Bosphorus were, because I needed to experience this sandwich, this brilliant sandwich that changed this man on the radio's life.

Julie said that, as much as she'd like to, we were not going to Turkey, or Istanbul, or wherever the banks of the Bosphorus were. She also said she didn't want to eat mackerel, an oily little smack of a fish with lots of tiny bones to choke on. But she decided she would compromise, so we went to the grocer instead and bought a pound of fresh cod filets, fresh-baked sandwich rolls, a sweet onion, a pair of lemons and a bag of charcoal.

The cod was oiled, lightly seasoned and grilled to flaky perfection. The sandwich rolls were split open, toasted on the grill, swiped with paprika mayo, and stuffed with fish and thinly-sliced onion – then finished with a hit of lemon juice and a pinch of kosher salt.

There was no better balik emek (fish on bread) anywhere that night, except maybe on the banks of the Bosphorus.

Fish on bread

Serves four.

1 lb. fillet true cod, cut into two portions (thick end, thinner end) for even grilling
4 sandwich rolls
1 c. real mayonnaise w 1tbs. sweet paprika mixed in
1/2 sweet (Walla Walla, Vidalia or a Texas 1015) onion, cut into half rounds and sliced thin
2 lemons, wedged
kosher salt and black pepper

Plate the cod, and pour a good 1/2 cup of olive oil over it. Sprinkle with kosher salt and freshly-ground black pepper. Start your charcoal in the grill. Take 1 cup real mayonnaise and mix in 1 tbs. of Hungarian sweet paprika. Cut the onion in two, then thinly slice into half-rounds. Place the onion half-rounds into a small strainer and rinse with cold water. Slice two lemons into wedges and set aside.

Grill the cod over medium-heat coals, watching for flare-ups from the oil on the fish dripping down onto the hot coals. Flip once. When the internal temperature of the fish is about 125-degrees and it is flaking nicely, remove to a clean plate and tent with foil.

Split the sandwich rolls and grill them lightly until toasted inside, and just a little crunchy on the exterior. Generously spread the paprika mayo on the bread, flake the grilled cod into the bread, and cover with the thinly-sliced onions. Squeeze lemon juice onto the sandwich and sprinkle with kosher salt.

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Friday, March 29, 2013

Bunny chow de chivo, Tejano-style.

Quarter chivo. Texas-style bunny chow. © Ryan Schierling
I was at the fancy grocery store a while back, and there was a little girl in the bread aisle throwing an unfettered hissy fit. "I don't want to eat the ends of the bread!" she cried at her mother. Mom looked confused. "What?"

"I DON'T WANT TO EAT THE ENDS OF THE BREAD!!!!" the girl shrieked again. Her mother shook her head, grabbed her daughter's hand and, still somewhat puzzled, explained earnestly "You don't have to eat the ends of the bread."

The little girl crossed her arms indignantly and scowled. "Good. Because only poor people eat the ends of the bread."

I wanted to grab a $40 jar of Bar-Le-Duc red currant jam, hand-seeded with a solitary goose quill, and throw it at her precious little head. Not only do poor people eat the ends of the bread, sometimes they repurpose the empty plastic bread bags to put over their kids' shoes when they're out playing in the snow. I might have some deep-seated childhood issues about that one, but I will still make a sandwich out of the heels of the bread if that's what's left. Waste not, want not.

As for what poor people do and do not eat, some of those back-of-the-pantry, scraped-together, day-before-payday, simple meals are the best things you will ever put in your mouth. However fancified by restaurants in the last few years, soul food and comfort food all come from the deep roots of poverty, part and parcel.

From what I've read, bunny chow comes from some dark days in South Africa. During apartheid, take-away curry dishes were served to ostracized sugar-cane-plantation-working Durban Indians out of the back doors or windows of cafes and restaurants. Traditional roti would fall apart, so loaf bread was cut into quarters or halves, hollowed out and filled with their favorite curry. The portion of the bread pulled out from the loaf, called the "virgin," was put back onto the loaf as a lid. No utensils were used, patrons traditionally just picked and plucked bits of bread to sop up the curries. Wrapped in newspaper, the Banias – an Indian caste – ate this staple enough that it was their "chow." Bania chow became bunny chow.

The spicy curries were originally vegetarian, with broad beans or sugar beans – but mutton, prawns, beef and chicken eventually made their way into the rotation. I really thought about making proper curry, but there are a million recipes for authentic (and inauthentic) bunnies, so I kept this one close to home and went Texas-style chili, which might as well be Texas-style curry. The chili is chivo, with two pounds of Windy Hill Farm goat meat, and plenty of peppers. Don't question the black beans, I said Texas-style, not Texas red.

I commissioned the bread, specifically looking for a cheap, squishy, sandwich, white-bread-style crumb but with more of a maize flavor. Thankfully, there's a wonderful baker in-house, and Julie brought some solid science to my corny serving vessel. It has a fantastic, soft, fine texture – with bits of corn meal – to soak up flavors, and the crust is nice and sturdy to hold all of your chili bits in without disintegrating. What I ended up with was chili and "cornbread" in the best possible way. This is... the chivo bunny.

(Note: Poor or not, you're going to want to eat the ends of the bread on this one.)

Chivo Bunny Chow

For the goat marinade:
8 dried guajillo chiles, toasted in a dry skillet over medium heat until fragrant, then covered with boiling water for 20 minutes
5 garlic cloves
1/4 cup cider vinegar
5 whole allspice berries
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 tablespoon Mexican oregano
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup water
1 tablespoon kosher salt
1/2 of a white onion, diced
6 sprigs fresh thyme

Remove guajillo chiles from water and remove stems, seeds and membranes. Put chiles and all other marinade ingredients except diced onion and fresh thyme into a food processor or blender, add 1/2 cup water, and puree until thick and smooth. Adjust salt to taste. Stir in diced white onion and thyme. Mix well with the goat meat and marinate at least 4 hours, or overnight if possible.

For the ancho chile paste:
4 dried ancho chiles, toasted in a dry skillet over medium heat until fragrant, then covered with boiling water for 20 minutes
2 garlic cloves
1 tablespoon kosher salt
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 cup water

Remove ancho chiles from water… same treatment as above. Put chiles and all other ingredients into a food processor or blender and puree until smooth. Using a spatula, scrape into a bowl and set aside. Makes 1-1/2 cups.

For the chivo chili:
2 pounds goat meat, for stew (1" to 1-1/2" cubes)
1 large white onion, diced
4 jalapeño peppers, seeds and membranes intact, diced
2 14.5-ounce cans fire roasted diced tomatoes
2 14.5-ounce cans black beans, drained and rinsed
1 1/2 cups ancho chile paste (above)
1 12-ounce Negro Modelo (or other dark Mexican beer)
1 tablespoon smoked paprika
1 tablespoon ground cumin
1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon kosher salt
juice of 2 limes

After the goat has marinated for a bit, brown it in batches in a large Dutch oven (or stock pot) at medium-high heat, stirring frequently. Remove the meat to a large bowl and set aside. Add the onion and jalapeño to the goat juices and fond left in the Dutch oven, stirring frequently, until the onion is translucent. Add the goat, tomatoes (with juice), ancho chile paste, black beans and beer to the pot. Stir well and bring to a simmer. Add the paprika, cumin and woozy, stir well. Simmer for 3 hours, then test the goat meat for tenderness. The smaller pieces should fall apart, and the larger ones should have a nice tooth, but not be tough. Taste the body of the chili and adjust salt – it took me a good four more pinches of kosher salt to get where I needed to be. At this point, the chili might taste a bit… what's the word… dirty? Highly spiced, perhaps overly so. Add your lime juice. At the end of the cook, this fresh acidity reigns everything in and provides the balance necessary for the dish to work. Stir well, taste, and add a little more salt if you need to. If it's not spicy enough for your palate, God bless you. Add a good shakin' of crushed red pepper, stir again and call it good.

(L-R) Guajillo goat marinade. Homemade corn sandwich loaf. Chivo bunny. © Ryan Schierling
This next step is what takes things over the top. If you like to make bread, or even if you don't like to make bread but have baked bread in the past, this is the proper sandwich loaf for chivo chili bunny chow. If you're not feeling adventurous, find an uncut loaf of sandwich bread (honey wheat would be nice) and use that for your bunny.

For the Wonderfully Corny sandwich loaf:
12 grams (3 teaspoons) active-dry yeast
15 grams (1 tablespoon) sugar
118 grams (1/2 cup) warm water - 110º F to 115º F

600 grams (5 cups) bread flour
120 grams (1 cup) yellow corn meal
30 grams (3 tablespoons) instant corn masa flour
30 grams (1/4 cup) potato starch

30 grams (1/4 cup) non-fat powdered milk
90 grams (1/4 cup) agave nectar
59 grams (1/4 cup) water
40 grams (3 tablespoons) unsalted butter
12 grams (2 teaspoons) kosher salt

2 large eggs, at room temperature, gently whisked with fork
160 grams (1 cup) frozen sweet corn kernels, minced in food processor

Dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup warm water with sugar, stirring together in the stainless bowl of a stand mixer. Allow to sit for 15 minutes until foamy.

Using a kitchen scale, weigh the flour, corn meal, masa and potato starch and whisk together gently in a separate bowl. (Although all of the ingredients are listed in grams, these four dry items are the most critical to be weighed for accuracy.)

In a small saucepan, mix together the powdered milk, agave, water, butter and salt. Warm to lukewarm on a very low burner, stirring frequently, until the butter has melted. Remove from heat.

Add the lukewarm milk mixture, eggs and half of the dry mixture to the dissolved yeast. Mix together using dough hook (on speed 2 of a KitchenAid) until the flour starts to become incorporated. Add the minced corn to the remaining dry mixture and toss together. Continue adding the remainder of the dry mixture, about a cup at a time, until all is added.

Continue mixing (on speed 2) until the dough clings to the hook and cleans sides of bowl, then continue to knead on speed to for another 2 minutes.

Turn dough out onto very lightly flour dusted cutting board surface and give a quick knead two or three times. Then, using a rolling pin, gently roll the dough out into a rectangular shape and roll up like a jelly roll from the short end. Repeat this process of flattening two more times - you should notice the dough stiffening up on the last pass. Form the dough into a ball and return to the stainless mixing bowl greased generously with olive oil, turning to grease top. Cover and allow to rise in a warm place, free from draft, for about one hour, or until doubled in bulk.

Gently "punch" dough down with your fingers, starting around the edges, and then turn dough out onto your cutting board surface and shape. For two regular loaves, split dough in half with a knife or dough scraper. Avoiding using any flour to dust the board, shape the loaf by rolling dough gently into a rectangular shape with a rolling pin and then tightly rolling "jelly roll-style" (lift gently and pull if necessary) the dough to form the loaf. Tuck the ends in and pinch closed the seams and bottom edge.

Place each shaped loaf in a greased pan. Cover and allow to rise in a warm place, free from draft, for about an hour. Bake in 400º F oven for 30-35 minutes (for dark pans, reduce heat to 375º F). Loaves are done when they reach an internal temperature of 200º F and are golden brown on top. Remove from pans immediately and cool on wire racks.

Yield: 2 loaves.

Cut the loaf into quarters (or thirds, depending on your bread pan size). Pluck out the interior of the loaf so you can fill it up with chili. Save the bread from the innards of the loaf (the virgin) and serve it alongside your bunny chow.

  1. While I'd prefer the veggie curry, I think this is such a brilliant idea! Poor people are smart.

    I think I would have shared your desire to chuck some fancy jam at that little princess. I hope her mama took the time to have a serious talk with her about WHY poor people have to eat the ends of the bread, and how she's fortunate not to have to if her pretty little heart doesn't desire it.

    Sometimes raising children with privilege is a hard gig! Well, it's hard if you don't want them to grow up to be douches, I mean. My little is only 2, but I can bet we'll have our share of these conversations...

    1. I started out researching the original veggie curries used for bunny chow, Lauren, and was going to go that route with a traditional Durban recipe. But then I saw there were tons of posts already out there and wanted to do it a little different... a little Texas-style. It would definitely be delicious with a veggie chili as well, especially with that corny bread.

      We have cats that are privileged, and rather spoiled. At least one of them is a douche. They don't want to eat the ends of the bread either, but they will lick the hell out of a stick of butter if left on the counter....

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In the wake of my spinach quiche and spinach soups (there have one and two of them so far) my friend Meredith requested a basic spinach recipe. So I pulled this recipe out from a long hibernation. I think I’ve gotten so excited about taking advantage of spinach’s versatility that I’ve forgotten that it’s darn […]

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Mistakes beginners make #3: Over-editing images

This email is the second in the series of the top #3 mistakes that beginner food photographers make (if you missed the first two, you can read them here and here).

Though these are mistakes “beginner” food photographers commonly make, what I’m sharing with you today is something which I am a little embarrassed to share that I did myself until quite recently! *hangs head in shame*

While it takes time to learn how to style and compose your shots, how to use your camera and how to understand light and angles, it also takes time to not just learn the tools of Lightroom (or whatever photo editing software you use) but to understand how best to use them to get the look you desire.

Have you ever tried to overcompensate when trying to fix white balance and ended up with an image with ridiculously bright whites and all other colours distorted?

Or perhaps you’ve tried to sharpen a slightly blurry image, only to have it look all pixelated and grainy? Eeep!

I fell victims to all of these when I first started out. Super confused by layers and adjustment brushes in Lightroom and Photoshop, I instead opted to use a free online program – which was pretty good considering it was free! – but of course was not as powerful, so I would try to fix my off-colour whites by brightening them drastically – which never worked! You can see an example below on the left (and just so you know I didn’t deliberately edit the photo ‘badly’, you can see all the awful images from that blog post here if you so desire *ducks head and blushes* Not some of my finest work… but I promise the recipe is nice!! 😉

To show you how this could look better, I’ve quickly applied a few edits in Lightroom just now (decreased highlights, increased whites and exposure (using radial filter) and used the split-toning tool to balance out the colours a bit better – note I shot this as a JPEG so I was a little limited in how much I could amend without totally blowing out the light or colours – you can read more about shooting in JPEG vs shooting in raw here).

Original image, before I learnt how to edit properly!

Quick edit of the same image in Lightroom

So how to get around this? Firstly, it’s important to try and get the image looking as good as you can in the first place. Use the time of day and light/shadow boards to get your lighting right. Learn how to shoot in manual so that you can get the right depth of field and exposure, and to also help in getting a crisp, clear image. That way, your image will be 90% done before you even get to post-processing, and then all you will need to do when editing is increase a few of the details in the image – usually things like slightly upping the contrast, sharpness/clarity, and perhaps touching up the colours a little.

The images below show a recent original shot (left) that I was quite happy with; it only require a few tweaks in Lightroom (slight cropping, increased contrast, minimal vignetting and slight colour adjustments) to complete the look I was going for.

Original image, before any edits

Final version

Secondly, learn how to use your editing software properly. Now, I’m not going to skirt around the fact that I’m selling something here – because we all know I am! – but regardless if you purchase my Lightroom Editing guides or go about it some other way, learning how the software works and how best to use it to get your desired look really does make a difference.

For instance, when I was an editing rookie, I had no idea that it was possible to alter the hue and saturation of not just individual colours but also individual tones in Lightroom. I also didn’t realise that fixing white balance was waaaaay easier if you shoot in RAW, something we have talked about previously (you can re-read it here if you missed it). Now that I know these things, I am able to fix the colour balance in a few seconds, whereas I’m embarrassed to admit that I sometimes used to spend hours trying to get the colours and tones in my images to look right – and even then they used to look pretty awful by the time I was done with them. So not only do my images look better now – I’m saving myself a whole heap of time, hurrah!

And one final thing – be very careful with filters! Some (eg the VSCO package) can be a good starting point for getting a certain “look” to an image, but they can also quite quickly ruin the look of an image if an incorrect one is used. Simple, manual edits are usually the best way to go 🙂

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Friday, October 16, 2009

Probiotic foods happen to be the most widely marketed functional foods with many health promoting attributes assigned to them. They are supposed to boost immunity and improve digestion. Irritable Bowel Syndrome, a common GI disorder found in western countries is also amenable to treatment with probiotic foods. In children it is even claimed to reduce incidence of respiratory infections. Though exact mechanism regarding the role played by the Lactobacillus bacteria was not known, current efforts in mapping the genome sequences of Lactobacillus rhamnose GG (LGG)have thrown new light on this subject.

"In its recent publication, the research team showed that the protein component found by the team has a fundamental role in LGG binding with the human intestinal mucus. The team found out that the surface structures of LGG has a specific adhesion component. Remarkably, the binding feature has been assumed to be one of the most important characteristics of bacteria with health-benefiting effects. Moreover, the researchers assume that the protein structure in question enables the health-promoting effects of LGG and other probiotic bacteria, and the positive immune modulation produced by them".

While the above efforts are indeed laudable, it is not known whether all species coming under the probiotic group will also have same mechanism in their mode of action. Probably the lead provided should help other workers to pursue this line of investigation to confirm the above findings.

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Plan 9 from Outer Space [Reviewed by the Drudgeon]

Plan 9 from Outer Space79 min., 1959
Directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr.
My rating: *

It’s not the worst movie ever made, but it isn’t a great movie either.

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Our movie starts with a Narrator (Criswell) telling us that what we are about to see is based on accounts given by survivors of the incident.  We then switch to some people around a grave and the narrator telling us about an old man (Bela Lugosi) who has just lost his wife and how devastated he is.  Two grave diggers start working, then they hear a strange sound and we see the old man’s wife (Vampira) as she “attacks” them.  We then switch to a pilot, Jeff Trent (Gregory Walcott), flying a commercial plane when there is a sudden flash and him and his co-pilot sees a flying saucer.  From there the old man ends up killing himself and he is also brought back from the dead and an Inspector (Tor Johnson) is also brought back.  It turns out that aliens are using their ninth plan (hello title) to use the reanimated corpses of the recently deceased to defeat (?) the human race.  How can the human race survive against aliens and zombies?

The acting of the movie is actually pretty good, well more okay.  Gregory Walcott is really good in his role as Jeff.  I don’t know if it’s his aggression because he had to partake in this movie, but when he gets upset you can really feel it.  Mona McKinnon who played Jeff’s wife, Paula also does a pretty darn good job.  There are parts where she doesn’t seem to know exactly what to do or feel, but considering the plot and script it’s not hard to understand why.  The rest of the cast are okay.  The three main draws of the movie, Vampira, Bela Lugosi and Tor Johnson have pretty much no dialogue and spend most of their time with their arms out, like they are about to grab someone and Bela is acting like Dracula most of the time (even when played by Tom Mason).

Now the effects of the movie are one of those things of legend.  They are supposed to be just over-the-top bad and extremely cheesy.  Too bad for me they really weren’t that bad especially for the day.  Don’t get me wrong in thinking that they are great, they aren’t by any stretch of the imagination, but they aren’t the worst that I’ve ever seen.  “Oh but you can see the wires.”  Is that really your argument that this is the worst movie ever?  How about the modern movies where it is painfully obvious that something is CG?  Isn’t that the same as seeing a wire?  To me it is.  So the effects are bad, but there are a whole lot worse out there.

What can be said about Plan 9 that hasn’t been said before?  How about it’s not as bad as everyone makes it out to be?  Yes it is a bad movie and the acting, effects and overall sets are pretty rotten, but I’ve seen a whole lot worse that has come out before and after Plan 9.  I think a lot of it comes with the “awards” shows that dubbed it the worst and then toss in the Tim Burton movie Ed Wood and that made Plan 9 look even worse.  It’s like an urban legend where it started off as a bad movie but through word of mouth and some bad reviews it all of a sudden turned into the worst movie ever made.  I’ll just name five movies that I find worse than Plan 9, and these movies should have learned from past mistakes of other directors but they failed to.  If you can sit through these movies and think that they are better than Plan 9, there must be something wrong with you.  In no particular order, Vapid Shallow Models Must Die, Nights And Weekends, The Beast Of Yucca Flats, Grace and anything by Michael Bay (directed by or produced by).  You know what?  The problem is that there are always going to be fans for any movie (somehow Funny Games got an American remake) so saying that these movies are worse is really just a matter of opinion.  So I am challenging anyone out there that thinks that this is the worst movie ever.  YOU make your own movie (full length not a five minute short), written by you (so no remakes or taking it from a short story/novel) and with an almost nonexistent budget and send it to me.  If you can do a better job I will admit that Plan 9 is the worst movie.  The ball is now in your court.

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Sunday, March 9, 2008

Beautiful isn't it! This is the March giveaway Jo posted on her blog. I was delighted to have been selected as the winner as I have admired Jo's embroidery and work very much. Her blog is one of my favorites and I check her site frequently. I will be delighted to own a sample of her work which is great inspiration to me.

Jo has perfected lots of fun stitches in this postcard including her beautiful bullion roses and Drizzle stitch on the fan. I recall how frustrated I was doing this bullion stitch for the first time back in August 2007 when I registered for my first Crazy Patch Class. But I LOVED the work and still recall how I redid my entire first block because the lace border I had inserted on my second seam was upside down. Why does perfection haunt me so?
Amazingly I found a great online Bullion Stitch Video Tutorial which was very helpful. What would I ever do without all the wonderful friends and advice I find online. I appreciate all you bloggers so very much.

Thank you to all of you for making my day!

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Sweet potatoes

Sweet potatoes

Who says just because it’s fall that you have to put away your grill? Introduce some of fall’s signature foods onto your grill with this new way to eat a sweet potato!

2 Large Sweet Potatoes (cleaned and wedged)
¼ c Olive Oil
Sea Salt
½ c Maple Syrup
¼ c Soy Sauce (low sodium if possible)
2 T Dark Brown Sugar

  1. Preheat grill to 400 degrees
  2. Pour olive oil into a small bowl (use a Tupperware container with lid as we are going to use remaining oil later). Brush all sweet potato wedges lightly and place on grill towards perimeter of grill (try not to put potatoes directly over heat source or they will burn). Turn wedges about 15-20 minutes into cooking so grill marks will be on both sides of the wedges.
  3. While potatoes are cooking, combine remaining olive oil and soy sauce in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil and then add in maple syrup. Reduce heat to medium and then add brown sugar. When sugar is dissolved, reduce heat to simmer and continue to stir while sauce reduces (must continue to stir or sauce will burn). When sauce is reduced, remove from heat and place in Tupperware container.
  4. Check to see that potatoes are crispy on the outside and mealy and tender inside. Remove from heat and then place in container. Cover container and shake wedges to ensure they are covered in glaze. Remove from container and lightly sprinkle with sea salt.


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Sarah Palin and Donald Trump sat down for pizza at Famous Famiglia in Manhattan on May 31, 2011. New York Daily News Archive NY Daily News via Getty Images

Donald Trump says he’d put Sarah Palin in the White House

Jul 29, 2015

Sarah Palin's radio channel scored a high-profile guest on Tuesday—and then Palin scored a high-profile endorsement.

Donald Trump went on "The Palin Update," a program on the former Alaska governor's radio channel, Mama Grizzly Radio. The show's host, Kevin Scholla, asked Trump whether, in the event that he is elected president, he would consider seeking advice from Palin or perhaps even tapping her for a cabinet position.

"If there is a Trump administration," Scholla asked, "could you see maybe picking up the phone, giving the governor a call, picking her brain on some things, or perhaps having her along in some official capacity?"

Trump's answer already has political blogs like Wonkette and Politico buzzing. He gave an emphatic yes:

I would love that because she really is somebody that knows what’s happening, and she’s a special person. She’s really a special person. And I think people know that... she’s got a following that’s unbelievable. I still have people saying, “Oh, get Sarah’s support, get Sarah’s support!” No matter where I go, everybody loves her.

Maybe not "everybody." In June, Fox News decided not to renew Palin's TV contract. But Trump said that Palin looks especially strong to him when he considers the other Republican presidential candidates at the moment:

She has a tremendously loyal group of people out there for her, and I think now maybe more so than ever... I’m looking at some of these candidates. They’re weak, they’re ineffective... The Sarah Palin kind of strength, you just don’t see much of it anymore.

For her part, Palin has praised Trump in the past. And although Trump has courted controversy over a range of his recent comments on topics from Mexican immigrants to John McCain's war record, he's leading all GOP candidates in major polls.

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Pinterest Palette & Topshop clothing recommendations

Pinterest’s new plan to get you to buy more clothes online

Sep 16, 2015

Online bulletin board Pinterest is a go-to site for fashion ideas. In fact, its users save more than 24 million fashion photos and dream outfits daily.

On Wednesday, Pinterest started testing a new way for its users to get more personalized fashion recommendations off of it website. Their color preferences, as established on Pinterest, can travel with them as they shop online.

Visitors to Topshop, a UK online clothing retailer, will be able to log in with their Pinterest account, if they have one. The site can then recommend clothes to them in colors based on what the user most often pins on Pinterest.

For example, if a shopper's Pinterest palette centers around pink, Topshop will recommend clothing and accessories in that color. The obvious goal with the services, called Pinterest Palette, is to show shoppers clothes that they are more likely to buy.

The test is one more example of how Pinterest is trying to turn its popular website into a business. Until lately, it passed on trying to make money. But more recently, the company has ramped up advertising, and introduced buy buttons to the site, allowing user to buy items directly from Pinterest.

Pinterest is trying to use the huge amount of data it collects about users, such as their likes and pins, and make it useful for online retailers. For now, Pinterest is not collecting revenue from the experiment with Topshop, according to Pinterest.

The partnership will also extend to Topshop's retail stores. Topshop will provide iPads for customers in stores to log into Pinterest and pull up their palette, print it out, and use it while they shop.

At Topshop's flagship store in London, the retailer's personal shopping team will serve as expert color advisors and tailor their styling recommendations to a customer's own Pinterest color spectrum.

The color matching feature is similar in a lot of ways to fashion startup Polyvore, which Yahoo acquired in July. Polyvore lets people create a collage of clothes, handbags, and shoes and will then recommend other items based on the colors and style of the collages.

Polyvore also touts its "taste graph" and its ability to mine all data from user activity to recommend them items (ideally to purchase).

In the future, Pinterest could start pushing more partnerships that let pinners use the items they pinned on other retail sites to get more personalized recommendations of clothes to buy. The question is whether retailers, who often dislike sharing their sales information, will cooperate.

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It mentions using the 'tune' value for control/midi purposes but I still can't figure it out.

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April 2004 - what's new

And so starts another month of cold weather in New Jersey. Bees are ordered and coming in 2 weeks - I had to delay the receiving date because it's too cold to ship them and have them laying around a post office somewhere local awaiting pickup or delivery.

A photo showing my basic photography equipment and some hive supplies.

What I don't need is for the bees to be shocked during delivery: excessive heat or cold or carbon monoxide poisoning from the mail truck. Direct sun exposure or mishandling or being smothered by other mail packages. Many different scenarios could cause the bees to be damage. If you have a claim, it is with the postal service, not the shipping farm.

The bees are certified healthy for shipping and should arrive within a few days healthy. If you have excessively dead or sickly bees, file a damage claim with the post office and notify the farm of the situation. Note: A huge part of the bees cost is shipping charges.

The forum has grown though, picking up to date 55 members with an amazing 820 posts. That says a lot about the membership and the prolific writings of our moderators. As the Summer nears I can only imagine how many members we will have and just think of the content that we will have.

A quick look at the Forum Main Page and you will see many new categories have been added. I honestly think we have something for everyone now - but I'm sure that members and guests will come up with great new ideas that will find their way here.

I've also created a new feature where I post emails (anonymously) to the EMAIL BRAINSTORMING FORUM where members can supply answers to questions sent to me via email. Often, I receive questions that are just NOT applicable to my beekeeping history - meanwhile we have members who have tackled similar issues many times, so why not let the membership assist when helping others is a MAJOR part of this and any forum!

I simply copy the email question into the email forum, then send a link to the person who sent the original email. They only need to click on the link (like tracking a package in route) and it takes them right to their own page on the forum where (hopefully) members reply and assist them in some helpful fashion. It's a great feature and I think it will really benefit the emailer better than my single minded and sometimes inexperienced view. I never like to guess and often researching is something that the originator could do themselves - so why not use the educated resources of this forum to assist them!

April 1, 2004

We heard from Al (our forum Moderator Trail Twister) that his daughter gave birth to a healthy and absolutely beautiful baby boy - photos surely to follow. Congratulations to him and his entire family, our blessing is with them in this joyous time.

I also started a 6 day weekend (if that makes any sense - lol) but I'm off until NEXT Tuesday at 3pm when I start 5 3-11 shifts. That gives me a great deal of time to work on this page, the website and the forum. Lately the forum has taken up a lot of my time, but I enjoy every minute of it. The brainstorming part is the most fun - coming up with new and creative ideas to make this the most unique, educational and entertaining website is a goal of mine.

I will add that as time goes on (and with the help of the moderators) the forum is pretty much taking care of itself. Ideally, the Admin. and Mods. should do mostly simple tasks; move improperly posted topics to their proper place, correct some spelling errors if the errors make the post confusing (I'm a bit compulsive about spelling but I leave other's content alone) and of course we are here to assist when possible with answering questions and also FLAGGING topics in poor taste or if profane.

The last two are really not an issue in this forum - Beekeepers (or better stated the membership here) are great people, all helpful and most are very active in posting and assisting when they can. I have NEVER had to delete a post or boot a member and hope that I never have to. Having to use administrative powers is NOT enjoyable, but necessary if someone got a personal grudge going or a guest came in with a serious attitude.

I spent a good part of the rest of the day at Motor Vehicle trying to get my Drivers License renewed. New Jersey is implementing the NAtion's toughest requirements for a license - they have a points system that you must meet in order to obtain your renewal. A MUST is a township/city issued birth certificate (the hospital version with the foot prints is NOT a legal document and is not allowed) and then you need additional forms of both photo and addressed proof of residence.

After going to the town of my birth to get a new certificate of birth (mine and Tracey's were stolen years ago while away on a cruise to Mexico) I then went back to motor Vehicle and easily got a renewal. The crazy part is that in ONE MONTH a new "Impossible to duplicate" digital version of the drivers license will be available - I can 1) use this renewed on for 4 years and then get the digital or 2) trade this one in and for $11 I can get the digital license. Either way, I'll need to show all the same proof again, even though I had to show it to get THIS one - ugh.

April 2, 2004

Another rainy (at least not snowy) cold and damp day in the Garden State. I'm enjoying the day after keeping an appointment with the Doctor I don't like and making appointments for further testing to find out why I am getting these crippling headaches I get. Lately, I have had serious migraines that are lasting 2 to 3 days. They are blinding and make the simplest of tasks impossible. I'll keep you filled in on how the CT scan goes, etc..

I started the motorhome and ran both the engine and generator for about 10 minutes. I plugged the shore-power (240v/50amp) power back in and started the refrigerator - we needed the freezer space after Tracey went on a supermarket frenzy.

This my Bus Logo from different RV Forums

It's great to get out in "The Bus" as we call it. All last Summer from July on we spent a great deal of time out there, hanging out, attaching DVDs, inviting guests over and it was just a fun place to hang. I have some pretty good pics at the link I listed above, although I took those when the place was a bit messy and Tracey would kick my butt if she knew I put them on-line.

I have a bunch of great photos in my notebook PC, but I haven't gotten around to uploading them to the server yet, so for now: forgive the mess - lol. The neatest feature is the powered slides which greatly increase the living space of the Bus when it is parked. But even when the slides are in for traveling, you still have an incredible amount of room to maneuver around and plenty of room to relax while traveling without having to extend the slides.

I really felt bad when we got the Bus because I had to remove 3 peach trees, a rose-o-sharon and a few swamp maples. All just to swing the Bus into the yard. I'm jealous (one of my many human flaws) of the members in the forum who have literally DOZENS of acres, meanwhile Beemaster lives on a 50'x105' lot in the middle of town. This brings me to an actual beekeeping point - bout time huh?

NOTE: All Beekeeping INFO in this Beemaster's Logbook will be in DARK RED TEXT [/b]- thus making it really easy for you to find the stuff within my ramblings. I hope that makes it easy, I have done that before in my Online Logbook, so it should familiar to many of you.

I made my first of many local trips to my drivable foliage areas that I know are constant food sources for my honeybees. I have many other locations that I can access by nature trails using MY GPS www.beemaster.com/beebbs/viewtopic.php?t=64 which takes me right to the exact spots of DOZENS of pockets of pollen and nectar sites. If you have NEVER used a GPS, I really suggest borrowing one from a friend and giving it a try. Read the section I linked above to get an idea of how Beekeeping and GPS's go together like peanut butter and jelly!

So I went to the cranberry bog near the back entrance of Navy Lakehurst - a sizable flooded field owned and operated by Ocean Spray (so I understand) and I was happy to see they had the final Winter Flooding in full swing. The next step is to drain the water and set the plants into blossom mode. Now, I don't know the details, but I do know that in resent years the managers HAVE NOT brought migratory bees (honeybees shipped from Florida by truck mainly) to pollinate the bog. That leaves this huge source of pollen and later source of nectar for my bees - it's about 3/4 miles from me as the bee fly's!

I then checked out the garden center 1/4 mile away and they were getting ready for the Mums and other Spring time sales and soon they will be ready for pollination too.

This a view of Lake Horicon in Summer.

I then went to Lake Horicon, also known as Lakehurst Lake (about 1/2 mile away) where the borough recently drained the lake to kill off the heavy "seaweed" like water plants using the cold of Winter as the killer - it actually works very well. Soon enough, lily pads will be floating to the top and as the warmth of mid to late Spring arrives beautiful white flowers will cover acres of hidden areas of the lake, giving another great source of food for my bees.

So everything is ready for the arrival of my packaged bees in under two weeks. The trees of Main Street (the closest source of pollen to my hives) are about a month from blooming, so I have plenty of time and lots of food for my two hives I plan to start up this season.

So that's it for today, unless I get energetic later tonight - but chances are I'll be working elsewhere in the forum. Some days are banner days with dozens of posts and some really great brain-teaser questions. I'm now searching through  some resent emails that I think could easily make it to the new Email Brainstorming Forum and I really think the originators will get a kick out of seeing their post anonymously posted and replied to by members from around the globe.

April 3, 2004

I was up really late last night, talking with Beth about different stuff, mostly photos and web pages - meanwhile I finally got a chance to get some images uploaded to my website to finish off two of my travel pages. I got the Blue Ridge Parkway Trip done last night and then finally got the Lake George, NY Trip finished off this morning.

this image from the Blue Ridge Parkway Page

It's still raining here and probably will be all weekend long. The weather folks say that there is a huge weather mass that is just rotating above us like a huge powerless hurricane. Hopefully it will be out by Tuesday (today is Saturday for those counting) and maybe we'll actually get some of that Spring weather that other people keep telling me about!

Today I am going to open up the slides and make the bus seem ready for the Season. I think it's more of a mental thing (Beth would say that I'm a mental thing) but at least she finds me funny - lol. I mention Beth often in here, she does read this logbook as I hope many others do - although in reality I would hope that anyone keeping a journal or diary or logbook (or whatever you call it) is kept for their own behalf - being able to look back to a given day and remember in detail what happened that day is always a great way to recall both special and ordinary moments in your life.

This out the bus view near Lake George, NY

For me, it is a necessity - after having Spinal Meningitis I lost a lot of my short term memory and this log includes a lot of information to help me recall my day to day events. It's good therapy to actually write it  "that suppose to reinforce the memory process" and it also keeps some people coming back to see what's new in Beemaster's life.

I'm enjoying the digital logbook this season especially - having it here in the forum is a great way to update it without the need to constantly upload and make web page changes. This is just a click or two and the page is update. The best part of course is that it NOW is available to the SEARCH FEATURE in the forum that I hope you all use whenever you can not find something that you are looking for.

Without a doubt, it is the most powerful feature in the forum software and making use of it will greatly assist you in finding the MOST INFORMATION about any topic that you are interested in. At the top right side of this and EVERY PAGE in the forum you will see the SEARCH OPTION - it has a good help feature which explains how to quickly narrow your search and within seconds you will have detailed listing to any topic found on the forum - then you simply click and it takes you to the post or article and EVEN highlights the word (or words) you searched for.

April 4, 2004

Just spent the last hour dealing with paramedics as they took my mom off to the hospital. She is a very sickly lady, who I rarely talk about (at her request) but the last few years has been tough with a triple Bypass followed by a lung removal several months later. She has diabetes and many other complicating health issues and at 67 years of age, all these problems have taken their toll on her.

Early this morning she started having tremors and extreme trouble breathing, she is fully oxygen dependent at 4 leters per minute and even that wasn't helping her this morning. She can not breath on room air more than a few minutes and she has an oxygen concentrating machine that "makes air" for her to breath 24/7. But even cranked up to the max 6.5 leters per minute she wasn't getting enough oxygen to breath comfortably.

So she is now at the local hospital where I will visit as soon as emergency gets her settled in and examined - what they do not need is me in their way. For those of you who are believers in prayer, I ask that you think of her in these difficult days. Thank you. I promise to keep you updated since I mentioned this.

On to lighter notes, I was talking with Beth until about 3am after I had fallen asleep earlier and awoke at 1am. We talked about lots of things, but we were speaking about the forum and even joking about the many images (including the TOILET SHOT) on my updated Bus page at www.beemaster.com/bus.html - I mentioned that I had just seen a TV show on the home and garden channel which showed various ranging RVs from pop-ups to floating Class As (bus style) that sold for $1.6 million  and NOT A SINGLE UNIT showed the actual toilet.

Now I know that seems a bit foolish, but it goes beyond that. When we searched for a motorhome by order brochures through the Internet we received about a hundred beautiful booklets and again NOT A SINGLE SHOT of the toilet area. Do RVers (other than us) go in buckets and toss it out the window at 60mph on the Inter-state?

I like ours, it's a separate room, away from the sink and shower area and  all three "bathroom features" are centrally place between the bedroom and living area. There are solid wood pocket doors that also enclose the bathroom from both the front and rear areas, giving the user the ultimate in privacy.

If you checkout the link above to the Bus page, you will see 21 all new photos that I took just yesterday and a complete listing of features that the bus has. If you ever have a desire for full-time RVing, there is nothing like a motorcoach - pulling a car is practically a non-issue because it easily trails behind the bus and you can watch it in the ceiling mounted monitor connected to a live video cam at the center rear of the bus.

Sorry it's turned off, but here is the backup monitor

This "Backup Cam" as it is often called is perfect for watching the tow car, but also great for assisting your mirror views when changing lanes. If I can see a car in the monitor, I know the bus has cleared it and I can safely change lanes.

Beth is now using Netscape to work on her website - I have used Netscape since the inception of www.Beemaster.com nearly 6 years ago now. The program COMPOSER which is packaged with the Netscape Communicator Suite is all you need to make great web pages. It's not the fanciest program in town, but it is FREE and you can set it up to easily upload your pages without using separate FTP software.

I just copied my entire beekeeping course (minus the lecturing, photo gallery and website designing sections) into My Beemaster's Interactive Beekeeping Logbook Section - this Forum's main page.

The reason is SIMPLE - Now all that contents, pages and pages of material will be accessible through the SEARCH FEATURE making the entree course that much more Interactive and valuable to members and guests.

I'll be adding the photos to those pages eventually, right now though - I want the material there so that it can be available to the forum search engine and thus the membership.

April 5, 2004

Firstly, Mom is doing better, her internal thermostat is malfunctioning and her body temperature was dropping extremely low causing serious (hypothermic like conditions) over the lung and heart problems she already has - what a shame that she is so sickly. Everything else though seems to be fairly ok and there is a good chance she'll be home soon.

High temperature today was a whopping 48F with continued gail winds making it miserable out and I'll repeat myself in saying - I'm glad the bees are still in Sunny Georgia.

I did notice we hit the 60 members and 900 post mark today, although there haven't been many posts over the weekend - we still have met another milestone. Soon 1000 posts and who knows, we may see 100 members by May!

Snowzerdog (officially the FIRST MEMBER of the FORUM) I can't really count myself this time - lol, sent me a cute avatar to upload for him. Check any of his posts to see it - I'll save the surprise for your post readers.

By the way, I added many links to avatar sites which Beth found for us at this address www.beemaster.com/beebbs/viewtopic.php?t=335 so you can find one for yourself from these huge collections - please note, they are OFF SITE and many may be semi adult in nature. Beth gave some commentary about each link to help you decide whether you want to go there or not, so be careful but have fun searching for the just right avatar.

I tried to INSTALL a new chat program - it was doing some funky stuff so I aborted it - looking for any glitches now in my programs. Hopefully, nothing wrong. Talk more tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed and email if problem occur with forum.

April 6, 2004

Many of you asked how I can run a forum of this size and a website with the magnitude I have - after all 250 page and 1300  photos is a ton of space. Well last night I got a warning concerning over-usage of the space, I maxed out of my bandwidth (the available space I have to put stuff on the server where Beemaster.com is kept).

I spent nearly 3 hours trimming the site of about 30 megs of files, many images I had hosted for family and friends had to go - out dated web pages that no longer have links anywhere to be found though out the site had to go - video and audio files that I have on CD (luckily) had to go.

I made enough room for some sizable growth, as long as I keep with images that I compress good here and move MUCH of my website features (example is my cooking section at Beemaster.com) is NOW just a link to the FORUM MEMBERS RECIPE SECTION.

Sadly, I'll need to hack away at my site or increase the bandwidth eventually. The increase wouldn't be that expensive, except for the fact that I am locked into a 4 year deal - so I'd have to pay for the extra space in a lump sum (4 years additional bandwidth at about $10 a month - ugh) - now I'm not crying, just rationalizing my expenses in the forum as I do with everything else in my life.  $480 sounds reasonable for the expected space I'll need to keep both my private site and the public forum going for a very long time.

But that's a few months away - luckily I have all images backed up and if the family needs them (until now they were online family photo albums) now they will need to be CDs sent to them as gifts. I really hacked though - almost accidentally wiped out my entire beekeeping course at the click of a mouse - FTP MANAGEMENT is NOT for the faint at heart. Of course (I hope) as you will see, I didn't kill anything, and hopefully it is all still there AS IS THIS FORUM :!:

Often the time factor is the tough part. As much as I enjoy all this stuff, I find myself sitting in front of the keyboard some days 6 to 9 hours when I'm not at work - and brainstorming on paper when I am. There is a lot to this, the logbook, the administrative end of the forum is complex although very interesting to learn - I've gotten VERY GOOD at using the control panel - allowing certain users access to areas that the guests, embers and even moderators are NOT allowed.

I have been thinking about a MEMBERS logbook (journal section) I would love some feedback on that and I am starting a poll to see who would be interested in that feature. Right now, several moderators and me have an online journal available - and with 60 members now, it would be interesting having journals available for them also.

Whether public or totally private - they could (using the same features as we use here in the forum) keep track of their entire beekeeping season or other hobbies. The degree of access that I can mandate to members is quite impressive and allowing them to having a digital log of their own would be a real asset to the forum.

Image of the Day is a diagram of the internal workings of the worker honeybee. Understanding the complexity of these marvelous creatures can open your eye to their delicate bodies and hopefully make you think on how important it is to TAKE YOUR TIME when maneuvering the frames around when inspecting - remember SMOKE is the beekeepers best friend, but clumsy oversized gloves can be your bees worse nightmare. Just something to think about.

April 8, 2004

Major announcement today!!!

Last night I constructed a completely independent RECIPE BBS at www.beemaster.com/cookbook - if you are familiar with using this forum, then you will have no problem at all in the new cookbook BBS.

The great part is it is multi-topic unlike the Recipe Section here in the beekeeping forum. Our old recipe forum was very limited in your ability to categorize recipes, making posting and searching VERY DIFFICULT.

Now at www.beemaster.com/cookbook you can easily find a place for any recipe, hint or tip and post it or find it without long winded searching topics for a recipe that got lost in the shuffle. Trust me, the new Cookbook is REALLY REALLY NICE!

You don't need to join, but I hope you do - you can use your same username there as you do here (unless someone takes it before you do) but you do have to register like you did here - simple and free!!!

I'll be moving the recipes from this recipe forum over to the cookbook over the next few days and as I do I will delete them here. Eventually (within a week of this post update) the existing recipe section will be empty and all the great recipes will be in the new and attractive cookbook BBS.

I hope you all give it a try, whether you are a beekeeper or not, I know you eat and probably cook - so share your recipes with others from around the world.

Later same day...

I just noticed 124 people have visited THIS page so far and it's the 8th of the month - that's not bad :) I enjoy this section - much easier doing the logbook HERE in the forum than in HTML format at the Bee Course. Either way I'd enjoy doing it, but this way YOU can interact.

Of course, so far - NO ONE has written me in this section, I get more emails then I have been though. So slowly everyone will make their way to the forum where I honestly think the evolution of the site is going! I've added a few more categories to the cookbook forum - it's amazing to think of all the different categories that you can divide food into.

It looks great though and I actually have 2 members, at least one (Judy) from the Bee Forum and a mystery member who hasn't added any info about his/her self yet. It's gonna take a while to get all the recipes over into that BBS but it rules!!!

April 10, 2004

Just finished a five night stretch of 3 t0 11pm watches, and now have a two whole days off and I have a ton of updates to let you know about them.

First, cause God has to have precedence over my simple attempts of making an enjoyable website for the many thousands of visitors I get here each day.  But first the weather is breaking and Spring looks to be coming along well. I see forsythia bushes are blooming and the tulips are almost ready to open. Still got 5 days before the bees come though.

Now for the updates on Web pages and forums here at www.Beemaster.com:

First: the grand opening of Beth's "FAITHFUL HEARTS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP FORUM" at www.beemaster.com/fellowship - this Christian forum is fully functional with many topics to cover many issues that Christian s face in the world today, from peer pressure for youth, teen forums, Bible Study, living in a Christian home, and many tough issues in a world where living in Jesus image is tough when battling the negative issues in the news and in the world.

Then we have the New and Improved Cookbook Forum @ www.beemaster.com/cookbook  - a totally massive categorized place to post and share your recipes and images, talk to others about food and learn great kitchen safety tips.

Then there is the RV Forum @ www.beemaster.com/bbs that really never gets used, there are too many of these already - but mine is nice and whether it gets used or not isn't a priority to me - it is just a forum made to test software updates that I can use in the Bee-Forum and other forums hosted here.

I am hoping that Al, Trail Twister will take on his own Garden forum when he gets home from visiting with his new grandson and his other grandchild and family. I'd like to see Al build up and maintain a terrific forum that people car come to find all their gardening questions. He has a ton of information already on the Bee-forum related to gardening, but I'd like to see this moved so that it can be fully interactive an categorized for proper searching and easy posting and finding by guests and members.

April 13, 2004

Well. it HAS been a busy few days with lots of stuff happening in the Beekeeping Forum, now and forever to be called the Bee-forum just to make it easier - and to help differentiate it from all the other forums I have here at www.beemaster.com and now... I proudly present... without further ado... and without commercial interruption: Carousel Butterfly & Alleyyooper's Gardening Forum the GARDENING BBS of Al and Kare who just days ago returned from sharing the birth of their grandson and NOW they are ACTIVELY ADMINISTRATING their (rather interesting named garden forum) which already has members, avatars, a moderator and a bunch of Categories, Forums and topics!!!!

That is part of the enormous growth of this website this year - it may not be the number of visitors (I'm always tracking such things - the server gives me a great admin. panel that shows incrdible details about hits, etc.) but that isn't what the site is about - it's about people having a place to come and share ideas on different topics and it has and will evolved beyond just Beekeeping - which is fine too.

Have multi-topics isn't new to to this site of mine, I've had 30+ topics that I have covered for years. The big difference is that as the FORUMS expand the regular visitor, it also gives content that I couldn't possibly create on my own - new and varried opinions (whether I agree or not) are what makes the site unique - I think.

April 14, 2004

Here it is the LAST DAY of the first half of the Month!!! Been a long read I bet - I hope it was interesting. If you've never read the log before, then it might be different then MOST beekeeping logs. If you are looking for a professional beekeeper with countless hives, vast experience in the commercial world of beekeeping then NO WHERE ON EARTH is more entertaining and complete than Allen Dick's http://www.honeybeeworld.com/ again - the best site on the Internet for commercial interests in Bee Farming.

Here thought, you get me - lol. Ok, you get us now... and THAT is a whole lot better than just me. I hope you enjoy the forums, there are many now and please share recipes in the new Beemaster's GIANT On-Line Cookbook at www.beemaster.com/cookbook I know everyone eats, and most people cook - so you MUST have a recipes or two to share.

There is Beth's Faithful Hearts Christian Fellowship Forum at www.beemaster.com/fellowship and Al & Kare's Carousel Butterfly & Alleyyooper's Gardening Forum at www.beemaster.com/garden - and even check out the NEWEST BBS to hit my site (still in the works, but up and running) Beemaster's Vacation and Travel Forum at www.beemaster.com/vacation that's enough new stuff for the first two weeks of the month for any website host.

Bees are coming and on the NEXT PAGE you will be seeing the whole process including some great tips for installation and none of us know what the next 5 months until Fall arrives will be like. Remember too that we will be going on RV trips, maybe even visiting some Beekeepers from the forum on the road - hey... there's a whole new section someday. If only I had enough hours in the day to really go wild here - as it is, I kid you not when I say I commit at least 5 hours a day to this entire site. I hope it shows. The End.

More later - the 15th is coming soon and PAGE 2 of the Logbook will be starting.
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What a great page you posted it looks like things are doing great for you.
My bees will be here sat or sunday I'm going to put them at the urban farm
up by Dodger statium.I'm going to use the 1 gallon Quail watering bootle syestem to feed them this was in the March bee journal.I'll let you know how it goes.
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Hey Beemaster I got my bees friday.It was cold and I had no bee viel or gloves .But I put them in there new home.I put the quail watering jug the one gallon size  full of syrup on top of the frames like shown in the bee journal.The bees went right for it.I went this morning they have used a gool of syrup filled it again,I have trouble with ants and robing this has solved both.It looks like ther going to take off
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I'm following along and YOU keep posting!!! I'm glad the forum is a helpful place for you and I hope my Bee Course is too.

Get those basic tools - a smoker is the most important. Right now they have NOTHING TO PROTECT, so they aren't all that combative, but once they have brood and food, you are going to need that smoker going and use it EACH TIME you go inside that hive!!!

I'm making a NEW CATEGORY - you just made me think of it!!! Please write your adventures in there, as OTHER MEMBERS CAN. I'll call it "Members Beekeeping Logs" and just post all the neat stuff you do there - of course, always post questions and comments in the best categories you can, but for keeping a log style entry - I hope you put your stuff there so we can easily follow along!!!

Great work, talk soon!

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Well, I looked at the forum, and I couldn't find a thread on this, but while waiting for a youtube video to load, an interesting commercial came up while I was waiting...
Sailor Moon’s Ford Fusion Dream

Literally could not stop laughing and my ass off.

Turns out Ford has done a few of these, using DBZ and Metal Gear Solid too, the links are below.

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I do wish they'd do an Evangelion one though, Misato and Ford Fusion would be funny as hell...
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