Saturday 14th

"Tin Top in Parker County

Hell-of-a night. Unsettled Spring weather. Halcyan days of blue skys and bluer wild flowers with crashing storms and violent destruction.

After a night of terror for some in North Texas, we are left cold, kinda hung over feeling. Wind blowing from the North.

Watched the movie Brick. Try to find the soundtrack. The whole thing works so well as a piece of film. I do not know how the events and story make sense, but the filming: each scene is vivid and compelling.... maybe because of what you can't see, hear or follow. The intent is so straight and sure. Unwavering....

I made breakfast:

oatmeal plus:

cup of milk, two cups water. Bring to a boil and add:
1 cup 3 minute oats
1/2 cup brown sugar (or more)
1/2 tsp salt (or more)
4 or 5 prunes
1/2 cup raisins (or more)
1/2 cup Craisins (dried cranberries)
1 tsp cinnamin

Let come to rolling boil again then cut heat to simmer. Stir from time to time....I would have cut up an apples if I had thought of it!

Eat all for hearty breakfast.
Blue Bonnets in the snow

Equidorian Plant (and a Cheap Supper)

The Green Day Plant

Oh yes. In the jungle of equitorial Equidor, and plant was identified for the first time.

Stop and smell the GREEN DAY. A botanist from Switzerland, Dr. Jason R. Grant, just wrote to NRDC to tell them that he named a new tropical plant species after Green Day. It's called Macrocarpaea dies-viridis (dies-viridis is Latin for Green Day), and the scientific journal Harvard Papers in Botany just published an article about it! In his message, Dr. Grant says, "My students and I discovered this new species in February 2006 in Ecuador, and listened to Green Day music while driving, and in the evenings. Obviously as a botanist I am concerned with the environment, and applaud the efforts of the Natural Resources Defense Council."
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Supper tonight: money tight, I made up some pancake mix, fried a slice of balogny and warmed a bit of Monterey Pepper Jack on top and had a great supper....

Pancake mix:

2 cups all purpose flour
2 heaping tablespoons sour cream
pinch of soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/4th cup oil (corn or whatever)
1/2 cup milk
water to get desired consistancy
egg if you have one (I did not on this batch)

Mix the above, not over-mix! fry a large (7", say) pancake in a pan slicked with a little oil. Corn oil I like. Lard ok too, bacon fat etc.
remove and keep warm, while you fry gently a slice of Balogny. Turn and put a slab of Monterey Pepper Jack on top to melt slightly. Place meat and cheese on the pancake, and fold in half. "Serve", meaning EAT!!!!!! Yum. Good.

keep rest of batter in the fridge for breakfast....

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Lush wood in the desert mountains a spring-fed stream up in the Guadaloupe mountains creates a mini forest, quite lush and wonderful, Photo taked last Thanksgiving.....