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Month: March 2012 (Page 2 of 2)

Corned Beef Hash Experiment

While Georgia has been in Grand Junction, I’ve been playing with this weblog to see if I understand how to use its features. It’s not quite as easy to use as Picasa or Google+ or Facebook, but I think I’ve got more control over the content and who can view it.  I’ve been inspired by a blogger on the motorcycle Adventure Riders forum.  He goes  by the name Radioman (I haven’t figured out exactly where the name came from). He’s in his mid 50’s, and for the last few years was a caregiver while his wife descended into Altzheimers.  After her death, he decided to do the one thing he’d wanted to do all his life – take a round-the-world motorcycle trip.  He posts updates every day or two and has created an online blog  to chronicle his adventures. He’s a very good photographer and awesome video editor:
and his theory is that if you include lots of pictures, you make an interesting weblog. So I’m trying this this morning with pictures of me constructing home-made corned beef hash.

I started with some corned beef Georgia had made a few days ago, an onion and a potato.  Thank goodness for the food processor! A few whirls, and it’s done!

Cook until done, then add one of Jen Saborn’s colorful home grown eggs in the little green egg poaching boats and enjoy:

Add a cup of coffee, and the morning newspapers (the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel in dead tree format and the Denver Post on my Kindle Fire) and I’m good to go!

So how was it? Pretty good, and a lot less salty than the stuff that comes in cans. And how long did it take me to post this? I’m not telling. But I’m retired so it doesn’t matter!!

Blogger.com, another Google product, is littered with blogs that people have started and abandoned, because it turns out that nobody cares what the author has labored on.  I’m not egotistical enough to think that this would be any different.  Nonetheless, it is a pretty good way to keep a journal of what we’re doing.  And unlike Facebook, this is entirely under my control.

Who’s  the audience for this?  You.  Me in 20 years.  And perhaps our grandchildren when it’s time to write a high school story on “Things My Grandparents Taught Me.”

You do not need to be registered to view the entries here, but if you are you can view all of the posts, including the ones which are hidden because they contain information or pictures of our grandchildren, and you can leave comments.

It is set so that Google won’t find it.  With luck.

 

March roars in like a lion

What can I say?  March roared in like a lion.  At 6:30 a.m. there was no snow at all.  By 10:30 this is what was outside:

 

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