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Update for our wine tasting adventure on Monday and Tuesday.

Ho ho ho, Slow Case!

For those old enough to miss SCTV Xmas specials…

A nice Christmas Eve lunch/dinner.

Merry Christmas to all ! Happy & Healthy. 🎅

Have a phenomenal Christmas. I enjoyed watching Suzy tear open her gifts!

50yo Superfly Curtis Mayfield 1972 https://album.link/i/1048472205 Example: This is a killer set of Curtis cuts for your cool Christmas.

I bought some Tequila, pepper, lime seasoned cubed beef for tacos. Once I cooked the meat, the moisture let off created a wonderful, brown seasoned liquid, that I scrambled eggs in and cooked some onion and bell pepper. Shredded some cheese and built some incredible breakfast tacos. Yum!

Buyer flaked on the Speedmaster. Thanks EBay! Anyway, I may just keep it. Obviously I didn’t need to sell it to buy the Hermes, I have just been trying to consolidate without spending any money out of my pocket. Maybe what I need is a new strap for it. As I age I become less of a bracelet person. Speaking of straps, apparently I’m not allergic to chrome tanned leather anymore, which is weird, as I had a rather strong and fairly immediate reaction. I could usually get away with wearing a chrome tanned strap for a few hours, but I would always get a rash the next day. I’m on day five of a chrome tanned alligator on my Santos, with no rash. This opens up a lot of possibilities for me, especially with the Santos with the proprietary lugs, and suggests I’ll be able to wear the Slim on the OEM Hermes strap.

Chicken Katsu salad from Starbird Chicken. Way better than this has any right to be!

Have a phenomenal day Ken!

Was: Eggrolls with Chinese hot mustard Will be: Ma Po Tofu

I made soup: chicken, beans (too many, they didn't all fit), chicken broth, celery, potatoes, various other soup vegetables, simple spices (black pepper, red pepper, dill weed, 3 green onions chopped, garlic (almost forgot -- had two helpings before I remembered to add), small can of hot jalapeños) and that's it. No oil this time. Smells even better than the previous batches, tastes friggin' delicious. One small can of hot peppers amongst all that food didn't overwhelm the other flavours, just added a nice little amped up bite to it.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays. Planned to go skiing with Yumi but the snow is too slushy so we’re binging Shining Girl instead. Sophie ate too much ham…

Dusty got his Chinese takeaway, Dusty is happy.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

106 years old already? Where did the time go! Happy birthday, Ric!

Merry Xmas!!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!

Happy belated Birthday Ken!

Merry Christmas!

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday, Ken!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday....a milestone that I hope you look back at MANY years from now, very fondly!

Happy Birthday, Ken!

Bon anniversaire Guy de Guzzi! Cheers!

Happy Birthday!

It's a big one Ken. Hope it's a great day.

Happy Birthday, 🎂🥳🎂 Ken

Hey Ken, happy birthday my friend!

Happy Birthday, Ken!

Cheers Sir Ken! Happy Birthdays -

Truff now make a variety of Truffle-based products outside of their hot sauce range, I imagine they'd be alright (I've only ever had their hot sauces and pasta sauces): https://www.truff.com/products/truff-black-truffle-oil?variant=39291221639302 https://www.truff.com/products/white-truffle-oil?variant=39932774842502 https://www.truff.com/products/truffle-salt?variant=40001193803910

Stay safe, guys. I hope the cyclone is a lot less than the forecast says.

Truffle oil is also an excellent seasoning which can easily be homemade. Virgin olive oil and a little bit of truffle, that's all you need. Use it for pasta, salads, meat...

Stay safe and warm guys

I bought truffle salt on your personal recommendation to me. Thanks a hell of a lot, as now I can't do without it! This is what I found. I have no comparisons, but really like it.

Had a nice Hanukkah celebration at my father's tonight; good amount of family was there. My son is his father's son for sure; he got me a T-Shirt as an "extended" part of my birthday gift. He said technically it's true as he would be called Progressive....smart-ass! 😄 But he's MY smart-ass and I love him!

The bomb cyclone knocked out power in Northfield (and a good chunk of the rest of Vermont). But we got our generator working on propane so we have working heat, refrigerator, stove and outlets in one room. Trying to conserve propane to just use the essentials since this is the first time we used this generator in Vermont and it is unclear how long this may last. Update: The power came back on around 6:15. The generator worked great and we were able to make a nice dinner and finish eating before power was restored. We feel pretty good about the first test.

Okay after 'on earth' I had to wrap up the rest of my Cunk saga.

Did we really invent eggnog?

Same Jim, power kicked out here around 8pm last night when a second cell went thru and hit us with some crazy gusts for a bit. Lots of trees down which made going to pick up the kids quite the adventure. Still no power here which makes this one of the longest outages we've had since we bought the house (11+hrs). Everything is ok for now, both fridges powered, house mostly heated, etc. But the temps dropped like a rock over night (from 50 to 10F) so things are going to be wickedly frozen out in the world. Here's to hoping the power comes back on soon. I'd prefer not to attempt to cook Christmas breakfast on a single burner.