A little bit of fluff

Today is Caloundra show day. Thousands of school kids have taken the day off or been given the day off.

A bit of advice to the young girl who got on the bus at Aroona this morning. If you have to wear very, very tight jeans, pull the fly up - or wear panties.

I don't mind a bit of fluff to brighten my day but some may get upset LOL.

My own little bit of fluff. Home alone. One hundred bottles of home brew and one bottle of hair dye.
It's as close to pink as I could get it. It's bloody purple, but with my grey hair as a base comes out an off purpley sort of pink. Dyed my hair because SWMBO has cancer and every where you look someone is doing something pink for caner.

Until she gets home and lets fly. My god. What a tirade. What a temper. What a carry on.

Can't whinge. Can't imagine what it's like. All I can do is duck whatever is thrown and try to emanate love.

home alone

SWMBO:She Who Must Be Obeyed, is away in Melbourne at the moment and I'm here by myself, on my lonesome, alone, with no one else, single, singular, only.

During the week she has been gone I've had to write two assignments for university, yep, old bloke, still studying; cook for myself (do that very well LOL); wash; iron; vacuum; clean; tidy; make beds; feed the animals. In fact be a shiela. The little black dress is a bit tight, but looks good on me. ROFLMAO.

Hats off to women who do so much with so little thanks. And I thought I was almost pulling my weight(not when I'm alone, when she's here) and there's so much that crook little woman that I love does which doesn't get noticed and doesn't get thanked.

Come home and be loved. And come home and let me do more.

I am not trusted with a vacuum, or a dusting thingy, or a damp cloth, or a shining mit, or a paper towel, but i should be just so I can help. When I miss something or stuff up don't just say typical male, can't clean. Encourage, cajole, teach and it might just end up being done to your liking.

So. Should more men be put in a little black dress and encouraged to do more around the house?

Recipes = babaganoosh, guacamole, pickled capsicum

babaganoosh - - one egg plant about 500gm is excellent
two tablespoons of tahini
large handfull of parsley - the more the merrier - chopped either rough or fine
pepper cracked black - about half a teaspoon
oil - 1/4 cup - less if it gets to oily
4 cloves or four teapsooons of crushed garlic
juice of one lemon


cut egg plant in half

oil both sides

shove under gorilla until the white side starts to brown a little and then turn over and cook the skin side until it bubbles and goes blacker - try not to burn

peel the egg plant - be very careful - its very hot - - I use the griller tray to keep them on and slice into the skin and then peel with tongs -

use a kitchen wand or blender to mulch everything together - adding the oil to taste - a thick paste will be the end result

eat on anything, hot buttery otast is an extravagent way to do it LOL

Gucamole

3 large ripe avacados
pepper - about half a teaspoon of cracked
handful of chives chopped
small bunch of mint chopped
juice of one lemon
teapsoon of garlic

peel avacados and douse with lemon juice to stop them browning
mulch everything with a kitchen whizz or blender

again eating on hot buttery toast is extravagant

pickled capsicum
1.5kg capsicum - cored, de-seeded and sliced into 1cm wide strips
cover with boiling water and let sit for three - four minutes

vinegar solution
two cups vinegar, 2 cups water, 2 cups sugar - any variety of vinegar or sugar, just what's available - I use cider vinegar and raw sugar and it's very nice
seasoning for vinegar - just about anything you like, I used a teaspoon of szechuan pepper cracked, half a dozen cloves, half a dozen black peppercorns, half a dozen green peppercorns and a stick of cinamon
add all to a pan and bring to the boil making sure sugar is dissolved. Boil for 10-15 minutes.

Drain and pack the capsicum slices into a sterilised jar and pour vinegar sollution over it making sure there's some of the sollution over the top of the capsicums.
Store in the fridge once its cool - and eat whenever you want. The longer you leave it the more the spices get into the capscum slices.

All done by little old (male) me this week.

And I got the difference between babaganoosh and guacamole sorted LOL

Boot scooting music

Happily watching ABC2 on Sunday arvo because Deep Purple were on - playing in the Montreau festival.

Turned the telly up as high as it could go when someone came on playing the mouth harp.

SWMBO came in from having a fagapoofaroo asking why I was listening to boot scooting music. Because someone was playing a harmonica she thought it was automatically boot scooting.

ROFLMAO Love the woman and maybe some day she will be educated into the ways of deep Purple.. LOLOLOLOLOLOL

little red rooster

the boss chicken of our chook run was nicknamed rooster - because she bossed everyone around like a real rooster would.

and then she started attacking the young chickens. wasn't too bad when the baby chickens had a real rooster as part of their foursome, but when we gave him to a hinterland farm all hell broke loose. "Rooster" - the hen we called rooster - started taking lumps out of the younguns. and then scraping around to find the bits with blood on them and gorging herself.

she was cooked.

firstly baked and was delicious when hot, but the meat toughened up quickly as the bird cooled down.
so she was turned into a pie and what a scrumptious pie it ended up being, even better on day two when all of the jelly had set the pie into a wonderful chunky, thick chicken and veg combo.

She Who Must Be Obeyed was I think a bit shocked that I topped the bird and then actually ate her. But after tasting how good the roast and pie was she relented.

Little rooster and other birds

Our two Indian runner ducks turned into annoying loud guard ducks that were forever "barking" at the wandering cats around our suburb. They'd start at sunrise and go on and on and on and on.

So they were advertised and sent to a property in the hinterland.

In late March I got four week old chicks - un-sexed. One of them turned into a rooster and what a lovely bird he was. A cross between an Indian game and a Sussex light. A beautiful temperament for a rooster, but because we live in sound proofed, sterile Caloundra we can't have a rooster in the back garden.

So into the paper he went, advertised as only going to a home that would give him a chance at the good life. He was picked up today and is off to Palmwoods. SWMBO is upset, he was her favourite, but it was either out to a property or into the pot.

Much better this way.