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Short Christmas List

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One thing, here it is: Well, two things, I'd like 2 of these for new living room. In leather por favor. Check w/ me about color. Maybe a pale blue. They'd be perfect w/ the floor in there. The Peel

Best Turkey Ever

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The recipe that I think makes the best ever T'day turkey was first in House Beautiful about 20 yrs ago. This is a recipe from Gene Hovis--Uptown down Home Cookbook. Gene Hovis was a black man from the Carolinas originally and made it to top social circles in New York by way of food. His obit is here in NYT It is the best turkey I know of. Marinate is : 2 cups soy sauce 2 bay leaves crushed 6 juniper berries ( I have some nice ones from Penseys Spice) 1 tbs. dried rosemary crushed 1 cup sherry vinegar 1 cup white wine 1 cup honey fresh ground pepper 1 tbs poultry seasoning 1 lg onion chopped 3 or more cloves garlic crushed or minced Combine all marinate ingred. in lg saucepan and bring to boil for 5 min, cool. and I marinate it in a big cooking bag tied up tight around it and placed in a big bowl so I can rotate it over a day or two. Marinate at least 24 hrs, rotating bird. Remove from marinate and let reach room temp. preheat over 350 F Pat bird dry and rub w/ butter and peanut o

Couple of Quick Things

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1. Tell any school teacher that you care about to sign up for www.donorschoose.org because if Google does what it did last year (and Yahoo the year before) they send out thousands of Xmas gifts where the receiver gets to go to this site and fund a school teacher's project for $100. 2. If you use your camera to review and delete images off your camera's data card (SD, etc) one at a time while it is still storing the remaining images on the card, you shorten the life of the card. I read this on Photo.net or PC World or some reliable source, can't remember where but it was recently. 3. If you have any extra rechargable camera batteries do not store them uncharged. The life of the battery is longest if you full charge it and then store it. The charge will dwindle over time, but the battery will take more charges and last longer than if you stored it uncharged. Seems weird, but the last I bought had this warning with it.

November Notes

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I am sorry that I have no time to add amusing stuff to this blog anymore...maybe this time next year. Evey moment of my waking time is needed for stuff I have to do. Today is Sunday and I used a hose attachment to squirt water on the exterior of the new house as high as possible to see if there are any skipped or missed places in the waterproofing sealant...there are. I would wet an area dn then take a photo really fast before it evaporated. I can reference the photos tomorrow spraying from the man-lift as we have one more day before it is picked up by the rental company., We had it for 2 months this time, I probably should have bought one ! I think I have sold the crane..YEAH !! One of the equipment listing companies that is used to large dealers listing their stuff for sale, Equipment Trader, or maybe it is Machinery Trader, anyway, the first listing is free. I only needed one. They had something like 22 pieces of equip. in my category (rough terrain crane) but I got a call the firs