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Say no more. I was on it like a duck-on-a-Junebug or like flies-on-'tater-salad.
It was a LOT faster to get changed into my gym-togs. I slipped out of my sandals and slid my feet into these fox-fur (faux-fur) lined bad-boys. Camo shorts and a torn tee-shirt completed my redneck-chic ensemble...which coincidentally is the same redneck chic I sport outside of the gym.
I may have a future as a fashion "influencer".
Sadly, I was unable to find the Tahini at the local grocery store so I had to make do without it.
Count me as a skeptic regarding most "ethnic" cooking. Folks made-do with what was in-season and what was abundant. It was an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of flavors that changed week-by-week...sometimes day-by-day.
I have to confess that I really like the way even a few plants of dill make the garden smell.
A fun video
It amazes some people that places like this still exist in the United States east of the Mississippi River. The Big Two-Hearted River was the title of an Ernest Hemingway short-story. It is a real river in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It is not big.
This is reader CoyoteKen's stomping grounds.
Bonus images
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| Chinese Cabbage seedlings cv. "Citrus". Surprisingly, unmolested by the ducks. |
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| A cucumber in a wheelbarrow. I ran out of hands and parked the cuke in the wheelbarrow. Then, I realized it was photogenic, returned and snapped the photo. |
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| The tomatoes on the right side of the frame were sold to me as Rose de Bern. RdB is an 80 day tomato that is very large, round an pink. I was deceived! That cannot be RdB. |
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| On the other hand, the seeds I saved from a winter squash I purchased last fall is over-performing. |
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| It is an article of faith in the prepper community that "you never want to become a refugee". |
The backstory is that this man, a software engineer from San Francisco, Ca, convinced himself that he was in mortal danger in "Trump's America". Because emigrating in the ordinary fashion requires paperwork and takes many months to execute, he opted to emigrate to the Netherlands (a bastion of Progressive ideals) as a political refugee because it was expedient.
He was distressed to find himself interred with hundreds of other undocumented refugees who had also chosen the most expeditious path. Many of his fellow refugees were from Islamic countries where the norm is to stone LGBT+ people, throw them off of buildings or to glue random body orifices shut with super-glue.
The fine Progressive of the Netherlands understand this and he is safe as long as he stays within his room but he cannot safely venture outside of the building to buy groceries or travel to the US embassy.
In retrospect, he determined that he was poorly calibrated when he decided that he was oppressed when he lived in San Francisco, California (a notoriously conservative metro region) making +$150k per year and he wants to come back to the United States.
Hemingway wrote his story about a time along the Fox River that flows by Seney but he named it The Big Two Hearted River which is about 40 miles northeast of there. Just a better name for the story. ---ken
ReplyDeleteUmmm... the 'custom' footwear is actually flat soled weightlifting shoes (expensive too)!
ReplyDeleteSigh! Story of my life. Champaign tastes and an Alka-seltzer budget.
DeleteI was also looking at stage-prop ankle-monitors. Wirecutter says that they are real conversation starters. Those suckers cost almost $50.
Adidas Sambas (indoor soccer trainers) make great weightlifting shoes, as do good old canvas Chuck Taylor’s. They are flat-soled and have good grip, are relatively inexpensive and don’t make you look like Mike Lindell on a bender wearing slippers….
DeleteERJ - Like you, my budget does not run to fancy weight lifting shoes ( to Old NFO's point above, they can be expensive). I did not know about Seething's shoes; my problem is that I have quite feet and can scarcely find shoes to fit them, let alone specialty shoes. Alas, I will have to make do with my "regular" footwear.
ReplyDeleteThe hardcore, competitive lifters in my gym usual do at least the dead’s and squats barefoot, or with only socks on. Gives you better balance than wobbling around on super-cushioned shoes, and better grip. The Chuck Conner’s are too narrow in the toe box for me. I’ve done barefoot but I love using my Lem’s Primal Zen shoes. They have a very wide toe box area, some but minimal cushioning, and a secure fit. Not the cheapest but around Black Friday Lem’s has 25% off.
ReplyDeleteI liked the Two Hearted River video. There is a fellow Michigander named Woodsy, on YT, she canoes the UP and camps. Also a young man on YT, post 10. He has some sort of certification to clear clogs in drain pipes and culverts, and from beaver dams. Interesting to watch him "play in the water". He also does a bit of camping and stealth camping.
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