You Have Got To Watch This Nature Link

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Good Food This Winter

It's going to be a good winter, as my freezer is full of lean venison. About 80 pounds or so.


Venison is my favorite meat....no fat...all natural...and grain fed....can't get much beter than that.


We make jerky, steaks, chops, speddies, stew, chili and tacos with venison.


If any of you out there have never tried wild venison...then you are missing a great treat.

Something To Think About

Us older people need to learn something new every day...

 

Just to keep the grey matter tuned up.

 

Where did "Piss Poor" come from? Interesting history.

 

They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot.

 

And then once it was full it was taken and sold to the tannery...

 

if you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor".

But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot...

 

They "didn't have a pot to piss in" and were the lowest of the low.

 

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature

Isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be.

 

Here are some facts about the 1500's

 

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May,

 

And they still smelled pretty good by June.. However, since they were starting to smell,

brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor.

 

Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

 

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water.

 

The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water,

 

Then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children.

 

Last of all the babies.

 

By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.

Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water!"

 

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath.

 

It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals

(mice, bugs) lived in the roof.

 

When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof.

Hence the saying, "It's raining cats and dogs."

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.

 

This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings

 

Could mess up your nice clean bed.

 

Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection.

 

That's how canopy beds came into existence.

 

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt.

 

Hence the saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery

In the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to help keep their footing..

 

As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door,

It would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way.

Hence: a thresh hold.

 

(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)

 

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.

 

Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables

And did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers

In the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day.

 

Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while.

 

Hence the rhyme:

 

“Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old."

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.

 

When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off.

 

It was a sign of wealth that a man could, "bring home the bacon."

 

They would cut off a little to share with guests

 

And would all sit around and chew the fat.

 

Those with money had plates made of pewter.

 

Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death.

 

This happened most often with tomatoes,

so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

 

Bread was divided according to status..

 

Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle,

 

and guests got the top, or the upper crust.

 

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky.

The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days..

Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.

They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around

and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up.

 

Hence the custom; “holding a wake."

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people.

 

So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave.

 

When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive.

So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell.

 

Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be,

“saved by the bell" or was "considered a dead ringer."

 

And that's the truth.

 

Now, whoever said history was boring!!!

 

So get out there and educate someone!

Share these facts with a friend.

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering,

"What the heck happened?"

We'll be friends until we are old and senile.

Then we'll be new friends.

 

Smile, it gives your face something to do!



Thanksgiving Turkey

Shot my first turkey yesterday. Scared the shit outta everyone in the frozen food section.It was awesome! Getting old is so much fun.

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving folks



I guess I'm Not Stupid

Last year I replaced all the windows in my house with those expensive, double-pane, energy-efficient kind.

Today, I got a call from the contractor who installed them. He complained that the work had been

completed a year ago, and I still hadn't paid for them!

 

Well, just because I'm old doesn't mean I am

stupid!  So I told him just what his fast-talking sales

guy told me last year, that these windows would pay

for themselves in a year!

Hellooooo???  It's been a year, so they're paid for I told him.  There was only silence at the other end of the line, so

I finally hung up.  He never called back, so I bet he felt like

an idiot!



Gettin Older

Now that I'm older here's what I've discovered:

1. I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.

2. My wild oats have turned into prunes and all-bran.

3. I finally got my head together, and now my body is falling apart.

4. Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.

5. Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.

6. If all is not lost, where is it?

7. It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser.

8. Some days, you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.

9. I wish the buck stopped here; I sure could use a few.

10. Kids in the back seat cause accidents.

11. Accidents in the back seat cause kids.

12. It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.

13. The only time the world beats a path to your door is when you're in the bathroom.

14. If God wanted me to touch my toes, he'd have put them on my knees.

15. When I'm finally holding all the cards, why does everyone want to play chess?

16. Its not hard to meet expenses . . . they're everywhere.

17. The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

18. These days, I spend a lot of time thinking about the hereafter... I go somewhere to get something and then wonder what I'm hereafter. 

 

19. Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.

20. I'M UNABLE TO REMEMBER WHETHER I'VE SHOWED YOU THIS BEFORE..........