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My neigbor gets feed off me and dropped off some goat chops lamb chops pork chops a whole chicken and 2 whole ducks. Now to figure out how to cook such items as I don't normally stock a petting zoo in my freezer
Let me know how you like the goat. My wife wants to breed ours & the store in town butchers deer & says they'll do goats as well. My biggest fear is that my wife will think the kids are too cute to butcher & we'll be overrun by goats.
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Yea, remember this, never let 'em name your food... then... it's family and will not be eaten.
They had the same problem in Twilight and MHI.
I grew up on a farm & we generally don't name animals raised for slaughter unless they have a distinguishing feature that just makes it too easy. I recall one heifer that we raised planning to keep her for calves. Her mom, Becky, was a love. Sara was such a pain that she wound up in the freezer. I enjoyed every burger & steak she provided, too. Sometimes it's nice having the last laugh.;-)
Jim wrote: " Her mom, Becky, was a love. Sara was such a pain that she wound up in the freezer. I enjoyed every burger & steak she provided, too. Sometimes it's nice having the last laugh. ;-)"It would be a great line in a serial killer thriller.... :-)
Just bought the March-read Harry Bosch...
Jim....LOL!I never want to end up in your freezer.
Mark wrote: "Just bought the March-read Harry Bosch..."Just finished and it was very good. I didn't realize it was written in 1992.
Eileen wrote: "Mark wrote: "Just bought the March-read Harry Bosch..."Just finished and it was very good. I didn't realize it was written in 1992."
I'll get into it just as soon as I finish the Jack Reacher I'm reading, which definitely won't survive the weekend :-)
You guys are way ahead of me. I'm just getting to Psalter ... was that last month's read? :)Peace, Seeley
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and, I'm trying to catch up on Harry Bosch myself.
Just got Harry Bosch at yesterdays audible sale 2 more hours of don Quixote first
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Roy Millan does such a good job narrating especially Sancho I'm rolling on the floor laughing
I just finished reading the first 2 installments of Black Book Part 1: The Devil's Blood by Dylan Jones. It's a monthly chapter book, not something I thought I'd get into, but I'm liking it.
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I'd sing "Man From LaMancha" right now but that would be wasted...since this is a messageboard not Youtube.
I'll have to check the audiobook out. I can identify with Don every now and then.
I'm still reading The Blood Gospel and it's a good read so far. I'm liking the Sanguine Tradition. A sexy hot villainess is always fun (and this one can be mean... but I have a feeling she's (view spoiler), and a new Sanguine lady who uses whips and wears leather! (cough) um... not that that's .. you know... um.. wow.. gotta go back to work!
(I'm liking it!)
Hugh, I'm not sure we should thank you for not singing since we've never heard you. :-)I'll be interested to hear what you guys think of Harry Bosch.
I hope the Greaney books are good, because they sure are expensive.
I've just started
by Greig Beck. It's the 4th book in his Alex Hunter series and after what happened in book 3 I was eager to get reading :-)
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Jim wrote: "I hope the Greaney books are good, because they sure are expensive."Where are you looking, Jim? I see Amazon has used copies of The Gray Man for $5 which includes shipping.
Jim wrote: "I hope the Greaney books are good, because they sure are expensive."I got it on sale.
The print in paperbacks is too small for my old eyes.
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Mine too...Thank God for Kindle! I can read again! (and audiobooks too!)
I, Curmudgeon wrote: "Jim wrote: "The print in paperbacks is too small for my old eyes."Mine too...Thank God for Kindle! I can read again! (and audiobooks too!)"
Yeah. When we're not on GR yammering away the day. Now back to the editing.
Jim, get back to editing... looking forward to your book! I like the larger print, too. But for some reason I still put my glasses on.
Ctgt wrote: "Starting The Defector 
"Whoop, whoop!!!
More seriously, Ctgt, many thanks and hope you like it :-)
Just finished
and thought Reacher got a bit too lucky at the end...And just started
my first Harry, and loving it so far. I've just been reading up on Vietnam for research for a short story. So looking forward to this one a lot, not sure how big a part it plays but the Vietnam connection between Harry and the victim must be important.
Have any of you ever looked at your book stats? I don't do it often, but I did this morning. They're here:http://www.goodreads.com/review/stats...
One of the things I find most interesting is the ability to see my overall star ratings of books. I sometimes feel I'm too negative, but a look at this page shows that I'm actually rating most books pretty high. I think that's where my ratings should be since friends here influence my choices & you all have wonderful taste (like me) of course or you wouldn't be my friends.
;-)
The pie chart that shows where books fall on my shelves is interesting, too. If you click 'Details' for each year, the comparison is interesting. It's interesting to see how big the audio book shelf is & that there's always a large slice that is 'other'.
I don't pay much attention to the number of books & none to pages which are always wrong. While it looks like I'm on a tear right now, I've been able to publicly review almost everything I've read this year & some are probably short stories. Also, it's still winter. My reading time drops considerably from here on as there is more to do outside.
Jim wrote: "Have any of you ever looked at your book stats? I don't do it often, but I did this morning. They're here:http://www.goodreads.com/review/stats...
One of the things I find most interest..."
Wow, that was depressing. I looked at your stats, then I looked at mine. You are WAAAYYY ahead of me :)
Peace, Seeley
So to carry on our food chat. I cooked some goat chops up. First time cooking or eating goat so I went simple threw some country crock in a frying pan sprinkeled some buck seasoning on them and the result was they were pretty goat damned delicious.
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Seeley, it's not a contest. Read what works for you. It's winter, so I'm able to read more right now. Soon that will stop as chores pick up. The main thing is how much fun it is to see where my reading tastes & ratings are over the years. I have been reading more mystery & audio books in the past couple. I wasn't great about keeping all the books I read on GR when I first got here. I didn't join until late 2007 & didn't really start listing most of my books until a year or so later. Now I don't list new author's books unless I can give them 4 or 5 stars, but that's only a couple of dozen a year at most. This really makes me want to be accurate in my shelving & perhaps tweak it a bit. Does looking at your own inspire you to any shelving, rating, or reading changes?
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I don't care for venison any more. Ate too much of it at one point. I do like lamb & mutton, but we can't eat it any more since Marg has stomach issues. She has to be really careful of fat. Was it fatty at all or more lean like venison?
the goat was not at all gamey tasting. I cooked it just like I would a pork chop and the taste was different but similar and i think it soaked up my buck seasoning just the same as a pork chop would. It seemed like it would be tough as I cut it yet wasn't tough in my mouth. I cannot exactly describe it other than I was pleasantly surprised and really enjoyed it.
the goat was not as lean as venison, but other than a little fat around the outside there wasn't any mixed in with the meat itself. The fat that was there wasn't as greasy as would be with pork and I have no stomach ache like I would if the fat cooked up real greasy like I can get from pork fat. I have to be careful with my stomach with fat, grease and too much seasoning and the goat did not bother me at all.
Mark wrote: "Ctgt wrote: "Starting The Defector "Whoop, whoop!!!
More seriously, Ctgt, many thanks and hope you like it :-)
Just finished
and t..."About 25% through and am really enjoying the story so far. Janac is one sadistic, messed up dude.
Jim wrote: "Seeley, it's not a contest. Read what works for you. It's winter, so I'm able to read more right now. Soon that will stop as chores pick up. The main thing is how much fun it is to see where my..."You got here in 2007? I'd not heard of GR until a few months ago. And I'd not looked at, or even thought about my stats. Thanks for showing me the page.
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http://www.goodreads.com/review/stats...
One of the things I find most interest..."
Thanks for this Jim...I'd never looked at my stats before...kinda interesting!
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Peace,
Seeley
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I just started Psalter as well!
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I finished The Blood Gospel by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell. It's good, if you ask me. It's not the raging over the top Action book that we are used to from Rollins. The scenes are more personal and menaningful to the main characters. I like the lore-building behind the Sanguinists and the Strigoi. There were some very traditional monsters here, and, some traditoin benders that more enhanced what we like to believe about Vampires and added the more modern touches without going all "Twilight" on us.
I'm a fan, but, I would say that, obviously, Rebecca Cantrell is not just a "rider" on this one anymore than Rollins is providing name only. This has some of what we expect from Rollins, but it is not like his other books. It's good, but different and, this probably leans more towards the "Horror" genre than the Action Adventure. There is a lot of what I expect is Rebecca Cantrell's style in this as well. (When I read more of her books I'll be able to say difinatively). Good, it'll get 4 stars from me. That makes at least 3 genre's Rollins writes in, Fantasy, Action Adventure, now Horror.
I'm now reading "Cruelty To Innocents by C.K. Webb and D.J. Weaver. (I think C.K. Web's a Nav-vet too). It's a good police procedural with a pair of very human and likeable protaganists (though it may turn into one protaganist as the story goes on) and is very good writing so far, though I am not fond of the cover, because I think it gives the wrong impression of the book. It's better than that.
I, Curmudgeon wrote: "I hope you guys like the Psalter as much as I did. The thread for that is still open (as it's still the reigning MA-BOM until April). I finished The Blood Gospel by James Rollins and Rebecca Ca..."
Right now, I'm on a Rollins roll (finished the Sigma novels, devouring the stand-alone novels one by one), and The Blood Gospel is on my next list. I was a bit skeptic and cautious after hearing about the vampire/horror stuff in a Rollins novel, but looks like I didn't have to. And if you ask me, a good collaboration SHOULD have the distinct touches of either authors to justify the combination (and to make it different). Thanks Curmudgeon for a very insightful review!
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I finished The Blood Gospel by James ..."
Thanks for the praise, here's a more complete review (by me)
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
I'm a fan, but, be prepared for it to be different from Sigma Force and his other stand alone novels.
Resentments are unfulfilled expectations, the fewer expectatoins you start with, the more you'll be able to enjoy this. (My thoughts anyway).
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Scott wrote: "Finished Sacred yesterday and am continuing on with Gone, Baby, Gone."Gone Baby was an excellent movie.
Scott wrote: "Finished Sacred yesterday and am continuing on with Gone, Baby, Gone."I LOVED Prayers for Rain (after Gone Baby Gone), I didn't think a mystery-thriller novel could've been THIS emotionally charged. Its one of my favorite thriller novel. Loved GBG too, and its one situation where the movie absolutely justifies the brilliance of the source.
Though I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't read the other novels of this series. To anyone who read the whole series, how are the first three? Are they as good as GBG or PfR?
I, Curmudgeon wrote: "Rizwan wrote: "I, Curmudgeon wrote: "I hope you guys like the Psalter as much as I did. The thread for that is still open (as it's still the reigning MA-BOM until April). I finished The Blood G..."
Loved your review man! I guess as I'm a big fan of supernatural fantasy (King, Butcher, Koontz, Rice, everyother good YA fantasy series etc), as well as techno action-adventures, this is hopefully a win-win for me. And I don't have any specific expectation, just want a fun book to read!
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Again, thank you for the praise. That's a great list of writers to be a fan of if you ask me. (well, I'm not the biggest King fan, but, he's undoubtedly written a lot of books that appeal to a lot of people, but) I am a big fan of Koontz older novels and I love the Butcher Dresden series.
I'd say with The Blood Gospel that "pace wise" and "depth wise" it's similar to "Lightning" by Koontz, though though pace and depth are the only matches there. It's also more like Dresden in pace and content but, as you can expect it's a much more complex plot weave with more moving parts.
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So I do. I've been trying recipes and new "stuff" for years...but I myself actually still prefer beef dishes moderately spiced (where the sweat jjjuuusssttt breaks out on your forehead). I like some heat but I want to taste the food, not just the pepper.
My daughter has me cooking mostly chicken and vegetables. Chicken fajitas (sort of) tonight with refried beans. Chicken and spices in slow cooker all day.