I had a much smaller version of this photo, but thanks to Suzy, we now have one that's big enough to see!
*sigh* Don't you just love pumpkins?
I've never been much of a camper. Oh, I can do it, and I enjoy cooking over a fire, but the sleeping on the ground thing has never really appealed to me. Too many aches and pains for that.
Okay, here's the whopping weasel a day late.
Yeah, I know. It's Wednesday, so there should be some whopping weasels here, but Donna wanted a post of one of her favorite hunks, Lucky Vanous, and not having any objections to his hotness, I am quite willing to comply.

Here's a better look at the eyes and the buns!
Where are all the hunks?
On Monday, I just had to get out of the house, so I took the recycling to our local center. It had been piling up for quite some time, and I had a lot of it. I arrived there only to find that everyone else had decided to recycle, too, so I had to park a good distance from the door. I walked back and forth between other vehicles hauling in my stuff and was already feeling a bit irritated when, as I was dumping some old rejection letters into the bin, (yes, it was time to get rid of them!) a lady said to me, "Is that your silver car parked out there?"
This one leaves a little something to the imagination, but not a whole helluva lot.
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Submitted By: Donna Cooks
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| 1 pound ground beef 3/4 cup diced onion 3/4 cup diced celery 3/4 cup diced green bell pepper 2 cloves garlic, minced 2 (10.75 ounce) cans tomato puree 1 (15 ounce) can kidney beans with liquid 1 (15 ounce) can kidney beans, drained | 1 (15 ounce) can cannellini beans with liquid or Canned Baked Beans 1/2 tablespoon chili powder 1/2 teaspoon dried parsley 1 teaspoon salt 3/4 teaspoon dried basil 3/4 teaspoon dried oregano 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper 1/8 teaspoon hot pepper sauce |

Feel like sleeping in?
It's gotten freakin' COLD here! I just got back from the barn and my hands are numb. Not ready for this yet. The portable heaters are working overtime and I'm not convinced that it's time to fire up the woodstove, though this could be the night. I'm not sure how clean the flue is, either.
Donna sent me another one that looks pretty tasty. This would be great fun at a Halloween party!1 (11 ounce) package refrigerated breadstick dough (8 count) plain or Corn Meal


Having farmers in my family and written about a farmer in Outcast, I feel this is an important issue, whether it's erotic or not. Then again, it just might be an erotic issue . . . without cows, we would have no cowboys!My sister Marcy sent me this email, but rather than forwarding it, I'm posting it. Feel free to copy and paste it into an email to send out as you see fit.
Who knows? Maybe together we can make a difference!
I'm sure those of you who aren't in the cattle business don't understand
the issues here. But to those of us
whose living depends on the cattle market, selling cattle, raising the
best
beef possible.... This is frustrating.
This will keep us from ever stopping there again, even for a drink.
The original message is from the Texas Cattle Feeders Association
American cattle producers are very passionate about this.
McDonald's claims that there is not enough beef in the USA to support
their
restaurants. Well, we know that is not so. Our opinion is they are
looking
to save money at our expense. The sad thing of it is that the people of
the
USA are the ones who made McDonald's successful in the first place, but
we
are not good enough to provide beef.
We personally are no longer eating at McDonald's, which I am sure does
not
make an impact, but if we pass this around maybe there will be an impact
felt.
All Americans that sell cows at a livestock auction barn had to sign a
paper
stating that we do NOT EVER feed our cows any part of another cow. South
Americans are not required to do this as of yet.
McDonald's has announced that they are going to start importing much of
their beef from South America . The problem is that South Americans
aren't
under the same regulations as American beef producers, and the
regulations
they have are loosely controlled.
They can spray numerous pesticides on their pastures that have been
banned
here at home because of residues found in the beef. They can also use
various hormones and growth regulators that we can't. The American public
needs to be aware of this problem and that they may be putting themselves
at
risk from now on by eating at good old McDonald's..
American ranchers raise the highest quality beef in the world and this is
what Americans deserve to eat. Not beef from countries where quality is
loosely controlled. Therefore, I am proposing a boycott of
McDonald's until they see the light.
I'm sorry but everything is not always about the bottom line, and when it
comes to jeopardizing my family's health, that is where I draw the line.
I am sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to
at
least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) ...
and those 300 send it to at l east ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so
on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we
will
have reached over THREE MILLION consumers!
I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you?
Acting
together we can make a
difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on..
David W. Forrest, Ph.D ., PAS, Dipl.
ACAP Department of Animal Science
Texas A&M University
Phone (979) 845-3560
Fax (979) 862-3399
2471 TAMU College Station , TX 77843-2471



I should probably make you wait until next Monday for the posterior shot of Sam Devries which several of you requested after Sunday's post, but why bother? You could Google him yourselves and get there even faster than I can post them, but I do appreciate the fact that you are willing to wait. Aside from that, I have another reason for posting buns today.