Peanuts ~ Wasps ~ Peach Pie Day

  

Good (warm!) 57º morning. Today there is a potential for thunderstorms, lightening, and fires. We also may get some rain. Well, "they" said so on the morning news. But it looks like more possibilities in No. Ca.

 

 

 

 

 

And I thought this was interesting... a picture from a cam in Las Vegas...

 

 

 

 

Nancy asked me about the peanut tasting. I smoked one batch for 60 min, another for 90 minutes, and the third for 2 hours. I like the 90 minute batch the best. Will let my friends try them on Thursday and let you know. Also I smoked them with mesquite, so yesterday I smoked some with apple wood. I like these too, but can't tell much difference between the apple and the mesquite.

 

I was having a bad time with whatever had bitten me on my arms and foot. Not like mosquitos. Actually the only thing that was working was taping the pennies to the spots. Then I went into town and bought some "Calagel". It works on itch and pain, poison oak/ivy, insect bites, sunburns... and is a first aid antiseptic, topical analgesic. Wow, works GREAT.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then I was out trimming the grapevines and getting them off the gate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After some trimming I had trouble getting the gate open as it seems the post may have sunk deeper and the latch was a beeotch to get open.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once open the wasps who were inside came out and one stung me! On the right hand ring finger. OUCH. YIKES.... RUN!!!!!

So........ I put some Calagel on it and pain stopped!

 

 

Then I went back out and sprayed the little buggers with wasp spray. They were not happy. Once they were driven away I had to tie the gate closed so Maggs wouldn't run out chasing Mr. Coyote or that feral cat who frequents the pasture....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I guess I'll look for a bungie cord instead of 'string'

until I can have someone take a look at the latch.

Historically this date....

1891 – Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.

1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.

1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).

1989 – Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.

1992 – Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida as a Category 5 Hurricane.

2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a Dwarf Planet.

And births this date include....

1901 – Preston Foster, American actor (d. 1970)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1902 – Carlo Gambino, Sicilian-born American mafioso (d. 1976)

 

 

 

 

1955 – Mike Huckabee, American politician, Governor/Presidential candidate

 

 

 

 

YEAH Mike!!!!

 

 

1958 – Steve Guttenberg, American actor

 

1960 – Cal Ripken, Jr., American baseball player

1965 – Marlee Matlin, American actress

 

 

 

 

All I know. Happy Wednesday. Ciao.

xo Sue-Mom-Bobo

August 24th

National Peach Pie Day