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There's a Thai restaurant not far from Grandma and Grandpa's house where the food is excellent, and we'd order it more often except for one problem.
The spice level of their food is very inconsistent.
Being a south Louisiana girl, i do like me some spice, as in, Louisiana Cajun crawfish boil party in your mouth spicy, not reconsider your life choices spicy.
Most requests to this restaurant for "spicy" results in a fabulous, flavorful, and yes spicy dish.
Once in so often, however, and maybe it's the chef on duty, we ask for spicy and get blah, no spice at all.
Each weekend when i'm down there, it has me questioning whether i am willing to take the gamble, as i never know if my taste buds will be disappointed or zinging and singing.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Spice.
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While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!
More seasonal fences.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
The chickens just don't like it,
but they don't get a say,
we gather up the eggs and
we eat some every day.
But when a hen goes broody
we let her hatch them out,
as adding to our flock
never makes us pout.
This time we decided
we need some extras so,
I took them and the rooster's mad
but I'll win, watch me go!
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Angel Brian's Family of Brian's Home - Forever hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. It's time to share something for which i am thankful.
Today i am thankful we found our extra long extension cord which has been lost for years.
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Today is:
Canning Day -- get that harvest preserved! on the birth anniversary of Nicholas Appert, the French chemist who devised modern canning
Chulalongokorn Day -- Thailand (Rama V Day)
Commemoration of the Paris Peace Agreements of 1991 -- Cambodia
Day of the Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle -- Republic of Macedonia
Deepavali/Diwali(Festival of Lights) -- Hindu; Jain; Sikh (fourth day of the festival)
Goru Tihar/Goru Puja -- Day of Oxen (among most people)
Gobardhan Puja -- Day of Cowdung (among followers of Krishna)
Mha Puja -- Day of Self (among the Newar community)
Dia Nacional de la Aviacion -- Mexico (National Aviation Day)
Festival of Forgotten Gods -- so we don't offend anybody, i guess?
Festival of Selket and Ceremony of Thoth -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Liberation Day -- Libya
National Boston Cream Pie Day
National Day / Republic Day -- Hungary
National Horror Movie Day
National Mole Day -- US Chemists; from 6:02AM to 6:02PM, in honor of Avogadro's Number, 2025 theme, "MOLEassic Park"
St. John of Capistrano's Day (Patron of judges, jurists, military chaplains)
Swallows Depart San Juan Capistrano Day -- after today, in spite of what you think, the natives will tell you that bird is not a swallow
TV Talk Show Host Day -- the way some of them behave, do they deserve a day? Well, I guess everyone is good for something, even if only for being a bad example! This one is for the birth anniversary of Johnny Carson, who certainly deserves recognition
Ueno Tenjin Matsuri -- Mie, Japan (festival and parade of oni gyoretsu -- demons or ogres -- dating back to the 16th century and said to halt plague, dispel illness, and ward off bad luck; through the 25th)
Birthdays Today:
Keith Van Horn, 1975
Al Leiter, 1965
Dug Flutie, 1962
Randy Pausch, 1960
Nancy Grace, 1959
"Weird" Al Yankovic, 1959
Martin Luther King III, 1957
Dwight Yoakam, 1956
Ang Lee, 1954
Michael Crichton, 1942
Pele' 1940
Chi-Chi Rodriguez, 1934
Johnny Carson, 1925
Frank Rizzo, 1920
Gertrude Ederle, 1906
Gummo Marx, 1893
Adlai Stevenson, 1835
Nicholas Appert, 1752
Debuting/Premiering Today:
The iPod, 2001
"Shadowlands"(Play), 1989
"Pippin"(Musical), 1972
"Barefoot in the Park"(Play), 1963
Dumbo(Disney animated film), 1941
"The Fred Allen Show"(Radio), 1932
"The Squaw Man"(Play), 1914
"In Old Kentucky"(Play), 1893 (ran for 27 seasons)
"Prince Igor"(Opera), 1890
Today in History:
According to the calculations of Archbishop James Ussher and based on the Bible, Creation begins, BC4004
Second Battle of Philippi, Brutus defeated by Octavian and Marc Antony, Brutus commits suicide, BC42
The Jews of Barbados are forbidden from engaging in retail trade, 1668
A revolt is held in Haarlem after a public ban on smoking, 1690
First Jewish prayer books printed in the US, 1760
The Continental Congress approves a resolution barring blacks from the army, 1775
Failed coup against the Emperor Napoleon, 1812
The first plastic surgery is performed, in England, 1814
72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate, 1867
The New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office, 1876
The First National Horseshoe Throwing Championship is held in Kellerton, Iowa, 1915
The first North American transcontinental air service begins between New York City and Los Angeles, California, 1929
Husband and wife Dr. Carl Cori & Dr. Gerty Cori are awarded joint Nobel Prizes, 1947
An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time; only 100 were rescued, 1958
A United Nations sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria, 1973
Emperor Akihito becomes the first Emperor of Japan to stand on Chinese soil, 1992
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement, 1998
Apple unveils the iPod, 2001
The US CDC announces that, if current trends in diet and exercise continue, by 2050 1 of 3 American adults will have diabetes, 2010
To bolster their relationship, China and India sign a new border defense agreement, 2013
The world's oldest intact shipwreck, an ancient Greek vessel 2,400 years old, is found at bottom of the Black Sea by archaeologists, 2018
The world's longest sea-crossing bridge, the Hong Kong Macau Zhuhai bridge, is opened, 2018
Colombia announces the capture of it's most wanted drug lord, Dairo Antonio Usuga 'Otoniel', 2021
Superfog combined with smoke from swamp fires cause blinding conditions on Interstate 55 just outside of New Orleans, Louisiana, leading to a 158 car pile up and several deaths, 2023
Wow, I love your poem!!
ReplyDeleteThanx for the fence. Well decorated.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
That little chicken and the egg poem and image was adorable! Having worked in restaurants all my adult life- you should mention it to the owner- someone is not following the recipes it happens a lot- but the owner will be able to narrow it down to who and correct the problem.
ReplyDeleteVery funny poem, although the pic looks AI generated to me. Finding a long-lost thing is always a thankful!
ReplyDeleteI think your good spicy would be "reconsider your life choices"-spicy for me, but too little is not good either.
That is a bummer than the restaurant isn't consistent. Have you told them about the food being perfect one time and blah the next? Maybe that would help.
ReplyDeleteIt would be disappointing to go into a restaurant consistently and find that the food does not always taste the same. Love seeing how everyone is decorating down there in the Deep South for halloween.
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