Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
I'm not sleepy
and there ain't no place I'm goin' to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning,
I'll come followin' you
Take me for a trip upon
your magic swirling ship
All my senses have been stripped
And my hands can't feel to grip
And my toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin'
I'm ready to go anywhere,
I'm ready for to fade
Unto my own parade
Cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it
Nice. Makes for an easy Sunday.
Yeah, easy like sunday morning.
The only morn of the week that I don’t eat fruit or drink a V8.
Instead, eggs, or oatmeal, or my legendary monster pancake.
Today it was 2 theen slices of honey ham slapped into a buttered 8″ fry pan.
Then 2 farm fresh eggs were whipped to a froth in a bowl with a tad of water for steam, then dumped on top of that ham, then the glass lid applied.
The waiting is the hardest part, as Tom Petty used to say.
So I do some kitchen clean up other little nuffins then it time for the next step. Salt, peppa, and a sprinkling dehydrated minced chives and lastly, a slab of Havarty cheese. Cut the heat, install the lid and do the Tom Petty again. Meanwhile the Pfalzgraff Yorktown plate goes in the micro for 30 seconds. By then that havarty has turned to lava and my teefs is salivatin’.
Plate it up and head for the living room. It’s 8:45am and that old childhood favorite, “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” is playing on METV and I’m 7 years old all over again.
I install my boots, grab that plate, then fall under the spell of Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler as the lure a Messican Jaguar (el Tigre) into a net and consume my self made epicurean delight.
Try an episode for yourself, though not the el tigre one:
https://www.mutualofomaha.com/wild-kingdom/video/marlin-perkins-wrestles-an-anaconda
BTW, have em YOUR way.
I won’t eat again today until supper.
Nothing but water and a mud about 2pm.
Ghost, you are an inspiration. Love to see one of your pancakes.
I once lived in the Southwest USA down in the Sonoran desert. All the homes had xeriscape front yards. Mine had rock mulch and scattered bushes, cacti and an acacia tree, with drip irrigation. Every spring the small native grass would spring up between the rocks and live its short life before drying out and scattering next year’s seed. I just left the dried stalks in place, hoping to maximize the seed bank. I thought the fuzz of the dried stalks improved the look of the bleak rockscape, putting a golden carpet over the grey and brown. Every year I was there, there was more and more grass covering the rocks as spring turned to summer. Unfortunately the stupid Homeowners Association people always came by and nagged me to pull up the “weeds”. It wasn’t worth fighting them the ignorant dolts. Some people just don’t recognize natural beauty and ecosystem diversity, they think a field of bare landscaping rocks is prettier than a (curated) ecosystem of native plants. I always pulled up all the true weeds, just not the grass. I would hold out as long as I could, then one Saturday each year got down on my knees and pulled out/knocked down the dried grass. A sad day.
People in charge can be such a**holes.