Backwoods Boy

I didn't buy a thing. It's the same old fecal matter every year. But at least I looked. I'll go to the beer tasting later. I drove by and the line was very long. From past experience, I know the inside of the production facility has very limited space. If they've put in more tanks, it would be even less. I went to a Christmas party there two years ago, and there was hardly space to stand, let alone move. The fire marshal would have deposited a brick, to sanitize the expression. After the discussions and the parts of your stories about social anxiety, I'm pretty sure I have a moderate level of the issue. I hate crowds, and the small-town crowds are no better than the city crowds. I'm gonna hang out in my house for most of the next month.

I'll do that. I need to make an online copy anyway - the cookbook is so marked up it is illegible. Right now, I'm headed out to the "buy local" holiday activities in town including local shops, a gift bazaar at the fairgrounds, and a beer tasting event at, you guessed it, the Backwoods Brewery production facility.

I still need to get that spiralizer, definitely by the time next summer rolls around. There's a joke around here that you can identify those who have no friends because they are buying zucchini in August. When I was a kid, my aunt had a cookbook dedicated to zucchini - 100 recipes I think. She used it so regularly that once, when we were having swiss chard, I asked her if they were zucchini leaves. The other zucchini recipe that I use regularly is a zucchini casserole that includes onions, Parmesan cheese, eggs, corn muffin mix, and a few herbs.

Yep Thanks! An excellent summary. The grated zucchini adds a delicate flavor that doesn't detract from the rest. It also provides a bit of color and a painless serving of vegetable. I make the pancake with corn muffin mix, a personal preference. I prefer patty pan squash to zucchini, an even more delicate flavor, but it is only available from local gardens in the summer. And that's a COFFEE mug in case anyone relates the label to an earlier conversation. 😉

I liked your Zen pic with the rocks, if votes are being taken. And now I'm going to go make a zucchini-huckleberry pancake for breakfast. 🙂

Thanks for sharing that experience. The reduction of discrimination will be an ongoing battle as long as discrimination is part of anyone's value system, which unfortunately may be forever.

Does A. need a red collar too?

Quite. In fact, I was trying to do a Black Friday parody on 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. I may try it without the constraints, though.

Another one-syllable word - but I've given up on that project - too frustrating. In general, I fall into the same category as @Reader1810 and @Defiance19. About fifty drams with dinner will do nicely, thank you. Unless I've been to my namesake brewpub (Backwoods Boy has multiple meanings) where my mug club membership nets me around 150 drams, permanently priced at $3.50.

Having now heard more about The Pit, I'm glad I never looked into it. I came here because of stories, of course, but I hang around because GA has no resemblance to the cesspool called Facebook.

An interesting topic. I would have a hard time doing what you propose. I am admittedly far too biased.

Oh, yes, yes, yes! Another of my favorite Tom Lehrer songs. I'm always quoting, "...when correctly viewed, everything is lewd..."

It sounds like you've found a class you enjoy.

Precisely. It's why I live where I live and do what I do. Thanks for a great article. ❤️

Were the two quotes on different pages? GA did a great job with this tool, but that is one problem I haven't found a solution for yet.

LOL! Obviously the world revolves around said colleague. The same subspecies is angry when you interrupt their long-winded non-work-related dissertation to go to said meeting after telling them three times that you have to leave. Thanks for reminding me how happy I am to be retired.🙂

Enjoy your mental health day. Raining fairly hard here, which is fine. We're behind on our eighty inches per year expectations. I've been having an early morning insomnia attack. Heading back to bed now for a couple more hours of sleep, I hope.

Thanks for the reference to your story. I'll add it to my reading list. I started this story about a couple of kids on a ranch and I'm having that same "suddenly I need to learn" experience. I know about rural life, but "ranch rural" is going to be a bit different than "logging rural".

The information was better absorbed by reading, at least for me. That's why I don't watch TV. Thanks much for sharing it. Besides being excellent information overall, this will be very useful for a story I'm trying to develop in a ranch environment.

It's the "Walton Effect". 😏

There was a push to go metric in the mid-1970's and congress actually passed a Metric Conversion Act. However, it was not highly popular and was effectively dismantled by <REDACTED> who was president shortly thereafter. This interesting article discusses what is (quite a lot) and isn't metric here in the land of <REDACTED>. https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/06/why-the-metric-system-hasnt-failed-in-the-us/487040/. I'm very fond of the readily-available conversion charts that ease the problem, but being of a certain age, F = 1.8C + 32 is firmly etched in my brain.

One might be inclined to be too busy. Or to add on an aggravation fee.

Thanks for the one-syllable word! By a quirk of fate, it might have use in the Christmas Story Challenge. Assuming I ever figure out something to do with that. A cane, a wreath, and an elf with a quirk. Maybe not.

Yeah, you better be careful with that complicated family tree, or you'll be having unintended incest 😉

I'm with you on both liking and expertise. I get my advice online from a guy who calls himself the reverse wine snob. His basic philosophy is that good wine doesn't have to be expensive, and his recommendations are all under $20. I've found some excellent choices (mostly red blends) on his site. I mention this since you might like to look for your own use. It obviously wouldn't do for your affluent characters.