Still here...workin'' launchin' Atlas and Delta rockets off of SLC37 and SLC41 at Cape Canaveral!

Miracle Toe Jam

Get God's Wealth In Your Pocket

These late night TV commercials for Televangelist Peter Popoff's "Miracle Spring Water" kill me

The testimonials of all of these lovely people saying how they paid this charlatan for their tiny tube of "Miracle Spring Water" and the next day or week or month God sent them a new Benz and $400,000 makes me start thinking about how I can get in on some of this action.

So this morning, Ladies and Gentlemens, I present for the first time on the Internet this new product designed ...for your consumption and my enrichment....

Here's a first look and my "Miracle Toe Jam"...

...available for two easy payments of $19.99 plus S and H.

Get yours today, smear it all over your chest and body, and then just wait sittin' there palpitating while you let God's riches embolden your existence...

My upcoming trip to Aruba is depending on your Faith and Contributions...

Adult Mac & Cheese

Better than that crap made with Velveta...

Here...cook this recipe I made up myself based on several I found on the Internet and cooked for the second time last night.

I call it "Adult Mac & Cheese", and you'll need:

1 lb spiral rotini pasta...
1/2 medium head of cauliflower, cut into florets

For the béchamel sauce:

1/4 stick of butter
1/4 cup all purpose flour
2 cups half & half
3/4 cup heavy cream
1/4 water

2 cups grated sharp cheddar cheese

1 cup crumbled stinky blue cheese

Panko Bread Crumbs

Now as to putting it all together:

Steam your cauliflower until tender.

Bring 4 quarts of salted water to a boil, add your pasta, and cook until it's al dente.

Meanwhile, you make a light roux...


Melt the butter in a large deep heavy bottom skillet on medium heat.


Stir in the flour a little at a time and stir continuously
for 3 to 5 minutes.


Slowly add your half&half, heavy cream, and water stirring continuously until it thickens slightly.

Now reduce the heat to low and add first the cheddar, then the blue Cheese a little at a time allowing it to melt evenly.

Cook and stir until well blended.

Evenly spread the steamed cauliflower on the bottom of a greased 9"x13" casserole dish.

Add your drained pasta to the sauce and turn to evenly coat, then evenly spread the mixture over the cauliflower and sprinkle a nice even coat of bread crumbs over the top of everything.

Toss in all in a 350 degree F oven for 25 to 30 minutes, finishing under the broiler for a couple minutes to brown.

Now pull that smoldering dish of goodness out and sit it aside to cool, waiting long enough to not burn your tongue and the skin off of the roof of your mouth...

...put generous portions on a plate ....

AND EAT!!!


Regards y'all

"The Redneck Gourmet"

"Rogers Words 'o Advice

Ideas To Live By

Today's topics...

"Mattresses and Toilet Paper"...

This advice isn't needed by everyone I know, but some of you out there (and you know you are) need to hear this stuff.

So here we go...

You spend approximately 1/3 of your life on your mattress, you know?

Don't go down to Big Lots or somewhere and get a $350 king size (or whatever size). Get yourself a Sealy pillow top or Tempur-Pedic or Memory Foam with a good set of box springs.

We've had our king mattress for 8 years and we're looking at a new one. The bad thing about a pillow top is you can flip it end to end but ours can't be flipped all the way over so there's a slight depression shaped like me in it on my side.

JUST DO IT...TREAT YOURSELF TO A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP!

Next topic...

Toilet Paper.

I've gone over to people's houses and found that they were either really cheep else they're stealing their Toilet Paper out of Motel Six or an Indian gas station.

You could sand the finish off of a Chest of Drawers with this stuff.

Don't you RESPECT YOURSELF?

Buy good Toilet Paper.

We prefer plain old Charmin two ply unsented.

CHARMIN..aahh.

It's strong too...

You could make a Suit out of it.

I'm walking around in my Suit and people ask Versace?

No...CHARMIN!!!

I love it, saves money in the end too.

Instead of paying for dry cleaning I just flush it

You understand?

OK, That will be all...for now...

Bringing Ya'll Up To Date

Life's Quite Different These Days...

Today and for at least the rest of this week temperatures will top 100 degrees F, and about 4PM this afternoon our AC quit.

Just Dammit.

(I'm warm)

Still Alive And Breathing

But Sometimes Just Barely...

It's been a few years since I posted here on my original blog after writing a zillion words in the mid and late 2000's.

Being in a corporate job out here in Tulsa, Oklahoma I honestly the HR or IT idiots would find my rants and I'd get fired so I walked away.

We'll...things have changed and...

I'M BAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKK!

Facebook is driving me crazy and I'm pretty much the only one in my friends group that does anything but cut and paste crap or post baby pictures.

I'm coming back again but it definitely won't be "Trump Trump TRUMP Russia Russia RUSSIA"

I have a full head of steam up...what used to call "having my head spinning at orbital rotational velocity" about Senator McMcain needing to resign IMMEDIATELY to open up his seat after his Brain Cancer Diagnosis was announced yesterday...

and a bunch of other stuff.

Until then...

Regards Ya'll

I Say That The Term "Much Obliged" Has Lost It's Meaning...

...and the freaking GOVERNMENT is responsible on multiple levels...

New Halloween Project

I Just Can't Help Myself...


I was driving back home to the Turbopup's & Izzy's New Skiatook Lake Compound from Tulsa yesterday afternoon when I spotted this sitting beside the road at a local Nursery/Garden Supply...

....and as you can see I bought it and had it hoisted into the back of the Cadillac.......

...YES ladies and gentlemen...

that would be a 93 POUND pumpkin. 

Historically gourds of this size are very hard to find in my experience unless you live in a rural area, and that basically describes our new location now.

And  of course my long time blog readers may remember that I had a near-death experience back 6 or 8 years ago wrestling with carving an even larger pumpkin...one weighing...get this...

...near ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY POUNDS.

So any way, I'm on a mission now to carve this sucker and display it somewhere for Halloween.

Maybe in the lobby of my new office building, or possibly at the Chamber of Commerce or the Foyer of some local school.

I don't need it on my front porch because just like the last three places we've lived there are hardly any children...just old people.

Regardless, I'll keep you up to date on my progress...probably starting a week or ten days before Halloween.

Regard's Y'all...

A Slippery Oily Question

Energy Insanity Continues To Fund Our Citizens Daily Peril

A headline on Drudge Report this morning about World Oil production got me to do a little research.

US consumption  is presently about 18.5 billion barrels per day, and this year we've increased production to 11.15 billion barrels per day (BB/day).

Just across our northern border Canada produces 3.9 BB/day and to our south Mexico outputs another 2.9 BB/day.

Do the math...( and you can verify the numbers here at The US Energy Information Administration)

THAT ADDS UP TO 18.3 BILLION BARRELS OF OIL PER DAY PRODUCED RIGHT HERE ON OUR CONTINENT.

I say if the freaking EPA and Congress and the wild eyed tiedyed, patchouli stinking tree hugging hippie environmentalists would get the F**k out of the Oil industry's way we'd never have to send another US dollar HALF WAY AROUND THE WORLD to line the pockets of these assholes:

 

 

...who just turn around and use OUR MONEY to buy weapons and train angry, ignorant, wild eyed islamofashist assholes to kill westerrners overseas or worse yet blow up buildings in NY City and foot races in Boston.

 

Is it just me?????????

 

 

Regards Y'all

Eric Holder Resigns???

Hopefully Someone Didn't Have To Kill Him To Minimize The Damage He Caused  To Our Country

Nuff Said....

( because I value my present Job and I'm too old to kick his freaaking stupid ass myself if I ever got the chance...)

Endangered Indigenous Feces Species

We're All Livin' On Tulsa Time...

Missy and Lizzy and I saw this out on the driveway this week...

...yes..that is an earthworm spanning 10 inches and they are EVERYWHERE out here.

We find them curled up and dried up and laying around after it rains on the driveway and sidewalks and the worst part is Elizabeth...AKA...Lizzy...AKA Izzy wants to EAT THEM...

and then come and sit in your lap and kiss you on the MOUTH.

What did I do to deserve this...Ladies and Gentlemen?

(only an injuneer would get out a tape measure and take a picture of the offending animal/vegetable/mineral...you know?)

It's That Time of The Year AGAIN?

Let Me Reminisce....


A long, long time ago, in a place far, far away from me and my little world in Atlanta, Georgia, you could see something that looked like this if you went there...

Meanwhile, on the other side of the universe political planet, there lurked supposedly well intended and all knowing yet bumbling ideological boobs like this who wanted to run things and second guess all military and security decisions...
 

They had a long history of listening to people like this...

who are all really these...when the dust settles...at heart...

And thirteen years have dulled these so called "leaders" memories and a generation of children have been born which did not watch TV that horrible Tuesday morning in 2001 like I and millions of other did around the world seeing these kind of images:

But meanwhile...soon...we'll have this as a replacement

Yet this morning I ask you this...

are we going to let the wild eyed, Muslim islamofaschist assholes do it to us again?

I sure hope I wake up later this morning and every one is safe here in the good old By God US of A and our territories and there aren't any more buildings falling down or smoking craters in the ground full of melted airliner and body parts...

(and it won't be for the efforts of Obamarama and the Obama administration and Shrillary Clinton either...)


Regard's Y'all...keep your powder dry...

Sunset at OUR House



Pinch Me...Are We Really Living Here?

 

 

Well, the end of yet another summer is upon us as the Labor Day holiday rolls into North Eastern Oklahoma...

 

And God has certainly proven that he has a sense of humor as he continues to move me and my family around on the "chess/checker board" of life.

 

 

Every single time I think I know what is best for me personally and the loved ones around me...

 

 

Every single time I think "I've got things handled" and I'm in control...

 

 

Everything seems to turn dark and disturbing and the impulse is to panic and start cursing and complaining and worrying about "taking back control"...

 

 

Historically that's how I handled adversity and life's difficulties...YOU KNOW?

 

 

But since being laid off from a fancy job in a "foreign city" west of the Mississippi River in April, and having a over extended real estate project turn sour with our "Satanic Devil's Beast Insane Drug/Alcohol fevered lease/purchase seller"...

 

 

I held my normally venomous tongue and bided my time and put my resume back out there on the internet and replaced my lost income and now we live here lakefront where I see this view from my back deck every afternoon (weather permitting)

 



Happy Labor Day...and Regards Y'all

So We Moved to a Lake Front House on a Freekin' Oklahoma Injun Reservation???

I Lost My Mind and Then Found It Here...


Don't ask...

...I can't really explain it Ladies and Gentlemen...

Ever heard of a city in Oklahoma called Skiatook?

...it's on the eastern edge of the Osage Indian reservation north of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the Osage Indian reservation also encompasses the entire boundrys of Osage County, OK.

Any wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy...

We're here as of yesterday with the last haul from the Tulsa estate onto the lakefront house overlooking the lake and Crystal Bay Marina, and since June 10th I have a new job as the lead structural injuneer at a local company designing stuff for boiler plants.

My soul is cleansed and renewed and I feel a torrent of new writing coming on.

Sunset photos and societal/political commentary to follow here again shortly.

Ed and Roy and Rusty...I think I'm back...

Retarded Tardy New Years Reflections

I'm Severely Pre-Occupied These Days...


Hello Ladies and Gentlemen...long time no see I guess...

This afternoon I decided to stop by here at my severely neglected Blog to mention a few things that have been going on out here in Tulsa and in my life in general.

First of all, I'm busy as heck professionally since I decided to end my former beach bum ways and go back to work full time.

The difference between this latest adventure and the disaster that occurred when I moved us away from our little island on the Georgia coast to Knoxville, Tennessee is this...

...unlike the Coal Fired Boiler Plant business I was in over there, out here the Oil Refining business is freaking BOOMING and even that big eared socialist idiot dictator president Obama knows it would be suicide to kill the oil/gas business like he's killing the Coal business.

I think that we're safe--safe at least until the day when they can make a car and a tractor trailer operate using power generated by solar panels and a windmill mounted on their roofs.

Being an Injuneer I can tell you we're a good way off on the calendar from that happening as I see it.

In other news, Pat and Missy the Turbo Pup have settled into our new/old house and Tulsa in general and the new little monster dachshund puppy Lizzy turns eight months old shortly and is growing like a weed still.

Her and Missy have finally bonded and the house is a lively place all day, especially when I come in from work in the evening.

 

Lizzy in Her Favorite Pose...

 

Missy Remembering The Days When She Was A Solo Dog...

Meanwhile, when not doing structural design of giant Oil Heaters I'm still trying to finish some work on the house in the evenings and on the weekends but we're so busy at work and I've been traveling a good deal (I made Southwest Airlines "A List" for this year) and then on December 6th I had to have planned surgery to fuse three vertebrae in my neck...a situation which was contributing to slowing of my renovation progress and my life in general...but everything went well and I continuing to improve each day.

The variation of the weather out here continues to amaze me...as of a couple of weeks ago I've seen the temperature swing from a summer high of 117 deg F to this winter's record low of -2 degrees F.

It's just mid January and we've had substantial snow/ice events four or five times now already...I think there's a lot more

And even if you are not freezing or frying you have to hang on to cars and nearby structure and sometimes complete strangers to keep from being blown over by the incessant winds we're so blessed with. 

Other than the weather extremes, we were really surprised how nice it is out here and we've really grown to love the area as we learn our way around town and find new restaurants and things to do.

Pat's still getting to do her old job from out here telecommuting and we put her in a nice office off the upstairs kitchen that has lots of windows.  She has a bunch of bird feeders right outside she can watch and she's cultivating exotic African Violets inside and all in all she has a good situation.

I can honestly say here early in 2014 that we are truly blessed to have the opportunities we have and be able to live the life we're living in the Midwest.

It's just about PERFECT except for the weather extremes and if we just had a beach nearby... 

Regards Y'all...

An "Older Blogger's" Surprising Comments on a New Year....

I'm Back from a Self Imposed Blogging "Hibernation" (and this isn't the sermon that it might first appear)

I'd like to open this posting with the following comment (while as a side note mentioning that my shadow rarely passes into a sanctuary of any brick and mortar "house of worship" these days):

I...Personally... Believe In A Living God That Sustains All of us...

All of us...

All of US...

Us...you know?

US...

..."all of us" meaning all of us human beings--the species homo sapiens--AND all of the creatures living under the sea and on the surface of the Earth and in the skies under the heavans

All of the Fair...

And the Unfair...

The People described in the Biblical  terms of "Richeous"

AND the "Unricheous"

Those Civil

And yet the Uncivil

The Stupid

The Just plain Stupid

And even the dumb freaking F**king stupid that are out there acting against your own (and sometimes my) best interest and the best interests of your family and/or friends and/or company and/or career...

There is a GOD out there that LOVES all of us because he created us and gave us the ultimate power to in the most part determine our own path to the destination he has set for us from our birth.

But in the end, YOU KNOW WHAT?

In the end...

...when it is all said and done...

...we all...

ALL

We ALL...

...end up Dead.









(que here the sound of crickets and night bugs chirping)






Still with me?












OK...

All of that said, now let me add that I say that the difference between meeting our inevitable end of being dead and ending up being hated and useless and despised...

...or as an alternative living some kind of life and ending out mortal existence being dead and loved and missed and revered...

...isn't by living a life and managing to compile a bucket list of magnamious, philanthropic accomplishments affecting millions/zillions like Mother Teresa or Ghandi (or name another historical figure.) 

I say that in the end it is all about standing up for yourself and your family, living your values, and

150 Years Ago Today

They Don't Make Them Like This Any More...


Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war.  We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.  But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground.  The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.  The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.  It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

Re-Published From here 

(BTW...and in the new video released today our shit head African American liberal asshole president chose to omit the words "under God" from his portion of the recitation http://www.learntheaddress.org/?page=2 )

9/11/2003

Never Forget...

I started to post of photo from that day twelve years ago today when the Islamofaschist Arab pinheads crashed into these two buildings...

...then I decided instead to post an image of them here as I and hundreds of millions of other people remember them after seeing them and their residents/workers while driving or flying or floating on a boat past until that horrible day.

The NY City skyline and our country and it's people are forever changed from the events which happened mid morning not so long ago...

...and I pray to my God that we not only recover and survive from the effects of that day but use that strength to overcome the idiocy coming at us from our Congress, our Courts, and our Presidency.

I want my Country BACK...

HOW ABOUT YOU???????????????

Growing Things

It's Hit Or Miss With Oklahoma Summer Weather...

As I mentioned here earlier, I had good intentions to grow a whole bunch of stuff here in my back yard garden this summer.

I got the ground all plowed up in March and everything looked good until we kept having frost into the second week in May, and by waiting I managed to let the grass and weeds I didn't kill before plowing come roaring back and it's been a battle trying to tame the areas where the corn, tomatoes, potatoes and melons were planted.

The corn has been pretty much a bust after coming up strong...with the wind in a thunderstorm virtually leveling a nearly 8 foot tall row of colored corn and the raccoons and deer knocking the rest of the rows over and eating what the bugs and worms didn't get.

The water melons have prospered and the cantaloupes grew well but something has been getting the ripe ones and eating them leaving nothing but piles of rind and seeds in their wake.

The potatoes were and are a success...we haven't had to buy any in over a month.

The tomatoes were planted late so they are just now starting to produce ripe fruit and I have to get out there and get some stakes and twine around a bunch of them that have laid over on the ground.

Meanwhile, I also planted a few things in a large vacant flower bed upstairs next to the kitchen.
 

 

 

There is a single Giant Squash plant in the center there surrounded by three kinds of sweet potatoes and a single cucumber vine.  I made the mistake of only planting one cucumber and I think you have to have at least two in order for them to cross pollenate and produce fruit.

 

Here's the squash plant:

 

   

It's a monster about three feet high...and it's constantly produced a large number of squash for the past three weeks or so.

Then those two whisky barrels have an assortment of herbs and one has a couple of "Better Boy" tomatoes which have been a disappointment.  I bought them in big pots from Home Depot for over $10.00 each and they were giant and healthy and already bearing fruit when I got them and they've just proceeded to shrivel and wilt no matter what I do.

I have tons of dusts and poisons and fertilizers but nothing visible seems to be eating them unless I have Nematodes or something working on them under ground.

In other news...we had VIP tickets to see comedian Ron White Friday night at the Hard Rock Casino.

The package included getting to spend about a half hour up on stage with Ron after the show and to ask him questions.

Some people as usual were shy and/or stupid--one idiot ask him his political views on the US bombing of Japan in WWII--but I got to ask him several things.

I asked if there were any plans to do another Blue Collar comedy tour with Jeff Foxworthy and the gang and he said not at this time and probably only as a charity event if it did happen.

I also asked what his longer term plans were...to keep touring at the present pace or pack up shop at some point and retire.

He replied that he was never going to quit unless his health stopped him or he died.

Any way...here's what things looked like from row two center stage...




I'll put the VIP website here and identify the specific photo of Pat and I when it is posted later.

Until then...Regards Y'all...

UPDATE: (8:37 CST)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5534/9498943498_0a4d4ca58b_o.jpg

here's the comedian and a good looking lady with some guy that wandered into the scene...