The Chows are very busy today as there is much going on. First, they are anticipating a houseguest that they are quite excited about; this particular guest will be here for several weeks and the Chows are just tickled pink over the prospect. Silvie got out all the cookbooks and has 
already scratched out dozens of different menu possibilites, Do' is scurrying around collecting all the miscellaneous balls that lay everywhere in Bellemaison in an effort to tidy the place up and Cle is supervisign P33t in an over-all police up of the area. Oh those Chows are excited!
But something else: we are going rafting this weekend and will cook the dutch oven. yes, yes, yes. It's true. We are dutching up. We will have the world-renoun Dutch Oven Mac. We will have Jose's Lasagna. We will have the smacos. And the pineapple upside-down cake. Man, I hope these people we are going with have adequate crowd control measures in place because once people up and down the river get a whiff of our campsite....
But first, off to Costco. In The General! He came back too! How did he know we're having a houseguest?!
Bonus Round: what's the name of that sunny, yellow rose photoed only this morning in the gardens at Bellemaison?
JBelle
Bellemaison
The 'Kan EWA
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Damn, I lose because I can't play. I hate it when that happens.
Love,
The Botanically-Challenged Fan
Oops...
/waving and blowing kisses to Curt
Better.
What, you're not taking the solar oven? F'shame...
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There is a Rose called 'Smooth Melody' lol...... Im thornless. my fragrance is heavy, Im red and lush LOL
http://www.rose-roses.com/rosepages/floribundas/SmoothMelody.html
but is aint a particularly pretty rose - HA
Ooops it didnt post...... oh well, says it all LOL
The British Melody Maker is prettier....... I aint really into roses in the garden but I LOVE them as cut flowers........ x
Mel, I grow quite a few here and know most of what I know from British rose gardeners. I also grown rhododendrons and hydrangeas.
And that beautiful little rose that is blooming is none other than Austin's
Happy Child.
Planted for The Christ Child. Who arrives home soon.
“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.”
“A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility. I don’t believe there is such a thing, and frankly I wouldn’t even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing.”
“There is no way in which a country can satisfy the craving for absolute security, but it can bankrupt itself morally and economically in attempting to reach that illusory goal through arms alone.”
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
How the he double hockey sticks did that get there. Cripes, EOAD...
I love that Spanish Harlem song...
Ike also talked about the whole plowshares to swords thing, and BACK to plowshares. Here's a guy who sent hundreds of thousands to their certain deaths, knew something about that.
Re: Spanish Harlem "Artist: Ben E. King - peak Billboard position # 10 in 1961 - also charted in 1966 by King Curtis at # 89 - also charted in 1971 by Aretha Franklin"
Wow, talk about a tune with long lasting presence. '66 version SHOULD be the version I know, but it seems to me the Ben E. King version is the one I know. Too much listening to oldies stations, I guess.
You boys been having fun here w/out me?
to my mind, Laura Nyro had the definitive recording of Spanish Harlem. Find it. You'll love it.
I just found it. again. in Curt's post. i am finally awake. Lots of water and high spirits yesterday. quiet here today. Chows like that.
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