Spring has sprung, fall has fell, winter is here and it is colder that a well diggers shovel.
The high Wednesday was 50, it has rained and we are glad, it is cold and we are sad! It is now 5:00pm on Wednesday afternoon as I am writing, and we have received a wonderful one inch of rain so far, and it is still raining, “Thanks to the man upstairs”!
If it weren’t so cold, Texans would be happy. The Tres actually went into the dog house today, I think he knows it is dry inside, and he could get out of the rain. Tres is a 7 month old puppy who weighs 60 pounds. I went on line today and checked to see when a German shepherd becomes an adult. The results indicated a German shepherd may be considered an adult from 12 to 36 months. I have the feeling that Tres will take the entire 36 months. We would like to get some of the excitable, chewing puppy out of him. We left Tres in the garage yesterday when we went to get the grandees from school. It was the first time we have ever left him in the garage like that, he chewed on the foot to the wooden coat rack.
We had a small pecan tree planted in the back yard, I had a metal bar on one side and a plastic pipe on the other, which offered protection from me and a mower, the pipe also allowed me to get water down to the roots. The other day my first wife made a comment, “Tres had not chewed the little pecan tree down!” A couple days later the tree was chewed down. Why did she have to say anything?
We had tamale soup Tuesday night for supper and I had it again for lunch Wednesday. If you never had tamale soup you have missed some good soup! My spouse of 48 years makes tamales every year, a few weeks before Thanksgiving. She learned how to make then from some Spanish friends. They use to get together for an all-day gathering and make the tamales, now she makes them alone. She made 30 dozen last year. It is a several day process.
First, she gets all the needed supplies together.
Second, the meat is cooked.
Third, she sits at the table most of the day putting them together.
Fourth, while assembling the tamales, she cooks the assembled tamales in steam for 45 to 60 minutes.
Fifth, I get to test eat a tamale, sometimes more than one.
No we don’t eat them all, my present spouse has a tendency to give some of them to friends.
Before anyone asks, yes the Tamale soup is much better than the Road Kill soup, much better!
May your day be filled with it!
You can decide on what, “It” is.
Don Ford
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