I'm watching The Path...

[uppityperson]

to My Garden. there is a cat on it, watching bugs. Stay tuned for more...

[Solly Mack]

1. I like bugs, cats and gardens

[uppityperson]

3. OMG, she moved! Toward a bug!

No, she sat down again...whew

[Solly Mack]

11. LOL! Well, cats like bugs too...just a different kind of like :)

[aquart]

12. My cat spent all day yesterday hunting and torturing a mouse.

Should I call him Rummy? Georgie? Dick?

[uppityperson]

15. Did he ask if the mouse was annoyed? (Rummy)

If he lifted a lip and sneered, Dick.
If he garbled out moewany rather than meow, Georgie.

[whistle]

2. LOL, spot any fire-flies?

:rofl:

[uppityperson]

5. Not yet, not dark here, waiting for it, waiting, waiting, the anticipation

we know how it ends

[JHB]

4. Self delete

I was a :dunce:

:grouphug:

[LSK]

6. no, its a joke thread of not watching it...

[uppityperson]

7. The Clenis just stepped onto the path

odd, isn't it, reality parodies satire.

This is where it all begins...

[civildisoBDence]

9. Uh, what's a Clenis? nt

[uppityperson]

13. are you series? It is hugh!!!1

Taking pity, Clinton's penis. It gets in all sorts of trouble, causes all sorts of problems all over the world. Wars, environmental degradation, famine, terrorism. Blame it on the Clenis! All the best people do!

[civildisoBDence]

14. Oh. I hear it's a bit bent, too. Q: What's Chimpy's called?

A: Limpy.

[countryjake]

8. LOL, I'm watching my man on the path to obliterating his brain...

with football! Couldn't watch anything else if I had to, stuck here in DU till all games are over.

[uppityperson]

10. I am watching you

watching him on the path. Now, for a quick angle change, a few jerks of my head, that's better.

[BlueJazz]

16. Has the Bug blamed Clinton for it's troubles.. ? :)

[uppityperson]

19. yes, we are past that.

The Clenis had a chance to have the garden sprayed, but he said no. Something about organic something. So the bug stayed. And waited. For the right moment. Even thought Clenis was warned, he did nothing.



Now, it is up to the cat. Will it listen?...

[ananda]

17. Lol

Thanks.

I'm here on the computer between episodes of Traffik and waiting for the Inspector Lynley mystery to come on.

:-)

[salib]

18. I was just out picking okra (very hot these days so it is very prolific)

And I saw the largest grasshopper I have ever seen almost 3 inches long.

I thought it was a preying mantis as first. We put hundreds of larvae in the garden this spring. Probably just bird food.

[uppityperson]

20. that is neat

only 1 ever seen in the wild was in Hawaii. It was on a public phone cord, thought it was a leaf and flicked it off. Youch! Punctured my finger in the process. I would not want to be a bug and run across a praying mantis.

Hey, back to the Path. The praying manitds are gathering around the bowl of water, claw in claw in claw. What will they do? Listen to them chant, can you hear what they chant? Listen. Neither can I...

[KoKo]

24. We bought share in Organic Farm and they keep giving us Okra!

I've got lots of Southern cookbooks about Okra ...but most involve "local shrimp & Okra Recipes" whereas the only shrimp I can get is the stuff from Thailand (Is that Shrimp even SAFE TO EAT?) so I tried Middle Eastern Recipes and still have not come up with a great recipe to do with ALL THAT OKRA I'm getting!

Any good recipes that aren't Southern? Something new? We don't eat "fried okra...and I've done to much "Brunswick Stew" so I'm looking for something different...:shrug:

[salib]

25. One can even eat it raw off the stalk

Here are some that I have done:

1. One part canned tomatoes to one part chopped okra. Pseudo Italian spices (say tsp of oregano/basil, and some garlic, salt, pepper). Stew for 1/2 to 3/4 hour.

1a. Above, but with a roux first (equal parts oil and flour cooked over medium heat for 20 minutes, at least) about 1/4 cup per 15 can of tomatoes. In roux, saute 1/2 cup each celery, peppers and onions (I like hot, but can use bell peppers). Add ingredients in 1.) and add a teaspoon each of thyme, sage, and hot sauce. ooh dat gumbo. Add seafood, sausage, chicken, beef, etc., if you want.

2. Chinese recipes take okra very well. You may substitute okra for eggplant, celery, etc. in these.

3. Indian cuisine has a number of okra recipes. I am not good at Indian though, but eat it out and love the okra dishes.

4. Picked is the best, though. In a 1 pt jar canning jar (sanitized), combine three good sized sprigs of cilantro 3 cloves garlic, 2 serrano and 2 jalapeno peppers (I like it HOT, being here in San Antonio), whole okra (no need to clean, simply use it from where it snaps of the stalk) stuffed full to the top of the jar, 1/2 tsp salt (I am on a low salt diet), and cover with boiling hot vinegar. Of course, dill and cilantro are interchangeable in the recipe.

[salib]

27. amend 1a above

to 1/4 cup to each 15oz can of tomatoes.

[countryjake]

21. Two big fat robins in my birdbath...

were just whispering to a chickadee that the goldfinch is a yellowdawg. And they will not let him play in the water!

Oops, the chickadee just flew up to listen to what that goldfinch has to say...may be a conspiracy brewing.

[uppityperson]

22. beware the chickadee, with a name like that, you never know.

sounds suspicious to me

[KoKo]

23. We are having lowly house painted and had to hack all shrubs back...

and we had a pair of Cardianals wandering around our deck late this afternoon looking for their "cover." We felt so guilty ...and sad that we had to "destroy their habitat" to get our house painted.

It's bad.....they don't know where to go... Yet the CHIMP can go between his FAKE PIG FARM and Kennebunkport home to MILLIONAIRES and CHENEY can SHOOT WILDFOWL AND OLD GUYS FACE UP...and I feel guilty over having my House Paintind?

I did spread a little bird seed ahead of season for them..but I'm :cry: over what they see as their loss...my beloved birds........

[NoSunWithoutShadow]

26. What a delightful thread. Thank you Uppityperson.

I haven't laughed for several days.