Happy Independence Day
Got plans?
We're having jambalaya at CrabAppleLane. It is a Louisiana staple and a favorite here. There are a million recipes and everyone has their own variation. Jambalaya is a poor folks' dish. You brown rice and throw in whatever meat or seafood you have. Traditional jambalaya has sausage, chicken, and shrimp or crawfish. Shrimp is expensive now but it was once cheap in Louisiana before some traitor first shipped some up north and demand started outgrowing supply. :) Just chicken and sausage today ... and then maybe the siesta. :)
About today's BOTD: He and I have a different view on the oil drilling moratorium. I'm not opposed to it. I'm not really for it, either. I just don't think it will do much good. It doesn't work as punishment and it doesn't allow enough time to find scientific, practical solutions.
In unrelated BP news, the QOTD is about the Lockerbie terrorist. 270 lives were lost in that act of terrorism. He was given a "compassionate" release from a Scottish prison and allowed to go home to a hero's welcome in Libya because he only had "3 months to live". Turns out he may live 10 years or more.
I offer two from the CrabAppleLane backyard on a spectacular and very hot Independence Day. The fig trees have found some elements in their environment they like because they have taken off. They have tripled in size in the last month or so. Found the whirligig in a corner of the garage I hadn't seen in a few years. Yes, there was quite a bit of clutter in the garage.
CrabAppleLane Fig Trees - July 4, 2010
CrabAppleLane Whirligig - July 4, 2010
Well, it's been money for muscle
On a .. another whirligig
Money for muscle
And a ... another girl I dig
Another hustle
Just to ... just to make it big
And rock away rock away
Oh rock away rock away
Dire Straits, Tunnel Of Love
5 song iTune shuffle from the CrabAppleLane Five Star playlist:
- Walk The Line - Live - Live At The Paradiso
- Just What I Needed - The Cars - The Cars
- Going Home - Theme From 'Local Hero' - Dire Straits - Alchemy: Dire Straits Live [Disc 2]
- Lick Your Fingers Clean - Jethro Tull - Aqualung
- Mississippi Queen - Mountain - Climbing!
Quote of the Day
According to an earlier Sunday Times report, a former British justice secretary wrote to his counterpart in Scotland that it was "in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom" to make it possible for al-Megrahi to return to Libya.
The letter was written in 2007 during stalled negotiations over a BP oil exploration contract worth billions of dollars.
msnbc.com staff and news service reports
Blog of the day is here.
Quote from said blog: "Part of the rationale for the deepwater drilling moratorium is that we've not identified the cause of the failure. We know that the drilling crew attempted to activate the shear rams of the blowout preventer."
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Happy 4th July Rob!
(Whirligig...just a great word!)
Patsy and I both love whirligigs since we saw them everywhere on a New England vacation we took many years ago, Fi. We really like the ones we'd see at roadside merchants. They were made of wood and were a good bit more rickety than the one in this photo, which is very smooth. There was something a little more charming about a hand-painted wooden one even though it didn't work as well or last as along. Not sure how it fits into the song except that it rhymes with "girl I dig". :)