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Capsule
Friday, October 4, 2019
This picture shows the Bath Abbey's west front, including sculptures of angels climbing to heaven on two stone ladders.
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Lead Picture (Story below in Thumbnail)
Friday, October 4, 2019
Photograph credit: David Iliff
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Commentary
Friday, October 4, 2019
Short Ribs of Beef satisfy the deepest need for red meat.
Takes about an hour to prepare.
Conceptually it goes like this:
In a Dutch oven, sear and deep brown the short ribs, set them aside.
(To produce a richer sauce, spread 4TB flour in a plate and dip the ribs in the flour before frying them. Add the flour that remains in the plate to the fry)
When near-crusty brown, remove them and set them aside.
Cut up vegetables to add in, say 8oz per of turnips, mushrooms, carrots, string beans, onions, potatoes.
Add the veggies to the hot fat and season with Herbes de Provence, cumin, curry, ginger, salt, and pepper.
Add fresh herbs, dill and/or parsley or basil or whatever is at hand.
Add 3 TB tomato paste.
Cover the pan and braise the vegetables for 10 minutes.
Toss once or twice.
Return the ribs to the casserole.
Add 1.5 cups red wine and 1.5 cups of our own chicken stock.
Cover the pan and cook the pot for 1 hour in a 350* oven.
If the gravy is too thin, reduce it on top of the stove.
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Wednesday’s Dinner posted on
Friday, October 4, 2019
I ate the last plate of the leftover braised chicken with artichokes and shallots.
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Chuckle of the day:
Friday, October 4, 2019
A man decides to take off early from work and go for a few pops.
He stays until the bar closes at 2am, at which time he is extremely drunk.
When he gets home he takes off his shoes and starts tip-toeing up the stairs.
Half-way up he falls over backwards and lands flat on his rear end.
The empty pint bottles in his back pockets break and the broken glass carves up his buttocks terribly.
But, he was so drunk that he didn't know he was hurt.
A few minutes later, as he was undressing, he notices blood, checks himself out in the mirror and finds that his rear end is terribly cut up.
We repairs himself as best he could, being totally zapped and all, and then gets into bed.
The next morning, his head hurting, his rear end hurting, and he’s hunkering under the covers trying to think up some good story.
His wife comes in.
"Well, you really tied one on last night. Where'd you go?"
"I worked late. I stopped off for a couple of beers."
"A couple of beers? That's a laugh. You got plastered last night. Where the heck did you go?"
"What makes you so sure I got drunk last night, anyway?"
"Well, my first big clue was when I got up this morning and found a bunch of band-aids stuck to the mirror."
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A “Hey, Dom!” video.
Friday, October 4, 2019
The parrot had a question.
Dom’s website: existentialautotrip.com
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We love getting mail.
Contact me at domcapossela@hotmail.com
Friday, October 4, 2019
This from Wikipedia, the main source of the Thumbnail segments of the blog.
We print it here as an encouragement to others.
From:
Katherine Maher <donate@wikimedia.org>
Hi dom!
I love that it’s my job to thank you for your $ 10.40 monthly contribution to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation.
The essential story of Wikipedia is the story of an individual, like you, giving a little bit of themselves to keep the doors of discovery open. Your monthly recurring contribution shows me that the spirit of our vision is alive and well.
Your donation keeps Wikipedia independent, and your monthly support is essential for long-term planning, helping us see what Wikipedia can achieve in the years ahead. Once a month, a donation of $ 10.40 will be debited by the Wikimedia Foundation until you notify us to stop. We will send you a summary each January of your contributions for the previous year. If for whatever reason you wish to cancel your donation, follow these easy cancellation instructions.
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At the Wikimedia Foundation, we believe that no one should have to pay to learn. We believe knowledge should always be free. We will never charge anyone to use Wikipedia. So how do we afford the infrastructure of one of the world’s most popular websites?
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Wikipedia is yours: yours to read, yours to edit, yours in which to get lost. We’re not the destination, we’re the beginning.
dom, thank you for helping free knowledge thrive.
Katherine
Katherine Maher
Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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Today’s Thumbnail
Friday, October 4, 2019
Bath Abbey is an Anglican parish church and Grade I listed building in the English city of Bath.
Founded in the 7th century, Bath Abbey was reorganized in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries.
It is one of the largest examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture in the West Country.
The cathedral was consolidated to Wells Cathedral in 1539 after the abbey was dissolved in the Dissolution of the Monasteries, but the name of the diocese has remained unchanged.
The church is cruciform in plan.
Westminster Hall and its hammerbeam roof, pictured in the early 19th century
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) and Augustus Pugin (1768-1832) - Ackermann's Microcosm of London (1808-11); Microcosm of London at Google Books
A tip o' the hat (U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, 1924
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Friday, October 4, 2019
Thanks to Katherine Maher of Wikipedia for her thank you letter re: our small donations.
And to the Jokes Warehouse for the chuckle today.
Thanks to the Microsoft team at the Prudential Center for their unflagging availability to help with a constant flow of technological problems.
Always thanks to Wikipedia, the Lead and the Thumbnail sections of the Blog very often shaped from stories taken from that amazing website. They are truly worthy of public support.
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GoodMorning
Friday, October 4, 2019
I give to Wikipedia.
I use them so much.
Everyone does.
And it’s not-for-profit.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your Taeyeon