While walking through Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, a man came upon another man hugging a tree with his ear firmly against the tree. Seeing this he inquired, "Just out of curiosity, what the heck are you doing?"

"I'm listening to the music of the tree," the other man replied.

"You've gotta be kiddin' me."

"No, would you like to give it a try?"

Understandably curious, the man says, "Well, OK..." So he wrapped his arms around the tree & pressed his ear up against it. With this, the other guy slapped a pair of handcuffs on him, took his wallet, jewelry, car keys, then stripped him naked and left.

Two hours later another nature lover strolled by, saw this guy handcuffed to the tree stark naked, and asked, "What the heck happened to you?"

He told the guy the whole terrible story about how he got there.

When he finished telling his story, the other guy shook his head in sympathy, walked around behind him, kissed him gently behind the ear and said, "This just ain't gonna be your day, cupcake."

Celebrate the Grape

Please join hosts Ros, Brian, Karl and Jeff

for a casual gathering

as we greet the arrival of the

2009 Beaujolais Nouveau.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Open house from 6:30 p.m.

Hearty Hors d’oeuvres will be served.

The Campbell House

726 Dakota Ave South

Huron, SD 57350

(Yeah Folks...it's that time of year again!) 

I've been such a putz when it comes to updating.  I blame it on the fact that Special Someone hasn't been taking enough pictures.

So....a couple of weekends ago I hosted a Freezer Dinner. What's that, you ask?  In a couple of weeks I will be taking possession of my yearly slaughtered lamb and I needed room in my chest freezer.  I decided to clean out a bunch of random "samples" to make room.  Imagine a mottley conglomeration of various types of meat, complemented with cheesy baked potatoes, mushrooms in red wine sauce and a salad followed by coconut cream pie.

Various ribeyes, new york strips, deer steak (marinated in a teriyaki/red wine blend) and andouille sausage.  Not pictured are the 3 lamb roasts that I cooked inside.

20 lbs of meat for six people.  Can you say leftovers?

The garden wearing it's Fall ensemble.

Patio furniture has been stored away for Winter.  That makes the outdoor entertaining space seem genormous.

Hell Kitty says "Disturb me and face my Wrath!"

It should be noted that during dinner, any time I got up Zippy Kitty would hop onto my chair and "talk" to the other guests.  I guess I've raised her to be the ultimate hostess.  Except for the part about chewing on ladies' purses and shoes in general.

Tara is Burning.

It is a rather eerie feeling watching buildings burn...intentionally.

Let the aftermath begin.

(I'll post pictures when I get them.)

The new generation of pathologists seem to include a whole lot of eye candy.

Well...actually only this Doctor.

I'ma gonna board a plane for Washington, DC this afternoon.  I've got a College of American Pathologists House of Delegates meeting and convention.  It will undoubtedly be lame and boring.  I fully intend to inflict you with all of the punishing details.

Bleh.

Be good, children.  I'll be keeping tabs on you!

I was in the Doctor's Lounge reading the paper today when one of my colleagues walked in.  At the time I was watching the television.

Dr. X: "Whatcha watching?"

Dr. B: "A shirtless muscled stud rolling around in the mud."

Dr. X: "No.  I mean what's the name of this movie."

Dr. B: "Does it matter?"

1. If her name is Daisy and she's not a cow  then you know she's older than Dirt.

2. Bridesmaids should not get a great tan while wearing a halter top before donning their strapless backless bridesmaid dress.

3. Bridesmaids should not get a great tan while wearing a wife-beater top before donning their strapless backless bridesmaid dress.

4. When considering choices of bridesmaid's dresses the Bride should find out about the location of all tattoos on the bridesmaids.  And then choose different bridesmaids.

5. If its got Oreos and Cool Whip in it it isn't a salad.

6. South Dakota weddings and Southern Indiana weddings are very different productions indeed.

The farm auction to settle Special Someone's Father's estate was held last Tuesday.  Special Someone, being the enterprising little bugger that he is, decided to set up a concession stand on the property in order to bring in a little extra loot.

For those of you not familiar with auctions, quite often the auctioneer will allow a church or youth group to run the concessions as a fundraiser.

So...when Special Someone's assistants (Amy, Becky and Mother Hofer) were asked if they were from a church group the answer was, of course...YES!

I give you the Sisters of the Perpetual Labia with their Mother Superior...

(Mother Superior Hofer, Sister Amy and Sister Becky.  Two of the three follow the Creed of the Lickalotapuss.)

Actually, judging.

I'm off to Yankton tomorrow.  It's Ribfest!  I was asked this week to be a judge for the event so I get to sample ribs from (or I should say prepared by) 31 different teams.  It don't get no better than that!

I just hope they let me bring home a doggy bag.