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Chicken Fried Steak

Chicken Fried Steak (beef tenderloin, of course), Mashed ‘Taters and Gravy with Savory Green Beans and Bacon. I butterflied two petite tenderloin steaks to pound out into four servings to be coated with Verna’s crust recipe and pan fried to perfection.

Verna also prepared garlic mashed potatoes and her wonderful gravy made from the steaks’ pan drippings. We also enjoyed our favorite green beans dish cooked with savory onions, minced garlic and chopped bacon. Man, this was the ultimate in comfort food!

Click on the image to enlarge. Try not to drool on your keyboard.

February 9, 2014 by Food and Dining

Scenes From Around Our Desert Home


I wandered around our little patch of desert this morning taking photos. I captured pictures of cacti, critters, rock garden, etc.

My original purpose was to get up on the hill out back and take pictures of the top of the RV to see if there would be any problems installing the new cover we ordered for it. It looks like there are no objects to adversely impact the installation.

The slideshow leads off with “the big guy,” our saguaro cactus out front, followed by Verna’s rock and cactus garden, one of the hidden hedgehog cacti up on the hill, a view of our neighbor’s house on the hill across the little wash, quail and a squirrel snacking on critter crunch, a compass barrel cactus on the hill, beavertail prickly pear cactus in the landscape cover, a place on the hill under a palo verde tree, a desert lizard and another hedgehog in the river rock landscape cover.

February 8, 2014 by Arizona Critters Home & Garden Photography

Super Bowl Snacks

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Nothing more to say but that Verna did an outstanding job for the big game’s food and refreshments: five layer bean dip and Buffalo chicken pizza. Click on the images to enlarge.

February 2, 2014 by Food and Dining Photography

A Helicopter-Shaped Cloud

A Helicopter-Shaped Cloud

After dinner today, Verna looked out of the front window and saw a cloud that appeared to look like the silhouette of an aircraft. She grabbed her camera and got this image of the phenomenon before it morphed into a randomly shaped cloud.

I remembered that there is a term to describe seeing objects in nature that one perceives as resembling something else. However, I could not remember the exact term so I did an internet search on “clouds that resemble things” and found the following result on Askville which led me to Wikipedia:

Pareidolia

Pareidolia (parr-i-DOH-lee-uh) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant, a form of apophenia. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records when played in reverse.

Interesting. And I’m still a nerd as a senior citizen. Click on the image to enlarge.

UPDATE: Seeing extraterrestrial alien faces in Ice Cream: Alien Frosty Paws.

February 1, 2014 by Nerdliness Photography Weirdness

A Little Beggar

Antelope Ground Squirrel

I went up on the hill behind the RV drive today to hang up Verna’s bird feeders. While I was up there, this little white tailed antelope ground squirrel came out of the underbrush and seemed to be begging for a handout. I obliged the little guy and tossed a few seeds his way which he immediately consumed right on the spot. Click on the image to enlarge.

January 30, 2014 by Arizona Critters Home & Garden Retirement

A Blessed Event is Coming

mwbdi.jpgI received word this afternoon that the eldest of my three granddaughters will become a mother sometime this year. Well, when that happens, it will make me a great grandfather! Wow!

That makes me very thankful that I was able to get in touch with the girls after many years of not knowing where or how they were. I made the effort to find them through social services of California and I now am in contact with two out of the three. I still expect to hear from the youngest of them who will be turning eighteen years of age in March.

The news makes me feel old and young at the same time – weird. But, life goes on. With that in mind, I posted this image of “man, woman, birth, death, infinity” which was used at the beginning of the old “Ben Casey” TV series. The Ben Casey series was on television from the time I graduated high school until five years later, or so. I didn’t watch every episode, but many of them.

January 29, 2014 by Family

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