My friend Jon knows what I am feeling. Would he do what I did tonight?
An unqualified yes, to that question. A dear, dear wish for Jon and her.

Four hours on the phone tonight with her, confessing it all, hearing that and more.
Laughing, screaming, doubting, and laughing again.

To the point where fatigue set in, in her, in those wilderness mountains.

"Talk me to sleep," she asked-
"I will, goodnight." I replied.

later, only half an hour in, I'm talking about my home's tin roof, and the sounds of rain and of hail on same.

Drowsily, she comes back to say, "enough".

Reminding me that I can bore even the drowsy to the edge, when I speak.

Ahya`ett`ettohnoyahA`.

Choctaw, for 'Sleep, cherished'. I told her.

But after she had already hung up.

Posted by Wendell L. Scotchpoodle, NOT the Localmalcontent.

Man, I made some good soup tonight, in between rants over on the LoCal side.

Chunky homemade mushroom soup!

1 C. regular Progresso mushroom soup.
1-1/2 pkgs. of chopped white mushrooms.
2 bell peppers
1/2 yellow onion from the garden
2 stalks celery
about 1 C. elbow macaroni
pinch of celery salt
pinch of black pepper

I took my biggest knife and cut up the veggies into 1/2 to 1 inch cubes.
Mixed all of them up, and sauteed about half of them.
Boiled the macaroni, drained it.
added the soup, the sauteed veggies and mushrooms, and a little water, far less than the can of water suggested.
Allowing this mix to boil again, I added the rest of the veggies.

This made for some good eatin', with the flavor of the sauteed vegetables, and the crisper ones too.
Probably about 20000 calories, since I used Land-0-Lakes butter to sautee...
But I can always convince myself that it was a 'lo-cal' dish.

I had some homemade buscuit dough still in the fridge, so I popped three into the oven at the same time.
It was all so tasty that I decided against driving tonight to Tyler Texas to meet my newest friend. Rather, I watched the demise of the New York Yankees. Dessert!~

posted by Wendell L. Scotchpoodle, NOT the LOCALMALCONTENT