Monday evening: Monday, Monday . . .

1. It's been looking for Spring for a couple of days. There are new lambs in the field on the way to work. There is at least one baby pig and one calf on the way to work as well. Unrelated: We saw three vultures huddled together in a field the other day, and Alethea saw some of "my" deer and pointed them out.

2. Dinner tonight was sort of a creative Shepherd's Pie, in layers. I sliced the ptatoes thinly, put them in, then browned ground beef with onions and garlic, snow peas (we had them) and covered it all with various cheeses. Three layers total and in the oven. Wiating for it now. Crockpot pot roast tomorrow. (I stopped at the Hickory Grove Smokehouse). You gotta love a place that has intsruction on what to do with arriving pigs posted next tot he cash register.

3. I do have a question. If you do not brown the pot roast before cooking it, what's the difference?

4. I love CD Baby! Great service. Funny e-mails. And you gotta love any place that has a listing for "Angry Folk." The only srtist there right now is described as  "Clannad meets Bob Dylan."

5. This story is one of the reasons that the both the local paper and Upstate New York amuse me so much. Keep reading, it gets more and more amusing.

Monday evening: More stuff . . .

1. So ladytwnks pointed out the what_a_crock community, which is focused on crockpot cooking. So, I join, and the fourth entry is:

Rocky Road Candy in the Crockpot

You gotta love it.

2. From NPR:

 In Toby Barlow's debut novel, Sharp Teeth, competing packs of werewolves have plans to take over Los Angeles. But if Barlow's book reads less like science fiction and more like a heroic epic poem, that's because it's written in free verse.

Please follow this link to an excerpt. It is unlike anything I have read before. It is ground-breaking in the way that World War Z was. Trust me on this -- Liam

3.  This link to an NPR story on Mike Rowe is for theresat.

4. Heya, lbitw, this made me think of you:



5. Did I say "Spring?" It's supposed to get down to 11 degrees tonight, and there's the possibility of snow (or rain) tomorrow night. The high tomorrow will be 45 or so.