Homemade Sausage Making

Looks like we have a storm coming up the coast. I need to buy propane for the genny before I need it. Only have two full bottles and have a couple of spares to fill. Most important is to keep the freezers running. Not cold enough to need the furnace. We are on municipal water and sewerage. Just finishing up a job this week and have postponed some of the work for early next week.

This storm continues to grow in size and strength and also slow down in its travel speed. If you live within a few hundred miles of the Atlantic coast you will be affected by this one.

My thoughts are with you Ross, hope everything comes out OK for you. My wife just took off for five days in Florida to visit a old friend, could have picked better weather I guess. RAY

Ray I think that your wife will tell you that she is glad to live on the left coast when she gets home. This storm is still 700 miles away and we can see the outer bands of it. The scary part is that when it gets to 39 degrees north it is expected to turn left and come ashore. We are at 39°27' North. happy days are here again.

I've been to Hawaii, Mexico, and British Columbia about 8-9 times each. I've never been east of Houston , TX and have only seen snow maybe a dozen times in my entire life, can't say I liked the stuff. My wife has been around the world a half dozen times and lived in Chicago for a decade 30 years ago, she tells me I wouldn't like the east coast and I believe her. I'll see New York City when we take a trip to Italy that we're planning, spend maybe three days in the Big Apple, that'll be plenty and it wiil be springtime. The SF bay area was a great place to grow up and a great place to work construction, never too hot or too cold. Where we live now is two hours to the Pacific Ocean, two hours to the Sierra's, no traffic jams, absolutely love it. Take care, and hope you got that propane! RAY

I have four bottles and IF I am not a complete fool it should be enough. I can get more or not.

Ross, what was it that the ol' sea-goin' cowboy said? Something like.... "SAIL WEST YOUNG MAN!".
Hop on a plane and fly out here. I'll let you paddle my canoe in the GSL while I take Nancy out dancing!

"SAIL WEST YOUNG MAN!".

That would have been Horace Greeley, and he didn't do much sailin' to my recollection. HA! RAY

That was very fine advise . The Eastern cities were so polluted as to be a total health threat.

That would have been Horace Greeley, and he didn't do much sailin' to my recollection.

Naw.... RayHorse, You`re thinkin` about "Go Race" Heeley - a second-rate trumpet player in a third-rate Boston benzinery band! He was the old jackeroo who told a troop of terrible trombonists to "go the heck west young men", after he heard them play in five different keys all at the same time!

Ross, My best wishes that the storm passes you by.
We get a lot of cyclones here in the north of Oz, and the apprehension at their approach is really intense. Hope it all slow down and leaves you in peace. Lots of luck
Best wishes Ursula

Storm, so far so good. Baked two pumpkin pies today. makes cooking less imperitive. Gonna try stuffing some rigatoni with some chaurice sausage tomorrow by means or the Russ/Ross sausage stuffer. I shall cook the pasta first and chill it, fill it with the mince, pack it into a baking dish and add sauce, top with cheese and bake. We are expecting power failures but we cook and heat with natural gas and have an auxillary genny.

The storm arrived during the night and the weather gurus expect it to hang around until wednesday. Nothing very dramatic yet but the best is yet to be.

My wife just called to say all their flights have been cancelled, her friends can't get back to Boston tomorrow. Looks like a extra day of bachelorhood for me! Hope your on some high ground and safe out there Ross, looks nasty.

We are 350 feet above sea level and most of the trees are fairly young in my neighborhood. Our boat is secure in a sheltered marina so we should be good.