Pot Luck

Anybody up for a cheap sauna? (4.00 / 1)

Send me $5, I'll give you my address...

:/

Brutal in here!  95 tomorrow, 95 Monday...

"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks." - Christopher Hitchens

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by: JayinPortland @ Sun Aug 15, 2010 at 02:09:49 AM UTC

local food FAIL (4.00 / 3)

The basil growing on my deck is doing ok, but less robust than I'd hoped, so I shelled out for a "pesto pack" from my CSA farmer. Along with this week's veggie box on Wednesday I got a big bag of fresh basil and a couple of heads of garlic.

I should have made the pesto right away on Wednesday night, but it's been a busy week. I opened the refrigerator this morning to get started, and most of the basil had gone brown. I don't know whether she washed it before bagging it on Wednesday or what. Anyway, I was able to salvage just a couple of cups of leaves. I made some pesto with hazelnuts instead of pine nuts for a change, and it tasted good, but I wish I hadn't squandered such a treasure!

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by: desmoinesdem @ Sun Aug 15, 2010 at 02:31:07 AM UTC

A basil grower told me . . . (4.00 / 2)

That he can't keep his basil overnight below 45° F or it starts to 'fall apart'. So when he does a morning farmer's market, he'll store his overnight in a special warm refrigerator.

What we do is keep them at room temperature in a flower vase and change the water every day and trim the bottom of the stems when we change the water. Makes the kitchen smell great.

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by: Crider @ Sun Aug 15, 2010 at 16:55:07 PM UTC

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I grow shit loads of basil (4.00 / 3)

I keep cutting off the flowers and using. But at the end of the season I pull up, take leaves off of stems and put in baggies until I am going to make pesto. THEN I wash.  

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by: LeeN @ Sun Aug 15, 2010 at 17:26:40 PM UTC

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That makes sense (4.00 / 2)

not to get the leaves soaking wet.

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by: Crider @ Sun Aug 15, 2010 at 17:28:10 PM UTC

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food truck race (4.00 / 1)

The Great Food Truck Race premiers Sunday, August 15, on The Food Network. I think Food Network doesn't have a lot of bandwidth so clicking the link might make you crazy, suffice it to say it's a seven-team six-city contest. Profit is the metric. The team that nets the least profit in a city goes home. The website doesn't say, but the teams might begin in L.A. and end in NYC.

I like the program concept BUT -

One team is from Austin, Texas, six teams are from California, NONE is from Portland, Oregon. It's obviously NOT a reality show!

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by: count @ Sun Aug 15, 2010 at 04:54:16 AM UTC

Yeah, that was odd... (4.00 / 1)

But after all, it wouldn't even be a contest if a Portland truck was involved.  The 'competition' would be over before it began!

;)

"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks." - Christopher Hitchens

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by: JayinPortland @ Sun Aug 15, 2010 at 14:46:19 PM UTC

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Out of the frying pan... (4.00 / 2)

...into the fire, as they say.

Heading out in a few minutes to do my part in shutting down 6 miles of streets in SE Portland for Sunday Parkways!  (stashing camera in backpack...)  The Hawthorne Street Fair is going on today, too.

Today's high?  98.  Yuck.

Good news and bad news.

Good news - my shift ends at 12:30 and after I (briefly) check out the Hawthorne Street Fair, I can be home by 1:30 or 2 or so.

Bad news - it's gonna be over 80 by 11 AM, and over 90 by 2!!!

Gha...

"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks." - Christopher Hitchens

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by: JayinPortland @ Sun Aug 15, 2010 at 14:54:14 PM UTC

I was out on SE Lincoln & 43rd... (4.00 / 1)

But for all intents and purposes, I may as well have been out on BURNside.

Ouch, ouch, ouch...

:(

Arms and hands, but fortunately not the neck too bad...

"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks." - Christopher Hitchens

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by: JayinPortland @ Sun Aug 15, 2010 at 23:04:25 PM UTC

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Scientific Plant Services Inc. (4.00 / 1)

I was a dollar-a-day member of a local radio station, but I abandoned it and haven't listened to it for years. Sad story, illustrated by the following anecdote.

Today I wanted to listen to a radio program and had to do it on line, so I went to this radio station for the live stream.

Major and only advertiser, showing a large top banner, is a company whose website boasts this:

Originally a full service company providing services in landscape maintenance, mowing and arborculture, its new, and current president, Kenneth R. Mays, decided in 1977 to streamline the operation and to concentrate on the services we knew best to become a "full service" pesticide application company.
...

We are your one stop chemical applicator.

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by: count @ Sun Aug 15, 2010 at 15:24:45 PM UTC

Wyclef Jean (4.00 / 1)

AP: Wyclef Jean seeks dual citizenship for Haiti

TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press Writer
Aug 14, 11:05 pm ET

An eight-member provisional electoral council is scheduled to decide Tuesday whether Jean will even be listed on the Nov. 28 presidential ballot. According to the country's constitution, Haitian presidents must have lived in the country at least five consecutive years before election day.

Wyclef Jean never became a U.S. citizen and is a citizen of Haiti.

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by: count @ Sun Aug 15, 2010 at 22:16:46 PM UTC

Some pics... (4.00 / 1)

And just for the hell of it...

Rest can be seen here...

"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks." - Christopher Hitchens

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by: JayinPortland @ Mon Aug 16, 2010 at 04:09:05 AM UTC