Bakin' the Bacon

I can feel my arteries clogging just looking at this. Bacon baskets alias bacontainer, probably dreamed up by someone who was cutting carbs. It is funny how food trends come and go. A few years ago eggs were verboten. I like bacon but just a little and cook it crisp and blot the grease. I have my husband trained to do the same. All I do is remind him his mom loved bacon, saved the grease to reuse and had a stroke at age 67.
Medical bulletins and research often gives conflicting answers. This week I read I have an increased risk of dying from heart disease BECAUSE of my large wt. loss. I am counting on better news with the next release of results from a study. Maybe someone will endorse bacon as healthy food.
http://www.notmartha.org/archives/2008/02/27/bacon-cups

Terry Redlin

It is called "The Lights of Home" and I bought the framed signed, limited edition print for Jon for his birthday years back. I didn't much like it, but he did. There are times I wanted to sneak it in the Goodwill pile. Terry Redlin prints are very common. Today I was browsing on eBay Express and found the unframed print for sale for $695. The Goodwill will have to wait. Better tell the kids not to toss it when we perish.

Mary Had a Little Lamb

My baby girl in her costume as "Clarisse" from the movie, "Silence of the Lambs". She attended a big themed party celebrating the Academy Awards. Attendees came as a character from a movie. Her husband was Hannibal Lector. Not my favorite movie. Note the lamb has duct tape over the mouth.

Romancing the Plane

Do you remember the plane Indiana Jones flew on in the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark"? It was a Pan Am Clipper. I often wish we still had that plane in service when I fly coach with no leg room ( and no meals). They had couches, beds, full meals and room to roam on those huge planes. Today I booked an April flight to Boston to stay with my old roommate. I used frequent flyer miles and was delighted to get aisle seats. I thought NWA was putting a surcharge on aisle row seats.

The old clippers seemed like a romantic way to travel until I recently read my husband's uncle's memoirs. He was in Naval Intelligence in WW2 and spent time in Africa. He mentioned being stuck for two weeks waiting for the swell of the sea to level off at 6 feet so the Pan Am Clipper could take off. I guess there was a downside. Wouldn't that make a mess of scheduled air in the US today if some of the planes were backed up that far? One weather delay in the east goofs up the whole country and people miss connections, lose luggage etc.

Those Darn Cats

Have you ever seen the TV ads for "Fancy Feast" cat food? A silky white Persian green-eyed cat lives the life of luxury eating cat food from a crystal dish. It occured to me I am not a high upkeep cat. Named (plain) Jane, did my name dictate my destiny? Would life be different if I was Tiffany? Who knows. I have to admit I don't like wearing jeweley much, I lack good taste and do not have a discriminating palate for the finer things. A few days later the black and white picture of the "Barn Cat" was in the newspaper. The caption: With a direct pipeline to the source of supply behind him, the barnyard cat awaits his daily ration of milk, reclining regally on a straw bale on the Dave Larson farm..." Realization? It is okay to be a barn cat. I am well provided for and content and have entered into His rest. I am at rest with a direct link to the (divine) source of supply.

Name That Train

http://www.stpaul.gov/initiatives/centralcorridor/

The metro council is looking for an acronym or catchy name for the proposed new light rail that will connect the downtowns of Minneapolis and St. Paul. It will run past the U of M and down University avenue, past the capitol and into downtown St. Paul. The working name has been the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit. Some thought we could do better naming it. Consider the BART, the Metro, the Tube. Catchy names. We have one light rail line in place in Minneapolis referred to as the Hiawatha line. Another coming from the north will be the Northstar. One alert reader wrote to the St. Paul paper suggesting selling naming rights. It could be called the St. Paul and Minneapolis. (Acronym: SPAM) Since Spam is produced in Minnesota that seems a good choice. It sounds better than my suggestion, U-Go.

Music

http://www.myspace.com/punchbrothers

These guys were on the Tonight Show Friday. I like their sound. They remind me of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Listen for yourselves if you like bluegrass.