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My thoughts released; a mind set free |
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These pages contain my thoughts, from meandering ideas and persuasions to deep cerebrations and serious mentations. Why, for what purpose? To release my mind and set creativity free. Somewhere inside the constraints of my mind dwells a writer, a poet, an artist who paints with words. In here I release those constraints and set the artist free. Perhaps, lost somewhere in the depths of thought, is a story or a poem, waiting to be written. |
| I posted in the Newsfeed that I had missed my daily achievements yesterday. So, today I am starting over, and with this post will have my five done for the day. I could have logged in after returning home yesterday and maybe had enough time to finish all five, but I would have been rushing and not putting much thought into any of them. Besides, I was off on my completion sequence, getting three badges on one day, then the other two a few days later. So, since it was late I decided to take the day off, reset, and then restart today. If I put the effort in, I will now compete and receive all five badges in a week. I did mention in a former blog post that once things start getting busier with the coming of warm weather, it could become very difficult to maintain my weekly streaks, and that was the case yesterday. I had a few things I had been putting off until it was warmer and nicer outside; yesterday was that day. It was in the mid-fifties Fahrenheit, a gentle breeze, and nothing but sunshine. After the work outside work was done, I had to run my wife into town and take care of a few things at her place of employment, then we took the dogs out to Maplewood State Park for some hiking and fresh air. Some of the remote camping areas are still closed off, so we hiked the gravel road (the trails are very muddy, have standing water in places, and ice and snow in shaded places) back to the camping area. Spring has arrived, the tapping and collecting from the maple trees has begun. I was hoping to catch someone at the ranger station, I want to find out who collects, processes, and sells the finished syrup. It was after dinner time when we left the park, we were hungry, and we had not taken anything out to prepare, so we hustled back into town and stopped at the local meat/locker plant to pick up something for our dinner. We picked out a nice beef roast and I couldn't refuse getting a fresh, right from the smoker, double-smoked ham, and since we were there, a couple of whole chickens. I also picked up a small chunk of flank steak to slice, cure, and dry for beef jerky. Once it's warmer, I'll dry it in the pellet smoker, but this batch is drying in a convection oven. My wife was hungry for hot beef sandwiches, but it was too late to cook the roast; instead we sliced it thin and fried the slices, then made gravy in the pan, returned the sliced beef and let it simmer while the potatoes cooked. In honesty, I prefer this method over the traditional hot beef sandwich. After I helped with dishes and cleanup, mixed up the brine and started the jerky marinading, then retired to my recliner. It was after ten, eleven WDC time and I wondered if I would be able to complete my five or if I should use the opportunity to restart, and here I am. |
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