Summer, Winter, Spring...

Otherwise known as Thursday, Friday, Saturday here in the wilds of Upstate New York. Heat to snow, to a beautiful Spring day. Koda and I were out in the sunshine for a nice long walk.

You can see little whispers of green coming into the picture.
I KNOW yall have missed pictures of Koda and his swimming hole!
Shake that thing!
Blue Skies.... nothing but....
Spring has sprung! So, it was clean up/put up day in the park behind our house, the little kiddies and their dads out for some early season baseball.

One more....

If Annabella and the boys are tres' Reed Basement, The Housemartins, are Todd's truck. I do love how , at least for me, songs are set in one exact spot, time and space. Perfect Circle will always be some ATM in Gainsville, Ga in Jimmy's old 2002. That horrible mid 80's rooterin' song is now and forever at that little lake at Georgia College, on and on.

This is just a little bit of a feel good, ya'll are going to have to forgive this massive

wave of nostalgia that I am just wallowing in. Not sure how long it is going to last.

TOTP 1986

o.d.a.a.t. ( cue Cristy Lane...)

2+2= 1964 Dodge Dart

and

The Capitol of Montana is rhubarb pie.

Still feeling my way around this new reality and all. The fact that the early spring heat has made Mendon feel like Winder pollen wise is NOT helping matters any, at all. Feeling like crap while being all confused is just not the best way to spend a Thursday.

Neil knows me well enough now to know that the pill phobia and the , lets face it, fucked up body chemistry make it impossible for me to take allergy drugs like a human being, so he insisted we do the next best thing this morning, the clean air of The Pittsford Movie Theater, just wish we had picked a better movie.

Clash of the Titans 2010

Ummm.. wow, really sort of hard to mess up this. I mean, it's a great story and all. I am a rabid fan of the Harryhausen 1981 movie, with it's little total rip off r2d2 Owl in ancient Greece. Camp and stop motion at its best! 2010 can not make up it's mind if its LOTR or Greek Mythology. Very dark, a little pointless and dull... Do not waste your money on the 3-d on this one, very much added at the end to jump on the band wagon of stuff aiming at your head. BUT, for a couple of hours I did not feel like the wrath of those Gods, so money well spent!

Dahn sent over a fantastic dinner tonight, peanut noodles ,( I did not know that she knew I love them!), and Pork Roast in the same sauce , with a lovely cool crispy salad. I was so hungry that I did not get a good pic, but you will get one when I have it for lunch again tomorrow. As always, and so often this last week, many thanks to her.

Malcolm McLaren 1946-2010

R.I.P.

Everyone knows this:

But, did you know this little piece of Reed Basement Early 80's fluff was him as well:

ROLLING STONE

The 82ed Annual Welcome Home Redwings Dinner.

Minor league baseball and the American legion.. come on kiddies, we are talking Red, White and freaking Bluest! For 82 years the Monroe County Chapter of the American Legion has been having this dinner. When we first started going it was in the old fun sort of time warpy legion hall.. now its in the exact same hotel ballroom that everything in Rochester seems to be in. ( I wonder if there are others)

This was Tuesday Night and I don't think anything on the planet could have made me leave the house other than this dinner. Jack is sweet enough to invite us every year. Linda was out of town with their brand new grand baby, so it was close to boys night out.

You get there and you wait in line till all of this years players show up, and sign stuff. I'm there for the fresh meat aspect of the whole thing.Some people are super into it, getting many things signed and all.

The boys of summer, signing bats....
We must be moving up in the world, or else Jack got the call in early this year, because out table was front and center.
The Legionaries and elected types are on the other side of the dais, these are all the baseball folks...
Dinner.... tasted just like it looks...
You get a player! Ours is Mr. Cutie Patootie from down under, the pride of Perth: Luke Hughes. He was more than a little bit adorable,and seemingly a very nice guy. Here he is with our new coach...
Who knew there is a jocky straight boy uniform! Somehow i did NOT get the memo. You wear really fancy blue jeans, all sorts of cut outs and over the top stitching... no 501's here, and pressed shirts untucked. Hair care products are important too....
Also, and this was a bit of a shocker... seriously ugly as hell shoes. The white elf shoes are our players. I just don't get it....
A little of the eye candy....
Neil and Luke. It really is a lovely time, and you see the exact same people each year, a sure sign that we made it through yet another upstate New York Winter, and Spring is on its way. It was a very nice day, there have been times with lots of snow left for the dinner. Many thanks to the always wonderful Bishop McKelvey for taking us , again this year.

A Must Make Cake !

From Alexis, from whence all good things flow....a little non funeral food, but it would be good to take....

candied lemon cake

½ cup (75g) plain (all-purpose) flour, sifted
1 ½ cup (240g) icing (confectioner's) sugar, sifted
1 cup (120g) almond meal (ground almonds)
1 tablespoon finely grated lemon rind
6 eggwhites
180g butter, melted

lemon sour cream
1 cup (240g) sour cream
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon icing (confectioner's) sugar, sifted

candied lemon slices
1 ½ cup (330g) caster (superfine) sugar
⅔ cups (160ml) water
4 lemons, thinly sliced

THE REST

Rachel Rips....

and the truth hurts, you know, if you are a idiot fox news watcher.

This is a LONG piece, but watch it. Rachel is really going for the much longer, almost 60 Minutes sort of story as of late, and I for one am LOVING IT! C-Street and its kin, not so much.

Like I have said before, Acorn helped get Steve and I that house in College Park, so I think they are a wonderful group, and this POS should, oh, I don't know, go to prison.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy