Hunting an the good old days

Just saw a story about a man out hunting an he got hurt an spent 19 days out in the wilderness until he was found. Well I knew a little about this I got back the same day,only because I wasn’t hurt real bad,an lucky but bad things happen and my accident was two fold. The first part was that I went out hunting alone,never a good idea. The second was I slipped an fell with my leg behind me an I thought I broke something because the pain was a 10+ hurt like hell pain. I had been hand gun hunting for javelina a few miles behind Lake Pleasant at the foothills of the Bradshaw mountains beautiful high desert about 2,000 + feet elevation so it was mild weather I think Feb,1981. I had bagged an suit-cased my javelina “suitcase is all 4 legs tied together an carry like a suit case” and was heading back to my truck about 2 miles away from where I fell.When I fell backwards my leg was behind my back an I haven’t been that limber since I was a babe. So it hurt like hell an I really thought my leg was broken ,I could not put any weight on it.I had laid there where I fell for about 30 minutes due to the pain. After a while it let up enough that I could crawl about 20 yards over where I saw a stick sturdy enough to use as a crutch to hobble back to the truck with. I grabbed the javelina ~35# on my strong side and spent the next 2 hours getting back to my truck. No fun but it beat crawling back. Once back I had to shift with my right leg since the left was in poor shape but I made it home an being the frugal an dumb hunter type I hobbled around my javelina skinned an quartered it an got it in the freezer about which time my wife got home an took me to emergency room for diagnostics. Lucky again only a real bad sprain an no broken bones. I did lose about a week off work an about 6 weeks till I could walk normal with little pain but I never went hunting alone again. Which after all is said and done is never a good idea.

Algae to Oil ?

           The last blog entry I posted a Link to a story about the discovery of a inexpensive way to convert wet algae to a crude oil substitute which really should be a great big deal. In reality the story is treated as a page 23 story an had little exposure to the public. You would think a method of cheap energy production would be treated as a big deal. I guess we will see where this goes.I see it as a means to cut off our need for foreign oil and energy independence until someone invents something better. So will huge algae farms be in our future or is peak oil our true future? Guess we will have to see where it goes, I'm just disappointed that I didn't see any major news stories about this discovery.

Algae based crude oil creation link

http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/12/27/biofuel-scientists-making-headway-on-cheaper-algae-based-crude/

Where is all the Gold going? Link to Gold is King

http://goldisking.blogspot.com/2013/12/where-is-all-gold-going.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GoldIsKing+%28GOLD+IS+KING%29

Merry Christmas to all

Merry Christmas to one an all.

Garlic Goldfish snacks

The Garlic Goldfish (a perennial favorite Christmas snack) have arrived! 

Actually, they were assembled by yours truly, in a couple hours standing at the iron skillet, Worcestershire, Blue Bonnet margarine and garlic powder at-the-ready.  Then slow baked until dry and toasty.
(For the uninitiated, this is a snack I’ve made traditionally for years.  Originally, I made standard Chex Mix, with the requisite addition of peanuts, pretzels and the like.  With a tablespoon of this, a dash of that.  I determined two things – people singled out the Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Crackers for consumption so the other ingredients were wasted, and screw this tablespoon-dash thing!)
I cover roughly 9/10 of the bottom of the skillet with Worcestershire, add 1/2 a stick of margarine, and sprinkle garlic powder generously.  Then marinate a pan full of crackers until they soak it all up.  Transfer all to a turkey roasting pan and bake @ 300* or so, turning every 10 minutes of so to check for burning, until they are all dry and crispy.  (I use Blue Bonnet because it’s cheap and takes the high heat.)
I used to make these in massive quantities for Christmas when I was employed and bring them into work.  It became such a tradition that folks would start asking me in September if I was bringing in goldfish that year!   Thanks to Guffaw in Arizona blog.http://armedlaughing.wordpress.com/2013/12/20/the-garlic-goldfish-have-arrived/

Maple-Pumpkin Pie Bars

Prep time 15 Min   Total time 1 Hr 35 Min   Serves 24

Ingredients

• 1 pkg. (2-layer size) yellow cake mix
• 4 eggs, divided
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 pkg. (8 oz.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened
• 1 can (15 oz.) pumpkin
• 1 pkg. (3.4 oz.) JELL-O Pumpkin Spice Flavor Instant Pudding
• 1 env. DREAM WHIP Whipped Topping Mix
• 1/3 cup milk
• 3 Tbsp. maple syrup
• 1/8 tsp. ground cinnamon

Directions

1. HEAT oven to 350°F.
2. LINE 13x9-inch pan with foil, with ends of foil extending over sides; spray with cooking spray. Mix cake mix, 1 egg and butter until blended; press onto bottom of prepared pan.
3. BEAT cream cheese, brown sugar, remaining eggs, pumpkin and dry pudding mix with mixer until blended; pour over crust.
4. BAKE 40 min. or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean; cool 10 min. Use foil handles to transfer dessert to wire rack; cool completely.
5. MEANWHILE, mix whipped topping mix, milk and syrup in large bowl with mixer on low speed until blended. Beat on high speed 4 min. or until mixture forms stiff peaks. Refrigerate until ready to use.
6. SPREAD whipped topping mixture onto dessert and sprinkle with cinnamon before cutting into bars to serve.

Special Extra

Garnish with toasted pecan halves. Thanks to cooking.com for the recipe.