The MN State Fair is seriously good fun. I mean, if you’re claustrophobic, you need to really think about going early in the mid-week since it is literally shoulder-to-shoulder by 10 am on weekends. But if you can’t find something to enjoy at the State Fair - be it the food, the animals, the crafts, the parade, the…

I got to go to last year’s event - the past few years it landed on a day when I could not go - and I can confirm the lamas are not at ALL bothered by the costumes. (And it’s a one-l lama not for Ogden Nash reasons, but because it’s the genus that contains both llamas and alpacas, something I heard quite a bit about…

Eh, the best part about seeing the butter sculptures is then turning around and looking at all the award winning cheeses and sausages, and getting a milkshake.

*sigh*

Yep.  I have a decent sized kitchen for a condo, but I really don’t have all that much counter space.  Cleaning-and-reshelving-as-I-go is a basic survival tool. 

Well it’s more that it encompasses three of the five categories - I’m counting the butter in the pound cake as grease - so it’s more of a solid mid-level food pyramid item.  But that doesn’t roll off the tongue as well...

I’m more of a Cassata Trifle kinda girl.

*sigh* Now I want to go back to Edinburgh - not that that’s probably allowed for another 2 years - and have this again: Game and Wild Mushrooms on Toast with some sort of evil reduction that was so good I licked the plate.

(Rule of thumb - someone offers you game meat in Scotland, you say, “Yes, please.”)

I hadn’t been able to Internet yet today, so the last I’d heard was the woman had been let go.

Here’s the take from a bunch of epidemiologists.

My mother had a shorter way of putting it:

First of all, Cotton, that’s Mayor-For-Life Marion Barry to you.

I feel bad for this young man - not as much as I did since he’s contributing to this shit show now, but yeah, a little.

Yes.  I noted it was about the diet the birds that sourced my eggs was key.

I started buying Locally Laid eggs five years ago because of this story. Any company that responded so well to such a bullshit letter deserved my support.(And, yes, the name was amusing.)

I’m just laughing that his whole schtick of “Charlotte will lose out on all the fabulous jobs that come with hosting the RNC!” didn’t yield the compliance he expected.

While it’s true you don’t have to frost a Bundt, you can dollop frosting on it while it’s warm and let it ooze down the sides so it’s a thick glaze.

All I know is that the BLM MN group - or I guess it’s former now? I’m not sure, they’re not on the chapter list anymore - orchestrated one of my most favorite recent protests.

The “delirium” bullshit thing probably falls under the “but I feared for my life” category. He was afraid if he let him up because he just missed the pulse, then he’d be attacked!  (By a clearly exhausted man in handcuffs!)