Five Teasers

1. Mr. Big Food's participation in the GOOD IDEAS forum on liberal gun ownership went well. As it was scheduled for 1:30 central time, and at the time we were making our way back to the Farm from the coast, Mr. Big Food chose an outdoor location from which to participate. 

Civil Rights

2. Daughter C, who had been minding the Farm during our absence, was hard at work during our absence. 

Real Big Food!

3. I have work to do.

Cataloging the 10 pounds of crappy old books I crammed in a 5 pound bag.

4. The garden continued to produce in my absence. Daughter C was otherwise engaged. So I harvested some beans this afternoon. As I type, Mr. Big Food is in the new & improved kitchen turning beans into a little side dish to go with our chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes. I think bacon is involved.

5. What a great Anniversary Fishing Trip we had! We're thinking about dragging the whole family down to the Gulf next fall.

Even those danged old dawgs.

Stay tuned!

And Now for Something Really Unappetizing

"The stench is overwhelming," Waveland Mayor David Garcia said.

"They can blow up like a basketball and explode," he said.

"They" are dead nutria which drowned in the Louisiana gulf marshes during Hurricane Issac and are now washing up on the Mississippi gulf coast. Officials estimate there are at least 16,000.

I heard on Mississippi SuperTalk that county cleanup crews are ill-equipped for the job-- many have gotten ill trying to do their jobs. So we called in the Feds.

A federal contractor, U.S. Environmental Services, will dump the bodies in a landfill rated to take household garbage.

You know what nutria are, right? Large, semi-aquatic, herbivorous rodents that can tear up commercial catfish ponds.

How to reinforce a stereotype?

Do something stereotypically stupid, like proposing to rename the Gulf of Mexico: Mississippi House Bill 150. I commented on this yesterday. And now I'm seeing it All over the World Wide Web. From Jazz Shaw (read the whole thing) at Hot Air:

I’m not entirely sure where one state legislature comes up with the power to start renaming international bodies of water, but I still find this idea really exciting. Imagine the possibilities! In a tit for tat move, Mexico could rename the Gulf of California. (Take a look at the map… the Gulf of California doesn’t even touch California. It’s entirely bounded by Mexico.) And for those of you who never really trusted out neighbors to the north, we could rename Lake Huron to something like… Lake Ted Nugent. (Suck it, Canada!)

One more reason folks should stay away from Mississippi.

Some Photos of a Gulf Sunset

If you fish, you will understand this. Fishing the Gulf is not the same as fishing The Atlantic. 

Over the slot limit Red Fish

We are learning.

In print or digital format, I have a gazillion photos of the sun setting over some water.

What a lie. In print or in digital format, I have a gazillion photos of the Earth rotating and "light waves" being dispersed such that ... . 

Taking pictures is what I sometimes do while I wait for a hit.