Category Archives: The Peanut Butter Cafe & Roadhouse

Woo-Hoo . . . Bison meat on sale

If I have a spare moment and if I have the gumption, I stop by the local Kroger’s to see what the manager’s meat specials are. Today was a jackpot day. Bison meat was half-price and I made lots of patties and froze them. Der Bingle can take some to the Ohio Redoubt of the WFC and I can take some to Mother’s for when I go up and we have a bit of supper. We call it bison meat instead of buffalo meat because some of our dear friends are buffalos and. of course, Native American Poo (NaPoo) has many, many, many buff friends.

Remember NaPoo? She specializes in Great Spirit Dances, and we are trying to get her to concentrate on spring and AmeliaJake losing weight ones for now. She’s been down practicing steps in front of the fireplace in the Foo Bar and drinking sassafras to stay cool.

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Everyone exclaimed “Oh My God”

I am an
Echinacea


What Flower
Are You?

And this is Summer:

I am a
Violet


What Flower
Are You?

Now everyone at The Peanut Butter Cafe & Roadhouse is taking the quiz. I did some research and see the lady who posted this on a blog in 2006, gave an update in ’07 about all the possibilities. Actually the “Oh My God’ yells were prompted when it seemed I was going to be a Canada Thistle. They were followed by the comment, “That is SO you.” A Canada Thistle is described this way: You are a mean spirited, ornery cuss. People try to get rid of you and you just keep coming back.

I thought it was an old movie, redone

Last night I saw that a movie named “A House on Carroll Street” was on a cable channel and I turned it on, because, for some reason, I thought it was a re-make of a spy movie. I thought I remembered liking the original. Jessica Tandy was in this re-make. The representation of the early fifties was good, so good that as I absorbed the visual effects, I found my memory from that time being nudged. The dresses, the cars, the suits . . . I started thinking of the actors as “grown-ups” – yes, I did.

Not too far into the movie I got the idea that I was not really sure what was going on in the plot. I knew the lady was in trouble with the government and there were two sets of official agents running around, plus the police. And there was the Un-American Activities Committee. But, hey, the background scenery was good.

“Who is this actress?” I kept wondering that. Having it in my head the re-make was about ten years ago, I am trying to think of names. Quentin called about then and I told him what I’d written here. I suggested the name of a “new” actress and he responded, “Is she still alive?”  I was still having trouble with the plot; its Hitchcockian echoes were dimming – maybe they were being absorbed by that great background. I don’t know.

After a while, it ended. I told Quentin the bad guy was splatted on the floor of a major New York landmark.

So we talked of some other stuff, and after we hung up, I looked up information on the movie. HA, the joke’s on me. Wait while I scrape it off. Oh, no. It’s sticking.

It wasn’t a re-make, according to info on the internet. There was only one little reference to a previous movie with a similar plot but with another name – and that name wasn’t mentioned. Most reviewers panned it . . . but liked the scenery. It wasn’t too old of a re-make . . . for me; it was filmed in 1886 and released to theaters in 1988. It is “a little seen film”.

The actress? Kelly McGillis. Heavens to Betsey! That would be an expression appropriate to my time period. Rats and Ack!

Kelly McGillis was born in 1957; she is only 9 years younger than I am. I have lost sight of the mainstream current and am floating on a bayou.

More refugees headed to Ohio Redoubt of WFC

I don’t know what is going on but a queue is forming for getting out of here; people are madly trying to acquire Letters of Transit. And some have; here is a newly-received double secret photo from the Ohio Redoubt of the West Facing Cave.

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Clockwise from Grover – Bob, Bing, Otter, Rose,  Alien Poo, California LemonHead and Joe.  Arctos is the large bear in the center around whom everyone is gathered.

Rufus and mommy bloggers

Rufus stops in daily here at the Peanut Butter Cafe & Roadhouse; he is somewhere around my age – that is, to say, “He’ll never see 60 again.” He’s a professor on sabbatical and likes to bring his laptop into the PBC to use our Wi-Fi and have the facts at hand when a question comes up – whether it have to do with geographical information or who played what role in that movie in 1953. Of course, they often can’t recall the title so Rufus and his buddies, of whom I count myself, join in adding remembered plot twists and so forth into the Google search engine.

Today, though, he announced one of his former students had become a “mommy blogger” and we all decided to see what she had to say. Well, Rufus was not surprised to learn she wrote her entries as she had written her essays – lots of detail and excellent grammar. A lot of information.  Clever. However, as he read and as we read over his shoulder – or followed along on our own laptops – it became apparent her “lots of information” responses have become “too much information.” Oh, yeah. A lot of too much information.

Right now there’s a lot of talk about baby (excuse me) poop and pots to pee in. We are wondering what these bloggers will write about when they get to be our age – constipation, Depends and gallbladders?

Spring Break

Yes, once again Spring Break for the grandkids has rolled around. Whoa. I just stopped typing cold. Bam. No fingers moving or even twitching . . . because I am overwhelmed with the thought of the coming week. Perhaps we should have a theme for the week – maybe Monastery of Silence meets Nuns Who Speakth Not. Or maybe I will go to Spring Bird Camp, which annually meets this time of the year at the northwest corner of the porch. The curriculum is to learn to fly through the westernmost north porch window, continue through the nothernmost west porch window, then on to the windows that form the northwest corner of the house. I almost think the constant thunking of my head would be preferable to the week of time with the spring chickens.

Oh, and yeah, after I hear the first couple of thunks, I scoot something in front of the first window to discourage attempted fly-throughs, but those guys are so insistent.

This morning I looked over at one of the three piece hinged mirrors I picked up at an auction for almost nothing. Each piece is framed in  wood and the hinges are brass and where they can be seen. That’s fine, except just lately I moved it onto a spot where two of the three mirrors are in a straight line. Stand and look in them and you have a slender body, but no head. Okay, I guess it is on to Plan B. Although . . . the body appears fit and you don’t have to gringe at winkles and crazed hair.

It was Saturday night in the Foo Bar and so now it is quiet here . . . just us old fuddy-duddy Peanut Butter Cafe & Roadhouse.

For Sydney – Oh, it turned out to be so great

Der Bingle sent this for Sydney, saying it was something about extreme sheep herding. Since he and I were outside doing yard work, we waited to come in and look at it. And when we did, we saw that he had sent the embedded code as opposed to the address, so we are flying by the seat of our pants on this one, flying blind . . . Heck, we’re probably taxi-ing. Whoa, if we get this one landed okay, I guess we’ll have to head into the Foo Bar to calm our nerves so we can make our foldover in the Peanut Butter Cafe & Roadhouse.

Am I sounding like Lucy Ricardo? Don’t answer that.

Well, here goes:

WOW!! It is so great. The Foo Bar is cheering and folks from the PBC&R are coming in and Foo is saying, “There’s goes the neighborhood.”