Smartie's Bar & Grill #73

Again yer looking for very small well knit-bubbles.The bigger the
bubbles the cruddier the beer.The same theory behind great champagne.
Duval ale used to have the best well knit bubbles.You had to pour
real slow.

 

Famous for his stock reply in many an early flick :
" Know what a mean! "

I have a really early role from Alfred Hitchcock Hour
- Lonely Place - { 1964 } he plays his usual
early role self.A tormentor.

 

That Movie was all over the map.I never got all the way thru it.I chalk it up
to length and a high degree of dizzying plot.If there was a plot.
The movie had Cinematography that at times was too dark and
you could barely make out what was happening and other's were
quite good.Plus the Overall storyline lacked believability.Like surviving
most of the near death scenes.

 

Yup, that was the first bottle I popped. The head was kinda frothy then but the ale still tasted good. Since then the bubbles have tightened up quite a bit.

 

Had to make a stop at Wal*Mart this am.I was really thinking about
asking a couple times ... How come the Toilet paper.And Paper Towels.
But then that'd be like askin' Hud Bannon ... Would you like a Mars Bar.?
Hud's reply after Lonnie says " I wouldn't mind driving her the long
way home. "
Hud - " Get all the good out of seventeen 'cause it sure wears
out in one hell of hurry."

 

If that was Homebrew it might have needed more aging or
there was not enough sugar primed for carbonation.

 

Billy Bob Thornton in "Slingblade" was outstanding. Bruce Dern does comedy roles great too.

 

Have you been able to get a thermometer?

 

The bizarre thing about The Revenant to me is that one moment it can be starkly beautiful and the next moment totally brutal. It would be in my personal collection if it wasn't so rough, but that's one of the great things about that film - it does a fantastic job of conveying how dangerous and tough it was to live on the frontier back in those days.

I didn't know it until recently, but the storyline is somewhat based on the amazing real life misadventures of Hugh Glass:

 

Two weeks of additional bottle conditioning.

I usually bottle a couple 12 oz. bottles for my sample beers that I test while I'm waiting for the ale to properly carbonate but I didn't have any this time around so I had to pop open a 22 oz. big boy.

First World problems...

 

I finally found the video of Polina Gagarina; that I was searching for.

 

Yes!

I feel guilty about it, though.

A Walmart clerk suggested that I look in the baby's department...

I bought the last one.

So far, I'm measuring out OK.

 

Doesn't the NYT still offer free trial mail order subscriptions?

 

The opening scenes { first 20 minutes } were pretty bold
as far as survival.And Greed.And backstabbing.
I don't believe that during the Gold Rush years our
Ancestors were that selfish and demonic.

 

That's what money does to some people.

Same thing happened during the heyday of the fur trade.

I've been thinking about buying this book about one of the more remarkable people of that time


https://www.amazon.com/Madame-Montour-Fur-Trade-1667-1752/dp/1456873733
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Montour

Her son Andrew was an interesting and important figure, too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Montour

Back then some of the most valuable people in America were the multilingual translators who could converse with both the Europeans/Americans and the various Indian tribes. Fascinating stuff.

 

Here's a picture showing part of my wife's handiwork down our driveway that I was talking about earlier:

 

Um ... should that not be ... Buy a thermometer.
One gets the flu or the common cold.
I guess one could Buy the flu by Getting one them
Flu vaccine shots.

 

I also saw my first butterfly of the year today in our collard greens that are flowering and going to seed...



Spring has sprung!

 

There is No Downside to reading important Books.I spent an entire
decade Reading and Learning.Years after Flunking out of college on
purpose.
As Miss de Havilland { Olivia } said ... " Writing is divine "
Her 3 L's are - Love,Laughter and Learning ".
She is still with us.

 

The only thing people should feel guilty about now is all the hoarding going on. If people would just calm down there would be enough to go around and everyone would have toilet paper and everything else they need. Before this Cpvid19 scare you could walk into a well-ordered store and find all you needed.

 

You got this.

 

Are you putting it in the correct end?

 

They tell me to stick it in my ear.

Seems to work.