Texas “asparagus”* grows tall, as tall as though sprouted from Jack’s magic beans.
Giant. Like everything else.
“Corn Grows Big in Texas”
“The Kind We Grow in Texas”
*Photo of agave plant on Guenther Street in King William Historic District, April 29, 2013
This represents another re-post from two years ago. Since I re-recognized the genius of Dorcas Reilly (Hey, is that actually even a green bean casserole sitting in this oven?), it only seems fair to re-mention my favorite Thanksgiving-related invention:
1963: Innovations in the kitchen, while even more helpful, begin to grow more complex. The P-7 self-cleaning oven is introduced. In developing the oven, which uses a pyrolytic system to remove food soil, GE engineers are granted some 100 patents.
While it took about another two decades for a self-cleaning oven to enter any of the houses in which we have lived, what a great invention GE brought to life.
Last night I pressed a button, and this morning I woke up to find all traces of Thanksgiving had vanished from my oven.
1963: Innovations in the kitchen, while even more helpful, begin to grow more complex. The P-7 self-cleaning oven is introduced. In developing the oven, which uses a pyrolytic system to remove food soil, GE engineers are granted some 100 patents.
While it took about another two decades for a self-cleaning oven to enter any of the houses in which we have lived, what a great invention GE brought to life.
Last night I pressed a button, and this morning I woke up to find all traces of Thanksgiving had vanished from my oven.
Can’t stand having the “Deadly Scenario” post as the lead. Need to supplant it with something peaceful - doves.
Anyone with a bird feeder knows what gorging gourmands doves are. Often one of them sits on the window sill by my desk, peering at me with eyes encircled with the same shade of iridescent blue eyeshadow I would apply in eighth grade once out of my parents’ sight on the way to CYO Friday night dances.
Seems as though more and more white wings are in the city each year. And, according to the San Antonio Express-News, volunteers are out there attempting to count them:
White-winged doves first nested in citrus trees in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. However, since a freeze in the 1980s, they’ve shifted populations to more urban areas. Bexar County has the most, about 7 percent of the total.
Do ornithologists really believe the doves moved here because of a freeze? Would you rather dine at an urban restaurant where a loving owner watches you enjoy your meal, or feed in the country where the man who leaves food for you stands nearby waiting to shoot you dead?
