The Moose Factory - Virtual Bar and Grill - Version 3

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

The Perseids are this weekend (and into early next week) and Upper Michigan is a great place to see them.  We're considering camping at a beach to give us all that dark Lake Superior sky to view them in.

Also, Rom is very, very bad at baseball (DS9).

 

Since we're still watching DS9 (now in the final season), root beers are on the house!

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10 hours ago, NMUSpidey said:

.... Since we're still watching DS9 (now in the final season), root beers are on the house!

They were playing the entire series 24/7 on Sky TV last week, didn't watch all of it obviously but did catch up on some of my favourite episodes again

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

I could watch Trials And Tribble-ations every day.  It might be my favorite episode in all of Star Trek.  Sure, it's a lot of fan service, but it's fan service done in the best way possible.

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11 hours ago, NMUSpidey said:

I could watch Trials And Tribble-ations every day.  It might be my favorite episode in all of Star Trek

oh no that's got me remembering the tribble website ..... must not go and visit the

https://tribbletoys.com/buy.html

website

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

My daughter recently got interested in space stuff, so we're reading through an astronomy book she borrowed from the library.  It's interesting, although probably 10 years outdated at this point.  Still, I'm glad she's showing an interest in stuff like this.  Let's raise our glasses in a toast for knowledge!

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My beloved Granny has passed on this week, so I'm in my hometown for a few days.  She grew up during the depression and was told she would not have kids.  She had 5 kids and shared every last dime she had with them and with us, her grandchildren and great grandchildren.  Her influence stretched all the way to Japan, thanks to me.  So let's have some stuffed green peppers (she made excellent stuffed peppers) and pecan pie (her favorite) in celebration of her life.

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Well, since life must go on, we've decided to proceed with Star Trek Voyager.  While I don't have the fondness for this series I do for TOS, TNG, and DS9, I still think Janeway is a great captain and I kinda want to hang out with The Doctor and Tom Paris.

 

I think we'll have some cookies tonight.  Oreos, chocolate chip, peanut butter, oatmeal raisin, sugar (with and without frosting), maybe I'll even rustle up some fudge rounds.  Help yourselves!

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Hopefully the last hot, humid, stagnant air day is behind us, although I doubt it.  September still stretches 30 days ahead of us.  Still, here's hoping!

 

I feel like eating some of the lesser-known but more-unhealthy Japanese fare.  How about we grill up some okonomiyaki, yakisoba, and takoyaki.  Oh, how about some ikayaki, too?  Oh boy, that sounds good.

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On 8/29/2018 at 11:46 AM, NMUSpidey said:

....I feel like eating some of the lesser-known but more-unhealthy Japanese fare.  How about we grill up some okonomiyaki, yakisoba, and takoyaki.  Oh, how about some ikayaki, too?  Oh boy, that sounds good.

sounds good to me as well 

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Neelix cooks up some weird stuff on Star Trek Voyager.  I am curious as to what his concoctions would taste like if they were real, instead of just decorations put together by a prop department for a fictional TV show.

 

We had fried rice for dinner, and it tastes especially good with a generous portion sri racha sauce on top.  Pull up a chair and have some.  Don't forget to wash it down with some barley tea.

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It's gotten warm again *sigh* and will probably stay warm through the weekend, but I'll survive.  I suppose it's going to take this whole gallon of cookies and cream ice cream, but I'll make it.  (I whined about the weather a lot this summer, didn't I?)  How's the weather where you are?

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11 hours ago, NMUSpidey said:

..... How's the weather where you are?

We have just officially finished with Winter  

The weather is warming up, daffodils are flowering and I've got the sliding door open in the lounge so the cats can get some fresh night air ... its nice to start using the security screens we got installed a couple of months ago

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

I love the changing seasons, whenever the next one comes there is always something fun about it.  There are a few trees around us that are starting to show their fall colors, and next week we'll have temperatures around 10C.  That'll be some good hot chocolate weather.

 

Blooming spring flowers sound so nice.  I'll be looking forward to that in six months!

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From the front garden

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Such a nice splash of color!  I do like those daffodils.  Aren't they also called narcissus?

 

The Downtown Development Authority in town here keeps our streets lined with big, colorful bouquets, both along the streetsides and hanging from streetlamps.  My wife, being Japanese, finds them to be too chaotic.  I guess they aren't planted with ikebana in mind.  I'm not sure what kind of flower they are (I suppose there are geraniums and pansies among them), but I am sure that they are at the end of their lives.

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10 hours ago, NMUSpidey said:

Such a nice splash of color!  I do like those daffodils.  Aren't they also called narcissus?....

yes, they have a few other names including some that aren't used these days ... daffodowndilly

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Daffodowndilly

by A.A. Milne

She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She turned to the south wind
And curtsied up and down.
She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbour:
"Winter is dead." 

 

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

In honor of sitting down to watch Deadpool 2, chimichangas for everyone.  Tacos.  Burritos.  Those little things filled with cheese.  And what the heck, why not: churros.

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11 hours ago, NMUSpidey said:

In honor of sitting down to watch Deadpool 2

its on my-do-do list 

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If you liked the first one, you'll like the second one.  Some good jokes for people who loved the comics (especially 90s X-Men like me).  Back to Star Trek tonight, but tomorrow night might be the second season of Hitoshi Matsumoto's comedy challenge on Amazon Prime.  The first season was an absolute riot.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Here in the Upper Midwest things are cooling off quite nicely.  Fall colors have been spreading and the wind carries the promise of winter.  This means it's time for apple pie!  And you know what?  I'll even throw some pumpkin spice-flavored stuff out there for you, too.

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19 hours ago, NMUSpidey said:

Fall colors have been spreading

Empathy of nature. Things will go, but nicely...

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

I don't know about you, but I feel like eating hamburgers.  Big, juicy, greasy hamburgers with cheese and onions and tomatoes, with some thick-cut fries and maybe a couple of oranges or an apple for dessert.

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I have a hankering for some Japanese fare.  Time to grill up some shishamo and serve them with tonjiru (a kind of pork soup) and sweet potato rice.  When we visit Japan next year my in-laws are gonna be making some of this up!

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Amazon Prime is showing American football games, and they apparently have a pair of female announcers.  We tried to listen to them a couple of weeks ago, but we didn't know that you had to go into the menu and change the sound options until after the game was over.  I don't know if they will be announcing any more games, but if they are, I'd like to give them a shot.  Like the top comment said, they must be better than Joe Buck!

 

Also, it's gotten colder, we're going to bake up some pasties, a good UP meal of potatoes, carrots, meat, rutabaga, and some spices/herbs wrapped in dough.  They are delicious, popularly eaten with ketchup.

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On 10/12/2018 at 12:59 PM, NMUSpidey said:

.....Also, it's gotten colder, we're going to bake up some pasties, a good UP meal of potatoes, carrots, meat, rutabaga, and some spices/herbs wrapped in dough.  They are delicious, popularly eaten with ketchup.

sounds a bit like a Cornish Pasty which I like eating ... if you could put a couple to one side for me I'll be back later 

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I'll keep a steady stock of fresh ones warm and ready!

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

My wife made garlic meatballs and linguini tonight for dinner, the first time we've had it since I made it when we were in college.  Boy, are they good, why don't you have some?  There's plenty to go around!

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2 hours ago, NMUSpidey said:

to go around

Aha,funny. To go around. Meatballs. Well, whatever. Garlic keeps you young. And slow eating, that's why the French live longer.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

We're well into fall now, so let's cook up some traditional Japanese fare for this chilly autumn evening.  For starters, tonjiru (my favorite) and I think we'll hold the konyaku, and then we'll grill up some shishamo, little fishes with their bellies full of eggs and we'll pair them with sweet potato rice, which is all just delicious.  I'm very much looking forward to returning to Japan next year where I've been assured my in-laws will have some.  Still, nothing like a little sneak peek, so we'll partake here, of course!

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Think I'll have some tonjiru thanks