Winding it Down

• Recently, Chalupa Cabrito asked the question, "Do snakes have faces?"  I commented on his post that of course they do.  Here are the faces of seven snakes:

Zoom in to see fang details.

• I think the gray faces are just primed, and I don't remember why the second and third from the left don't have their proper yarmulkes.
• On last evening's post, I extolled the virtue of the .41 Remington Magnum.  Here is a proper specimen:

Background: Oldest son's first deer

• The trigger shoe is from Herter's.  I used to love to read their catalogs.
• After three nights indoors, I got bit by the bug to sleep outdoors again last night.  No, not from having written about it - there was just a great alluring breeze outside when I let the dog out, and I was captivated.
• At 4:02 this morning, the raindrops forced me back inside, but it was kinda funny how they'd already worked their way into my dream.
• I made a huge batch of chicken & turkey chili, using fresh jalapeño, serrano, bell, and a small pepper from a plant my mother gave me.  Also a batch of spaghetti sauce with some of the same.
• There was a long line of cars around the Wal-Mart today, and the checkout lines were insane.  You'd think they were giving away free nookie.
• I don't know what that means.
• I bought some 8 oz. Coors Lights to make red beer with.
• Also stopped by the ALDI.  Even though I've established several kitchen staples that I can buy economically there, I am not convinced of their long-term viability.
• Almost every item in ALDI is a store brand.  The only recognized national brands I've seen so far are: Pringles, Earl Campbell Hot Links, and Armour...lard.  Lard?  Yeah, you wanna be sure your lard is of the highest quality, right?
• 10# sack of Russet potatoes for 99¢.  Guess that means hash browns for breakfast. Or omelettes.
• But no beer at the ALDI.  A German store, without Bier?  Was ist los?
• They won't last.
• I stepped out earlier and was about to set up my sleeping bag arrangement, but realized that Sienna would get freaked out by the fireworks - so it's indoors tonight.
• Watched the last half-hour of Wild Hogs, then one of the Left Behind movies.
• In this episode, Kirk Cameron's character gets married.  The minister, Bruce Barnes (played by Clarence Gilyard Jr.- James "Jimmy" Trivette from Walker, Texas Ranger - in the first two movies), quotes heavily from 1 Corinthians 13.
• That Shakespeare dude also borrowed heavily from the same chapter in his, uh, Sonnet, um, 116.
• Maybe in 2011 I will find a woman who understands and believes in that kind of thing.
• Happy New Year!