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My first attempt at frying a turkey was a rousing success this year. Not only did it come out great, from start to finish took less than an hour, down from at least 4 hours of baking time in a conventional oven.

I was concerned about introducing a dozen pounds of water based avian flesh into 4 gallons of 320° boiling oil, feeling downright leery of the violent reaction that was to result. And there was one, replete with boiling, bubbling, splashing and hissing; but as I had taken...

My contribution to the Thanksgiving festivities this year:

2 pecan pies
2 pumpkin pies



Yes, it's all from scratch. Both were highly popular, but I still got leftovers. Made for a most excellent breakfast this morning!

~Spero

I often get a funny look when I tell someone I'm studying history. The looks get funnier when I tell them I'm going to grad school for history.

My mom -- God bless her -- is particularly baffled by all this. She tries to look happy and interested, but deep down inside I can tell she's tilting her head a little to one side, like a puppy, and trying to figure out why I'm wasting my time. She's proud of my good grades, proud of me getting published, presenting research, and all...

I feel like a Phoenix rising from the powdered residue of my Tenifered G-19 slide...

A whittle about me...
I politics blogged for several years at www.detnews.com and got kicked off for "Liberals and their (slang for nocturnal emissions) of healthcare reform..."
I enjoyed blogging, especially linking 2nd Amendment stories to blogs.

Love to bludgeon leftards' cerebellums with my common-sense crowbar.

I work in healthcare and enjoy firearms...