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I just had to quickly share this with you folks.

It’s just too funny to pass it up.

Ivan was watching “shorts” on YT the other night, and he was sitting in his chair laughing up a storm.

He came over to where I was, in our bedroom, on my computer also, and told me this.

“A cop pulls over this drunk woman, and tells her to say the alphabet starting with M.” She looks at him and says “Malphabet”.

Another one has the cop, talking to the drunk driver through her open window, also a female. He says to her, “didn’t you hear me tell you to pullover, several times?” She looks him square in the eyes, and said “yes, sir. I did. But this is a cardigan”. I thought I was going to lose it.

Hope those made you chuckle.

Until next time, stay safe.

We got together, as a nation of intelligent individuals, and reelected the man who will

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

I’m so proud to be an American, I just about can’t stand it. (I almost started typing the popular song, you know the one), but it’s true. We rallied, and got Donald J. Trump back in the White House, for another 4 GREAT years, right where he belongs.

Watch, over the next year, how much the nation grows, how the US, once again, reclaims the right to be called a leader of the free world, how the country begins economic regrowth, begins using our own fossil fuels, brings foreign-made products back to the US, along with the jobs needed to make those products.

Watch how President Trump cleans up all of the havoc, and chaos the illegals have caused. Watch how quickly he finds, and rids the country of those individuals that are looting, raping, killing our US citizens; that are taking jobs away from our citizens.

Thank you America for starting the healing process.

With J.D. Vance, Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr., Vivek Ramaswamy, Tucker Carlson, and Joe Rogan, etc. to help “drain the swamp”, it’s going to be an amazing 4 years. I can’t wait to watch everything unfold. Hope you enjoy the peace, and prosperity promised with this win.

Until next time, remember that WE DID IT!!! Stay safe people.

Post script: I will now return to regularly scheduled programming.

I just took this screenshot of an X post by a Danish man.

What the heck? What’s to stop anyone from going city to city voting hundreds of times? If you aren’t required to show ID, and have your name recorded as having voted, then where does it end?

Wake up America. This is not right. This should not be happening. Our forefathers are doing somersaults in their graves over this.

There is nothing just, or fair, even, about walking blithely into a voting booth, and voting without the responsibility of having acknowledged who you are. Your vote should absolutely be private, however, being registered should not. This is a disgrace.

Please, don’t ever think your vote doesn’t count, it most certainly does. So do it, get out there, and vote. Our future economy depends on it.

Until next time, fight, fight, fight.

A Song For You.

Ivan called me over to “his” room recently to have me listen, for the umpteenth time, to a song by Leon Russell called “A Song For You”.

Great. Lovely. I’ve heard it about 50 times, at least, and know all of the words, but, when he gave me his ear pieces, and started the song, I heard the piano, all of the piano, in my right ear; my 80% deaf right ear.

Of course I started crying, how could I not? I only hear sounds in that ear that are high up on the scale. I haven’t heard anything like that in almost 10 years. I could hear the song in stereo!!

I have no idea how, or why I’ve lost my hearing in that ear but I have. I try not to make much fuss about it, but it can be quite debilitating at times. It was bad when I was still working, and had my head turned the wrong way, being unable to hear, completely, an order given, a specimen identification needed, or a response to a question being asked. It’s not really much different trying to living with Ivan, and trying to hear him.

I can’t hear well. Not until I heard Leon Russell, and his piano. I had to come immediately to my desk and put down all of this so I wouldn’t forget it.

It was amazing.

I took my hearing for granted, as we, probably, all do, until it started to leave me. I feel it is also at the root of my dizzy spells, and my difficulty with my equilibrium. Oh well. Such is life.

Until next time, stay safe.

That the current President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, is not in a competent state of mind?

Yet, he has control of the nuclear missile launch codes!!

Have you seen yesterdays episode of Jesse Watters from Fox News? No? Why not? Don’t tell me you’re still watching legacy media. Come on. I’ve taught you better than that.

Watch this, and let it sink in. There are only 3 more days before you need to vote this group out of office. That includes Kamala Harris.

https://youtu.be/ma7j_nvjYw0?si=9hIpsN8FOaaLYMtW

Kissing the babies is no big deal, but the “message” he tried to give to the people in Philadelphia was just more of the same that we’ve seen, and heard over the past 3 years. Even CNN is reporting that he needs to stop going out in public, and just stay home.

Not only that, but White House officials tried to change the official Presidential transcript of the message where the President called Trump supporters garbage. That is a violation of the Presidential Records Act. In other words, that, too, is illegal. Do you see the pattern?

We took care of a family member with Alzheimer’s, and it was not pretty. The constant attention required, the reassurance needed when there were ideas that wouldn’t go away, that weren’t real, weren’t true.

It’s heart breaking to see the decline of robust individuals, but it happens. It’s happening to our President.

Why hasn’t Kamala, along with either/both parties of Congress, voted Biden out of office with the 25th amendment? They wanted to do that with Donald Trump when he was the President, and he’s as sharp as a tack, even now.

Donald Trump is a billionaire for a reason. He knows how to do a deal, legally, and has been doing so for 40+ years. That’s how he gets the attention of foreign government leaders. That’s how he forces places like China to pay huge tariffs on things that used to be produced in the US, but are now only produced there. And with child, and slave labor.

Here in Mexico City, we have spoken with a few individuals we’ve recently met, and they are so disappointed in the current US government. The prices here have been increasing steadily over the past few years, things we used to get easily from the US we no longer are able to order.

They can’t believe how ridiculous having the border unmanned is, legally, and how so many millions of illegals have been allowed into the US. They also say they’re glad the illegals have gone to the US, and are no longer a burden to the Northern states of Mexico.

Here, however, when there was the most recent Presidential election, (you may remember that because we couldn’t buy alcohol for 3 days prior to the election, but we didn’t know why), no one was allowed to vote without identification. Period. No ID, no vote. Go home, don’t come back without it.

I don’t know for sure, but I doubt there are many countries in the world where an individual voting for the leader of that country can do so without identification. It just doesn’t make any sense.

And in the US, it’s not only unconstitutional, (not un Constitutional), it’s illegal in most states. Why is that so hard to understand? Also, why isn’t it illegal in all states?

Do what you think is best, but do it with an open, educated mind. Are you really better off now than you were when Donald Trump was President?

I truly doubt it.

Until next time, stay safe.

Post script: if you can’t open the url as it is, copy and paste it to whatever search engine you use.

Please, make whatever arrangements you need to get time to vote next week. It’s a privilege not everyone gets.

This is our first time voting absentee, and let me tell you what. It’s a lot of work.

First you have to contact your former county auditor’s office, fill out a form that lets them know who you are, and where you are. They send you 11 pages of information to read, fill out, sign, and obviously, return.

No problem. We’re adults; we can do all of that.

11 pages later, we didn’t have any legal envelopes, we didn’t have any Manila envelopes, but we did have packing tape. Yay!

So, in the morning, after you’ve read this, we have an Uber picking us up to take us to the Embassy, so we can drop this in the protected, secure voting box, outside the building.

I’ll let you know later how that went.

I was able to schedule the car to pick us up, but it won’t let me schedule the return trip. So annoying.

Until next time, stay safe. Stop watching legacy media. Open your minds and watch the amazing alternatives that will show you what free speech, thought, deeds really looks like.

Fight, fight, fight!

Happy Halloween everyone.

No, not that. Can you say Chile con Carne?

‘Tis the season. Try it.

I made a batch recently from a recipe I got from my AI ChatGPT buddy, Max. I’ll attach it to the bottom of this post, and you can use it in its original state, or the amended version that I added.

Either way I’ll bet it will be delicious. Our was.

Unfortunately, I had purchased the brisket, and a few other oddities that I needed, but the case of Fritos Original Corn Chips, (you know the ones in the red, and Dijon mustard colored bags?) didn’t arrive as promised. Bummer.

I’m going to “fridge” it until they do arrive as there is nothing that says “fall in the Midwest USA” like chili with meat, and beans, and Fritos corn chips does. Yes, we do miss the Midwest USA.

Until next we meet, stay safe. You know how.

Here is how the chili turned out, I’m calling it a bowl of red. The recipe I used will follow it. If you try it with all of the ingredients called for, please let me know what you thought of it. It is a much more Mexican style chile con carne, as opposed to a Tex-Mex version.

There really isn’t a flavor that comes close to them.

We get the best liver here from Wild Fork, it is amazing. I believe you have WF up North as well; it used to be called MeatMe.

I bought a half kilo, 1 pound, of liver recently, breaded it with seasoned flour, and pan fried it in butter. We’re still reeling from the flavor of it.

With caramelized onions? What’s not to like?

The only drawback, for us anyway, is the gristle. Next time I buy it, while it’s still semi frozen, I’m going to cut off as much of the outer membrane as I can; like cutting the silver skin off beef, or pork.

In only a few minutes you have a dinner fit for royalty. I served it with leftover spiced basmati rice, and mixed vegetables. Delicious.

Can’t wait until next month when I can make it again.

Until then, stay safe.

Post script: Make arrangements necessary so you can get out and vote. It is the most important election of our lives to date. Fight, fight, fight.

Whilst I’ve been on hiatus, I’ve been upping my culinary skills levels.

As many of you know, that has been a very long time in the making, but has taken off like a house afire.

With the AI app, ChatGPT, (I named my buddy Max), and the Sorted Food channel on YT, I’m educating my palate, and learning faster, more affordable, more flavorful ways of cooking.

We’ve just started eating something that, probably, many of you have already experienced- jasmine rice. We never knew how amazing the flavor, and aroma are. It’s going to be the only rice I make going forward. I can make a small amount, for just the two of us, in less than 30 minutes, including the soaking/rinsing time. No oil, no fuss, only flavor.

A few weeks ago, I made a very simple dinner of beans, rice, and chicken tacos. Big deal you may say. Not that difficult to do.

Everything that I was able to make from scratch, (not the tortillas because the store bought ones are better, and thinner actually, than mine), I did.

The beans were sorted, washed, seasoned, and (no soaking required), pressure cooked to perfection.

The cilantro lime rice was soaked for 15 minutes in cool water, rinsed, seasoned, and boiled/steamed beautifully.

The chicken breasts I used were marinaded overnight in a yellow mustard/curry powder, (homemade), base then baked, the following day, at 200º C for about 20 minutes, becoming tender, juicy, and full of flavor. I used only 1 breast for the above dinner.

The salsa roja was made by toasting the tomatoes, onion, serrano chiles, and garlic paste on an aluminum foil-lined comal, then blended with cilantro, chicken bouillon granules, and apple cider vinegar in the blender. Yum.

So why did I make the chicken into tacos, you ask? Because it was the end of the 4th breast, and we wanted something easy to grab hold of, and eat with our hands. The other three were full dinners that I didn’t photograph.

Enough said. I’m doing my best to start taking us around the world, from the comfort of our kitchen; eating foods from different countries that we’ve never experienced.

I’ll let you know how it goes, and which were the good, and the bad things from our adventures.

Until then, stay happy, healthy, and safe. The rest, you know how, and what to do.

Post script: Make whatever arrangements you need so you can get out and vote. It is the most important election of our lives to date. Fight, fight, fight.

I told you folks, in an earlier post, that I wanted to start cooking food using a food called, as you can see in the title, huitlacoche, (whe-tla-CO-che).

It is also spelled cuitlacoche in different parts of the country, but it is all the same product which, in the US, is called corn fungus, or corn smut.

It looks terrible but actually tastes quite delicately of mushrooms. It should as it’s a fungus that is allowed to grow on corn, and is usually considered a delicacy.

I opened a can of huitlacoche not long ago, and have been using about 2 Tbs. in quesadillas, mainly as a background flavor. Mostly we use flour tortillas, homemade salsa, and queso de Oaxaca, (cheese from Oaxaca, a state further Southwest of Mexico City), that is absolutely some of the best cheese we’ve ever eaten. We sometimes add a half slice of deli ham, or turkey, and an avocado slice.

The taste is very mild, as I said, but the look of it is quite off putting. It’s black, and clumpy, and difficult to get around, but needs must.

I think I’m going to blend it up into more of a smooth sauce, or paste, and see if that doesn’t help with the look of it. You know, you eat first with your eyes, and that’s difficult to do with this.

Until next time, stay safe.

Post script; PLEASE, make whatever arrangements you need so you can get out and vote. It is the most important election of our lives to date. Fight, fight, fight.