Posted By Russ Emerson on June 11, 2004 at 2:04 pm
With the lever of American patriotism, he lifted up the world. And so today the world – in Prague, in Budapest, in Warsaw, in Sofia, in Bucharest, in Kiev and in Moscow itself – the world mourns the passing of the Great Liberator and echoes his prayer “God Bless America”. [Emphases mine – Russ]
Baroness Thatcher, eulogy for Ronald Reagan
Posted By Russ Emerson on June 11, 2004 at 9:50 am
Since the flamethrower incident last week, I’ve worn a bandage on my hand, putting on a fresh batch of antibiotic & gauze each day. I could tell it was healing nicely, so yesterday I left the bandage off. The scars of the scorching were still there (they aren’t really too awful), and the skin was still a bit tender, but the blistering appeared to have gone away. That antibiotic ointment had really done the trick.
I went out to give the lawn a much-overdue mowing. It was a beautiful sunny day, temperature around 85°. Took maybe 45 minutes or so.
Apparently, however, it’s not a good idea to expose recently-scorched skin to the sun. Big ugly blisters had sprung back up, so it’s back to the bandage for me.
Sigh.
Well, at least I can still cook a fresh batch of barbecue. It’s a bigger piece of pig than I usually cook, in the brine since last night. I’ll start the fire shortly and let it smoke for a couple hours longer than usual.
Steve is cooking today, too. I have got to meet the man sometime; even though he uses an electric smoker, I imagine we could trade ideas on good barbecue.
Time to go get the fire lit….