Cap'n Bob & the Damsel

Red Meat

tenderloin mealEven though the weather has been wetter and cooler here over the last couple of weeks, it was nice enough today to barbecue up a couple of beef tenderloin steaks. This delicious meal didn’t take all that much time for us since the sides were left over from a previous meal.

I cooked the steaks on the grill with no seasoning other than olive oil (to keep ’em from sticking to the grill) and some fresh cracked pepper – seven minutes each side on a hot grill.

For the side dishes, we had some mashed potatoes with spinach and braised, chopped Brussels sprouts and bacon bits. As mentioned before, these only had to be nuked in the micro for a couple of minutes.

Damsel and I walked it off afterwards.

Tomorrow, we’re cooking in the crockpot since we’re going to the shooting range. In addition to the time at the range we will be cleaning up the equipment for an hour after we get home. Not enough time to prepare a conventional meal – not to worry though, tomorrow’s recipe is for Hungarian Goulash.

22 Dec 2007 by California Food & Dining Photography

Lifecycle of a Paper Shotgun Target

When we go to the gun show every couple of months, one of our usual stops is at the paper target vendor. We buy several large-sized silhouette target tablets with about 10 targets per tablet. (We gave up on buying the targets where a bad guy has a woman hostage – she never seems to make it through the ordeal.)

Anyhow, when we put targets up at the range for the shotguns, they seem to get used up rather quickly.

In this video, I send five rounds through the target and then Damsel administers the coup de grâce when she unloads another five rounds from our 12 gauge Remington 870 security gun into the target.

She says, “If it’s still movin’ then I’m still shootin’ at it.”

22 Dec 2007 by Firearms Sports

My Confused Easter Lily

After last Easter, I trimmed off the lily and put it outdoors in it’s pot. Suddenly, the lily sprouted several flower pods that have been opening over the last few days. Very pretty, even if it blooms on the wrong Holiday.

Anachronistic Lily

21 Dec 2007 by Culture Home & Garden Photography

Pink Flamingo Christmas Tree

Finishing up a little pre-Christmas shopping, we were in the old downtown district for some last-minute shopping. At one point, we went into an antique shop where this interesting Christmas tree was on display. Pink tree with pink flamingo light string and pink flamingo ornaments.

pink flamingo

20 Dec 2007 by Culture Photography

Up on the Rooftop – ARF ARF ARF

As we drove to the grocery store this morning, I was astonished to see a big black dog on a rooftop barking at passers by. If I were Santa and the reindeer, I would watch out for this bad boy.

A closer look at the situation revealed that to the rear of this house there appeared to be an open door on a rooftop patio or something. Rover obviously came out through the door – I hope that his people got him back inside before he could fall and injure himself.

black dog on a red rooftop

19 Dec 2007 by Critters Photography

Powered Flight – 104th Anniversary

A hundred and four years ago today, Orville and Wilbur Wright made their first flights from Kill Devil Hill, close to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Their history-making effort sparked the greatest period of technology in the United States and abroad.

I took my first flying lesson on December 16th, 1961, just a day short of their 58th anniversary. By then, the sound barrier had been broken, satellites were in orbit, the Russian, Yuri Gagarin had already orbited the Earth, and John Glenn would be in orbit within a couple of months. It was a great time to get into a career in aviation or aerospace.

First Flight

What makes Wilbur and Orville Wright’s achievement so significant is not only that it was the first time in history that a manned, powered aircraft completed a fully-controlled, sustained flight, but it proved to naysayers around the world that heavier-than-air flight was practical. After the Wrights proved their critics wrong, the field of aeronautical engineering was born. Governments, universities, and inventors soon began dedicating vast resources to understanding the science of flight and methods of building improved flying machines. In essence, every event and discovery in aviation either led up to or followed from the flight of the Wright Flyer, and it changed the way we live forever.

Image and text courtesy of AeroSpaceWeb.org.

17 Dec 2007 by Aerospace Aviation Technobabble

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