Hopefully your delivery comes early. Pals Lamb is looking good
Thanks Steve, sadly not!
I have a few friends who are posties, or have been posties, and I know that it's not an easy job, and increasingly, badly paid here, so I always try to cut them some slack. I'm lucky to have had some great posties over the years, with most of them even becoming friends. Sadly, for some reason, every few years, just as soon as they've got to know a round, and the people on it, the Post Office move them elsewhere. Our current postie started just after Christmas, he's a nice guy, but you only have to look at him to see he's badly organised!
He'll have one sock rolled up, the other down, always needs a shave, trips as he walks, and he's always delivering mail to the wrong houses. I'm told by other posties that the main part of getting your round done is organising your mail properly before you set out. I guess his inattention to this is the reason I often see him on my street several times in one day, and even at 8.30pm!
We used to get our mail around 11.00am, but he usually arrives a couple of hours after that. I went out to have a look about midday, and one of the roofers working on my neighbours house, told me he'd already been round once today
I checked the tracking again, and it still said my parcel was being delivered between 9.27am and 1.27pm. By the time, 1.30pm came, I had grown impatient, so I thought I'd have another look, so I could get my parcel off him, and get on with my day. I spotted him nearby, just at the end of my street, and shouted to him as he was getting into his van. When I saw the lights come in, I was almost immediately behind the van, shouting and waving, but he drove off oblivious. Five minutes later, he was parked off further down the street, so I intercepted him, and asked about my parcel. At first he said he hadn't seen one, but when I mentioned the tracking, he said that his van was "a mess", but that he'd bring round any parcels later. I told him I'd been waiting in for the past two days, and persuaded him to look in the back of the van, where mail was strewn all over the place, and he pulled out a parcel for me. I thanked him, and headed back home, where I discovered this was a different parcel to the one I'd been waiting for!
A few minutes later, he was wandering back up the street, and towards my front door, but he only had a couple of letters that he didn't have the sense to give me before
I told him I was still waiting for my parcel, and that the tracking indicated it was out for delivery. He told me that he hadn't seen another parcel, but that if he came across it, he'd bring it round later, about 4.30pm
I didn't trust him to be punctual, but I had time to make a hurried trip to town, and even call to see Tool Man, before I headed back home for 3.00pm. Then at 4.20pm, the postie turned up with my parcel, as if he was delivering the result of a great quest!
Thanks for the compliment Steve, it's seen a fair bit of use today
Sorry to reward you with such a boring tale!
Good morning Guardians
Baxter Lamb today
Stunning pic buddy
One of my sons used to always get a burger at Mexican restaurants and at seafood restaurants. I just don't get it.
Glad Eleanor loved the burger!
Years ago, restaurants and take-aways that sold food from other countries and cultures, mainly Chinese and Indian here at the time, always had a short English section, which almost always consisted of steak and cheese omelette!
A few still have it! I've always found it hilarious!
Then English people complain if the steak isn't cooked the same as how they're used to it!
My dad once told me that, as a young man, he'd been chased out of one of Sheffield's small number of Chinese restaurants (at the time), by a cleaver-wielding Chinese cook!
Apparently, he was the fool who ordered steak, and then complained!
I decided to carry Charlie and the Senator today! Double-Lamb Day for me!
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Happy Double Lambsfoot Day Ken
Two nice ones there
Sorry, Jack, I still need to try the one you sent yet, as well. I’ll have to do a taste test!
I have a pile of condiments to try Barrett!
Lao Gan Ma is supposed to be OG, so to speak. I did see the stories about Momofuku trying to prevent other (mostly smaller, from the sound of it) producers from using the term “chili
crunch.” I don’t know about the legality of their trademark claim, but it doesn’t sounds like their decision has been very well received.
So I hear
They got a load of publicity out of the Momofuku legal letter!
Apparently, the newcomer has been shamed into reconsidering its position, at least so far as it relates to Lao Gan Ma
He seems like an interesting guy. He talks a bit about Stan in the podcast, reminded me of some of your stories. At one point he mentions how he always enjoyed when Stan would carry on working when he would visit with him, so he could watch him work.
I remember Stan mentioning him once or twice Barrett
I try not to give Eleanor too hard a time about it. In general, she’s a
much more adventurous eater than I was as a kid.
Kids today get the opportunity to try all sorts of things
My dad was the faddiest eater I've ever encountered, and since, if he didn't like something, we didn't have it, I didn't encounter a lot of foodstuffs (even very ordinary things) until I left home
I think I was in my mid teens before I even tasted a tomato!
It's a wonder I don't have all sort of food phobias!
. Looks like chicken nuggies for me
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I picked up a jar of that Lao Gan Ma chili crisp recently, but I haven’t tried it yet.
We even went back and gave it a second chance, since they had only just opened the first time we went, but it was just as bad the second time around. Unfortunately, Eleanor declared that the hamburger she got there (who gets a burger a Mexican restaurant? 
out today. Hope y'all have had a good day.
