Real snow...

[kinzel]

OK, a beautiful day in the neighborhood for real.

The sun is starting to break through the clouds as the snow moves out over the ocean; in my capacity as an official weather spotter I called in a 5 inch snowfall, finished at about 6:50 am, with calm conditions extending until 7:47 when the wind began to gust; now gusts are blowing the snow from trees and field making it harder to see than when it was coming from the sky.

Breakfast -- scrapple and waffles! -- is being served.

Comments

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

How nice! My oldest who is 4 1/2 was very disappointed when the forecast snow turned into rain the other day. She loves playing out in the snow and we haven't had any snow to play in this year:( I'm still hoping for at least one good snow before spring hits.

[mardott.livejournal.com]

I had to google scrapple, never having heard of it. You're a brave man. Put on a scale between spam (horrible) and sausage (yum), where would you put scrapple?

[scaleslea.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'd put it in the trash and eat the spam and the sausage...

Doc

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Scrapple... is something I have to go out of my way to get. Very hard to find it in Maine...

I haven't had Spam(R)in some years, I don't often eat sausage at home because of diet issues (most of the meat-look things in the house are soy-based) and when I travel I eat sausage cautiously since the spice levels vary so badly. When we were visiting the Philadelphia and Baltimore areas I'd say I'd pick scrapple over sausage about on a two to one or three to one basis.

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Scrapple is ok in the hands of a good cook. What, it's grits with pork/bacon bits, yes?

[scaleslea.livejournal.com]

No, it's grits cooked in the water that pig bits were boiled in, then pressed into a solid, then cut into slabs and fried.

I know what is in scrapple, which is why I don't want to eat it.

Doc

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in people's reactions to scrapple. Raw fish with rice is fine, cooked leftovers of pork not fine. Have you ever had a hotdog, I wonder? Sausage of any kind? Bologna?

To my knowledge I've never gotten sick from scrapple... but my plan is to never eat raw fish again, because it has sickened me on multiple "Oh, you'll be OK, this place is great!" occasions.

[scaleslea.livejournal.com]

Thing is, the cuts of meat (or scraps of meat if you prefer) that go into sausage, hot dogs (which are just another kind of sausage), and bologna (again, another kind of sausage), are at least a whole class of meat better than the scraps that are boiled ( and then removed to make dog food) in order to make the water for scrapple.

Doc

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

Curious: how do you measure snow? Do you have a gauge, or take a ruler outside?

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

We use the meter-stick at multiple flat spots somewhat away from the house method. I only call our snow depth in when I have confidence that we haven't been overly affected by winds. I keep planning to get a complete weather station, but the publishing business hasn't permitted that as yet.