I dreamt last night that I ran a turtle-powered farm/ mill/ bakery. They were used as *very slow*, but strong beasts of burden… pulling plows and carts full of some sort of grain. There was a large geodesic dome storage area, and a water wheel powered millhouse by a fresh water river full of well-rounded stones along with a “petting zoo” area where folks could feed the off-duty turtles apples right off of the tree. The bread we made was a very good seller… we couldn’t keep it in stock. The “secret ingredient” was sea salt, and apparently it made all the difference in the world. Apparently the Amish thought we were especially good, and wanted to trade all sorts of quilts and furniture for our wares, too. I don’t recall if we used Amish milk in the production. We did have juice there too.. but I don’t know if it was made on site or brought in. (I figure a cider mill would work with the waterwheel, and apple tree but I don’t recall in the dream.)

Of course, I had to do a search for turtle bread, and found this bread machine recipe… sounds pretty darn good, actually. It’s been a little while since I’ve made my own bread. I may try it later on down the line, but it sounds pretty hefty… a slice of bread that has more calories than a can of soda! I’ve not used sucanat in cooking before… I imagine splenda might be an alternative? This calls for more research, later.

Turtle Bread
1 1/3 cups water
13 vegan caramels, unwrapped
3 1/2 cups flour
3 tablespoons dry, powdered soy or rice milk
2 tablespoons sucanat
1 teaspoon salt
1 3/4 teaspoons bread machine yeast
1/3 cup vegan chocolate chips
2/3 cup coarsely chopped pecans

Place all ingredients except the chocolate chips and pecans into the bread machine pan in the order recommended by the manufacturer. Select the sweet or basic/white cycle. Use medium or light crust color. Do not use the delay cycle. Add the chocolate chips and pecans at the beep signal or 5 minutes before the last kneading cycle ends. Cool on a wire rack. Makes a two pound loaf (16 slices).

Per slice: 195 calories 5 grams fat

From the grab bag –

a treasury of macramé owls My brother and I both got macramé owls as kids from Sally Brunot. We were quite young, and thought that they were cool as all get out. Come to think of it, Over at Sally and Bill’s House, I encountered my first copy of playboy. My Brother’s owl looked a bit like the leftmost one on page five, and mine looked like the leftmost one on page seven.

Speaking of pretend animals… these *non-taxidermy* mock-animals are awesome. (the other stuff on the site is also quite good)

New Kitty Cartoon… Outtatheway – The vines That Tabby needs an orthodontist. Featuring a little Newtie mosh-action.

Italics are some of the ones I really like

Scotto is truly one of our greatest sopranos
Scotto is the moderator of the gravity
Scotto is likely to wear something like an alligator
Scotto is currently beginning a study of female Russian pop and rock singers who are popular among Russian teenage girls
Scotto is stressed
Scotto is one of the most interesting artists of the Neapolitan new wave
Scotto is guest researcher at the berghof centre
Scotto is the last of the mad
Scotto is an assistant professor of theory at the Eastman school of music
Scotto is making great good sense
Scotto is one of the counselors that is a part of Lagrange College’s counseling center
Scotto is Christopher Columbus
Scotto is a trustee
Scotto is “justifiably famous”
Scotto is a pet peeve of mine
Scotto is a cal poly alumnus
Scotto is often the target of raised eyebrows
Scotto is owned and operated by the Scotto family
Scotto is an industry veteran with over twenty years of experience in software development and data storage management
Scotto is famous
Scotto is increasingly active
Scotto is first and foremost a man of the theatre
Scotto is more sensitive as desdemona than ricciarelli
Scotto is the list moderator
Scotto is feeling
Scotto is a local business owner and has been a volunteer field coordinator for the Torrance unified school district since 1983
Scotto is a remarkable artist
Scotto is a wonderful liu
Scotto is amazingly strong
Scotto is an inspired butterfly
Scotto is moving her noncredit class in striptease to a Northampton studio
Scotto is reported to be considering a run for staten
Scotto is at 79 Madison Avenue near 28th street
Scotto is deceptively beautiful
Scotto is losing control
Scotto is a fine heroine in this work
Scotto is breathtaking
Scotto is on both the maazel version and the lp reissue of the barbirolli/emi set
Scotto is a floppy
Scotto is enrolled in the naeric incentive program
Scotto is worth further exploration
Scotto is the director of cpc behavioral healthcare’s “programs for assertive community treatment”
Scotto is writing that part
Scotto is planning on teaching it again
Scotto is opera i am compelled to respond to the absurdly hostile review from Robert Levine
Scotto is one out of thousands analyst on Wall Street
Scotto is stoically drinking a coke
Scotto is uniquely suited for the job
Scotto is something of a rarity available usually in privately duped copies
Scotto is a leading electric utility analyst and senior managing director of bear
Scotto is convinced that rival big al marracottaa five
Scotto is approximately thirty years old and inexperienced in matters involving OSHA citations
Scotto is looking for more playtesters for his recent games
Scotto is back
Scotto is equally riveting

Scotto is gone

The Pain, Oh the Pain! – The one and only Dr. Zachary Smith, veteran actor Jonathan Harris, has passed away, three days shy of his 88th birthday

Pokey, the Three-Legged Bear is dead, too.

This is so very wrong. Talk Dirty with Mr Rogers.