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Update: he's fitting in very well with the rest of our menagerie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iQ7HH-NR-0

Last night I grilled the first T-bone off the steer we butchered last month. Possibly the best steak I've ever had.

I'll try that; thanks. A beef liver is probably bigger than a couple of whole ducks. Thankfully, our butcher cut them into 1/2" slices for us.

Hope you had a good one, Wayne!

Happy birthday Steve!

My recipe was improvised - I used the basic method from here: http://dishbydish.net/2013/01/14/beef-liver-pate/ Then I added some curry, cumin, and dijon mustard in increasing amounts until it tasted like something I'd want on a cracker. I've got no experience with pate, but I've got a lot of liver in the freezer, so I'll probably make it a few more times unless this one turns out to be regrettable.

I just made beef liver pâté. You sure need to add a lot of spices before it tastes like anything besides liver. Will report back tomorrow, since it's supposed to chill for awhile.

It's beef sausage.

He ate my grass for two years, so I had him killed. Delicious.

Happy birthday!

It's just because it's pieces of soapstone cemented together, not steel welded together. A small first fire does the final cure on the cement, and slowly drives any moisture out of the stone, which might cause it to crack if a really hot fire were made. My only regret is that I did not pay extra for the cryo-treated soapstone.

I would also ask the vet his/her opinion on Lyme disease. Similar symptoms for my dog eventually resulted in that diagnosis, but it took a long time to find a vet who would consider it a possibility (it's a very under-reported illness in Canada). Different topic: I'm currently watching the small break-in fire on the new stove.

Here's hoping for no more seizures.

No birds eaten yet. The boys have determined that his name is Joost.

We'll let his litter-trainedness, or lack thereof, determine whether he's a drummer or bassist.

Someone dropped a box of kittens off at the vet clinic. My wife couldn't resist.

Happy birthday, Stretch! Hope you're having a great one.

People who look the same in every photo:

Happy birthday, Deepak!

Back story.

Funniest thing I've seen in awhile. Possibly because my wife is a taxonomist. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPqJkG2XhQ8

Happy birthday!

I'm getting wood today. I'm gathering firewood from the forest today. Winter is coming, etc.

This really fucking sucks. For a government that claims to be conservative, they're really bad at it unless you happen to be an oil company. A bunch of my favourite bands have been on Facebook today saying that they won't be able to tour Canada again as a result of these new rules.

This. The ratio of girth to height is also important. I'd say somewhere around 0.65 is ideal.