crawfish sale feast of 2012
as it usually goes, kat noticed that crawfish were on sale for the weekend @1.99 a lb if you buy a whole bag. so i did. weather was warm so we cleaned/filled the pool and had some friends over. no big planning or whole house cleaning... just spicy boiling water, beer/wine and crawifsh
28 lbs of fiesty tiny lobster like mudbugs
seasoning the boil
shared some crawfish with eichler
those are lemon rind sweet tea vodka lemon jello shots. as dangerous as they are good. mom even tried one, her first ever jello shot.
we pardoned a few crawfish. I don't think they lived, maybe the koi pool water is too clean or has too much amonia. notice the abundant tadpoles... (one can be seen just above the top claw)
doofus dumping the crawdads.
kids had fun swimming.
it was suggested, "if you're going to a crawfish boil, you should take yellow bellies! (coors)" then it was later suggested, "if you're gonna drink yellow bellies, you oughta shotgun them" and so they did.
I enjoyed some piper with my spicy crawdads. not that I really eat crawfish... kat usually peels a few for me and feeds me. they were spicy!
yes, the daughter is now adult sized...
we also attended a yelp elite party at sully's side bar.
the yelp elite party was also sponsored by ambhar tequila. the fermented agave juice cocktails flowed fast and free. that was GOOD tequila. many people have had some past bad experiences from tequila, and it's usually from a cheap tequila. if you are gonna drink tequila, drink the real stuff. don't do shots of cheap nasty stuff and later label all tequila as evil. always check the label to ensure your tequila is made from 100% blue agave. if it doesn't say that, it's a probably mixto-tequila and has sugar added. bad mojo that cheap tequila is.
yes, the party was very illuminating.
we grilled some more salmon with the #5 gochujang korean fermented chili paste. good times...
hired electricians to hook up kat's barn to the grid. still no power, but getting close...
#1 son competed in a chess tournament with his school chess club. he was there for 7 hours, said it felt more like one hour it was so much fun. his team didn't do a lot of winning... he said "all these other teams have been to like, at least, THREE other tournaments! this was our first". I'm just glad he had fun. I saw those other kids were VERY serious about their chess. he was far more interested in the ipad/kindle fire/ninentdo fest that was going on with his team's table while they waited between matches.
I also did TOO much lumberjacking here at our west lake hills home (amh). found two dead oaks, called the city arborist and she issued me a permit and told me to take them down asap. she later confirmed it was NOT the dreaded oak wilt. likely a result of the drought of 2011.