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So, married to a wok expert (she's Chinese). A few things, no surprises: HIGH heat is what a wok is about. Food shouldn't be sitting at the bottom for more than a couple seconds. Put the oil in when the wok is fully heated, so that it dances in the wok. Constant movement is the key. Veggies...

Charles has gotten to the point: PARTICIPATE in your democracy if you don't like the way it's going. Or even if you DO like it. Contact your representatives, the governor, and get your friends to do the same, to say, "I support hunting," or, "I think hunting should be banned," or anything in...

I agree; saying "I get the feeling" that these are unelected bureaucrats is worthless, but certain elements of American society like to place blanket blame on the bureaucracy that helps our nation make it day to day.

In fact, a right IS a limitation. The rights of the people are inherently a limitation on government. You have no idea if that's true; you simply made it up. When you resort to ad hominem attacks, you lose any little credibility you have. What you OUGHT to remember is those folks vote. When...

Wow, that little rat dog woulda been tossed into the middle of the river had it bitten me. I've been bitten by a dog and had to have rabies shots, as a kid. I don't recommend it.

the streams near my place are all mud bottom spring creeks, so we generally don't have the same issues as on Western freestone streams. My biggest physical issue on these creeks is getting stuck in mud (I had to help a buddy extricate himself from such a place last summer). However, when I...

I do like pickled veggies of all sorts, but haven't tried eggs or sausages yet. I lived in China for several years; they really like their pickles there, and have cool earthenware pickle jars with primitive airlocks, that have a rim around that you put water in so any gasses can get out but...

Yup. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply malfeasance on the part of the manufacturer, just that they're advertising this locally here as well.

The same ad has been in the Chicagoland Craig's List for several months now.

Spring is a bit later here in Chicagoland; my daffodils are only now in bloom. I planted 181 cloves of garlic last October, and they are looking great; I planted another 150 onions (yellow and red) last week. This weekend's weather was glorious here, so I planted dill, tomatoes, Chinese...

Sorry, I'm a cheapskate. I bought two LED headlamps off of Temu for $5 that work a treat. I just have to worry that the Chicoms have put a brainwave modifier in the band 😁.

Hey, I mentioned trout fishing!

I've heard that there IS trout fishing in Panama, up in the mountains along the Costa Rican border (there are trout in Costa Rica, too).

Many years ago I was hiking up the railroad tracks on the Salmonberry River. A "car on rails" owned by the SP came down the tracks and the guy yelled at me that I was trespassing, but I was not on the tracks, I was at the riverside. He "knew" that I had to have walked the tracks to get there...

It's a shame, isn't it?

This guy reminds me of a monthly fishing column in a local community paper published for the western suburbs of Portland in the 80's. The column was called "Fishing With McQ." I hated about 90% of his columns (being, at the time, in my fly fishing "purist" stage, but cut out and kept the other...

Oh, my vices are far worse than coffee and fly tying...I am a bit more successful keeping them in check these days. Usually. But as far as vises are concerned, my Dan-Vise gets about 80% of my business, my Nor-Vise the remainder. The offset jaw removes any other inherent disadvantages.

A fly which was first among equals when I started fishing was the Spruce. I used it to great effect along with a tied down caddis buck for resident and searun cutties in the Nehalem watershed. I literally ONLY used those two flies for the first 2-3 years I fly fished. Since moving to the...

Strange, The Chicago Skyway is in fact a big bridge. It's only 7.8 miles long, but since I rarely travel to or through Indiana, I don't have to experience it.

"The government is essentially a business..." This is the fundamental misunderstanding of government. It is NOT essentially a business. Attempting to run the government as if it was a business has usually been a failure. Business is transactional; government should never be.