Redhorse Cafe -- the Food Truck

[OLChemist]

Good luck finding flour and oil. With Russia and the Ukraine growing/exporting much of Europe's (and Africa's) wheat and sunflowers things are going to be tough. Are they routing seed oils into biodiesel production?


Our weather continues on the roller coaster. Just a degree about freezing yesterday, 90F tomorrow.

[Broken Arrow]

So , what seems to be the issue with the lack of supply ?

Cooking. Even the oil with double and triple prices of sun flower oil are out of stock.
Cold pressed olive oil is still available but > five times the price of sun flower oil.
May be I should use Diesel.

Barley, corn, wheat, sugar beet and sugar cane is used up to 10% in E10.

In 2018, 57.8% of biodiesel in Germany was produced from rapeseed oil, 27.0% from used cooking oils, 8.4% from soybean oil, 2.3% from palm oil, 2.1% from animal fats and 2.0% from fatty acids. We have B7 that is 7% Biosdiesel within the Diesel.

[subeeds]

So much crazy in the world these days. Wednesday the weather was really wild here. If we weren't under tornado warnings, we were under severe thunderstorm warnings. They would come close to us, but just skirted the edges of the county. Princess Diva spent the day napping on her back porch shelf, and I knew as long as she was sleeping, there wasn't any bad weather headed our way. We are now out of the drought, but it could return if the rain stops. I can't wait to see how many types and varieties of skeeters we will have this spring.

I start the Cyber Knife radiation therapy on Monday for the lung nodules. We get to go to Brunswick every day. Yippee. On the bright side, there's a Big Lots, a Tuesday Morning, and Ross Home Stores there. I will drag myself through at least one if I have to. LOL! BA, those stores are closeout stores. They get "last years" merchandise when the new trends hit the stores. You can get all kinds of deals there. I love to just wander through them.

[OLChemist]

...Princess Diva spent the day napping on her back porch shelf, and I knew as long as she was sleeping, there wasn't any bad weather headed our way....

Forget the weather radio. Feline Alert is faster, LOL.

Ishtato, the granddaughter of Siamese princess via an alley cat, went off about two minutes before the tornado sirens on Monday. All the sudden she hopped down off her cat tree, ran into the dining room, clawed open the buffet cabinet door and hid behind grandma's Sunday china. At two points during the two alerts she started wailing. I happened to notice the time of one of her cries started because I cowering in the bathroom, staring at the radar on my phone. When the tornado investigation report was posted, I saw her wailing started at nearly the same time the tornado touched down in River Oaks about 4 miles northwest of my house.


Subs, I'll keep you in my prayers.

[OLChemist]

Cats are just perverse!

Ishty has been perching in the low cat tree with the ramps, that I bought for my three-legged cat. This tree is in front of the TV room / home office window. She's been clawing at the sheers, trying to get them out of the way to see out. This morning I tied back the sheers so the windows are uncovered. (And I'm on full display to the street while I work, until the Rose of Sharon bush leafs out.) Now she is sleeping on the gate-leg table across the room.

Meanwhile, for the past several weeks Olivia has been objecting strenuously to Ishty chasing her, screaming bloody murder and hissing. All while keeping one eye on me, like she expects me to referee. But whenever Ishty is asleep on the dining room table, Olivia gets underneath and bats at (trans: bangs on) the bottom of the table. After Ishty climbs back down from the Siamese shaped skylight she's just made in the ceiling, she chases Olivia.

Jet, my outdoor cat, acts like my picking up up is an assault on his person. And the cat carrier? Well, that is a cell on death row.

But, last week the four year old from the house two doors down decided to play with him. She came out the alley access gate of her backyard, dragged her stroller and baby doll down the alley into my back yard and tossed the fancy baby doll her grandmother had brought her from Korea behind my studio. She called Jet over to her and picked him up. Which in and of itself should sent him running for the hills. She tried to pick him up correctly, but he is a gangly 14lb sack of boneless, limp fur when you lay hands on him. She carried him to her stroller, with the front half of the cat slumped over her arms and the back half dangling down her legs. Jet's hind paws were stepping along side her feet. She stuffed him into the stroller, tucked a blanket around him and took him home. I expected him to come bolting over the fence, but he didn't come back until diner. He then spit up what looked like Cheerios and milk on the porch.

(Just as a disclaimer, I was in my backyard studio watching. I did not let the toddler out of my sight until she got back home. And I did call and tell her folks she was opening the gate. When her dad came to retrieve the doll, he told me they were getting a child proof lock installed.)

[OLChemist]

Speaking of leafing out... Nature can be amazing. We're in a severe drought. Monday we had our first significant rain since last year. In the morning, before the showers started, there were buds on the elms along the alleys. In late afternoon, in the break between the morning showers and the afternoon tornadoes, the leaves came out. Bare trees at sunrise and leafy trees by dusk. It was stunning.

[Broken Arrow]

Nice spring weather. Coöd in the night, warm and sunny at daylight.

Subeeds, I wished I could walk with you through the store.

I keep praying for you.

Oh, a number of medication is out of stock. Seems to be getting more.
Still no sun flower oil, wheat flour and the software says server problem.

[OLChemist]

Caffeine, Chuy. An IV form would be best.

[Broken Arrow]

You are lucky. I still have 12 pounds of coffee.

Hot and lots of it in liquid form.

[OLChemist]

Chuy, machaca and egg burrito, please. If you're out, then shrimp and cheese grits would be nice.


How's everyone? Anyone making anything pretty or interesting?

I'm working on a necklace. I am having a bit of a debate. I bought a prefabricated snap-on bail. I'm not happy with it, but I haven't been able to fabricate something that I like. I planned very poorly for the bail.

[subeeds]

Got done with the radiation therapy. Now to ease off of the steroids. I've had steroids before for muscle issues, but never have I reacted like I have to these. They made me so hyper, it was unbelievable. I've got the basic "round steroid face" which is annoying, but I will live with it for a few more days. LOL! Another weird weather day here. This weekend, the morning lows are supposed to be in the mids 40s. Kind of cilly for this time of year. We've got a bunch of blooms on the pawpaw tree, so it figures we will have another cool snap.

[Broken Arrow]

Well, we have some bread, butter and local sausages.

We have some butter left when it was less expensive than since today.

I keep hoping for you.

[OLChemist]

Chuy where is the hand sanitizer? I am going to slather myself in it after deleting >10 spam posts for escort services. Ick.

Can I please have some fried hominy with bacon and onions?


How are folks doing? Anyone seen WD?

[Broken Arrow]

Oh, hand sanitizer, how many cans do you want? We have surplus and shelf life is expires next year.

We have white bread and bacon with eggs and hot coffee.

[wardancer]

Happy Bunny Rabbit Day ! I've been in hibernation mode this whole week ! Tired of 35 one day and 80 the next just to be 41 the next day. I'm staying in hibernation until we get some warmer weather ! Hope everyone has a Hoppy Easter......... or Wester.....Norther......Souther.....whatever you all prefer ! Laterzzz