Chet's Cheap Grub Grill --Food Frivolity and Adventure Stories
Saturday
Episode 10 -- Chet Meets Vasya Pupkin, Cold War Spy
I was watching the sun come up in a little burg called Grand Prairie, Alberta. I had secured work with an old timer named Cotton. No last name. Just Cotton. He had a feed and grain store along with a fix-it shop on the side. The days saw me sharpening scissors, loading bags of feed into beat up trucks and resurrecting dead Kirbys. The old man provided room and board which consisted of a mattress in the barn, cold cereal in the morning and canned soup for the evening meal. He also picked up the bar tab from the local watering hole every Saturday night as a bonus. Saturday's foray into town was always preceded by a hot bath and a shave. Sunday was a mandatory visit to the Lutheran Church.
This particular morning Cotton suggested I take the day off. "You've been working hard Chet and sometimes a man needs a little time alone. Why don't you take the truck up to the Wapiti (river) and see if you can catch us some fish for supper?" I jumped at the idea and in no time I was headed to the woods. I drove for what seemed like a long enough time to reach the river when a plume of white steam erupted from under the hood. The gauges in the ancient truck were long past operational but I assumed something wasn't right as I pulled off the dirt road. Using my shirt tail, I released the hissing cap only to find the radiator bone dry. Water was needed. I could hear the sound of the river beyond the stand of thick pines and started off in what I thought was the right direction. An hour later I knew I was lost.
... to be continued
This Just In:
A Rottweiler in Richland, Washington., speed-dialed 911 and barked into the phone. The owner was unconscious at the time. The dog then let the responding cops inside the house.
time.com/notebook All Lassie ever did was bark and run away.
Koko the gorilla's handlers are being sued by three women for pressuring them to submit to Koko's sign language requesting to see their breasts. time.com/notebook
It sounds like Koko has been doing some unchaperoned viewing of "Girls Gone Wild."
Rats can differentiate between languages. Rodents trained to respond to one language ignore commands in other tongues say Spanish researchers. This leads to the belief that language skills were in place before mammals learned to speak. discover/flash
Duh. Haven't these people ever watched cartoons.
Chet Says For A Healthy Happy Life:
-Half a lemon, dash of cayenne pepper and a tbs. of maple syrup (the real stuff) mixed with hot water makes a healthy good morning drink.
-Always check half full beer cans before you drink to make sure there are no cigarette butts in them.
-Eat your salad last.
-If you have a teenage daughter with an i in her name don't let her dot it with a circle or a heart. It looks really asinine.
This particular morning Cotton suggested I take the day off. "You've been working hard Chet and sometimes a man needs a little time alone. Why don't you take the truck up to the Wapiti (river) and see if you can catch us some fish for supper?" I jumped at the idea and in no time I was headed to the woods. I drove for what seemed like a long enough time to reach the river when a plume of white steam erupted from under the hood. The gauges in the ancient truck were long past operational but I assumed something wasn't right as I pulled off the dirt road. Using my shirt tail, I released the hissing cap only to find the radiator bone dry. Water was needed. I could hear the sound of the river beyond the stand of thick pines and started off in what I thought was the right direction. An hour later I knew I was lost.
... to be continued
This Just In:
A Rottweiler in Richland, Washington., speed-dialed 911 and barked into the phone. The owner was unconscious at the time. The dog then let the responding cops inside the house.
time.com/notebook All Lassie ever did was bark and run away.
Koko the gorilla's handlers are being sued by three women for pressuring them to submit to Koko's sign language requesting to see their breasts. time.com/notebook
It sounds like Koko has been doing some unchaperoned viewing of "Girls Gone Wild."
Rats can differentiate between languages. Rodents trained to respond to one language ignore commands in other tongues say Spanish researchers. This leads to the belief that language skills were in place before mammals learned to speak. discover/flash
Duh. Haven't these people ever watched cartoons.
Chet Says For A Healthy Happy Life:
-Half a lemon, dash of cayenne pepper and a tbs. of maple syrup (the real stuff) mixed with hot water makes a healthy good morning drink.
-Always check half full beer cans before you drink to make sure there are no cigarette butts in them.
-Eat your salad last.
-If you have a teenage daughter with an i in her name don't let her dot it with a circle or a heart. It looks really asinine.
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