joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Feb 7, 2012, 5:31 pm
i probably have a dozeb "posts" running around in my head, but first a word from my sponser... OscarHe has been gone some 3 years, but the other morning he came visiting, meowing at my door, calling for me. I am left with questions: Is he coming back? When? How? Will I know its him? I have not thoug...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Feb 4, 2012, 1:16 pm
They are pulling a trick on mean elaborate one.They are telling me that it is Februaryand that i did not go into a coma for 2 or 3 months,but i know better.My garden does not lie.The oregano is sprouting,as is the fenneland chives.The Forsythia are budding,The weeds are growing in the garden and i h...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Feb 2, 2012, 5:05 pm
This morning i posted something which was meaningful, but there is an alternate explanation There was once an old farmer who sold his mule, telling the buyer that the mule was very obedient. Well after numerous tries, the buyer found the mule would not even start to go home with him and went and got...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Feb 2, 2012, 5:36 am
An Old Story When i was a young man and a new Christian., I fell into a group of evangelical Christians and there was a story circulating among the group telling of how shepherds would deal with sheep that had goneastray. Whether the story had any truth to it, i do not know, this group would tell m...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Feb 1, 2012, 5:01 pm
after a difficult day at work, i truly enjoyed the walk home. i forgot the month and thought only of how it felt, like late April maybe even May, My Lord it was 60 F today! (yes i use the symbols of what temperature scale i am using, F, C or K, just for clarity). There seems to be so little clarity ...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Jan 31, 2012, 3:41 pm
This is not a recipe, it is a way of coking. This is not a winter, it is 50 F on the last day of January. There is no snow on the ground. I have the "girls" here and so the doors are open so they can enjoy. I have a cheap piece of pork rib (they call it country ribs) and i start with olive oil to br...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Jan 30, 2012, 6:22 pm
The signs were there it should have been obvious, I was oblivious. The walk in to work was okay, 'cept for the car that speed up as i was in the cross walk, missing me by feet, but i continued on. Then there was the man asking for money for coffee, I bought him a coffee, but he wanted more money af...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Jan 29, 2012, 6:56 pm
This is the lightest, flufiest cornbread i have ever had.  Some of the flavor ingredients are optional. It is also comfort food. Cornbread (Greek inspired!) you can play a little with this recipe, but if you gooverboard, it will not rise i have added 1 cup cooked grits (for texture) and 1tablespoon...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Jan 28, 2012, 8:59 am
not having enjoyed my work week, last night i went to one of my favorite comfort foods, Linguini with clam sauce. it helped. Linguini/spaghetti with clamsauce  One of my favorite - got to have it meals  3 cans baby clams - chopped, minced and whole and all of theliquid1 tablespoon garlic, chopped ...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Jan 27, 2012, 11:28 pm
Today was the perfect description Fog, drizzle, rain, the way lighted, but not quite clear, not quite safe. So much just like life is.
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Jan 27, 2012, 6:17 pm
A much too important question not to be answered, I posted on my other blog, hoping for some response: What is public Health? But the reason for the question created a great big stir in me. I find my self fighting the issue with people who should know better. Are they lazy? Not wanting to do work? A...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Jan 25, 2012, 4:19 pm
it is not because i am lazy nor is it because i don't want to go to work, (tho the later might be true some times). No it is because when i wake up, my face and eyes are toward a wall, not more than a foot away and as i open my eyes everything i see for that instant is single. That changes when i tu...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Jan 23, 2012, 5:58 pm
The day of snow was pretty and now its going away, washed away in a warmish rain. I like snow this way. I did not go out because of the slush, which was slippery, so i stayed in and tried to go through things... Those things were of course, the things still waiting for me from my mom's stuff. Pictu...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Jan 21, 2012, 11:44 am
This is how i deal today: Potato Leek Soup(its a thick one)1 bunch leeks - cut into 1/2 inch pieces, cleaned and soakin cold water over night 5 potatoes, diced into 1/4 pieces (I do not peel them) 2 sticks butter 2 cups wine 1 tablespoon salt 2 tablespoons course ground black pepper 1 teaspoon smoke...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Jan 21, 2012, 10:33 am
For the second time this season, we have snow. This is not bad for New England, It is on a Saturday, so i am not walking to work, but it reminds me of my sleep last night, a sleep that was sound, but with many troubled dreams, fights with people and places i did not know. This, blanketed by my sleep...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Jan 18, 2012, 4:26 pm
It was an innocent start, a lunch, a short trip to a Trader Joe's and there was more difficulty with my eyes than had been. Perhaps i was complaining, sometimes i do, but then the question came: "do you ever wish they hadn't taken out the tumor?". I had a quick response and there was silence after, ...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Jan 17, 2012, 3:53 pm
A light layer of white lays on the ground, it is not a blizzard and it is a welcome relief from the terrible cold of theother day, but i am struggling in my heart and every thing is "why?". i do not have answers, I do not have direction. I seem to plod along, wandering in the snow. Work, life, li...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Jan 14, 2012, 9:59 am
enough said!
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Jan 14, 2012, 9:50 am
A large piece of beef - bottom round, chuck roast it was labled, i picked it up the other day on a good sale for a cold day to cook it. Today is good, cold, cloudy, yuk! My spices will lead me, garlic and onion first, sweet them down in olive oil, the beef to sear next, both sides. the juice for 2 c...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Jan 13, 2012, 4:06 pm
now you see itNow you don't Walking in today was fun,the gibbous moon was playingpeek-a-boo through the clouds. A Friday is nice, but I am confused,this is January,itfeels like March. The wild wind, blowing the clouds around. My normal walk, what surprise do I find today at the Millriv...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Jan 12, 2012, 7:41 pm
Yes the soup worked and the guest who came over enjoyed it so much she came for thirds the next day. There is a beauty in cooking something slow that can not occur in a quick meal. The flavors develop, love becomes more apparent. This is what i like to do.
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Jan 10, 2012, 11:54 am
Used With Permission from Sefano De Rosa as seen in Spaceweather.comThe bright, full moon was so loud,it woke me from a sound sleepa sleep filled with unusual,unremembered dreams,of people known and unknown.So many dreams,so many people. My body aches,a minor level of the flu.it makes each cell...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Jan 4, 2012, 3:22 pm
It was god awful cold (what God has to do with awful, I donot know), I wake up chilled, It is hard to shake it off, so I prepare a soup…hearty, full of flavor from frozen Thanksgiving’s turkey carcass and frozen chicken stock and frozen turkey stock. The pot begins to boil and I turn it to a ...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Jan 4, 2012, 5:38 am
Never "why me?", but why. Simple, direct,there is a mindful purpose in everything that happens. It is used for good. Yes, i believe that.. All things work together for good for those who arecalled... Yes I believe that. There is no mindless entity making a mockery of my life.It all works together i...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Jan 2, 2012, 10:12 pm
In view of conversations there are things learned and things to share. In this current "Adventure" i find myself, regarding the things that happened from the removal of the tumor in the back of my head, I have never said "why me", tho i believe i used to complain about my life before. (how silly i ...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Nov 2, 2011, 4:32 pm
 yes these are photos from October, but they fit today.The surpise snow has gone, Halloween is past.It has finally started,the air is crispand clean,but there is an odor of fall leaves.An unmistakable smell, that feels good. I love Autumn,even for its breif time,the color,the smwlls,the look. I do...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Nov 1, 2011, 4:02 pm
I found out late in the day that the city of Stamford "canceled" Halloween because of the downed power lines.. They never told me nor the numbers of children who came for candy last night...sigh! Halloween was fun. but now its done. My lab is down and the candy is gone. i hope all the children were ...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 30, 2011, 10:45 am
This will be more of a picture post above yesterday's snow! Now the snow is scary!dancing in the snowenough already snowball fightMore snowballs!
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 29, 2011, 8:18 pm
I grew up hearing many parables or tales from my dad - French or German - they seam to be common in the European arena and the Ox tail soup reminded me of a favorite - called "golden eyes". According to my dad's story - a french king would visit his  subjects incognito, dressed as a simple hunter, ...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 29, 2011, 9:09 am
No, i do NOT like it, but it gives me opertunity to start doing my indoor cooking thing again. I love the grill and the smoker, but some of lifes truely great food comes from a slow cooker. today i am preparing black beans - these will not be ready till tomorrow, but i can wait. The blend of spices ...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 28, 2011, 9:44 pm
It is not the weather, It is not the time. There is more going on, a sense of loss that seems to have aroused in my heart,  devouring joy. Yes, it is in these times my heart opens wides. The analytical mind must take a rest. Not all is to be understood, not all is calculable. There are things deep...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 26, 2011, 7:10 pm
I was assisting a friend on a school assignment where she track the nutritional value of the food she ate. She happens to be Asian Indian and uses a lot of spices.  I helped her track down the nutritional value of some of the spices she uses and was very amazed and interested. I think the one that ...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 25, 2011, 4:32 pm
a shadow in the windowshade by the doora glint on the sidemovement that appears and the disappears.Sunlight dancing, mokes me,spilling off leaves and brances and an thing shiney.I see,i don't see.Someone or thing just out of the corner of my eyes.A ghost, a goblin or just an image created by the pri...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 24, 2011, 10:34 pm
Okay 3 years ago, I was out of the hospital (after 2 months), but still with major head swelling from the operation that took the tumor out of my head. I still had double vision (okay, i still do) and the doctor thought things might improve if he put a shunt in my body to relieve the swelling. I was...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 24, 2011, 7:23 pm
it is almost meloncoly, i look and i see fall slowly approaching. It is not coming with a bang, but with a crawl. The mixture of fall and summer are every where! And i still have impatients blooming! (though not for long i am sure).
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 23, 2011, 9:38 am
3 times, not once, not twice, but three times i threaded this needle. Yes it is a large one, but still... The inspiration came from my mom, who was still able to thread a needle, even with "Bad" eyesight in her last year of life. And what did i do with this needle and thread you may ask... thread ...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 21, 2011, 3:53 pm
This will be a kind of strange post – possibly to match my mood of yesterday. For today I found out that our Health Director's Mother passed away on Tuesday And I found myself hating death, the separation that it causes; the pain of loss. Of course I remember this way too vividly,for me this is s...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 20, 2011, 4:43 pm
it was a strange day, some phone cals and walk ins of the unusual variety, but that did not make it strange.Finding paperwork, i thought was lost, that did not make it strange.Waking up too early, to sounds of machines and equipment down the street, but that was not all that strange, just irritati...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 17, 2011, 9:55 pm
Returns yet again Dancing in the wind.Tumbling,Soaring, Flitting around in a frenzied dance,A blur.can you see him?Just for a moment stopping for a drink.and then off again into the wind. Hurry, hurry, for it is getting cold and you must be off to a warmer climate.but today is perfectand the wind le...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 15, 2011, 10:14 pm
Before the end of fall ready for a long trip ... South. Every year they come to feast on nectoar. I got a good picture this time.
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 15, 2011, 4:04 pm
i go to support the food bank. I go to have fun. I go to share my idea of good chili. Again I did not win a prize, but everything above was true.
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 13, 2011, 5:10 pm
This morning started poorly... yes it was those facts and figures and graphs and such at work. My eyes - they were bothering me, but that was one issue that i could resolve - that meant they were still getting better. But the frustration  while trying to use them! Frustration - am i the only one l...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 12, 2011, 3:11 pm
... and October, always) and so to keep myself busy i analyze information i have (this has kept me out of real trouble as i ... happened and i have no explaination for it!" This was very good for me after the ... .) numbersand figuresand graphs. I am good at this,               ...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 11, 2011, 8:59 pm
But i am going to have fun trying... OCt 15th 1-3 PM Unitarian Church at Forest Street... Be there! The startAdd My first secret weapon! First finishNext! Now it takes time and patience!
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 9, 2011, 10:22 am
Every one thinks that tomorrow is the holiday celebrating "Columbus Day", they are wrong. Tomorrow is a special day because it is my 32nd anniversary with the City of Stamford as there investigative analytical chemist (that is the actual job, but the title is lab tech). Those 32 years have been full...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 8, 2011, 8:45 am
listless, without direction or energy, fall approaches. Fall or Autumn haas wonterful memories for me, but this year ... i am blah. I dread the winter, the holidays, there is a foreboding that i can not describe. It shrouds my feelings and perceptions this morning and last night. To escape and yet i...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 5, 2011, 5:01 pm
There is a saying, and i do not want to look it up right now, that healing comes from pain. So it is with my eyes, not real pain, but discomfort. What makes me feel good and see well, is not what is best for my eyes. What my docotor did with my glasses, seemed to cause discomfort... they did not see...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 3, 2011, 8:20 pm
It was a good Saturday to go out and so off to Fin II we went, where i have never been disappointed.  My friend ordered a "cooked" Special (as opposed to the sushie/sashimi i love) of Red Snapper and gave it a 2 tumbs up. Then did a little recon around and was surprised to see a number of people at...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 2, 2011, 8:27 pm
Talking on the phone at work regarding work things, i often find out different things. The other day, someone trying to spell my last name, said it was German for art. Since i did mostly the technical German in school, that was not a word i ran across, so i looked it up. Well the last name is close ...
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joe K. posted an article on Joey K's Place - Oct 1, 2011, 1:08 pm
Yes, there is a mild crispness in the air, but that occurred in lat August as well. The fruits in the store have changes, crisp apples and pears. There was a tree i passes the other day and at first glance, i thought there were oranges, but no those were orange leaves. My favorite small tree, the Au...
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