A New Tandy Hills Mystery With An Invite To Ride The Waves At Cowtown Wakepark

It was in the high 90s when I hit the HOT Tandy Hills today, at noon. Currently, coming up on 3 in the afternoon it is 104.

There was only a slight wind blowing on the hills today, yet I did not have the overheating problem I encountered on Saturday.

I do not know, for sure, what made today so much more pleasant. Maybe my electrolytes were in balance, today, due to the drinking concoction I made in my Vita-Mix this morning consisting of all sorts of good stuff I got at Town Talk, like frozen Acai Berries, soy milk, frozen Dole strawberry/banana mix, lime juice, pineapple juice and likely some other good superfood stuff I'm forgetting.

I seem to hardly go a week without finding a new Guerrilla Art Installation on the Tandy Hills. I'm not sure if that is what I found today. Below the now dry Tandy Falls there were dozens of business cards scattered about.

The business cards showed no water damage. Which indicates they did not get flushed over Tandy Falls by the recent broken water main flood.

The business cards were for a business called PEBE J KIDS INC., with the personal name on these cards being Irene Montalvo.

Why would someone throw dozens of business cards over the Tandy Falls escarpment?

On a totally different note.

I was really happy upon returning to my computer and checking my email to see that Gail Galtex got a really good Groupon deal for going wakeboarding at the Cowtown Wakepark and invited me to go do some wakeboarding, with GG, in the polluted Trinity River water. Something I have long dreamed of doing.

Now, who is going to solve the Tandy Hills Irene Montalvo business card mystery while I go wakeboarding?

Vitamixing Peanut Butter

A long long time ago in a land far away, that being Washington and the town of Seattle, I went to the annual Home Show that took place in the now deceased Kingdome.

At the Home Show I watched a demonstration of a Vita-Mix. The demonstrator made it seem so easy to make tasty soup, ice cream, all sorts of things.

So, I bought a Vita-Mix. It's been so long since I bought it that my Vita-Mix is now an antique. I saw the new version at last year's Texas State Fair in Dallas. The modern Vita-Mix is quiet and looks very high-tech. Mine looks low-tech and is so noisy it probably does ear drum damage.

When I got my Vita-Mix home I tried to make soup. The demonstrator made it look so easy, just throw in a bunch of vegetables and turn it on. I did so, but it did not make soup. Instead it was a thick green slurry that was inedible.

Eventually I figured out how to make bread, grinding wheat berries to make flour, then making the dough that ended up being very very dense bread that many also said was inedible.

As time went by I did find some uses for the Vita-Mix, but it's been a long time since I've made anything with it. Til this morning.

What with peanut butter turning deadly and with me having an over supply of very good Virginia peanuts that I got at Sprouts Farmers Market and with my jar of Smuckers Natural Peanut Butter empty, I decided to use the Vita-Mix to make peanut butter.

I recollect having made peanut butter before in the Vita-Mix, I think. This morning it took a long time of running that noisy thing, my ears are still ringing, but eventually the peanuts turned into butter. A real course, crunchy butter. That tastes real good.

So, that's been my day so far. Being a very productive peanut butter maker.