Turducken and Lights!

Well Thanksgiving was great! This was the fourth one for me at the Rielley's and the 23rd one for Maureen. We had Elizabeth's Turducken (Chicken in a Duck in a Turkey) mmmm mmmmmmm!

Today I put the lights up on the house and we bought some random Christmas decor... slowly building the collection a suppose.

Tomorrow we hike out into the wild plains of Kansas to kill a tree.

The tradition lives!

Reindeer!

Christmas is coming!

Making Snowflakes!Break for Cocoa!

Resting after the intense snow storm!

Put The Lights On The Tree - Sufjan Stevens

Follow up on the Global Warming post...

There is some strange evidence surfacing about Britain's largest Climate research institute... (Read more HERE)

It seems as though they have been falsifying evidence in favor of global warming.

Not only is there little, to no, scholarly debate taking place about the legitimacy and truth of this topic but we have dummies playing "Scientists" now.

Both sides need a voice!

Very few real scientists are getting a voice in this "debate"...

Why is half of the argument being left out and now we are presenting fallacies instead of truth.

Has our society rejected reason and truth!

From the American Thinker...

An article by Chris Duco...

"Top Ten Reasons You Might Be a Progressive..."

Top reason:

1. If you think Carbon Dioxide, the gas required by plants to convert solar energy into usable chemical energy in the photosynthetic process, the very source of all food on the planet, is a pollutant... you might be a progressive.

On the same note of the science (or pseudoscience) of global warming, see this fantastic article by Steven Dutch from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay ---> HERE!

Its The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.

Recyclops is here to usher in the end of the world... as we know it!

"The Mass" for Wii?!?!?

Should we be scared...


It almost looks real :)

First Annual Real Christmas Tree Hunt!











Host: Shaw and Maureen Leach
Location: Fulk Farms Platte
26905 Hwy 92
Platte City, MO 64079 US
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When: Saturday, November 28, 11:00AM
Phone: 913-370-1175

We will meet @ Fulk Farms Platte

U-Choose and Cut your own Christmas trees. Wagon rides and gift shop available. Fresh made wreaths & garland for sale in gift shop.
Phone: 816-858-2467

Christmas tree varieties:
Scotch and Belgian pines, pre-cut Balsam, Douglas and Fraser firs available.

After you find that perfect tree, you are invited back to the Leach home for: cinnamon rolls, hot chocolate and whatever else we feel inspired to make/eat!

I love food!

"Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts...... Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for a one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your time. Take a long time. Move slowly and deliberately and with great attention.."

~ Thomas Keller

Pictures from Bluestem

























Justus Drugstore is an amazing restaurant.


(From Justus Drugstore website)
We believe real food raised with painstaking care by local small farm producers, prepared lovingly by skilled artisans served in an ambient beautiful space is an experience everyone should enjoy. If we can’t make it from scratch, we won’t serve it.


Everyone should go there sometime in their life lived in the Midwest.

To add to more amazing KC restaurants to the list we have...

Room 39
In November 2004, Andrew Sloan and Ted Habiger opened their first restaurant, Room 39. Three years later a second location in Leawood, Kansas was born. Combining seasonal ingredients and exceptional value with a warm atmosphere and friendly service, Room 39 has become a fixture in Kansas City for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

Breakfast and Lunch are casual affairs with a dining room of beautifully handcrafted tables and simple yet elegant food such as our steak and eggs benedict, fresh pasta and our popular half pound burger. Dinners are more elegant but still a great value with white tablecloths, an award winning wine list and a $39 tasting menu that changes daily using our farmer driven produce and meat.

The chefs of Room 39 believe the best tasting food comes from local farmers who use sustainable harvesting and growing practices ensuring the land is better off than before.

Room 39 seems to be a very intriguing restaurant. I love the idea of knowing exactly where your food is coming from and using it in season and working with the farmers that grow it! Justus uses the same ideas.

and

what I hear to be the best in KC. Ever.

Bluestem

Many say this rivals Justus... Which is mine and Maureen's favorite!

A dream became a reality when chefs Colby and Megan Garrelts opened bluestem in March of 2004. The Garrelts invite you into their home and share their passion on a plate. With Chef Colby’s Progressive American Cuisine and Chef Megan’s New Varieties of American Desserts bluestem is committed to providing not only a meal, but a truly memorable experience. Our restaurant’s simple elegance, staff dedication, and attention to detail invites guests at bluestem to simply settle in and enjoy their stay.

Finally two great recipes from Room 39

New England Clam Chowder

Braised Short Ribs with Celery Root Puree

Michael Scott's
Dunder Mifflin
Atchison Shaw
leach Memorial
Celebrity Rabies
Awareness Pro-Am
Fun Run Race
For The Cure

3 P.M. today in the Leach driveway!

The Tale of Scratchies...

So...

We are human beings and we sleep at night.

Certain animals do not.

The past few weeks we have had loud scratching underneath our bedroom floor boards. This thing would also knock over our trash-can and drag its contents all over the yard and driveway.... this does not make for a happy wife... and thus there is no happy husband.

I have thought it was a groundhog that lived under there(I had seen one in the yard before) ... and today I came home from work and saw a groundhog outside of our bed room window. I went ran outside after I had grabbed the closest death object I could find.

I crept up on it and literally got within 2 feet of the foul beast with my hammer raised in the air.... For a happy wife I knew I must do the deed.

Then, it turned and looked at me with a mouth full of grass, or some other object that belonged in our yard and not in its mouth, I froze. I couldn't pull the trigger... or throw the hammer. It ran off...

I put a board over the hole by our house that I knew was his bat cave entrance. I thought he was gone for good...

I was wrong.

The groundhog had a friend working on the inside.

ACT 2

The Wife and I were watching a movie in the living room and we started to hear some banging and general tomfoolery.

I grabbed my flashlight and crowbar (an upgrade from the wooden handled hammer) and ran outside to see if the groundhog was trying to get back in his batcave. I still heard noises and there was nothing there.

Then it happened.

I heard the scream from the inside of our abode.

My wife was in the bathroom screaming...

I sprinted inside to find her standing in the hallway just after she had slammed the bathroom door... she was freaked!

She said it was in our bathroom!

I gripped my weapon and cracked open the door... (after I had sent Maureen off of course)

I saw a claw under the doorway and it ran behind the dryer.

I opened the door more... the bathroom was a wreck. Mud on the sink. Paw prints on the mirror. Medicine strewn across the floor. The towel rack was tipped over with towels all over...

I looked behind the dryer. I saw the glowing eyes of a Raccoon. The man on the inside!

How did he get in!?

We have a little tiny door that opens up to water pipes in the wall for a quick turn off. He had climbed through and infiltrated the fortress!

Animal control in A-town was closed. I needed to rely on my own strength.

I tried many methods of slaying the coon-dragon.

I pinned it behind the dryer in a corner.

I noosed it around the neck with rope.

It hissed.

It gnawed... the rope snapped.

I broke a broom trying to get at its power with blunt force...

I tried and tried with no sight of success.

Then, when hope had all but faded...

It broke free from its state and tried to climb back to the dark pit that it had come from...

I gave it a swift blow to the skull and it ran into the moat (the tub) instead!!!!

I yelled for the great Maureen to grab me a large plastic tote...

She came back swiftly with the cage in hand.

I opened the shower curtain and slammed the cage over the beast that had come from the pits of hell.

I slid the lid underneath and tied it up with rope.

... I have conquered the beast!

I Just had to drive out to river road and chuck the dumb thing of a bridge into the river below and speed off. Dumb animal.

I kept the cage.

The End!