Hulk Hands.

Today we repaired the eletrical and barbed wire fence around the property to continue to prepare for the livestock. As we worked Larry was giving me French lessons. More like, I asked him how to say some regions in Southern France or some type of absurd food and he would say it for me. So we will have daily French conversations until I begin to pronounce some basic things correctly. As I talked everyone's ears off I noticed by the end of the day I hadn't really done any work. I pretty much talked the whole time about pate and duck confit while uttering their pronunciacions repeatedly  under my breath until I felt I mastered them.

To go with these French foods, I had just read a book called The Scavenger's Hunt to Haute Cuisine. This book was about a guy that took a year to be a hunter-gatherer and collect as many animals from Auguste Escoffier's cookbook about French haute cuisine. After this year his goal was to produce a forty course meal with his gatherings to cook for his friends. The story was about his different travels of collecting animals like snapping turtles, stingrays and the saliva from sparrow's nests. I instantly thought of Evan and figured he would take on a hunter-gatherer type challenge if he was challenged to do so. I'm not sure how successful he would be since his one use of a gun and it endiended with a bullet in his hand. By any ,I have to admit I don't really fnish books. It's a little secret that I like to keep. I easily plow through the first two thirds of a book and then have no interest in reading the rest. I never really finished the book so I don't know if his challenge was a success. I also just enjoyed reading about  Chez Panisse a restaurant owned by Alice Waters. I never got to the chapters of the current standings of it so I just know its long history. Maybe this means I have to go visit Chez.... Brandon what do you think? I trip back to California?

Back to my original comment on hulk hands. I spent a little time cutting metal today with various ancient tools. I have been doing this the past few work days and whenever I do it I feel powerful!
These aching finger joints take apart metal with one snap when I'm using these special tongs and scissors. So before I cut I always tell Larry I'm getting my hulk on. He always chuckles as he does with pretty much everything odd I do. Today these hulk hands cut tin roof and barbed wire. Bam!