'Feast'

FEAST, n.  A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished fro abstemiousness.  In the Roman Catholic Church feasts are "movable" and "immovable," but the celebrants are uniformly immovable until they are full.  In the earliest development these entertainments took the form of feasts for the dead; such were held by the Greeks, under the name of Nemeseia, by the Aztecs and Peruvians, as in modern times they are popular with the Chinese; thought it is believed that the ancient dead, like the modern, were light eaters.  Among the many feasts of the Romans was the Novemdiale, which was held, according to Livy, whenever stones fell from heave.

Joy

UNDERSTANDING, n.  A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house.  Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.

His understanding was so keen

That all things which he'd felt, heard, seen

He could interpret without fail

If he was in our out of jail.

He wrote of Inspiration's call

Deep disquisitions on them all,

Then, pent at last in an asylum,

Performed the service to compile 'em.

So great a writer, all men swore,

They never had not read before.

Jorrock Wormley.

Hot Apple Pie!

Looking-Glass, n.  A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man's disillusion given.
     The King of Manchuria had a magic looking-glass, whereon whoso looked say, not his own image, but only that of the king.  A certain courtier who had long enjoyed the king's favor and was thereby enriched beyond any other subject of the realm, said to the king: "Give me, I pray, thy wonderful mirror, so that when absent out of thine august presence I may yet do homage before thy visible shadow, prostrating myself night and morning in the glory of thy benign countenance, as which nothing has so divine splendor, O Noonday Sun of the Universe!"
     Pleased with the speech, the king commanded that the mirror be conveyed to the courtier's palace; but after, having gone thither without apprisal, he found it in an apartment where was naught but idle lumber.  And the mirror was dimmed with dust and overlaced with cobwebs.  This so angered him that he fisted it hard, shattering the glass, and was sorely hurt.  Enraged all the more by this mischance, he commanded that the ungrateful courtier be thrown into prison, and that the glass be repaired and taken back to his own palace; and this was done.  But when the king looked again on the mirror he saw not his image as before, but only the figure of a crowned ass, having a bloody bandage on one of its hinder hooves--as the artificers and all who had looked upon it had before discerned but feared to report.
Taught wisdom and charity, the king restored his courtier to liberty, had the mirror set into the back of the throne and reigned many years with justice and humility; and one day when he fell asleep in death while on the throne, the whole court saw in the mirror the luminous figure of an angel, which remains to this day.

DIARY

Diary, n.  A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.

Hearst kept a diary wherein were writ

All that he had of wisdom and of wit.

So the Recording Angel, when Hearst died,

Erased all entries of his own and cried:

"I'll judge you by your diary."  Said Hearst:

"That you; 'twill show you I am Saint the First"--

Straightway producing, jubilant and proud,

That record from a pocket in his shroud.

The Angel slowly turned the pages o'er,

Each stupid line of which he knew before,

Glooming and gleaming as by turns he hit 

On Shallow sentiment and stolen wit;

Then gravely closed the book and gave it back.

"My friend, you've wandered from your proper track:

You'd never be content this side the tomb--

For big ideas Heaven has little room,

And Hell's no latitude for making mirth,"

He said, and kicked the fellow back to earth.

"The Mad Philosopher."

Cheesy Cornbread Casserole!

FORK, n.  An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.  Formerly the knife was employed for this purpose, and by many worthy person is still thought to have many advantages over the other tool, which, howver, they do not altogether reject, but use to assist in charging the knife.  The immunity of these persons from swift and awful death is one of the most striking proofs of God's mercy to those that hate Him.

Pico de Gallo "say it's salsa!"

with Corn bread casserole.

1 cup yellow cornmeal

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt 

1 cup mile

2 beaten eggs

1 17 ounce can cream-style corn

2 cups shredded cheddar cheese

1/4-ounce can green chilli peppers, rinsed, seeded, and chopped

1/2 cup chopped onion

1 pound ground beef

1 16-ounce can red kidney beans, drained

1/2 of an 8-ounce can (1/2/cup) tomato sauce

2 teaspoons chili powder

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder

Yellow cornmeal

*HUG*

Complacency

and Gratitude.  (it's gratitude month) because it is easy to rest on my laurels and become lazy...*sigh*

Teriyaki Chicken and rice.

Stuffed Roast Chicken

Actually I think with experience I'm not getting better at this!  Especially without certain staples in the cupboards and not just buying a few items.

It's truly not a whole lot of work for a brief amount of timespace...and then to remember to forget another year.

Happy, homesuemer, harvest, holiday!