Tagalong guest.....

Dinner with an old friend....well, an old friend of Millyrose anyway but she likes me well enough, I s'poze, at least well enough to invite me as a tagalong guest.....great dinner, good wine, goooooood conversation (mem’ry Andy Griffith)...good time! Nice to have Sunday dinner at someone else’s house...no cooking, no cleaning, no leftovers....I don’t know why it is that I don’t like leftovers....well, most things anyway.....cold pizza makes a good breakfast ‘n chili seems to get better with age...well, it gets better if it was any good the first time around...I think if you strike the right balace with the chilie content, it just gets better with each re-heating...Oh, ‘n leftover turkey after Thanksgiving...makes great sandwiches but that’s only for a short time....anytime you have turkey more than once or twice a year, you’re going overboard with it....unless maybe you’re talking wild turkey ‘n I don’t mean the bourbon but the real wild turkeys that are roaming the highways ‘n byways of the USA t’day.... ‘course, most people don’t harvest them, at least not in public....the general public looks upon them as some kind of Disneyesque critters that roam the streets just to add some local color...they feel the same way about the deer ‘n the omnipresent coyotes....well, they feel that way about the coyotes until the coyotes make a meal out’a their pets....people like the mountain lions also until the lion makes a meal out of a jogger or hiker who just happened t’be absentmindedly taking up some of the same space occupied by a lion....people are funny....they want to save wolves ‘n think it’s a crime that ranchers want to shoot them...
‘n the grizzly bear....OMG! Let’s save Old Ursus Horibillis...that’s the latin name, y’know, ‘cause the grizzly has a lot in common with humans since they just might be the only animal that hunts humans for sport...I had a conversation with a professional bear hunter once upon a time...He used dogs with electronic collars to track ‘n tree the bear, then he showed up with his .44 Caliber Magnum revolver to shoot the bear out of the tree...I told him that I didn’t think that was very sporting of him, that he should probably arm himself with a couple of buck knives ‘n fight the bear that way....I told him that the odds would still be on his side but at least he would have given the bear a little chance. ..He told me I was crazy ‘n wouldn’t talk to me anymore....
I’m not a vegetarian....I quite like beef ‘n pork ‘n chicken....I like buffalo a lot also ‘n I used to eat a lot of rabbit when I was young but they weren’t wild rabbits..wild rabbit has a gamy taste that I never cared for....I eat a little salad now ‘n then but I never cared for wild greens...
guess I wouldn’t have done very well living off the land....