Today over on the Older Bolder Life I’ve posted this nifty recipe for a fairly traditional Southern Toasted Pecan Blue Cheese Ball, a holiday and party table standout that’s been around so long it’s gone from old standby to kitschy cliche to being back in style again, probably because these babies taste so damn good.
Impress the family with this one over the holiday weekend, and tuck the recipe away for when we’re all entertaining friends and neighbors – those days are coming again.
Cheers.
Brett French via the Missoulian has recently published an interesting read on summer Yellowstone River use in the Paradise Valley. We’ve always loved the Yellowstone River, and now that Jake, Kaitlyn, and grandson Brantley live about 2 blocks from the big bend of the river in Livingston we feel like we have a home anchor point just about on the water’s edge…
Not unexpectedly in this bizarre year, just over 4 out of 5 summer users on the River (Emigrant to Livingston) were from Montana, the majority of those being from Livingston and Bozeman. One of the more interesting data points from the study was that only 40% of the river users were fishers – important as access sites are placed, repaired, and maintained in Montana primarily from funds garnered from fishing license fees, bolstering the argument that non-fisher recreationists aren’t paying “their fair share” (a concept you’ve no doubt heard bandied about during this political season year).
The data quoted in the article was sourced from a 57-page study recently published by the U of M’s Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research – read it here.
Image via the linked article in the Missoulian.
In yet another nifty piece from Montana’s best newspaper-based outdoor writer (Brett French), digging into Yellowstone National Park history, suggests that Mary Trowbridge Townsend, an adventurous “socialite” of the day from New Haven, CT, was one of if not the first woman to record her adventures in the Park in the then popular magazine Outing.
While I generally scorn the modern influencer culture (on the premise that people who should actually influence me should be folks who actually accomplish things in life, work, and play as opposed to staging elaborate forgeries of life conquests), Ms. Townsend actually ventured far West from her pampered Connecticut confines (quite a trip in 1897) to literally get her feet wet and hands dirty enjoying YNP up close.
Read the full story here in the Billings Gazette (image above via the linked article).
SAGE has a nifty Swing Season edition up on their site right now that’ll make you want to chase the elusive steel on the swing this year…
Some good vibes from the world of spin and fly – read it here.
Today over on the Older Bolder Life I’ve posted this nifty recipe for what has become our go to Christmas Eve tamale these days (displacing our twenty-plus-year previous favorite recipe three years ago) – for sake of discussion let’s call it Christmas Eve Tamales #2.
I’ve actually just posted the recipe to make the filling at the link, assuming that if you’re ambitious enough to consider making holiday tamales and hosting your own tamalada (tamale making party) you probably have a favorite masa recipe of your own. If not, try this one (our Christmas Eve Tamale #1) or this one which works damn well with healthier oils.
Cheers.
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