Lodge is a good brand! They come (supposedly) seasoned already, I would get them home, wash them rightly and then season them yourself or your food will stick in them. Not sure what kind of stuff they put on them originally.
I was getting ready to post this photo (which is of the same solar landscape lamp that had the cute little hat on Wednesday) when the equivalent ice burden took down the high branches that Asplundh stupid (profanity and other colorful descriptive terms deleted for space) left hanging unsupposted out over the main power lines and the lights went out. I spent ten hours over three days discussing those same trees with a consulting PhD arborculturalist and then a bunch of mail time editing the vegetation management plan back when they widened the road and the upshot was that they were never ever going to do that, ever, they were going to cut all limbs back to the main trunk or a stable crotch, and prune up to the sky.
We were without power for3660 hours, which is not a record, the lights have been on since midnight and it's under 60F in the study(edit: went to 60.1 while I was typing). On the good side, everything in the freezers is still rock hard.
And the Hamburgs skipped on day laying, and that was Thursday when every time I went outside there were more branches down in the orchard. They laid an egg apiece yesterday, even though a patch of ice was melting over an insecure seam in their plastic; the flimsy wire and sheet plastic run has held fast. I did accidentally let two of them them out yesterday when I went in search of a support to take care of the melting ice-lake; Suzzie went back in when I yelled at her and I caught Elvis pretty easily, without loss of fethers or dignity on either of our part. And the branch that weighed down the roof of Ian and Sylvia's run went UP and not DOWN when the ice melted.
The orchard took a lot of damage. I have to get a Transparent and one other pollinator ASAP, because true to the fragility and brittleness of its kind that tree split right down the middle. Otherwise, I'm going to register at Burnt Ridge for 60th Birthday and 30th wedding anniversary gifts, I guess. The plum next to the front door is in shambles, but I was taking that out anyway. The pears are all fine. The local native pines are also fine; the stone pines and the "beach pine" subspecies of Pinus contortum (lodgepole) are not so hot. Pictures possibly to follow.
The driveway is still a zero friction surface, even though it's been above freezing for 48 hours now. I'm contemplating the extreme act of using the extra Coleman butane I bought last night (yes, mother, we only used it in a well ventilated space). and boiling water to dump down the hill, but since the surbace under the slush is pretty much liquid as it is I suspect that would be unwise.
I use cast iron too. The very best ones I have, MGSU got for me at an auction - 4 pans for $5! They are pretty old and nicely seasoned. The newer ones I got are Lodge, except for one Cabellas, which I really don't like. It isn't seasoned well and doesn't have the nice smooth surface which the old ones have. Maybe just need 20 years to wear in (I'll be dead by then)!
I quite agree. The more we let them take, the more they will continue to take.
