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The first gristmill in Galway (NY) was built in 1785 by the falls. Bought by Levi Parkis in 1858, it became the home of the "Jolly Farmer Griddle Cake Flour."
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Pancakes, waffles or French toast? When I have a choice, I always choose French toast.
For Our Daily Challenge: Details of the Day.
After purchasing and cleaning a used Flat Top Griddle, we needed something to test on it. It did a great job on a pound of bacon:)
The Sizzling Griddle a Diner café at 3 Upper Long Leys Road in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Built in 1908 under a design by architect Mumby of Grimsby, for Hewitt Bros of Grimsby, as a stable for their Plough Boy pub and as a lock-up fish shop. In the 2000's it has been used as the Sizzling Griddle cafe.
Information Source:
www.heritageconnectlincoln.com/character-area/burton-road...
Unbelievable homemade fancy SPAM burger at Hometown, made with melted American cheese, yellow mustard, white onions and pickles served on a griddled Martin's potato bun. Billy will be making these again tomorrow.
Thanks for the tag Ingrid, Marco, Betty & Barb(Babs). Actually I only posted part of this photo before of Baby Diddle and the puppies in diapers. Here's the rest of the photo with Bedtime Barbie, Baby Diddle, Greta Griddle, Melody and of course the puppies in diapers. If you see this consider yourself tagged.
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 lb bacon (8 slices)
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
2 cups Original Bisquick® mix
1 cup of your favorite regular or nonalcoholic beer
2 eggs
DIRECTIONS:
1. Heat oven to 350°F. Line cookie sheet with foil. Place wire rack on top of cookie sheet. Arrange bacon in single layer on top of rack. Bake 10 minutes.
2. Sprinkle bacon with half the brown sugar. Bake 10 minutes longer. Turn bacon over; sprinkle with remaining brown sugar. Bake 10 to 15 minutes longer or until golden brown. Remove from rack. Cool completely, about 15 minutes. Crumble bacon into small pieces; set aside.
3. Heat griddle or skillet over medium-high heat or electric griddle to 375°F; grease with vegetable oil or shortening.
4. In medium bowl, beat Bisquick mix, beer and eggs with whisk until blended. If batter is too thick, add additional beer until desired consistency. Stir in bacon. Pour by 1/2 cupfuls onto hot griddle. Cook until edges are dry. Turn; cook until golden brown.
Jumeirah Beach
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Saj Bread originated in the Eastern Mediterranean region. It is baked on a domed or flat Griddle, know as a Saj. In the old days, the Saj was heated over a wood fire. Today, we use a round griddle that is electric but produces a finer quality bread.
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"The perfect breakfast is a healthy one, my homemade whole wheat apple-pancakes are topped with pure Canadian maple syrup and warm cranberry sauce." ~Tomitheos
Explore #476 on November 30, 2010
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Apple-Pancakes
Ingredients:
2 cups whole wheat flour
1/4 cup dark brown sugar
2 tablespoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup applesauce
1/4 cup melted butter
Preparation:
In a mixing bowl, combine the whole wheat flour, brown sugar, baking powder and salt.
Combine eggs, milk, applesauce, and butter; add to dry ingredients and mix well.
Pour about 1/3 cup of batter onto a lightly greased hot griddle.
Turn when bubbles form on top; cook until second side is golden brown.
Keep warm while making the remaining pancakes
Serve with Canadian pure maple syrup and warm cranberry sauce.
The Sugarmill Pancake House
Great place to eat, you make your own pancakes on a griddle built right into the table.
YUM !!!
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GAME NIGHT at Blythe Fifth Avenue!!
Gretchen Griddle (redhead middie): "Katrina, what character do you want to be in the 'Wind in the Willows' game tonight?"
Katrina Kiddle (blonde middie): "What are my choices again?"
Gretchen Griddle: "Mole, Rat, Toad or Badger ..."
Katrina Kiddle: "um ... don't we have that Barbie Dream Date game somewhere around here ... ??"
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When live gives Lisa Simpson a Jeffrey, she strokes the furry wall.
Lisa Simpson action figure, Oranjello the cat.
cartoon: The Simpsons.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
May 2, 2015.
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BACKSTORY: Got up around 8:50AM, made it out driving by ~9:15 and went out until 2:27PM for a total of 5.25 hours. Spent $60.55 plus ~$10.66 gas for 40.0 miles of driving (14 mpg @ $3.73/G), for a total cost of $71.21. We drove to 24 yard sales, stopping at 15 (62%) of them. We made 44 purchases (69 items) for a total estimated value of $814.81, leading to a profit/savings of $743.60. So in essence, we multiplied our $71.21 investment by 11.44X. (Also, if you think about it, the profit counts for even more when you consider that we have to earn ~$900 on the job, pre-tax, in order to take home the $789 in cash that we saved. How long does $900 of disposable income take to earn, vs the 5.25 hrs we spent here?) Anyway, this works out to a *post-tax* "wage" of $124.26/hr as a couple or $62.13/hr per person.
THE TAKE:
$5.00: lawn darts, Regent "Slider" Jarts, model 73929, in box, part no. 01-73927, Regent SportsCorporation, Hauppauge, NY 11787 (EV:$100)
$5.00: (8) generic folding chairs (EV:$11.99)
$5.00: ottoman, leather, 18.5x18.5x16.5" high, with storage area (EV:$51.00)
$5.00: wooden multishelf unit, 30x24x5" deep, 7 shelves (EV:$29.00) (not quite this, but I can't find anything more exact)
$4.00: mechanic's creeper, on wheels (EV:$24.49)
$4.00: clock radio, Proton 320, Model #320, Serial # P32178259 (EV:$22.83)
$3.00: fan, adjusts from 33" high to 47" high, white, plastic, Galaxy, turns out it doesn't work. (EV:$32.69), but we are counting it as $0.00 since it didn't work.
$3.00: lamp, silver, metal clip on, 9" extension, model hbp1001c-109, 12746 SKU: 717-880 "DLC" 0-4633584495-7, date: 201203, E91675 (EV:$28.49)
$3.00: bag of hotel toiletries, 11 bottles of lotion (SolTerre), 17 bottles of shampoo (SolTerre), 16 bars of soap (SolTerre), 1 small container of Morton's salt and 1 small container of Morton's pepper (EV:$21.99)
$3.00: car tray, interior, Keller, 2 cup holders, 10x16"(EV:$27.48), it's not quite this, but I can't find a closer match.
$2.00: cordless vacuum, SharK-15.6 volts, sv7514 (EV:$28.99)
$2.00: mirror, magnifying, wall-mount, ConAir The Classique Collection #41742, 8" diameter, 5x magnification, tri-fold arm extends 12.5" from wall, outer arm swivals 360 degrees, (EV:$42.74)
$1.00: extension cord, white, 2-prong, 6ft, vendor# 64646 (EV:$5.32)
$1.00: guitar, First Act Discovery, missing 3 strings, FG 125, 31"x10" (EV:$1.04)
$1.00: game, roller dice, Sportcraft, model no. 11005, barcode 04473610053 (EV:$3.01 price tag)
$1.00: hanging metal decoration, 18 point metal star, welded, very sharp and pointy, 18" across (EV:$81.90)
$1.00: (6) bottles of hair spray, flourescent, Star Quality, 5 bottles 3.5 oz each (3 purple, 1 green, 1 silver), 1 bottle 3.0 oz (yellow) (EV:$0.40 each price tags)
$1.00: carpet freshener, Glade, 42.6 oz (EV:$5.29)
$1.00: toy, Sit 'n Spin, blue with cow face. PlaySkool, 2013 Hasbro (EV:$18.89)
$1.00: toy, airplane, some sort of hard plastic material, WestAir N360SE, 17.5x18.25" (EV:$5?)
$1.00: toy, airplane, some sort of hard plastic material, Piedmont Commuter, N332SB, 14.25x18.25(EV:$5?)
$1.00: pan,skillet, flat, square, Calphalon, 11x11 (EV:$19.95)
$1.00: game, Blockbuster Movie Game, plays with any movie (EV:$5.00)
$1.00: 2 speakers, 5" cubes, Optimus XTS 40, Cat no 40-1991, wire kind (EV:$13.26)
$1.00: picture frame, 15.5x12.5, wood trim (EV:$22.99)
$1.00: snow shovel, definitely needed after both of ours broke this past winter! (EV:$8.98)
$0.50: vinegar, White House, half a 64oz bottle (EV:$1.70 at Peapod)
$0.50: wrapping paper, 40" long roll (EV:$1.00)
$0.25: shirt, holographic, Disney Camp Rock, style #k2826t0005 (EV:$9.00) Not an exact match.
$0.25: toy, Simpsons, Lisa Simpson, Burger King, 2011, light up red chest, 3"hx2"w (EV:$5.99)
$0.25: toy,Adventure Time, Jake, McDonalds, with spring chest, 3.5"x2.25(EV:$1.00)
$0.25: instrument, recorder, pink clear plastic, Yamaha (EV:$4.97)
$0.25: toy, top, gyroscope, with plastic case, CBOCS (EV:$4.99 price tag)
$0.10: glue, Elmer's Wood Glue, 8 fl oz (EV:$1.99 for 4 fl oz so $3.98 for 8 fl oz)
$0.10: lint brush, Magic Brush, Helmac Products, yellow plastic handle (EV:$6.45)
$0.10: toy, matchbox car, Cheerios, Chex, 43, blue and yellow, 3"x1"(EV:$1.04)
$FREE: lamp, 28" high, 11" wide (EV:$5.00)
$FREE: carpet, for outside (EV:$12.00)
$FREE: Sit 'n Spin, green with red face, PlaySkool, 2004 Hasbro, requires batteries and has button but it doesn't seem to work (EV:$18.89)
$FREE: paint, white, maybe 1/4 of a gallon of Glidden Ultra Hide Latex Eggshell (EV:$2.99 rationale:$11.97 for a gallon)
$FREE: candy, Ice Chips Margarita, sweetened with xylitol, 1.76 oz, shrinkwrapped (EV:$27.95 for 6, or 4.65 each)
$FREE: jar, plastic, locking top, DynaWare 10x5.5" (EV:$10.19)
$FREE: 7 manga books, Manga Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, The Tempest, A MidSummer Night's Dream (EV:$9.95 price tag for 4 of them, $10.95 price tag for 3 of them)
$FREE: wig, blonde with darker streaks, the lady called it a "Miley Cyris" wig (EV:$5.85)
~Antonin Scalia
It's "Things I ♥" Week! Given that the upcoming holidays are filled with demonstrations of joy & love, I'm picking up where we left off last January with a week-long tribute to things that are close to my heart. :)
Pancakes: Or flapjacks. Latkes. Crêpes. Short stack or tall. Banana, potato, fruit, buttermilk...it doesn't matter what you call them or how you make them...I ♥ pancakes.
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 70mm
ISO Speed: 400
Flash: None
Exposure: 1/160 sec
RAW File Processing: Lightroom 3
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Griddled Chicken and Chicken Skin Bites. Served with Salted Peanut and Caraway Bread.
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Nestled in the vibrant heart of Dotonbori, Osaka, this street food stall is a culinary beacon for locals and tourists alike. The tantalizing aroma of freshly made takoyaki, or octopus balls, fills the air, drawing eager foodies to the bustling stall. The vendor, donned in a black uniform and headband, meticulously crafts each takoyaki with precision and expertise. Behind a pristine glass partition, the vendor operates a specialized griddle, turning the spherical treats with deft movements of chopsticks, ensuring they achieve a perfect golden-brown hue.
This scene is a testament to the artistry involved in Japanese street food. The stall's background reveals a well-organized kitchen, brimming with various utensils and cooking equipment, highlighting the efficiency required to keep up with the high demand. Bright lights illuminate the stall, enhancing the visual appeal of the freshly cooked takoyaki, which are arranged in neat rows, ready to be served.
Every element of this scene contributes to the vibrant street food culture that Dotonbori is renowned for. From the vendor's meticulous preparation to the enticing display of golden-brown takoyaki, this stall encapsulates the essence of Osaka's culinary scene. As customers watch the cooking process unfold, they are treated to a visual and olfactory feast, experiencing firsthand the craftsmanship that makes takoyaki a beloved snack in Japanese cuisine. Whether you're a seasoned food enthusiast or a curious traveler, this takoyaki stall offers a taste of authentic Osaka street food that is not to be missed.
I read online that Chicago is one of the cities that has the best Pancakes in America , located in a little corner of N. Kedzie boulevard, Logan Square called Lula Café. My friend hasn't been to the place so both of us were eager to check it out. It's about 30-minute drive from where she lives. It was worth it! We enjoyed the food a lot :)
I had brown sugar griddle pancakes with blueberries and black raspberries, breton cookie crumble, and moscato sabayon w/ a side of apple-maple-sage sausage. Of course my brunch won't be complete without mimosa :) A great food experience we had!
Have a fabulous and delicious weekend, everyone! :) To all my friends in the US, enjoy the Labor day weekend! Be safe!
Lake Wallenpaupak 1983.
A trip to the deep woods for the very first time.
Learning to waterski and committing to seeing squirrels, raccoons, and even a bear.
Quiet nights where the crickets and cicadas serenade to the sky.
Our family trip was there with close neighbors from up the street.
Pancakes from the griddle and warm melted ham and swiss cheese rolls with sweet butter mustard.
Cold lake and big sky.
Chess and ping pong.
Fun times.
A good box of memories brought out of thought.
Time doesn’t stand still, it moves fast.
Thinking of all of those we had fun with there in the mountains and are since gone all to soon.
I can still see them all smiling in the lake.
The Mid afternoon fading light on 17.11.2019 sees Stanier 8F 48305 storm away from Rothley with the 'Griddle Car' passenger service to Loughborough.
Griddle Car E1104 stands at Shenton on the Battlefield line, 30th May 2010. With its B5 bogies this vehicle on first glance would appear to be a late build Mark I, however it is probably one of the oldest Mark I’s still in existence. It was originally one of a batch of five diagram 16 Restaurant First (W301 – W305) built at Doncaster works in 1952 to lot 30013. They entered traffic in early 1953 on Western Region duties, however they were not a very satisfactory internal design and by 1960 they were only being used occasionally. Around September 1963 W301 was condemned and this was followed in 1964 by W302 and W305. On the 3rd July 1964 W302/05 arrived at York works and joined W301 (which had been in open storage since being condemned) to be converted to Griddle Cars 1103 – 1105 with 1104 being converted from W301. In the mid 1970’s all three vehicles were allocated to the Scottish Region. Again they do not appear to have been particularly successful as they had all been withdrawn by 1982. My thanks to RW Carroll for some of the detail and any further information regarding this vehicle would be gratefully received.
Semolina Griddle Cakes
Pistachio butter, dried fruit, lemon curd, mint. ($10)
Lula Café
Chicago, Illinois
(February 5, 2012)
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We had brunch at The Griddle Cafe at Yamashiro. We walked there from the Hollywood Roosevelt, which is no easy feat. The views and the food were well worth it. I'd do it every time. To the left, our view included Griffith Observatory with snow-capped mountains.
(Hollywood, California, USA)
I think this is the last baking photo for a little bit. Maybe. Don't hold me to that.
I found this recipe online on another blog, which now I can't find. It is slightly changed from that version. I believe it used half cake flour and half all purpose. I just didn't have cake flour on hand.
Crumpets
Slightly adapted from The Bread Book by Linda Collister & Anthony Blake
Ingredients:
(makes about 18)
3 2/3 cups flour
¾ teaspoon cream of tartar
1 envelope active dry yeast (I Tbsp)
½ teaspoon sugar
2 ¼ cups warm water
1 ½ teaspoons salt
½ teaspoon baking soda
2/3 cup lukewarm milk
Works best with a very flat griddle or frying pan
4-6 crumpet rings, about 3 ½ inches diameter, greased.
Instructions:
Pour yeast, sugar and ¾ cup of the warm water into big bowl and let stand until foamy, 5 to 10 minutes. Stir in the remaining 1½ cups warm water.
Sift in flour and cream of tartar, and mix, beating vigorously for two minutes. (You can do it by hand, but it is easier with a mixer.) It will be a thick, smooth batter. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let stand in a warm spot until the batter doubles and bubbles start popping, about 1 hour.
Add the salt and beat the batter for about 1 minute. Cover bowl again and let stand in a warm spot for 15 to 20 minutes, so the batter can “rest”.
Dissolve the baking soda in the lukewarm milk. Then gently stir it into the batter. The batter will be a bit bubbly and not too thick or your crumpets will be “blind” -- without holes - so it is best to test one before cooking the whole batch.
Heat very clean oiled griddle or flat bottomed frying pan over medium heat for about 3 minutes until very hot. Put a well-oiled (spray vegetable oil works great) crumpet ring on the griddle. Spoon or pour 1/3 cup of the batter into the ring. The amount of batter will depend on the size of your crumpet ring.
As soon as the batter is poured into the ring, it should begin to form holes. If holes do not form, add a little more lukewarm water, a tablespoon at a time, to the batter in the bowl and try again. If the batter is too thin and runs out under the ring, gently work in a little more all-purpose flour and try again. Once the batter is the proper consistency, continue with the remaining batter, cooking the crumpets in batches, three to six at a time. As soon as the top surface is set and covered with holes, 7 to 8 minutes, the crumpet is ready to flip over.
To flip the crumpet, remove the ring with a towel or tongs, then turn the crumpet carefully with a spatula. The top, cooked side should be well browned. Cook the second, holey side of the crumpet for 2 to 3 minutes, or until pale golden. The crumpet should be about ¾ inch thick. Remove the crumpet from the griddle. If the crumpets start sticking to the rings, re-oil for next batch.
Serve right away with a drizzle of honey. Or freeze and toast later, topping with a bit of butter and honey.
Notes: If you don't have crumpet rings, 1" deep all-metal cookie cutters will work fine. Or go to the grocery store and pick up short wide tins that can be cut open top and bottom. I found Dole Pineapple tins that were the perfect size. Tuna tins used to be perfect until they started making them with the seamless ripple bottoms that you can't cut off any more. In kitchen stores and catalogs, crumpet rings may also go under the name of egg rings, for shaping fried eggs.
How did a burly, middle-aged soldier become an enduring, homo-erotic icon? Was he playing Ignatius Loyola? Francis of Assisi? Paul of Tarsus? Not quite. The only saint who really cuts it as a cover-boy is St Sebastian, that curly-haired Roman youth shot with arrows on the orders of the emperor Diocletian. Sebastian's appeal to gay men seems obvious. He was young, male, apparently unmarried and martyred by the establishment. Unlike, say, St Augustine of Hippo, he also looks good in a loincloth and tied to a tree. And never was Sebastian more winsome than in the seven versions of him sculpted inside the choir of Saint-Maurice Church in Orschwiller..
What's going on? Well, Sebastian is living proof of the fact that if saints didn't exist, we would have to invent them. Thanks to the arrows, he's the one martyr in art everyone can spot. (Iconography is so unfair. Who now recognises St Stephen's stones or St Lawrence's griddle?) A twinky torso also helps. Yet, according to his hagiographer, Ambrose of Milan, Sebastian was a red-blooded captain in the Praetorian Guard, a centurion of middling years: he is the patron saint of soldiers and athletes, not hairdressers. Far from riling Diocletian by proselytising for same-sex love, he was killed for converting Romans to Christianity. And we all know where that led.
But there is worse. Not only was St Sebastian middle-aged and butch, he wasn't killed with arrows. Punctured, yes, but not killed. The perforated martyr was rescued from the stake and nursed back to health by St Irene of Rome – a woman, boys – before unwisely haranguing Diocletian for his paganism as he passed by on a litter. Unmoved by his tenacity, the emperor had Sebastian clubbed to death; his body was then dumped in Rome's sewers. Had history been less kind, he might have ended up as patron saint of poo.
How this would have affected his career as a gay coverboy we will never know. I can only recall one representation in art of St Sebastian thrown into the Cloaca Maxima, and that – by Reni's contemporary and fellow Bolognese, Lodovico Carracci – is safely tucked away in The Getty Center in Los Angeles. By contrast, there are more pictures of the arrow-filled Sebastian than there are of any other martyr I can think of, painted by everyone from Aleotti to Zick by way of Rubens, Botticelli, Titian and John Singer Sargent. The National Gallery alone has a dozen, including ones by Crivelli, Gerrit Honthorst and Luca Signorelli. And they're all of the same Sebastian, the one who ends up, eventually, on the cover of reFRESH: a paragon of male beauty, his toned body, prettily stuck with arrows, exposed to our gaze; the martyr described by Oscar Wilde – who, in French exile, took the alias "Sebastian Melmoth" – as "a lovely brown boy with crisp, clustering hair and red lips".
www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/arr...
Arrows of desire: How did St Sebastian become an enduring, homo-erotic icon? It’s a way? But other wise you could have a nice understanding about arrows:
The five arrows are the five pillars to design the light inside your body and the pathways to immortal soul. Passed times, actually, future are realistic two other are united in the astral and are properties of auspicious answering from ancestors and reborn of consciousness.
The Promise Revealed .The arrow association with timeline is long and varied and much must wait for a more in depth recounting, but for now let us say he opened many doors for me and was a light on the inner and outer path towards knowledge and truth, love and the secrets of the universe.
My entire life has been filled with a calling and a longing. These longings and search for love and truth have been a blessing and a curse.I have always wanted to know who am I? Where did we come from?What is our purpose here? Why is there so much suffering and discord and anxiety on our planet? Why is the world so distorted and fractured,and so caught up in wars pollution ignorance superstition and fear?
Even as a small child I could see the answers to many of the worlds problems that were simple and easy fixes – if mankind would but realize the folly of his ways! It seems every question that was answered opened up 10 more. It seems I was never satisfied.
In my youth, I could really not understand why this planet was such a bloody mess. Once when I was pondering such questions as an 8-year-old, I asked my mother, Mom what is out there in outer space? Where does it go? When does it end? She replied: It never ends.
I nervously laughed, as if to deny the responsibility of accepting an infinite ever-expanding consciousness, and replied: It has to end somewhere. She laughed and saidWhere then? At a wall?
What is on other side?”
This really got me thinking, and I shook my head as I walked down the stairs to my own room, which was in the basement.
I got into bed and laid back. I fell into a melancholy reverie of infinite space. Into this otherwise dark room,I watched with interest as a small star maneuvered into the center of myone window. This Light, which I obviously now know to be my space family, had noticed my interest in deeper truths and proceeded to talk to me!
I had a short or long, I cannot remember to be honest, informational exchange on some deep and not so deep subjects. When I finally got to the question?
Well what is going to happen to planet earth? It surely cannot go on like this or we will most definitely destroy ourselves with they way things are going now, I was given an unexpected answer.
I was shown how eventually everything would come to a head and then at some point every one, or maybe not everyone, would be lifted off the planet and find themselves in giant space ships. Then they would be taken to other beautiful new and pristine planets to try and make a fresh start. For some reason, I felt I might be left behind.
Now how accurate my remembrances are, or exactly what this means, is open for debate. I only know that later in life while coming to grips with the fact that we are not alone in the universe and that I was being contacted by intelligent life from beyond our solar system, I remembered this telepathic exchange, and as far as I can recollect, this was my first contact.
My life was pretty normal for the most part and my deep hunger for truth and search for expanded awareness led me to Carlos Castanedas teachings and writings from Don Juan. These series of books were for me the key to growth and realizing myself as an infinite being of light.
I was enthralled and could not get enough of these books. I was more interested in the actual knowledge and the seemingly magical understandings of how we perceive and what really makes our reality as opposed to the Power plants that Don Juan gave to Carlos to help him to stop the world and to perceive a separate reality. The concepts Don Juan was expounding on were the basis of quantum Physics.
I was instinctively drawn to these understandings and somehow knew we make our own reality by our beliefs and where we place our attention. I was practicing the various secrets of gaining personal power and had some profound beyond belief type of happenings. Growing up in Laguna Beach where Timothy Leary lived, it wasnt long before I was having my own experiences with Power Plants, mushrooms and eventually LSD.
LAGUNA BEACH 100 Yards FROM MY CHILDHOOD OCEAN FRONT HOME
WHAT MY OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCES FELT LIKE TRYING TO COMMUNICATE WITH SEMJASES SHIP
The details of these awakenings will be shared later, but for now suffice to say that I Saw my death, my will and realized myself as a Luminous being.
I realized that we are in essence, a luminous, nameless cluster of feelings that is held together by the binding force of life. I flew on the wings of my perception and learned how to shrink my tonal and even was visited by The Moth of Knowledge.
For some, these descriptions are metaphors, but for me these are real and accurate descriptions of the steps to becoming a man of knowledge and the path with heart. Seeing my auric egg was part and parcel of my spiritual awakening and my expanded perceptions of reality helped me to understand who we are and how we interact with the immensity of the infinite reality.
It was around this time at age 16 or so I was very interested in Psychic phenomenon and the developing of Siddhis or the powers of the mind. I developed a sort of obsession with pyramids in high school and was talking to a girl at school who upon hearing of my interest, proclaimed, I know the PYRAMID MAN.
 Pyramid Power in action!
13 - fred healing machine
Fred’s Front page of The National Examiner Article
He is holding his scale model of the X-1 healing machine and the design of a time machine / spaceship utilizing the interstellar conversion process
The pyramid man, really? I had to meet him and my first meeting was days later when I knocked on the door of Fred Bell. He was literally carrying in his very first run of 50 gold pyramids, which we would later share with the entire world.
I spent many hours and days and years of my life in close association with Fred Bell, who was my friend, teacher and benefactor and spiritual guide. We developed many healing technologies utilizing pyramids, crystals and lasers. The history of our association is long and varied and much must wait for a more in depth recounting, but for now let me say he opened many doors for me and was a light on the inner and outer path towards knowledge and truth, love and the secrets of the universe.
Our esoteric experiences and metaphysical alchemical journeys culminated in not only out-of-body experiences, which reached not only into the heart of the galaxy, but even unto the heart of creation itself.
These ineffable experiences transcend all logic and defy the intellect and spill out onto the floor of belief where only visionary mystics, impeccable warriors, saints and angels dare to tread. I must most likely be a visionary or a mystic because god knows I am no angel or saint. My flirtations with impeccability, if I dare to describe them as such, have been limited to very brief short bursts of accumulated personal power, which have enabled brief flights on the wings of my perception. I have touched infinity and knelt before the infinite light and worshiped the glory of God.
I am but a small speck of nothingness in the vastness of forever and God has made me whole and showed me the glory and the beauty of creation. I know from whence I came and I long to return to this divine source. I am ever on the path home gathering light and life immersed in the folly of men, ever seeking the truth far above and within my own self. This love and experience is so all powerful and consuming that my entire life is devoted to serving this ever living presence of love, life and light.
This eternal presence of perfection and ever expanding love, this primal relationship, this way of the eternal is right here before us and within us every step of the way. It is our souls right to follow the path of love home. On and on we must go with our inner and outer, our most innate self and awareness and consciousness as it is striving incessantly to realize this truth – this I AM .
Though many are blind to this reality for many reasons, the infinite light, the infinite love of creation waits within and without you hiding in plain sight throughout all of creation. There is no force, no power, no amount of hate, no tidal wave of fear, and no mountain of ignorance that can ever hold back this infinite being within you from realizing your self.
This is one aspect of the The Promise that I can Reveal as I try to share with you, to encourage you to make your way home. I can make a promise to you now. I know, I swear to you that one day, if you have not already realized it, that you too will share in this communion of love and the return of the spirit of truth in the very heart of your soul and you will one day share this through your life well lived, to every being throughout creation itself. We will stop all of the hate and all of the killing will stop. We will end the suffering and ignorance on this beautiful blue jewel floating in the immensity of God’s infinite light. We do have the power within us to bring Peace to this world.
The second part of The Promise is coming true before my eyes and is my lifelong calling. Today my hours of study, my intense searching for truth, my deep reflections and endless meditations are now allowing me to be of service to our beautiful planet. I have prepared and after many hard fought battles with my lower personality vehicle and accumulated scars, I now try to fly on scarred wings. Under Fred Bell’s watchful eye, after many years of leaving my body and going through various initiations of light body awareness, I was rewarded with several live contacts with my space family.
The first live contact was the culmination of a magical time with a member of the earths Resistance Movement. This was a military Special Forces brother who refused to work for the dark side and was rewarded with help from our space family. His name was Jim and I owe him a great debt of gratitude. He was sent to act as my teacher at Gabriel Greens house. The Ascended Master Hilarion, who is the Cohan of the 5th Ray of Concrete Science and Knowledge, sent Jim, who I consider my brother and teacher of light, to me.
He was instructed to teach me many things. In the course of my association, I was gifted with my first real open visit from Semjase. I was with Jim, Gabriel Green and Michael El Legion. I had a very emotional telepathic contact, which ended in me never having to see another space ship to know that they are real and there are very physical beings who ride in space ships made of matter and living light.
My second encounter with Semjase that I am allowed to remember is when I was with Fred in the living room of his house atop the Vortex in Laguna Beach. I was lying on the floor and the next moment I was standing inside a space ship. Many wonderful things and many amazing revelations were shared with me. And in the morning, I was returned to adifferent location in his living room with Fred by my side. You are the master now, he exclaimed. I could only watch in frustration as right before my eyes most of my experiences were erased from my mind. I had all the memories before me and I watched helpless to stop the eraser that slowly step-by-step removed almost all of my experience. I managed to keep one major memory and this is what I have held onto for all of my life. All that remains of the most amazing day of my entire life is my remembrance of The Promise.
THE MINI ALL SPARK IN ACTION
I made a promise to Semjase before I left the ship on the teleportation beam and I am fulfilling part of that promise by sharing with you here on this site my most intimate and personal struggles and victories of the light in my life and as I have witnessed them on the surface of the planet and in my personal life.
I promised to her that one day I would create a show, a party of love to honor the Galactic Federation of Light. This event would share the wonderful healing technologies of light color and sound that were part of my own individual awakening process. I promised to her that I would do my best to help people overcome the darkness on this planet by unifying them into a purpose and a mission to heal themselves and the planet herself. I would teach others that by invoking love and light into their beings they could realize that by entering into the silence they too can realize the living presence of God within themselves.
This picture below is of one of our Major Portal Vortexes we created in Fred’s living room! We utilized the laser light crystal sound color technology in conjunction with Pyramids. We amplified and accelerated these fields with the violet flame-tesla coils to achieve our own artificial time warp zones! These vortexes were actually accelerated Scalar field ;Event horizons that we used in the alchemical transfiguration of ourselves in activations designed to heal the timelines ourselves and the planet herself through interaction with the grid lines or vortex portals, which were accessed through the mineral kingdom and the vortexes of our own Christ Consciousness or I AM Presence.
Some of The Main Components of A Promise Pyramid System
I also promised that I would gather people in a large group or groups in a concerted effort to send this light into the heart of the mother herself. I was shown how this could change the world. I do not know if this is in an instant or if this is even a possibility. I do know that I have faith that this is true. I have prayed with all my heart and being and have thought of nothing else and never wanted anything more than to serve the light by fulfilling this promise and for me this is what I must do. I bare my soul to you, the world, and reveal this Promise.
The Promise being fulfilled at the funerary Temple in Egypt
From the source of all that is good, beautiful and true, I pray that I am successful and that my effort will bear fruit and hasten the day of the return of love and light to the world of men and upon our world. I know whether I am successful or not, that love is already here inside my heart and yours, and one day very soon this love will spread like a fire and envelope the entire world and be evident in the very nature of our reality, and we will once again be home. Living in harmony with nature and each other is not so hard to do.It is for this dream, this promise I am here to serve.
May the kingdom come quickly
Rob Potter
Street food in Mexico City is popular and they offer a wide range of goodies like tortillas at this stand.
One of my holiday gifts this year was a two-burner griddle. Today it was flipped on its grill side to car some veg. Besides the massive smoke in the kitchen, it turned out well.
Another shot of the "Halloween" Warbler!!! LOL!!!!
This is probably one of the most cooperative American Redstarts I have ever encountered. He was not hopping and flitting around like a flea on a hot griddle!!! So, it allowed me a few decent shots as I was able to get focused on him for a few seconds before he moved again.
Enjoy!!
Description Just as the Amazon, the Mississippi, the Zambezi, the Yangtze, and Earth’s other mighty rivers drain the continents, rivers also drain Antarctica, only in this frozen landscape, the rivers are ice. Under their own massive weight, the Antarctic Ice Sheets are constantly spreading out like a mound of batter on a griddle. The outer edges of the ice sheets crumble into the Southern Ocean as they spread, giving birth to icebergs. In some places, steep mountains channel the flowing ice sheet into fast-moving rivers of ice. The Byrd Glacier is one such place. Located near McMurdo Station, the principal U.S. Antarctic Research Base, the Byrd Glacier plunges through a deep, 15-mile-wide valley in the Transatlantic Mountains to create a 100-mile-long, rock-floored ice stream.
This image, captured by the Landsat 7 satellite on December 24, 1999, shows part of the Byrd Glacier flowing through the Transatlantic Mountains. The glacial ice has a blue cast, and bears long stripes that echo the currents in a river. The current in this ice stream carries the glacier towards the Ross Ice Shelf at a rate of one half mile per year. Though this may seem like a snail’s pace, the Byrd Glacier is fast-flowing. It contributes more ice to the Ross Ice Shelf than any other ice stream, and the long grooves that mark its outflow are visible all the way to the edge of the Ross Ice Sheet, some 270 miles from the foot of the mountains.
A century ago, this site would have been inaccessible to all but a hardy handful of intrepid explorers. Now this frigid, windy, remote continent is revealing its features not just to visiting researchers, but to anyone with access to satellite imagery. In the spring of 2007, NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) announced the release of an unprecedented image of Antarctica: the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA). With each pixel representing 15 by 15 meters (49 by 49 feet), LIMA offers ten times greater detail than any other satellite map previously available. LIMA images are derived from observations made by Landsat 7’s Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus sensor, such as the image above.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=7544
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Landsat 7
Image Number: byrdglacier_l7_1999358_nc_lrg.jpg
Date: December 24, 1999