Friday, February 5, 2010

Remember When...

I did mention that last week was AJ's birthday.

I found these mementos in my stacks of pictures to be scanned. He was two years old then. This was taken in front of our house at Alabang. The other young man in the other picture is the tatay. Jim & I were still in Manila then but were already planning & contemplating of leaving.



Sunday, January 31, 2010

Weekend Winter Warrior

H ere we go again. Bakbakan to the max. Snow started to fall Thursday lasting until Friday night. This is AJ's weekend - his 26th birthday. His plan was to come home and spend the weekend with us.

Here are some pictures of the weekend warrior trying to clean up after the snowfall.
This is the main road infront of our house before the snow plowers came in. We had roughly 4 - 6 inches of snow. Kasanno itti aglinissen nay?

This is how the car looked like before I even attempted to sweep off the snow. Since my car is parked outside of the garage, it takes up all of the beating during winter.
Here goes the initial attempt ng tagalinis (si tatay) to clear the windshield. It was 10:am with a temperature of 17 degrees and windchill of single digits. Napakalupit Kuya Eddie.


Sumarunno nga linisin ket dayti pagna-an. Narigat no matinnag ket mapagalis. Narigrigat pay no adda matinnag nga sabali nga tao ket mapagalis - we are bound to face a lawsuit.

The most difficult part here is the "agpala" itti snow. Nasakit itti likod ken siket


Napintas no napintas nga kitaen itti snow. The surroundings can be so pristene. Saan laeng aglinis or to even drive through it (kaya nga ginawa ang all wheel drive ).

These are some of those days I begin to wonder no apay addadtoy kami Missouri.
Won't it be better kung pupunta tayo dito?

Monday, January 25, 2010

Longganisa Update

W e were able to produce two dozen longganisas from our "agpalaran Alaminos longganisa" project last week.
I was able to score hog casings instead of the collagen casing. We were also able to buy the "stuffer". Daytoy itti mang-iduron idiay unneg itti casing dagiti mixture na.
I have some pictures that I will post next. We learned quite a few tricks here and there to make the job a little bit systematic.
Bottomline - dapat mas addo pay itti taba ti baboy nga ila-ok. Saan dapat nga puro nga giniling itti usaren. Dayti timpla itti suka ken asin itti dapat matantiya.
Will we do it again? The next longganisa batch is already being prepared.
Goal - to be able to make a look-alike taste-alike longganisa Alaminos. I am dead serious on this one.