KERN RIVER GREEN OBSIDIAN, A COMBUSTIAN METAMORPHIC
Similar to Grimes Canyon Fused Shale, this material was created from supper heated surface combustion. The sand melted between the layers of dirt and rock creating lenses of beautiful green glass. The variant here would be the absence of micro-vesicles found in the Grimes Canyon Fused Shale. When I first found this deposit a few years ago, there were about eight colors ranging from dark blues through yellow. Now the only color left is olive green. The Kern material also occurs in lenses. The Fused Shale was utilized by native cultures for flintknapping and many artifacts can me seen made of this material. The Kern River Green Obsidian was created sometime in the historic period, and it was not likely utilized for flintknapping until I found it two years ago. It appears a localized oil fire burn here for an extended period, with great amounts of heat. Until today, I am the only one that knows about this rare lithic resource.
The first step in making chocolate crackle cookies is getting the ingredients.
Cubes of dark chacolate are premelted in the microwaive oven.
Powedered and liquid ingrediants are mixed in seperate containers.
The liquid and powder are mixed together like in chemistry class.
I mixed in the eggs last, don't look to close at the eggs, they look like boogers. If you get a shell fragment in there you have to use another shell piece to remove it, I don't know why.
The mixture is complete and you put it in the ice box for 3 hours for some reason.
The cold dough is rolled into balls, like deer turds, and rolled in powdered sugar.
you put the dough balls in the oven for 15 minutes at 350 degrees.
The cookies are done and they are put them on cooling racks. I ate 16 of them and am now sick.
When I was a young kid my mom used to make us kids batches of Chocolate crackle Cookies. I used to love eating them and often pretended they were the giant tasty mushrooms from "Journey to the Center of The Earth"(sometime Snicker doodles played this role). Since I left home over 30 years I lived without this tasty treat. I did not know what they were called, or how they were made. Gradually chocolate Crackle Cookies faded from my endocrinal and the memory was gone. One day last month, I was visiting James and Kara in Davis, we went to the Davis Creamery http://www.thedaviscreamery.com/ (Cookie Connection), and there in a clean, well lighted, case laid back-lit in all its' glory, the Holy Grail of Cookiedom! Chocolate crackle Cookies! Suddenly a plethora of childhood memories came flooding back. I bought a whole bag of them and dared not share a single chocolaty delicious morsel. I ate the delicious, decadent treats crumb by crumb, treasuring every miniscule morsel. Then I desided to make my own Chacolate Crackle Cookies and found the Betty Crocker Cook Book that had the recipe.
Chocolate Crackle Cookies When I was a young kid my mom used to make us kids batches of Chocolate crackle Cookies. I used to love eating them and often pretended they were the giant tasty mushrooms from "Journey to the Center of The Earth"(sometime Snicker doodles played this role). Since I left home over 30 years I lived without this tasty treat. I did not know what they were called, or how they were made. Gradually chocolate Crackle Cookies faded from my endocrinal and the memory was gone. One day last month, I was visiting James and Kara in Davis, we went to the Davis Creamery http://www.thedaviscreamery.com/ (Cookie Connection), and there in a clean, well lighted, case laid back-lit in all its' glory, the Holy Grail of Cookiedom! Chocolate crackle Cookies! Suddenly a plethora of childhood memories came flooding back. I bought a whole bag of them and dared not share a single chocolaty delicious morsel.
Photo by: Susan Lang Buddy Allen Owens Played The Crystal Palace Last Night
Buddy Owens played some songs off his record last night as well as an awsome medley of his father Buck Owen's songs. Buddy's step father, Merle Haggard, had many of his songs played as well.
Buddy Allen Owens (Buck Owens's son. This photo was taken by BLT with Hank Ray
Kim Macabe was Buddies co-singer and she sand just as good as she did with Buck Owens years ago.
DATA FROM ANSWERS.COM : "Singer, songwriter and guitarist Buddy Alan, born Alvis Alan Owens, is the son of country legends Buck and Bonnie Owens. While growing up in Bakersfield, California, he listened to country and rock & roll and formed his first rock band, the Chosen Few, at the age of 14. He switched to country music by his late teens and in 1965 moved to Arizona with his mother and her new husband Merle Haggard. That year he also sang for the first time at one of his father's Christmas concerts.
Buddy Alan's first single, a duet with Buck called "Let the World Keep on a Turnin'," was released by Capitol in 1968 and made it to the Top Ten. That same year, he also recorded his first solo single, "When I Turn Twenty One," written by stepfather Haggard; this one made it to the Top 60. By 1969, Alan had spent a summer touring with the Buck Owens Show and was working at a country music nightclub. That year he released two more singles and also recorded his first album, Wild, Free and Twenty One. He then joined his father's All American Show and continued touring the country. His popularity grew, and he starred in his own shows and made regular appearances as a soloist and musician on Hee Haw for the next seven years. Alan again made it to the charts in 1970 with the single "Santo Domingo." In late 1970, he and Buckaroo lead guitarist Don Rich recorded the popular "Cowboy Convention," and Alan was named Most Promising Male Artist by the ACM. From 1971-1975, Alan continued to release modestly successful singles. Alan was signed to Capitol Records for eight years, but despite his initial promise as a performer, he never made it to the big time. Alan left the music business in 1978 to attend college in Arizona. He then went back to radio as Buddy Alan Owens and became the music director at two local stations in Tempe, Arizona. He was voted Billboard's Music Director of the Year four years running during the late '80s and early '90s. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Music Guide"
Jammin’ in Bakersfield -- The first Monday of every month bluegrass jam at Rusty’s Pizza in Bakersfield is happening tonight. Hosted by Kelvin Gregory, the jam takes place from 6-9 p.m. and Rusty’s (in Von’s Shopping Center) is located at 5430 Olive Drive. For more information contact Kelvin at (661) 392-7973 or kelvin@gregspetro.com.
It is like "stone soup", one guy had a pot and he puts a stone and hot water in it and everyone in town puts a piece of food in it until it is soup. One at a time folks come in with their music instument until a hot bluegrass jam cooks up.
