It's a Recipe, It's a Tramp, It's a Roger - oh, it's my blog...

It's always interesting to me how blogging turns into another topic all together - like today's blog.

I'm a pretty big fan of Mad Men.  Love the clothes, love the attitude and I just love the show.  Roger Sterling is a huge bonus.  His quips and just overall charm is so much fun to watch.

One of the episodes of Mad Men dealt with a hobo - back in the 30's, maybe early 40's who was traveling and stayed with Don Draper's (or whomever) family.  He was promised money and a meal for hard work.  That night, he showed young Don some of the symbols used by hobo's to mark a family or town.  Every family gets a mark on the mailbox or fence post.  The next day when the man went to collect from Don's dad, he looked the man in the face and told him it was time for him to go.

You see, the hobo did his end of the bargain - but the dad did not.

Don later runs out to check what symbol was on their fencepost and it was one of the symbols that the hobo had shown him the night before - "dishonest man"...

I was amazed when searching about hobo symbols to see how many there are - there are many. 

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So what started me with this was I have been putting together a recipe index that I can draw from after my surgery and healing.  I was also planning on sharing it with a few friends and acquaintances who are either very healthy already - or - who recently had the surgery - or - will soon have the surgery.

While I was linking and working out the specifics of the database I thought I should blog and share the initial link.

So I grabbed my symbol book and looked up the word food. 

... and there it said, "Also an English hobo sign that tells the passing tramp food is sometimes given here."



Which then began a whole other train of thought for the blog that was merely to be about recipes and my joy of feeding people.

This is also known as shiny object syndrome.

So this is the link to the database.  If you look at the bottom there are tabs for each topic but for some reason GoogleDrive won't let me make the hyperlinks happen.  So if you find a recipe you like under a specific topic, well, do a Ctrl+F on the recipes page and search there.

Getting side-tracked again: Roger Sterling - even if you don't love the show you have to love his lines.  I found this today: Top 10 Roger Sterling Quotes.

I have 2 weeks before my surgery. Count them with me - one - two.

I need to get better about blogging.

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