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Katiedid Versus By Katiedid Langrock Koala Christmas SLOW-COOKER PRIME RIB ROAST MEALS IN Monica's MINUTES Share your favorite recipe! www.facebook.com/mealsinminutes Monica's Meals in Minutes PO Box 68, Petersburg, IN 47567 mealsinminutes@pressdispatch.net FACEBOOK MAIL By Monica Sinclair Next week is Christmas! Have you thought about what you are making for dinner? Will you be having family over or just keeping it small with your household members? Either way, I have a fantastic recipe for you this week. It's a nice, juicy prime rib roast cooked in the slow cook- er. What could be better than having all of your Christ- mas festivities while you smell the delicious aroma com- ing from the kitchen? The hardest part will be being pa- tient enough for it to finish cooking. Enjoy! DIRECTIONS Beef Rib Roast • ½ cup butter, softened • 2 tablespoons finely chopped garlic • 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh thyme leaves • 4 teaspoons salt • 2 teaspoons pepper • 1 cup Progresso™ beef-flavored broth (from 32-oz carton) • 5 to 6 lb bone-in beef rib roast • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil Creamy Horseradish Sauce • 1 cup sour cream • 2 tablespoons prepared horseradish • 1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives • 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard • ¼ teaspoon pepper DIRECTIONS 1. In small bowl, mix softened butter, garlic, thyme, salt and pepper. Set aside. 2. Spray 6 -quart slow cooker insert with cooking spray. Pour beef-flavored broth into slow cooker. 3. Rub beef roast all over with vegetable oil. Heat 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat. Cook 4 minutes on ribs side, then turn and cook 1 to 3 minutes each on oth- er sides, until browned, holding roast upright in skil- let with tongs if necessary. 4. Transfer to slow cooker, ribs side down. Rub butter mixture on top and sides of roast. Cover and cook on low heat setting 3 to 5 hours or until desired tem- perature in center. For medium-rare, cook 3 hours 30 minutes to 4 hours, or until meat thermometer insert- ed in center reads 135°F. For medium, cook 4 hours 30 minutes to 5 hours, or until meat thermometer in- serted in center reads 145°F. Transfer roast to cutting board. Cover roast loosely with foil; let stand 30 min- utes before carving. Cut into slices. 5. Meanwhile, stir together Creamy Horseradish Sauce ingredients. Serve with roast. Source: bettycrocker.com Lately, my kids have been making a big push to move to Australia. They believe there is no COVID-19 Down Under. (Untrue.) They believe it is the birthplace of magic. (Quite possibly true.) I try to dissuade them with sto- ries of venomous snakes and spiders the size of their heads. "Really, Mama," they want to know, "where is your sense of adventure? " Two years ago, my family went on a quick trip to Aus- tralia when I was working on devel- oping a new chil- dren's show, "Ber- ry Bees" (which last week won the Diversity Media Award for best kids series). I took my family along because I want- ed to instill a pas- sion for travel in my children — a lust for the different, un- seen and unexperienced. I promised them that someday we'd come back and travel the continent properly. Perhaps I didn't think this through en- tirely. This week, we mark five months of our family's living in our RV. We are currently in Texas, where it's been cold. The kids have been bundled up with footie pajamas and ex- tra blankets. I've gone to bed worried about the pipes freez- ing. Certainly, the image of a sunburned Santa surfing the waves on Bondi Beach outside Sydney has its appeal, but I try to ignore that fact. I tell the kids that Austra- lia's heat wave sounds miser- able. They disagree. I tell the kids that white sands are no match for white snow. They disagree. I tell the kids that if Santa were to break his leg surfing, no one in the world would get Christmas gifts. We shouldn't encourage the old man to be so reckless! They worry for a moment and then decide that his magic could mend a bro- ken leg. I tell the kids that Christ- mas magic is lost if it's not celebrated in the wintertime. They roll their eyes at me and argue that my Northern Hemi- sphere-centric, European col- Animals can survive out- doors over the winter. When it gets cold, pets that spend most of the time in- doors should be kept indoors. Their internal heat regulating mechanisms, and more impor- tantly hair coat, have acclimated to constant tem- peratures. Ani- mals that spend most of the time outdoors can acclimate to extreme temperatures, but they need to be monitored and kept with access to plenty of the essentials. Those essen- tials are protection from wind, and access to food and water. Body condition scoring is one way to monitor animal health over time to ensure proper nutrition, health and ability to acclimate to varying tem- peratures. Body condition scores are numerical in nature, with varying scales by species. Horses have a nine-point scale. Dairy cattle have a five-point scale. Beef cattle have a nine-point scale. Guin- ea pigs and zebraf- ish have five catego- ries. Body condition scoring can be, and has been, adapted to all sorts of species. The higher the num- ber, the more obese the animal. The low- er the number, the thinner. Most scales have an odd number of digits, in order to have an ideal score right in the middle. Obesity in ani- mals can result in mobility is- sues and fatty liver damage. Emaciation may result in or- gan failure and extreme pain. When species have high body condition scores, they look fat or fleshy. Their ap- pearance will be more square or round than angular, and bones may be hard to locate by feel. The cure for a high body condition score is re- duction in net energy in feed. There are minerals and nu- trients that should not be re- duced in feed for fatty ani- mals, but the protein content can be reduced by choosing alternative feed. In winter, high body condition scores are less of an issue, as the colder temperatures for most species increase the energy requirements in the diet. The exception would be reindeer, yak, elk, or other exotic spe- cies to Indiana that are adapt- ed to colder climates. The bigger concern for an- imals is low body condition score. Whether on a five- or nine-point scale, those ani- mals that are observed to have a one on the condition score, the lowest score, should be euthanized. Their ability to regain weight is unlikely, and the damage to internal organs is causing too much pain to mitigate. On most scales, a one score has less than five percent body fat in mammals, an extremely bony appear- ance, and significantly slug- gish or lame demeanor. As one looks at animals to judge more or less healthy ap- pearance based on body con- dition score, the ideal gener- ally has angularity that is ide- al for the species. Some bones may be more visible than oth- ers through the flesh, with the ribcage and hips in mammals being common visual indica- tors of health. Seeing some in- dication of ribs and hips are good, with no visual indica- tors being signs of obesity. Seeing pronounced rib and hip bones are low on the score and indicate immediate need for changes in diet. A variable of note for ani- mals when looking at body condition scores for females is pregnancy status. A pregnant female animal should have a bit more body condition, while one in lactation will have a lit- tle less condition that will be acceptable. The energy re- quirements in the diet will be greater for an animal in lacta- tion than one that is pregnant, but both will have a greater re- quirement than an unbred or open animal. To get a body condition scoring chart for your desired species of ani- mal, or more information on body condition scoring, con- tact Hans at hschmitz@pur- due.edu or 812-838 -1331. D-2 Wednesday, December 16, 2020 The Press-Dispatch Down on the Farm By Hans Schmitz, Purdue Extension Educator Watch body condition during colder weather Sweet's Column By Barbara Sweet REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Alice F. Keith quitclaims to Lacy B. Jackson, Dakota R. Brown and Dylan Brown, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Timothy R. Hutton and Kimberly D. Hutton convey to Michael E. Grisham and Diana K. Grisham, real estate as recorded in Pike County. John Ira Morton quitclaims to John Ira Morton and Dee- anna J. Morton, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Fred J. Welp and Ruth M.N. Welp convey to David Kin- naman and June Kinnaman, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Pike County Auditor and Margaret Shoaf Howe convey to Williams E. Groome, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Pike County Auditor and Beatrice Shoaf Johnson con- vey to William E. Groome, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Pike County Auditor and Lowell Shoaf convey to Wil- liam E. Groome, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Pike County Auditor and John B. Hargrove convey to William E. Groome, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Christina Hadley PR and Rita D. Carroll Estate de- ceased, FK A Rita D. McGuinn, convey to Christina Lynn Hadley, real estate as recorded in Pike County. James L. Cox conveys to James L. Cox TOD, Andrea Wood, Stephanie Sturgill and Whitney Boger, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Carol D. Ferguson and Heather Campbell AIF convey to Board of Trustees of First United Methodist Church, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Robert H. Gray conveys to Jon R. Estey and Kyla J. Es- tey, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Pike County Auditor and Betty J. Froman convey to Bri- an Hornby, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Pike County Sheriff, Tracy L. Richards and First Guar- anty Mortgage Corporation convey to First Guaranty Mort- gage Corporation, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Michael T. Armstrong PR, Estate of Joe L. Armstrong and Joe L. Armstrong Estate deceased convey to Tyler En- nis, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Hi stars and welcome to the big stage all lit up in colorful bright lights and decorated to help celebrate with all our stars who will have a birthday or anniversary in the week of December 17-23. Come up onto this stage and take a bow. December 18 -Mallory Kay Tooley turns 14; Mitch Wright; Kevin Hornby. December 19 -Xavier Glen Shelton turns 9. December 20 -MaKayla Travis turns 16; Jessica Mei- er; Travis McCandless; Stac- ey Williams turns 44. December 21-Chance Crane turns 19; Edna Baker; Harry and Jan Nelson cele- brate 63 years. December 22-Morgan Schnarr. December 23-Randy Schnarr turns 65; Tommy Richardson turns 14; Casey Thorne; Rebecca Braglin; Jo Hood. May all our stars have a re- ally great day and may all your wishes come true. Keep in your heart and in your prayers all our stars who need that card, visit, phone call and that daily thought of them to have a great day; those who have COVID-19 and their helpers, those with colds, flu or allergies, those going through surgeries and treatments, and those with the aches and pains of every- day life. EVENTS December 17-31-Christmas in the Park at Petersburg Hor- nady Park every night from 6 - 9 p.m. December 21-Winter be- gins. December 25 -Christmas Day with family and friends. Kids have a great morning to wake up with presents from Santa Claus. Family time to celebrate the birth of Jesus. December 31-New Year's Eve. January 1-New Year's Day with cabbage, black-eyed peas and other kinds of food to bring us happiness and health and wealth. Winslow and Petersburg se- niors will not meet again un- til Governor Holcomb gives the okay. Sweets Column, Winslow, IN 47598 received no post- cards this week. The Winslow Patoka River has gone down a little from the rim, the trees with no leaves give us a look to show off their limbs that grow in many shapes, then the white bark on some trees and the green of the pine trees, so the woods are beau- tiful in the win- ter seasons also. Since the last time I spoke to all of you, I spent the week- end of Dec. 4-9 with Mom, George and Deby, and Norm had the whole house to him- self until Laura stopped by. Firday, Norm and I left the county to meet George and Deby with Mom at the Gray- ville Truck Stop, where Norm and I parted ways. The sunset was a red sky and you could see Venus in the southwest sky shining bright. Every time we travel I-57 in Illinois, we see lots and lots of semi- trucks that travel north and south on this road construc- tion highway. They are going to make I-57 a three-lane each way, so several more years of road construction. When we got to West City, the whole six blocks had street decorations of candy canes and Christmas trees. Then on the backroads, we saw a buck crossing the road and when we got to the house, I saw the Christmas tree that Mom had fun deco- rating and instead of a star on top, there is the brown maple leaf. The decorations are all types of trinkets, like beads, keys, whistles, some ball or- naments, a cross, ribbons and more that when the lights are on, they all shine. Saturday afternoon, Mom and Deby had a hair appoint- ment, where masks were worn. Mom had a little trim done and Deby had about an inch cut off. We drove to Duquoin, where the old downtown stores are still in business, but one build- ing caught my eye and it was the theater that is not in op- eration because the inside needs work. But, the color- ful orange and white paint- ed building and the top-like fenials on the top of this the- ater added to the architecture. Later that night, we all took a drive to see some Christmas decorations and one place was in West Frankfort to see the Candy Cane Lane that is one big block of houses with cardboard cutouts of cartoon characters from the 1940s to the present, made by school children in West Frankfort schools. Lots of candy canes to follow, which gives it the came of Candy Cane Lane, but since COVID-19, no can- dy canes were handed out this year. Our next drive was to the Duquoin State Fairgrounds for Holiday Lights, the whole fair- ground was in lights and it's a big place. By the lakes, you could see the Loch Ness mon- ster and swans moving their wings, snowmen, trees of all colors with gifts on them, a big sock of toys with a ladder, horse and buggy races, Fer- ris wheel, the horse barns in different colored lights, San- ta on motorcycles, trains with gifts, the Nativity and much, much more. Sunday and Monday, in the early morning hours, I looked out the bedroom window, where I saw between 5 and 6 deer grazing in the front yard. They can be seen all around this area and they love to be seen by onlookers. While there, Deby and I helped Mom get some of her Christmas gifts and cards to- gether because she had every- thing and also had more help to help her not get too worn out. Sunday evening, we all drove to Marion to get some dessert before we saw more Christmas decorations. This time, we went to an area south- west of Marion, where the Yost family had decorations in the yards, houses and the back- yards, with so many items to look at in one drive-thru show. It would take two or three times and you wouldn't see everything. We were going to go through again, but the line had grown too long to see all the decorations again. There was a pond of lights with skat- ers, cartoon characters, stars, reindeer and after you saw one item, you could miss an- other, even if you drove slow. But it was great to see this at- traction. From there, we took more backroads to Herron, where on a dead-end small street we saw every house and yard lit up in decorations that each family set out. Even the trees and swing set had lights. There was an archway of lights and then you saw ev- erything again after you made the circle turnaround at San- ta's workshop. Many houses and yards had decorations all along the backroads. I loved to see everything in all the plac- es we went, just like I love to see all the decorations here in Winslow and all the areas around us, more and more are going up. Monday afternoon, after Mom's appointment, we all met Norm at Grayville Truck Stop, where we all said our goodbyes, then we went on our way home. We passed the Little Wabash River, that had flowed over into the fields, but the Wabash River was up. However, the sand bar could be seen close to the bank. The closer we came to Pike Coun- ty, the decorations came on and I got to see the new LED lights that were put in some of the street lights along Main St., from the river to Center St., three blocks long. Oh, yes, I got to see the high school, only three years now, where Jacari is a freshman. Tuesday, Dec. 8, Norm turned 63 and he got many wishes from friends and fam- ily. Two people sang "Happy Birthday" and Norm made his own breakfast. He start- ed cooking so I let him. We went to Princeton, where he got his handy dandy tool that he needed, but now it is lost, so if the stars in Winslow find it, he will surely be glad to use it more than one time. His birth- day cake was cupcakes of va- nilla and chocolate, with red or white icing and decorated with rings of Santa's hat, elf legs and antlers. They were delicious. Gifts were money, two coloring pictures with a tree of flowers on a hill and a kaleidescope of colors. He al- so got clothes. We stopped by to see Tim and Jeanette, who are feeling better. Norm did have a great birthday. Thursday was a nice day, so when Norm came home, he stopped by to pick up some of our yard decorations and we put up two candles up with Santa in his sleigh with one reindeer, then a large San- ta with his bag of toys and a smaller Santa, then all along the yard are 20 candy canes. The masks to wear every- where you go have been com- ing up with some decorat- ed ones, like the Christmas one that are out for adults and kids. I saw one person at a store wearing one with red lips and some have words on them, and others are in differ- ent colors. As the lights begin to dim for this week, keep an eye on family and friends, even if it's just to listen. Slow down and see all the wonders around your area. If you want to do something this week, get in your vehicle or walk around your town and see what your neighbors have set out for your enjoyment. As always, smile, wave and say "hi" to ev- eryone you see this week. En- joy this holiday season! Continued on page 3