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Butter Lamb!

by Betty Cracker|  March 30, 202412:03 pm| 99 Comments

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Here’s this year’s edition of my locally famous butter lamb:

Lamb made of butter for Easter table

As usual, I see only the flaws. For one thing, this one looks a bit haughty, perhaps owing to the camera angle. (Our kid has a saying: The higher the camera angle, the lower the self-esteem…)

Here’s a Wikipedia explainer for anyone who’s wondering what a butter lamb is. And here’s an illustrated tutorial I did in a blog post several years back.

I’ve been making butter lambs ever since one long-ago year my snowbird in-laws found themselves without southbound relatives visiting for Easter who could bring a store-bought version from a Buffalo supermarket and were unable to locate one for sale in Florida. So, probably for 15 or 20 years now. The lambs are simple to make if you’re determined and patient, and I look forward to doing it every year.

Since Easter 2020, we’ve dropped off the lamb for a feast we did not attend, but tomorrow we are dining with family again. We’ll get to enjoy the buttery sculpture on Easter rolls firsthand!

That’s all I got. Open thread!

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    1. 1.

      Tom Levenson

      March 30, 2024 at 12:05 pm

      NOW it’s Easter.

      Thanks, Betty.

      Reply
    2. 2.

      frosty

      March 30, 2024 at 12:05 pm

      Butter lamb! Yay!!!

      Reply
    3. 3.

      scav

      March 30, 2024 at 12:06 pm

      @Tom Levenson: <adds to chorus!>

      Reply
    4. 4.

      kindness

      March 30, 2024 at 12:07 pm

      Love the Butter Lamb posts!

      Reply
    5. 5.

      dnfree

      March 30, 2024 at 12:07 pm

      LOCALLY famous?  Famous worldwide among blog fans!

      Reply
    6. 6.

      Scout211

      March 30, 2024 at 12:07 pm

      Nice, Betty!  Your butter lamb is wonderful this year.  It looks regal to me, not haughty.

      And the view out your window is just gorgeous.

      Reply
    7. 7.

      citizen dave

      March 30, 2024 at 12:09 pm

      A haughty lamb is a confident lamb!  May your family wingnuts be loose and soft-spoken.

      One of our favorite local restaurants has brought back their Easter buffet, so that’s what my spousal unit and myself are doing.  We’re going to party like it’s pre-covid times!

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    8. 8.

      Kay

      March 30, 2024 at 12:13 pm

      He’s cute! Winsome.

      I’m not a butter sculpter but I am making lamb chops for six.I don’t love lamb but the people I’m having over do so I’ll just not eat the meat and no one will even notice!

      I’ll have the sort of sad, frost-burned tulips that I’ll cut as a centerpiece.

      Reply
    9. 9.

      Baud

      March 30, 2024 at 12:13 pm

      Jesus would be proud.

      Reply
    10. 10.

      TBone

      March 30, 2024 at 12:14 pm

      I am hoping to finally tackle the NotMax-provided recipe for pickle soup (made with potatoes) that has been delayed due to circumstances beyond my control. It’s like vichyssoise, but it’s served hot and has lots of yummy flavors (dill, leeks, sour cream, etc.) perking up the taters.  It’s gonna be cold and rainy here all week, perfect for this soup.  I’ll dress it up differently on different serving days, with croutons, or mild cheddar, or sliced fresh scallions, bacon crumbles, etc.  I’m optimistic, don’t wanna serve the usual ham this year until I can get a good sale price.

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    11. 11.

      Anonymous at Work

      March 30, 2024 at 12:14 pm

      You have to post it here.  Not the “right color” to post about it on “certain social media sites”.

      *waves at Elmo and TFG

      Reply
    12. 12.

      TBone

      March 30, 2024 at 12:15 pm

      @Baud: 🥰🤣

      Reply
    13. 13.

      Harrison Wesley

      March 30, 2024 at 12:15 pm

      Lovely lamb, and beautifully buttery.  I’m going out with some folks for Easter dinner at a Greek restaurant.  Although, since Greek Orthodox Easter isn’t until May 5, we may be waiting a long time to get served.

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    14. 14.

      Josie

      March 30, 2024 at 12:18 pm

      Not haughty. He’s handsome and he knows it.

      Reply
    15. 15.

      Dorothy A. Winsor

      March 30, 2024 at 12:18 pm

      A work of art!

      Reply
    16. 16.

      Barbara

      March 30, 2024 at 12:20 pm

      @Kay: It’s more for them if you don’t partake. That’s what I tell people when they express amazement that my son doesn’t like ice cream.

      Reply
    17. 17.

      TBone

      March 30, 2024 at 12:20 pm

      Love the Spanish moss tree as well as Lambykins (those eyelashes are fabulous).

      Reply
    18. 18.

      japa21

      March 30, 2024 at 12:22 pm

      One of your very best.

      Reply
    19. 19.

      TBone

      March 30, 2024 at 12:25 pm

      Someone made a full sized statue of butter Gritty (antifa hero of PA) at the State Fair a while back. Senator Fetterman posing with it for selfies was 😍

      Reply
    20. 20.

      Redshift

      March 30, 2024 at 12:27 pm

      Yay, butter lamb! I saw my local grocery store has butter bunnies, maybe for those (like my family) who celebrate the more secular version of the holiday?

      My mom is having us over for dessert (blueberry crisp, yum!) because various family members are traveling this week. We have new rabbits in our house, so we’re all ready for Easter.

      Reply
    21. 21.

      TBone

      March 30, 2024 at 12:28 pm

      @Redshift: oooh I’ve got frozen blueberries, thanks for that idea!

      Reply
    22. 22.

      SpaceUnit

      March 30, 2024 at 12:30 pm

      BC:  Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

      Reply
    23. 23.

      Betty

      March 30, 2024 at 12:31 pm

      A masterpiece.

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      Ceci n est pas mon nym

      March 30, 2024 at 12:32 pm

      Once you point it out, I do see the haughty thing and I can’t unsee it.

      Feature, not a bug. Definitely adds personality.

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    25. 25.

      David_C

      March 30, 2024 at 12:32 pm

      Testing – my comment might have been eaten. Like the lamb.

       

      Anyhoo, this lamb would be worthy of a display at Broadway Market or as a lawn ornament in Cheektowaga. Bought a butter lamb at Wegmans. Yeah, wimp that I am. Taking to my daughter’s place – she’s 50% child of Binghamton Polonia.

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    26. 26.

      TBone

      March 30, 2024 at 12:34 pm

      Roll up on Easter with blaring speakers 🤣😎

      https://www.wonkette.com/p/let-my-godless-children-enjoy-easter

      Reply
    27. 27.

      stinger

      March 30, 2024 at 12:37 pm

      See, I admire that proud ovine carriage. She knows her self-worth. Looking gooood, girlfriend! And there’s a bit of twinkle in her eye.

      Just don’t tell her what’s about to happen….

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    28. 28.

      Kay

      March 30, 2024 at 12:40 pm

      @Barbara:

      We had mutton growing up. Yuck. Has to be stew because it’s tough so the scent just permeates- it’s gamy and musky. I can still smell it. Lamb at least isn’t stinky but I can’t eat it.

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    29. 29.

      FastEdD

      March 30, 2024 at 12:49 pm

      Oh joy! Butter lamb makes this weekend worth looking forward to! Found a small ham (for one) since no fam left to share it with. De Dawg likes it though. Raining so much here in SoCal that Dawg gets soaked. He doesn’t like to get his piggies wet.

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    30. 30.

      Tim in SF

      March 30, 2024 at 12:50 pm

      You might not like the way this looks, but it looks way better than the one on Wikipedia right now. Way more lamb-like.

      Reply
    31. 31.

      Drunkenhausfrau

      March 30, 2024 at 12:55 pm

      To me, this lamb seems to be thinking “serenity now!”  I can relate.  Enjoy!

      Reply
    32. 32.

      TaMara

      March 30, 2024 at 12:58 pm

      I look forward to this every year! And this year’s lamb is a beauty.

      Enjoy your family get-together.

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    33. 33.

      Doc Sardonic

      March 30, 2024 at 12:59 pm

      I enjoy lamb, can tolerate mutton when done in stew form only. My only requirement for either is that I cook it outside. Much like cooking fish or fried food, the smell can linger for days and that I just can’t abide.

      Betty, the lamb looks great, has kind of a regal bearing to him.

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    34. 34.

      Eyeroller

      March 30, 2024 at 1:01 pm

      @Tim in SF: Yeah, I was going to comment myself that Betty C’s at least looks like a lamb.  The Wikipedia picture (as I’m typing this, as we know, they can change) is a butter chicken.

      Reply
    35. 35.

      JPL

      March 30, 2024 at 1:02 pm

      It’s definitely a regal lamb and I agree with Scout 21!!!

      Reply
    36. 36.

      narya

      March 30, 2024 at 1:03 pm

      The puff pastry feels nice . . . we’ll see how it bakes up. I haven’t made it in a long damn time–once you get the butter in for the first turn, it determines how the rest of it will go, pretty much. I can’t readily describe what that feeling is, though; it’s truly embodied knowledge. That might have been another subject I would have written about, had I continued in academia

      ETA: love the lamb, and love that you do this every year and share with us!

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    37. 37.

      JPL

      March 30, 2024 at 1:04 pm

      The clerk at Walgreen’s asked me if I was going to church tomorrow, HON!   Not sure what offended me most, the HON or the church question.   I simply said that I planned on attending the great Easter Egg Hunt.

      bah humbug

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    38. 38.

      SiubhanDuinne

      March 30, 2024 at 1:07 pm

      This just might be your finest lamb yet, BC!

      Somewhere in my overflowing and disorganized photos, there’s an image of about a dozen butter lamb fails (probably saw it on FB and saved it). It makes me laugh whenever I come across it.. If I ever find it again, I’ll send it along; it’s a great tutorial of what not to do!

      Reply
    39. 39.

      Dorothy A. Winsor

      March 30, 2024 at 1:13 pm

      @JPL: Whoa. How do people feel free to talk like that?

      Reply
    40. 40.

      Baud

      March 30, 2024 at 1:14 pm

      @JPL: is there a Great Easter Egg Hunt or do you make it up?

       

      @Dorothy A. Winsor: It’s the South.

      Reply
    41. 41.

      CaseyL

      March 30, 2024 at 1:19 pm

      That is a lamb on a mountaintop, who climbers toil to see and ask questions about the Meaning of Life.

      Gnomic lamb.

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    42. 42.

      JPL

      March 30, 2024 at 1:20 pm

      @Baud:  I was going to say that I was Jewish.   The grand imps are going to have a egg hunt, that I might see.

      Reply
    43. 43.

      HinTN

      March 30, 2024 at 1:20 pm

      @JPL: I’m perfectly comfortable with, “No.”

      Reply
    44. 44.

      trollhattan

      March 30, 2024 at 1:21 pm

      Life got better (butter-better). Now, I expect the sun to come out, as California law and common decency dictate. Enough with the wet stuff, already.

      Reply
    45. 45.

      HinTN

      March 30, 2024 at 1:22 pm

      @trollhattan: When should we expect the superbloom?

      Reply
    46. 46.

      rikyrah

      March 30, 2024 at 1:22 pm

      Ah, the lamb🤗🤗🐑

      Reply
    47. 47.

      JPL

      March 30, 2024 at 1:22 pm

      @Dorothy A. Winsor: It’s been awhile but I’ve been asked what church I attend.   I simply say I haven’t found one yet.

      Reply
    48. 48.

      rikyrah

      March 30, 2024 at 1:23 pm

       

      All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) posted at 7:12 PM on Fri, Mar 29, 2024:
      “We know the conservative majority of this Supreme Court decided to let Black voters continue to be discriminated against in South Carolina this year in violation of the Constitution,” says @chrislhayes. https://t.co/vF0p6zCsgR
      (https://x.com/allinwithchris/status/1773865956470599692?s=02)

      Reply
    49. 49.

      rikyrah

      March 30, 2024 at 1:25 pm

       

      First Coast News (@FCN2go) posted at 8:51 AM on Sat, Mar 30, 2024:
      Eleven states led by Kansas argue that Biden overstepped his authority in creating the SAVE Plan, which was made available to borrowers last year. https://t.co/HHuoMHrlCX
      (https://x.com/FCN2go/status/1774071843894284634?s=02)

      Reply
    50. 50.

      eclare

      March 30, 2024 at 1:25 pm

      Yay, Butter Lamb!  Thank you for the annual photo treat, Ms. Cracker.  I am meeting relatives tomorrow for lunch at a nice restaurant, and I am hoping that, as usual, we talk about tv shows and not politics.  I finished the latest GBBS a few days ago, so I am good to go.

      Reply
    51. 51.

      JPL

      March 30, 2024 at 1:26 pm

      @rikyrah: I saw that and it doesn’t make sense.   It wouldn’t take that long to redraw the map.  Why reward Nancy Mace because of their incompetance.

      Reply
    52. 52.

      mrmoshpotato

      March 30, 2024 at 1:28 pm

      Here’s this year’s edition of my locally famous butter lamb:

      Also Internetally famous.

      Reply
    53. 53.

      eclare

      March 30, 2024 at 1:31 pm

      @JPL:

      That is an awfully intrusive question from a clerk at Walgreens.  I was at Walgreens myself this morning, and all I got was a “‘welcome to Walgreens” and “how ya doin’ today?”

      Do I look like a heathen?

      Reply
    54. 54.

      Almost Retired

      March 30, 2024 at 1:37 pm

      Now do a butter “demon sheep” from the Carly Fiorina commercial.

      Reply
    55. 55.

      Spanky

      March 30, 2024 at 1:39 pm

      Long may you lamb your butter, Betty!

      Reply
    56. 56.

      JPL

      March 30, 2024 at 1:39 pm

      😂😂

      I don’t think that I look angelic, so probably not.    The first thing that I thought of is trump.   I bet she’s a supporter.

      Reply
    57. 57.

      glc

      March 30, 2024 at 1:42 pm

      Re Maersk’s Baltimore Baltimore disaster:

      Regulators criticized Maersk’s policy blocking reports of safety concerns.

      The particular ship in question damaged a berth in Antwerp in 2016, but presumably there was nothing exceptional about the ship as such, and one should look at the management and the regulatory environment.  We’ve seen how this goes … planes, trains, ships. What we call “accidents” are really choices made about risk management and profitability in heavily monopolized industries.

      Reply
    58. 58.

      Spanky

      March 30, 2024 at 1:42 pm

      @JPL:

      The clerk at Walgreen’s asked me if I was going to church tomorrow, HON!

      You should have ignored the question and asked her what part of Baltimore she came from. The “HON” is a marker.

      Reply
    59. 59.

      trollhattan

      March 30, 2024 at 1:42 pm

      @HinTN: ​
      Great question. Since spring has only teased, with these extra blasts of winter through much of March, SWAG is we will have our first week+ of warm and sunny and it will happen very quickly.

      Drove to the Bay Area yesterday and the hills are fantastically green. During the drought they remained brown-gray all winter.

      Reply
    60. 60.

      SiubhanDuinne

      March 30, 2024 at 1:42 pm

      @eclare:

      Do I look like a heathen?

      You’re asking US??

      Reply
    61. 61.

      trollhattan

      March 30, 2024 at 1:43 pm

      @Almost Retired: Now do a butter “demon sheep” from the Carly Fiorina commercial.

      Hey, some of us like sleeping!

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    62. 62.

      SiubhanDuinne

      March 30, 2024 at 1:46 pm

      @Spanky:

      You should have ignored the question and asked her what part of Baltimore she came from. The “HON” is a marker.

      I was 5 minutes ago years old when I learned that every waitress in every Waffle House 🧇🏠 in the country is from Baltimore.

      Reply
    63. 63.

      eclare

      March 30, 2024 at 1:48 pm

      @SiubhanDuinne:

      Hahaha…great point!

      Reply
    64. 64.

      Another Scott

      March 30, 2024 at 1:52 pm

      @Baud: Watching a tennis match on the TV, I’m seeing a logo that finally enabled me – in a flash! – to figure out who you are!

      Bauducco!!

      Am I right??!

      Cheers,
      Scott.

      Reply
    65. 65.

      frosty

      March 30, 2024 at 1:59 pm

      @Spanky: I was thinking the same thing about HON.

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    66. 66.

      HinTN

      March 30, 2024 at 2:04 pm

      @trollhattan: I’ll be in Mountain View with a free day later in April. I look forward to seeing the green, although it’s a good haul to get to the grassy hills from there.

      Reply
    67. 67.

      Baud

      March 30, 2024 at 2:06 pm

      @Another Scott:

      Mama mia!

      Reply
    68. 68.

      Baud

      March 30, 2024 at 2:11 pm

      @eclare:

      Worse. A unitarian.

      Reply
    69. 69.

      NoraLenderbee

      March 30, 2024 at 2:14 pm

      Now do Butter Emails!

      Reply
    70. 70.

      RevRick

      March 30, 2024 at 2:17 pm

      @Tom Levenson: The emblem of the Moravian Church is a lamb holding a pennant, the victorious Lamb of God.

      Reply
    71. 71.

      Mr. Bemused Senior

      March 30, 2024 at 2:21 pm

      @RevRick: baaaaAAAA!!

      Reply
    72. 72.

      Another Scott

      March 30, 2024 at 2:22 pm

      Great lamb.

      Can I also say that I’m really enjoying your growth as a photographer in stuff you share with us.  There might be hope for me, eventually, as well on that front.

      Maybe, someday…

      Cheers,
      Scott.

      Reply
    73. 73.

      Gvg

      March 30, 2024 at 2:27 pm

      @rikyrah: I don’t think he created it. I think it wasn’t being done. There has been a public service loan forgiveness since at least the 90’s. It’s just the applicants weren’t being approved by the government under Republican President appointed department of education people.

      it’s in the loan orientation and exit interviews schools are supposed to give students. It used to be quite commonly done. My cousin benefitted by it for teaching, but that was under Clinton.

      Reply
    74. 74.

      evodevo

      March 30, 2024 at 2:37 pm

      @JPL: ​
      Well, sometimes it’s just that they can’t conceive of anyone who WOULDN’T be going – call it naivete or whatever, just does not occur to them. Others are being brow-beaten 24/7 by their talibangelical pastor/media that they need to “spread the word” or they are falling down on the job of being a Xtian. Even nowadays when it should be apparent that most of the population in this country couldn’t care less (according to the polls that alarm the evangelicals the most lol), they are oblivious … I just say have a nice day, and leave…my co-workers, however, after long exposure to my bringing up awkward Bible passages when they start that shit, don’t say a word when I’m around lol

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    75. 75.

      JPL

      March 30, 2024 at 2:42 pm

      @evodevo: Love the bible quotes.  I can still recite parts of the catechism, but that’s not the same.

      Reply
    76. 76.

      Jeffg166

      March 30, 2024 at 2:46 pm

      Checked to see if they were in the supermarket yesterday. They were.

      Reply
    77. 77.

      Jeffg166

      March 30, 2024 at 2:48 pm

      @JPL: I was having a nice childhood until I ran into those milk bottles. Then the catholic indoctrination wreck a good deal of my young life.

      Reply
    78. 78.

      WaterGirl

      March 30, 2024 at 2:51 pm

      Henry is demanding modeling fees.

      Butter Lamb! (Open Thread) 1

      Butter Lamb!

      Reply
    79. 79.

      WaterGirl

      March 30, 2024 at 2:52 pm

      Betty, outstanding job on the lamb’s coat this year.  Exceptional!

      Reply
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      SiubhanDuinne

      March 30, 2024 at 2:56 pm

      @WaterGirl:

      Oh, that’s too perfect!!

      Reply
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      zhena gogolia

      March 30, 2024 at 3:01 pm

      Oh, it does look haughty, but I love it!

      Reply
    82. 82.

      delphinium

      March 30, 2024 at 3:11 pm

      @WaterGirl: Ha!

      Betty, your butter lamb looks wonderful!

      And Henry always looks soooo cute WG!

      Reply
    83. 83.

      NotMax

      March 30, 2024 at 3:15 pm

      @Kay

      Keen’s has been doing mutton right for going on 140 years.

      Reply
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      RevRick

      March 30, 2024 at 3:23 pm

      As silly as a butter lamb might be to represent Easter, Christianity is littered with weird, absurd symbolism that seeks to explain what it means.

      Jesus is represented by both a lion and a lamb. So, is he a lionish lamb, or a lambish lion? The cross, which James Cone rightly identified as a lynching tree, becomes the instrument of liberation? That’s crazy. The tomb, the end of the line, becomes a place of hope? Ridiculous!

      It’s all part of the inverted values which opposes all imperialism. When Jesus exhorted others to repent, he wasn’t telling us to behave, but to change our minds, which is what the Greek word metanoia actually means. He understood how thoroughly our minds and hearts are captive to imperialist ideology, since it always surrounds us. It is the conventional wisdom of how the world works. It manifests itself in all the divisions of race, class and gender, in all the ways we judge others or berate ourselves as less than.

      Evangelicals believe that the claim that “he takes away the sins of the world,” means God was out for blood, Jesus gave it to him, and therefore we get a ticket to an otherworldly place. But the biblical story begins in a garden -here – and ends in a city -here. The sins of the world are all the ways imperialistic thinking breaks us, turning us against ourselves and others.
      I’ve listened to several public atheists critique religions, and Christianity specifically, and they all seem to start with the premise that we have this construct of God, and then try to explain everything accordingly, but that’s really the Platonist view. The reality is all religions begin with an experience, which may be uncanny or frightening, and then try to grapple with it. Theology has been described as faith seeking understanding. The multiplicity of theologies ought to clue us in that we’re all groping in the dark trying to understand the uncanny experience of life.
      What Good Friday and Easter declare is that there is a God who loves us who does not seek to imperialistically impose God’s will, but instead empties the divine self of all power. God is not the crucified crucifier, but the crucified, who desires to break imperialism’s terrible hold on us, by offering us a new way to live.
      I love the creativity of the butter lamb, but, as we know, it will be carved up and melt away. And in that it challenges me with the question, “What in me, what in this world, needs to be carved up and melted away?”

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      eclare

      March 30, 2024 at 3:33 pm

      @NotMax:

      Wow!  That looks delish.

      Reply
    86. 86.

      NotMax

      March 30, 2024 at 3:36 pm

      Had to get my hybrid vehicle inspected this month. First inspection here when buying a new vehicle is good for two years; after that it is every year. Place I prefer to go does nothing else other than inspections, No appointment necessary (cash only, no credit cards).

      Guy took the paperwork and had a scowl of disbelief when he asked how many miles on it (I don’t drive all that much anymore). Insisted I lean over so he could stick his head into the cabin to check for himself. 963 miles in two years.
      ;)

      Reply
    87. 87.

      NotMax

      March 30, 2024 at 3:38 pm

      Sigh. #86 – wrong thread.

      Reply
    88. 88.

      Chacal Charles Calthrop

      March 30, 2024 at 3:46 pm

      @RevRick: nice — but I still can’t shake the feeling that when humanity was down to only a few thousand people some 70,000 years ago when Toba erupted they killed all the unbelievers to stop the “witchcraft” that was wrecking the weather so we’re all genetically inclined to be believers.  There’s no evidence that any supernatural faith is true.

      So, happy change of seasons, equinox, long weekend, what have you.  But we can rely upon reason to get ourselves out of bad patterns of thinking instead of faith or emotion.

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    89. 89.

      zhena gogolia

      March 30, 2024 at 3:49 pm

      @RevRick:

      Very nice message. I think instead of

      God is not the crucified, but the crucified

      the first phrase should be “God is not the crucifier”
      Nice to read this in preparation for Easter.

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    90. 90.

      zhena gogolia

      March 30, 2024 at 3:50 pm

      @Chacal Charles Calthrop: I believe a large part of RevRick’s comment addresses the “there is no evidence” issue. Of course there is no evidence. If there were evidence, faith wouldn’t amount to much.

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    91. 91.

      Chacal Charles Calthrop

      March 30, 2024 at 4:14 pm

      @zhena gogolia: then that itself is more proof that “faith” is just a variety of conspiracy theory, where the lack of evidence is itself just more evidence.

      However, I appreciate what RevRik wrote, and agree that it’s a lovely way to look at the world.

      Reply
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      MazeDancer

      March 30, 2024 at 4:48 pm

      Very expressive this year. Well done!

      Reply
    93. 93.

      Mel

      March 30, 2024 at 6:10 pm

      Thank you, Betty! The lamb is marvelous, as always!

      Reply
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      sab

      March 30, 2024 at 6:19 pm

      My Catholic husband hates actual lamb, which my Episcopalian family always used to eat on Easter. Maybe this year I’ll try make a butter lamb.

      I canvassed for McGovern in Buffalo suburbs back when I was in high school. We won that city but of course got clobbered in the rest of the country. As I remember we spent a lot of time in Cheektowaga.

      Reply
    95. 95.

      OzarkHillbilly

      March 30, 2024 at 6:40 pm

      Well done Betty, well done indeed.

      Reply
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      Chigail

      March 30, 2024 at 7:22 pm

      I am always happy to see the annual appearance of your butter lamb, Betty! May is melt in your mouth.

      Reply
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      Jackie

      March 30, 2024 at 7:34 pm

      Blessed be the butter lamb whom you are about to partake…

      BC, I think she’s the prettiest one you’ve made – so far!♥️

      Reply
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      Geminid

      March 31, 2024 at 12:53 am

       

      A Lamb with Aplomb.

      Reply
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      Diceros bicornis

      April 1, 2024 at 11:44 am

      @David_C: next up: butter flamingos?

      Reply

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