Good morning!!!!

[farmer2009]

35 this morning and headed to 47 today. Currently only about 40.

Getting ready to sort cattle for tomorrow's sale. Bull and a couple old cows leaving.

 

[daugen]

my first ever pie crust, not perfect but it will do.
deep dish sour cherry pie with sour cherries and dried sour cherries, Double Cherry Pie.

 

[daugen]

and for something on the opposite end of the scale of appetizing, here is the front "walkway" of my farmer neighbor.
He lives in the singlewide about forty feet ahead, and sadly, in front of the nose of the wrecker and in the not so far distance is the end to my home.
Not only has the nut orchard gone in between us now, but I have 25 hybrid willows coming in shortly to make a screen to totally block this view from either of
my porches. Approx 50 feral cats roam around these weeds, thankfully none come my way. No wonder there are no mice in the neighborhood.
He throws a bag of cat kibble all over the ground under the shed, and one has to walk through it to get to his home. Sigh.

My next door neighbor, the fireman, said only two things would cure this. Time and a D8.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

my first ever pie crust, not perfect but it will do.
deep dish sour cherry pie with sour cherries and dried sour cherries, Double Cherry Pie.

One of the few times it's OK to be flakey in life, and it looks like you've succeeded admirably. Well done, Drew!:licking:

and for something on the opposite end of the scale of appetizing, here is the front "walkway" of my farmer neighbor.

Did he ever take care of the property, or has he always been like that? Probably shouldn't say anything, Drew, but I'd have a lot of anxiety lending anything like a tractor to such a person. If he holds his own house in such low regard, he'll treat a tractor the same way.:2cents:

 

[lennyzx11]

Good morning.

Lenny, you may be hoping you had a lucky escape, but deep down, you just know your wife will remember that bruise, however long you can make the Texas job last. .

True. I navigate in the dark a lot without lights a lot. I usually park the tractor with box blade in the shop at night and when I added the receiver hitch on the back of my box blade it only took me a few times to remember the thing was there.
One of those involved laying on the shop floor in the dark with tears!

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

my first ever pie crust, not perfect but it will do.
deep dish sour cherry pie with sour cherries and dried sour cherries, Double Cherry Pie.

Drew, save a bite for me. That looks and sounds so good. I'm a bit frustrated I live so far away. LOL

and for something on the opposite end of the scale of appetizing, here is the front "walkway" of my farmer neighbor.
He lives in the singlewide about forty feet ahead, and sadly, in front of the nose of the wrecker and in the not so far distance is the end to my home.
Not only has the nut orchard gone in between us now, but I have 25 hybrid willows coming in shortly to make a screen to totally block this view from either of
my porches. Approx 50 feral cats roam around these weeds, thankfully none come my way. No wonder there are no mice in the neighborhood.
He throws a bag of cat kibble all over the ground under the shed, and one has to walk through it to get to his home. Sigh.

My next door neighbor, the fireman, said only two things would cure this. Time and a D8.

He needs an old washing machine to round out his collection. Drew, you might check on red tip photinias (sp?) for a nice view blocker, but they might take a few years more to grow. A 9' privacy fence is faster.

True. I navigate in the dark a lot without lights a lot. I usually park the tractor with box blade in the shop at night and when I added the receiver hitch on the back of my box blade it only took me a few times to remember the thing was there.
One of those involved laying on the shop floor in the dark with tears!

I try to remember to remove my ball hitch from the receiver. It tends to hurt more the 2nd time you hit it.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I have to admit, I outdid myself Friday for my international guests. A married couple both with their Ph.d's came over for a day of food and letting the dogs run.

We BBQ'd fillets over coals with pecan wood, medium to medium well. Asparagus, garlic mushrooms cooked down with a bit of butter, and huge baked potatoes with all the fixings.

Then came dessert.

I have this old mason jar I had to use to put some cognac into, because the cork had broken off. It was high dollar cognac and still smelled soooo good, I couldn't find the courage to throw it out, so I put it in a marked mason jar. Looks like a big glass of tea. So I had an idea to try and use some of it. Anyway, I hadn't had any flambe fruit in like, forevah, (early '80's at a big steakhouse in Houston), so I started looking into some recipes. I found this one with raspberries, blueberries, and peaches. Well, the cognac did not ignite as mush as I'd hoped it would, but we were outdoors and it was hard to see the flames but they were there. We scooped the flambe onto some Blue Bell Natural vanilla bean ice cream and ooolala, was it ever delicious if I type so myself. Everyone had at least 2nd's and some had 3rds. I should have peeled the peaches, they are out of season, and these were imported from Chile and had kind of tougher than normal skins, but were still very good.



here was the recipe I loosely used.
The Ravenous Couple >> Peach and Berries Flambe

 

[buckeyefarmer]

The food is looking yummy. Sour cherry pie is my favorite.

Got 4 cans of diesel for the tractor. Hope we don't get that much snow. Saw one chart saying 12 to 20" for us. We have had no snow days this year, yet.

 

[Looking4new]

I try to remember to remove my ball hitch from the receiver. It tends to hurt more the 2nd time you hit it.

My pintle hitch stays on the Jeep all the time. It sticks out from under the spare tire 5".

 

[sodamo]

my first ever pie crust, not perfect but it will do.
deep dish sour cherry pie with sour cherries and dried sour cherries, Double Cherry Pie.

Mmmmmmmm, looks great to me