Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

Thanks to all for their gall bladder stories. I was wondering about the time to heal... Many phone calls to make tomorrow. I like to shop around on medical procedure pricing.

If faced with yet another procedure, I'd be shopping, too, but not so much for price. It would be nice to find a surgeon that is both in network for the medical insurance, and that has practiced enough to not screw it up...:shocked::laughing:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Hooked up solar fence charger to new electric fence running entire length of potato and collards field, zapped myself nicely, so that works though deer can jump right over it. Hoping from tracks I see they amble up to it and get zapped.

I think I told the story here before about the neighbor that ties metalized mylar streamers to her electric fence, then dabs a little peanut butter on the ends. The deer learn to associate the streamers with pain, and stay outside the fence. And after a while, she doesn't even have to reapply the peanut butter...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Good tastin’ chicken too!

Was thinking of getting a smoker, but probably should get air fryer. My triglycerides were high this week.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Way to many buttons to push....

Not much better than the smell inside a new truck to put a spring in your step. Ted. Hope it works out well for you.

It ain't how many buttons there are to push, but that you get the RIGHT buttons to push. One of the biggest complaints I read in the new car reviews is having to wade through multiple menus on a touch screen display to get to commonly used functions. I have the same problem on a newer radio with a touch screen: There's no ON/OFF or mute button on either the display or the touch screen, and I end up holding my finger on the volume down button until it's quite enough so I can hear whatever it was I needed to. PITA. Makes me wonder if you can still purchase "stripper" versions of vehicles without radios, fancy thermostat controlled heaters, and all the rest of that crap. That's because the second most frequent complaint is that the fancy electronics is buggy and unreliable, and much of the time all the dealers can do is shrug their shoulders and say "sorry, it's SUPPOSED to do that".:confused2:

 

[lostcreekranch]

Was thinking of getting a smoker, but probably should get air fryer. My triglycerides were high this week.

You’ll be pleased with an Air Fryer. An air fryer is just a small convection oven without the preheat time and energy requirements of a regular convection oven.

For instance .... the chicken drumsticks are 370° for 20 minutes. Your big convection oven would take 10-15 minutes just to preheat.

Bacon ..... 400° for 7 minutes.

Ribeye steak ...... 400° for 10-12 minutes.

Google “Air Fryer cooking chart” for other ideas.

Ours is the “Power Air Fryer XL” and the major parts go in the dishwasher.

 

[Bird]

My wifey is roasting broccoli in the oven

Never tried that, but today I sure ate a big helping of broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots that I cooked in our Pampered Chef pressure cooker. I just added about a fourth cup of water, dash of salt & pepper, and about a fourth cup of olive oil, put it in the microwave about 4 minutes, stirred it, then another 4 minutes in the microwave.

Long time ago,, when my wife brought home this Pampered Chef pressure cooker, I thought she'd just thrown away some money on a cheap plastic "Made in the USA" gadget, but it really does work quite well. I see one just like ours on Ebay and they call it a "Pampered Chef 2 Quart Steamer Rice Cooker Microwave Cooker".
Pampered Chef 2 Quart Steamer Rice Cooker Microwave Cooker | eBay

 

[daugen]

Ted, I have a brand new bed divider for a recent Frontier hanging on my barn wall, great truck btw,
if yours came with the bed "system" but no divider. Would be glad to ship it to you.

so far the rain has been a bust, hardly washed the pine pollen off the truck.

going to be a parking lot vigil outside a hospital room in the hospital in which I was born in Doylestown PA, for a friend/Friend
in my Quaker Meeting, likely a day out of hospice, where hundreds of people from all the surrounding Meetings will
come holding and waving a daffodil. A symbol for holding someone In The Light, and what could be a cheerier
light than a bright yellow daffodil. My good friend will look out her hospital window and see all the waving flowers at 5pm.
She has kept in touch with me, as she had during my own wife's battle with cancer, asking me questions, bouncing ideas, which
I wasn't much help with other than being someone there for her.
All I can do is pray for a miracle.
But I have my daffodil cut and in a glass of water ready for 5pm.
If a lot of Love shown can't heal the illness, it can sure sooth the Soul.

 

[jbrumberg]

".... If a lot of Love shown can't heal the illness, it can sure sooth the Soul."- Drew. My + thoughts, wishes, and prayers for your friend/Friend.

 

[Thomas]

LS mt125 owner
Oh, duh, it's a 2019 Nissan Frontier 4x4 SV.
...................
Congrats :thumbsup:
They are BIG seller in our area.

 

[Thomas]

42F rain just about streams brooks are high running over there banks in some spots

Just have to clean sap lines tidy up sugar shack little more than the little critters can move in until next year.
Small flock turkeys 13 or so pecking in field and 5 jakes were fanning strutting there stuff for the ladies,another good sign old man winter moving on.
Time for hot shower little nascar some country cooking :licking: heck might even have some French vanilla ice cream with strawberries later tonight.

Have relaxing evening all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Windy here, and temperature has been dropping all day.

 

[riptides]

Wind picked up here too. So I picked up more sticks. Here are some I cannot pick up. Lol.

 

[Buppies]

Prayers for your friend Drew

 

[txdon]

Don, tomorrow is your big day. Be sure to get a slow moving vehicle sign to put on the rear when you drive it around the community to your garden. Boy will the garden competitors be envious. They should have got a 3 car garage....

My phone will be next to my bed at midnight waiting for that winning call. They only make 3 calls within one hour and then move on to the next person.

Hope you can get your gallstone removed quickly and start recovering. So you do have a cholesterol problem. Once you get it out are you researching how to prevent future gallstones?
Cholesterol Gallstones | NutritionFacts.org

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Here are some I cannot pick up. Lol.

Sure you can. But it might take a LOT more sawin' 'till they're small enough...:laughing:

:shocked::thumbsup:

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 37F for the start, mostly cloudy, light wind. Not as much wind today, sky cleared off, and a high temp of 56F. Next possible rain Wednesday night, on the windy side again this week. Chapel for the start, make wifey's breakfast, worked on trying to get notifications from phone on GPS display, no joy. Did get new GPS mount on Volagi, signed up for 65 miler in Muenster in April.
Ted, congrats on new truck, I went from base model to Texas edition F150. The first time I had the tail gate down and hit reverse, I thought I broke my truck!!:ashamed::confused2:
Buckeye, watch your sugar intake as well, when my triglycerides went first went high, went on a diabetic diet, lost 45 pounds, and all was well for a few years.
Drew, sorry about your friend, you are a good friend indeed.
Mike that was a BIG maple.
Don good luck on the contest!!
prayers for all.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

My phone will be next to my bed at midnight waiting for that winning call. They only make 3 calls within one hour and then move on to the next person.

Quick! Sombody post Don's number so we can all help Don win!:laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

[sodamo]

Was thinking of getting a smoker, but probably should get air fryer. My triglycerides were high this week.

Another vote for air fryer. Quite surprised how often we use ours. Can’t think of anything we’ve done in ours that that made me wish it was done in regular oil fryer. Today we had a rotisserie chicken, a $5 one bought in Safeway. 20 min in air fryer and nice and crispy.

 

[sodamo]

Best wishes and prayers for your friend/Friend, Drew

 

[sodamo]

Nice looking truck, Ted