Good morning!!!!

[jbrumberg]

"... Bet it would be a real hoot swapping head case stories with you."- DABSGT. It would be fun. No one would believe the stories. EMT's/P0's usually are the first to deal with community mental health issues nowadays.

I am a natural storyteller. I have been strongly encouraged to write a book about what I experienced and other change some names/dates/places I really would not have to make anything up. No one can/could make this craziness up.

The problem is that I saw too much pain, hurt, and suffering. Trying to balance the mix of funny with the good, bad, and ugly challenges me so far.

 

[Alien]

Good morning, a mild 9C/48F here, not much firewood needed today.

Nice toy Bups !


Yes, that's him. He reckoned the worst tasting were bluebottles and moles. That's a real shame as moles have just exceeded my live-and-let-live threshold, this morning I counted 421 mole hills in this little 5 acre field.

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Kyle, we need to do something to keep BEF off the speed, there must be a better way to forget his 2019 troubles than resorting to amphetamines :laughing:

Oh my! Glad we don't have moles here. Must be a real PITA.

 

[Buppies]

BEF is correct just reheat add diesel to pump at end of each use. Heating temperature is 150 degrees heated by diesel. This one is replacing our older one 1992 model still works well but it is a gas motor so kinda slow

 

[sodamo]

Thanks, Buppies. Like learning stuff.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I know after a day of shoveling asphalt the shovel gets really heavy from all the tar build up. To clean them, we would soak them with diesel fluid and light it up. After it softened knock it on the ground and bang the crud off.

Just had another Christmas dinner that couldn’t be beat. Turkey, ham mashed potatoes dressing gravy coleslaw green beans and more. Cherry pie later.

Visited one of wife’s many cousins this afternoon. They have 18,000 laying chickens. I think he said the eggs will get hatched to produce the chicks that others will raise for food. They pick up the eggs twice a week. We did not go look at the chicken houses.

Cold is worse today, need to rest. Not sure I’m up to watching the football game.

 

[sodamo]

Pretty productive day. Concrete deformed OK, no major mishaps. Not George perfect but acceptable.

Took even longer power washing everything to be ready for it’s next lifetime experience. Of course, the on site pw crapped out and had to be replaced by the unit from the house. Hopefully it’s fixable, but at 7 or 8 years old guess I shouldn’t complain for a $200 unit. And if I replace it, do I get another electric or splurge for for a powerhouse gas unit? This one replaced my Porter Cable gas unit.

Still need to rearrange a lot of dirt. By hand of course, rake and shovel, so harder to get motivated.

Still time to relax before going to social hour. Interesting folk. Mother and daughter, actually from same town my wife graduated HS. Daughter went to school with wife’s younger brother that lives here. Mom, moved to HI a few years ago and is English. Both Dads (deceased) had careers as military/civilians at Ft Dix/ McGuire AFB complex in NJ.

Wife made her banana rum cake to take. House smells awesome.

 

[jbrumberg]

BEF- For a speed freak you eat really well and often I am happy that you can enjoy a good meal and good company. Your meal reads great eats.

This time of year is hard for calorie counting

David- I really love the smell of rum (except during the native processing). Rum and banana are a natural match in almost any manner. I hope your social hour goes as well. It does read to be.

Really nice weather ahead for a lot of us with this pending evolving weather system(s). Just from the Hazards and Warnings this storm is huge. It needs a hemispheric satellite pic to cover it in its entirety.

Wifey has an Dr's appointment Monday PM which just about guarantees a major icing event.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Didn’t mention homemade potato soup for lunch. Last night was coconut pie and chocolate pie.

 

[sodamo]

Jay
Wife found a recipe somewhere that is a Meyer Dark rum glaze. Quite fragrant as well as tasty. Very popular with our assortment of friends. Given we grow our own bananas (apple bananas) she makes often. One thing about home grown bananas, they seem to like to ripen at same time.
I also found by accident this glaze is an excellent addition to baked ham. Getting lazier as I age, we get the spiral cut hams.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 60F for the start, cloudy, light wind, and some fog. Showers this morning, stopped raining 10:30, start raining again 1:30, heavy rain about 2:30. High temp was 62F, frontal passage, temps dropping low will be near 50F at midnight. Slow start, waited for rain to stop to go for bike ride. After nap, helped wife cook corn pudding, while she finish pumpkin pie :licking:
Bill, glad you had a productive day.
Buppies, nice new toy!!
Eric sorry about the moles, or is it gophers?
Ron, 15 minutes is about my limit on stationary bike.
Drew, I need 4 glasses a day plus 1+ glass at each meal. sweating ups the intake. Otherwise I do get cramps.
Thomas, need pic of sign or it didn't happen.
Buckeye, interesting story about wife's lineage, not sure I want cinnamon on ribs either :confused2:
Don, sorry you statin experiment was not successful. Hope you finish gardens before they finish you!
Ted glad reunion was success.
Roy nice work.
Drew sorry you had to work so hard drink plenty water tonight, may need some electrolyte as well.
DABSGT, are you taking supplemental CoQ10?
Jay not sure id we have been insulted or complimented, or both
Buckeye, sounds like quite the meal, was it a tart cherry pie?
prayers for all.