Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

64 high of 80 today no rain in sight until Thursday

Prayers for Toppop Buckeyefarmer mpham and all others in need. Special prayers for Drew and his ear

 

[daugen]

I grew up on Taylor Pork Roll. The processing uses a lot of nitrates and nitrites, super high on salt and fat.
We also had Spam once in a while but there was a general feeling it really wasn't very good for us.
My father loved some strong tasting food, his favorite was fried kippered herrings. They stunk up the house for half a day.
Sunday morning food when we all sat down for breakfast.

My younger sister started avoiding most meat over 40 years ago and has been a healthy influence on me.
Wonder if over all this lifetime I hadn't stuck so much unhealthy food in me, would I still have severe arthritis?
Bone degeneration? Would I be appreciably healthier now with the same bad conditions?
Would all our bad knees have held up better? Stronger bones and all that good stuff?
Makes one wonder. Good topic for Don and I over a cold beer.

Am taking DHEA supplement now, recommended by doc, to replace calcium I guess the steroids leach out of me.
All I know is I don't ache so much, but it's only temporary for my ear. But gosh to have some kind of silver lining/brightside to this
is plenty ok.

Phil, feel better, everyone's knees get through the day on those roller bearings with no twinges.

almost three inches of rain last night, this is nuts. One inch last month, 7 inches in less than two weeks. Ok dokey, we've caught up Boss.
Losing most of tomatoes to cracking, melons will start exploding.
Taking care package of veggies down to primary doc tomorrow. While they like my chocolate donuts, I got an email saying
they were all set for the veggie fairy.

Okra is starting to grow like mad. Have to give away most of what is picked Tuesday through Friday to locals, won't hold for Tuesday food pantry except
for squash and cukes. They hold up in the coolers. These heritage tomatoes aren't very durable. Picking small cabbages every day, at least half wrecked
by bugs. Good thing I planted a lot. As soon as it stops raining, I'm hosing the place down again with organic insecticide plus some more foliar calcium to peppers and tomatoes. Both have bottom rot despite three applications. Guess I'd better up the mix.

It's a beautiful time to be alive. Going to try to make the most of it.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

It seems almost as dark as a winter morning. Not as much rain as anticipated yesterday, but now it is making up for it in style. A shame my water tank wasn't ready in time to catch it, the liner can't go in until there is a dry-mix sand/cement fillet around the inside of the bottom ring.

Please tell us more about your water tank, Eric. How many gallons will it hold, and what is it called, in terms of make or type? Are you doing the installation yourself? And how did you decide how thick the concrete slab needed to be? I ask because the 30,000 gallon steel tank that was dangled in front of me by the man selling the shop building was ridiculously expensive, and hope you may have found a more economical alternative.

 

[Bird]

David- Thanks for your feedback on the seafood. I/We are familiar with processed "meat stuff" beyond easy description, but Spamｮ, JimmyDeanｮ stuff, scrapple, and kishka have been sampled enough to probably think about a referral to a cardiologist at some point.

I/We ate 2 Hebrew National hot dogs tonight with sauerkraut, horseradish mustard on a bun + a mix of BBQ leftover/new baked beans tonight. Memories of earlier/simpler times. Beers helped.

BoSox winning for now......

I figure Spam IS barely edible if it's fried. I used to occasionally eat it 60 years ago because it was cheap. But I tried it again a couple of years ago and remembered why I quit eating it. But from the amount of it I see on the grocery store shelves, I think it must be popular.

Sauerkraut on hot dogs? My parents moved us to Baltimore, MD, for a couple of years in the very early '40s. They said anytime a person in Baltimore ordered a hot dog, they were asked, "with or without kraut?" But that was unheard of in Texas and Oklahoma. Anyway, I tried it as a kid, and liked it. I still do. If we have hot dogs, I want sauerkraut on mine, but I don't even know anyone else who will do that. So I buy the smallest can of sauerkraut the store has.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 45° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 75° with lots of sun. Need to do some tree trimming where limbs run near cable wires. That should be enough for today.

The list for those healing keeps getting longer. Us guys need to work at staying healthy. Prayers for Drew, Phil, Jay, Randy, Buckeye, LS, Buppies and anyone I missed.

Kyle, hope your son bug bite is getting better. It's the new computer that is not working. I do have my notebook working. I need to scan and print some things. New computer does that. It can wait a week.

Good Morning All.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 74F @ 4:00AM. Partly cloudy skies. Hot. High 102F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.

It would appear as though the high temperatures will range from 95 to 102F over the next ten days, each forecast varying little from the one before it. Time to switch into siesta mode, getting the outside work done in the morning before it gets unbearable, cool off with a quick shower and lots of cool water, then lunch and a nap. I tried that yesterday, but got a bit of a late start, and by 1:30PM was feeling light headed, something similar to what Ted described. The shower/water/food/nap set me right for the rest of the day, though, but it was a lesson to get an earlier start.

Hoping for a quick recovery for you, Phil. And all the rest of you in rehab and with other aches and pains.

The brush grubber got another workout yesterday, supplemented with a logging chain when it proved too short to reach around a couple of the larger bushes. I also learned that the forks make a good plow for lifting beds of rosemary and low spreading bushes. The front yard looks like a war zone now, with holes and bits of sprinkler system tubing going every which way, but there's nothing much left to burn. Eventually I'll bring a few large decorative rocks in and plant them deep enough so noting will try to live under them, and rip out the rest of the hose and put down a new layer of decomposed granite, but for now I'll settle for flame proof. Gonna take a few more days to get there, if the tractor holds up that is...

I did manage to find a discarded snake skin under one of the big rosemary plants, but it was too short to have rattles on it if it was one of those. It did give me pause as I was trying to fish that chain around some of the larger bushes, though.:shocked:

The design docs for the solar panel rack showed it built on level ground, and the slope where it will go is anything but, so yesterday I got out the inclinometer and a six foot 2"x2"x6' piece of straight aluminum tubing and measured a 16° angle on that ground. No wonder I get the puckers there every time I try to side hill it with the tractor. It also seems as though they assumed a gentler suburban wind condition so I passed both new bits of info along to see if the 3" schedule 80 pipe now specified for the rack will still be adequate. Still have to make a detail site view of the solar installation, but I think I'm pretty close to ready for submitting the building permit application. Nothing like the continuing threat of a blackout to keep a person motivated.:confused2:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Sauerkraut on hot dogs? My parents moved us to Baltimore, MD, for a couple of years in the very early '40s. They said anytime a person in Baltimore ordered a hot dog, they were asked, "with or without kraut?" But that was unheard of in Texas and Oklahoma. Anyway, I tried it as a kid, and liked it. I still do. If we have hot dogs, I want sauerkraut on mine, but I don't even know anyone else who will do that. So I buy the smallest can of sauerkraut the store has.

Out here, Costco offers sauerkraut on its dollar fifty hotdogs, and once in a while I'll splurge and have one for lunch while I'm shopping there. The dogs aren't bad, but they no longer find their way into the cart because they're just too high in salt and other unspeakable chemicals. I do believe there's merit in the old "better living through modern chemistry" slogan, but you have to draw the line somewhere. More of a "all things in moderation" approach, as Ben Franklin advocated.:laughing:

 

[daugen]

and there is no reason to have ALL that salt in the commercial kraut either, I've had home made that tastes very different, and very good.
Kraut is like German lettuce and tomato on a sandwich...why do you think they called the Germans Krauts? They must eat a lot of it.

All the ball parks, particularly Philly and New York, offered kraut on dogs.

RNG, I've been wondering...how hard was it to get that brush grubber off the mass of bush at the end? Did you have to pry on it for awhile?
I have one, not out of box yet, and wondered if the pulling was super easy and the taking off a pita.

 

[daugen]

but they no longer find their way into the cart because they're just too high in salt and other unspeakable chemicals

Terms like "floor scrapings" and "packing and canning" grade come to mind. Ground meat mush from the least desirable parts
of the animals. This is not healthy eating, it's just convenient and a good way to enjoy salt and fat, which we all crave to some degree. Plus sugar when
you load on the ketchup. Only a few brands make their dogs from meat you probably could look at and identify as meat.
Truly a turn your brain off and eat the thing, and enjoy it special. But when you burp it back later, you might have second thoughts.

rain has finally stopped. Time to make squishy noises heading out to garden.

 

[Bird]

ALL that salt in the commercial kraut either, I've had home made that tastes very different, and very good.

I don't know enough about the chemical composition to know if I'm changing anything very much, but I have sometimes opened a little can of kraut, poured it into a sieve and rinsed it with cold water and let it drain before putting it on my hot dog. When I was kid growing up, my Mother used to cut up hot dogs into bite sized chunks in a pan of kraut and then heat it on the cookstove and that was sometimes the main dish for supper.