Pilgrim
Member
- Joined
- Apr 21, 2002
- Messages
- 34
- Location
- Ct (NW) US
- Tractor
- Deposit on JD 4110 (04/26/2002)-Delivered 06/29/2002
My Mother (GRHS) was ALL Italian. When I moved out of their house, and out on my own, see made me up a red 3”x5” box. In this red box she wrote from memory all the recipes I would need to know to keep me alive. She also said CALL if you’re going to come back and visit, but whatever.
This red box kept me alive for years. I still have it and the Wife still cooks from it.
The first 3”x5” card reads…”OLIVE OIL, ¼ CUP IN EVERTHING, EXCEPT SCRAMBLED EGGS”
My Father (GRHS) was an Irish Engineer, mechanical. Best I’ve ever met. He could look at an orthographic projection an “see” it in 3D. A sectional, and see it in 3D. The back of an envelope stained with scotch, and see it in 3D. He also gave me a 3”x5” card. Just one. It read, “ANTI-SEIZE COMPOUND ON EVERYTHING, EXCEPT SCRAMBPLED EGGS”.
The problem with olive oil is it smokes at a low temperature. Easily solved.
The problem with anti-seize is it gets EVERYWHERE! I have yet to do anything with this stuff over the last 25 years where it some how doesn’t end up on my hat, my trousers, a door knob, the refrigerator handle, some type of “priceless” antique or the front of the wife’s shirt.
I go out to the barn and yell as I’m leaving “I’m gonna blah, blah, blah, to the blah, blah, blah. I’ll be in by supper time” She yells “STAY AWAY FROM THE ANTI-SEIZE!”
This stuff is a miracle in can. I’ve tried to explain the “wonders” of anti-seize to my better half but since she is never the one laying on the floor NOT having to put heat to crack a bolt etc she just doesn’t get it.
All she knows is I come inside covered in silver, looking like the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz.
I love Anti-Seize Compound.
Signed,
The Pilgrim From Connecticut.
This red box kept me alive for years. I still have it and the Wife still cooks from it.
The first 3”x5” card reads…”OLIVE OIL, ¼ CUP IN EVERTHING, EXCEPT SCRAMBLED EGGS”
My Father (GRHS) was an Irish Engineer, mechanical. Best I’ve ever met. He could look at an orthographic projection an “see” it in 3D. A sectional, and see it in 3D. The back of an envelope stained with scotch, and see it in 3D. He also gave me a 3”x5” card. Just one. It read, “ANTI-SEIZE COMPOUND ON EVERYTHING, EXCEPT SCRAMBPLED EGGS”.
The problem with olive oil is it smokes at a low temperature. Easily solved.
The problem with anti-seize is it gets EVERYWHERE! I have yet to do anything with this stuff over the last 25 years where it some how doesn’t end up on my hat, my trousers, a door knob, the refrigerator handle, some type of “priceless” antique or the front of the wife’s shirt.
I go out to the barn and yell as I’m leaving “I’m gonna blah, blah, blah, to the blah, blah, blah. I’ll be in by supper time” She yells “STAY AWAY FROM THE ANTI-SEIZE!”
This stuff is a miracle in can. I’ve tried to explain the “wonders” of anti-seize to my better half but since she is never the one laying on the floor NOT having to put heat to crack a bolt etc she just doesn’t get it.
All she knows is I come inside covered in silver, looking like the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz.
I love Anti-Seize Compound.
Signed,
The Pilgrim From Connecticut.
