Quirky and OCD tendencies..... Anyone else have them?

[dragoneggs]

I am very sensitive to certain taste. One of them is a burnt taste. So any grill marks on a steak, even if the blood is still running out will taste like a black piece of toast. So if I pick up that taste anywhere within the steak, I cannot get the taste out of my mouth, and the rest of the steak is now burnt.

Understand, the trick is to not char it too much. A little char adds IMHO. I'm not a black and blue guy but I do like it seared very hot (I grill at about 800degF) and cook fast and let it rest to cook the inside to a rare to medium rare. To each his own though. :drink:

 

[MossRoad]

Speaking of diagonal lines, who (other than Moss :dance1: ) mow their lawn on the diagonal, alternating angles so the lawn looks like the pro ball field?

Sometimes I mow on the straights...

 

[goeduck]

Sometimes I lean pallets together in open fields I am passing by. I do not know why.

 

[dragoneggs]

Sometimes I lean pallets together in open fields I am passing by. I do not know why.

By chance, did you happen to be in New Jersey anytime during the Fall of 2013? Think careful before you answer.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Sometimes I mow on the straights...

Beautiful lawn! What kind of grass is that?

 

[Doofy]

Beautiful lawn! What kind of grass is that?

Grass? I want that beautiful tree!

 

[MossRoad]

It's green grass.... and a Bradford Pear tree.

Unfortunately, Bradford Pear trees are weak and grow fast. The thing is pushing 45' now, with many missing branches. It's coming out this spring. And I won't be planting another one because of:

- Weak crotches where branches attach to trunk break with snow-load.
- Increadibly beautiful spring flower STINK to high heaven.
- It grows too fast and has had to be cut back three times because its growing over the roof.
- The leaves do not fall off in fall. Instead, they fall off all winter, get stuck in the snow, and kill the grass around the tree.
- Apparently Bradford Pear trees are responsible for the loss of many wild fruit trees, as the cross pollinate with them and give them crummy fruit that won't reproduce. I have about a dozen fruit trees and I rarely get edible fruit from them, so I'm gonna cut the Bradford out and see what happens this year.

 

[MossRoad]

In all seriousness, the lawn only looks like that in the spring. Once the rains stop around June, it gets brown and weedy. But sure looks nice in spring.

And I'm serious about getting rid of Bradford Pears. Google them up and you'll see they are turning into an environmental disaster.

 

[Doofy]

In all seriousness, the lawn only looks like that in the spring. Once the rains stop around June, it gets brown and weedy. But sure looks nice in spring.

And I'm serious about getting rid of Bradford Pears. Google them up and you'll see they are turning into an environmental disaster.

Moss, good to know about that pear tree, not that I could ever grow one here. Has a very interesting shape.

 

[k0ua]

A lot of the Bradford Pears around here are gone. Too many ice storms, and they don't do well even with a little ice.