farmgirl19
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I avoid all of the frustration. I threw out the lights and never replaced them! :laughing: :cool2:
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I avoid all of the frustration. I threw out the lights and never replaced them! :laughing: :cool2:
NativeSon
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Jim- We would grill the rabbit much like you would grill a chicken breast. I found it a lot sweeter than the chicken. I once had a Chef in a high-end restaurant that made a Rabbit Pate. It was amazing but he said he would never do it again as it was too much work boning out 5 rabbits.
Charlie
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Dennis, I know my youngest brother wouldn't claim to be an expert, especially with the big planes, but he did own a single engine Piper, worked as an airplane salesman, and ferried a number of planes of different makes and models, and that's exactly what he said after the crash in San Francisco.
When I was commander of the police helicopter section, two of my police officer pilots had been helicopter instructors at Fort Wolters during the Vietnam war. They had some interesting and comical stories about training Vietnamese helicopter pilots.
Brandi,
I suppose you and Jim are right about your solutions.:thumbsup:
We didn't get stuck in a snow mess this time, but one is predicted for tonight.
We live about 18 miles from retail civilization and only go there every two weeks or even less if we can get
away with it. My wife was decorating the tree and the lights go on first by her method so it was easier to spend 10 minutes fixing the bad strings and she was going to throw the old bulbs out. Didn't cost anything this way and TBN was in a dull no post time period, so I took the easy route. Spent another 30 minutes touching the bulbs across 3 volts without having to put the correct fitting bottoms on them to fit a string on the tree. She has some delicate hand made decorations on the tree that I don't get close too. I'm sort of like a bull in a china shop around breakables.
It is kind of a philosophy thing. My parents were both mid teenagers during the depression and back then you scrounged for everything as members of the common class. My dad never got over it, even though he made good money during my upbringing and my mother didn't have to work outside the home.
I grew up before the US population developed a "throw-away" attitude and learned to fix things as a child on up.
He always told me I could tear anything apart as long as it worked right after I put it back together and there were no parts left over
He also told me to look at the total cost of something; meaning how much gross money I had to earn and pay taxes on, plus the cost of the item I wanted with sales taxes to boot. Whether your in a minimum or maximum tax bracket adding your income tax percentage to the total cost of an item often convinces, me at least, that I don't really need it.
Well, during my previous dissertation I was busy multi-tasking making Ron's Chile Soup complete with potatoes.
Only used a third of the sausage.
Very easy and ready to eat tonight and tomorrow if we have a power outage and have to heat it in the micro.
Only used a third of the sausage.
Very easy and ready to eat tonight and tomorrow if we have a power outage and have to heat it in the micro.
farmgirl19
Super Member
YUM!!!
This weather has got to let up, so I can fly the RV6 up there!
This weather has got to let up, so I can fly the RV6 up there!
The soup was great.
And tonight at snack time....homemade pecan pie :licking:
My wife believes in the saying, "Nothin says you love em, like somethin from the oven" :chef:
I agree... at least for starters.:jump::jump:
farmgirl19
Super Member
Pecan Pie is my very favorite!! :licking: I don't make it, because it will sit around and call my name, until I have eaten every last bite, and they are rich! I used to buy the little Bama mini pecan pies. They weren't quite as good, but were a small serving with no leftovers. I don't recall seeing one in a long while. Maybe I can find homemade pecan pie by the slice, this season!
Pecan is really my favorite too, but all her pies are great.
When we were in CA we lived across from an old lady that's husband was a railroad engineer who ran trains from Roseville, CA
up through the snow tunnels at Donner Summit and down to the coast. He was often stranded in the snowstorms and when he got home she always had his favorite pecan pie ready and waiting along with a good dose of love and affection.
She taught my wife the secret to making super light pie crusts and great pies.
We even fight over the little scrap pieces of dough that are baked on a pizza pan with some sugar sprinkled over them
while they are warm, just out of the oven, while the main crust is baking.
The pie is very rich so we split a 4th each night for 4 nights. It is really not so much what you eat, but how much you eat that makes the difference. Of course good food is hard to portion small so we usually eat too much and it shows.
bindian
Super Member
Brandi,
I suppose you and Jim are right about your solutions.:thumbsup:
We didn't get stuck in a snow mess this time, but one is predicted for tonight.
We live about 18 miles from retail civilization and only go there every two weeks or even less if we can get
away with it. My wife was decorating the tree and the lights go on first by her method so it was easier to spend 10 minutes fixing the bad strings and she was going to throw the old bulbs out. Didn't cost anything this way and TBN was in a dull no post time period, so I took the easy route. Spent another 30 minutes touching the bulbs across 3 volts without having to put the correct fitting bottoms on them to fit a string on the tree. She has some delicate hand made decorations on the tree that I don't get close too. I'm sort of like a bull in a china shop around breakables.
It is kind of a philosophy thing. My parents were both mid teenagers during the depression and back then you scrounged for everything as members of the common class. My dad never got over it, even though he made good money during my upbringing and my mother didn't have to work outside the home.
I grew up before the US population developed a "throw-away" attitude and learned to fix things as a child on up.
He always told me I could tear anything apart as long as it worked right after I put it back together and there were no parts left over
He also told me to look at the total cost of something; meaning how much gross money I had to earn and pay taxes on, plus the cost of the item I wanted with sales taxes to boot. Whether your in a minimum or maximum tax bracket adding your income tax percentage to the total cost of an item often convinces, me at least, that I don't really need it.
Ron,
I bought the Light Keeper Pro to fix the shunts. Testing bulbs and plugs was the job of my ohm meters before the getting the Pro.
hugs, Brandi
