WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY ?

[MossRoad]

I have vowed to try new food as often as I can. Sometimes it is good, sometimes it is great, sometimes I want to renounce my vow!

Yesterday, I tried roast eel from a can. It had eel, sugar, salt, some unpronouncable chemicals and MSG. The texture was similar to canned sardines, the bones were soft like moist grahm crackers. The taste was very sweet, almost too sweet. Just a hink of seafood flavor. It was more like a desert than a main course. I ate it on saltine crackers. It would have been good with a beer.

Next food: roast squid.

 

[MossRoad]

I ate a can of sardines for lunch.

hud

What kind? Vegetable oil, tomato paste, mustard or hot? I haven't tried the mustard, yet.

 

[N80]

The best sardines are the tiny ones. Hard to find.

Yesterday I worked. Then went home. Saw a stump in the wooded part of my yard. Got the ancient, consumer grade Homelite chainsaw out and cut the stump off. Noticed pull cord wouldn't retract all the way.

Fifteen minutes later I got the whole chainsaw spread out all over my workbench. I cleaned it up. Spent four times longer to get it all back together than it did to take it apart.

Took it outside and gave the cord a tug and it fired right up (always has, even though it is at least 15 years old and by all accounts a piece of junk). Ran for a a second. Then died. Wouldn't start for anything. Quite obviously I'd messed something up. About 15 minutes later I remembered what I'd done wrong.

I'd let it run out of gas. Filled it up, and it runs like champ.

I think I'll stick to fixing people rather than chainsaws.

 

[mjarrels]

I think I will fix a tall cold ice tea and ride into town and get a haircut... starting to look like bozo the clown!

mark

 

[hudlow]

What kind? Vegetable oil, tomato paste, mustard or hot? I haven't tried the mustard, yet.

They were packed in oil. I read that if a feller would eat one can of sardines, packed in oil, a week you could cut your risk of heart attack by about 50%.

No doubt this information came from the sardine packers....

I've eaten mustard before and they were OK, but I think I like the plain old oily ones the best.


My favorite brand is King Oscar, it comes in a red wrapper. They have some that are called Mediterranean (sp?) that are packed with little pieces of olives, peppers and onion which are really good - they are the small sardines. But the store that sold them closed so I can't get them anymore. The other King Oscar types are good, too.

I'll eat about anything on a soda cracker, especially if I have a cold beer to wash it down with.

But I believe I'd have to see you eat some of that eel first before I'd give it a try.......


I'm headed to Lowe's to get some 2x4's to start building some shelves in the basement.

I hate going to Lowe's just about as much as I hate going to Wally World.

hud

 

[LBrown59]

Got in 4 dump truck loads of fill dirt.

Hauled a small pick up load of tree stumps to the land fill.

Loaded the pick up with the 2nd and final load of stumps for another trip to the land fill tomorrow.

 

[frank_f15]

spent all day thinking about what I MIGHT do tomorrow

 

[hudlow]

spent all day thinking about what I MIGHT do tomorrow

That's a good idea!

hud

 

[inveresk]

Painted enough barge boards and soffits so I could shingle the gable above the 2nd floor windows. Moved inside for the afternoon to mount some potlights then drywall and mud.

Painting and mudding. Yuk.

 

[riptides]

Started laying flagstone for a 330 square foot patio. Now two rows into it, mixed sizes off two pallets, the area is not level. I backdragged about three days and worked the area, packed it and all, but I still have a swale in it.

Maybe I should hire it out, some of those rocks are over 100 pounds and like I said I have two pallets of them.


Guess I'll spend the AM regrading, and sorting the rocks.

-Mike Z.

 

[Marine1]

Well, I got up as usual and took a shower. I shant bore you with the details.
I took the kids to school.
I went home and ate breakfast.
I went back to the kids school to follow the bus to the kids field trip.
I helped with the firld trip and took some photos.
Went to McD to get lunch for the kiddos.
Went to Georgetown Fireplace and Patio to look at wood burning stoves.
Went to Sprtsman's warehouse to look at reloading equipment.
Went to the Doc to get Anti-biotics.
Went to get the Anti-biotics.
Came home and put away stuff from the day.
Took the anti-biotic.
Watched Ghost Whisperer.
Logged in and typed a reply.
Typed in this reply.

 

[mjarrels]

I think I will walk over to the golf course pro-shop/snackbar and look out the window for awhile and later ride the ford tractor down to the barn and machine shed and look around... don't want to over do it!

mark

 

[DavidA]

Thrci, I did the secod half. I like to work backwards from time to time. Spent about four hours in the tractor seat today. Bushhoging in the young pines. It was a good day.

 

[LBrown59]

I think I will walk over to the golf course pro-shop/snackbar and look out the window for awhile and later ride the ford tractor down to the barn and machine shed and look around... don't want to over do it!

mark

I've never had that problem.
It's not that i hate work-it's just that i enjoy loafing.

 

[LBrown59]

Hauled a load of tree stumps to the land fill.
It was the last load thank goodness.
I don't miss them one bit.

 

[George2615]

Today I spread 80 or so tons of runner crush. 60 ton on my driveway and 20 ton on the neighbors. Neighbors house can be seen in the background of pic 2. The driver could only spread one load with the truck since I have a lot of tree branches that he would have hit with the box as it went up. He would also have hit overhead power lines not shown in pic 1.

 

[thcri]

Took the dog to the Vet, worked about 4 hours at work, picked up three trees and planted along with re-planting two other trees, dethatched 2 acres of lawn, had a large steak and salad for supper and now will go out and dethach again before we get our storm were suppose to get.


murph

 

[mjarrels]

I did what I said I would... golf course trip than a ford tractor ride... Strange thing happened... Dairy farm next door that rents the farm decided to locate about 30 head of cattle on the farm... good deal for me... looking out the windows at the golf course... meet new employee who jokes around... wife quickly says... he... I.E. me is a owner... she is quiet now. Wife runs the snack bar! A lazy day can be a working day!

"Go Navy"

mark

 

[LBrown59]

haven't tried the mustard

my favorite

 

[LBrown59]

Still cleaning up the braches and trees from Sunday & Monday nasty storm...wanta bring that burn barrel over.

It's too hot.