Humid and hot, with a small chance of rain. So someone will be getting rain. Yesterday, when I was coming home from my pickup down south, there was a huge storm cell west of me. I outran it north and then cut across west, and only got a bit of very light drizzle. A bunch of people got a good soaking though. Nothing at my house at all.
I’ve been watering the grass and the raised beds. Little to show for it in the garden but the grass is growing.
Did my errands, have more to do today. Got some stuff for the house, for my non-prepping hobby, and for the BOL. Today will be a lot like yesterday, maybe with a bit less driving. I did score another of the 7cuft chest freezers. I’ll have to find a spot for it. It may sit empty until I catch some meat on sale, or I may give it to a buddy. $75, new in box, but probably scratch and dent under the foam.
I’m bidding on some solar panels. They look like 200w panels. Used of course, but 20 in a lot. 4 lots, but I only want one. They were installed for some sort of traffic or camera control, and come with the big aluminum roadside enclosure boxes. Last time I got one panel, and the box brought enough when I scrapped it to pay for the panel. No batteries, inverters, or charge controllers though. Wish me luck. I’d love 4000w of solar at the BOL or here.
Infrastructure. It’s critical, and is usually only noticed in its absence. Plan to provide for your own needs. And plan to reduce those needs to something that you can provide.
To smooth everything out, you should have some stuff stacked. Lots of stuff 🙂
n
Today is my anniversary. Technically, yesterday was the culmination of 47 years and today starts the 28th year.
For a little humor, waste a little of your time, here are the only pictures we have.
https://www.raymondthompsonphotography.com/Wedding
This was back in the days of film, thus limited pictures. These were scanned from color negatives many years ago, the negatives have since been destroyed. Friend took the pictures using a Mamiya RB67 camera with a 35MM back. He also had a polaroid back and I have no idea what happened to those images.
This image https://www.raymondthompsonphotography.com/Wedding/content/Wedding_172_large.html is of particular note as my effort to be a fashion slave. The white shoes and belt were OK back then and at least the shoes were not lace up shoes. I still have the shoes, they should be tossed as I will never wear them again.
Wow Ray, those pix are crisp and clear. MIL doesn’t look like she enjoyed the day, or life, for that matter.
Your wife looks like Loretta Lynn!
n
@Ray
Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, ditch the shoes—they ain’t coming back.
I should add that you could put those pics in my Aunt’s photo album on my mom’s side, and no one would think they weren’t hers… except the quality of the photos is too good.
n
Nice pictures!
81F and 93%RH at 8am. Sunny. Nice day if it stayed like this, but I’m sure it will continue to get hotter.
n
Easily fixed – just be sure to only drive downhill. Simple!
Escherize the roads.
MIL told both of us, on the day of the wedding, at the church, that if we wanted to call it off she would explain to everyone and take care of returning the gifts. The MIL was also pissed because her ex-husband (wife’s father) was there and her current husband did not get a starring role. She was also mad because she was not provided with a more prominent role.
MIL made the dress and did not finish the dress until about 45 minutes before the start of the ceremony. That did not sit well with the wife and her mother.
My mother flew in from California. My aunt and uncle refused to attend because they did not like anyone, even people they had never met and we were not going to give them starring roles.
There was a lot of family friction as the people forgot it was not their day or about them. It was about the bride and the marriage.
Great photos, Ray. A beautiful bride and handsome groom. I was impressed with the dress before reading that your wife’s mother made it. Quite a seamstress!
Those Pat Boone shoes were all the rage … every well-dressed man had them and the belt to match. And your wife’s chunky heels in the same picture were very much “in” too!
I also noted what a lovely church …. the knotty pine paneling and slatted pews would fit right into today’s cowboy churches. When I was a child, knotty pine in an old house was considered a treasure.
The wedding was perfect for the era. 1974 was the year I married my children’s father.
Of course Benny Crump was eventually going to get involved in this situation.
https://www.fox29.com/news/ball-is-in-your-corner-family-accusing-sesame-place-of-discrimination-calls-on-sea-world-to-take-action
I don’t think many people, even Floridians, realize how close the Governor’s Mansion and Supreme Court in Florida came to being run as outposts of Benny Crump’s legal empire.
Sometime this week, I’m going to go through all my home canned jars and throw out the things that are too old. Since we weren’t both here for part of 2020/ 2021, we didn’t use as much as we normally would and I found a jar from 2018 the other day. Probably still fine, the seal is good, but that’s too old for me to trust home canned. No sense letting that stuff take up space.
I bought some more buckets – the red ones from Harbor Freight – and have started organizing my preps a bit more. Always before, we’ve used our preps as our pantry, keeping enough on hand to feed the two of us for about a year. But after my son visited recently and brought many pounds of rice and beans to use our house as his prep storage (and he let me know that we are his BOL 😀 ), I figure it won’t hurt to step things up a notch.
Last month, I bought several boxes of “complete” pancake and muffin mixes and bottles of syrup. I also added a few boxes of baking soda as well as baking powder to each bucket of flour. Baking powder will get to where it won’t rise when it’s old, but soda will always work with a little vinegar in the water or milk.
Does anyone know which types of flour keep best? I usually buy “unbleached” , because the bleached flour doesn’t make good yeast bread – at least I have trouble with it. But I’d like to focus on whichever stores best. Bleached flour is perfectly fine for biscuits and tortillas.
This month, I’m prepping condiments and pickles. Tabasco sauce, ketchup, mustard, relish, chow-chow. I don’t think that ketchup in bottles will keep more than a year or two, but mustard and Tabasco will keep forever. Relishes and sweet pickles will keep indefinitely, but dills eventually loose their crunch – little polish dills might keep better, as they have some sugar in them. I usually keep 4 to 6 jars of Duke’s mayonnaise on hand, and it keeps at least a year just fine.
I’m still eating Heinz low sugar ketchup in the plastic squeeze bottle from 2014. The color darkened, but the taste is the same.
I stock Miracle Whip instead of mayonnaise because -white trash- and the 2014 plastic squeeze bottles are just fine, although the color has become more grey than white.
No issues with mustard, I usually stock the vinegary one with seeds, the Bavarian style.
I stock Crystal hot sauce because I prefer the taste, and it will fade in sunlight, but tastes the same.
Pickles always eventually get too soft. They just gross me out on texture although they probably wouldn’t hurt you. I ate my dad’s home canned jalapenos long after they got mushy.
I have plastic gallon jugs of vinegar and it seems to be fine for years stored in the dark.
I like the plastic squeeze bottles because the contents won’t get contaminated by use. That means actually using everything in the bottle, and not throwing away a jar that got gross. I also never double dip or insert a dirty utensil into a jar, and the contents last a LOT longer that way. FFS, never stick your
fingersdirty booger hooks in there, no matter how much you want that pickle 🙂 (If I put a jar on the table, I put a clean fork or spoon in it.) The only thing in the fridge that ever gets moldy is cottage cheese, and I suspect the kids of using dirty spoons…n
Does anyone know which types of flour keep best? I usually buy “unbleached” , because the bleached flour doesn’t make good yeast bread – at least I have trouble with it. But I’d like to focus on whichever stores best. Bleached flour is perfectly fine for biscuits and tortillas.
I have bought a number of these #10 metal cans, “Augason Farms Buttermilk Pancake Mix 3 lbs 4 oz #10 Can”
https://www.amazon.com/Augason-Farms-Buttermilk-Pancake-Mix/dp/B00FTETNIC?tag=ttgnet-20/
and
https://www.amazon.com/Augason-Farms-Honey-White-Bread/dp/B00FTEWFTQ?tag=ttgnet-20/
RBT told me that I was an idiot for not just storing plain old cheap flour but I wanted the #10 cans for varmint protection in my closet. My wife thinks that I am idiot also.
Pickle forks! Go look on eBay. Some really fun ones from the turn of the 20th century. Good for eating dates, too: no more sticky fingers.
LOL!
I buy smaller containers of most things, and the squeeze bottles, mainly for similar reasons as you: if one goes bad for whatever reason, it’s only a small amount.
I lurve #10 cans. Used to buy a lot of stuff in them when all the boys were home, but now I only buy hominy, to make menudo. Those pancake and roll mixes look good – thanks for the recommend.
YAY for the Victorians! They understood cleanliness and civilization! Seriously good idea. I’m a nut for fun old silverware. I have a collection of children’s character spoons in a spooner for everyday use, and a Mary Poppins sugar spoon.
HaHa! My first search on eBay for “pickle fork” brought up a whole list of THESE!
Computer Question: A friend is thinking of downloading some childrens educational software from Abandonware.com to run under DosBox.
Has anyone experience with AW?
DosBox I have used, though not in years.
Abandonware seems legit-ish, but it would be sure be nice to have an AV product to scan downloads.
@EdH, he might find install copies on ebay, depending how popular the software was. I don’t know anything about AW…
n
United Rentals web guys are on the ball. I did a search for something there this morning, not even logging into my account, and I got a marketing email shortly thereafter…
n
@pecancorner, those pickle forks would at least fit on the table… these won’t
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=pickle+fork+boat
n
Marrow spoons are another “obsolete” bit of dining tech …
Prior to Mr Birdseye, if you wanted it to last, it was either “in aspic (sealed in a gel)” “potted (sealed in fat)” or pickled. There were a LOT of pickled items on the dinner table.
n
I’d bet if you looked at your cookies for that site, there is an ID or even your email in their cookies, even if you don’t log in.
In a case of WTAF? webwandering brought me to this…
“trust the science”
Why is gold forbidden to men? *under Islamm, emphasis added.
– see, some science-y content… they collected and analyzed seminal fluid looking for gold.
n
@lynn, do you have an opener that works on #10 cans?
n
DosBox under Linux should be a sufficiently safe sandbox for any old DOS program assuming he doesn’t run the emulation as root.
>>Marrow spoons are another “obsolete” bit of dining tech … <<
Too cool. Never even heard of those before.
Noted the photo that Musk twitted showing billionaires drinking from disposable plastic cups.
I bought MegaMillions tix this morning and included an extra for in case I won and needed to be able to afford a decent drink and a glass to drink it out if.
I use a standard Swing-A-Way opener on $10 cans. No problems.
The proliferation of sterling silverware and types of utensils in the late 19th century was largely driven by the huge yields of silver mines in the western U.S.
Add individual salt cellars with their tiny spoons to the list of (mostly) obsolete table ware… I own some, and as a kid we used them for green onions and radishes during the summer. We didn’t use the spoons, just mashed the veg into the bowl of salt.
n
@lynn (from yesterday):
That’s River (spelling nazi) Severn (/spelling_nazi), and it would likely have been the original Severn Bridge (the all-suspension one) with the streamlined deck – of which much was made at the time, as being immune to “Galloping Gertie” syndrome (a reference to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge)
There’s a second bridge now, officially the Second Severn Crossing, or SSC, over which the M4 now runs. The original bridge now carries the M48.
Yes, it’s a lovely drive, iffen’n’providen’ you aren’t stuck in holiday traffic, I did it every other weekend for many years, to visit my mother, who lived in Swansea, and died in 2006.
There are a number of castles, mostly (deliberately) ruinous, they having been “slighted” to prevent their being used as centres of resistance.
Wales starts on the west side of the Severn. You would have seen “Croeso i Gymru” signs (“Welcome to Wales”). And conversely, on the East side, “Croeso i Lloegr” (“Welcome to England”)
G.
@~jim:
Long handled ones? I’d never heard of marrow spoons, either.
G.
wow, they are still made and sold!
https://www.amazon.com/Fantes-Dual-Sided-Original-75-inches-Stainless/dp/B00D6PSZYE?tag=ttgnet-20
n
Marrow is delicious btw.
n
added– and if you haven’t watched a cockatoo slice open a chicken leg bone longways to get the sweet marrow out, you haven’t seen the living room version of ‘Nature, red in tooth and claw’….
n
>> I had a 1966 Chevy Impala station wagon.
Hauled materials from the lumber yard to finish a basement.
You could drop the rear seat and there was enough room for 4×8 sheets of panelling and drywall to fit and close the tailgate. The rear slant on the back of the front seat and forward slant on the rear door would keep you from stacking too high, but that was probably about the weight limit with drywall anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo3wcPgelIM
Rap music is like modern day poetry, right?
‘If a n***a want smoke I’m at my crib in 5 mins’: Florida rapper Rollie Bands dares his haters on Instagram to confront him and is SHOT DEAD outside his Tampa apartment five minutes later
– what an epitaph, I’m sure his words will resonate with readers in a 100 years…
n
With that part of Tampa, simple coincidence wouldn’t surprise me.
Sometimes you just have to laugh at yourself. When I prepared to leave for work yesterday, the housekeys weren’t in their assigned spot by the front door.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FE10TKA/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1&tag=ttgnet-20
So, the spare set was in its’ spot and off I went. When I returned I made a couple half hearted sweeps to find the original set. No joy. The keys had to be inside since I was. They wouldn’t be in a closet, drawer or cabinet. They weren’t in my clothes. They weren’t in the garbage. They weren’t anywhere around their hanging spot. They weren’t in the bathrooms or kitchen. Didn’t seem to be anywhere on the floor in any of the rooms.
Now this place is just not that big. They weren’t in the couch. They weren’t in the bedding. They weren’t in the laundry basket. As I left the bedroom, I thought to check behind the door and found ’em stuck in the passage lock that I rarely use and had completely forgotten. Well, sheet!
What’s the name of that Apple product to Bluetooth silly things like that?
>>Does anyone know which types of flour keep best? <<
That’s a really good question. Let us know if you find any certain answer. Seems to me unless you freeze it almost every type of flower will go off. It’s probably a combination of moisture and the tiny bit of oil (wheat oil?).
I went through a bread making phase a few years ago° and I seem to recall that whole wheat flour went off sooner than white flour. And then there’s the hard grain wheat versus soft grain… Maybe you could ask Bob’s Red Mill or whoever those guys are. They do know their stuff and the customer service is pretty good. I was surprised to see their buckwheat at the store the other day. It was ridiculously expensive, like seven dollars for a pound, so I didn’t buy any. What *is* buckwheat, anyway? Lol.
And let’s not forget cake flour! Use that in your roux and your Béchamel sauce will go from two stars to five. Make a big batch in advance and stick it in ice cube trays. Saves so much time.
°Courtesy of some yuppie who left a perfectly good Zojirushi machine in the apartment building’s discard pile. Probably a dime a dozen nowadays and the learning curve is steep, but once you get the hang of it the results are fantastic.
https://www.zojirushi.com/app/product/bbcec
And before one of you smartalecks beats me to the punch… :-p
http://www.cmgww.com/stars/thomas/biography/
@lynn, do you have an opener that works on #10 cans?
n
I have used one like this twice to open number ten cans. “KitchenAid Gourmet Multifunction Can Opener / Bottle Opener, 8.36-Inch, Passion Red”
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HSN5BYM?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&tag=ttgnet-20
And of course, any knife with a hook in it can open the cans also.
I’m considering installing a QR Code Reader/Scanner on my Android phone. Suggestions?
Just take a picture of it. My Pixel just works.
https://www.hellotech.com/guide/for/how-to-scan-qr-code-iphone-android
Pick one without any ads. Although that usually requires getting the ‘premium’ version, for about $1.00. I use one called QrEasy. Works well enough for the few times I need it.
There are lots of them available. Look at the reviews to help.
Although the built-in camera app should work also.
“Project: Earthsave (Perry Rhodan #38)” by Kurt Brand, translated by Wendayne Ackerman
https://www.amazon.com/Project-Earthsave-Perry-Rhodan-38/dp/B000GZDVF0?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number thirty-eight of a series of one hundred and twenty-six space opera books in English. The original German books, actually pamphlets, number in the thousands. The English books started with two translated German stories per book and transitioned to one story per book with the sixth book. The German books were written from 1961 to present time, having sold two billion copies and even recently been rebooted again. I read the well printed and well bound book published by Ace in 1974 that I had to be very careful with due to age. I bought an almost complete box of Perry Rhodans a decade or two ago on ebay that I am finally getting to since I lost my original Perry Rhodans in The Great Flood of 1989. In fact, I now own book #1 to book #103, plus the Atlan books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan
BTW, this is actually book number 46 of the German Pamphlets. There is a very good explanation of the plot in German on this website of all of the PR books. There is automatic Google translation available for English, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, French, and Portuguese.
https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Gesch%C3%A4fte_mit_Arkon-Stahl
In this alternate universe, USSF Major Perry Rhodan and his three fellow astronauts blasted off in a three stage rocket to the Moon in 1971. The first stage of the rocket was chemical, the second and third stages were nuclear. After crashing on the Moon due to a strange radio interference, they discover a massive crashed alien spaceship with an aged male scientist (Khrest), a female commander (Thora), and a crew of 500. It has been over ten years since then and the New Power has flourished with millions of people and many spaceships headquartered in the Gobi desert, the city of Terrania.
Perry Rhodan and his 5,000 foot spherical spaceship with the Ganymede spaceship travel to the Gonom system where the Springers, Mounders, and Aras are meeting soon to decide if they want to destroy Terra. Perry meets with Talamon, the Mounder whose fleet he did not destroy on Aralon, and offers him most of the millions of ton of Arkon steel on the planet Honur in the stripped spaceships. Several of the mutants are at the meeting of the Springers, Mounders, and Aras, and are caught by the Ara biochemical men. They run off in their spaceship gazelle but crash on the planet Gom.
One has to remember that this book was written in German in 1962 and translated to English in 1974. Many items that came about in the 1970s and beyond such as cell phones are not reflected in the book. However, commercial aircraft commonly traveling at Mach 3 are not available to the public as talked about in the book. Niels Bohr’s saying “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future” comes to mind.
Two observations:
1. The publisher should have put two to four of the translated stories in each book. Having two stories in the first five books worked out well. Just having one story in the book is too short and would never allow the translated books to catch up to the German originals.
2. Anyone liking Perry Rhodan and wanting a more up to date story should read the totally awesome “Mutineer’s Moon” Dahak series of three books by David Weber.
https://www.amazon.com/Mutineers-Moon-Dahak-David-Weber/dp/0671720856?tag=ttgnet-20/
My rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 0 out of 5 stars (0 reviews)
Use the camera, Luke, use the camera.
Using my iPhone camera there is no need to take a picture, just point the camera at the QR code. Not certain about Android, just give it a try.
Flour keeping. Bob’s Red Mill flour has come in 5 lb opaque plastic like sealed packages for several years now. The supply at the top of my stack was dated for use by a year ago. When I bought this new the best by was about two years out, I usually manage to get it used by a year past best by but some of the whole wheat pastry flour was three years past when I last used it and it seemed fine. Have never had a problem or any insects, stored in a bin on the concrete floor of the garage. I can usually get it for $2.50/5 lb bag on sale at one source here (Salem OR) a couple of times a year, as recently as 2 months ago.
Here’s a bit of trivia for you… a marrow spoon is precisely the right implement with which to spoon out the stomach contents of a trout, in order to see on which flies it has been feeding, and thus to know which artificial “fly” lure to use to catch more trout.
I tried the QR thing a couple of weeks ago and all I got was a picture. Android 8 on an LG V20, on Verizon, so, hands full of salt and all.
I need to experiment more.
Paying a buck for a decent app is not a problem. Because I haven’t seen a way to have Google refund the money I put in my account. Might as well fritter the balance away.
There’s an app on f droid that I’ve been able to use. There are several in the multimedia section. They are all free. This is for a bar code app.
>> a marrow spoon is precisely the right implement with which to spoon out the stomach contents of a trout <<
Okaaay… I see I’m not going to win any trivia contests today. That’s about a 12 out of 10 on the obscure index. No compleat angler should be without a marrow spoon, eh?
The marrow spoon, yeah, I can see that as a thing.
When I was a kid and steaks and roasts had bones, my Dad ate the marrow. As in “give me you plates and I’m eating the rest”.
Now? I don’t remember the last time I spotted a t-bone steak at the store. Or a pot roast.
Minor complaint. There may be a simple work around that I’m too dense to figure out.
I stash almost everything in Documents. Win 7. I have a short cut to Documents on the desktop and shortcuts to various folders inside of Documents.
So I’m trying to clear up the desktop. Drag a shortcut to the taskbar? Oh, uh, no, I do not want to pin that to Windows Explorer. Because [a] I want a separate icon that I can (hopefully can drop stuff on) and [b] the whole Pinned list randomly goes away.
[b] is the problem.
I have a lot of Taskbar space. I just want to put shortcuts to various folder there… shortcuts I can drag and drop onto. Up on the taskbar instead of a desktop icon.
Err, I have the taskbar at the top of the screen where it belongs. Just saying. Like every program ever from the days of DOS has the menu bar at the top of the window.
>>I don’t remember the last time I spotted a t-bone steak at the store. <<
It’s funny you should mention that. I had to do a double-take at Amazon Fresh yesterday because they had the most beautifully marbled New York steaks I’ve seen in a long time. It crossed my mind that they might have been Prime, not choice. I think they had them labeled as Porterhouse? $14.99/lb, IIRC. Cheap!
Anyway, I’m going to keep my eye on their butcher counter. Maybe it was just a fluke? I’ll check tomorrow to be sure. I have to return a bit of Chineseium.
Our supply chain issue of the week is an alternator for the Exploder.
2016.
Well I may have a new engineer for my foundation and retaining wall problems. Guy I pinged on Friday got back to me, they do the work, they are very technical, and he sounded interested and maybe even a bit excited. It is a challenging project and pro’s like a challenge now and then.
I’m supposed to meet him onsite next week. A plus is that their office is a mile from my house. Who knew?
n
@~jim, I saw tbones in the counter for the first time in a LONNGGG time last month or the month before. I haven’t seen them since.
There are a lot of cuts I haven’t seen lately. They must be going somewhere, you get two of each at least with every cow… but they’re not hitting grocery stores.
— and here it comes….
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/ranchers-are-selling-their-cattle-unprecedented-numbers-due-drought-and-has
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The local Meijer grocery store advertised New York Strips at $7.99/lb. When I got there, T-Bones were also $9.99/lb. I built a new stack. 😉
Added: I think I saw a headline about ranchers doing a mass cull. Maybe I should go back and add to the stack.
Ah! Nick had it. (the headline)
QR codes… on my android phone, open the camera app, and look for the button that’s like a rounded square with segments missing and a dot in the middle. That description will make sense when you see it. Click that, then point the camera at the QR code. Once it gets a good scan, a floating link appears over the QR code. Tap it.
If it’s a modern phone you won’t need an app.
>>There are a lot of cuts I haven’t seen lately. <<
The American Beef Council, or whatever you call it, went about renaming everything a few years ago. It’s kept their marketing gurus employed but Lord help the rest of us. My brisket shivers.
When was the last time you saw veal?
~jim
(Whose idea of a mass cull involves a Catholic congregation, but I digress)
The Internet is your friend: https://www.christensenranch.com/product/1-8th-beef-share/
They have a variety of other packages as well @ ~$13-14 / lb. shipped. Their 1/8 beef is 44 lbs. or $558 plus shipping
How I revived three ancient computers with ChromeOS Flex
The Linux desktop that will transform the industry is ChromeOS.
Written by Jason Perlow, Senior Contributing Writer on July 18, 2022
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-i-revived-three-ancient-laptops-with-chrome-os-flex/
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/07/15/googles-chrome-os-flex-now-available/
Some notes here on details:
https://www.ghacks.net/2022/07/15/google-releases-chrome-os-flex-for-pcs-and-macs/
I’m tempted to try this with a couple of old dusty boxes, including an iMac. But just out of curiosity. Being bound to the internet for anything is ridiculous and an effective violation of Pournelle’s Law (“one user, one CPU”).
The other non-starter, of course, is that Google is “rhymes with weevil” and the prospect of them turd-sifting through anything that I do with a computer is about as attractive as watching a dog eat his vomit after cruising the litter box.
I run current Fedora on an otherwise useless Inspiron 14 with 4 GB RAM as my “road” computer. The distro is worth considering for a low resource machine.
The part about grazing red angus and finishing with corn sounds pretty good.
But the price per pound (before shipping) is high. By the time you add shipping and calculate 20% of the weight at hamburger prices, the real steaks are pretty dear.
If you live in part of the country where cattle are raised it’s not difficult to find a small operator that sells direct. It’s best to deal directly and they will use a local locker. You can look for a local locker that has lots of awards and ask about beef (or pork), but the locker takes a a commission and many of the best small producers don’t need that expense, they have waiting lists.
And the advantage of ordering a half is that you specify how to cut it.
Now? I don’t remember the last time I spotted a t-bone steak at the store. Or a pot roast.
I had a 12 ounce New York Strip for lunch at our monthly mens lunch today at the Longhorn Steakhouse in Sugar Land. It was freaking awesome. $21.95 plus $1.49 for a salad plus $2 for the governor (sales tax). I left the waitress a nice tip since she was the only waitress for lunch and she was nice to us.
Golden Corral has a real nice pot roast for Sunday lunch if you don’t mind the lack of ambiance. Fried catfish too. Go about 10am and you can eat breakfast, wait a little while and eat lunch.
Here’s a bit of trivia for you… a marrow spoon is precisely the right implement with which to spoon out the stomach contents of a trout, in order to see on which flies it has been feeding, and thus to know which artificial “fly” lure to use to catch more trout.
Or if you don’t want to kill the trout, my Montana guide uses a eyedropper sized suction device to suck out the stomach contents. Then he gently puts the very upset trout back in the river. The headwaters of the Missouri river in Montana have 14,000 rainbow trout per mile of river.
Double dip!
Sizzler used to hate when we did that.
n
Well I may have a new engineer for my foundation and retaining wall problems. Guy I pinged on Friday got back to me, they do the work, they are very technical, and he sounded interested and maybe even a bit excited. It is a challenging project and pro’s like a challenge now and then.
I’m supposed to meet him onsite next week. A plus is that their office is a mile from my house. Who knew?
n
Take your big checkbook. Somebody on that crew needs to have a P.E. who understands soil.
Ah, nothing like an international business. The wife and I are helping a refinery customer in Yemen here at midnight. Not sure what time it is there.
California. Turkey hunting was a thing when I was growing up.
Now these pansies call the cops, who then ‘nope’ out of addressing the mean bird instead of turning it into meat.
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/hostile-wild-turkey-attacks-north-bay-resident-wails-on-cop-car/
Take your big checkbook. Somebody on that crew needs to have a P.E. who understands soil.
My former employer, TXU, back in the 1980s had a horrendous mistake made back in 1965 or so. They hired a soil analysis firm to tell them what the btu content of the lignite coal was in the surface mine that they were building outside Fairfield, Texas. The firm dug a dozen core samples thirty feet down in the ground and said that the lignite was 6300 btu/lb IIRC. They did not bother to take soil samples as the mine would be developed over the projected 30 to 50 year life of the mine. After a few months, the btu content of the mine dropped down to 5800 btu/lb IIRC. It turned out that the soil samples were in the absolute best portion of the lignite mine.
Both of the lignite coal units in Fairfield were designed for the 6300 btu/lb lignite coal with six bowl mills each. Neither unit could reach full power, 600+ MW, on the 5800 btu/lb as they were having to process almost ten percent more lignite coal. So they retrofitted two more bowl mills on each unit at a cost of over ten million dollars each in 1972 and 1973. Since the units were not designed for eight bowl mills (10 foot diameter by 60 ??? foot high structures blowing ground up coal face powder into the steam furnaces), getting them in place was not easy. Plus all the additional motors and fan blowers. It was a real mess.
I have bought a number of these #10 metal cans, “Augason Farms Buttermilk Pancake Mix 3 lbs 4 oz #10 Can”
https://www.amazon.com/Augason-Farms-Buttermilk-Pancake-Mix/dp/B00FTETNIC?tag=ttgnet-20/
and
https://www.amazon.com/Augason-Farms-Honey-White-Bread/dp/B00FTEWFTQ?tag=ttgnet-20/
Here is another ten year life can of biscuit powder. “Augason Farms Buttermilk (No Leavening) Biscuit Mix 2 lbs 15 oz No. 10 Can, 5-80410”
https://www.amazon.com/Augason-Farms-Buttermilk-Leavening-Biscuit/dp/B00FTETK80?tag=ttgnet-20/
@lynn
Augason – thanks for the heads up.
We like the pancake mix.