Johnny, if you want to expand your fish repertoire, check out some recipes for fish chowders and stews. I like doing a nice pot of Manhattan clam chowder or ginger fish stew. Paella is a good bet too.
Glad you’re getting settled into the home improvement metal mouse.
butters, it surprises me that a Toyota is giving you such problems this early on (IIRC, your Corolla isn’t that old). Have fun car shopping though.
sari, the Sprite thing doesn’t surprise me. I can taste red food coloring in most things and if it’s too much, it’s nasty.
Up, caffeinating, breakfasted, puppy crate cleaned, bed stripped, a load of sheets and towels in the wash and getting ready for KP and putting said laundry into the dryer to make room for a load of clothes. Once KP is done, I’ll purtify, go to the tax bus, the book store and the grocery store.
Hit a CD/DVD resale shop and filled in a lot of my missing Tull stuff AND scored a MST3K 20th anniversary edition for 20 bucks complete with the little Crow figure. I am def living right today!
Today is the first day of the Yamhill County Meltdown. When Wifey gets back from having her hairs cut we’re gonna get started on our personal journey through the land of melty cheese.
So much for dusting - we just finished with the stove. The installation went well and fairly quickly, but the troubleshooting took a while. It was literally screwed! :eek:
There was a small screw in the auger compartment that jammed up the auger. We had to do a bunch of disassembly to figure it out, but **FCD **is a crackerjack troubleshooter - he saw the screw and used a handy-dandy magnet tool to extract it. Once it was removed, the auger ran just fine and the stove fired right up.
Of course, before we discovered the jam, we’d dumped 80# of pellets into the hopper, which had to be removed. yeah, that was fun. But it’s good now. We’ll go out in a bit to see how hot it is out there.
I think the rest of the night is for chillage. I’m beat!
My Toyota Corolla is a 2014 but I got it in Nov of 13. It just turned 100,000 miles. About 99% of which was just to irk and back. I have chosen my new car. I want a Corolla hatchback XSE which has leather and premium sound and a blind spot monitor. Can’t get all that is any other trim level. I am unsure there is anything wrong with the car now but am a little paranoid about it. Hubs had a mechanic check for new CV joints and they are not even manufactured off market yet so it would be an OEM part and pricy including the labor. My thoughts are I need to get a new car while I am still irking to make the payments. Shouldn’t be much as the car I want is only about $25K and I expect to get 10K on trade. I could just pay outright but they are offering 0% interest so nothing gained by buying it outright.
Or, I could just continue to drive it and be broke without a decent car or job in a few years. I gots the fever.
I irked today until my brain died. Spent an hour looking for the handwritten inventory sheet. Went through the trash searched high and low then finally realized I never created that sheet. Got some formula problems on my perpetual inventory and don’t have enough sense to fix it. So I gave up and came by the gas station with the good fried chicken and bought a sack full. Now I am down for a nap as is the rest of the house. Tis raining which makes for good nap weather.
Howdy Y’all! I took care of chores plus helped with a couple others whilst over to the church house cause I’m nice dammit! Also made a mandarin orange sheet cake and put together a cabbage casserole for tomorrow’s feast and looooooooooong annual meetin’. The casserole will get baked tomorrow mornin’ whilst we purtify. The cake got baked today cause that’s a good idea to go ahead and bake a cake once the batter is made up. That is a handy cookin’ hint you all may use in the future.
MOOOOOOM cook the brisket long and slow (250 degrees Amurrkin) and add some N.O.T. and carrots. A few cloves of garlic, some onion, and some salt and pepper, if desired, is also good. The brisket shall be fall apart tender. How long depends on the size of the brisket. Also, yay on the pellet stove.
Good afternoon all. Indoor soccer has been coached, final flooring bill has been paid, and nappage has been accomplished. Will think about dinner here in a bit. Got the youth brigade (next door kids and their relatives) scheduled for 2pm tomorrow to put the bookcases back in place. Then just need a few odds and ends to complete things.
Butters, nice looking car. I tend to go about 7 years between new cars, since 2000 I’ve saved enough to pay cash and then saved myself for the next one, which isn’t due until 2024 or so.
Bumba, Yamhill County is a great name, and the meltdown sounds like an event I would enjoy. Hope it goes well.
FCM, sounds like FCD won’t have to worry about the chills anymore. Seems he might be closer to a sauna…and if he wins the bid, you can put HVAC in the place…wish him luck.
Sari, glad Sah-son went to the park and did the tests himself. Having a ‘crew’ like you do there probably made it a lot smoother than trying it on strangers.
DC, swampy, I refuse on principle to mow my grass before March–and it’s been just cold enough that I should be able to get away with it.
Butters, good luck to you and the toddler. And red, hope the EOM is done sucking.
Now need to forage for sustenance. All y’all take care.
**MetalMouse **- we do have HVAC in the shop, and the a/c works great. But being a metal building, it got really cold, especially without insulation in the attic. But now it’s all insulated, and the pellet stove warms it up much faster and better than the installed units - electric heat isn’t the most efficient or economical.
We’re all just back from DQ, because. I’m about to assume the knit position. **FCD **is checking the shop, then he’ll mosey back in and chill. It was a productive, if tiring, day.
One of my Twitter posts just went viral overnight while I slept. It has over 3000 likes and nearly 500 RTs as I write this, still going up. Whenever I’ve seen other viral tweets, I’ve wondered what I would do if it happened for me so that I could maybe get some work out of it or something.
I have no idea how to achieve such a thing, so I may have missed an opportunity.
Swampy, I made a mandarin orange cake once. That is, it was a yellow cake that had mandarin oranges in the batter. During baking, the oranges disappeared (as they were supposed to), but the cake didn’t taste very orange-y. I’m sure your version is a lot better. I’m old enough to remember when there was orange cake mix, which you used to make (I’m so ooooools!) Harvey Wallbanger cake.
I got a good workout in today and am now washing sheets, etc. Nothing beats getting into a bed made up with freshly-washed linens. I shall luxuriate tonight.
I’ve got another big pot of veggie soup beginning to simmer. It’s going to be in competition for a “Souper Bowl Sunday” event at a local bar.
I like Louie’s. It’s a bar on one side and a laundromat on the other. In the latter the machines always work and the place is kept bright and clean. And while you wait for your clothes to finish you can have a beer!
I’m curious as to how crowded it will be tomorrow. We are not all that far from Kansas City, and if there are any San Francisco fans around, they are keeping a very low profile.
