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08-26-2020, 04:15 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Living the Dream!
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Sigh of relief!
Just got the “all clear” text from the sheriff’s office. Quick action from both ground and air crews contained the nearby wildfire. The alert for potential evacuations has been lifted.
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08-26-2020, 04:41 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Rio Grande Valley
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Another fun smoking experiment at home. I had some duck breasts in the freezer and decided to try smoking them. I had a couple with skins, and more without. I brined them overnight and then smoked them at 225. They cooked really quickly - just a little over an hour.
I also threw on some sausages. We had some duck Bratwurst fully cooked that was too boring. The smoke really improved the taste plus somehow really brought out the herbs in the sausage. These cooked fast too.
I have to say this is by far the easiest way to cook duck breast.
Oh, the snack is some of the smoked duck breast plus a little Foie Gras. Very French!
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08-26-2020, 04:44 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Flyover country
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I'll have to try that. I've never had good luck with duck.
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I thought growing old would take longer.
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08-26-2020, 05:17 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2017
Posts: 1,635
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Took my wife to an early doctor's appointment, got home and had another cup of coffee.
After the sun went around to the back of the house, I finished painting the frame of the front door, then primed the front door itself.
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08-26-2020, 07:31 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 22,923
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Today I processed the onions from my garden. I had pulled them up a month ago and they have been drying on a rack in front of a fan in the garage ever since. Today I snipped the now dessicated leaves off, rubbed off the outermost dirt encrusted skin layer, and put the onions in mesh bags. They are now hanging in storage with the similarly processed shallots and garlic.
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Living an analog life in the Digital Age.
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08-27-2020, 11:25 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jul 2020
Location: Northern Illinois
Posts: 120
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I gave notice and will have my last day at work tomorrow, August 28.
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08-27-2020, 11:35 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 2,911
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Congratulations!!
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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus
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08-27-2020, 11:53 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Apr 2015
Posts: 5,775
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KarlH
I gave notice and will have my last day at work tomorrow, August 28.
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Congratulations!
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Give a Man a fish, he will eat for a day.
Teach a Man to fish, he will eat for a lifetime.
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08-27-2020, 12:41 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 22,923
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Nice. Now what will you do all day?
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08-27-2020, 02:41 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 7,913
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Quote:
Originally Posted by braumeister
I'll have to try that. I've never had good luck with duck.
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+1
I just found two small duck breasts in the freezer I'd forgotten about. I think DH would prefer them smoked, so I'll give it a try, although I'll have to wait until the weather cools down - when it's 100 outside, I can't keep the temp on the gas grill below 275 even with just one burner on lowest setting.
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08-27-2020, 09:16 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2020
Location: Milwaukee
Posts: 3,938
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KarlH
I gave notice and will have my last day at work tomorrow, August 28.
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Woot woot! Congrats!
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08-28-2020, 04:59 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
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Mowed the front & side yards, took an hour break, then mowed the back. I was going to resume tilling a bad bare spot near the shed but every time I walked outside raindrops began falling so after three times of that I gave up. The grass has never grown well there at all and I attributed it to the sunlight reflecting off the white siding in addition to the normal dose of sunlight. But now I think it may be because of the volume of large rocks I keep pulling up from just below the surface to a few inches below. I'll find out when the project is done.
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When I was a kid I wanted to be older. This is not what I expected.
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08-28-2020, 05:32 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 9,373
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Went on a long hike in the hill this morning. Trying to spot some mule deer for archery opener.
Came home had lunch and went to the ranch and did some fishing then loaded the canoe and brought it home. I plan on floating river next week with a friend.
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08-30-2020, 05:03 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 9,373
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Cut down my apple tree that was given to us from the bank when I built my home 36 years ago. It was been failing and not a health tree so I decided to take it down and dig up stump and axe it out.
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08-30-2020, 08:04 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 22,923
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We made and canned a couple pints of salsa and a pint of pickled okra. Yesterday, we made and canned 9 one-quarter pint jars of rhubarb jelly.
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08-30-2020, 10:49 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 14,328
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Made a half gallon of cider. The apple trees are going nutz this year and the only way to use the apples is for cider - you can only eat so many. I use this little cider press - looks like a toy but works great.
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08-31-2020, 08:52 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: West of the Mississippi
Posts: 17,134
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KarlH
I gave notice and will have my last day at work tomorrow, August 28.
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Maynard G. Krebs would be proud of you.
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The worst decisions are usually made in times of anger and impatience.
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08-31-2020, 01:54 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Everett
Posts: 1,592
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Donated blood today. Our local donation center started doing Covid antibody testing, so I'm looking forward to getting that result. Got a can of V8 from the canteen fridge afterwards, and was happy to spot a bottle of Tabasco sauce there for spicing it up.
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08-31-2020, 02:02 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2011
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Just finished a 'phone consultation' with our doctor - been experiencing what my online research suggests is osteoarthritis in my right hip.....he's arranging for X-Rays, should hear from the lab in a day or so.
I've lived with bone-on-bone osteoarthritis in both knees for the better part of fifty years without surgery, so if the hip is confirmed I'll have to learn how to manage it.......but probably not for fifty years.
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The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare
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08-31-2020, 02:44 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: northern Michigan
Posts: 2,213
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Quote:
Originally Posted by O2Bfree
Donated blood today. Our local donation center started doing Covid antibody testing, so I'm looking forward to getting that result. Got a can of V8 from the canteen fridge afterwards, and was happy to spot a bottle of Tabasco sauce there for spicing it up.
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With regard to the antibody test, be aware that, if you did have COVID, your body typically only produces antibodies that last about 2 months, maybe 3 months at most. So, if you get a negative test result, it basically only means that you have not had COVID within the last few months - not that you never had it. I was not aware of that when I had the test done.
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