Welcome to my pond - Swim, wade, or sit on the bank

[WalnutHill]

The kid I told that to is an Alaskan kid. Just graduated from high school, has spent the last two summers working first as a set-netter, and this year on a commercial fishing boat. He's also been trying to figure out how to convert used cooking oil to run the 1990 diesel pickup he just bought. (He's been working on that project since our last trip up here two years ago.)He's quite self-sufficient. He liked my words of wisdom and told them to his friends. This young man and his friends do give me a bit of hope for our future.

This might not work in Alaska.... but I met a fellow up in My neck of the woods that was running a 1984 Mercedes Diesel four door on straight french fry oil.

All he did was filter it of particulates and fill a separate fuel tank with it. He ran the fuel lines next to the coolant lines. Started the car with Diesel.... warmed every thing up then flipped a switch when the fry oil was warm enough.

He reversed the process when he shut down. He said the injectors needed diesel in them when it shut down or you had the devil of a time starting it.

deb

So there IS hope!!! All the youngsters I know are very talented on computers and music and electronics, but the rest of life? Um, no.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Just got back from the dentist's office.
All is good , I'm beat. They ended up pulling her tooth. She has alot of overcrowding so he felt it was the best option. Give the others some room to shift. She's currently sitting at the table with hubby playing chess.

 

[perchie.girl]

anyone ever hear of the Over The Line competition here in San Diego.... Most of the names of the teams cant be broadcast on Radio or TV.

Back in 1970 one teams name was Fritz and Titz One guy and three girls....

Heres a link to photos
Over the Line

They have tried to tone it down the past few years... But when Beer Bikinis and something similar to Baseball are involved.....

deb

 

[kwhites634]

Yea, they are trying, and will probably succeed, in having " offensive" monuments removed from the court house squares, safe places at the university...All sorts of stuff.

Lawmakers have given the government too much power; exactly what the founders of this country warned against.

 

[WVduckchick]

anyone ever hear of the Over The Line competition here in San Diego.... Most of the names of the teams cant be broadcast on Radio or TV.

Back in 1970 one teams name was Fritz and Titz One guy and three girls....

Heres a link to photos
Over the Line

They have tried to tone it down the past few years... But when Beer Bikinis and something similar to Baseball are involved.....

deb

Now there's a place for the "here, hold my beer" phrase, if I've ever seen one

 

[perchie.girl]

So there IS hope!!! All the youngsters I know are very talented on computers and music and electronics, but the rest of life? Um, no.

This is off road central.... Baja 1000, Dunes Racing, Motocross, Timed Trials, Trials Riding... Then there is a big contingent of drag racers. My original Diesel mechanic builds Diesel Drag racers now.

When I was going to high school The World Champion Motocross guy was Marty Tripes.. lived three blocks over....

http://www.motorcyclemuseum.org/halloffame/detail.aspx?RacerID=282

deb

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Lawmakers have given the government too much power; exactly what the founders of this country warned against.

That's a big discussion topic at our house! Totally agree!

 

[kwhites634]

And #4 -- you are AWESOME again today!!

I have 3 eggs in my incubator from my golden comet covered by my frizzle rooster. Talk about a barnyard mix!





Pork on the brain.




My pot just announced coffee is ready!




I'm not one of those.




You bring home the bacon. He can cook it!



I thought my job was ending, so I started raising chickens. Now I'm working 2 jobs instead (for real - 4 if you count the chickens)




At least your childhood is still easy to remember, it wasn't as long ago as most of ours!

When I was that young vans hadn't been invented

 

[BYC910]

I don't cook much. I would like to try ham & beans.

Yes, sir.







We ate mostly canned & frozen crap. I don't ever remember my mom making any sort of dessert.

Wow we was poor as dirt 9 people in a two room shack sometimes . But momma was a saint we picked blackberries every summer and she made cobbler that was so good We also picked possom grapes and elder berries goose berries mulberries any thing she could make jams or jelly out of . She made cakes and pies fried donuts sprinkled with powered sugar. Sometimes there wasn't much but there was always something . We would also gather walnuts and chestnuts . Some times breakfast was just gravy and biscuits. It could rabbit gravy or mackerel gravy . When the bullfrogs got out and big we would go frogging and have frogs for breakfast. Catch them live keep them in a wet burlap sack clean them early in the morning . They were soooooooo good . You know my childhood wasn't so bad .

That settles it. I'm learning to make ham & beans this fall.



Can you imagine!? How did we survive our childhoods? No seat belt laws, no car seats, no helmets when we rode our bikes. Heck, we rode down the highway in the back of our cousins pick-up truck and had a blast!



Blind as bats those practicers.







You in prison?

I hurt in more places than I can count from some of them crazy things we did as kids.

Beans aren't difficult, I do the long,keep an eye on em way cause I'm here all day. Do em like K, soak em(overnight if it's easier time wise) rinse em, throw em in a crock pot, add your hocks cook four or five hours salt n pepper to taste! You got this!

Yep pick up a pound of dry beans any kind . A couple ham hocks and some jiffy corn muffin mix . A slow cooker will work too. The great ting about beans is you can add anything you want to the pot . With the jiffy mix instead of muffins use a 10 inch iron skillet and you got a very sweet corn bread . You do realize I'm going to show up on your door steep one day I figure it can't be more than a 110 miles over there

Just don't drop the soap.

Is that the voice of experience talking

 

[sourland]

Went to the Sussex Co. fair today. The livestock, poultry, small animal barns are spacious, clean and well ventilated. Anything you wanted to eat - it was there, and the midway was a kids delight. Probably a third of the chickens were disqualified either because of wrong breed identification or because they were cross bred. Are there no knowledgeable 4 H club leaders to guide these kids? There was actually a Pyle 'Salmon Faverolle'. He was beautiful, but he was a mutt - to his credit he got a second in the crowing contest.

I was intrigued by 4 chocolate Wyandotte pullets (is there such a variety?) To my eye they had more of a Cornish body type, but they were a rich chocolate color - very pretty birds. There were also 4 Quail Old English pullets that were beautiful.

There's a large horse show in conjunction with this fair, and we watched a bit of the jumping competition. A good day for the Princess and me.