Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by soulreapersteve

@Tcoat @Ultramaroon


Need more stories. Drinking a beer right now and I'm nodding off to sleep early tonight.

I'm about ready to call it a night as well.

[soulreapersteve]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

I'm about ready to call it a night as well.

Dang it! Stop being old!

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

I used to lick the jelly off of the paraffin. Mmmm...

My Mom was horrid at sealing with paraffin. She would make a couple of dozen jars and we may get 6 that were usable a few months later. The rest would ferment with some getting so bad they would blow the jar apart.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by soulreapersteve

Dang it! Stop being old!

I am good for another hour at least.
Wussy Americans.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by soulreapersteve

Dang it! Stop being old!

Too late... zzzzzzzzz...

Originally Posted by Tcoat

My Mom was horrid at sealing with paraffin. She would make a couple of dozen jars and we may get 6 that were usable a few months later. The rest would ferment with some getting so bad they would blow the jar apart.

My mom had trouble canning meats. Phew! Talk about stink.

[soulreapersteve]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I am good for another hour at least.
Wussy Americans.

Teach me your ways, sensei

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Too late... zzzzzzzzz...



My mom had trouble canning meats. Phew! Talk about stink.

My dad decided to smoke some meat "the fkn way the fkn Indians fkn did it" one time. The problem was he had no clue how it was done other than a 17th century drawing in a book. We had rotting salmon, beef and turkey hanging over a smoldering pine fire in the back yard for about a week. I will never forget that smell.

[Andrew025]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

My dad decided to smoke some meat "the fkn way the fkn Indians fkn did it" one time. The problem was he had no clue how it was done other than a 17th century drawing in a book. We had rotting salmon, beef and turkey hanging over a smoldering pine fire in the back yard for about a week. I will never forget that smell.

Delicious

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by soulreapersteve

Teach me your ways, sensei

Easy.
Join the military (which branch probably doesn't matter)
Learn to sleep when you can and be awake when you need or want to be.
Somehow retain that skill many, many years after you no longer actually require it.

It has served me well over the decades since I could work any shift and change without adverse reactions on a day's notice.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Andrew025

Delicious

He would have expected us to eat it but my sister and I took it all down one day while he was at work took it out to the woods and threw it in the creek. We told him we saw coyotes around and he figured they took it. I was 9 or 10 years old at the time.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Easy.
Join the military (which branch probably doesn't matter)
Learn to sleep when you can and be awake when you need or want to be.
Somehow retain that skill many, many years after you no longer actually require it.

It has served me well over the decades since I could work any shift and change without adverse reactions on a day's notice.

Yep, the old Army ........ don't run if you can walk, don't walk if you can just stand, don't stand if you can sit down, don't sit down if you can lay down, don't lay awake if you can sleep.


humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Yep, the old Army ........ don't run if you can walk, don't walk if you can just stand, don't stand if you can sit down, don't sit down if you can lay down, don't lay awake if you can sleep.


humfrz

Navy: If it moves, salute it. If it doesn't, paint it.

[Tcoat]

Annnnnd.

Steve's gone.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by soulreapersteve

@Tcoat @Ultramaroon


Need more stories. Drinking a beer right now and I'm nodding off to sleep early tonight.

OK, one more quick one.

Curing bacon in the wintertime. We had two 4'x8' sheets of plywood on saw horses out in the barn. Then we would lay slabs of pork (bacon) on a bed of salt and brown sugar on the tables, then cover with more salt and brown sugar.

My job was to hand rub each side of each slab, twice a day and turn them over ..... my grandfather would make the determination as to when they were "done". Yep, nutten much better than a mess of thick sliced, sugar/salt cured bacon, cooked in an iron skillet, along with some country fresh eggs.

DANG! ...... I'd best go to bed before I run in and cook up some bacon & eggs .......


humfrz ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ