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rfenst Offline
#51 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 9:04 AM EST
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Morning.

My brother and his family are in town. His 12-year old boy LOVES cars and reads books about them all the time. So, I have made arrangements to visit Mercedes, Porsche, Lamborghini, Rolls/Bentley, Ferrari and a couple other high-end dealers. We are going to drive my nephew around from dealer to dealer so he can see these cars and sit in them as if he were driving. Should be fun!
danmdevries Offline
#52 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 9:21 AM EST
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MACS wrote:
Doing an experiment over the next 24 hours. Saw a YouTube video of a guy cooking a chuck roast in the sous vide for 24 hours at 131 degrees... then throwing it on a wicked hot grill to sear it.

He says it's better than ribeye... and damned if it didn't look delicious. Soooooo... I gotta try it.

Seasoned it with EVOO, fresh cracked pepper and kosher salt. Vacuum sealed it and dropped it in the water bath at 135 until tomorrow around 11:45am. I'll sear it tomorrow when it's done and see if it's better'n a ribeye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fykX4_3Sf5o < That's the video.


Looking forward to hearing about the results.
deadeyedick Offline
#53 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 9:22 AM EST
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^ This reminds me. Last month a family friend said his grandson was having his 10th birthday and loves Corvettes so he ask if I would take him for a ride. I agreed and they brought him by and we took a picture of him sitting in the driver's seat before the ride. We strapped in and headed out to a road that gets very little traffic. He was enjoying it and we stopped in the deserted road and did a burnout then went through a hard launch for about 100 yards.

My friend called me a few days ago and said his grandson now wants to be a drag racer when he grows up.
MACS Offline
#54 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 9:23 AM EST
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Awful windy today. 20-30 mph with gusts to 40?

49/70
Mr. Jones Offline
#55 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 10:00 AM EST
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The east coast Chicken Little "BOMB 💣 CYCLONE 🌀"
has started ....a big unbelievable 1/2" over 6 hours????

OMG....run for your lives !!!!

Go buy milk , bread and eggs...for THE SNOWED IN unending FRENCH TOAST
MARATHON BREAKFASTS ...

OR

GO BUY VODKA AND SMOKES!!!
8trackdisco Offline
#56 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 10:44 AM EST
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6.4 miles on the bike in 30 minutes.
Breakfast coffee then out.
BuckyB93 Offline
#57 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 11:19 AM EST
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MACS wrote:
Doing an experiment over the next 24 hours. Saw a YouTube video of a guy cooking a chuck roast in the sous vide for 24 hours at 131 degrees... then throwing it on a wicked hot grill to sear it.

He says it's better than ribeye... and damned if it didn't look delicious. Soooooo... I gotta try it.

Seasoned it with EVOO, fresh cracked pepper and kosher salt. Vacuum sealed it and dropped it in the water bath at 135 until tomorrow around 11:45am. I'll sear it tomorrow when it's done and see if it's better'n a ribeye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fykX4_3Sf5o < That's the video.


How are you maintaining the water bath temp?
Stogie1020 Offline
#58 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 11:46 AM EST
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BuckyB93 wrote:
How are you maintaining the water bath temp?

Sous vide, bro. Sous vide.

Device sits in the water with food and warms and circulates the water continuously. Food is in zip lock or vacuum seal bags.


https://www.amazon.com/Anova-Culinary-Precision-Bluetooth-Included/dp/B07C7PW3PC/ref=rvi_3/141-4717264-1462443?pd_rd_w=7EK5D&pf_rd_p=f5690a4d-f2bb-45d9-9d1b-736fee412437&pf_rd_r=XQS1ZPGTB9PY3BWWD954&pd_rd_r=2d6c64bb-a05e-4f4b-9cc3-576e22a6ba84&pd_rd_wg=HdBdS&pd_rd_i=B07C7PW3PC&psc=1#customerReviews

MACS, we are all waiting to hear about your meat. Maybe even pics.

There, I teed it up for you all.
Gene363 Offline
#59 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 12:16 PM EST
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Good Friday Morning! It's an overcast 43° on the way to 53° today.
delta1 Offline
#60 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 2:01 PM EST
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damm I'm tired...been baby sitting our grand-daughters all week, with my wife, while SIL isolates with covid and daughter works... he was only one in their family to get it

he's feeling much better, with just a lingering cough and slight fatigue and will finish isolating on Saturday, using a home test kit to check his status...hopefully he's negative and we can get back to normal...
Palama Offline
#61 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 2:19 PM EST
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delta1 wrote:
damm I'm tired...been baby sitting our grand-daughters all week, with my wife, while SIL isolates with covid and daughter works... he was only one in their family to get it

he's feeling much better, with just a lingering cough and slight fatigue and will finish isolating on Saturday, using a home test kit to check his status...hopefully he's negative and we can get back to normal...


Patti and I definitely know the feeling. People think it’s SO easy to watch young children, they obviously have never done it for months or weeks at a time.

Glad to hear your SIL is feeling better. ThumpUp
BuckyB93 Offline
#62 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 3:59 PM EST
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delta1 wrote:
damm I'm tired...been baby sitting our grand-daughters all week, with my wife, while SIL isolates with covid and daughter works... he was only one in their family to get it

Palama wrote:
Patti and I definitely know the feeling. People think it’s SO easy to watch young children, they obviously have never done it for months or weeks at a time.

Glad to hear your SIL is feeling better. ThumpUp


When my kids were 2 and 4 yrs old, I did the stay at home dad thing for about a year while I was between jobs. It was the most taxing yet most rewarding "job" I've ever had. I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
rfenst Offline
#63 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 4:05 PM EST
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What's up people?
Ram27 Offline
#64 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 4:33 PM EST
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Howdy Robert!

All be fine waiting on the snow.
MACS Offline
#65 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 5:29 PM EST
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danmdevries wrote:
Looking forward to hearing about the results.


Came out pretty damn good. It's not better than a ribeye, but it was tender and juicy.
MACS Offline
#66 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 5:36 PM EST
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Helped a buddy of mine shovel some dirt into a trailer he rented. Took it to the dump and dropped it off. Thank God he rented a trailer that had a hydraulic lift.

Weigh on the way in and again on the way out. We shoveled 5.18 tons of dirt/sod. Yeah... over 10,300 lbs of shoveling. I'm going to be sore tomorrow. Hell, I'm sore now... be amazed if I can move tomorrow.

Believe it or not, only took us a little over an hour to shovel it all into the trailer. Threw away a bunch of bricks and a bit of stone, too. Including the trailer, we towed more than we should have. About 1000 lbs more than his truck is rated for, but she did it.
Gene363 Offline
#67 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 6:05 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
Helped a buddy of mine shovel some dirt into a trailer he rented. Took it to the dump and dropped it off. Thank God he rented a trailer that had a hydraulic lift.

Weigh on the way in and again on the way out. We shoveled 5.18 tons of dirt/sod. Yeah... over 10,300 lbs of shoveling. I'm going to be sore tomorrow. Hell, I'm sore now... be amazed if I can move tomorrow.

Believe it or not, only took us a little over an hour to shovel it all into the trailer. Threw away a bunch of bricks and a bit of stone, too. Including the trailer, we towed more than we should have. About 1000 lbs more than his truck is rated for, but she did it.


You now qualify for a Mexican Dragline Operator Card. Applause
MACS Offline
#68 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 6:13 PM EST
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Gene363 wrote:
You now qualify for a Mexican Dragline Operator Card. Applause


Funny... because Art is Mexican and he had a white boy helping him. lol
Sunoverbeach Offline
#69 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 6:49 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
Including the trailer, we towed more than we should have. About 1000 lbs more than his truck is rated for, but she did it.

What kinda truck and was the tranny OK after the abuse? Danm may be in the market for one
MACS Offline
#70 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 7:12 PM EST
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2018 F150 with the twin turbo V6 Ecoboost engine. 12,500 capacity according to my buddy... which is 800 lbs more than the 11,700 capacity of my V8 Ram Hemi.

His transmission got up to 220, but on the freeway it was around 204. Going up the hills at the dump it heated up a little. He said not towing it averages 180-ish.
BuckyB93 Offline
#71 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 7:25 PM EST
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Stogie1020 wrote:
Sous vide, bro. Sous vide.

Device sits in the water with food and warms and circulates the water continuously. Food is in zip lock or vacuum seal bags.


https://www.amazon.com/Anova-Culinary-Precision-Bluetooth-Included/dp/B07C7PW3PC/ref=rvi_3/141-4717264-1462443?pd_rd_w=7EK5D&pf_rd_p=f5690a4d-f2bb-45d9-9d1b-736fee412437&pf_rd_r=XQS1ZPGTB9PY3BWWD954&pd_rd_r=2d6c64bb-a05e-4f4b-9cc3-576e22a6ba84&pd_rd_wg=HdBdS&pd_rd_i=B07C7PW3PC&psc=1#customerReviews

MACS, we are all waiting to hear about your meat. Maybe even pics.

There, I teed it up for you all.


Yeah, I get it but too cheap to spend $100 for a high tech water bath bluetooth thingy that I'll use maybe twice a year.
Gene363 Offline
#72 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 7:30 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
Funny... because Art is Mexican and he had a white boy helping him. lol


Indeed, well I hope you made a good showing for white guys.

At the High School I attended we were called the Aztecs. The majority of residents in the little town where the high school was located were Latinos. Lately, people from another town, not Latinos, are giving them shit for using the Aztec name, in spite of it being done respectfully, not in a cartoonish way.
MACS Offline
#73 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 8:02 PM EST
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BuckyB93 wrote:
Yeah, I get it but too cheap to spend $100 for a high tech water bath bluetooth thingy that I'll use maybe twice a year.


I have the Anova. It was $99 at Target awhile back. I use it more than twice a year. I cook all my steaks that way now. They come out perfect, every time. Steaks are done in about 2 hours. I did the chuck roast for about 25+ since I was a bit busy shoveling today.

The idea is that the length of time in the hot water tenderizes it, kinda like low n slow BBQ.
BuckyB93 Offline
#74 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 8:04 PM EST
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Gene363 wrote:
Indeed, well I hope you made a good showing for white guys.

At the High School I attended we were called the Aztecs. The majority of residents in the little town where the high school was located were Latinos. Lately, people from another town, not Latinos, are giving them shit for using the Aztec name, in spite of it being done respectfully, not in a cartoonish way.


My high school mascot was (are) the Huskies. Rather simple and benign until someone has an issue with a Husky being a work dog enslaved by humans and forced to pull sleds in the arctic or something.

The rival cross town high school has the mascot of Old Abe. Old Abe was a bald eagle and a Civil War Mascot for the 8th Wisconsin Infantry.
https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS2541
Hopefully Old Abe dodges the cancel culture too.

Both schools had large fiberglass sculptures of each mascot sitting on the roof of school.

https://tinyurl.com/2mjm7way Husky mascot
https://tinyurl.com/yckkm2t3 Old Abe mascot

Every year, seniors would try to desecrate the opposing team's mascot. One year they painted our Husky purple and gold (their school colors) and one year we filed off the toes of Old Abe.

Ahhh... fun times of cross town rivalries. To this day I despise the color purple. It's the color of my cross town rivalry in high school and my NFL rivalry of the Minnesota Vikings. I might need some professional therapy to overcome my disdain for the color purple.

The local Catholic High School were the Ramblers, mascot was the same dude as the Notre Dame Fighting Irish dude but I'm not sure they use it anymore.
HockeyDad Offline
#75 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 8:36 PM EST
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Sunoverbeach wrote:
What kinda truck and was the tranny OK after the abuse? Danm may be in the market for one


The white boy was a trannie?
Sunoverbeach Offline
#76 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 8:47 PM EST
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Who knows? I think it's impolite to ask nowadays
delta1 Offline
#77 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 8:54 PM EST
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where have you gone, Mae West...
Palama Offline
#78 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 10:46 PM EST
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Or maybe:

delta1 wrote:
where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio...
8trackdisco Offline
#79 Posted: Fri, Jan 28 2022, 11:53 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
2018 F150 with the twin turbo V6 Ecoboost engine. 12,500 capacity according to my buddy... which is 800 lbs more than the 11,700 capacity of my V8 Ram Hemi.

His transmission got up to 220, but on the freeway it was around 204. Going up the hills at the dump it heated up a little. He said not towing it averages 180-ish.


He could always sell the truck to Danm.
Palama Offline
#80 Posted: Sat, Jan 29 2022, 12:01 AM EST
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I ever tell you guys about the time I went camping?

It was intense.
Speyside2 Offline
#81 Posted: Sat, Jan 29 2022, 12:03 AM EST
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Ask Mrs Robinson, she prolly knows.
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#82 Posted: Sat, Jan 29 2022, 7:36 AM EST
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Chit, it got really fuggin cold again. Guess I'll be hibernating this weekend. Happy Saturday, peoples
Gene363 Offline
#83 Posted: Sat, Jan 29 2022, 8:17 AM EST
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Good Saturday Morning! It's a clear and windy 31° on the way to 43° today.
Ram27 Offline
#84 Posted: Sat, Jan 29 2022, 8:29 AM EST
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Hello y'all................
deadeyedick Offline
#85 Posted: Sat, Jan 29 2022, 8:43 AM EST
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Beautiful 73 and sunny today. Headed out for a morning cruise and car show. Stay warm youse eastern peeps.
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#86 Posted: Sat, Jan 29 2022, 9:02 AM EST
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-2 walking out of work this morning.

Having a beer and going to bed.
corey sellers Offline
#87 Posted: Sat, Jan 29 2022, 9:24 AM EST
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Morning gents

23° headed to 45° , Looks like a movie and Chinese today.
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#88 Posted: Sat, Jan 29 2022, 9:59 AM EST
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about a half a foot of snow on the ground and the heaviest is yet to fall.
Depending on wind, anywhere from 2 to 4 incher per hour will start soon and go until about 4PM when it tapers down until maybe midnight!
I could see a final total of 24 inches easily around here.

With wind chill, expected to be below 0 overnight.
Probably gonna freeze up before most of it gets plowed/removed.

Expecting 55 degrees toward end of week coming up!
8trackdisco Offline
#89 Posted: Sat, Jan 29 2022, 10:03 AM EST
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16/10.

Three eggs, sausage, coffee, breakfast bar, hash browns. Wife's lab reports pending. She produces polyps like I produce semi smart-azzed remarks.

Taking care of an additional greyhound for the next six or so weeks as his owner is getting a hip replaced.

Fullham v. Blackpool.
8trackdisco Offline
#90 Posted: Sat, Jan 29 2022, 10:07 AM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
about a half a foot of snow on the ground and the heaviest is yet to fall.
Depending on wind, anywhere from 2 to 4 incher per hour will start soon and go until about 4PM when it tapers down until maybe midnight!
I could see a final total of 24 inches easily around here.

With wind chill, expected to be below 0 overnight.
Probably gonna freeze up before most of it gets plowed/removed.

Expecting 55 degrees toward end of week coming up!


Weather more erratic than a drunken reheaded college student on crack.
Good luck with navigating all that.
tonygraz Offline
#91 Posted: Sat, Jan 29 2022, 10:21 AM EST
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Snow expected to end about 3 or 4 PM, looks like a total of 6 or 7 inches here. Cold and getting colder, windy and getting more windy until about the snow end time. I'm not going out until tomorrow. 50 days until spring !
MACS Offline
#92 Posted: Sat, Jan 29 2022, 10:22 AM EST
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Current of 43, headed to 70.

Coffee now, dog walk pending. My back doesn't hurt as much as I thought it would shoveling all that dirt. A bit sore, like an intense workout, but not painful.

Prolly have to take it easy for a day or two. Anxious
HockeyDad Offline
#93 Posted: Sat, Jan 29 2022, 11:42 AM EST
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40 heading to 62. I need to pick navel oranges and tangerines. Maybe prune the grapes vines too.
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#94 Posted: Sat, Jan 29 2022, 12:12 PM EST
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Do you have enough vines that you can eventually make some wine? I assume they are Cabernet Sauvignon vines.
Speyside2 Offline
#95 Posted: Sat, Jan 29 2022, 12:14 PM EST
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Now that I have had 2 negative rapid tests I am counting down the isolation days. Lots of music, books, movies, and wine.
frankj1 Offline
#96 Posted: Sat, Jan 29 2022, 12:23 PM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
Weather more erratic than a drunken reheaded college student on crack.
Good luck with navigating all that.

You probably get this kind of weather routinely.

I'll make sure the Northeast sends all we got for a good report for Mrs. Disco
Palama Offline
#97 Posted: Sat, Jan 29 2022, 1:04 PM EST
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Sunoverbeach wrote:
Chit, it got really fuggin cold again. Guess I'll be hibernating this weekend. Happy Saturday, peoples


Doing your best Wombat impersonation? Think
MACS Offline
#98 Posted: Sat, Jan 29 2022, 1:07 PM EST
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Dog walk, 2 eggs, 2 toast, 2 suasage links.

Should prolly wash it down with 2 beers... am I right?
BuckyB93 Offline
#99 Posted: Sat, Jan 29 2022, 1:17 PM EST
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Snowing. Hard to tell how much we have so far since it's blowing around and drifting. If I were to guess, I'd say 6-8 inches so far. Light powdery snow. Ideal stuff for skiers.

Looks like folks on the coast will be getting a bit more than we'll be getting (about 80 mi inland as the crow flies).

Double NINE!s
MACS Offline
#100 Posted: Sat, Jan 29 2022, 1:37 PM EST
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A HUNNERT!
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