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Ram27 Offline
#1 Posted: Mon, Oct 30 2023, 2:57 PM EST
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And on we go with a new "500" thread . ram27bat

Yes one & all this is the new 500 thread! RollEyes
MACS Offline
#2 Posted: Mon, Oct 30 2023, 3:07 PM EST
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Well done, Rambo... just be sure you don't cook the turkey well done. It'll be dry.
Ram27 Offline
#3 Posted: Mon, Oct 30 2023, 3:14 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
Well done, Rambo... just be sure you don't cook the turkey well done. It'll be dry.


No TurkeyShame on you here MAC, just turkey breast & a couple turkey drumsticks.
danmdevries Offline
#4 Posted: Mon, Oct 30 2023, 4:41 PM EST
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Congrats ram.

Ended up mowing the leaves. And the grass. Haven't mowed for 3 weeks and it's been raining for the last two. Need to do the ditch before the leaves get caught in the long grass and clump up to clog the culvert. That can wait for a warmer day.

Justified my call off even more because i am exhausted after that. Still need to cook dinner. Thawed the meat and made balls for tortilla burgers. Blackstone is set up in the garage just waiting for the energy to get off the couch again.
Gene363 Offline
#5 Posted: Mon, Oct 30 2023, 6:09 PM EST
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Congratulations on the Turkey Day 500,

Turkeys fattened up on candy corn, yum!
frankj1 Offline
#6 Posted: Mon, Oct 30 2023, 6:45 PM EST
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nice win, Boss!
on to the next holiday 500...
delta1 Offline
#7 Posted: Mon, Oct 30 2023, 8:42 PM EST
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we have roasted turkey every Thanksgiving, but only on that day...anybody make roasted turkey on other days?


what other meals/dishes are one day/year only?
frankj1 Offline
#8 Posted: Mon, Oct 30 2023, 8:47 PM EST
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latkes for Chanukkah
Ram27 Offline
#9 Posted: Mon, Oct 30 2023, 9:21 PM EST
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NINE
BuckyB93 Offline
#10 Posted: Mon, Oct 30 2023, 9:42 PM EST
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Not sure what I'm doing for Thanksgiving Day. No concrete plans have been made yet. Previous years once and awhile I'd fly back to WI for a week and family visit but I hate flying around the Thanksgiving to New Year timeframe. Prices are high, airlines are packed and weather doesn't cooperate. Past couple of years I save that trip until after New Years when things quiet down. Other years I go to my pseudo in-laws here in MA (dinner at my brother's in-laws. They are family and are one of my adopted MA families).

Sometimes I volunteer to do meals on wheels and deliver Thanksgiving dinners with a couple close friends that do it every year and have a small quiet dinner with them afterwards (another adopted MA family). Work is shut down on Thanksgiving Thursday and Friday after so it's a 4 day weekend for me. Maybe this year I'll start the turkey in the morning and leave it for my son to watch and make the rest of the fixin's. Then and do the meals on wheels thingy and come home to have a quiet and relaxing turkey meal with my son and his girlfriend.
danmdevries Offline
#11 Posted: Mon, Oct 30 2023, 9:59 PM EST
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Finally ordered the mulching kit for my mower. When I first bought the mower the kit was almost $400 so I didn't buy one. Now it's $125 straight from Cub Cadet. Leaf mowing works so much better without side discharge.
BuckyB93 Offline
#12 Posted: Mon, Oct 30 2023, 10:19 PM EST
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danmdevries wrote:
Finally ordered the mulching kit for my mower. When I first bought the mower the kit was almost $400 so I didn't buy one. Now it's $125 straight from Cub Cadet. Leaf mowing works so much better without side discharge.


When I did lawn work at my house, I'd blow the leaves as winter cover into the garden and flower beds and stuff. The rest would get mulched up and shredded by the mower for the lawn. In the spring, I'd rake off the leaf cover from the flower beds and pitchfork the leaf cover in the garden soil for organic matter. I rarely raked most of the leaves. Just ran them over and let the mower chop them up for compost organic matter.

Easier on the back and better for the plants and the soil (lazy man's justification of dealing with the fallen leaves).

A neighbor of mine was adamant on raking them by hand and adamant on how his lawn was mowed (he had a certain pattern he did). I started to help him one year but he was set in his ways. The leaves had to be raked in a certain way, lawn had to be mowed in a certain way. After a few weeks of tying to help, I punted. Can't teach an old dog new tricks and I respected his way of doing his lawn. He was anal on many things but also one of the nicest people you've ever met. Maybe spending time on doing his lawn his way was relaxing therapy even though it was excessively (in my opinion) time consuming and labor intensive.

He did have a nice lawn and he took pride in it so who am I to judge?
MACS Offline
#13 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 5:41 AM EST
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My lawn needs to be cut again... and I just don't feel like it. It's been 3 weeks.
8trackdisco Offline
#14 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 6:29 AM EST
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30, wc 25.
Snow now, wind later.
Congratulations Ram.
dkeage Offline
#15 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 6:36 AM EST
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MACS wrote:
My lawn needs to be cut again... and I just don't feel like it. It's been 3 weeks.

Go ahead and call Pedro. You know that’s where you’re headed….
deadeyedick Offline
#16 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 7:02 AM EST
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No lawn to mow. Xeriscape front and pool in back. I'm a layabout

Morning dudes. A nice 56/80 on tap. Meeting some old college buddies for coffee after the morning walk.
MACS Offline
#17 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 7:24 AM EST
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dkeage wrote:
Go ahead and call Pedro. You know that’s where you’re headed….


You're not entirely wrong... d'oh!

But the prices for landscaping in FL are higher than CA. I'll do it myself.
Ram27 Offline
#18 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 7:46 AM EST
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Welcome to Taco Tuesday gang.
Gene363 Offline
#19 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 7:56 AM EST
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Good Tuesday Morning to All! A taco right now would be great Ram.

It's an overcast 60° on the way to just 69° today, maybe some rain.
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#20 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 9:16 AM EST
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Ram27 wrote:
Welcome to Taco Tuesday gang.


I will honor this!Drool
danmdevries Offline
#21 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 9:36 AM EST
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It's snowing.
DrafterX Offline
#22 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 10:55 AM EST
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They'll prolly blame it on da lake... Mellow
danmdevries Offline
#23 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 10:56 AM EST
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I blame it on being 25 degrees when I woke up.

I'm too far west for the lake effect stuff. That tends to hit east of me. We get an inch, they get a foot.
MACS Offline
#24 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 12:32 PM EST
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Grass is cut. I did not keel over. fog
danmdevries Offline
#25 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 12:42 PM EST
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I was gonna go bother the folks at the local fireplace store but they're closed on Tuesdays.

I want to add wood heat to my house. Even if it's a little cast iron stove in the basement. I've always planned on wood boiler radiant heat in the barn whenever I get around to building that, and would run lines and heat exchanger to tie the house in as well. But that's a $10k+ job and out of reach right now.

Other options are a wood burning fireplace insert upstairs - I'd have to knock out a small section of wall between living room and garage but where the existing chimney for the water heater is forces the fireplace location off the center line of the wall. Or it eats up square footage of the living area and I've only got 800 to start so I really don't want to give up any. I could do a forced air add-on furnace in the basement but that too is pushing $10k and I really don't see a good option for where to run a chimney. I spose the water heater could get a powered exhaust out the sill plate like the furnace has and maybe there'd be enough space in the existing chimney to run a liner to the basement.

My sister had a wood insert put in her new house and says the last two winters the only gas they used was for stove, water heater, and clothes dryer. A friend of mine has a cast iron stove in the basement and says his gas bills are under $50/mo in the winter. A neighbor has a wood burning furnace tied into hvac and also heats his water in the winter.

I need to talk to the fireplace people and see what my options and actual costs are. I'm hoping to remodel the kitchen in the spring and can give up a small half wall section to make a cavity to run the stove pipe from the basement.
Ram27 Offline
#26 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 12:42 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
Grass is cut. I did not keel over. fog


Bravo MAC, Bravo Applause
Ram27 Offline
#27 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 12:43 PM EST
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Pedro does our lawn service & snow removal. Herfing


TWENTY SEVEN !! ram27bat
DrafterX Offline
#28 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 1:45 PM EST
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Damn, can you just cut a hole on an outside wall and build the fireplace and chimney outside..?? Huh
danmdevries Offline
#29 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 3:35 PM EST
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DrafterX wrote:
Danm, can you just cut a hole on an outside wall and build the fireplace and chimney outside..?? Huh


No good place to do that. I'd have to eliminate a window.

Wood stove in the basement could exhaust through block wall and up along the side of the house, through the eave/roof. That would be easiest but least efficient.

800sq ft house not a lot of options for placement and the existing mechanicals are in the way of most of them. Even doing the living room/garage knockout needs two outlets and a water line moved.

That's why I want to bother the people who do this for a living. Maybe they'll have ideas. If not, just gonna have to wait until I can afford the wood boiler. Even that, I need to check county building codes. They cracked down on wood boilers several years ago wanting them installed 500ft from a residence or something ridiculous like that.
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#30 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 3:45 PM EST
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Looked at building codes. Would require a smokestack 22ft or 2ft greater height than the tallest point of an occupied building whichever's higher on a boiler if it's less than 300ft from a residence or 150 ft from another non occupied buildling.

So that's out until I have a barn that can hide that eyesore. Otherwise I'll just have an outhouse looking thing with a 22ft tall smokestack sitting in the middle of my empty lot.
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#31 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 5:56 PM EST
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Snow is sticking. About 2" so far and still coming down.

It'll melt tomorrow sposeda be 40s
delta1 Offline
#32 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 6:18 PM EST
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forecast calls for mid 80's rest of the week...over night lows in high 40s - low 50s...

so shorts n T during daylight hours and sweats at night...wardrobe getting stretched earlier this year...

wife will prolly gripe about doing laundry more frequently and the gas bill rising due to gas dryer and water heater running more...
HockeyDad Offline
#33 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 7:42 PM EST
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I bought way too much Halloween candy.
DrafterX Offline
#34 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 7:58 PM EST
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I didn't buy any.. wasn't home... Mellow
Ram27 Offline
#35 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 8:05 PM EST
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Nor I......
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#36 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 8:10 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
I bought way too much Halloween candy.


Hate to say it but Halloween in our subdivision is so crazy that we don’t give out candy anymore. As far as I can tell, people drive in from all over and it’s a constant flow of people for a couple of hours. Our high (…or low, depending on your pov…) point was when we spent close to $300 and completely ran out of candy. Had to take from our kids’ bags to finish the night.

These days we leave before the deluge, eat an early dinner then go to a movie. Try to get home around 9-ish when 98.2% of the TorTers are gone.

Yah, I know, grumpy old people…. fog
danmdevries Offline
#37 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 8:25 PM EST
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Yet another reason I couldn't ever see myself living in a subdivision.

Did drop off the boy at his friends house after school so he could gather candy from the neighborhood there. Just picked him up and he had a full pillow case. Probably 20lbs if not more.
DrafterX Offline
#38 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 8:51 PM EST
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You better confiscate all the resees and snickers... Mom used to say they all had razor blades in them... Mellow
Ram27 Offline
#39 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 8:55 PM EST
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Thirty NEIN
BuckyB93 Offline
#40 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 9:00 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
I bought way too much Halloween candy.


Ditto. I bought about 9 lbs of it. Variety packs of stuff. New neighborhood for me so I didn't know the amount of Halloween kid traffic would come around. The house is set back a bit from the road and sidewalk so kids probably ain't gonna walk down driveway and knock on the door (understandable) even though its a safe residential area. It was kinda chilly (chance of frost tonight) so I wasn't gonna sit at the end of the driveway to hand it out. Maybe I should get a small fire pit thingy that I can drag around for things like this (shrug). Could have cooked some hot dogs and smores or sumptin while sitting there. Hindsight is 20/20.

Instead I put a lawn chair on the sidewalk and a large bowl of candy with a note "Take what you want but don't be greedy." I still have about half of it left. As long as the kids had a good time, that is all that matters.

Mental note: buy a portable fire pit thingy. It has multiple uses and I can get free scrap oak hardwood from work to feed it.
BuckyB93 Offline
#41 Posted: Tue, Oct 31 2023, 9:20 PM EST
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On another note one of my neighbors has an old Pontiac car that he had sitting in storage for a few years. He told me the year and model but I forget. If I remember correctly it's a 70's something Grand Prix that needs a new engine.

He found the engine he was looking for at the price he was looking for. He took it out of storage and put it in the garage so he can rebuild it as a winter project. Prolly needs some body work and some interior work done to it too. Who knows. First get the engine installed, and fire that bitch up then deal with the other stuff along the way..
Ram27 Offline
#42 Posted: Wed, Nov 1 2023, 4:20 AM EST
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Happy Hump Day danm & 500 peoples. Herfing
MACS Offline
#43 Posted: Wed, Nov 1 2023, 5:32 AM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
I bought way too much Halloween candy.


I actually ran out of candy, but I still have beer. Beer
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#44 Posted: Wed, Nov 1 2023, 7:04 AM EST
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25 wc 18.

Yesterday was the first snowfall of the year. 1-4 inches in the area.

Got to look at the list today. I'd like to avoid the list, but that would put me on the list.
DrafterX Offline
#45 Posted: Wed, Nov 1 2023, 7:05 AM EST
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Cool Dudes...
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#46 Posted: Wed, Nov 1 2023, 7:23 AM EST
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Only about a dozen kids last night. The last two kids got about a lb each then we shut off the lights.

HHD folks.
MACS Offline
#47 Posted: Wed, Nov 1 2023, 7:56 AM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
25 wc 18.

Yesterday was the first snowfall of the year. 1-4 inches in the area.

Got to look at the list today. I'd like to avoid the list, but that would put me on the list.


Honey-do's... gotta be done.

My list today: Dog walk - check, Gym and vehicle registrations left to do.
Gene363 Offline
#48 Posted: Wed, Nov 1 2023, 8:31 AM EST
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Good Wednesday Morning to All! It's 44° on the way to 55° today.

Taking the Halloween candy my wife bought, just in case, to leave at the rifle range. I was good, the bags remained sealed. Our city has a trunk or treats thing and we are so far off the street kids don't want to climb down and back up our driveway.
8trackdisco Offline
#49 Posted: Wed, Nov 1 2023, 9:34 AM EST
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MACS wrote:
Honey-do's... gotta be done.

My list today: Dog walk - check, Gym and vehicle registrations left to do.


(Hate it when you are right).

3 egg spinach, garlic, and green olive omelet done. Two protein bars, hash browns and a sausage patty.

Walk the dog, or mini nap?
Ram27 Offline
#50 Posted: Wed, Nov 1 2023, 9:39 AM EST
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Mini nap....
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