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Have you checked to see if there's one already there..?? 😕

A Christmas tradition that I continue from my childhood is to have pickled herring as an available side dish/snack. My grandparents came to the US from the netherlands and brought along all the terrible foods. The only one I really liked was/is pickled herring. It has to be Noon Hour brand in wine sauce. Vita is nasty crap and the one in cream sauce tastes like someone ate the herring, drank some milk, and vomited it into a jar. I realize pickled herring isn't widely palatable, but I enjoy it. Once a year.

I couldn't find it anywhere. I probably drove 100 miles between a dozen grocery stores trying to find it. I found one jar a few weeks ago and ate it. But the extended family Christmas parties are Friday and Saturday and I already told them I would bring some as I have for the last 15 years or so. I'd asked all my coworkers and friends and stuff to keep an eye out. Got a text that a grocery store about 10 miles away had "a ton". Drove out there and yes they did. AND it was buy one get one free!!! I only bought two. I don't need to eat another jar to myself - when I eat too much of it my sweat smells like fish.

I already said today is a good day. I was supposed to work but got the night off, I slept great today, I got the herring and it was BOGO. Then when I got home wife asked if I had any good beer. I said yes there's sours and a few IPAs in the garage fridge she said no. I found one of my wife's Christmas presents (flavored old fashioned syrup) under the couch so I went downstairs to put it in a cabinet to give for her birthday in a month and found a stash of beers I completely forgot about. An entire case of bourbon county from 2019 and 20, 5 bottles of Dark Lord going back to 2015, and another dozen or so bottles of other barrel aged high alcohol stouts from local breweries. I don't think that cabinet's been opened since 2020. So we cracked a bottle and yes, today was a good day.

Great to read danm. You deserve it. =d>

+1

Pickled herring is delicious. We used to go to a Sweedish buffet that always included pickled herring.

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😎 Dudes....

19 deg... 46 deg later.... 😟

Staples get yanked out today... 👍

Probably shouldn't yank them out. 😟

Mornin' dudes... still cold as a mother humper here. 24 degrees!!

Yes, I know 24 is not cold to some of you. At one point in my life it wasn't cold to me, either... but I am in Florida for f---'s sake! It's sposta be warmer here!

Happy yankin' Drafter.

And happy Tuesday to those who are not yankin'.

Morning gents , I fell your pain Macs except I am out working in this ****.

Nice! They have a cool little tool for that they usually toss out, ask for a souvenir.

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Good Tuesday Morning to all! It's a tolerable* 33° on the way to 51° today. Going to shoot pistols today.

* tolerable to me, wife is staying indoors today.

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What up peeps? 🙄

Good luck Drafter.

Morning, peoples. I hear ya, Gene. Was trying to talk Mrs. Beach into a driving range trip when we hit 50s, since they have heated tee boxes. Apparently they're only going to work well once we get to 60+

36 heading to 55 today but it will be 75 tomorrow.

Barbacoa was a hit.

Honey baked ham tonight!

Still thinking about the barbacoa... think I'll go with the cheeks tho.. might take awhile to find them... 🤔

Irony. It was like 84 in Temecula yesterday. Sposed to be 72 here but rain coming tomorrow.

It's about 20 today but feels warm cause it's 50 degrees warmer than a few days ago.

I just went out to check the chickens wearing what I normally wear inside the house and other than my hands getting cold, I stayed warm.

79F right now. High will be 82, low 76. Guess I’mma gonna hafta dress properly for the 76.