Happy to decompress. So, it's all good.You happy to have the night off to relax & decompress or upset at losing the income?
Lol, no. No hangover today.Anything to do with the Everclear?
I have some expensive opal specimens as well. I have all kinds of minerals and semi-precious gems. I do a little lapidary work as a hobby, and sometimes I sell what I make. Mostly I just collect. A couple of my favorite pieces in the collection are my pieces of Coprolite, which are petrified dinosaur turds.
I also like collecting old tools, but I don't have a lot. Being a carpenter by trade I like planes and levels.
Oh heck I worked in cabinet shops and owned a business installing cabinets in commercial buildings for years. I have pretty much enough tools to build anything with out power now :rockin: But saying that I went to mill 9 pounds of grain the other day by hand and after a few pounds I hooked up my drill and finished it.
Dang I was thinking alot today about my childhood and the toys and things I did and how it differs from kids now. You know I kind of feel blessed in a way that I was kind of poor and lived out in the styx. I did not have TV nor the video games but I had a rich and full life exploring and just being a kid.
My mom rest her soul made me read the bible every night. One spring night I started reading about Samson and Goliath and how he killed Goliath with a sling. Being a typical boy I figured I could make a sling and for months I was flinging rocks all day every day with my sling and I have to tell you I was the terror of all the birds and squirrels in a 2 square mile radius of my house.
All was good until my older brother saw me flinging rocks one day and asked if I was any good with it. Of course I said sure I was fair and he asked if I could hit the transformer for our house some 30 yards away. Now I could hit a squirrel at that range but of course I said I might could. Did I say it was the transformer for our house yet.
Sigh several days of no power and my butt smarting from smoking the transformer they finally got our power going again. But you know in a way I am glad of my upbringing and living my life outdoors. I was a boy and loved to be outside raising heck with the animals and camping out. My life I feel could not have been any better in any way shape or form.
Hmm drunk and reliving the days I guess.
Dang man do not get me started about what happened after reading Jules Verne's 20,000 leagues under the sea. Mind you a homemade submarine and a watering hole are not a good combination.
While cleaning something the other day I had to use rubbing alcohol since I'm out of Everclear. Made me think of dukakis...unlike Everclear which makes me think of weird punch.
(how did high school kids get kegs of beer).
See post No. 4818
It's been a long time since I drank liquor, but this Saturday, some friends coming over with a bottle of whiskey before we hit the tattoo parlor. I just sure hope I come home with what I have wanted, not something crazy.
Try not to get too drunk.
Aside from the added bleeding, responsible tattoo artists will turn away people who are really drunk. More to avoid the regret of a poor, drunken decision than anything to do with bleeding.
I might have a shot of whiskey just for the heck of it, but gonna be passing out homebrews, get them drinking that instead. Friends are coming over around noon and my appointment is at 2, so we'll only have about an hour and a half to hang out first. Probably bringing an entourage of drunk friends with me isn't a good idea either.
Going to brew one of my new extract mini-mash kits today, so time for a happy brew day dance.
Dang man do not get me started about what happened after reading Jules Verne's 20,000 leagues under the sea. Mind you a homemade submarine and a watering hole are not a good combination.
Just added my batch sparge for my vanilla pumpkin porter - I've definitely been moving slower than I like today (but since I have the day to myself, I don't really care!) I'll join you in that happy brew day dance!
I just pitched my yeast!! Temp was close enough. But now I am wondering, can I just sanitize my hand and arm to retrieve something from the bottom of my fermenter bucket?
I considered brewing today, but instead I decided to go get a co2 tank for my new keezer. I also bought a socket so I can make a key for the posts on my pin-lock kegs. After grinding the slots on the socket I might keg my first beverage, which is a gallon of hard apple cider that's been aging a couple months. I'm super excited about kegging, and I can't wait to pull my first pint!
I almost always toss the stir bar in when I pitch that's why I have three of them now!
Only 3? I must have amassed 5 or 6 of them so far, different sizes and types. But I never end up pitching them. It's pretty easy to keep them in the corner of an E-flask without even trying, as long as you actually pour the starter in and don't just simply turn it upside down...
What did you lose down there?
On another note... My 7 year old Dwarf Grannysmith Apple tree has more flowers than it's ever had before. I guess the root system has finally established itself enough to make a good amount of fruit. It looks like I'm going to make a lot of hard cider this year.
I considered brewing today, but instead I decided to go get a co2 tank for my new keezer. I also bought a socket so I can make a key for the posts on my pin-lock kegs. After grinding the slots on the socket I might keg my first beverage, which is a gallon of hard apple cider that's been aging a couple months. I'm super excited about kegging, and I can't wait to pull my first pint!
I used to grow loofah. I had some as long as 24 inches. I had new virgin soil back then, and everything I grew was huge. My favorite was tomatoes the size of grapefruits.
It all started with my apple pie recipe. The family always requests it in the Fall, so I figured I'd grow my own apples for it. Last year the tree made enough apple pie filling for 10 pies. All of the ugly apples that were left ended up becoming a 5 gallon batch of hard cider, which was the best cider I've ever tasted (but I'm biased ). This year I'm thinking apple jam and apple butter, plus the pies and cider.Cool. I didn't know apples grew this far south. Had a tree as a kid, mom made loads of apple stuff. I'm still a avid apple eater.
Rock on brother!I got my KegConnection package for my Danby Kegerator build today. Tower, 525SS Faucets, regulator, hoses, oh yeah. Working on a couple cO2 tanks on CL.
Well you do live in Texas!
Stauffbier said:I had new virgin soil back then, and everything I grew was huge.
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