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[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[balrog]

 

[corkybstewart]

Our house around 1950View attachment 853032

I m currently rehabbing the shed on the left to make my outdoor kitchen. It's all that's left of a series of barns used for the farm animals. from the 1850s until sometime in the 1960s. Most of the barns were taken out by a drunk truck driver back in the 60s, he crashed through the stone wall and destroyed all but the building that includes the window on the left..

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

One of the beer Saints

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Built a 2 tap, 4 keg, mobile kegerator out of cherry from a tree that fell on my property 2 years ago. Last minute build, the day before the event we were pouring our beer at because I love to procrastinate... so I built it in a way that I can take it apart and finish it properly, but it did the job. Top portion comes off, inside lined with reflectics insulation and it held ice Friday to Sunday only topping up once in upper 80 to 90 degree weather. And doggo got his first vendor badge, private event so blocked out the top portion of the badge.

 

[corkybstewart]

Robot electrical tractor working the vineyards down the road from us. Today it's cultivating the weeds between the rows

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[pvpeacock]

That looks like one big Halibut! How much did it weigh and where was it caught? Alaska?

 

[balrog]

And when are the fish tacos ready?

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

That looks like one big Halibut! How much did it weigh and where was it caught? Alaska?

That looks like one big Halibut! How much did it weigh and where was it caught? Alaska?

This verbiage was with the image!

 

[day_trippr]

Pretty sure the pictured monster was not going to be released...

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Pretty sure the pictured monster was not going to be released...

They be lying to us?

 

[day_trippr]

The green rope appears to have been punched through the lower jaw. You don't do that if you're going to release the fish as it messes with their respiration - tougher to pump water through gills when it's leaking through a hole in the lower jaw.

The picture is from a "Camp Halibut" fishing venue shown on Facebook. There are similar pictures to be found. They apparently do release fish, but probably not that one...

Cheers!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Thanks, I fish the much smaller flaties, a didn’t give much thought to how this one was tied up. Marine biologist will often secure a fish to get samples and measurements in a similar fashion, well at least rope the tail.

 

[GrogNerd]

fishing is relaxing
catching is work

I haven't said that before, have I?
I wouldn't want the "YOU REPEATED A POST!" nannies to come after me

 

[Rodent]

Robot electrical tractor working the vineyards down the road from us. Today it's cultivating the weeds between the rows

today it's cultivating weeds in vineyards, but we have been warned by Morpheus on what the future holds for machines cultivating crops

 

[balrog]

 

[Dland]

^^^ While I do thoroughly enjoy an occasional dram or two, I find beer to be more conducive to every day problem solving, or at least problem enduring. This is mostly due to ramifications the next morning.

The again, I'm not yet retired. If I could sleep in all morning, yeah, why the heck not...

 

[day_trippr]

Wellll....as a retired person and home brewer I do not imbibe in spirits any longer in order to allow the maximization of my beers solution power potential.

So far so good!

Cheers!

 

[Dland]

I'm with you on that, reserving my hard working liver for beer.

 

[day_trippr]

It's not without some effort as my Spousal Unit enjoys really good bourbon, of which I keep her well supplied as a quid-pro-quo deal

Cheers!

 

[corkybstewart]

My biggest fear a about retirement was that I would become a serious alcoholic like my brother but the opposite happened. Maybe it was the stress of my job vanishing overnight.

 

[Pkrd]

My biggest fear a about retirement was that I would become a serious alcoholic like my brother but the opposite happened.

You're a comedic alcoholic?

 

[corkybstewart]

You're a comedic alcoholic?

I think so, but my wife often doesn't.
I should have said raging alcoholic, he was a true racist hitting his drinking prime in the Obama years. Luckily he drank himself to death a month before trump descended the escalator, he would have been even more insufferable.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Enough politics, lets talk vinyl records...
Went to a yard sale today, did some decent finds.
Spousal unit:"I'm glad you have hobbies" so I think she's not too annoyed...

 

[Rodent]

 

[VTX1300]

I have both Dire

Enough politics, lets talk vinyl records...
Went to a yard sale today, did some decent finds.
Spousal unit:"I'm glad you have hobbies" so I think she's not too annoyed...
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I have both Dire Straights and Zep in my collection. Good choices!

 

[Chorgey]

Enough politics, lets talk vinyl records...
Went to a yard sale today, did some decent finds.
Spousal unit:"I'm glad you have hobbies" so I think she's not too annoyed...
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Great choices. That BOC live album is awesome!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Random picture.

 

[Sailingeric]

Enough politics, lets talk vinyl records...
Went to a yard sale today, did some decent finds.
Spousal unit:"I'm glad you have hobbies" so I think she's not too annoyed...
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What kind of turntable do you have?

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

What kind of turntable do you have?

An 80's Dual 505-3 in good condition, it's my dads first but he has 2 or three other ones to spare so I was gifted it.

 

[corkybstewart]

What kind of turntable do you have?

I still have the Thorens TD 160 turntable I bought in 1973. It's belt drive to isolate the 7.5 pound platter from any motor vibration. Still works perfectly. I play my old vinyl simultaneously with CDs so people can hear the difference: there's no comparison.

 

[balrog]

I still have the Thorens TD 160 turntable I bought in 1973. It's belt drive to isolate the 7.5 pound platter from any motor vibration. Still works perfectly. I play my old vinyl simultaneously with CDs so people can hear the difference: there's no comparison.

I would think playing a CD simultaneously on a record player would wreck the stylus.

 

[day_trippr]

I confess my turntable has been sitting on a high closet shelf since forever. It may well be a Thorens - I know I owned one once. Looks like it has a Grado cartridge from what I can see inside the smoked plastic cover from eye level.

I bought it back in the '70s, along with this - which is in mint condition and apparently could be valued between 3 and 4 times it's $800 original price

Cheers!

 

[Sailingeric]

I still have the Thorens TD 160 turntable I bought in 1973. It's belt drive to isolate the 7.5 pound platter from any motor vibration. Still works perfectly. I play my old vinyl simultaneously with CDs so people can hear the difference: there's no comparison.

With a good cartridge and clean record, it is better than CD. I have an Ortofon Blue on my turntable and have been very pleased with it.

 

[BongoYodeler]

For better or for worse I only ever had one turntable, a Technics SL-D2, fairly average at best, that I bought back in the 70's. Just prior to moving across country in early 2013 I gave it, and over 1000 LPs away rather than hauling them 2800 miles.

 

[fluketamer]

i owned a marantz in the 80's. i also had the BOC, dire and sticks. my brother brother 10 years older than me purchased the zep album. by the time i got into it, it had already gone through wo of my other siblings. it was played so much that it was flat and when i put the needle down it skipped all the way to the center and i was like wtf why keep it.

other albums played flat were abbey road, born to run and almost anything by the dead.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

You guys make wanna get a new turntable as mine is very entry level and the rest of my stereo equipment has been upgraded to hi-fi .. so I just looked at marantz yeah, gonna have to wait a bit on that upgrade.

 

[GrogNerd]

I mistyped a text to the wife, blaming "fat fingers"

I then looked at that & thought I saw "fart fingers"

so I asked AI to show me "fart finger"

it did not disappoint

 

[ba-brewer]

farting through your fingers would make shaking hands interesting