Did someone say mooch?Did somebody just say home made pie?
so waht ya doin today?
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Boston Cream Pie is fine right up until ya hold it up against fresh berries in a home made pie. No contest! Geez I might have to become a night time cat burglar. I can just see John explaining to the deputy, a whole house full of guns, electronics, jewelry and the only thing missing is the wife's fresh pies.
I can just see John explaining to the deputy, a whole house full of guns, electronics, jewelry and the only thing missing is the wife's fresh pies. 
uncle jimbo
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Did the usual chores around the house this morning, got a hair cut and then waited until 2:10 pm for xfinity to get my internet back up and going. You would think for 86$ a month there would be no problems.
fiver
Well-Known Member
86$ for internet?
like American money 86$?
well I made it the 60% point across the back of the yard.
we got some egg-plants, cabbage , Serrano, and ghost peppers in the one bed.
the raspberry's are about halfassed in, plus I found one I thought was dead on the other side of the yard, the main one I planted was dead but it had re-started another little plant and it was hiding under a bunch of grass by the fence.
I got some neat little pavers that look like barn wood and done a spot around the sprinkler with them to break things up a little.
I will tie the other side in tomorrow, make a bed for the blueberries, get the box I built to make a small raised bed tied in and build the triangle area in where the wife wants some strawberry's.
I don't have a clue how [I'm] she is going to keep weeds out of the strawberry's [shrug] but she wants some there.
like American money 86$?
well I made it the 60% point across the back of the yard.
we got some egg-plants, cabbage , Serrano, and ghost peppers in the one bed.
the raspberry's are about halfassed in, plus I found one I thought was dead on the other side of the yard, the main one I planted was dead but it had re-started another little plant and it was hiding under a bunch of grass by the fence.
I got some neat little pavers that look like barn wood and done a spot around the sprinkler with them to break things up a little.
I will tie the other side in tomorrow, make a bed for the blueberries, get the box I built to make a small raised bed tied in and build the triangle area in where the wife wants some strawberry's.
I don't have a clue how [I'm] she is going to keep weeds out of the strawberry's [shrug] but she wants some there.
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
Did somebody just say home made pie?
Pies are rare in this household.............Cindy doesn't like to deal with the crust. Though, she is quite the baker. She'll use the blackberries in muffins, scones and breakfast breads.
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
My mother baked pies at least three times a week, when I was growing up. Father loved apple. Lard wasn't even a staple in our house. Her pies were in high regard in the neighborhood. Many of her women friends requested her crust recipe.
IIRC, she used Crisco.
Ian
Notorious member
Absolutely on the lard.
A blackberry cobbler cooked in a Dutch oven with a big layer of caramelized butter/dough/juice on top is a special treat too. Spoon it in a bowl with some fresh cream on top, feel the arteries clog....MMMMMMM.
uncle jimbo
Well-Known Member
I stand corrected. It is $79.88 a month. And yes, sadly it is in american money. I have tried to pay them with other things, spent primers because I have a lot of them, old brass that has split mouths or cracks. I even tried to trade them the fancy sculptures I get from the dripping Lee pot I use, but they want money.
RBHarter
West Central AR
Our satellite TV was stupid expensive but to get the 3-4 of the 10 channels I wanted .......... Our wireless WWW $30/mo . It wasn't enough with band width (?) for the pad , computer and streaming a movie but it was fine for our needs .
Made 100 miles today ..........got too hot before we got out of Vegas where at 7:30 last night we discovered that the 40 gal tank in the "new" UHaul-a-saurus only has 23.3-.5 usable . Good times 89 F350 7.3 bleeding injectors . midnight to get to a room , got our travel trailer/3 month home side swipped a little bit sleeped too late this morning .
Made a stop for the girls because ..........the needed to pee too so whatever . Did my walk around found a sidewall flap . Changed the tire ...........top the hill dropping into Kingman Az and bam spare blows out .........it wrapped a gator back , I guess a steel belted hoola hoop is more accurate , around the axle and wadded a knot up between the backing plate and the springs , doing a partial set of the parking brake . By some miracle it didn't wipe out the brake line ......... unfortunately I didn't pack the mechanic tool cases from doom for this run , just the barndominium guts , some assembly required . 5.5 hr from fftt,tftt,ftff , POW the shop 3 driveways from the place we got parked had the hoops hoop off the axle and a matching pair of take offs back on the truck , and for under $200 . Don't ask apparently my mother in law really loves me . Ok that was a joke but the under $200 is legit . So we'll get about 65gallons of gas/fuel in that AM and hit it again if all goes well we might get as far as half way ......
400 down, just 1280 to go .......
Made 100 miles today ..........got too hot before we got out of Vegas where at 7:30 last night we discovered that the 40 gal tank in the "new" UHaul-a-saurus only has 23.3-.5 usable . Good times 89 F350 7.3 bleeding injectors . midnight to get to a room , got our travel trailer/3 month home side swipped a little bit sleeped too late this morning .
Made a stop for the girls because ..........the needed to pee too so whatever . Did my walk around found a sidewall flap . Changed the tire ...........top the hill dropping into Kingman Az and bam spare blows out .........it wrapped a gator back , I guess a steel belted hoola hoop is more accurate , around the axle and wadded a knot up between the backing plate and the springs , doing a partial set of the parking brake . By some miracle it didn't wipe out the brake line ......... unfortunately I didn't pack the mechanic tool cases from doom for this run , just the barndominium guts , some assembly required . 5.5 hr from fftt,tftt,ftff , POW the shop 3 driveways from the place we got parked had the hoops hoop off the axle and a matching pair of take offs back on the truck , and for under $200 . Don't ask apparently my mother in law really loves me .
Ok that was a joke but the under $200 is legit . So we'll get about 65gallons of gas/fuel in that AM and hit it again if all goes well we might get as far as half way ......400 down, just 1280 to go .......
Ian
Notorious member
Well, if you come through Texas on I-10 stop at exit 505, I got a quart ziplock bulging full of the special brown injector bonnet ho-rings, and a few spare plastic bonnets. Got sick of them being unobtainium and ordered 1K (minimum) of the correct durometer and composition from Moss.
I spent my day wrenching in the shop, 102F, trussed up under a %&$*(*$ 2013 Ford Escape 1.6L with a toasted water pump, timing belt, and belt tensioner. Apparently I'm the only one in the shop qualified to work on such import garbage. Interestingly, the interference engine has no keyway for the timing belt sprocket or harmonic balancer with reluctor ring, and they're a slip fit on the crankshaft snout. Hmmm. Splain me how the hell that's supposed to work. Oh yeah, torque-to-yield, throwaway balancer bolt, $300 worth of special tools, and friction. So I got the RH axle shaft and bearing bracket out of it (to access the crankshaft holding pin plug) along with the starter, alternator, motor mount and timing cover and a snake pit full of coolant hoses so I can install a crankshaft locking pin, timing sprocket locks, harmonic balancer alignment and lock plate, and a flywheel lock plate, just so's I can keep it all in time while I apply a stoooooopid amount of torque plus degrees to the crankshaft bolt. What was ever wrong with a Woodruff key? Put the pulleys on the marks and pull the tensioner pin, right? Honda/Toyota/Mitsubishi done it that way for 70 years and it worked like a champ, only special tool needed was a drill bit to keep the hydraulic tensioner captured after compressing it with a bench vise. To add spice, the timing belt tensioner is on international backorder, no aftermarket option yet, dealer has no release date. Ducky. Apparently the water pump is a guaranteed 75K mile failure (according to repair statistics), which is 15K after scheduled timing belt replacement which nobody ever does because "maintenance??? Whasssat???". Fine if it's a 2.5 hour job with no special tools like it ought to be, but it's more like six to do the belt which the water pump trashes via coolant bath for many K's of miles before the ECM finally derates power due to overheating. Could have been three hours if the starter and axle shaft didn't have to come off for the holding fixtures....if any of the new string of so-called "engineers" (haha) at Ford had ever been shown a Woodruff key and what it's freakin' FOR. Guess those things are "obsolete". While I was pulling half the car apart to get the starter off I got bored and counted 32 linear feet of cooling hoses, 26 plastic coolant hose connections, and two electric coolant flow control valves, all crammed into a space the size of a travel bag, wondering how many hours and how much it would cost to replace it all when it turns to mush in a couple more years. This is just a 4-cylinder FWD cute yute, how much plumbing does it really NEED? Who dreams this crap up? (oh, right, the same group of mental midgets from the hipster generation that can't figure out how to design a basic mechanical alignment mechanism between a sprocket and a shaft). I'm SOOOOOO glad I gave FMC the finger 15 years ago and went indy. Even gladder I went HD ten years ago, and gladder still I'm managing the parts end now, except when I'm not, like today, and tomorrow when I get to put it back together with the old, worn-out timing belt tensioner.
I spent my day wrenching in the shop, 102F, trussed up under a %&$*(*$ 2013 Ford Escape 1.6L with a toasted water pump, timing belt, and belt tensioner. Apparently I'm the only one in the shop qualified to work on such import garbage. Interestingly, the interference engine has no keyway for the timing belt sprocket or harmonic balancer with reluctor ring, and they're a slip fit on the crankshaft snout. Hmmm. Splain me how the hell that's supposed to work. Oh yeah, torque-to-yield, throwaway balancer bolt, $300 worth of special tools, and friction. So I got the RH axle shaft and bearing bracket out of it (to access the crankshaft holding pin plug) along with the starter, alternator, motor mount and timing cover and a snake pit full of coolant hoses so I can install a crankshaft locking pin, timing sprocket locks, harmonic balancer alignment and lock plate, and a flywheel lock plate, just so's I can keep it all in time while I apply a stoooooopid amount of torque plus degrees to the crankshaft bolt. What was ever wrong with a Woodruff key? Put the pulleys on the marks and pull the tensioner pin, right? Honda/Toyota/Mitsubishi done it that way for 70 years and it worked like a champ, only special tool needed was a drill bit to keep the hydraulic tensioner captured after compressing it with a bench vise. To add spice, the timing belt tensioner is on international backorder, no aftermarket option yet, dealer has no release date. Ducky. Apparently the water pump is a guaranteed 75K mile failure (according to repair statistics), which is 15K after scheduled timing belt replacement which nobody ever does because "maintenance??? Whasssat???". Fine if it's a 2.5 hour job with no special tools like it ought to be, but it's more like six to do the belt which the water pump trashes via coolant bath for many K's of miles before the ECM finally derates power due to overheating. Could have been three hours if the starter and axle shaft didn't have to come off for the holding fixtures....if any of the new string of so-called "engineers" (haha) at Ford had ever been shown a Woodruff key and what it's freakin' FOR. Guess those things are "obsolete". While I was pulling half the car apart to get the starter off I got bored and counted 32 linear feet of cooling hoses, 26 plastic coolant hose connections, and two electric coolant flow control valves, all crammed into a space the size of a travel bag, wondering how many hours and how much it would cost to replace it all when it turns to mush in a couple more years. This is just a 4-cylinder FWD cute yute, how much plumbing does it really NEED? Who dreams this crap up? (oh, right, the same group of mental midgets from the hipster generation that can't figure out how to design a basic mechanical alignment mechanism between a sprocket and a shaft). I'm SOOOOOO glad I gave FMC the finger 15 years ago and went indy. Even gladder I went HD ten years ago, and gladder still I'm managing the parts end now, except when I'm not, like today, and tomorrow when I get to put it back together with the old, worn-out timing belt tensioner.
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fiver
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probably worth dropping the trailer for a little side trip to get those.
spent the morning NOT working in the yard.
I got up at about 5:30 and thought about going fishing for a couple of hours, and must have thought about it too hard since I fell back asleep until almost 8.
I did get out back and get the one box just about set then called it a day and went to pay some Bills and go visit the grand kid.
I made it down to the valley to do some shooting, but didn't leave early enough to go look for a new mower deck so I can graft the old motor to it.
it's a long story and a running joke about me having a brand new mower in the shed [which I do] but I keep the old one going with bits and pieces from the salvage piles around town [which I do] just to piss the kids off [which is why I do it]
spent the morning NOT working in the yard.
I got up at about 5:30 and thought about going fishing for a couple of hours, and must have thought about it too hard since I fell back asleep until almost 8.
I did get out back and get the one box just about set then called it a day and went to pay some Bills and go visit the grand kid.
I made it down to the valley to do some shooting, but didn't leave early enough to go look for a new mower deck so I can graft the old motor to it.
it's a long story and a running joke about me having a brand new mower in the shed [which I do] but I keep the old one going with bits and pieces from the salvage piles around town [which I do] just to piss the kids off [which is why I do it]