1.) bluecat - 07/16/2018

I thought our driveway deserved a civil war era split rail entrance so have slowly been getting the logs together from some of the trees I've had to take out. All are hedge and one is cedar. I tried splitting the hedge with a wedge to reproduce the way it would have been done. Yeah right. Spent hours trying to get through a hedge log. It was like splitting concrete. Had to break out the chain saw. After every two cuts, I'd have to resharpen chain.

Most of the rails are probably 80 pounds. It took two people to carry those logs before splitting.

2.) DParker - 07/16/2018

Damn, that sounds like a lot of work. Just reading about it makes me want to take a nap.

Come to think of it, pretty much everything makes me want take a nap anymore.

Anyway....that looks really good. You going to march on Atlanta now?

3.) bluecat - 07/16/2018

I've got to shoe the horses first and cook up some johnny cakes for the long trip ahead.

4.) Swamp Fox - 07/16/2018

If you run across any stolen silverware or some chickens and hogs, bring them back with you when you come. Corn and tobacco, too. Basically, anything that's not nailed down.



[QUOTE]Johnnycakes? --- You were lucky to have johnnycakes.



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5.) bluecat - 07/16/2018

So you had singing at your funeral?

6.) Swamp Fox - 07/16/2018

Well, it wasn't very good ...

7.) bluecat - 07/16/2018

So...feel free to post up what ya been doin' lately.

8.) DParker - 07/16/2018

Monitoring yet another boring Amazon Prime Day, the excruciating dullness of which has saved me money. So...yay.

9.) Swamp Fox - 07/18/2018

Cramming two years of continuing education requirements into the last 14 days to get 'er done ...

So somebody just shoot me ...

10.) bluecat - 07/18/2018

11.) DParker - 07/18/2018

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56578]Cramming two years of continuing education requirements into the last 14 days to get 'er done ...

So somebody just shoot me ...[/QUOTE]

12.) Swamp Fox - 07/18/2018

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13.) DParker - 07/19/2018

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56585] .....[/QUOTE]

I almost informed our tour guide at the Jameson Distillery that they were doing it wrong when they gave us one bourbon, one scotch and one Irish whiskey to compare at the tasting....but luckily the not-completely-moronic part of my brain was on duty that day and I bit my tongue.

14.) Swamp Fox - 07/19/2018

So what you're saying is that the Irish whiskey (whisky) helped with the pain/swelling ....

I don't doubt it. :-)

15.) DParker - 07/19/2018

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56587]So what you're saying is that the Irish whiskey (whisky) helped with the pain/swelling ....[/QUOTE]

Close. It's the skirt-wearing Scots who spell it "whisky". The Irish went with the "e" like the rest of us. I'm guessing they liked to see Vanna White strutting across the stage for that extra vowel buy.

16.) Swamp Fox - 07/19/2018

Yes! I am glad you picked up on that. As a Parker I was afraid you might have decided on the wrong way to do everything ... LOL

Irish whiskey gets no respect ...

17.) Swamp Fox - 07/19/2018

[QUOTE]The spelling whiskey is common in Ireland and the United States, while whisky is used in all other whisky producing countries.[5] In the US, the usage has not always been consistent. From the late eighteenth century to the mid twentieth century, American writers used both spellings interchangeably until the introduction of newspaper style guides.[6] Since the 1960s, American writers have increasingly used whiskey as the accepted spelling for aged grain spirits made in the US and whisky for aged grain spirits made outside the US.[7] However, some prominent American brands, such as George Dickel, Maker's Mark, and Old Forester (all made by different companies), use the whisky spelling on their labels, and the Standards of Identity for Distilled Spirits, the legal regulations for spirit in the US, also use the whisky spelling throughout.[8]

"Scotch" is the internationally recognized term for "Scotch whisky".

---Wiki

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky[/url][/QUOTE] ....

18.) Swamp Fox - 07/19/2018

...,,

19.) Swamp Fox - 07/19/2018

Of course, all of this means I've gotten no studying done this evening ... Thanks, you bastards ...

20.) bluecat - 07/19/2018

Hey, don't look at me. Blame your beanless brother.

21.) bluecat - 07/20/2018

We would like it if you didn't try to better yourself so you could spend more time on here.

22.) DParker - 07/20/2018

[QUOTE=bluecat;56596]We would like it if you didn't try to better yourself so you could spend more time on here.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, nobody likes the class show-off raising the curve.

23.) bluecat - 07/20/2018

Rudy, come back to the factory where you belong.

24.) bluecat - 07/20/2018

You think you're better than us?

25.) DParker - 07/20/2018

[QUOTE=bluecat;56599]You think you're better than us?[/QUOTE]

I sure hope so.

26.) Swamp Fox - 07/21/2018

LOL ...



My jaw's on the ground, I'm drooling, and my eyes rolled up into the back of my head three hours ago.

Whoever thought on-line education with just text was a great idea needs to be taken out behind the building and shot multiple times in the large intestine.

27.) bluecat - 07/21/2018

That sounds uncomfortable.

28.) bluecat - 07/21/2018

Do you need help with algebra or right triangles? I scored a high B once.

29.) bluecat - 07/21/2018

If this whole betterment thing doesn't work out you might consider mime school?

30.) bluecat - 07/21/2018

Do you own white gloves? You could practice pulling some paracord or getting trapped behind a window. They require that for mime school placement.

31.) Swamp Fox - 07/21/2018

[QUOTE=bluecat;56602]That sounds uncomfortable.[/QUOTE]

No more uncomfortable than reading very dry material on a computer screen for several hours, I bet ... LOL


By the time I thought about going back to school for any reason, Clown College had already been closed for several years, so that kinda took the air out of my balloon.

The other options either didn't appeal to me at the time, or were not on my radar yet, or I just rubber-chickened out.

32.) DParker - 07/22/2018

Canned haggis w/homemade (by me) tatties, neeps and whisky sauce. Not bad, really. Not as good as what we had in Edinburgh (they went a little heavy on the nutmeg), but good enough to scratch the itch.

33.) DParker - 07/22/2018

It's pastrami day.

34.) bluecat - 07/22/2018

I've always had pastrami in a sandwich. Do you eat it by itself?

35.) Swamp Fox - 07/22/2018

Now do prosciutto ... :applause::pop:



Question For The Panel: Would Vikings in a haggis restaurant still be a thing 40 years later?

36.) Swamp Fox - 07/22/2018

Also, I didn't pick up on the fact that you went to Edinburgh. I thought you were trading that off for something else.

See any ghosts?

37.) DParker - 07/22/2018

[QUOTE=bluecat;56609]I've always had pastrami in a sandwich. Do you eat it by itself?[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I just unhinge my jaw and swallow it whole.

Actually, sandwiches are what we mostly do with it too. My wife really likes it, and I usually give a lb or 2 to both of my kids. In fact my son is over now to claim his share and try some leftover haggis, tatties and neeps.

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56610]Now do prosciutto ... :applause::pop:[/QUOTE]

That's actually on my must-do list. But it's going to require some substantial work and planning. I need to rig up a temperature and humidity-controlled curing chamber (which is a real project in itself), make room for it someplace, find a local source of good quality fresh pork legs, etc. Then there's that 12-18 month time investment before you get the finished product.

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56611]Also, I didn't pick up on the fact that you went to Edinburgh. I thought you were trading that off for something else.[/quote]
Oh, hell yeah. In fact Edinburgh was easily my favorite part of the trip. You've got to like any place where everyone sounds like Billy Connolly.

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56611]See any ghosts?[/QUOTE]

Well, we were tasting scotch and took all of our meals in pubs, so......yeah.

38.) Swamp Fox - 07/22/2018

LOL ...

39.) Swamp Fox - 07/22/2018

[url]https://www.thoughtco.com/the-ghosts-of-edinburgh-castle-3572726[/url]

40.) bluecat - 07/22/2018

[QUOTE=DParker;56612]Yeah, I just unhinge my jaw and swallow it whole.

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That sounds uncomfortable.

41.) DParker - 07/23/2018

The scariest thing in Edinburgh is the airport.

42.) bluecat - 07/23/2018

Shouldn't be a problem when your kids find out their rooms are curing chambers.

43.) DParker - 07/23/2018

[QUOTE=bluecat;56617]Shouldn't be a problem when your kids find out their rooms are curing chambers.[/QUOTE]

You might be on to something there. I mean, my daughter [i]really[/i] loves prosciutto.

44.) bluecat - 07/23/2018

If you make things comfortable for them they don't leave.

45.) DParker - 07/23/2018

[QUOTE=bluecat;56619]If you make things comfortable for them they don't leave.[/QUOTE]

Well, they've both been on their own for several years now so I must have made them uncomfortable. Maybe it was all that running around in my shorts singing Frank Sinatra tunes.