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No, it was a polite way of saying he's full of s**t. Oops.

Oh yeah -- thanks for reminding me: The wabbits ate my peppers too

My mom, 7 siblings and their parents all lived in this 2-bedroom house with one bathroom. No AC of course, and it looks like the house still doesn't have central air now. I remember staying there one summer in the 60's when I was about 8 and thinking how miserable it was without AC. We're pretty spoiled, but we can also adapt. I just don't want to though.

I wanna hear the story too....

You couldn’t do a week, city boy.

I think I'm done camping until I get me some grandbabies. Until then it's gonna mostly be VRBO.

I had a brief conversation with a lady at the airport recently. She was travelling with 7 college-aged kids and when I asked her where they were from she said Southern Illinois University. So I said, 'Oh, a Saluki!' She laughed and said, 'No they're our rivals -- we're the Edwardsville campus and we're the Cougars!' So I learned something.

Nice looking gardens folks! Our perennials have largely been overcome by shade or crowded out evergreen growth. And, I reduced the size of some beds last year to make maintenance easier. Not much to see any more, except for what we have in pots. In the fruit and veggie world, things are looking up. We suffered an abysmal spring due to wabbit infestation. I got essentially zero lettuce, and only a few radishes. Beans were mowed to the ground, and I had a lot of space devoted to them. Added more maters to fill some space and they're all strong and healthy, without any disease so far. Won't have any by the 4th, but pretty happy with where things stand. Wabbit seems to have tired of herbs so they're getting some size. May transfer them out of pots and into the main garden since I still have a bunch of open space. Ruby kilt a waskelly wabbit last weekend, so we're a little better off. Got a descent crop of gooseberries this year, but they didn't want to turn to the blush/brown color they usually get to for some reason. So they got picked more green than usual. Much more firm and tart than I'm used to.

Works great if you manage to hit the sweet spot. Too little or too much and nothing's gonna happen.

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Just funnin' you

Feels like this was as much about stroking his ego as anything else.

You’ve thought this through pretty good 😄

I remember hearing of the technique before. Think I've seen every one of his shows, so it was probably from there.

Feels to me like he had no morals to begin with. And he stalked and threatened a kid so he's a hothead and crazy too.

Alright Ozark Anglers...help me reverse engineer these potatoes. They were very creamy inside and had just a hint of a crust on the outside. Don't think they were roasted because the crispy outside was quite thin. I'm thinking Yukon Gold, not russet for starters. So, I'm thinking cut into wedges, cook in salted water, then just a light crisping in oil/butter or some other fat. I felt like it was maybe done in some kind of meat fat. Not bacon. Any thoughts? By the way, that steak was outstanding. Had a little rosemary on it. Speaking of rosemary, the Tuscany property had big rosemary bushes all around: Also some smaller sage shrubs. Used the herbs in one of my pasta dishes.

I need to get up there when it's a little warmer. Last few visits coincided with spring break.

Man, that's great! And, that last picture is priceless!!

Too bad he hasn't been prosecuted for theft or whatever.

Of course, everywhere we went we were faced with signage and labels we couldn't read. But -- the Google translate app is about the coolest thing I've seen in a while. It'll use the camera to read text and translate it for you. Here's the back of today's frozen lunch translated from English to Italian:

Oh, not this again! Pepper just doesn’t do it for me on fruit. Salt, you bet ... and yes the prosciutto supplies it. I’ve tried it, I don’t like it. If it weren’t for different tastes we’d all end up eating the same thing and never venture out.

I made a list of things you don’t see in the US. Just for fun I’ll share this one... A bidet........... .....with a lizard in it 😄 Lots of these little guys running around outside our place. It was cool and breezy enough that we'd leave the door open some. Apparently one got in and got stuck in the bidet. I ran a bunch of water, flushed him down and pulled the drain plug shut for good measure. Abut 10 minutes later Kathy says, 'He's back!' I guess the little dude held on for dear life and made his way out through the overflow hole. Impressed with his will to live, and not really wanting to kill him anyway, I scooped him into a pot and released him back out into the garden. I'd bet @BilletHead would have found a way to cook it!

Hah! Wouldn't soil a melon with pepper! So -- this is how they sell tomatoes. I guess the closest thing here is crushed tomatoes. No spices, herbs, skins, seeds, just pureed tomato pulp. And they are freakin' delicious!! And..the beans I mentioned: As in America, they've often got a dizzying array of choices and I sometimes end up with a little surprise when I get home from the store. Can you spot the slight oversight I made when buying milk for coffee?

I just put up a fishing report in March man!

This is a fishing forum, man.