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Anybody got a recommendation on a decent trail cam? I've toyed with the idea but haven't even researched it to know about features, etc. to go for, so any advice would help. I don't need state of the art. I would like it to sync to phone rather than jack with cards. And In Living Color would be nice. Could I get that done for <$250?

I have gotten to where I hate squirrels. They dig in the garden, steal tomatoes, chew on the deck and our deck furniture, fence posts, grill handles and pots. We gave up seed feeders. A neighbor took this pic of Bob the Cat climbing the fence into our yard the other day. Maybe he'll take out a few!

We've been trying here, but no luck. IMG_3214.mov

Pre-Googled for my OA brethren: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegitimi_non_carborundum

I wonder if they’d let me try before I buy?😀

I just looked and that sure is some different looking salami!

Like Subway!😀

What all is on this one?

What’s the sauce?

I gotta get smarter about these sandwiches you guys are talking about. We’ll be in StL in August and would like to try one of these.

Running horizontal sounds great, if you’ve got the room. Honestly, I haven’t heard of that in the context of home gardening, but I know commercial growers grow everything horizontally.

A couple things come to mind. First of all, I think you want to do something because super-tall tomatoes will be a problem. So, don’t just sit back and hope. My ideas: 1. If you can, move your cages a few feet so that the plants grow at an angle rather than straight up, that can give you some room. Sooner is better as it will be harder the longer you wait. 2. You could lop off some of the top growth and encourage a lower sucker or two to become the main stems. That will set things back a bit but might be worth it in the long term. I had a main stem snap due to high winds a couple weeks ago. I cut it and hoped a teeny sucker below would take off. It’s beginning to look like it will work, but it’s gonna be a bit. Good luck.

Loose meat sandwiches are mostly about the additions, in my opinion. The missus wants cheese, pickles and mustard. I'm a mustard and ketchup guy.

Ha! Yep, relatively speaking. 😀

Thank you sir.

Yes, used the Kitchen Aid mixer attachment.

It was our anniversary yesterday and we set out to recreate our favorite meal from our trip to Italy five years ago. Ho’made tagliatelle pasta and bolognese sauce. We used Marcella Hazan’s sauce recipe. Not to be braggy, but…This was freakin’ terrific! We had brought home a bottle of wine from there and planned to drink it after five years. We were both hoping this was going to be good. Oh man, it was terrific too. Bolognese wasn’t hard to do but it takes time. We simmered it around five hours. Pasta is just kinda fun to do, but also really tender and delicious.

My first exposure to loose meat sandwiches was a Nu-Way. They had a restaurant in KCK. They’re long gone here but they are alive and well in Wichita. I stop in when I’m there. We had Maid-Rites in Iowa last week. They’ve never been as good as Nu-Way in my opinion. But…we make loose meat here occasionally and like them better than both. A pound of lean ground beef (97/3) crumbled fine and cooked to just not pink. Add a couple cups of water and a teaspoon of beef base and cook until dry and crumbly, about 30 minutes. A good bun, lightly toasted, with ketchup and yellow mustard. Simple. We like ‘em. Gore-may stuff here!!

I’ve got a bunch of romaine to pick tomorrow. I’ll have to give that a try.

You always hear that these veterans never talked about it, and that was true with my dad. A few years before he died I made up a list of questions, sat him in front of a camcorder and got a ton of information about his whole life, including his service. I only wish I’d done it sooner and had devoted many more hours to it, but I’m grateful for what I have. I need to get that digitized, and also write a transcript of it. On the list of things to do when I retire is that, and pull together all the genealogy information together into a usable format for my kids and everyone else. I do have his cap, captain’s bars, pants and jacket from Korea. They have dates on the tags and were WWII era.

Some may find this interesting.

We're overrun with lettuce right now, and having plenty of salads! Giving most away to neighbors and friends at the old salt mine. Basic with Red Salad Bowl and Slo Bolt lettuce: We do chicken lettuce wraps, or as one of the local restaurants calls it on their menu, 'Lettuce Wrapped with Chicken' :D. But, we don't always wrap And, turkey burgers. We've been tweaking this recipe and have it just the way we like it now. Next time, this'll be with Marty-Q sauce!

A friend of mine had an uncle killed in Normandy on a bombing run a few months before D-Day. The pilot steered away from a schoolhouse before crashing, saving the lives of many on the ground, including kids in the school. In February he and his family, and many of the other relatives of the soldiers killed in that crash, were invited to a ceremony honoring those men. Many of the school children were in attendance at the ceremony. My buddy had his uncle's flag and they raised it over the American Cemetery that day. They were able to visit his grave there. He said is was incredible how the French people are so thankful, still, for what was done 80 years ago. Another friend of mine visited Amsterdam a few years back, and there was an annual ceremony in which the expressed thanks to the Allied forces who freed them. We were on a vacation a few years back and met a couple from the Netherlands. They too expressed great thanks to America for what we did, but she had an interesting add on: She said something to the effect of, 'You do realize it destroyed our country in the process, right?' She was thankful, but was pointing out how hard it was on them, knowing that was a different perspective than what someone from the US would have. My uncle Lt. Mansor J. Mansor was killed at Futa Pass, Italy in 1944. Two of my dad's cousins were pilots in WWII. One trained pilots stateside, the other flew reconnaissance in a P-38 in Europe. My dad was a doc in a MASH unit in Korea. GGGGgrandfather fought with the Lancaster PA militia in the Revolutionary War. I didn't do squat

Boy, it’s been 15 years and I’ll have to check my notes to see if I have any ideas for you. I did use a guide named Tim Doyle out of Townsend, TN who was good, and entertaining, but I don’t know if he’s still guiding. Smoky Mountain Flywerks. Edit to add: My notes don’t have any stream names. I didn’t fish much on that trip.