Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[Black Out Jazz]

I've got many a bootful (what we called high tops) falling through the ice as a kid. For some reason, in the spring that scap just has to be picked, you vs the ice thickness. Every year ice fishermen drive their cars onto frozen lakes and rivers. Every year vehicles fall though the ice and are lost. You drive by looking at them when it gets warmer and think, will they get away with it this time.

There are two ice bridges across rivers that I pass by in the country. In the winter they clear a path and charge money to drive over the bridge. Both cars and trucks with restrictions are allowed to cross. In the summer there are ferry boats. One is barges that tugs tow, the other is a regular drive on ferry. The government inspects the ice thickness and determines when the ice bridge season opens and closes. It usually doesn't open till January and closes in March. A lot of people use these crossing points, they save a lot of time rather than driving to proper bridge.

You have fun. Me, moving to Florida soon.

 

[notJaco]

You have fun. Me, moving to Florida soon.

Hot, humid, insects....have at it!

 

[beans-on-toast]

You have fun. Me, moving to Florida soon.

Nice! Old drivers that have nowhere to go on the roads can be a challenge.

 

[Black Out Jazz]

Stop calling me old!

 

[Black Out Jazz]

Hot, humid, insects....have at it!

Hell yeah! I LOVE IT!!!

 

[notJaco]

Hell yeah! I LOVE IT!!!

I kid. I had a good time down in the keys a couple of years ago in December. Just delightful! I’m just not a yearlong Fla person.

 

[gtmalone]

Everyone should experience a refreshing dunk in freshly melted snow water

Kinda like this? Quetico Provincial Park, circa '88. Let's just say the water temp was brisk. That small shape in the background is three guys and an overturned canoe. We unloaded our canoe then went out to pull them in then we overturned. Went back to shore to dump the water our of our canoe then went back out. One of the guys was freaking out a little and almost turned us over again. Good times.

 

[Deleted member 268085]

Love Dave Allen! Back in the early '80s, the PBS station in Chicago used to broadcast his show on Sunday nights, right before Doctor Who. Must see TV.

 

[Deleted member 268085]

Garlic scapes bring up the game for clam dip.

Ya just hadta, dijn't ya. Now I've got Kip Addotta'a Wet Dream ringing through the old noggin again.

But as long as we're talking food...

 

[GonePlaid]

Ya just hadta, dijn't ya. Now I've got Kip Addotta'a Wet Dream ringing through the old noggin again.

But as long as we're talking food...

Oy!

 

[GwenOnBass]

Ya just hadta, dijn't ya. Now I've got Kip Addotta'a Wet Dream ringing through the old noggin again.

But as long as we're talking food...

As recipes go, this one's not exactly secret chicken salad. A block of cream cheese, chopped and whole clams with juice, a pint of sour cream, Worcestershire sauce. Added a touch of nam pla, and chopped garlic scapes. Sprinkled with Hungarian paprika. C'est bon.

 

[beans-on-toast]

As recipes go, this one's not exactly secret chicken salad. A block of cream cheese, chopped and whole clams with juice, a pint of sour cream, Worcestershire sauce. Added a touch of nam pla, and chopped garlic scapes. Sprinkled with Hungarian paprika. C'est bon.

I’m wondering if fresh whipped ricotta can be used in place of the cream cheese. White clam sauces often use ricotta so it might work.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Today is the first time taking coffee outside with my weekly coffee bf since lockdown. It's not unusual for our conversation to take new turns as no few number of people stop to talk because he was their high school English teacher. He taught a couple generations and ...

What I see today is a there is a lot more foot traffic than normal. And a lot are stop to talk with "us" (him). And all of them are wearing pride ribbons. They've come for a peaceful ... um? no parade. No protests. Just a number of people with rainbows gathered by city hall. And nowhere near the entrance.

I see newscams, and I see a photographer at work. What I didn't see is any trouble. Except for the trouble I hold as I give the Junior Policeman Salute to the parking ticket troll under the bridge
tap tap tap
It costs me a dollar to drink a coffee at a local business that banks locally, and pays a living wage. It's free parking at the big national coffee pushers'.

A failed town, is what my coffee BF says, and loans me the evidence to browse. Names and dates of all the deals that went down, and photos too.

Curious and curiouser, a city council member on her way in for coffee at the local place pauses and waves. That is unusual.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I’m wondering if fresh whipped ricotta can be used in place of the cream cheese. White clam sauces often use ricotta so it might work.

I see mayonnaise in place of the cream cheese in some recipes. Not certain I'm buying into that.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Mix horseradish with mayo, call it mayoneighs.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Today is the first time taking coffee outside with my weekly coffee bf since lockdown. It's not unusual for our conversation to take new turns as no few number of people stop to talk because he was their high school English teacher. He taught a couple generations and ...

What I see today is a there is a lot more foot traffic than normal. And a lot are stop to talk with "us" (him). And all of them are wearing pride ribbons. They've come for a peaceful ... um? no parade. No protests. Just a number of people with rainbows gathered by city hall. And nowhere near the entrance.

I see newscams, and I see a photographer at work. What I didn't see is any trouble. Except for the trouble I hold as I give the Junior Policeman Salute to the parking ticket troll under the bridge
tap tap tap
It costs me a dollar to drink a coffee at a local business that banks locally, and pays a living wage. It's free parking at the big national coffee pushers'.

A failed town, is what my coffee BF says, and loans me the evidence to browse. Names and dates of all the deals that went down, and photos too.

Curious and curiouser, a city council member on her way in for coffee at the local place pauses and waves. That is unusual.

Does sensitivity matter? Is a coffee bf less significant than a coffee BF.

 

[Charlie Tango]

Mix horseradish with mayo, call it mayoneighs.

Whinnya gonna stop making those terrible puns?

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Mix horseradish with mayo, call it mayoneighs.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Even in my GOF years I still love a good action movie especially if it's got military in it. When I was in the Army in Europe we had Vietnam era equipment, and in the field we ate cans of food heated in garbage cans filled with water. Our Fire Direction Control command center had three rudimentary computers that displayed range and direction in red LED one line displays.

I'm watching a movie about the war on terrorism in of course the Middle East, and I can't believe how well equipped the modern soldier is. The rifles don't even resemble the AR-15's we used. Transport vehicles are so well protected. The soldiers wear lightweight body protection and have video cams on their helmets. They are tracked on GPS which is fed to a drone or satellite and back to the command center in real time, and command center if full of advanced computers and viewing capabilities. Hopefully all this new technology will allow our men and women come home safely without losing a limb.

Boy what a different world we live in. Come to think of it, it would be nice if there was less military conflict in the world. Still, I enjoy the action movies!

 

[GwenOnBass]

For my money, Night Gallery was creepier than Twilight Zone and Outer Limits combined. There was a Night Gallery about a man who wanted to experience battle in the Napoleonic era.