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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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GwenOnBass said:
Sausage, gravy, and biscuits.
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Breakfast of Champions! I'm sometimes on a quest for biscuits and gravy on my Epic Journeys. Good biscuits are few and far between.

Recap from Epic Journey 2019.

Up about 6:30. Breakfast at the hotel was terrible. I tried using a plastic fork to split open a biscuit. It wouldn't go in. I then tried sawing it with a plastic knife, nothing. They would make good door stops. Tried the eggs - way too salty. Settled on a mealy tasting English muffin. The jelly in the packets was good, though.

Up about 6:30. Breakfast...ah...whatever...more bad luck with biscuits. Fork went in, chunk of biscuit broke off. Taste matched the physical experience. Bowl of cereal.

Breakfast at the hotel. They didn't have any biscuits and I had just sharpened my saw blade.

Breakfast...geez...I tried an egg disc. At least I think that's what they were. Round, yellow, and almost tasted like eggs if I closed my eyes and thought about eggs. Two bites and I was done. No biscuits.

Biscuits at breakfast. Pull open with fingers and they were good - Success!

I slept to almost 6:30 then walked over for breakfast. Biscuits - and they were good!

Continental breakfast. I wonder who came up with that gem of nomenclature? I made a waffle. That's all I have to say about that. It's bad when frosted flakes and a banana are the best things they have. At a room rate well over 100 bucks one might expect a little more.

Best breakfast we've had so far! All of the food was good including the biscuits. Even had corned beef hash.

Breakfast at the hotel, eh, whatever.
 
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GwenOnBass said:
Best breakfast buffet I recall was at Swissotel Boston. Second best, strangely enough, was at a general nondescript in McAllen, Texas :wacky: I recall a LOT of heavily armed DEA agents there.
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...and McAllen is where they go to relax. Should see where they work.

I taught for five years in a little mining town on the AZ-Sonora border. Was out in my jeep one day exploring the desert trails south of town, and drove straight into an ambush with FIVE different law enforcement agencies in attendance. Had every weapon short of antitank missiles. Fortunately, a couple of the LEOs knew me. I excused myself and retraced my path.
 
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GwenOnBass said:
Nope, still wanting to junior policeman salute some people I see this morning.
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Dogs like to salute things all along their path.



Been having some fun with a bird call that I received this week. It catches the attention of birds and other animals.

https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/sho...-watching/112296-audubon-bird-call?item=AG142


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mikeoso said:
hmmm...nice girls....pasties....nope, not going anywhere with that.
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Me either. Not even going to touch that, you know, those things that go some place and can be confused with the food of a similar name. Nope. Not touching that and pretty sure I won't be going anywhere with it, those things I mean, not the food.
 
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gtmalone said:
Me either. Not even going to touch that, you know, those things that go some place and can be confused with the food of a similar name. Nope. Not touching that and pretty sure I won't be going anywhere with it, those things I mean, not the food.
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Although they originated in Britain, Pasties were a northern Michigan thing that miners often took to work for their lunch.
I live in Michigan.

In Michigan, The Pasty Isn't X-Rated. It's A Portable Pie With History Baked In
 
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Cleaned up and put new strings on the acoustic guitar today. Hadn't touched it in a long time. Hurts my fingers it does, laws yes! I was a decent guitar player once upon a time. Might be able to work my way back to mediocre advanced novice with a little work and building up callouses.

My wife bought a Goya G310 at a pawn shop circa '82 for an anniversary present. I think she paid about 85 bucks for it with the case. Pretty cool gift! I hadn't play any kind of instrument for about 10 yrs. Don't know the exact year but a brief search says this model was made in Korea from about '78-'86 after Martin acquired the brand name.

Kicking around the idea of another electric and learning some jazz stuff. I had a pretty nice playing Korean Strat once upon a time with Lace Sensor pups. Should have kept it.
 
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gtmalone said:
Cleaned up and put new strings on the acoustic guitar today. Hadn't touched it in a long time. Hurts my fingers it does, laws yes! I was a decent guitar player once upon a time. Might be able to work my way back to mediocre advanced novice with a little work and building up callouses.

My wife bought a Goya G310 at a pawn shop circa '82 for an anniversary present. I think she paid about 85 bucks for it with the case. Pretty cool gift! I hadn't play any kind of instrument for about 10 yrs. Don't know the exact year but a brief search says this model was made in Korea from about '78-'86 after Martin acquired the brand name.

Kicking around the idea of another electric and learning some jazz stuff. I had a pretty nice playing Korean Strat once upon a time with Lace Sensor pups. Should have kept it.
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Those skinny little strings are a bother

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