The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...

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[snippy_about_it]

This is great news. You all should be very proud of yourselves. Doesn't it feel wonderful to have helped save lives. Wow!!! Thanks for the ping PE.

[ksen]

Thing's are going alright. Still waiting on that job prospect to pan out. They haven't done anything yet, but I am being assured that my resume is on the top of the stack. So we'll see,

[JenB]

Well, I'll keep praying.

[Pippin]

LOL!

nope! too many demos there!

they live to the RIGHT! HEE! HEE!

[My back yard]

Well heck. I liked the story though. :(

I knew I should have checked first.

[Darksheare]

I'm back.
Had to beat the car into submission over the weekend.
*ugh*

[SAMWolf]

Cool!! Thanks for the ping.

[JenB]

Car... my car is not with me right now.... I loaned it to my dad. I wish I had it here...

[Darksheare]

*winces*
I had to replace the exhaust system, well.. half of it.
Now I just need to replace the catalytic converter and the down pipe.
*chuckle*
The fun goes on..

[JenB]

Replace it yourself, or have it done?

[My back yard]

In my best Gilda Radner voice -- Never Mind.

Thanks Bear.

Lee Marvin did enlist in the U.S. Marines, saw action as Private First Class in the Pacific during World War II, and was wounded (in the buttocks) by fire which severed his sciatic nerve. However, this injury occurred during the battle for Saipan in June 1944, not the battle for Iwo Jima, which took place several months later, in February 1945. (Marvin also did receive a Purple Heart, and he is indeed buried at Arlington National Cemetery.)

Bob Keeshan, later famous as television's "Captain Kangaroo," also enlisted in the U.S. Marines, but too late to see any action during World War II. Keeshan was born on 27 June 1927 and enlisted two weeks before his 18th birthday, months too late to have taken part in the fighting at Iwo Jima. A 1997 interview with Keeshan noted that he "later enlisted in the U.S. Marines but saw no combat" because, as Keeshan said, he signed up "just before we dropped the atom bomb."

In 2003 someone thought to throw Mr. Rogers into the mix by add the following bit to the existing e-mail about Lee Marvin and Bob Keeshan:


Numerous rumors about children's host Mr. Rogers having a violent or criminal past have been bandied about for years, but there is nothing to any of them. As our Mr. Rogers page explains, Fred Rogers never served in the military.

[Professional Engineer]

time for a Hot Wrench.

[Argh]

Two hydrogen atoms walk into a bar. One says, "I've lost my electron." The other says, "Are you sure?" The first replies, "Yes, I'm positive..."

OK, I guess I've posted that one often enough today...

[Darksheare]

Did it myself.
Not so hard, IF you can borrow a garage out of the wind.
The only frustrating part is finding that you have to replace the cat convert and the downpipe as well.
But, for now, they'll do.

[Darksheare]

Hot wrench or hot wench?
*scratches head*
After freezing, but not as bad as I would have if I had to be out in the weatehr rather than in a garage, I am a little unclear on the concept.

[Professional Engineer]

Hot Wench would help too!

A hot Wrench is an oxy/acetylene cutting torch. Sure helps break those rust clamps loose.

[JenB]

Cars are a bit of a mystery to me. Computers, now... I can repair a lot of problems with desktops, though laptops are harder... and at least that's usually indoors.

[2Jedismom]

Mrsnad:

You know our friend Andrew got a wild hog, right? And gave us some of the meat? Well, I cooked up some of the ground meat that he gave us, made it into sausage patties. It was very sticky stuff and I was having trouble getting it to form the nice thin patties the way we like them. It just stuck to my fingers. But I stumbled upon a solution...

Here's what I did...

I took the meat, divided it up into golf-ball sized balls, then placed a little ball on a square of plastic wrap. Then I sprinkled it with the sage, salt and pepper. Then I used the plastic wrap to knead the spices into the ball of meat. That way, it didn't stick to my fingers at all! When I got it thoroughly kneaded, I used the plastic wrap to shape it into a ball again, then, still using the plastic wrap, I was able to flatten it out pretty flat...just using the palm of my hand to smash it around inside the plastic wrap! Then I gently peeled one side of plastic wrap off, flipped that side of the meat onto my hand, then gently peeled the other side off so that the thin sausage was resting in my hand. Then plop! In it went, into a lightly greased cast iron skillet. It cooked up beautifully and by the end of the experiment, I had some pretty nice round sausages cooking...the first ones were a bit sloppy, till I got the hang of it!

Then the boys proceeded to eat every smidgen of it. All I had left was the grease. The GREASE! I tossed in some flour and sautéed the flour till brown, then added milk and made a batch of cream gravy! Mmmm! I hate to say, but I ate the entire skillet full of cream gravy with some bread and a coke!

It was delicious.

[Darksheare]

Aahhh.
Didn't need the torch.
Came apart pretty easily.

But afterwards.. I needed to warm up some.
It was 22 degrees and dropping when I finished the project.

[Bilbo Bagpipes]

Hey guys! I just got back from the Community high school. It seems most colleges, and the military don't except GEDs as real diplomas, so I am going to show these people what I have done, and take a grading test, and they are supposed to give me a diploma!