I had a good bit of stuff to do today, but it was really just a beautiful day, so I did none of it. I’ve mentioned before that I hate the fall- everything is so overcast and my allergies act up from all the mold, and the rain- blech. I do, on the other hand, love days like today, where it is sunny and a crisp 40 something degrees out, and I can throw on some wool socks and my overalls and be the perfect temperature all day.
I was close to running out of apples, so I decided I would take a drive on the back roads to the orchard, and since every time I go I call around and see if anybody wants any, I stopped by Harry and Chatman’s bed and breakfast. For those of you who are new here (assuming there are newbies), Harry and Chatman run the most amazing little bed and breakfast on farm about five miles from me called Barn With Inn. You should check out their website and if you are ever going to be around these parts or driving through on your way somewhere else, you should reserve a room and stay for the night. It’s one of my favorite places on the planet.
BTW- Chatman said some of you readers stopped by for a few days but for some reason did not email me before going (actually I can think of a bunch of reasons why I wouldn’t call me if I were going somewhere on vacation near me, but that’s just because I am German and the self-loathing runs strong), and he said you were his favorite guests of all time. So you should go back!
At any rate, when I arrived at the farm, Harry and Chatman were nowhere to be found, so I just got out and hung out with the animals. As you can see here, the ladies were VERY upset that Chatman was not around to receive the day’s egg delivery, and were standing at the doorway raising a ruckus:
The dogs were all locked inside and the barn was sealed up so I didn’t get to say hi to Buddy Ray or the others, but Coop was wandering around so we sat for a while and had a chat:
I apologized profusely about the pork shoulder in my freezer and swore up and down it was no one he knew, but he was having none of it, grunted a few times, and wandered off, giving me the, umm, cold pork shoulder (I should have my ass kicked for that and groaned while I wrote it):
I did get stalked briefly by a feral bobcat, but apparently the wild beast decided I was too much hassle to hunt, sniffed me and let me live.
I waited a bit longer, but still no Harry and Chatman, so I left for the orchard. Again, it was a beautiful day with no cars on the road, so it was a nice drive. I took in the sites and listened to some Outkast, and finally got to the orchard:
As always, they had a wide variety of apples for sale:
I wandered around the crates of apples while trying to make a decision- I’m really like a kid in the candy store there. I got a bag of Ruby Frosts and Honeycrisps for my friend Ashley, and for myself I got some Ruby Frosts (I got those the last time and loved them), some Empires a smaller apple that doesn’t last as long stored as some others, and a new apple (to me) called the Gold Rush:
Whereas the Ruby Frosts are hands down one of the most beautiful apples with their deep burgundy color and red and yellow/orange swirls, the Gold Rush is kind of an ugly little apple. It’s a dark yellow, the skin is rough with a texture almost like a hybrid of an apple and an asian pair, and the skin is a little mottled in places. They look like the kind of apple you would pick off a tree growing in your own yard, if you know what I mean. They payoff, though, is in the consumption. It has a thick, hard and crisp skin that gives a great crunch, and the apple is very juicy, with a great mouth feel, an initial little tang (but nowhere near the tart of other apples), followed with a thick sweet finish. Even though they are a small apple, they are very dense, and eating one of those takes longer to properly enjoy than say a Honeycrisp.
I sat and chatted with the owner for a bit, and when he bought out his grandfather decades ago, they only had six varieties of apples, and don’t even grown some of them anymore. I forget what all of the six were, but I do remember that the Rome was one of them, and I realized I have not had one of those in ages. I told him that if I had to rank my favorites so far this year, I thought the order would be the Ruby Frost, the Gingergold, and the Gold Rush, with the Nittany’s a close fourth. My brother is stopping by on his way home tomorrow, and I told the owner to make sure he gets some of the Gold Rush.
After that, I left and went to the grocery store for some celery, carrots, and ham hocks, and right now I have a delicious pot of black bean soup cooking. The store also had these marvelous shallots that were the size of half dollars across, and I minced some of those up to put in. On my agenda tonight is black bean soup, WVU football, and setting up my fitbit because once again the doctor said there is too much of me and we need to tone it down a notch. In fact, here is a recreation of my last visit to the doctor, with a large cat playing the role of me:
Big fan of this picture of a veterinarian showing a cat how fat he is. pic.twitter.com/ZWZMZNxsGT
— ? Ekimmara ? (@carson__hudson) November 22, 2018
At any rate, today was a good day. I can get the other stuff done tomorrow.
*** Update ***
The soup turned out well:
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
LOL at the fat cat picture.
“I’m not that fat! I’m big-boned!”
debbie
Melrose apples are wonderful.
Brachiator
That’s certainly quite a hog in one of the photos.
Sounds like a fun day.
Ben Cisco
That sounds like a good day.
Also, that’s some pig.
Yarrow
What a great day. The photos are wonderful. I miss WV.
I took care of my neighbor’s cats, who all seem to be back to their normal behavior today. Then I did paperwork that piled up while I was sick for two weeks. Boring! Went for a late afternoon walk and it’ll be Thanksgiving leftovers for dinner. Not a very exciting day.
That picture with the cat and vet is hilarious. I’m sure the cat is paying super close attention.
Citizen_X
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: “I IZ NOT FAT I IZ FULFY”
Elizabelle
What a sweet day.
Origuy
@Ben Cisco: Radiant, even.
Mary G
The cat is proud of himself: “Yes, I am the biggest of all time!” I want to stay at the Barn With Inn, but I don’t want to fly across the country. Can they come to me?
J R in WV
It was a nice day here in the south of WV also.
I fired up the blower and climbed up on the roof. I was about 80% done when I ran out of gas, so I climbed down for a break… thirsty, don’cha know. After gassing up the blower, I climbed back up, finished blowing off the roof, then did the front steps and the driveway down to the turn-around.
Now I’m pooped, about to do a frozen dinner, after yesterday’s fabulous meal provided by nest door neighbor.
And chill. I might listen to the football game also, too, or I might fall asleep asap.
Enjoy your weekend, John, I will for sure!
Jay
“Nielsen and Kelly folded and went along with orders for the military to shoot people on the American border. And they did it because organizations representing uniformed cops at the border appealed directly to the President, who commonly treats them as his personal paramilitary force.
Think about that. “
https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/11/finally-unions-have-voice-in-white.html?m=1
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Citizen_X:
This is the chart, by the way, that’s in that picture.
Ruckus
John, when I lived and worked in Columbus I knew a number of people who lived in WV and loved it. The few times I’ve driven through it looked very nice but a bit too rural for me.
Too cityfied I am.
donnah
Sounds like a great day. I spent the day with my family; all three adult sons were here and we took my mom and my husband’s mom out for lunch. They’re in their 80’s, so it was a leisurely meal. We all came back to our house to play Texas Holdem and everyone had a good time.
Tomorrow my middle son drives back to his place in Charlotte, NC. I’ll miss him a lot, but he’s coming home again for Christmas, so that’s not so bad. But there’s no greater times for me than when my boys are all together.
SiubhanDuinne
This is just a sweet, lovely post, @John Cole. It’s no wonder you have so many adoring friends, virtual and otherwise. (I do admire the fact that in one sentence you said “I hate fall what an awful season everything about autumn sux” and in the next you were all “This is such a perfect crisp clear day with animals and apples I LOVE it!” without noticing you were describing fall.)
John Revolta
Do turkeys live in nests? That don’t seem too neighborly……………………..
Steeplejack
@Jay:
WTF is a “Cabinet declaration”?!
Yeah, I can see where this might be “likely to run into constitutional roadblocks.”
rikyrah
Cole,
This was definitely a good day ???
Emma
Holy crap. That pig is the spitting image of our beloved Bubu, who kept us company for 18 years. I miss the tomato thief something fierce.
rikyrah
Kevonstage done told you:
DON’T Experiment with Thanksgiving Dinner.
Here is what can happen when you mess up the Macaroni and cheese.
Woman obviously had a tried and true family recipe. She was trusted with the recipe.
But….she decided to ‘modernize it’.
Big mistake.???
https://twitter.com/Miami_Babbyyy/status/1066043975713386496
PeakVT
Is that really a pig? It looks more like an ambulatory landform of some sort.
Aleta
About 20 years ago we built a cabin on an odd shaped half acre that was at the edge of a completely neglected apple orchard planted from the 1915-20s on. (Our neighbor has the old orchard records.) The last two trees are on our edge, and the apples of one of them are amazing to eat and then they keep right up until Thgvng for pies.
Most of the other apples are small, knotty and bitter, so we figured maybe each had a different time when they came ripe in storage. But I just read an article about old cider apples, which seems to describe them. So now I wonder if the farmer who planted the orchard was making applejack or hard cider to sell during Prohibition. That might fit with a story about him, a bachelor farmer who would often go about 8 miles by boat to town, then sleep off a drunk in his boat there before heading back home.
I just bought another acre and a few more of the trees. What gets me about these trees is that they’ve had no tending since the mid-50s when he died, but they just live on. I wonder if the deer might have helped by eating the apples as soon as they hit the ground, which could have kept the bugs from multiplying. The apples used to be bug free, surprisingly. But since a couple of deer kills, and the town opening hunting to outside, there are a lot more bugs. That might be climate warming though.
Yarrow
@rikyrah: That is awesome. Auntie is mad! “Don’t experiment on Thanksgiving!”
Steve in the ATL
That is clearly the cat’s winter coat. Shame on you all.
Adam L Silverman
@Jay: The next Democratic president needs to 1) establish a new recruiting and training program for customs officers and immigration officials; let’s call it extreme vetting, 2) decertify both C&BP’s and ICE’s unions, 3) terminate everyone who needs to be terminated based in the new vetting protocols, and 4) hire appropriately vetted replacements and run them through the newly established training programs.
Emma
@PeakVT: Potbellied boar. Mean as heck and with a vicious sense of humor. Loves his family and takes instant dislike to others for no reason.
Adam L Silverman
@Steeplejack: My best guess, based on professional experience, is that this administration is using cabinet declaration in place of either Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) or Presidential Directive (PD), which are the terms that previous Democratic and Republican administrations have used for orders issued by the president that either modify existing policy or establish new policy.
Steve in the ATL
@Adam L Silverman:
Hi!
Adam L Silverman
@rikyrah: @Yarrow: People don’t realize just how hard it is to make good macaroni and cheese and how easy it is to screw it up.
Adam L Silverman
@Steve in the ATL: And I write that as someone who grew up in a union family and has belonged to two different ones. I’ve also reached the point where I think the next Democratic president needs to decertify all law enforcement unions.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steve in the ATL:
That’s my excuse.
Steve in the ATL
@Adam L Silverman: yes, they are a huge problem. As a bonus act, decertify referee and umpire unions too.
The others can stay.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman:
A Democratic administration won’t do that. I see that Steve in the ATL is on the case.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Adam L Silverman:
Law enforcement are the people I think deserve a union, the least. Given the powers they have, having labor protections for them that are too strong is a recipe for abuse of power, which happens all the time.
Dan B
@Adam L Silverman: Excellent policy for our border cops. What should be done with all the terminated creeps? They could end up in rural police departments.
RPh
Sooooooo …. FYI
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/23/uk/farmer-killed-forklift-dog-gbr-scli/index.html
Raven
An incredible Hokie win over the Hoo’s and now a track meet in Morgantown. Remember when Cole cared.
Corner Stone
Could also consider paying ICE and CBP personnel a decent wage. Crazy, I know.
Duane
If I’m ever in West By God Virginia, I always figured I’d stay with you in the fucking old house.
Miss Bianca
@Aleta: oh, yay, an apple thread! I missed the last one in real time. With regard to your little orchard, first, I r jealous – I would love to have some cider apples growing nearby! Living up at 9000 feet here – apples do grow here, so I will have to try.
Also, too, my understanding is that bitter apples naturally have fewer insect predators – just like us, they seem to prefer em sweet!
sukabi
@Adam L Silverman: is the chief of staff a menber of the cabinet? If not, how can he sign a cabinet declaration?
What does this do to Mattis’ authority to direct military operations?
jl
Thanks for report. Very nice read about a great deay. Thanks for great review of the Gold Rush apple.
My internet search says to me that it is also called ‘Orange Pippin’, though I can’t tell whether it comes from the yellow (or golden) or from one of the green pippins.
Anyway, from the way Cole describes it, I can believe it is a pippin. Internet says they’re for sale around SF Bay Area, so I’ll go look around for some. Or at least ask at the farmers market, which has had heirloom apple stalls last couple of weeks.
Hard to tell what to trust from internet. An article on pippins says they are not much in the stores anymore because considered more profitable as a cider apple. I guess that could be. Any commenter know more about the Gold Rush apple?
Edit: hope Cole listens to his doctor. But Cole, have you eaten your peas today? You must eat your peas, as instructed!
schrodingers_cat
Back home from Connecticut! Vegetarian thanksgiving left me hungry, other than that had a good time with friends.
Raven
@schrodingers_cat: Damn lettuce heads!
jl
Looking at the pic again, they do have some markings of a pippin. I need to get me some pippins. That is one of my favorite apples. I don’t care what color.
Adam L Silverman
@sukabi: The Chief of Staff is just that. His (or her’s if we ever get a female COS) authority is as broad or narrow as the president makes it. However, at the very least, his job is to be the gatekeeper to the president, as well as his liaison officer to all of his appointees.
As for Mattis, as I put in the update to my post on this issue Wednesday night, he has made it clear that the troops deployed, other than MPs, will be unarmed. And that while they always have a right to self defense under the Rules of Engagement, he is not authorizing, let alone expecting, them to engage kinetically/lethally with any of the migrants in the caravan or anyone else approaching the border. My estimation here is that what Mattis wants to happen has been conveyed down the chain of command and that it will be the guidance that is followed.
Adam L Silverman
@jl: All pippin apple colors lives matter!!!!
Or something…
oatler.
“Frozen pork shoulder in the freezer”. Does this portend artisanal Spam?
Steve in the ATL
@?BillinGlendaleCA: it’s like my life suddenly has meaning
schrodingers_cat
@Raven: No lettuce was served. The food was delicious but not filling.
Raven
@schrodingers_cat: it’s a metaphor
Adam L Silverman
@?BillinGlendaleCA: A Democratic administration needs to be prepared to do it. They also need to be prepared to back legislation that establishes a proper truth and reconciliation commission, including providing the committee the power to bring prosecutions or provide immunity. They also need to be prepared to back legislation that formally claws back power from the executive branch and places it back in the legislative branch. And they also need to be prepared to back legislation that both expands the Federal courts at all levels and limits the appointment of any Federal judge to 20 years. And this barely makes a dent in the list of things that need to be done.
jl
@Adam L Silverman: Isn’t there an apple butterscotch pie recipe post you should be working on?
And I mean made with real hard Scots butterscotch brittle, not the gloppy stuff.
Aye, put that in your pippin and bake it.
My Scots-Irish relatives’ idea of cooking, for the most part, was was to boil stuff in water until everything was the same color. But they could do them some pastry once in a while.They made a great candied quince, and would put it in scones. And an amazing oat cake that was more like a cookie brittle than anything else. It would melt in your mouth, with buttery creamy oatey goodness
Jay
@jl:
Pippin’s are prone to rust and splitting, while they are a great eating apple and a wonderful cider apple, a wet fall can ruin the crop.
Funny thing about apples, is settlers dragged them around the world and adapted them to the local growing conditions and food preferences.
UBC has an apple “bank” and genome project. In BC alone they have identified 68 different strains of Golden Transparent alone. Each grows differently, ripens differently, stores differently and tastes different.
When I lived in YVR, I rescued an old (+90 years) Golden Transparent tree suffering from rot, black mold and neglect. Apples were the size of golf balls, cracked and half rotten. One year of pruneing, sealing, fertilizing, copper spray, dormant oil and BT, and blossom thinning resulted in 150lbs of almost softball sized apples, firm, crisp, slightly tart and amazeballs in pies, even after being frozen. By year 5 it was producing almost 400lbs of apples every year.
jl
I just submitted a comment that required of Silverman a recipe post on old fashioned Scots butterscotch apple pie, made with real Scots butterscotch toffee, not the glop. And it disappeared. Coincidence? I think not. Maybe Silverman is busy for a moment that this one gets through.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman:
And alienate all the other unions? Ain’t gonna happen.
I don’t see that as much of a problem getting though Congress, but they better have a veto proof vote margin.
I’ve long supported expanding the Judicial branch, including the Supreme Court. Ending lifetime appointments is a Constitutional change, ain’t gonna happen.
Cheryl from Maryland
An apple thread! I wanted to share that I made applesauce for the first time to go with the Thanksgiving ham. I used this recipe — crockpot applesauce. It too 8 apples, each of a different variety (Macoun was especially hard to find), peeled, cored and sliced, two sticks of cinnamon, and some lemon peel/juice for 6 hours in the crockpot and then overnight in the fridge, It was perfect — I didn’t have to add sugar, as well as not having to use an immersion blender as the texture was perfect. I bet it would do well in an Instapot.
Miss Bianca
@jl: I thought a pippin was a generic name for a smallish cider apple – is it its own varietal?
Achrachno
@Adam L Silverman: If you screw it up, just add some Valentina’s and all will be well again. I was surprised to see you can get Valentinas in WV — I’d have assumed it hadn’t spread past the SW.
Jay
https://www.orangepippin.com/apples/goldrush
Gold Rush Apple.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: Don’t you have Google out there in Tera Bella?
jl
@Jay: Thanks for info. We never grew apples on family farms in Central Valley, so I don’t know much about them. Just what I learned buying them in CA apple growing country, in Sierra foothills, and Sonoma County, and some neighbors who grew Fujis and Granny Smiths for a while. Closest thing was a few seckel and bartlett pear trees that could take the heat. In CA, at least, if you got them in the store, pippins were one of the best keeping apples, IIRC.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Why should they be alienated? ICE and C&BP are full of fascist thugs abusing their power.
Currants
John! Some of those apples are my all-time favorites and hard to come by! I like them for baking and eating, and they’re mostly late apples (i.e. coming in about now). Northern Spy especially is top of my list, and—I thought the variety was a Stayman Winesap? Maybe that’s another one, but either way, those are wonderful too, especially in pies, crisp, and applesauce.
Love the pictures and the narrative of what sounds like one of the best days I can think of in the fall. Thank you!
Jeffro
@Adam L Silverman: it’s going to be a busy 8-16 years
Jeffro
folks, I’m here to tell you that WaPo columnist Marc Thiessen just vaulted to the front of the tumbrel line, just behind The Turtle.
He’d like us to pretend than Merrick Garland was some sort of crazed partisan judicial nomination which just had to be opposed by the sainted GOP, and that Dems are rabidly partisan for having opposed Gorsuch.
Yes really.
Where is my bat?
sigyn
@rikyrah: Awesome. About to commence prepping the second Thanksgiving Dinner for the kiddo that flew across the continent for the tradition. I was tempted to mess around with the scalloped corn; now I am reminded: “Don’t experiment on Thanksgiving!”
Adam L Silverman
@jl: I was heating up dinner. I had just gotten home from the gym around 8:20, hopped in the shower, and was commenting while I cooled off a bit before making something to eat. I’ve freed your comment.
Raven
I’m sure know one knows or cares that the Apple Cup is being played right now.
A Ghost To Most
@Ruckus:
West Virginia is nice, but it is too flat.
jl
@Miss Bianca: Looks like neither. There are a number of apples called pippin, that don’t seem to have much in common.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippin_apple
The varietal I knew as a kid is the Newton Pippin.
@Jay: Thanks for info. BJ is the premier almost top 10,000 educational blog.
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I thought actually being able to get the food out of the post was going to be new feature of the blog redesign. Supposed to be a full service blog, that’s what Cole keeps promising.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Unions stick together, kind of the idea of unions.
A Ghost To Most
@Jeffro: He’s been high on the list for some time. I regularly complain to WaPo about that fascist asshole.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Raven: UW just scored the TD!
ETA: I care, went to UW for grad school.
Raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I’ve got both games on, WVU_Oklahoma is insane.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: There was a blog redesign?
Raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: You’ll get Jacob Eason nest year.
Jay
@jl:
Pippen’s travelled a long way from Cornwall, to South Africa and New England, to India, then Oregon and New Caledonia. Each step of the way they were adapted to local conditions through selective breeding.
An Oakanogan Orange Cox Pippen ain’t the same as a Cornish one.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Then they should be given a lecture on why ICE as currently constituted is an evil organization that frequently commits human rights abuses.
A Ghost To Most
@Raven: I’m watching it.
Raven
@A Ghost To Most: A track meet!
trollhattan
@Steve in the ATL:
That it was taken in June means nothing, nothing…
jl
@Adam L Silverman: Huh. Mattis, probably among other things, doesn’t want a criminal record of some kind or other. Disloyal to Dear Leader Trump.
But seems like an explosive situation. Mattis is going to send down orders that the troops are not have have lethal weapons if they face migrants at the border, but earlier they said that they would deal with ‘unregulated militias’ which is a hint that the military feels it has the right to disarm tactical Trumpster goofball squads heading down south who want ‘to help’. I don’t think you want to do that with riot shields and batons. Sounds like a delicate situation could unfold. Which I guess one reason sending troops there was a very bad idea, the kind of thing we should expect from the Trumpster in Chief.
A Ghost To Most
@Raven: We’ll see if either game measures up to the Chefs-Rams game. Not likely.
NotMax
Pippin.
:)
trollhattan
@Raven:
Grew up in Seattle so yup, have it on. Ripping game played in the snow in November. That’s football.
Raven
@A Ghost To Most: 28-21 with 3 to go in the first, pretty close.
Raven
@trollhattan: It’s about 40 and raining and we kick off with the hated Yellow Jackets at noon tomorrow. It’s supposed to stop raining by 10 so that will be good.
Adam L Silverman
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Other than when the police union in Wisconsin stood up for the teachers union in Wisconsin, normally the law enforcement movements do not stick with the other unions. I say that as someone who has both belonged to two different unions and spent a lot of time teaching police officers.
Adam L Silverman
@jl: That’s what the MPs are for. They’re armed.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@trollhattan: I once saw frost 6 hours before game time at the Rose Bowl. It was hell!
Raven
@trollhattan: I was stationed at Ft Lewis 50 years ago! Went to the Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter than Air Fair in Sultan!
Adam L Silverman
@A Ghost To Most: Great googlymoogly!
Raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: That’s why my wimpy LA family won’t go to the parade. Fucking lightweights.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman: But would the other unions accept an attack on the law enforcement union?
Jackie
@Raven: I care!!! SNOW BOWL II! Gooooo COUGS!!!
Raven
@A Ghost To Most: 35-21
Raven
@Jackie: This is soooo cool! We didn’t used to have to hide here!
A Ghost To Most
@Raven: JC just scared the crap out of the animals with an epithet, I’m thinking. 35-21.
NotMax
@Raven
Figured you’d be trolling the neighborhood today asking people if they had any loose boards that need nailing down.
;)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Raven: Smart folk.
(I did go to the Rose Parade when I was in college. Done it once, won’t ever do it again.)
ETA: I’ve gone to see the floats a couple of times either later on New Years or the next day. That, I’d do again.
Adam L Silverman
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I don’t know.
Raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: We had fun.
Steve in the ATL
@Raven: you are correct.
jl
@Adam L Silverman: The MPs can get ‘tactical’ and they can fight back against squads of goofballs armed with AR-15s? I don’t know.
I might be biased by some older male relatives who were MPs in the service. Maybe back then MP wasn’t a big deal and was a place for folks who couldn’t do much of anything. Maybe people who, when they were vets, would become rabid Trumpsters who did everything they could to make a potential gold mine, like a Central Valley farm, into a bottomless money pit. Not saying anything just saying…. Maybe the coincidence of who happens to be in my extended family had tainted my views on MPs.
A Ghost To Most
@Adam L Silverman: That’s great!
No Regerts!
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Thanks for replying to my comment.
Raven
@NotMax: I unpacked it an am watching a bunch of youtubes on how to use it. I may take it back, not sure yet. I went back and bought Little Giant Leveler Ladder too!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Raven: We did too, but sleeping on the street is for youngsters.
(There was some booze involved as well.)
Adam L Silverman
@jl: They are always allowed to take action in self defense, as well as in defense of other Soldiers, or others in general. They, as well as the Soldiers in the Army Criminal Investigative Division, are the only Army personnel authorized to carry weapons and use force within the United States. As for whether it is a decent branch of service these day, I can only speak for the Army side, and my experience is that it is. These are sharp Soldiers. Also, the Deputy Commandant of the MP school and center of excellence is a good friend of mine.
Adam L Silverman
@A Ghost To Most: I figured it was better than pointing out the typo.
Raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Yea, we skipped that and parked at the game, walked up to our seats on that 1st bridge on Colorado and crammed in for 3 hours!
Raven
@Adam L Silverman: They were just like every other GI when I was in.
Gravenstone
@Steve in the ATL:
If that gets rid of “Cowboy” Joe West, I’m all for it!
A Ghost To Most
@Adam L Silverman: It wasn’t a typo. I’ve called them that for decades.
trollhattan
@Adam L Silverman:
One of the best.
Easily a decade after that ad before I managed to connect “Great googly moogly” to Howlin Wolf. Made me like it that much more.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Raven: Heh, didn’t have the cash to do that then or now. UCLA wasn’t in the Rose Bowl that year anyway.
chris
Just found this on Reddit. Did you know apples came from Kazakhstan? Neither did I but the apple tree forest sounds lovely.
https://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/3125
randy khan
@Adam L Silverman:
If you do it right, mac and cheese is not hard, but if you insist on doing it your own way, well . . .
trollhattan
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Based on my one go the parade route party the night before > the parade. At least when one is college-age.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@trollhattan: Heh, yeah.
Raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: God, I payed more for those seats than I did the game! We were really close though!
trollhattan
@Raven:
My sis went. I was still a kid, so missed that one.
Fifty years? Sheesh.
satby
@Cheryl from Maryland: if you liked the applesauce, you’ll love the apple butter*
* Though I use way less sugar, and brown, not white sugar.
Adam L Silverman
@Raven: There’s been some specialization since then.
Adam L Silverman
@A Ghost To Most: Okay then.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Raven: We drove past where your seats were last week, pointed the place out to Madame as we drove past. They already have the bleachers up for next year’s parade.
Jay
@Raven:
During the Draft/Conscription 90% were big meaty boneheads to deal with the rabble.
With the move to “professional” Militaries they had to become a lot more professional, as not only were they “teaching” policing in the aftermath of the 90’s wars, but leading investigations into everything from war crimes, to arms sales and contractor ripoffs.
Raven
@trollhattan: First or second?
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I really enjoy being ignored. Thanks!
Raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: On Orange Grove, Colorado or both? I can’t imagine the people in those ritzy houses let them put those fences up 6 weeks early.
SoupCatcher
Wazzu scores in the Palouse powder!
NotMax
@Raven
Gave Buster Scruggs a try. Gave up 45 minutes in. Not my cup of redeye. I’m afraid.
Do appreciate the recommendation, though.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Sometimes, not receiving a reply is a positive thing.
Raven
@Jay: Yea, I mean there we the Roy Moore fucks but many just got that MOS. I like the Navy where the SP come from the crew.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
What’s that supposed to mean?
Aleta
@Miss Bianca: That’s interesting abt the bugs.
trollhattan
@Raven:
If you asked her today she’d say she went to all five (Inside joke).
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Raven: Intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Think about it.
satby
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: oh for godsakes
Raven
@NotMax: Did you get to “She Got Rattled”? The Lima Neeson one is enough to send anyone running but Waits is good too.
Raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Happens to me all the time.
trollhattan
Not sure if they need a snowplow or a zamboni in Pullman at the half. I’m impressed they seem to have heaters keeping the yard numbers and lines visible.
Raven
@trollhattan: I was wondering if they were CGI?
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
Let me guess: you thought what I said was stupid and you didn’t have a response to it? If that’s the case, why didn’t you just say so (while phrased more politely) in the first place?
I’m ok with that. We don’t have to agree all the time.
SoupCatcher
@Raven: They’re not on the side camera replays.
CGI.
Raven
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Quit your fucking whining.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Raven: I think they do have heaters in the field.
ETA: I’ll admit that I don’t have much experience watching football in the snow.
NotMax
@Raven
Don’t believe I made it that far. The cattle rustling story (or shortly thereafter) was where I called it quits. From what I did catch, the landscape was a heckuva lot more interesting that were the characters.
YMMV.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SoupCatcher: Possibly, but from the side angle you can’t see much of the game either.
Raven
@NotMax: I hear ya. Try that one sometime when you have 20 minutes to kill. It’s got some sweet stuff.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@satby:
Y’know, I don’t know what’s changed. I don’t remember having issues like this prior to a month or so ago. I don’t want a repeat of 3 weeks ago. I guess I apologize for being annoying tonight?
NotMax
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Something we used to tell the kids at summer camp:
“Gimme never gets.”
Learn it. Live it.
;)
Raven
@NotMax: Something we used to tell people in boot camp
“Quit your fucking whining or you’ll get a blanket party”!
NotMax
@Raven
Aye aye, Keptin. Vill do.
/Lt. Chekov
Raven
@SoupCatcher: You knew what I meant.
Jackie
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: It means you’re reverting back to unpleasant habits you promised to change.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Heh, they got snow plows out clearing off the field.
satby
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: it’s the internet: we type into a void and occasionally we might get answers. But no one owes us one.
Raven
@NotMax: Zoe Kazan is so cute.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@NotMax:
I get what your’re saying. It’s just a dumb blog and I try not take it too seriously anymore. I personally try my best to respond to everyone who replies to me, but sometimes people slip through the cracks, and I suppose that’s the frame I viewed this whole thing through. I felt like I was being snubbed by someone that usually replies to me, but I guess that wasn’t the intention.
Gin & Tonic
@Cheryl from Maryland:
Macouns are everywhere here in New England. Just bought a half-peck the other day. My favorite apple.
Gin & Tonic
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Not everybody replies to every comment that might be directed at or near them. Life is short. Don’t be an idiot and take that personally.
Raven
It’s actually “The Gal who got rattled”
Jay
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h8fem_aVbgI
?BillinGlendaleCA
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: My response would have been rude, I think you’re a good guy and don’t want to be rude. I’m watching my grad school’s football team play on the TV machine and couldn’t multitask well enough to think of a nicer way of phasing my response.
NotMax
@Raven
Watching it as we speak.
SoupCatcher
In the vein of “Google for a few minutes and call oneself an expert,” the only references I could find to under-soil heating refer to grass pitches, and Martin Stadium is artificial.
Raven
@SoupCatcher: Salt?
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
That’s fine and I appreciate that. There’s more to life than this place and I get that.
Steve in the ATL
@trollhattan:
When is this not true? It’s like “literally any music that’s not Sigue Sigue Sputnik > Yoko Ono’s music”
Raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: So, you know who Eason is?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Raven: I’m pretty sure it’s CGI, the numbers don’t match the numbers on the field.
SoupCatcher
@Raven: Reminds me of when Gretzky went to the Kings, Fox got the broadcast contract, and digitally added a tail to the puck because they thought viewers couldn’t follow the action.
Wow. Crazy sequence.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Raven: Nope. QB prospect?
Raven
@Steve in the ATL: We didn’t. We went to dinner, hit the rack at 10 and left for the Rose Bowl at 4:30 am.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Gin & Tonic:
I jumped the gun for sure.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steve in the ATL: You’re just trying to get into more trouble.
Dan B
@trollhattan: One of the UW band’s buses flipped on ice on the way to Pullman – just bruises but I don’t know if they made it to the game. The Doug’s band learned the UW fight song so they could play it for the team. Pretty good Thanksgiving.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Jackie:
I realized I am. BUT, silver lining, since you say “reverting”, that means I evidently made some progress.
Larryb
Valencia hot sauce is too sweet. Tapatio or Cholula for the win.
Raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Yea, he was the #1 QB in the nation and came to Georgia. He had a decent freshman year and looked like he might set the world on fire. He got hurt in the first game and Jake Fromm had a spectacular year and took us to the national championship. Eason is from Seattle and with ANOTHER #1 QB, Justin Fields, coming in he transferred. There were no hard feelings but he is really good and should make a difference there.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Dan B: The whole band returned to Seattle.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Raven: Thanks, good news for the PNW Dawgs.
Steve in the ATL
@Raven: and Eason > Fromm.
I don’t like pretty boy quarterbacks. Sorry, patriot fans.
Ohio Mom
@chris: That is a great article — thanks for the link.
Raven
@Steve in the ATL: I don’t think he was like that at all. He took his fate head on and supported Jake and the team all the way. Damn Good Dawg!
(And he should tear the weak ass PAC 10 a new asshole)
Steve in the ATL
@Raven: Eason was great about what happened, but I think he’s a better QB than Fromm. Was looking forward to seeing him throwing deep balls while defenses stack the box.
Raven
@Steve in the ATL: Oh you were saying Jake was the pretty boy! Well, I know you know he’s a player. Justin has a pretty amazing arm.
Raven
@Steve in the ATL: You comin over for the game?
Ruckus
@Raven:
Said here before, served in the SP for a few weeks while waiting for a ship. Other than talking to the Marine Staff Sargent that I worked for, no one gave me a lick of training. And we didn’t carry arms. Only the gate guards did. Nightsticks, that was it. Fun times.
Have no idea how regular a GI I was.
Ruckus
@Raven:
Those people in those ritzy houses don’t seem to have a lot of say in regards to the stands. They start putting them up when they feel like it. I do kid a bit, the Rose Parade Organization starts sending out letters/invites to meetings about a month ago. If you are impacted by the parade by streets closing/stands, etc, you get notices. We get several letters and passes so that we can come and go until some ungodly hour on parade morning. Between then and until they open the streets after it goes by, you ain’t moving a vehicle within the assembly area, without it being a damn big emergency.
Steve in the ATL
@Raven: nah, got too much to do this weekend! Easier to manage when the game is here.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Raven: Eh, it’s the PAC-12 and we’ve got some pretty good QB’s out here.
(I know y’all east of the Rockies can’t see us over here.)
Steve in the ATL
@?BillinGlendaleCA: East of the Rockies? Hell, we acknowledge only two states west of the Mississippi!
opiejeanne
@trollhattan: my gosh that’s snowing hard. We got heavy rain and a lot of hail today, West of the cascades.
Big flakes, really pretty. Seems a little early for snow there.
Amir Khalid
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
No, “reverting” means you’re regressing.
jak
Gold Rush is a great apple. Thick skinned and a long keeper. Ripens later in the apple season. Used for eating, baking, cider making. Not as tart as a granny smith.
WaterGirl
@donnah: I imagine you and MomSense could have a long chat about that. :-)
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: I bet her family doesn’t make that mistake again. She had her chance and she screwed up.