Happy thread :)

[blu3bird]

Another Pete just pulled in for the night, sharp looking truck with a custom paint job

 

[blu3bird]

I’ve got the same one but 3.5 years old now. Rear axel seals leak like a bitch but easy to fill transfer case. Second motor (warranty) due to the shit oil drain tube cracking. They’ve replaced it with a steel pipe. I probably should have bought a Deere lol.

I wanted a JD but I only went to Home Depot and that's all they had left. I impulse bought my Cub Cadet lol. I should've just gone to a JD dealership.

I like it so far though, yeah the oil drain is kinda weird, I'll probably just replace it with a regular plug if I ever have any problems with it

 

[hanimmal]

 

[Budley Doright]

I wanted a JD but I only went to Home Depot and that's all they had left. I impulse bought my Cub Cadet lol. I should've just gone to a JD dealership.

I like it so far though, yeah the oil drain is kinda weird, I'll probably just replace it with a regular plug if I ever have any problems with it

When the rear axels start to leak there is a small hole in the top of the transfer case below the battery on left side. I just dump 10-W-30 in it when it starts to hesitate lol.

 

[Jimdamick]

You know I do.
Sonoma County has excellent weather. It treats everyone the same way.
It rarely gets to 100 degrees.
Don't be.
Thanks, will do. No air conditioning required here.

Peace on you, brother.

Very good to hear that your doing ok, that's excellent
Sonoma is wine country, right?
It sounds lovely.
You take care my friend
Peace out

 

[topcat]

Very good to hear that your doing ok, that's excellent
Sonoma is wine country, right?
It sounds lovely.
You take care my friend
Peace out

Yes, it is. I moved here in 1981 and wine grapes have been planted every year since. I can't believe there's a market big enough, but evidently there is. The vines have taken over the cow pastures, but it's still better than seeing miles of tract homes. We've suffered from wildfires the last few years, but so far this year, we're good. Maybe the fuel load being reduced is the reason, but it's still early. The rest of the state is in a delicate condition.

Thanks so much for the well wishes and the same right back at ya'!

 

[Jimdamick]

Yes, it is. I moved here in 1981 and wine grapes have been planted every year since. I can't believe there's a market big enough, but evidently there is. The vines have taken over the cow pastures, but it's still better than seeing miles of tract homes. We've suffered from wildfires the last few years, but so far this year, we're good. Maybe the fuel load being reduced is the reason, but it's still early. The rest of the state is in a delicate condition.

Thanks so much for the well wishes and the same right back at ya'!

You make wine?
Fucking excellent!!!!
I had a friend a long time ago whose father was from Sicily (not Italy, big difference )
Anyway, the father would make wine every year, turning his basement into a winery, and I mean winery.
He would get like 20 crates of red grapes & send his wife down & have her stomp away
Anyway, everyone would wait breathlessly for that 1st bottle to be opened & it was a celebration when it was
So, being Sicilian, it had to be done right, which means lots of food & lots of wine had to be involved.
Anyone ever have dinner at a real Italian household?
Those fuckers (Sicilians) know how to eat, thats for sure ( if possible make friends with an Italian and get his mother to feed you, you won'd regret it )
Course after course after course of the best food I ever had the pleasure of eating. (I REALLY love Italian food, my favorite, Mexican a close 2nd)
But, the best part of those dinners was when the 1st bottle was opened (soon to be followed by many more )
You know what, Italians love their wine, and I mean love. (Almost as much as the Irish love their whiskey )
There's no problem giving a 12 year old a glass, slightly watered down.
But for a 16 year old boy, no limitations, it was full speed ahead & batten down the hatches (it's time to get fucked up )
Then once we were all drunk as fuck & stuffed wih food (great wine & food ) we'd dance, like everyone would
I was lucky to have a great friend whose father could make some kick ass wine
Memorable days

This is one tune we'd all dance to ( I kicked ass )

This is sorta what the stomping looked like (do you stomp topcat or have your wife do it? )

 

[topcat]

You make wine?
Fucking excellent!!!!
I had a friend a long time ago whose father was from Sicily (not Italy, big difference )
Anyway, the father would make wine every year, turning his basement into a winery, and I mean winery.
He would get like 20 crates of red grapes & send his wife down & have her stomp away
Anyway, everyone would wait breathlessly for that 1st bottle to be opened & it was a celebration when it was
So, being Sicilian, it had to be done right, which means lots of food & lots of wine had to be involved.
Anyone ever have dinner at a real Italian household?
Those fuckers (Sicilians) know how to eat, thats for sure ( if possible make friends with an Italian and get his mother to feed you, you won'd regret it )
Course after course after course of the best food I ever had the pleasure of eating. (I REALLY love Italian food, my favorite, Mexican a close 2nd)
But, the best part of those dinners was when the 1st bottle was opened (soon to be followed by many more )
You know what, Italians love their wine, and I mean love. (Almost as much as the Irish love their whiskey )
There's no problem giving a 12 year old a glass, slightly watered down.
But for a 16 year old boy, no limitations, it was full speed ahead & batten down the hatches (it's time to get fucked up )
Then once we were all drunk as fuck & stuffed wih food (great wine & food ) we'd dance, like everyone would
I was lucky to have a great friend whose father could make some kick ass wine
Memorable days

This is one tune we'd all dance to ( I kicked ass )

This is sorta what the stomping looked like (do you stomp topcat or have your wife do it )

No, I don't make wine. I don't even drink much of it. I'm into beer and there's a lot of brewers in this area, too. Lagunitas is the most familiar. There are so many winemakers that can make fine wine between Napa, Sonoma, and Mendocino that is relatively cheap, it's not worth it, unless you just want a hobby. Same with the beer, though for years now, it's been focused on ale, which I'm not a fan of. My favorite is Anchor Steam Beer, from San Francisco that ushered in the "craft beer" revolution.
This area used to be called "The egg basket of the world", then shifted to dairy cows, then The World Wrist wrestling Championship (until going corporate and moving to Reno, or Las Vegas, I don't remember). Then, the slow growth movement that went to the Supreme Court. Now, it's the "no more gas stations" proclamation. A lot of agriculture, but at the moment, pretty blue.

 

[Dorian2]

 

[Jimdamick]

Too bad in some way's that I'm Irish.
We have the worst food, mostly it tastes like shite
This is probably the best offered



But actually, it's not bad after a dozen or so of these



And a nip or two or three or four, etc, etc of this goes nicely as a dessert, so to speak



And once we have satiated our hunger & thirst, we do this

Oh well, we'll just have to make do

Slainte!

 

[topcat]

You make wine?
Fucking excellent!!!!
I had a friend a long time ago whose father was from Sicily (not Italy, big difference )
Anyway, the father would make wine every year, turning his basement into a winery, and I mean winery.
He would get like 20 crates of red grapes & send his wife down & have her stomp away
Anyway, everyone would wait breathlessly for that 1st bottle to be opened & it was a celebration when it was
So, being Sicilian, it had to be done right, which means lots of food & lots of wine had to be involved.
Anyone ever have dinner at a real Italian household?
Those fuckers (Sicilians) know how to eat, thats for sure ( if possible make friends with an Italian and get his mother to feed you, you won'd regret it )
Course after course after course of the best food I ever had the pleasure of eating. (I REALLY love Italian food, my favorite, Mexican a close 2nd)
But, the best part of those dinners was when the 1st bottle was opened (soon to be followed by many more )
You know what, Italians love their wine, and I mean love. (Almost as much as the Irish love their whiskey )
There's no problem giving a 12 year old a glass, slightly watered down.
But for a 16 year old boy, no limitations, it was full speed ahead & batten down the hatches (it's time to get fucked up )
Then once we were all drunk as fuck & stuffed wih food (great wine & food ) we'd dance, like everyone would
I was lucky to have a great friend whose father could make some kick ass wine
Memorable days

This is one tune we'd all dance to ( I kicked ass )

This is sorta what the stomping looked like (do you stomp topcat or have your wife do it? )

Being from L.A., we were blessed with a lot of authentic Mexican restaurants. The portions were so big, you never went away hungry, and damn cheap, too! The best were family run, with mama doing the cooking. One of the few things I miss about L.A..

 

[CunningCanuk]

Being from L.A., we were blessed with a lot of authentic Mexican restaurants. The portions were so big, you never went away hungry, and damn cheap, too! The best were family run, with mama doing the cooking. One of the few things I miss about L.A..

They have great Mexican food in San Diego too. Oscars and Old Town are some of our favourites. I hope they will still be there when we finally get back!

 

[CunningCanuk]

Too bad in some way's that I'm Irish.
We have the worst food, mostly it tastes like shite
This is probably the best offered

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But actually, it's not bad after a dozen or so of these

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And a nip or two or three or four, etc, etc of this goes nicely as a dessert, so to speak

View attachment 4948032

And once we have satiated our hunger & thirst, we do this

Oh well, we'll just have to make do

Slainte!

My mother is Irish and we had corned beef boiled dinner every Sunday night. I hated it.

I like it a lot more now. Maybe because I don’t have it every week.

 

[injinji]

Being from L.A., we were blessed with a lot of authentic Mexican restaurants. The portions were so big, you never went away hungry, and damn cheap, too! The best were family run, with mama doing the cooking. One of the few things I miss about L.A..

We have pretty good Mexican places here in NW Florida too. There is a small chain called el jalisco. They are growing pretty fast. Maybe a dozen sites so far. I always get the seafood soup. I'm a big eater and I have to take half of it home.

The wife got to be friends with one of the owners back when she was rich and famous. He would help her out when she needed a translator.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

Fans Turn on MAGA Coffee Co. After Founder Denounces Proud Boys

How “Black Rifle Coffee is this perfect little metaphor for what has happened to the Republican Party over the past four years,” and much more on the latest Fever Dreams.

www.thedailybeast.com

Fans Turn on MAGA Coffee Co. After Founder Denounces Proud Boys

FEVER DREAMS
How “Black Rifle Coffee is this perfect little metaphor for what has happened to the Republican Party over the past four years,” and much more on the latest Fever Dreams.

Two coffee companies are currently competing for a pool of politically motivated customers, with each company trying to prove that they provide the Trumpiest, most aggressively MAGA coffee experience in the entire United States.

No, it’s not Starbucks and Caribou. It’s Black Rifle Coffee and Stocking Mill Coffee.

And one of them has already gotten in trouble with some of its fan base for crossing a group of Trump-worshipping, far-right extremists.

“The difficulty [Black Rifle Coffee is] in right now is they’ve spent several years kind of appealing to the worst attitudes, particularly in the American man… One of their initial things was they sold… range targets with hipsters on them,” Will Sommer, co-host of The Daily Beast’s Fever Dreams podcast, says on this week’s episode. “Kyle Rittenhouse wore one of their shirts and they had to distance themselves, and then of course that angered their fan base. And then most notably, one of the premier Capitol rioters was wearing a Black Rifle Coffee hat.”

Things only got worse for Black Rifle Coffee when its founders denounced the Proud Boys in a New York Times profile published earlier this month, leaving an opening for Stocking Mill—which has a slogan of “Arrive Violently”—to outflank them from the right. This led to former Black Rifle drinkers announcing that they’d punish the company, for instance, by setting their Black Rifle clothing on fire.

“I love how Black Rifle Coffee is this perfect little metaphor for what has happened to the Republican Party over the past four years,” fellow Fever Dreams host Asawin Suebsaeng says. “It’s like, ‘Oh, we spent all this time cuddling up to the worst elements in the conservative base and the Republican Party, and now we’re stunned to see that we’ve gotten some blowback.’”
...

 

[Jimdamick]

My mother is Irish and we had corned beef boiled dinner every Sunday night. I hated it.

I like it a lot more now. Maybe because I don’t have it every week.

If you were in Ireland and asked for corned beef & cabbage, they'd say "What the feck are ye talking about, we don't eat that shite"
And they don't.
It's totally an American concoction, started in Boston & New York amongst the Irish immigrants because it, Corned Beef & Cabbage & Potatoes were cheap, definitely not because it tasted good

@CunningCanuk I actually have a good Corned Beef recipe that I developed.
I've been told by many that it's the best they've ever had.
I'll PM it to you

 

[CunningCanuk]

@CunningCanuk I actually have a good Corned Beef recipe that I developed.
I've been told by many that it's the best they've ever had.
I'll PM it to you

Please do!

 

[rkymtnman]

If you were in Ireland and asked for corned beef & cabbage, they'd say "What the feck are ye talking about, we don't eat that shite"
And they don't.
It's totally an American concoction, started in Boston & New York amongst the Irish immigrants because it, Corned Beef & Cabbage & Potatoes were cheap, definitely not because it tasted good

@CunningCanuk I actually have a good Corned Beef recipe that I developed.
I've been told by many that it's the best they've ever had.
I'll PM it to you

i'll take a PM too on that one por favor.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

US church official resigns after news outlet uses phone data to out him as Grindr user

Jeffrey Burill steps down after Catholic media outlet obtains cellphone data that revealed he was a user of gay dating app

www.theguardian.com

US church official resigns after news outlet uses phone data to out him as Grindr user
Jeffrey Burill steps down after Catholic media outlet obtains cellphone data that revealed he was a user of gay dating app

The top administrator of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops resigned after cellphone data revealed that he was a frequent user of Grindr, the queer dating app, and regularly visited gay bars.

In a statement released on Tuesday, the organization announced that Monsignor Jeffrey Burill had resigned as its general secretary after the group learned of “impending media reports alleging possible improper behavior”.

Since last November, Burill has been the organization’s top administrator. As general secretary, he was in charge of coordinating all administrative work and planning for the conference, which is the country’s network for Catholic bishops.

The Catholic media outlet the Pillar first detected Burill’s activities by obtaining device location data from a data vendor before hiring a consulting firm to analyze the records.

“According to commercially available records of app signal data obtained by The Pillar, a mobile device correlated to Burill emitted app data signals from the location-based hookup app Grindr on a near-daily basis during parts of 2018, 2019, and 2020,” the Pillar reported. “Data app signals suggest he was at the same time engaged in serial and illicit sexual activity,” it added.
...

 

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Will The Delta Variant Send Americans Back Into Lockdown?

An alarming rise in covid-19 infections led Los Angeles to reinstate indoor mask mandates, prompting people nationwide to wonder if their state or city could be next.