Mid Winter Blues

[Terry Cox]

Finally some good news. Need to replace my 50 feet of anchor chain. Getting a bit crusty on the rope end. Dunlap Industrial and Everett Steel only able to get off shore brand. WM is $6/foot for domestic brand. Washington Chain out of Seattle has ACCO brand domestic 5/16th inch, hot dipped galvanized, G4 for $3.75/foot. Woohoo!

 

[Terry Cox]

Darn mail man, he must have lost my invite

Naw, it's called snail mail around these precincts. I'm sure Les mailed you one. It will show up, soooooon. Very sooooon.

 

[DayDreamer41]

I sure hope so I can only hold my breath for a few more minutes....

 

[LeslieTroyer]

Naw, it's called snail mail around these precincts. I'm sure Les mailed you one. It will show up, soooooon. Very sooooon.

I think @jssailem was in charge of invites.

@Terry Cox its only 10lbs worth. Is fun to put 6 boneless pork buts on the smoker. 70+ pounds of pig candy. The cow candy is good too.

I didn’t get this skinny by eating grass

Les

 

[Terry Cox]

When I worked in Texas (1987-97), every Thursday our group would have a beef BBQ rib lunch at Dickies. They knew how to make them. Oh how I miss those ribs. Hard to find good ones around these parts.

 

[Justin_NSA]

There was a place across from the Outback Steakhouse in Renton was near Boeing that I used to go to around '98-'01 years that reportedly had the best ribs in WA. Can't remember the name. Tony Roma?

 

[jssailem]

Terry.. I got chain. One 130 foot and one 80 foot length.
As it is said...

I am sure we can find a number mush less than this deal..

 

[Captain Larry-DH]

Its actually quite good.

Thanks for sharing this. My wife has a great vegan bean Chile recipe which doesn’t use oil. PM me if you want it.

 

[jssailem]

@DayDreamer41 The invoice was in the mail - I mean invite, those darn spell checkers...
.. It has not been returned so I assumed that you might still come. Check with your postman or woman.
Just an aside.. The printing, images and calligraphy on the invite is nothing short of amazing. If you can not make it at the least you are getting a work of fart... Art...

Let me share, having tasted Les's smoked pastrami it is heaven. So let us know your flight arrival and we will hope you make it to the dock before we cast off for the 3 hour, opps 4 day winter adventure.

 

[DayDreamer41]

That is just classic @jssailem the art work must be absolutely amazing and I am sure it will have me agassed.....

Delta airlines just contacted me and they are afraid that the flight delays will cause me to arrive too late to make the docks, so have a great voyage, hope to catch you again next St Patrick's day.

 

[jssailem]

@DayDreamer41 When the green beer flows, I will think of you and look forward to the opportunity to meet and share a pint. I do not partake of green beer though, I choose Guinness.

If God intended men to drink green beer he would not have colored our pee yellow.

May your days warm up so you can shed your winter blues. Will send pictures of our sail.

 

[LeslieTroyer]

Mmmmmm cow

 

[Terry Cox]

I got chain. One 130 foot and one 80 foot length.

Hi John, okay, does it meet the spec? Hot dipped galvanized, domestic, 5/16th inch, G4? If so you got a buyer.

 

[jssailem]

Believe it is 3/8 and galvanized. You are welcome to take a look.

 

[Terry Cox]

Mmmmmm cow

Gosh, reminds me of my grandmother's small dairy farm where I grew up. Remarkable stern German woman. She had five milkers; one Jersey, and three/four guernseys. We were expected to help her run the farm. That meant hay time; mowing, shocking, baling, etc. She had an old Surge vacuum milker (I can still hear it working) that was heavy when full of milk. My job was to install kickers, load/unload the milker and strip when it was finished. It usually took about ten to fifteen minutes to empty the udder.

While waiting I sat on a small wooden crate (also used as a stool for stripping) behind the cows. In the spring time the cows would load up on wet green field grass, which gave them diarrhea. I would dose off while waiting, then a cow would cough and I would get splattered with either urine or manure or both. Lovely job, but now among my fondest memories.

 

[Terry Cox]

Believe it is 3/8

Too big for my windlass, but I can take a look. Stamped G4?

 

[jssailem]

Not that I can find.
Loved the story. I got to milk cows on a farm in England back in 64. It was a real experience. Old school.

 

[Mark Maulden]

Les, do you share the cow recipe?

 

[LeslieTroyer]

Les, do you share the cow recipe?

Actually very easy. Take a packaged corned beef soak in cold water 4 hours changing water every hour. Remove and dry, coat with pepper. Smoke 190 for 3hrs then 210 till 170-175 internal temp. Remove and foil 2 hrs. Enjoy

Corned Beef + smoke = pastrami.

 

[DayDreamer41]

Mmmmmm cow
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I don't know, boat babe or Les's prepared hmmmmm cow, I am having a hard time picking..........