First Cup Diner!

[royal0014]

Mornin' Y'all

Reckon I'll get the lights on and the pot to singing this Black Friday. The bride will venture out later
today with one of the nieces for some shopping. Used to be an all day affair .
But for me the holiday is over and back to the salt mine tonight.

Yawl be safe this weekend .. ... ..

[djknife13]

good morning Chris. I didn't expect anyone to be up and moving at this hour. Good morning to all who follow. We had 16 show up for an evening Turkey feast at son Jason's home yesterday. I hauled the turkey carcass home and that is on the stove getting ready to be made into turkey soup. there will be no shopping for me today unless I need something for the soup. I sure don't need anything else merchants are peddling with all the cleaning and downsizing we've been doing lately. Thanksgiving was nice and relaxing even with a house full. A couple nephews showed up that we don't get to see very often, and it was great catching up. Their Dad, Janes younger brother by 9 years died 5 years ago from breast cancer. It's nice that, with a large close family, even when time seems to fly by and we don't see each other for several years, nephews and nieces feel comfortable calling up and asking if they can join us for a holiday or just come and have lunch with us. Distance or time don't change anything when it comes to family, or even friends of the family. Hope you all had a really nice Thanksgiving and socked away some more good memories. ____Dave

[treefarmer]

Good Mornin, Chris, Dave and the rest of the crew.
It's much warmer this morning than yesterday, it's 50 degrees and the rain has moved on to the east.
We had an enjoyable Thanksgiving even though our eldest daughter and her family were unable to make the trip. Our son showed up driving his "new" car, a 1966 Ford 2 door, red with a 390 engine. We had a big pancake breakfast and then a wonderful dinner and then a well-deserved nap. Dave, Miss Joy had a big pot, same as you, salvaging ingredients for turkey soup, maybe turkey and some sort of pasta or maybe both.
Headin' out for a work-day, building a handicap ramp for one a new amputee. Maybe I can make it back to the woods this afternoon.
Coffee is being poured, got to be at the project site in about an hour.
Y'all have a good day!
Treefarmer

[bighomer]

Morning folks, rather chilly 37 heading to the mid 50's.
Wampus is fed but hadn't showed last I looked, he came by yestiddy for turkey and giblets pate'.
We had 11 for dinner at the son's house, a fine meal and camaraderie, nothing better than that I reckon.
Boss is leaving in a bit to shop with my neice, so I guess I'll be large and in charge this morning around here.
Buddies day at Hooters.
Hope yawl have a good'un and be careful out there.

[Quick Steel]

It appears that all who have checked in this morning had a very pleasant Thanksgiving, as did I. Am still digesting yesterday's excessive food.
37 now, mostly cloudy; probably get up to 50.

Yesterday morning I was loading up the bird feeder when I saw a neighbor's calf running free down towards the highway. I alerted the neighbor. I haven't yet learned if the calf was successfully rounded up. Most likely it was.

No doubt today's meals will center around left overs, i.e. turkey, ham, etc.

peace & health

[jerryd6818]

I was up at 5:00 and just been piddle dinkin' around. Got a Christmas gift ordered for Linnea. Everybody else get's checks. Well maybe except for the great-grands. Not sure what to do about that yet. Anybody have any suggestions for two and three year old boys? There's a total of six boys and a girl. I am so blessed.

[Waukonda]

No doubt today's meals will center around left overs, i.e. turkey, ham, etc.

peace & health

Garry, today is National Sardines Day (look it up), partake!

[Quick Steel]

Thanks for the info Ike. In fact I like sardines, but not today. I always keep a supply on hand. My father thrived on saltines and sardines. He lived to 101. I used to think all the alcohol he drank acted as a preservative.

[cudgee]

Looks like all the regulars here had a good Thanksgiving, great to see. And i did not even know there was a Sardines Day, without knowing i had sardines on their official day. Love 'em.

[Waukonda]

Looks like all the regulars here had a good Thanksgiving, great to see. And i did not even know there was a Sardines Day, without knowing i had sardines on their official day. Love 'em.

A $2 or$3 tin of sardines a couple times a week would save a lot of money spent on doctor visits and meds, especially if you throw some salmon and a daily dose of evoo into the mix.

If I were to suddenly stop posting........well then you will know that my theory was incorrect!

[Quick Steel]

Your comments on health have great merit, Ike. EVOO is a spectacularly good food. Extra Virgin Olive Oil in the U.S. is often sitting around on shelves for six months and sometimes years by which time it has lost many of its benefits. And in the U.S. it has probably spent many months or weeks on board ships, waiting for customs etc. Yet another very common issue is that much of the imported EVOO has been illegally adulterated.

For these reasons I used to purchase oil from California run family olive producers. This provides a great reduction in travel time. Now I belong to an EVOO club. Each quarter I receive three bottles, flown by jet plane, from around the world which have been freshly harvested and personally sampled by the founder of the club and his crew of tasters at the site of the new vintages.. Last quarter the bottles came from Chile which is producing oils of better quality than Europe. The current bottles are from Australia.

[OSCAR]

Morning everyone. Open for business. 43 degrees now and high of fifty five. All the talk about sardines reminded me of the best ones I ever had. About 20 years ago, I had some right off the boat, and charcoal grilled on the pier in Portugal. Somewhat larger than those in a can. They were awesome and I wish I could get them again but my long distance traveling days are over. Have a terrific weekend. I’m having first cup of coffee now.

[DM11]

Morning crew, everything at work crashed yesterday and got sent home early. Guess I'll go in and see whats going on. 27-36 rain and a chance of snow tonight. Stay frosty!

[Quick Steel]

Good Morning Oscar and other fellow diners. It got one degree below freezing. Now 31 going to 54; partly cloudy.

Speaking of Portugal, I saw a photo yesterday of a surfer successfully riding a 115 foot wave all the way to shore. I've seen many photos of giant waves piling up against the shores of Portugal. I remember being impressed with some 30' waves in Hawaii. Can't imagine what it would be like to witness let alone surf 100 plus foot waves.

peace & health

[djknife13]

Good morning. Coldest day this winter so far at 13 degrees. Sunshine is supposed to visit today so that will be nice. I've been obsessing over some dumb thing that I found the empty box for while cleaning out some stuff in the basement and don't know if the kids got rid of it or if it got packed away in another box, so now I've decided I need to go through the boxes in the storage container and mark them better. That's not going to be much fun at 13 degrees, but it's driving me nuts not knowing where stuff is. I didn't know where the stuff was in the basement, but somehow that felt different. I hate change. And Tuesdays. I hate Tuesdays. I don't much like cold either anymore. Bah humbug. I think I'm getting into the Christmas spirit already, although not actually the one I should be getting into. There's a grumpy old man lurking in me somewhere dying to get out and spread his wings. Hope you all have a good Saturday. I do like Saturdays as kind of a holdover from grade school way back in the middle of the last century. I did hate grade school.____Dave

[Quick Steel]

Grade school Saturdays...YES!!

[treefarmer]

Good Mornin', Fellers.
Our closest "official" weather station, The Tri-County Airport is reporting 41 degrees, we have one thermometer screen showing 43 and another is at 55. The one reading 55 probably is probably in need some new batteries in the outdoor unit.
Coffee is about done, heading back to the handi-cap ramp project at 8am this morning. All of the frame was completed yesterday and the decking will probably go fairly easily. Matching all this up to an existing porch on a 46 inch high double-wide home is apparently a nightmare to some of the bunch who are "highly skilled" finish carpenters. It is what it is, the finished product will be strong and up to code even if it's out of square! Too many chiefs and not enough Indians at times calls for long discussions like, "what about or what if". My old uncle used to say, "Nail 'er down boys, we ain't buildin' a church, if we were we'd put a steeple on it!" My rant for this morning.
Too tired to go to the woods yesterday evening after "work", maybe this afternoon.
Big college rivalry game tonight, FSU vs UF down in Gainsville, both teams without their starting quarterbacks.
Y'all have a great day!
Treefarmer

[jerryd6818]

Good morning. Coldest day this winter so far at 13 degrees. Sunshine is supposed to visit today so that will be nice. I've been obsessing over some dumb thing that I found the empty box for while cleaning out some stuff in the basement and don't know if the kids got rid of it or if it got packed away in another box, so now I've decided I need to go through the boxes in the storage container and mark them better. That's not going to be much fun at 13 degrees, but it's driving me nuts not knowing where stuff is. I didn't know where the stuff was in the basement, but somehow that felt different. I hate change. And Tuesdays. I hate Tuesdays. I don't much like cold either anymore. Bah humbug. I think I'm getting into the Christmas spirit already, although not actually the one I should be getting into. There's a grumpy old man lurking in me somewhere dying to get out and spread his wings. Hope you all have a good Saturday. I do like Saturdays as kind of a holdover from grade school way back in the middle of the last century. I did hate grade school.____Dave

Hey Scrooge. Move down here where there's plenty of things to hate on.

We're supposed to get a little snow today. What the hey. We're easing into the "official" winter. Here it's snow showers this morning. Becoming partly cloudy later. High 37º.

[Boji]

Currently 21 won’t warm up much and possible snow flurries
Last week was way above normal and this week has slide into winter.
Got a lot of Christmas goodies made, one more batch of fudge to make. And the Christmas shopping is done except for one more small gift for one of the granddaughters.
Tomorrow will do a little decorating, no tree cuz I’ll be leaving on the 27th to spend New Years in North Carolina.
Work today, Small Business Saturday, hope people come and shop!
Need more coffee. Have a great weekend.

[bighomer]

Morning folks, 30 heading to the mid 50's.
I've been perusing other sections this morning finally got around to the fcd. Sounds like it rather chilly in everybody's neck of the woods.
Critters are all fed and the dishes warshed and put away, old wampus made it for breakfast and seem tired and hongery as a bear, chasing the gals must hard work.
Got get the trash/recycle stuff to the satellite site and to see if the fleamarket is open.
Hope yawl have a good'un and be careful out there.

[djknife13]

Good morning. Coldest day this winter so far at 13 degrees. Sunshine is supposed to visit today so that will be nice. I've been obsessing over some dumb thing that I found the empty box for while cleaning out some stuff in the basement and don't know if the kids got rid of it or if it got packed away in another box, so now I've decided I need to go through the boxes in the storage container and mark them better. That's not going to be much fun at 13 degrees, but it's driving me nuts not knowing where stuff is. I didn't know where the stuff was in the basement, but somehow that felt different. I hate change. And Tuesdays. I hate Tuesdays. I don't much like cold either anymore. Bah humbug. I think I'm getting into the Christmas spirit already, although not actually the one I should be getting into. There's a grumpy old man lurking in me somewhere dying to get out and spread his wings. Hope you all have a good Saturday. I do like Saturdays as kind of a holdover from grade school way back in the middle of the last century. I did hate grade school.____Dave

Hey Scrooge. Move down here where there's plenty of things to hate on.

We're supposed to get a little snow today. What the hey. We're easing into the "official" winter. Here it's snow showers this morning. Becoming partly cloudy later. High 37º.

You won't get me anywhere near Illinois. I spent 6 or 7 months there from March to November 1975 at Chanute AFB. I've never been that cold and damp in March, or that hot and humid in July ever, you don't have trees, and your lakes (ponds) are the wrong color. I do think Minnesota, or at least the Twin Cities have out-done your liberal leaning govt.____Dave

[Waukonda]

You won't get me anywhere near Illinois. I spent 6 or 7 months there from March to November 1975 at Chanute AFB. I've never been that cold and damp in March, or that hot and humid in July ever, you don't have trees, and your lakes (ponds) are the wrong color. I do think Minnesota, or at least the Twin Cities have out-done your liberal leaning govt.____Dave

C'mon! You just couldn't find any lutefisk or decent Swedish meatballs around Rantoul so you decided to hate the entire state!

[OSCAR]

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE
44 degrees now, high of 52. No rain.
Thankful for the two hours of sleep I got. Insomnia isn’t fun. Haven’t been to my favorite diner in awhile. Prices went up (like everything else) but still reasonable. I don’t mind the 15 mile drive each way. I can chow down on a huge breakfast and not have to eat the rest of the day.

Have a terrific day !
-OUTTA HERE

[djknife13]

You won't get me anywhere near Illinois. I spent 6 or 7 months there from March to November 1975 at Chanute AFB. I've never been that cold and damp in March, or that hot and humid in July ever, you don't have trees, and your lakes (ponds) are the wrong color. I do think Minnesota, or at least the Twin Cities have out-done your liberal leaning govt.____Dave

C'mon! You just couldn't find any lutefisk or decent Swedish meatballs around Rantoul so you decided to hate the entire state!

When I finally did get back to Minnesota, they changed lutefisk to "processed cod" and it doesn't smell (much) and isn't as slimy when cooked wrong. It would be like having caviar toasted or oysters beer battered except that would probably be an improvement. Actually, to be fair, I haven't ever had either caviar or oysters, but I did try Illinois and I was definitely not home and I went from Illinois to Rapid City S.Dak, and even considering the flood and rattle snakes, loved it there. To each his own.____Dave

[djknife13]

Good morning. Church in a few hours and nothing else planned for the day. Have a great Sunday.____Dave