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I'm sure it would work well though.  

I've always had Texas Pete in the fridge, Tabasco back when I could eat shellfish frequently.

Tried the Durkee once but went back to the TX Pete.

Worst thing about making them is I end up reeking going from frying on the stove back and forth to the oven ten times or more. Couldn't get into the lazyboys or on the sofa afterwards without a shower, would not let them get cold... a case of beer later and I would still be at the table watching the game.

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On 10/6/2019 at 8:21 AM, Tarheel said:

Thinking of adding some square footage to LF's music room. 

Love the finish on that cabinet.

The topless pic of the house looks like alot of work, and I don't just say that about anything.

 

On 10/6/2019 at 8:47 AM, WillyBob said:

that pitch looks like something I wouldn't try....

I thought the same thing, not me, I'm not scared of heights just scared of falling, well the stop anyway.

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That roof is gonna look great when it's done I'm thunkin.  More pics Chuck.  Roofers always have a way of hiring lil squirrels to scale those pitches then they sit back and whip 'em.  Hope they're nailing and not using staples.  Too many problems up here w/staples.  That's always debatable though.  The hot sauces?  Imma just gonna stick w/oldtimer's.  I'd be wasting my money trying to figure out which brand is best up here.  oldtimer just keeps burinin the hair off my tongue  :)  Great on anything but cereal in the morning!  hahaha

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1 hour ago, WillyBob said:

... funny thing about wife and sweaters/fresh air

she has to wear a sweater when she's at work because the A/C is too cold.   ?????   and she complains about it   ????

They can't help it it's just the way they are, just be glad it never worked around to be your fault somehow.

 

1 hour ago, JohnJ said:

The perfection of the hot sauce and margarine. Fried then baked... repeated several to many times for additional heat!

It's a time & effort intensive process to do it right!

But they are worth it. I have never tried to cook them but want to.

 

46 minutes ago, JohnJ said:

Worst thing about making them is I end up reeking going from frying on the stove back and forth to the oven ten times or more. Couldn't get into the lazyboys or on the sofa afterwards without a shower, would not let them get cold..

I feel that way about anything I have to fry, it just feel like it's all over you. 

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18 minutes ago, Dave1290 said:

The hot sauces?  Imma just gonna stick w/oldtimer's.  I'd be wasting my money trying to figure out which brand is best up here.  oldtimer just keeps burinin the hair off my tongue  :)

We tend to like one of his original recipes, Hawaiian Firecraker, only about half a bottle left the wife pointed out the other day.

I switch between a few, one being Sriracha and a few from down here with more of a vinegar taste like Crystal or Louisiana brand and a little Tabasco Chipotle. Someone gave me a pack of 6 different or unusual hot sauces as a present and I try them also. We go for the normal type not the extra hot stuff.

 

Went on a Tabasco Chipotle kick for about a years once, my sister gave ma a gallon and I ran out in about 7 months and bought another, kind of got away from it a little after that bottle ran out. It was much cheaper by the gallon.

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2 hours ago, WillyBob said:

... funny thing about wife and sweaters/fresh air

she has to wear a sweater when she's at work because the A/C is too cold.   ?????   and she complains about it   ????

 

25 minutes ago, dtel said:

They can't help it it's just the way they are, just be glad it never worked around to be your fault somehow.

 

When my wife got here from the Philippines, she kept saying the house was too cold when it was 74 inside. Now we have it at 68 overnight and she says it's too hot in the morning. Of course, it's almost 10 years later... 🤐

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5 hours ago, MookieStl said:

Key is to be healthy and active when you make that move. If not, it will bore the heck out of ya (me at least).

and have a plan for how to use your time.  i quit working at a young age and found it exceptionally boring when all of my friends still had jobs. a lot of time -- nobody to spend it with.

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41 minutes ago, Marvel said:

 

 

When my wife got here from the Philippines, she kept saying the house was too cold when it was 74 inside. Now we have it at 68 overnight and she says it's too hot in the morning. Of course, it's almost 10 years later... 🤐

how does she (and you) handle the heat & humidity when you visit the Philippines?  That is the absolute worst combination for my Asthma -- i’m dead on my feet in those conditions. So many places that i’d like to go; but avoid because of the weather. when in the coast guard, we’d submit “dream sheets” stating which jobs we wanted. it contained a section for Most Desired and Least Desired Areas.  I always had Gulf Coast and East Coast as my least desired simply because i didn’t want to deal with oppressive humidity.  so, i managed to finagle 16 of 20 years in Los Angeles. Many didn’t want to come to LA, they thought there were gang shootouts on every corner. Not so ... just some corners. But their fear worked in my favor.  During my tenure, the most popular place people wanted to go was to Seattle. 

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2 hours ago, Marvel said:

When my wife got here from the Philippines, she kept saying the house was too cold when it was 74 inside. Now we have it at 68 overnight and she says it's too hot in the morning. Of course, it's almost 10 years later... 🤐

Sometimes it takes much longer for bodies to completely adjust from a more-or-less ALWAYS HOT climate like in a tropical or middle-eastern environment, when moving to, or returning to a temperate climate.  Trust, me...I KNOW!  When I returned from Kuwait after being there for over two-and-a-half years, it was summertime here in Arkansas. The humidity was HIGH here, and compared to WHERE I WAS in Kuwait (away from the much higher humidity nearby the Persian Gulf!), the humidity had been much lower.  So, the temperatures in the 90's and into the 100's in Arkansas was considered HOT by everybody around me, but myself!  Going from between 120 and 140 degrees (for all but about 2-3 months a year!)...to 90 to 100 degrees in Arkansas made me feel like I was freezing!...and that was in 2007!  Well, many times in the summer here, I STILL feel like I am cold!...even though the air temps are relatively high!  It is only when I am IN THE SUN that it stops...I guess because the direct radiation of the sun heats up my body MORE than the air temps do!  I have the same problem to a much lesser extent when I return from Bo0hol in the lower Visayas in the Philippines after an extended stay, though!  That issue is reduced a good bit if I spend most of my Bohol time very near to, or on, the beaches due to the sea breezes making it more comfortable for me!   But just going inland about 1.5 km makes me feel much worse temperature/humidity-wise...probably to the reduction in fealt ground breezes due to buildings and trees blocking them so much. 

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42 minutes ago, BigStewMan said:

and have a plan for how to use your time.  i quit working at a young age and found it exceptionally boring when all of my friends still had jobs. a lot of time -- nobody to spend it with.

You want to share that plan? I am wide open at this point.

I will be 61 this month and I have many friends already retired.

Realistically, I am looking at 67 as my retirement number. I do have an option of stepping back at 65 and let someone else take over and maybe ease my way out over the next couple years. The more I think about it, the less certain I am about which direction to go. A lot can change in 4-6 years. I do not have any grandchildren at this point (4 kids - 27 -35), I think if that changes, it may alter my direction.  Who knows?

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2 minutes ago, MookieStl said:

You want to share that plan?

i didn’t have a plan ... that’s why i’m so bored.

quit working the first time at 43 -- friends still working

quit working the second time at 56 -- friends still working

now i live in a place that i don’t know anyone ... i’ll probably go back to work for awhile. Then i’ll have to meet some old people that have time on their hands ... maybe partners to do some traveling.  That’s the sucky part of getting divorced later in life .... loneliness. It sucks always having to find people to do things with.

but, there are many that have it worse than i do, i’ve been very blessed in many ways ... so i should stop whining.

 

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4 hours ago, BigStewMan said:

 didn’t have a plan ... that’s why i’m so bored.

quit working the first time at 43 -- friends still working

quit working the second time at 56 -- friends still working

now i live in a place that i don’t know anyone ... i’ll probably go back to work for awhile. Then i’ll have to meet some old people that have time on their hands ... maybe partners to do some traveling.  That’s the sucky part of getting divorced later in life .... loneliness. It sucks always having to find people to do things with.

but, there are many that have it worse than i do, i’ve been very blessed in many ways ... so i should stop whining.

If you don't mind me asking, what kind of work have you done and what kinds of hobbies do you have? 

 

I'm asking this for a good reason.

For example, I still have a retirement home to build...so that in itself will keep me busy for about a year after I move (early next spring!) to the location I will do it at.

 

But I have to keep busy afterwards, and since I am married, and she will very likely outlive me for at least two decades due to our age differences, I want to get a business started up for her to run and have a decent income after I am gone...since she will only have survivor benefits left from my current income, which is WAY far less than even half of what I am bringing in now.

 

BUT, after that?  I dunno what will keep me busy and allow for new friendships...other than some of my hobbies, which also tend to be kinda costly.

 

But, I have been considering passing along to others who could use them, some of the skills I have learned in my life.  Being a vet myself, I tend to lean towards that avenue for teaching skills to vets who could use them.  PLUS, I would probably add new friends into that mix from those who are learning the skills. It COULD BE a win-win situation for everyone involved!  The added benefit is that it COULD all (or at least MOSTLY) be funded by a grant or two!  An ambitious vet could  easily make a decent living from learning my wood-working skills...without even needing to depend on getting hired by someone else to do it....except maybe as being a sub-contractor to someone else.  I have other skills, also...did lots of different things during my life...LOL! 

 

It would actually make me very proud to have taught some skills to a few and then they work together to earn a living using those skills in a joint operation as co-owners!  This would be even MORESO, if many were PHYSICALLY-disabled, because in many parts of the wood-working processes, many PHYSICAL disabilities do not necessarily hamper anybody for at least parts of the jobs at hand.  The same goes for machinists, in so many cases!  I also have those skills, learned on the most worn-out equipment possible, which gave me even more skills...or should I say "tricks" of the trade?  LOL!  Honestly, most of my life I had to work on less than IDEAL equipment and still produce a quality product!  So I learned lots of tricks and fixes for the poor-condition equipment to allow me to do things RIGHT!  LOL!  As they say in the infantry, "adjust-fire and continue to march!"  LOL! 

 

Just a thought for ya!

 

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31 minutes ago, HDBRbuilder said:

If you don't mind me asking, what kind of work have you done and what kinds of hobbies do you have?  I'm asking this for a good reason.

If I remember correctly, Steve's work history centers around a dog walking and kitty cat escort service, while his hobbies are long walks on the beach, coffee at sunrise on the patio, and eating cheetos while driving in the mountains.....Please, correct me if I'm wrong.....

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38 minutes ago, HDBRbuilder said:

If you don't mind me asking, what kind of work have you done and what kinds of hobbies do you have?  I'm asking this for a good reason.

Retired from the military then from the county government.  

i play the guitar and make interesting comments on the klipsch forum.

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5 minutes ago, jimjimbo said:

If I remember correctly, Steve's work history centers around a dog walking and kitty cat escort service, while his hobbies are long walks on the beach, coffee at sunrise on the patio, and eating cheetos while driving in the mountains.....Please, correct me if I'm wrong.....

 

4 minutes ago, oldtimer said:

You left out hanging around Del Taco.

didn’t take long for you jokers to chime in.  i do like the beach, del taco, dogs, cheetos, and coffee ... hate the mountains and allergic to cats.  

 

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