Bark

Nope. Dispite occasionally looking like I was dead I was actually sleeping.

Im thinking about heading to Michigan. That guy who won the $337-million Powerball jackpot sounds like he could use a friend.

chaikwa

He prob'ly could, but why are YOU coming?



Evening all youins.

Bark

Hey! I can be a very good, kind, considerate, thoughtful and sincere friend when there is something in it for me.

Raining here. Few more weeks and I get to go South for awhile. It will probably start raining there too.

Hope everybody is doing ok. With only a couple more weeks of summer left Its been pretty quite around here.

Tallguy67

Evening all, I had a great day off today to start the long weekend. Tomorrow is all about yummy food. I put dry rub on 8lbs of brisket, it is marinating overnight. Tomorrow it is about 8 hrs of smoker time. If you want Texas style smoked brisket and BBQ sauce, dinner will be served about 6 pm Mountain time - smoked brisket, coleslaw and corn on the cob the cob, fresh from the garden. As always, the beef is from the local 4H club. It grew up in the field 50ft north of my BBQ.

I guess I should put the new transmission in the lawn tractor too. It has been up on jack stands for 6 weeks. Good thing we have a second mower, or I would be looking to borrow Cincy's sheep to keep the lawn trimmed.

chaikwa

I didn't realize summer had STARTED up there yet. How long's it last? A week? 2?

Tallguy67

From what I have heard about AK, summer was last Wednesday.

chaikwa

I didn't realize exactly where you were in Canada. My business partner just spent 5 days in Calgary. Look pretty close on the map.

Bark

Mmmmmm... Wish I was driving down right now.
We discussed propane, charcoal and elect but I forget. What kind of smoker are you using?

Yeah, it was pretty short this year.
Soldotna had frost on peoples car windows a few mornings ago.

When we were leaving CA last year driving up some people we barely know had heard that we were going to be driving through Anchorage.
They asked us if we would mind dropping some stuff off to their son who lives in Fairbanks because we would be driving by it.
Fairbanks is 360 miles from Anchorage (and thats on a good day).

Tallguy67

I work in downtown Calgary. I have a 1 hr commute, 30 mins on our version of a subway to the south end of the city and then 30 mins driving east, outside of the city. To be honest, there hasn't been much of anything to Dalemead in 40 years. Even locals don't know where I live. I just tell locals I live 30 miles SE of the city.

Bark

Hey!!!! Our last posts were at the exact same time.
According to an obscure DTR bylaw, you have to express ship that brisket to me since my post shows up first.
Sorry but I don't make up the rules, I just follow them.

old dog

Bark,
Speaking of that - I`m still awaiting that 30# box of ak. crab legs that you owe me for the same reason !
Claude

Bark

Dang...I hate it when that happens. I mean uh... Didnt you get that?? I mailed it a long time ago.
Glad to hear from you Claude.
I still havent bought a radio yet. I dragged my heals on a local one and missed out on it.
Maybe this winter.

chaikwa

They took him over to Branff on Friday. There was still snow on some of the mountains!


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1799 - The Bank of Manhattan Company opened in New York City, NY. It was the forerunner of Chase Manhattan.

1807 - Former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason.

1810 - The first plow with interchangeable parts was patented by John J. Wood.

1859 - The Pullman sleeping car was placed into service.

1878 - Emma M. Nutt became the first female telephone operator in the U.S. The company was the Telephone Dispatch Company of Boston.

1884 - The Thomas A. Edison Construction Department and the Edison Company for Isolated Lighting merged.

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1894 - A forest fire in Hinckley, MN, killed more than 400 people.

1897 - The first section of Boston's subway system was opened.

1905 - Saskatchewan and Alberta became the ninth and tenth provinces of Canada.

1939 - World War II began when Germany invaded Poland.

1942 - A federal judge in Sacramento, CA, upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.

1945 - The U.S. received official word of Japan's formal surrender that ended World War II. In Japan, it was actually September 2nd.

1979 - The U.S. Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft to visit Saturn.

1983 - A Soviet jet fighter shot down a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 when it entered Soviet airspace. 269 people were killed.

1985 - The Titanic was found by Dr. Robert Ballard and Jean Louis Michel in a joint U.S. and French expedition. The wreck site is located 963 miles northeast of New York and 453 miles southeast of the Newfoundland coast.

1998 - Vietnam released 5,000 prisoners, including political dissidents, on National Day.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
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Coffee's ready. Chocolate covered bacon on the counter.

Tallguy67

Bark - I have 3 smokers, a smoker box for the BBQ, an electric cold smoker for things like smoked salmon, smoked kielbasa and beef jerky and a propane fired vertical water hot smoker for brisket and other meat that has to be cooked not just preserved. Today I will be using the propane fired smoker. It is going to be very windy here this afternoon so the smoker will be setup in the barn. Hopefully the coyotes don't have a craving for smoke seasoned barn cats.....

Chaikwa - that is a mixture of last year's snow and new snow. The mountains we can see from our kitchen started accumulating new snow about a week and a half ago. We are about a 90 miles from the mountains as the shrew flies.

cougar

Morning people, yes we had our day and a half of summer. Now we are back into the monsoon season. The worst part is the fair is going on. Smells like a bunch of wet dogs in Palmer right now.