Experiments in dehydration -part 1

 So the wife finally decided that I wasn't stupid to be getting more food than we'd use in about two weeks.
-So she bought a used dehydrator.

Her first go was mushrooms which seem to have turned out well.
Then she went to strawberrys........ which- we'll see. They're stuck to the screen right now waiting for her to process them.

I cannot find canned fire roasted tomatoes, so I thought I'd give it a try.
I sliced Roma tomatoes about a quarter inch thick (more or less) and put the first batch on a tin foils sheet on a pan. I figured at least it would save some clean up.
I use broil on high for 17 minutes, and the pan/sheet about the middle shelf.
Then it tried turning them over for another five minutes.

I got them out and the really thin ones were burnt to the foil.
After putting them on the drying rack I did the next batch (5 Romas to fill a baking sheet)

This time I crumpled the foil and used the back (clean) side for the same times.

When I pulled them out, all I did was stretch the foil and almost all fell right onto the drying rack.

WIN!

Now we'll see what happens in about seven hours.

Your Rule Five Monday puzzle

 It's a twofer today-

 

 

 And as usual, the big one below the fold-

AAR New Braunfels gun show

 Wife wanted to go, so we went.
I'm kinda surprised that my knee held up so well.

Saw a lot of EBRs.
I was kinda looking for a .357 in something like a Marlin flavor -but not Rossi, I've seen too many problems with them.
I was also kinda looking for an old AR with a carrying handle - which are like unicorns.

Then the wife wanted something to drink and as we were passing another table ----- I saw it 

An old AR I guess pre A-2 model with the slab sides and full 22" barrel with triangle guard.
He wanted $1300 for it.
So I passed- I couldn't convince myself to pay that much- again.

After sitting and the wife saying "I'm not telling you to buy it, but when you're ready- it's only going to be more expensive.
Plus I remembered the extra thousand I had from selling stocks when 0biden was finally installed, so...

We got to the booth again and someone had just bought it.

But I didn't walk away empty handed.
.............And the FBI was not called

You had to know this was coming, right?

 

Your Rule 5 Monday (part dos)

 Since jigsawplanet didn't like the other one...

And the big one below the break

Throwback Tuesday

Your Rule Five Monday

 Can't say I'm a fan of where she has her finger, but it's probably a prop...

And as usual, the bigger one below the fold

Thank you Roy Cobb

 But I don't need your help.

I fully expect- tommorow

 To find this not how I left it.

Or even on the ground.
Which is why I didn't bother tack welding it,,,

Isn't that right girls.

That's RACIST!!!!one!!!!

 Disney's "Song of the South" in full color and full length.

So UPS

 Was t you that pulled my box open?

Or was it a porch (okay- gate) pirate that returned a box when they didn't know what to do with two 9'5" band saw blades?

Looks like Phil finally got it

 You can now access his shiny new digs here- or from my blogroll.
It looks like he's got it running better than the vehicles in his driveway.

So, I was coming home today

 After seeing the price of gas jumped 20 cents in two days. FUCK!

Joe Biden

You can't tell me this isn't 0bamas 3rd term on steroids.

Anyway, I was coming up on the horse trailer that's been stuck in the paddock since the deluge back in April (because I didn't have time to move it and it's really not hurting anything where it is) I saw something moving inside.

What are you two doing in there?

Now that Bloggers' editor is working again

 And since they decided that I didn't need to know who was coming from where in my stats....

Anyone with a blog that's not on my blogroll and wants to be- sound off in comments.

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle (on Tuesday)

 Loading that 'gater up

And the bigger one below the fold

So, did FB get hacked?

 Or is it just me?
All I've gotten all morning is that FireFox can't find facebook.com.

Maybe they decided to shadow ban me for my wrongthink.....
But when the throw me into the restricted barracks, they usually make me sign back in before I receive my punishment.

It really kinda sucks

 

When you have to hide things you don't want walking away EVERY TIME you leave it for a while.

 

Isn't that right girls?

 

BTW- that square tubing and angle iron you can't see cost $180. ...hank YOU 0biden and Trump.

So why didn't you just LIE to him?

 You all didn't have a problem when you LIED to the CiC Trump when he told you to remove our troops from Syria.
You all did whatever you wanted in spite of what your constitutionally elected superior told you to do.

So why didn't you LIE to the meat puppet when he told you to abandon everything we had (including civilians) in Afghanistan>

Dating myself

 Again....

And it still works better than the Wally-world POS it took over for.

Your Rule 5 Monday puzzle

I carried one that was the M-16 version of that.

This one was oddly hard for some reason.

As usual, the bigger one below the fold.

I told my boss something yesterday

 Ten years ago, and probably as late as five years ago- nobody probably would have even thought the words would come out of anyone's mouth.

"I had to reboot the truck twice yesterday to get the pumps to work."

Different takes on happenings

 I was listening to two different talk shows at work yesterday (and this morning- I guess....same workday) and each had it's own take on what the Democrats are doing.

The first one is a local host- Jack Riccardi on KTSA (and sounds a lot different than he looks)
Who thinks that the way the Democrat leadership (Pelosi, Schumer,,,Duckworth....) are acting not worried at all about how their support is completely crumbling because of the meat pupped 0biden's actions show something bigger is going on.
Pelosi and Schumer owe their cushy jobs to staying in power, and neither one seems to want to do anything to stop the slide.

The other hand has Redeye radio with the two hosts Gary McNamera and Eric Harley (who also look a lot different than they sound).

Who both think the Democrats are running scared because of the problems whoever is running 0biden is causing. They think Democrats know what's coming and are trying to get whatever they can of their anti-American agenda through before they're all out of power.

I don't know sometimes I think they're to crafty to get into trouble -because they're the party of lies and deceit and knifing an ally in the back- by creating such (on the surface) self owns and someone deep behind he scenes has it all planned out for them to win at whatever they're playing for.

Another part can't understand WHY they're letting this go on- why Pelosi isn't screaming at whoever is controlling 0biden to stop fucking up her  agenda.

"Keel moose and squirrel"

 If you were old enough to enjoy then on Saturday mornings

In addition to producing animated series based on such characters as Crusader Rabbit, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, Peabody and Sherman, Hoppity Hooper, George of the Jungle, Tom Slick, and Super Chicken, Joseph Ward Cohen Jr., also known as Jay Ward, founbded a company, Jay Ward Productions, that designed the trademark characters for the Cap'n Crunch, Quisp, and Quake breakfast cereals and made TV commercials for those products.

Ward and friend/partner Alex Anderson lost the rights to the Crusader Rabbit character in a legal fight with businessman Shull Bonsall, who had taken over the assets of the bankrupt Jerry Fairbanks company, and a new color Crusader Rabbit series under a different producer premiered in 1956. Ward then pursued an unsold series idea, "The Frostbite Falls Revue." Taking place in a TV studio in the North Woods, the proposed series featured a cast of eccentrics such as newsman Oski Bear and two minor characters named Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose, described in the script treatment as a "French-Canadian moose."

Premiering on ABC in 1959 (and moving to NBC two years later), "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends" contained a mix of sophisticated and low-brow humor. Thanks to Ward's genial partner Bill Scott (who contributed to the scripts and voiced Bullwinkle and other characters) and their writers, puns were used often and shamelessly: in a "Fractured Fairy Tales" featuring Little Jack Horner, upon pulling out the plum, Jack announced, "Lord, what foods these morsels be!" Self-referential humor was another trademark: in one episode, the breathless announcer (William Conrad) gave away the villain's plans, prompting the villain to grab the announcer from offscreen, bind and gag him, and deposit him visibly within the scene. The show skewered popular culture, taking on such subjects as advertising, college sports, the Cold War, and TV itself. The hapless duo from Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, blundered into unlikely adventures much as Crusader and Rags had before them, pursued by "no-goodnik" spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale, perennially under orders to "keel moose and squirrel."

In a running-joke tribute to Ward, many of his cartoon characters had the middle initial "J.", presumably standing for "Jay" (although this was never stated explicitly). The cartoonist Matt Groening later gave the middle initial "J." to many of his characters as a tribute to Ward.

Ward fought many heated battles over content with the network and sponsor. The "Kirward Derby", a bowler hat that made everyone stupid and Bullwinkle a genius, was named (as a spoonerism) for Durward Kirby, sidekick of the 1950s and 1960s TV host Garry Moore and the co-host of Allen Funt's "Candid Camera." When Kirby threatened to sue, Ward quipped, "Please do! We need the publicity!"

An eccentric and proud of it, Ward was known for pulling an unusual publicity stunt that coincided with a national crisis. Ward bought an island in Minnesota near his home and dubbed it "Moosylvania," based upon the home of his Bullwinkle TV character. He and publicist Howard Brandy crossed the country in a van, gathering signatures on a petition for statehood for Moosylvania. They then visited Washington, D.C., and attempted to gain an audience with President John F. Kennedy. Unfortunately, they arrived at the White House the morning the Cuban Missile Crisis was breaking, and were ordered at gunpoint to drive off. (Wikipedia)

Happy Birthday, Jay Ward!

Crap! Today is Monday

 Isn't it?

There always has to be someone that has to break the rules...

And the big puzzle below the fold

Remember when the Communist states were forcing immunisations on people?

 Especially school kids.

Oh- WAIT that's the "democracy" of the UK  forcing unproven shots onto kids without their parents consent.

Just like the Peoples Democrat of Australia locking their citizens down and imprisoning them for wrongthink. 

We've seen this movie before

 

Your Rule 5 Monday puzzle

 I'm sure you Army guys called it something else.

 

As always, the bigger one below the fold

Keeping Austin weird

 I had to spend almost all of my shift in Austin last night. I don't know what was going on, but it seemed like someone took a gunnysack full of assholes, dropped in a handful of keys and shook it up.

Then they grabbed the bottom and flung it around so the assholes would be spread all over looking for the wreck they were supposed to get into.

And they found them. From Georgetown to the south side. One was even flipped on it's top on an intersection under I-35.

Then the wife reported that she found the two missing ponies on the neighbors land (it's for sale if you have an extra $800K).

So, the same Democrats

 Who say they can't stop people from crapping in their streets are now going to force the entire working population in America to get a shot that wasn't even thought of 24 months ago.

That the same meat puppet told us not to trust because OrangeManBad had a hand in developing.

It's not about health, it's about control.
And the same sheeple who called Trump a dictator are now fine with this because
1- They agree with it

2- He just gave them permission to start the process of turning the unvaxxed it to 'the other', the unclean- the Jew in Nazi Germany.

Oh, bummer

 Now we won't have f*cking lawless rioters from the Peoples Democrat Republic of Portlandistan coming down here to commit arson, looting and viscous assaults on unarmed people.