So we paid off pur Wells-Fargo mortgage a week ago.

It finally went through with about a thousand Dollars extra of fees and other graft.

Yesterday they charged me a service fee of $15.
............and paid me  .08 of interest.

Now I have to decide whether to go with NFCU (which is on the west side of San Antonio -a good hour drive away)
Or to the local branch of RBFCU. I'm sure the interest is about the same for a checking account.
But NFCU is a Navy credit union and Randolph-Brooks is Air Force.
Not that it really matters because a Cloud Lice can do my finances as well as a Squid.

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 

The big one, as usual blow the jump.

Jeezuz Krist- FedFx

 That package of (fucking expensive) 30-30 came from San Antonio.
All you had to do was deliver it 45 miles EAST.

Now, because you fucked up with a bar code reader- it's on it's way to Coranado, California.

Four hundred and two Dollars

 Is what it cost me to fill 150 propane tank today.
The driver said I was lucky I ordered it last week because they raised the price .20/gal Tuesday.

Last year about this time it was $1.87/gal.
Today I paid 2.86/gal.

FJB.

Maybe when the Republicans take back the House (if they don't drop the ball on the one yard line) they can impeach both the pretenders in the Withe House.
-Or at least put some kind of limit on Executive Orders.

I sure am buying a lot more cat food

 I wonder what kind of extenders they're putting in.
A 30 pound bag used to last for almost two months, but here lately- maybe it's the weather- it seems like every time I turn around I'm trying to find some.

Who can relate?

Mondays Rule 5 puzzle

 Advance like you own it.

The big one below the fold-

So, we finally signed on the Hondo house today

 The thing's been a PITA for years.

And since I won't be buying another new vehicle- because of prices and all the BS 'safety' features to put up with.

I'm looking at 3/4 ton diesel Chevy's and Dodges no newer than 2005 so I have options in fuel. Or an F-250 built before 1998 when Ford could still build good trucks.

 

The only thing gas is going to do is go up. On top of the 0biden war on fossil fuels and the oncoming shortage of fertilizer for food- That 10% ethanol is going to cost even more to put in your tank.

You know for sure that NOBODY in DeeCee is going to even think about putting the brakes on that mandate.

In case you were wondering

No, it doesn't.

Mondays Rule 5 puzzle

 That is one severe looking B......umm-road

 

As usual, the big one below the jump.

RIP Meatloaf

Your Rule 5 Monday puzzle

 Unique way to carry a brace of pistols

As usual, the big one below the fold.

Forty years ago-

 I was a little non-rate CECN and my Battalion was either just getting back from Guam or getting ready to deploy to Rota, Spain.
I'd been in for a little over a year- boot camp, BEEPs school, CE A-school meeting the battalion....

One of the two main reasons I enlisted was because the economy was so bad that I couldn't find a good job. Even trade unions weren't taking apprentices.

Fast forward to now and the 0biden-Harris regime is putting America back there again with Carters Stagflation on steroids and inflation  about the same.
We lost the cold war and are living in what looks more and more like a Central American republic. Graft, favoritism, schools and financial systems steered by political juntas and the fact of the day.

I have about 20-25 years left to endure, but I really feel bad for my kids and grandkids for whom this is the new soviet normal.

So the Democrats answer to Donald Trump

 Doesn't like how he was treated for three months he spent in jail.
Michael Avenatti is suing the Bureau of Prisons for $94 million.

If he didn't like how he was treated there for disrespecting Trump... or something- he should be glad he wasn't taking a walk close to Capitol Hill on Jan. 6 last year.
He's hate it even worse in the DeeCee Gulag.

Tales from the shop

...Or the loafing shed since it was originally an animal shelter.

Finally got the band saw working without it throwing the blade (and rolling 50 yards). Had to get longer axle bolts and nylon locknuts.

Now I need to get real steel bearings for the back part of the blade because it's already eating at the Chinesium plastic rollers. H/D has what I can use in stock- finally.

It's moving faster than the wheels make it look.

And when you warp the threads on a nut from welding to a bolt, and don't have a thread chaser- you use abrasives.

So THAT's where 'Snipe' comes from

Thanks Ryan

 

In case you haven't been able to find Phil yet-

 He's online over here.
At his other- other blog.

Not the -other- blog that says "we're working on it"....

Your Rule 5 Monday jigsaw

And the big one below the jump.

Two years of Hte 'Rona condensed

Via: Diogenes Middle Finger.

And Rumble if I (probably did) not get the HTML right above

Jeezus- DR! Jill 0biden has her own theme music now

 It's about as bad as you'd expect.
Because every 1st woman needs a theme song...or something.
It's embedded in this article on the bottom if you want to hear it.

What it reminded me of is the gravitas of the opening to "black Adder".

More meme's

 

Pressure canning

 Since Slow Joe decided he's going to get Big Government to "do something" about the price of meat that "Big Meat" is costing the consumer...
I'm looking at a cheap, fatty roll of e-coli burger to cost $10/LB  when he's done.

So we decided to stock up now when meat is only fucking expensive and to preserve it.
I'd rather go the drying rout, but research says that drying without freezing only lasts about a year.

So the other potions are brining, salting or canning.

I tried pressure canning about 5 pounds of meat today- I'm still out on WC for my knee- why not? It's too cold to work on the band saw.

SO-
With prep time and the half hour it takes to just get the steam rolling out the vent (before waiting the 10 minutes to actually start cooking/canning. and the 90 minutes it takes to actually cook the jars at 11PSI (12 was steadier and I doubt more heat is a problem) we're looking at a good 2 1/2 hours before you can start waiting to for the canner to depressurize on it's own......
Which I'm doing now and don't know how long it'll take--- we're looking at an all day job of babysitting a glorified quick cooker.

But-
At least humans have the supermarket.

Sorry, I'm taken-

 

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 

One of Santa's enforcer elves.

 

As usual, the big one below the fold.

This reminds me

Thinking of you Kamala :-)

Jan. 1, 2022

 

Prepping posts

 I've looked at some prepping posts about dehydrating.

The wife got a dehydrator when she saw the grocery prices expected to climb through the roof.
We've been experimenting- frozen corn, peas, caramelized onion, carrots, parsnips...

She wants to vacuum seal the jars, but the little necked ones didn't work on her vacuum sealer, so instead of going through the hassle of doing the water bath thing- I tried the microwave thing.

The only difference between wet heat and warming the contents up to get a vacuum when it cools is water- I tried it. As herself was asking skeptically if I really thought it would work, we heard the "tink" of the lids.

If you slice your tomatoes and put them under a broiler for a while, you can dehydrate fire roasted tomato slices for the added flavor boost (don't know about electric ovens YMMV)

Trying meat next. I'll bet it from a meat market so I don't have to deal with all that red water the big stores inject it with.

Wierd...

 A lot of my puzzles that show only partial boobs are blocked, but Kate Upton isn't.
She's showing the same, or more underboob than the others, but she doesn't have a weapon.

So maybe that two strikes against the others?
Or maybe I haven't tried sharing it?
Lets give it a try...
 

 

Here's the pic if they block it-

Be wrry, werry scared of them.

Komrad Dragon-d1ck and his Ack-forty seven...  

And yeah, it's a spoof.

Via Eaton Rapids Joe.

Your Monday Rule 5 puzzle

 Rock on!

 

And as usual, the big one below the break-