The PUB light's ON! :D

[SaltyD from BC]

I'm afraid your friend won't be getting my business Lefty. Most things don't scare me but if I haven't been up my 20 foot ladder for a while I get the pucker factor when I need to use it

[Bobby of Tulsa]

OK Bobby..... How bout I send one whole, one halved, and one quartered?....
I don't know what to do with the node bits, so I guess I'll let you figure that part out!

That will be fine. I don't care what Amber sez, you is ok.

[Bobby of Tulsa]

I'm afraid your friend won't be getting my business Lefty. Most things don't scare me but if I haven't been up my 20 foot ladder for a while I get the pucker factor when I need to use it

Something about getting older and wiser.

[Bobby of Tulsa]

Mr.Left, didn't you say Carter ate some pine nuts and got a bad taste thing from them? How long did it lasts. Four days and still yuk.

[Mrleft8]

I used to climb trees like a squirrel..... Then I fell 30 feet out of one and landed flat on my back in between 3 large triangular shaped granite boulders.
Dislocated shoulder, and bruises were all the physical damage I got...... But I never felt right climbing after that.

[Mrleft8]

That "Pine mouth" thing lasted about a month Bobby...... And now she's afraid to eat pesto...
Even if I assure her the nuts came from somewhere other than China..... She says it sux....Like sucking on a bag of framing nails, or something....

[Bobby of Tulsa]

Thats the truth, Never had nothin like this before. Kinda like chewing up some nasty pill.

[SaltyD from BC]

I used to climb trees like a squirrel..... Then I fell 30 feet out of one and landed flat on my back in between 3 large triangular shaped granite boulders.
Dislocated shoulder, and bruises were all the physical damage I got...... But I never felt right climbing after that.

That's a pretty cool trick pal. But um ya, you doa no wanna try it again. ..

[Bobby of Tulsa]

That's a pretty cool trick pal. But um ya, you doa no wanna try it again. ..

He was just showin off that day.

[Mrleft8]

I was 9....

[Bobby of Tulsa]

I think we are gonna have to send out a search party for Glen. He is lost out in bilgeland.

[Bobby of Tulsa]

Man you had me worried for a while. Drink this you will feel better.

[Bobby of Tulsa]

I was 9....

Was there any girls watching?

[SaltyD from BC]

Glen!! You know like when Norm used to walk in to Cheers?

Glad to see you're in one piece hombre. I hear ya, you know argueing with some of that lot kind of reminds me of wrastling with a pig. There's a good chance you'll win, but then, well you'll have just won a pig fight.

How's things out in Lone Star land?

[Canoez]

I used to climb trees like a squirrel..... Then I fell 30 feet out of one and landed flat on my back in between 3 large triangular shaped granite boulders.
Dislocated shoulder, and bruises were all the physical damage I got...... But I never felt right climbing after that.

Ok - repeat after me:"Gravity sucks!".

[Bobby of Tulsa]

Ok - repeat after me:"Gravity sucks!".

I think maybe he is ignoring us. Can I get you anything?

[Chip-skiff]

We make a lot of pesto, but I quit using pine nuts ($$$$) and started using US pecans. It tastes just as good to me, since the garlic, parmesan, and all the green stuff cover the distinctive taste of the nuts. I have eaten toasted pine nuts on salads at restaurants, but so far no sign of the yuck-mouth.

When I was a kid, we used to go up in the mountains and pick bags full of piñon cones and haul 'em home to get the nuts out. My Da drove us up in an old army ambulance, rough-riding old bugger, and let us kids do the picking and bagging, while he sat in the shade with a beer. We got covered in sticky sap— clothes, hair, hands, face. So he'd swab us off with kerosene or something and cover the seats with newspaper before we could get in the vehicle and ride home.

For some reason the outlet tube pulled out of the same fitting on the greenhouse collector. Weird. Not enough pressure in the system to blow it out. Wonder if it's a heat expansion thing? Anyhow, I spent the morning adding a piece of copper to the deal, recharging the system, and then putting a new shear pin in the snowblower. Then I had to call the loan company about our $300 payment increase. Them bankers gotta eat.

I'll have a glass of chat and sit a while. Then I have to go clean the damn catbox.

[Canoez]

I think maybe he is ignoring us. Can I get you anything?

Think I'm heading for a Full Sail Pale ale tonight.

[Canoez]

We make a lot of pesto, but I quit using pine nuts ($$$$) and started using US pecans. It tastes just as good to me, since the garlic, parmesan, and all the green stuff cover the distinctive taste of the nuts. I have eaten toasted pine nuts on salads at restaurants, but so far no sign of the yuck-mouth.

When I was a kid, we used to go up in the mountains and pick bags full of piñon cones and haul 'em home to get the nuts out. My Da drove us up in an old army ambulance, rough-riding old bugger, and let us kids do the picking and bagging, while he sat in the shade with a beer. We got covered in sticky sap— clothes, hair, hands, face. So he'd swab us off with kerosene or something and cover the seats with newspaper before we could get in the vehicle and ride home.

For some reason the outlet tube pulled out of the same fitting on the greenhouse collector. Weird. Not enough pressure in the system to blow it out. Wonder if it's a heat expansion thing? Anyhow, I spent the morning adding a piece of copper to the deal, recharging the system, and then putting a new shear pin in the snowblower. Then I had to call the loan company about our $300 payment increase. Them bankers gotta eat.

I'll have a glass of chat and sit a while. Then I have to go clean the damn catbox.

Try the pesto with pistachios - I think you'll like it. A bit on the sweet side, but good.

[Bobby of Tulsa]

The pine mouth thing is really weird. You dont taste the bitter thing till you eat or drink, then it is a lingering after taste. Your green house project is awsome, and I think you are doing some good stuff there. Oh, and it looks really cold there.

[Bobby of Tulsa]

Where did I put my rope? I am going to have to catch Glen.

[Chip-skiff]

Try the pesto with pistachios - I think you'll like it. A bit on the sweet side, but good.

Thanks for the suggestion. I use different stuff: cilantro, chervil, hot peppers, horseradish, mustard. So far, it's AGSB (All Good, Some Better). At some point you cross a line and it's no longer pesto but satay, etc.

Lefty's out in the greenhouse, eating bugs. Didn't want to embarrass him, so I slipped out.

[Mrleft8]

Bamboo express is on it's way Senor Bobby! The UPS man was amused, but not amazed..... "You'd be surprised what kind of things people will send..."

[Bobby of Tulsa]

Thank you sir, I owe you big time, and for way more than bamboo.

[Mrleft8]

AHA! Now I know what to do with the raw unsalted Macadamia nuts Carter got me for Christmas! Hawaiian Pesto! I love Macadamia nuts, but raw (un-roasted) they're..... Um..... Not as good as roasted...... But I'll bet they'll make spectacular pesto. Good fat content and all that.....

[Mrleft8]

Thank you sir, I owe you big time, and for way more than bamboo.

Nah!
If that bamboo bow thing works, I'll send you a pile more and we can make our first million selling bamboo bows on the internet..... We can call it BobbysBambooBows.com

[Chip-skiff]

Where did I put my rope? I am going to have to catch Glen.

I'll loan you my riata. He's a slippery critter and likes to dodge into the brush.

[Bobby of Tulsa]

If we could make that much we could pay it on our bills, as far as it would go.

[Bobby of Tulsa]

I'll loan you my riata. He's a slippery critter and likes to dodge into the brush.

sounds like you got him pegged.

[Bobby of Tulsa]

I used to do a little ropin, next time you start out that door watch your feet. here is a drink for you.

[SaltyD from BC]

Let's have a drink with Bobby and Chip and Canoez and Lefty!

Sun's over the yard arm, sounds good to me muchacho.

Bobby put that lassoo down I've got that Texan coraled up right here

[Mrleft8]

"Riata"?!
That's one of them little 2 seat sports cars from Japan idnit? Zoom, zoom, zoom......

[SaltyD from BC]

Rim Shot!

So did you take pics of that bamboo Lefty or are you going to leave that up to the artist. I can't get my head around how bamboo's gonna turn into a harpoon chucker. ..

[Mrleft8]

She was just out back talking about you, Glen...... I think she bought you a DVD.....Or a Vhs tape thingy..... Any way she said something about you liking a Monkees movie I think.....I do believe she's gonna give it to you later on.....

[Chip-skiff]

Hey, sure I'm in the brush...that's where the pigs are Duh!
I love that greenhouse of yours. I've been thinking how easy it might be in my milder climate to grow winter tomatoes and peppers.

This is a riata, a braided leather catch-rope. They're usually longer than a synthetic rope, since they break more easily and you can't dally up hard.

Hell's Bells. Who'd rope a wild pig? SOB would come up the rope hissing and you'd get bucked off like a shot. But a riata is good for roping wild cows in brush, like greasewood and mesquite, cause it's heavy and slick and snakes through the foliage. But you have to have a post horn with leather wraps, cause with a riata your dallies will seize up (not good with an 800-lb. steer on the end, running flat-out) if you put much tension on the string before you get 'em slowed down.

Course you can put your horse around a bush and let the string run through that before it reaches the horn. And, by God, keep your pinky and thumb out of it. A tight riata will pop 'em off right at a joint.

Okay— enough coaching. Go git 'im, Bobster. You tie him up and I'll heat the iron.

[Mrleft8]

I thought about a picture.... But I figured I'd let Bobby do that.....

[Mrleft8]

Chip...... Were you around for the very first, original "Caribbean Saga" thread?

[SaltyD from BC]

Urp, another round for everyone. And a side of pickled pig's feet for Glen. ..

[Chip-skiff]

Oops! Somebody flipped the Cowboy switch. Not as bad as the Brit switch, I reckon.

[Bobby of Tulsa]

Pigs feet is good.

[Chip-skiff]

Chip...... Were you around for the very first, original "Caribbean Saga" thread?

Was that when you and Carter voyaged to the lands of the heathen, hoping to cure your neuropathy with sun, nakedness, and booze?

[Bobby of Tulsa]

Oops! Somebody flipped the Cowboy switch. Not as bad as the Brit switch, I reckon.

Sounds to me like you might know one end of the horse from the other, and which side to get on.

[SaltyD from BC]

Pigs feet is good.

Its been eons, I should try'm again. I remember crunchin away on them with my granpappy as a little guy. He was a Swede, everything seemed to need to be pickled. ..

[Mrleft8]

Ooooooooooooh no........ That was last year..... The original was lost in the big forum meltdown.....
But there's a part in there about a 1,600Lb+ steer and a telephone pole and my finger.......
I'll tell that part again later on tonight..... It might take a little remembering juice to bring it all back..... You see.... there was Guinness involved...... So in order to remember it properly......
And on that note, I have to get into the kitchen for a bit...... But I shall return!

[Canoez]

Hopping' joint tonight. What's pouring that's dark?

[SaltyD from BC]

I had a Herman's dark the other night Canoez, pretty dang good

[Canoez]

I had a Herman's dark the other night Canoez, pretty dang good

OK, I'm game!

[Bobby of Tulsa]

Canoez guy, got any of that He Brew stuff left? That looked pretty good to me.

[Canoez]

Canoez guy, got any of that He Brew stuff lef? That looked pretty good to me.

I think there might be a few bottles in the cellar. It is good stuff. Schmaltz Brewing has a pretty decent variety of offerings, too.

[David G]

One of my father's idiosyncrasies was his love of pickled pig's feet. I love pickled almost anything, but never could figure out the point of pig's feet. Mostly bone and indigestible gristle. Now... pickled sausage? Eggs? Salmon? Octopus? I'm all over it! Y'all can hog the pig's feet all to yourselves!