Stijn!!

[Jim Richards]

Not really. Once I finish the garage, I need to install some recessed lights in a couple of rooms, and repaint the exterior of the house (last done by me in 2012). I think the house is my forever project.

[pete3799]

Finally started putting the 911 back together today. Got the new (to me) hood and fender back from the paint shop yesterday.
I'm glad the cutting, grinding, and welding part is done. Kind of nerve wracking cutting up your dream car, but all the rust on the passenger side is gone now.
Maybe next year I'll do the driver side. The worst of it (rust) was behind the bumper mount. Had to cut that whole section out. The rest of it was just small patches.

[Jim Richards]

I'd be too intimidated to cut/grind/weld a 911. Too worried that with my lack of skill, it would just be butchered by me.

[RKDinOKC]

Visited some guys that restored 356s with a friend that was getting his restored. They had a 365 body welded to a frame with significant parts missing. Said they could cut, grind, weld, replace, bang, hammer, and reshape anything on the car and it would still be straight and true as new with no putty. It was bare metal and was my friends car. He said it looked a lot better before they started on it, lol. It did come out beautiful though.

[Outback Porsche]

Originally Posted by flipper35

You can't take anything on a plane any longer. It wouldn't surprise me if they make everyone fly naked in the near future and get it all over with.

El Al never has any of the same issues the TSA has. Hmm.

You should see the 5hit that goes in my suit cases when I travel for work

I'm betting it makes someone eyes boggle when they x-ray them

Funny thing is, I've never been pulled up and questioned.

Only onece have I ever had pos hits for tnt. And on the third time when it didn't register anything they let me through. Bwahahaha.

[Outback Porsche]

30degC today - Nice for winter. GD had a sleepover last night, and after brunch we got the herb garden sorted.

And followed it up with a walk to the park so she could play on the swings.

[Jim Richards]

Hola, Stijners. Off to the Marina with the wife and doggie for a walk.

[GH85Carrera]

Morning all. We went to a local breakfast place. We don't go as often as many of the customers. When you see a couple walk in and the waitress calls them by name and asks if they want the usual drinks of coffee and diet Dr Pepper and she brings that and asks if they want the usual meals they are regulars.
We are not to that level.

[RKDinOKC]

Every year I usually go visit a friend and his wife in Austin for a short vacation. We always find a really good place for breakfast at least one of the mornings I am there. The next year that place is gone. And it is typically really good and am looking forward to hitting that place again. Just don't understand.

Once the 928 group went to lunch at Salt Lick BBQ south and west of Austin as part of a tour drive. It was really really good, smokey, tender, and juicy. When visiting my friends the next year said I would like to go to Salt Lick. They took me to one closer to them in Round Rock, just north of Austin. It was the worst BBQ I've ever had, completely dried out and leathery with no real flavor. Could understand why my friend and his wife were a bit confused that I wanted to eat there.

Friends and I went on a Saturday evening and the was hardly a soul there. When the group went to the south and west one, it was lunch time and packed when we got there. They still didn't have any problem feeding the 80 928 tour people. The group organizer did make arrangements so they were expecting us. Still amazing as packed as they were fitting us all in and serving everyone no problems.

Have yet to find a good place for Calzone. The ones I really like and have a lot more flavor. They grind the ham and chop the onions and mushrooms to bits. The two places that did that are gone. One changed from grinding and fine chopping all their toppings the making them chunky then went out of business within a year. The other got hit by a tornado and never came back. All that is left are places that think everyone only likes big chunks of toppings in/on anything.

There is a local, owner run pizza place. The owner is a really nice guy, but can't talk him into trying chopping fine and grinding the toppings in his calzone. He says it is too much trouble. Maybe it is that his wife tells him how to make stuff.

Since I worked in a popular pizza place going to college have thought several times about opening a pizza place. One of the things I would offer is 100% whole wheat pizza crust, whole wheat pasta, whole wheat calzone with the ham ground, and whole wheat garlic bread. When I came home from college I often made that whole wheat pizza, pasta, and garlic bread for my Dad who was diabetic. Stuff made with white flour would skyrocket his blood sugar, but he could handle whole wheat. Everyone that tried my whole wheat pizza really liked it. And for convenience I used Ragu spaghetti sauce. Told everyone that was my secret ingredient.

[RKDinOKC]

The grill getter is supposed to come by around 5, but hasn't asked for my address yet.

[Jim Richards]

Has the grill getter done got it?

[GH85Carrera]

When I posted about my trip to the Charlotte on Pelican several years ago several people recommended a little hole in the BBQ joint and came me the name and address. I made a point to go. They have the vinegar based BBQ sauce which I did not care for. The sliced brisket was so tough I could not cut it with the crappy plastic knife. I had to get out my pocket knife to cut it. My jaw got tired of chewing. I gave up. It was terrible.

The BBQ place Richard and I eat at for lunch has brisket so tender in falls apart with a poke of a fork. That is what BBQ is supposed to be

[RKDinOKC]

Grill Gone, Oh my.

Worried about them though. Left the ceramic flavor briquettes and leavings in the bottom. He said, no problem she is going to clean it up anyway and can clean all those out. Told him that's was gives it flavor and I had cleaned it before listing it. She said she was new to this grilling thing. Told her if she just brushes the extra gook out and replaces the briquettes it will be okay. But if she takes a hose or pressure washer to it she will be washing out all the seasoning and it will just taste like propane. And it will take a lot of cooking on it before it gets seasoned as well again. Told them that on the smoker roaster grill I got to replace it the manufacture specifically says to only use a brush to clean it and not wash it because washing would de-season it. Oh well, it's her grill now.

[RKDinOKC]

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

I have never tried Crack or any form of a hard drug so I am far from an expert. Maybe that is why bacon is just a condiment to me. I never order it at a breakfast place and I often go many months with no bacon consumption at all. It is vital for a BLT but so is the L and the T. I do like it on a burger sometimes.

Good Eclipse day all. I wonder if any American will wake up today and NOT know there will be an eclipse today. To see some of the huge crowds at some of the prime viewing areas is amazing. We are supposed to have a good chance of clear enough skies to see the partial eclipse.

[RKDinOKC]

My brother Tom went to Kansas City MO to watch the eclipse.

My brother Bob says the whistle blowers say it is going to be a significant Extraterrestrial Event if not the second coming itself.

Forgot what it was called or whom wrote it but there was a Sci-fi book about a world that had a couple of suns so it was alway light out. Then they had an eclipse and the place freaked. First time they ever saw stars.

Had a solar eclipse when I was younger. Seen it, well not directly. Heard you can put your phone on selfie and watch it on your phone instead of putting a hole in something and watching the shadow. Never tried to take a picture of the sun.

[GH85Carrera]

Richard, that plot was Nightfall. By Isaac Asimov. One of the great science fiction stories.

Notice that NO ONE is denying the science of the eclipse. The anti vaccine, big foot, extraterrestrial weirdos and all science deniers are quiet. Science does know something about the natural world. The laws of physics show the rotation of the planets only if the world is round.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. Had to go get my yearly physical this am. Oh boy what fun.

[GH85Carrera]

Whooo whee I am having fun. Organizing every stinkin receipt, invoice and tax form we have generated. We did start the business in 2015 just to have a way to combine resources and have a legitimate tax deduction of the purchase of the equipment. This is sooooo much fun to have a better time I am going to stop this and go to the dentist! That is way better. But I will just have to finish it when I get back.

[Porsche-poor]

dentist!!! that's on my to do list for later in the week.