Saturday drinking and what are you doing tonight
What’s in your glass this evening? Also how are you enjoying this Saturday night? I’m drinking some Mad Anthony Summer Daze ( local brew from Fort Wayne). After 6 hours walking in the woods mushroom hunting today I’m ready to relax. I’m ready to call it a day and enjoy the beautiful sunset here in Northern Indiana. Cheers and go blue!
Filets on the grill and Hill Farmstead in the glass. Lovely night.
Here's another upvote for you, good to see you're making the best of your Bolivian "vacation".
Will you be returning home someday (with grill, of course!)?
Ha! Thanks Rob. Been two years, might as well make it another two. I never really start threads anyways so it’s all good.
Enjoy! We had filets as well with fried morel mushrooms and wild rice risotto. Cheers!
Always satisfying to see the fruits of your labor on a plate. XM probably knows this more than both of us. ?
Sitting by the pool near the beach in Puerto Pensaco, MX. About 3.5 hrs south of Phoenix. Coronas are tasting good. Uno mas cerveza, Por favor.
Relaxing at home after seeing my daughter graduate college. Be watching the Avs play game 5 against the Sharks
Congrats on the daughters graduation!
Thank you she wants to go to med school and her dream would be UM
I'm stuck in Medina Ohio with my wife's family. We're here for our nephew's birthday party tomorrow, which is great.
However, my SIL also invited a friend of hers, who nobody likes, and her son. The kid is just hitting puberty and he has downs. When we arrived I heard him say to his mother, who is that hot piece of ass? Referring to Mrs. Hatter, who didn't particularly appreciate the compliment.
So now instead of having a nice, private, finished basement to ourselves all night, we have to share it with our kids.
Even money that we bail and find a cheap hotel within the next 2 hours.
Maybe this joint I'm about to smoke will help?
Regardless of all the other stuff in your comment, Medina Ohio fucking bloooooows.
Edit: all of Ohio fuckin' blows. Medina just blows extra hard
Yeah it really does. There's a good hot dog place here, but that's it.
Weed didn't help btw
Sucks so bad I had to post it twice
Smoking a joint never hurts.
I had wise relatives who were from Medina. Why wise? They moved to Michigan more than 160 years ago!
Just sipping on some V8 Spicy with a dash of fresh-ground black pepper while watching some Lord Stanley's Cup action between Boston and Columbus.
Contemplating whether or not to mix in some vodka and make a poor man's Bloody Mary with the rest of the bottle of V8...
Starting it off with a Manhattan.
Oh and it’s May the 4th, you know exactly what I’m doing.
Anyone know what happened at the Derby regarding the winner disqualification?
The gist is that Max Security moved to the outside in the final turn and impeded the progress of several horses, namely War of Will. Unlike in NASCAR, you cannot 'block' somebody by moving directly in their way as it would cause a tangle with their legs and well...the end result of that does not create a good event for TV viewing.
From what I've seen so far, it wasn't that he impeded Country House so much as the other horses but it is an all or nothing thing.
Bummer. I imagine that caused some chaos in the betting community.
ESPN says $9 mill. Seems pretty fishy from a betting standpoint.
Just finished a pitcher of Oberon with the wife. She is still complaining that I got 2.3 glasses and she only got 2.2. Thankfully, she'll be asleep in an hour and I can watch basketball.
My family and I went to church. I will be drinking water and coke.
Skied a half day at Breck today so I'm pretty tired...gonna have a couple drinks and fall asleep on the couch I'm guessing. But pretty excited to go to my first Rockies game tomorrow.
took most of the boys fly fishing this afternoon, playing hooky from what we all should've been doing. gorgeous day on the river but the fish weren't cooperating very much.
sent them out to do barn chores.
You are in the UP correct? After brookies today?
northern lower nowadays. salmon and rainbows today (but none to show....). could've gone with some buddies for a night time brookies run but since i am solo dad tonight with the sons i declined the very nice invite. also, the 'dad barber shop' is open. one of the twins wanted a #3 on top, #1 on the sides and i obliged. it looks pretty sharp.
He's a fan of the US131 freeway?
/s
BTW, whereabouts in the UP did you used to live? I've often thought about moving UP there, though with family mostly downstate not sure if it'll ever happen.
marquette. the family roots go back to the UP in the 1850's, our oldest two children born there, etc. we have been blessed here in the northern lower, but i will always love the UP.
You might find this interesting: my mom's paternal grandfather and his 3 brothers came over from Germany in 1857 and 1863 (a few of their cousins too in 1863) and found work laying the foundations of several copper mines in Baraga and Houghton counties until all four brothers headed south to the Grand Rapids area in 1868. There, two of them bought farmland north of GR while the other two founded a company that made farm wagons and other various types of wagons. During the winter months, all four worked at the wagon company.
If I remember family tree info correctly, my great grandfather married shortly before leaving the UP; his wife died less than a month after giving birth to their first child, in late 1868. He then remarried in 1870; my grandfather was the youngest of my great grandpa's 14 children.
Other than that, I have absolutely no idea/info on the family of my great grandfather's first wife from the UP.
Supposedly some of the cousins eventually left the mines and settled in Nebraska. It's entirely possible, though, that I still have very distant relatives in that part of the UP.
the joke in the UP is that we're all shirt-tail relatives, separated at most by 3 degrees. so, rob, while i don't think there's any german in the XM bloodlines, you never know....you and i might be kin.
Maybe Finnish?
An uncle (my mom's brother) met his bride-to-be while he was working on his engineering degree UP at Michigan Tech. Her family is of Finnish descent and I believe is from the Houghton/Hancock/Calumet area. Though my aunt passed away a few years ago, she still has a sister and other relatives in that area.
Bigger mystery yet, though, are the numbers 1, 3, and 1 your son had you shave out of his newly cut hair. And you're a barber, too, in your spare time?
re: haircut - just in case you are serious the #'s 1 and 3 refer to the blade height, but i'm pretty sure you know that. and if i didn't cut all the boys hair i'd have shelled out a tuition payment in barber shop bills. now the older boys have been trained and sometimes will take care of each other or their younger brothers if i ask them to do so.
LOL, especially at me because I actually thought he had you cut those #'s into his hair. D'oh!!!
But I know what you mean about saving $$$ with do-it-yourself haircuts. When I was a youngster my uncle cut my and my next two brothers hair; as more siblings came along my uncle bought my dad a haircut razor kit and taught him how. Being the oldest of 6 brothers I was the test crash dummy upon whom dad learned to cut hair. ? I have some gawd-awful grade school pictures to prove it.
Though I trimmed up my son's hair a few times, his mom (my ex) did nearly all of the haircutting in the family for me, my son and 2 daughters for years, as she's a licensed cosmetologist. Saved big bucks over the years vs. barber shops and stylist fees.
Rob, I thought you might be a cousin for the first few lines. My great grandfather took a very similar path but stayed in Calumet to work for C&H Mining Co. His cousin owned (according to the National Park Service) the largest department store in the mid-west. Fun fact - in 1899, C&H paid a the largest dividend in U.S. history. At #2, Standard Oil and the Rockefellers were apoplectic.
Though probably not a cousin, somewhere along the lines back in the 1870s or 80's, one of my grandpa's kin (a cousin, I believe) married into the Wurzburg family, a name later well known for a large department store in downtown GR. I believe Wurzburgs also had stores in plazas and malls around GR for a time back in the 1960s-80s or so, before eventually going out of business.
Drinking a nice glass of wine and reading over and accepting my new job offer
'grats on the new job, ask for another week of vacation! Unless you've already negotiated what you're about to sign
Appreciate it, everything has been negotiated to the point where I'm happy with it
Torpedo tall and a few nips of Early Times. Did the points and up/downvote capability not migrate to the new site? Or was it deliberately shutdown due to troll infestations?
Ah, mushroom hunting!
The quintessential Russian pastime!
shot a nice little 74 today, 3 birdies. Not bad for an old dude. My random horse pick finished 4th, had a number of Sam '76's today, and gravitating to Maker's 46. Not bad to be me today...
did you fish the opener last weekend?
Missed it, first time in years. Kinda burned out by too much steelhead fishing, so have been working on my golf game. Probably won't pick up a flyrod until hennies and some of the better hatches pop.
that sounds like a lot of winter steelheading. on the mighty mo?
stanley cup playoffs, listening to Steinbeck, hippy lettuce, writing. I was a big Lehner fan, so I don't know who to root for in the Stanley Cup anymore as most of the teams left are teams I've come to despise as a Wings fan.
kids in bed for the night so i’ll be smoking - gorilla glue, i think. going to watch tv and hang out with the mrs