Care to share some pics of that commando pumpkin picking?Yes I was taught to share at a young age so all good
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Care to share some pics of that commando pumpkin picking?Yes I was taught to share at a young age so all good
Care to share some pics of that commando pumpkin picking?
LOL. At my age it would be called Naked and Decayed.Arggggg no no no hahahahhaha I meant we are going commando on the pumpkin front this year,as in no pumpkins.Commando pumpkin picking,that could be the most frightening Halloween event ever!
LOL. At my age it would be called Naked and Decayed.
I've see a couple of episodes. I've come to the conclusion they're all bat-sh!t crazy. I'd much rather watch Fat Guys in the Woods. I've been packing on the pounds these last couple of months in hopes to get on the show... Yeah, I'm going with that!Did you just out yourself as a Naked and Afraid viewer? We are totally addicted to watching that show.I don't really want to watch people survivng naked but I am strangely drawn to it!We have to watch something since there are no new epsiodes of Sex Sent Me to the ER.
Don't you know it! The expression I learned from my mother, no less, when caught behind a Sunday driver is "there's some more old farts out walking their car."Well that's good because Sundays are the best days for old people car rides!
I agree! Pumpkin has become a pox on human existence this time of the year. What is the romantic appeal to pumpkin? Over the weekend my lovely wife wanted me to pick up 4 pumpkins. I said I would head down to the local grocery store and pick them up. OH THE HORRORS! NO WAY! They had to come from a local farm. I asked her where do you think the grocery store gets them from? But there is no rational when it comes to the seasonal pumpkin ritual, I’ve discovered. So I drive out to the countryside farm Saturday morning and grab 4 nicely shaped pumpkins they had setting by stand (I hope the wife doesn't visit the SKMB). I demanded a receipt for my purchase to prove where I got them.
I was not about to do what my daughter and her friend did last year, which was stand in their line for 15 minutes at the farm, in order to hop on a cart filled with hay bales, pulled by a tractor, and be driven up to the pumpkin fields. Dropped off with bags to wander through the many pumpkin patches looking for the perfect pumpkins. (I swear, only white people would be crazy enough to pay someone extra, in order to do the work of picking their own vegetables.) Then stand and wait for the tractor to come around and take you back, stand in line again, so you can weigh and pay. Last year my 13 year-old-daughter made us trudge to farthest part of the fields from where the tractor dropped us off, and they both picked the biggest pumpkins they could find (probably 30 pounds each). I told them they were crazy and they had to carry them back themselves, as there was no way I was going to carry them. It took us over a half an hour to get back to the drop off spot because the had to stop and rest every 50 feet or so. And they accused me of child abuse at the end for not helping them carry their monstrosities.
So Saturday afternoon the ritual of gutting and carving commenced (I mowed the lawn). The cleaning of the pumpkin guts and drying of the seeds took them all evening before the annual roasting of the pumpkin seeds could commence. At 10 pm I had to run to another town (where the 24 hour grocery store was located) in order to get a new bottle of Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce, because nothing but the best would suffice. By 2 am Sunday morning the process was finally complete. 12 hours of work to get 6 cups of seeds... What is wrong with this picture? Sunday afternoon the 27 different tools came out to begin the carving of the pumpkins. I, instead, watched the Jets play with Scotch & soda in hand... None of that pumpkin alcohol or beer was to be found... Thank god.
LOL. Guess what the majority of gifts were for my wife and daughters last Christmas? It was one UGGly Xmas.I am literally LOL reading this...and it's EXACTLY how I feel about the whole pumpkin fever that most white American females come down with the morning after Labor Day...I'm glad I'm naturally immune to it (I also never came down with the Ugg virus, so lucky me!).
LOL. Guess what the majority of gifts were for my wife and daughters last Christmas? It was one UGGly Xmas.
My kids like the ugly Ugg's and the wife likes the leather boots with sheep inners. For several hundreds of dollars spent I got a free "I Uggs" worn looking baseball cap... Woo Hoo! I've never worn it.My daughter likes them too, but I don't care how warm they are, they are just UGly.
My kids like the ugly Ugg's and the wife likes the leather boots with sheep inners. For several hundreds of dollars spent I got a free "I Uggs" worn looking baseball cap... Woo Hoo! I've never worn it.
Whoopie Pie? Heck, yeah!
I'm from Pennsylvania and, as far as I know and local lore insists, Whoopie Pies are Pennsylvania Dutch original.
(see my avatar? it is a Pennsylvania Dutch hex sign, my favorite ... the Single Distelfink.
The Distelfink is the good luck bird of the PA dutch. A single Distelfink represents good luck and happiness and the heart and tulip adds a measure of love and faith.)
I love that!Don't you know it! The expression I learned from my mother, no less, when caught behind a Sunday driver is "there's some more old farts out walking their car."
You might appreciate this. We used to hand make and paint Bean Bag sets (the Pennsylvania Dutch variety, not those Bean Bag Toss kind). The standard face of my sets were with Hex signs. (But we also made sports team ones and clown faced ones... and my personal set has Pennywise on it).
Here were my Hex patters...
Doh!...and to ummm "produce" one of the confections, would that be considered "making whoopie"?....
The picture on top is my current bean bag set and it’s over 12 years old. It was my very first design and served as the prototype... and it was just a quick rudimentary Pennywise drawing. But we never got around to replacing it. I made it with just a circular saw, jig saw, hammer and nails. I now use a table saw, router table, compound miter saw, brad nailer and 6” hole saw to make them. Also, the new ones now have cup holders on the back that take the place of the stabilizer arms. The artwork on the sets also has greatly improved since that first set.Do you have any pics of your Pennywise ones? Those would be neat to see!
The picture on top is my current bean bag set and it’s over 12 years old. It was my very first design and served as the prototype... and it was just a quick rudimentary Pennywise drawing. But we never got around to replacing it. I made it with just a circular saw, jig saw, hammer and nails. I now use a table saw, router table, compound miter saw, brad nailer and 6” hole saw to make them. Also, the new ones now have cup holders on the back that take the place of the stabilizer arms. The artwork on the sets also has greatly improved since that first set.
The wife wanted me to make new Pennywise set this year, but I have yet to get around to it. At this point I'll probably just do it over winter. The bottom picture is the artwork for the new set, but still needs approval from “the boss.”
Nice job, DiO! You could probably take advantage of that exploitation of marketing products without licensing trend and make a bundle.The picture on top is my current bean bag set and it’s over 12 years old. It was my very first design and served as the prototype... and it was just a quick rudimentary Pennywise drawing. But we never got around to replacing it. I made it with just a circular saw, jig saw, hammer and nails. I now use a table saw, router table, compound miter saw, brad nailer and 6” hole saw to make them. Also, the new ones now have cup holders on the back that take the place of the stabilizer arms. The artwork on the sets also has greatly improved since that first set.
The wife wanted me to make new Pennywise set this year, but I have yet to get around to it. At this point I'll probably just do it over winter. The bottom picture is the artwork for the new set, but still needs approval from “the boss.”