Old Ironmaker

Not normal is an understatement, it would creep me out especially if it followed me, oh my oh me. I've seen one Musky pick off a line of little ducklings one after another until Moma duck went berzerk. That was the wildest thing I've seen a Musky do but swim with it's head out of water for 300 yards. That's a lot of time without O2 for any fish, even 300 feet. Que theme to Twilight Zone. Checked the calender, a long way until April. I don't doubt you, just save me some of whatever you are taking. 

We were not taught what Remembrance Day meant way back in the 60's. Actually never explained trough all levels of education the meaning of it. I see it is different today. My 4 year old grand niece that is in her 2nd year of pre Kindergarten, another discussion for another day, explained to me in her baby talk the basic premiss of this special day. I was dumbfounded, 4 years old. That's a good thing. If you are blessed to have youngsters around you take the time to sit them down and talk about what the sacrifices our young men and women make, still to this day, to protect our way of life as well as our freedoms we all enjoy and often take for granted. I didn't ask any of my relatives that were soldiers in WW1, WW2 and Korea about what they went through, we were told never to ask them. My paternal Grand Father fought in WW1 for the British and took shrapnell to the scull, who better to ask. Take the time to pass it on. 

 Sorry, wrong topic.

On 11/1/2021 at 11:05 PM, Old Ironmaker said:

 I've met a few that lost everthing because they thought the gravy train would never stop running. Nicolous Cage will act in a high school play if he gets paid.

Didn't meet any movie stars that lost everything but know more than a few business men that lost millions. Some more than once. Usually they didn't pay thier taxes so they could keep the lights on. One bar owner I know owed the Feds almost a million bucks in federal income tax. He didn't pay his income and remit other taxes for many years and guess what he eventually paid? Zip, ziltch, nada niema nienti, nothin'. Business was in Mom's name and he earned 30K a year as manager. His poor Mother didn't have a clue what he and his accountant was doing for years. Wealthy people don't get wealthy by playing by the rules most of us working stiffs do. But they can look in the mirror every AM with zero guilt, I couldn't if I did that to someone let alone my own Mother. 

5 hours ago, AKRISONER said:

it aint just one person or "movie critics" review, its rating system is based on a poll of what the population thinks. Go check the rating of aforementioned film, it could have saved someone a lot of time lol. 

It will give you the most honest result because no one is coming in with an agenda. If they do, their vote is a statistical anomaly anyways.

If the votes are borderline, or in the middle you can chance it, when the movie is basically beat to death you can assure yourself its a horrible movie. Even movies that are ironically bad will get higher ratings because people can appreciate just how good a bad movie can be. When the movie is outright bad, the votes will tell you as such.

I have a better method to ensure I don't waste the $$$ seeing a bad movie. I wait  until it comes out for free. And yes there is no such thing as free. Oh, and if has Nickolous Cage in it save your $$. I do absolutly love his performance as Ronny the Baker with the one and only Cher as Loretta the emotionally and physically frustrated 40 something widow in "Moonstruck." If anyone here has not seen it you must find it and hopefully enjoy it. Many agree with me as Cher won an Oscar for her portrayal.

On 10/20/2021 at 10:35 PM, smitty55 said:

So I'm finally finished my pickling for the year, I'm up to 80 jars now. The last three batches were all done with green tomatoes with those recipes I posted earlier. Two were the pickles. Spiel, I used the salt like I said and it drew out almost 3 cups of liquid overnight, so I'm thinking that was a good thing to help keep them firm seeing as I did also use a hot pack and processed them for 10 minutes. Haven't tried them yet as I generally like to wait 3 months for pickles. I did have one mishap though, when I was putting the B&B batch in the water bath somehow the bottom fell out of one of the jars in one piece but fortunately all the contents stayed in the jar long enough for me to pull it back out and drop it in the garbage. Only the second time that has ever happened. Strange, it wasn't like there was a sudden temp change. The last batch I did was that green tomato relish where I used my hand grinder with the large holes instead of cutting them all up by hand. The taste and smell with the curry and turmeric was really good but with 4.5C of sugar it was real sweet and I had to stir lots to keep it from burning. Again I haven't tried them yet excepting a couple of taste tests as it was boiling down. Now I know how much shelf room I'll need downstairs and I'll likely be culling some jars from 7-8 years back that are still down there.

Definitely looking forward to try all my new pickles specially, my kids and folks really appreciate getting them for Christmas so of course I have to try them first.

Enough pickles to last us 20 years. 4 jars per year X 20 years, if we like them. 

On 11/3/2021 at 10:03 AM, AKRISONER said:

Cliff the next time you want to watch a movie, google the name of the movie and "rotten tomatos" and it will tell you whether its worth watching or not.

I never ask a skinny guy how the food was and I never ask someone I don't know from Adam how the movie was? 

14 hours ago, glen said:

Thanks for putting up your reports. Some of us aren’t getting out much.  Nice to see someone having fun.   

I don't know when it was the last time I wet a line. Today was a 9/10 for any Fall day let alone November, my least favorite month of the year. 23C here on the deck at 13:00. To make it a 10 out of 10 November day Brians fish would be on the end of my line. 

4 hours ago, misfish said:

Smart,n up young fella,

Yep, and if I don't I will never get a chance to be an old fella. Thx for the good advice.

JD out

We are in the market for a new gas stove. The Bosch stove we bought 10 years ago at Loews is pooched. The self clean feature is constantly flashing door lock and the oven will  not work, burners are fine. I see most NG stoves have air fry feature. I nearly had a heart attach when I see the price of Bosch ovens!!! We paid 1000's less for ovens starting at 3 grand now. 

Any recommendations for an air frier? The above sure looks good Spiel. If the viddles tastes as good as they look that is a great start. I spent the last 4 days in hospital on I.V. My Type 2 Diabetes is challenging me. Another close call. I have slacked off being diligent about what I'm putting on our plates and in my shot glass, that's 3 blue and white lights on incidents in the past year, not good at all. 

Most actors must take anything they can get. Many produce their own films just to earn money with all the Netflix etc. low cost productions. One example is Alec Baldwin producing and staring in "Rust". Studio films are rare these days. They all need the cash to keep up all those mansions they bought. Yaght and airplanes too 30 years ago. I've met a few that lost everthing because they thought the gravy train would never stop running. Nicolous Cage will act in a high school play if he gets paid.

Yea, a real tuff guy. Assaulting a little girl. A bully. What he did is an assault punishable by prison time, and not a few months it can be more than a few years. He's the kind of man that will cry like an infant baby saying he's "sorry" be fore a Judge sentencing him. Yea he sorry for getting busted and that's all. Unlike how I might have reacted if I was there a few years ago today I wouild act differently as long as I saw the young worker was no longer in danger. I would have followed him to his vehicle and took a pic of his plate, at a minimum he and or his car. If the authorities wanted to find this guy they would but doubt they would. I'm sure they checked security cameras in the area, one can't relieve themselves behind the bushes, anywhere, they is bound to have a security camera taking his pic. I have to stop typing now before I get myself in trouble. If every food service employee could I.D. this scum I would think he will never order food again in his lifetime. Punishment should not exceed the crime. Spit by a dozen or so waiters/waitresses/cooks/cashiers/owners/managers of a restaurant should never spit in a customers food. That's a lot of spit ypu scum, enjoy. 

Some tough guy this piece of____ is. 

How many teeth can you buy for the price of your toys? Listen to me I sound like my father 40 some odd years ago. I know it's fun now but like many seniors they are kicking themselves today thinking about what they could have done with that "toy" money 40 years ago. My buds were buying toys and I was buying boring houses. I retired at 45 and some of them are still working today paying for toys they scraped years ago. Have fun but be smart G.  

My wife and I attended another one of our God Daughters weddings yesterday, they both looked like they stepped off a wedding cake, handsome and beautiful. My brothers youngest, maybe the last in my lifetime. My wife and I aren't the only ones that gained weight in the last 2 years, 22 months since I saw one brother and S-I-L as well as many, many others. I asked him if he slept with his dogs the night before. I had to explain it to whom ever was within earshot. His hair is almost completly white now . It was a strange day. My wife pointed out we were all cramed into a small chappel, as we emerg from C-19  protocol there will be strange days ahead. I could not believe the number of morbidly obese kids under 40 that attended, most under 30. Not good. Of course there was bacon everywhere. 

On 10/6/2021 at 8:17 PM, akaShag said:

Yep, where you been OIM?

Doug

I've been MIA, the rescue mission was short lived and when it turned into a body retreival nobody showed up. Seriously though I've been trying hard to reduce the 25 pounds I gained eating like a swine did to me during this pandemic that we are all trying to deal with as I swear every recipe on this thread has bacon in it. All those Docs on CNN and others say even over the next 10 years our hospitals will still be overloaded with all the patients that gained poundage, a meteoric increase in stroke and heart decease associated with eating bacon. I saw bacon flavoured ice cream at our County Fair this past Saturday. I had the bacon Funnel Cake, mmmmmm. I have pretty well every pair of lounge wear pants they make. 

Johnny D/Selkirk On.

On 9/4/2021 at 4:53 PM, Spiel said:

A couple of Lasagnes today, made from my home grown garden tomatoes that I sauced and canned.
They are big, the one on the right is meat free for my youngest daughter and the larger one on the left is meat laden (ground beef and ground sweet Italian sausage) is to be shared with my oldest daughter and her BF who are still renovating the kitchen in their recently purchased first home. I raised 'em and I still feed 'em. 

My 50/50 USA born Italian Ma, Zia's and 100% Italian Nona's took the time to make 1/2 diameter mini meatballs, maybe 100 for a family sized Lasagna we took on any given summer Sunday picnic to Long Beach on Lake Erie or one of the mini lakes on highway 6 north. 2 massive Lasagnas for dinner, around 5 PM, lunch was as soon as we landed all the Pontiac and Chevy wagons. BBQ'd sausages and peppers on crusty panini, hot dogs and burgers for the little ones. Dad had a 59' Chevy wagon that held more people than some airplanes. 3 adults and 1 infant in the front seat, 3 adults and 1 infant in the ,idlle seat, 3 children and 1 small Grandmother in the traffic facing 3rd row. That be 12 humans in 1 big arse car. The prosetion was more than 3 people movers. Did I say 2 massive Lasagna? How about 3 or 4. I hoped 4 because I loved cold Lasagna for breakfast before school. I still love it. Here is a recipe for disaster, put any 2 or more women in a kitchen and ask them which recipe is best. My former wife had the audacity to ask that question of 4 of the ladies. Lucky I was within ear shot and changed the question to which of these 2 TV chefs is best? Still not good but not the start of a vendeta!

I know you guys must miss me.

3 hours ago, glen said:

ok thanks   

It’s going to be a lot of $.  
 

Like Fisherman said no more than anually, but maybe less than you think depending on your return on investment depending on what you did with it. I made 21% a week on mine, errrrrr I mean 2%, yea 2% anually not weekly. 

On 5/5/2021 at 7:30 AM, dave524 said:

some of us old people need to put them on the fridge with a magnet so we don't forget, see above post, now I know why I forgot.

My dear departed Uncle used to put the stickers on the side of the fridge so he didn't lose it. If a Cop stopped  him he told them it must have fallen off. Prove it couldn't.

On 2/8/2021 at 12:18 AM, Old Ironmaker said:

I finally got me arse off the reclyner and started walking 4 weeks ago and as they say the new smoking is watching TV, I was up to 12 hours a day, or more chain sitting. My 1st walk lasted 300 yards before I was gasping for air and it will be a year in a few weeks smoke free, quit cold Turkey. We walked 2 miles today, no issues.

It's getting better, thanks very much. 

I wrote that this past Feb. I walked 3 K's Monday pain free. I bought a new pair of sneakers that morning, Sketchers, when I tried them on they felt so good I wore  them out of the store.  My legs were killing me went  we went into  the store, I did 3 lengths of Eastgate Mall in Hamilton after that with what I consider zero pain. Then in the early evening walked 2 K's. This is the 1st time I paid more than a 100 beans for a pair of shoes. I'm told by others that price is on the low end for new kicks. I had to return there this AM and looked in Foot Locker at running shoes, there was 1 pair for more than 150 bucks, wow. I have to tell you guys almost as old as I and has leg pain for any reason you get what you pay for. I am giving these 4 months then will reasess the need for a new pair. 

Johnny D/Selkirk On, home of the new flashing 4 way stop. 

I have no idea where this post is supposed to go. I might not think clearly but I got a new pair of shoes. I think?

11 minutes ago, Old Ironmaker said:

I had to  back to read what I said. My comment wasn't directed  towads you it's  something I have said since the interweb came out. 

 

 

Did I say 5 to 8 lbs. Certainly closer to 5 than 8. To be exact cut your fish in 2 and count the rings. 

On 10/3/2021 at 10:34 AM, SirCranksalot said:

My intent in making my comment wasn't to to offer legal advice but to suggest, as you have done, that he see a lawyer.

I had to  back to read what I said. My comment wasn't directed  towads you it's  something I have said since the interweb came out. 

On 9/27/2021 at 8:56 PM, DRIFTER_016 said:

OI

I spent the entire summer last year out at my cabin and only came into town every 2 weeks for supplies. Spent 6 weeks there this summer and finally started feeling a little better near the end of my vacation time out there. I still try and stay away from people even though I'm fully vaccinated. The Rona got into the NWT big time in Mid August. Unlucky for everyone it got into one of the communities that held a hand games tournament. It was attended by a lot of un-vaxed people and it went through a lot of the small communities like wild fire. Then of course they brought it into Yellowknife where it went through the homeless population. We went from a couple of hundred cases and no deaths to over a thousand and now 5 dead. 50% of the population in one community got sick at the same time. We are now pretty much locked down again because of the few that didn't get the shot. 🤬

 

https://cabinradio.ca/74140/news/health/coronavirus/northwest-territories-reports-1000th-covid-19-case-of-pandemic/?fbclid=IwAR2U5dzkJBcXkA4Tf7clKqFLmyg_EgPj1fwdMduT81DZ7FEPXCuZWyWfJVo 

I have given you unsolised advise here about slowing down and to give yourself some time at that amazing property you are building. I like to think I am a detailed driven individual. I am not. And I am perfectly fine with that. When I was remodeling our post 1945 cottage complete with sandy beach on the north shore of Lake Erie. A 6 to 8 week reno has taken 10 years and I am now going back and redoing (a word ?) as close to code if not to code. The #1 reason? We are leaving the shack to our nieces and rephews and their children and by the time we are all toes up it will be sitting as solid as rock still. 

Below you are seeing a Lake Erie Pikeral (Walleye) and moi O.I. That female is only 3 to 5 years young. Around 8 lbs. If left by the commercial  nets she can reach up to 15 lbs. Just something to lighten the load as our pal Robbie suggested. 

On 9/12/2021 at 3:30 PM, Crimsongulf said:

Ours is just a 2B 1.5Bath 1100 sq ft on Hay Bay.  Realtors are telling us about 600K.  I figure the lot is worth more than the cottage itself.  Honestly if I wasn't 67 we probably wouldn't sell now.  Even with the exchange rate it is a good chunk of change that I can reinvest.

Just remember there is a 30% CDN federal tax on sales of property in Canada owned by foriegners. A freind of mine from Western NY got a rude awakening when he sold the family Lake Erie cottage a few years back. The family has owned it since just after WW2, more American owners than Canadians there, it's just across the Buffalo, Ft. Erie border. Heck it's called The Buffalo Yaght Club. I'm sure a good accountant may have a few loop holes up his or her sleeve. 

On 9/8/2021 at 6:35 PM, Crimsongulf said:

I 

I but with Toronto big money chasing cottages we have decided to take advantage of the situation.

Prices are getting rediculous by the day here. We turned down $530,000 for our cottage on Lake Erie last summer. I was told we were crazy not to take it. A similar cottage 3 doors down from ours same size, similar features, on the waterfront was listed at $1,000,049 last month!!! I don't know what they got 4 days latter but it sold fast. Another place across the road from the beach previously owned by a freind is listed at $1,490,000. It's a 1200 square foot3  bedroom 1 bath Viceroy with several small rooms. Wowza, I hope they get it. Ours is going on the market ASAP.