ill have to come out your way and show you how to use that smoker one of these days

 

Too bad you sold the glamper trn

I am not going soft, and there is actually a lot of lettuce in that salad.

Wednesday is salad night in our house, but there is normally a hot protein served with/in the salad as well.

Quote from: OldKooT on December 06, 2017, 08:45:45 AM

less overreach is always a good thing...agreed. Fed land is often not available for use. There are many large areas of Fed land that are heavily restricted. The grand canyon comes to mind.

The Utah deal..... Trump doesn't want Romney to be in office.. so he gave Utah back their Uranium land that Obummer swiped in trade =P

No doubt much of this is true. But Trump is the real deal. If he can do something right by real Americans while pissin' in the wheaties of folks like Romney, I'm sure he relished in killin' a bunch of birds with one swipe of the pen.

Note: Seems like ever since Obummer's reign (Aptly chosen word) our president is more and more like a king. Ruling through executive order. I love it when the guy in the white house lines up with a free and constitutional America, but hated it when the Muslim homosexual ruled the land.

the only bad part about this is that when he is no longer there, the next clown can undo it all just he did to that piece of garbage that he took over from.........

ken, I tried calling you earlier.  give me a call back when you get a few minutes.

HC didn't do one on that light, he did one on the surefire m600

zero hedge is so behind the times...................smh

shawn, please don't think for 1 second that we have not had this covered for the last 20+ years.

1000 lumens ouch especially in strobe.

I've been amazed with some of the cheaper knock offs.
This is definitely in that category.
A lot of light in a small package.

Quote from: TexasRedNeck on December 03, 2017, 11:48:56 PM

I searched for a flashlight thread.  Thought we had one.  Mods, feel free to move this to a more appropriate place


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We do. Camping and Bug out gear. The thread is called Lights. I don't know how to move stuff.

I think that puts out more light then my stock jk headlamps.....

So I have a few flashlights.

Some cheap, some not so cheap.  I was a Surefire snob for a while but the chinese and others have really stepped up their game and there are several lights that are well made and much more affordable.

Case in point:  I ordered this Fenix PD35 TAC from Amazon on the recommendation of a friend.  I have 4 fenix lights, including headlamps, one cell mini lights with 200 lumens, etc. 

This light claims to have 1000 lumens, strobe and multiple modes down to 5 lumen output.

When I got to the hide this evening it was dark so I thought I would put up against my Surefire M4 Devastator with a retrofit turbo LED head.

I have to say this little $73 light is pretty amazing for such a small package. It puts out a tremendous amount of light and much more in the first 25 yards.  The longer, focused reflector on the M4 makes it a pretty decent long range beam but it doesnt come close to the light output of this little light for lighting up the area immediately around you.

I recommend you check one out yourselves.

You should at least put Grill in the title knucklehead....Nate also has a new truck...and you said you went to a GM dealer. :P

 

onions, red, yellow and orange bell peppers, 1 jalapeno small diced.

smoked chicken and turkey from the smoked turkey legs I did a while back pulled/chopped and ready to go into the stock.

oh and corn fried in bacon grease......why bacon grease........because bacon grease  ....lol

so I spent yesterday and today boiling down all of the above 3 times, removed all remanents, and not I just have stock chilling in the fridge so I can strain the layer of fat from the pot.

tomorrow I will boil it down once more, add the chicken, corn and the other stuff.

 

I started on the stock for some smoked chicken and smoked corn chowda.  ill reduce this down a couple times today/night and get to making the chowda tomorrow. 


Ingredients:

- 2 cans corn or 2-3 ears of fresh corn on the cob shucked, grilled and cut from the cob
- pulled chicken from 1 smoked whole chicken
- 1 red bell pepper small diced
- 1 orange bell pepper small diced
- 1 yellow bell pepper small diced
- 1 med yellow onion small diced
- 1-2 Jalapeno's small diced
- bacon (optional)
- 4-5 QTS homemade chicken stock
- 1 QT heavy whipping cream or cream soup base

chicken stock ingredients and directions:

- chicken carcas's (i usually use 2 per pot)
- 2 yellow onions quartered
- 1 small package of celery chopped up into 1 inch pieces
- 1 small bag of carrots chopped up into 1 inch pieces
- a couple jalapeno's halved
- sodium free chicken bullion (to taste)
- 1 large pot
- water to fill pot to within 2 inches from the top

directions:

1. put carcass into pot
2. add all vegetables to pot
3. add bullion to pot
4. fill pot tp with in 2 inches from top
5. bring pot to a boil and reduce contents by 1/2 or 3/4
6. refill pot and repeat step 5
7. once pot has reduced a second time strain all contents
8. throw away all bits from liquid
9. put liquid into refrigerator until all the fat has solidified on top of the liquid
10. remove fat and throw away
11. bring liquid to a boil


chowder directions:

1. once stock has come to a boil, add all vegetables and meat and let it come to a gentle boil for about 45 minutes
2. add heavy cream or cream soup base
3. if you like it a little thicker, you can use a little cold water and corn starch slurry
4. once chowder is at your desired thickness remove from heat and serve.

Another point

Jared, you seem to know quite a bit about buildin'

You should post over in the construction area

Let me see, I may be going somewhere with this...Brain (old as it is) is startin' to do some conjurin'

You could be a oracle of sorts. People could seek advice, after paying the proper homage, of course, then the oracle could speak, and the matter could be settled.

Could call it:
J Speakes
or
J's Advice place
or
The J list
or
Builder J and the do-right corner
or
J the answer man
or
Something like that

You could tell numbskulls (DON comes to mind...as well as me) how to do things properly

As this idea starts to focus I see a new moderator being born. But this one did not ask for the job. You see around here, anytime someone has an idea about a new discussion area (Just ask Tex-red-neck) he/she gets appointed a moderator...

Just sayin' that this is new ground for me...someone who didn't suggest an idea gettin' corralled and all that...

Well, thanks to a member donating $50 just now, we are off and running on the Christmas 2017 project. That's an early start to what has become a really cool thing we get to do here for some peeps we don't even know.

I think that many of you get about as excited about this as I do. Heck last year I was out in little girl stores buying stuff I had no idea about, and it was FUN! This, honestly is one of the coolest things we do from this RealMan corner of the interweb.

So, no decisions have been made yet but I do have some candidates for our giving this year. First is a place called "The Talbot House." It is a place where children of drug addicted parents who are in rehab get to stay or are cared for from afar while their parents try to fix their broken lives. There is a christmas gift tree out that I could pull names from, as in a gift per name and see what we could do to sow some happiness into an otherwise bleak situation.
Second on my list is a local old folks home. Living there are some guests who no longer have any family and are wards of the state just living out their days. I don't know how many people there are or how we might respond, but that would be a worthy cause. And frankly I DO NOT care about this policy or that which restricts things like not playing Christian music, or saying "Merry Christmas" or speaking of our savior. In a word, "To Hell With All That!" Well, a bit more than a word, but that's how I feel and given my size and fearsome (Ugly) look, no one will say anything when I raise a might word of praise for our king!

Next (and I may be leaning this way a bit, I know of a woman with two girls, one four, and one older, living in an apartment, whose worthless husband walked out abandoning his family. We could sow into that family like last year's effort.

So with no particular goal in mind, I guess we're off to the races to make a CHRISTmas ho-down for some needy people. Like always we will do it mostly anonymously and keep our generosity between us and our God (The way he likes it).

So boyz and girlies, if you are so so convicted, donate away and watch the amount grow over on the donations page. And check this out...a DP (Don Prediction): This year's amount will be more than last year's amount...and I bet (because the Lord likes this) it will be a bunch more!

Oh and if you have something to say as far as which direction you'd like to go with our giving this year, please share it here. Of course, like always, I won't pay any attention at all and end up doing whatever I think, but at least you'll think you influenced the decision. And that will make you a happy person!

so if I understand correctly, these are the 3 options that you are putting up for recommendation/discussion/execution?

option #1 helping the children at "the Talbot House"?

option #2 spreading a little love and cheer for those that have no family left and trying to make their little bit of time left on this earth a little more merrier?

option #3 a mother of 2

Quote from: nmeyer414 on November 26, 2017, 10:55:04 PM

Welcome Steve,

 if there is anything that we can assist you with just let us know and well see what we can do for you.  Where yah at in OK?

Live in Maud work at Tinker. Are you in OK?

Somebody would have to pay me on the high end of 6 digits for me to live in oklahoma again....lol. i was stationed at sill for many years and was also married at one point to a crazy one from prague/eufaula area.

sounds like don just found a good candidate for his H&S tuner................?

I beg to differ until i can see some bend test and smoke ring......lol

Looks good Nate but you need to wash that black truck....

once I get back from a little travel, I will get a few clean pics.

Quote from: TexasRedNeck on November 16, 2017, 06:58:08 PM

Looks good Nate but you need to wash that black truck....

Why?

Dirt protects the paint from harmful UV

Someday when I wash mine off, I'll prove that theory!

Nice cover Nate

and

Great Lady!

 

here is the website for Diamondback Tonneau covers

https://diamondbackcovers.com/

here is a video about their company from 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSMSiArXwh4

here is a video of how they became who they are and how they got to where they are now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiAbB7AMA4w

and here is a video of the installation that I found on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj8o4HoNaDQ

the bod box fits very snug.