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:rofl: Jack of all trades and matchmaker, among other things.turbo-1 kenobe
:rofl: Jack of all trades and matchmaker, among other things.turbo-1 kenobe
Think of it from the guy's point of view. The perfect lady (not in the etiquette sense perhaps) will share interests and want to share the favorite activities of her mate. My cousin loves to fish and hunt, and is a tough contender at archery competitions, and she uses her days off during October bowhunting for deer. She is a great shot with firearms, and she is also perhaps the sweetest person I have ever known. She might be 120# soaking wet and and has a great figure after raising 3 kids. If something should happen to her husband, I could get her married off without a boat easy! Though if Steve died, she'd have several nice boats/canoes/his-and-hers snowmobiles, a 4WD pickup and all kinds of guns, archery equipment (both competition and hunting) and fishing gear. Hell, I'd have to set up a lottery system with a stiff buy-in fee just to limit the number of applicants who'd want to meet her.Evo said:No wonder I've never been able to hold onto a man.
Help me turbo-1 kenobe, you're my only hope.
Some of the stuff that makes for a happy life in no particular order:Math Is Hard said:oh.. oh dear! I have really got to get some skills. All this time and money I've spent at UCLA and they haven't taught me any of the basics I need for a happy life.
turbo-1 said:Think of it from the guy's point of view. The perfect lady (not in the etiquette sense perhaps) will share interests and want to share the favorite activities of her mate. My cousin loves to fish and hunt, and is a tough contender at archery competitions, and she uses her days off during October bowhunting for deer. She is a great shot with firearms, and she is also perhaps the sweetest person I have ever known. She might be 120# soaking wet and and has a great figure after raising 3 kids. If something should happen to her husband, I could get her married off without a boat easy! Though if Steve died, she'd have several nice boats/canoes/his-and-hers snowmobiles, a 4WD pickup and all kinds of guns, archery equipment (both competition and hunting) and fishing gear. Hell, I'd have to set up a lottery system with a stiff buy-in fee just to limit the number of applicants who'd want to meet her.
You sound pretty good to me. I was never one of those foo-foo women with the fake nails. I love gardening and I was always always rooting around in the dirt with manure, blood meal, and other aromatic soil enhancers.scorpa said:Pffft I ride motorcycles, love pretty much anything with an engine, I can shoot and love "roughing it" in the outdoors and it hasn't helped me at all. I mention my hobbies to some of my guy friends and their eyes get all big and they ask me "but isn't that dangerous!?" :rofl: No either I look in the wrong places or guys want some girl that loves pink and does nothing for fear of breaking a nail :grumpy: *Rant mode off* :tongue:
Probably should read - the perfect mate . . . will share . . . .turbo-1 kenobe said:The perfect lady (not in the etiquette sense perhaps) will share interests and want to share the favorite activities of her mate.
Same here.turbo-1 kenobe said:1. Knowing how to handle a canoe . . .
2. Knowing the behavior of animals, . . .
3. Knowing how to tend to the soil so that it tends to you. . . . . That is a perversion of land stewardship and a waste of resources.
4. Learning the night sky. . . . .
5. Recognizing that there are times when we can do very little to change a particular situation, and that there are times when a little bit of leverage can make a big difference so we can be a positive influence. This one is particularly valuable for your peace of mind and mental stability.
Sounds great to me! :tongue2:scorpa said:I ride motorcycles, love pretty much anything with an engine, I can shoot and love "roughing it" in the outdoors and it hasn't helped me at all.
:!) That Red Dragon sounds really good! :tongue2: I like Monterrey Jack with jalapeño or habanero.Evo said:I love gardening and I was always always rooting around in the dirt with manure, blood meal, and other aromatic soil enhancers.
I'm trying to find new foods to eat.
scorpa said:Pffft I ride motorcycles, love pretty much anything with an engine, I can shoot and love "roughing it" in the outdoors and it hasn't helped me at all. I mention my hobbies to some of my guy friends and their eyes get all big and they ask me "but isn't that dangerous!?" :rofl: No either I look in the wrong places or guys want some girl that loves pink and does nothing for fear of breaking a nail :grumpy: *Rant mode off* :tongue:
Not so much wise as practical. I try to keep some perspective about the times I have been truly happy and fulfilled, and then do the things that enable those moments. Sometimes we can get detached from reality and forget the roots of things, and that can lead to some pretty unproductive behavior, frustration, and unhappiness.Math Is Hard said:Wise words, turbo!
You see, Scorpa, you're just not looking for men in the right places. When I was your age, I would have been swept off my feet by a lady who loved motorcycles and camping, and who would take a summer job operating heavy equipment. You would fit right in at Unity College here in Maine. It offers courses that lead to degrees relevant to employment as game wardens, biologists, foresters, marine patrol, etc. You'd have no problem finding a decent guy there! My second cousin graduated from there and is now a state game warden. He and his wife recently sold their Harleys so they could buy a big sea-worthy fishing boat and indulge in that passion. His father (retired as chief of the warden service) owns a Road King and is a good friend, so we ride together frequently.chaoseverlasting said:Where DO you live?:!)
turbo-1 said:You see, Scorpa, you're just not looking for men in the right places. When I was your age, I would have been swept off my feet by a lady who loved motorcycles and camping, and who would take a summer job operating heavy equipment. You would fit right in at Unity College here in Maine. It offers courses that lead to degrees relevant to employment as game wardens, biologists, foresters, marine patrol, etc. You'd have no problem finding a decent guy there! My second cousin graduated from there and is now a state game warden. He and his wife recently sold their Harleys so they could buy a big sea-worthy fishing boat and indulge in that passion. His father (retired as chief of the warden service) owns a Road King and is a good friend, so we ride together frequently.
I've never see Ro*Tel tomatoes and chilis up this way, though I haven't been inside a supermarket for years, and I suppose that they might be featured in with the ethnic foods. No matter, really, since we add our canned (or fresh in season) chilis to practically every casserole-type dish, anyway. :tongue2:Evo said:I made ham jambalaya last night and it was incredible. I made it with Rotel tomatoes for a little extra kick and I will never make it any other way from now on.
Hopefully he was well off the road. I would think that someone getting out of a truck (I presume a truck with a gun rack) with a gun might freak out other drivers if it was on a well-traveled roadway.shot a turkey on his way to work
Hah! That's great! The narrator even sounds like me, although my voice is perhaps a little deeper. :rofl: Nothing like a homemade fireplace. When I was very young, we had a 55 gal drum which served as a backyard furnace. I spent a lot of time building fires. When I visited my maternal grandparents, I'd spend hours chopping wood. It was fun as well as being good exercise.Ouabache said:How about making your own maple syrup to go with your next batch of buckwheat pancakes... video clip Turbo & Astronuc, perhaps you can appreciate the aesthetic appeal of this method.
He was hunting out in a field near his house.Astronuc said:Hopefully he was well of the road. I would think that someone getting out of a truck (I presume a truck with a gun rack) with a gun might freak out other drivers if it was on a well-traveled roadway.
I worked for years with a woman that hunted before and after work, weekends, etc, and arranged her vacation time to coincide with hunting seasons. She routinely brought in pictures of herself with turkeys, deer, grouse, and one time a bear that she had shot. She and her husband are avid hunters. I have a petite cousin who is deadly with a bow and she bags deer regularly with it. She's a teacher's aide.Evo said:He was hunting out in a field near his house.
I know the first thing I think about on my way to work is to stop and shoot a couple of turkeys.
There are a number of people in the nuclear industry who hunt and fish. Outages at some plants have to timed before hunting season.turbo-1 said:I worked for years with a woman that hunted before and after work, weekends, etc, and arranged her vacation time to coincide with hunting seasons. She routinely brought in pictures of herself with turkeys, deer, grouse, and one time a bear that she had shot. She and her husband are avid hunters.
And she enjoys Indian wrestling, right?I have a petite cousin who is deadly with a bow and she bags deer regularly with it. She's a teacher's aide.
I don't suppose you saved any. :tongue:Evo said:I chopped up enough to make about 2 cups, and chopped an onion, I sauteed the wild garlic and onion in butter until they onion was transparent, then tossed them with some freshly made hot couscous. OMG! That was the best dish ever! Now I fear that my craving for wild garlic will soon deplete my supply. To think for years I would throw pounds of them into the trash.
:rofl: Breakfast - coffee and cholestrol - :rofl:mathwonk said:the mixture should look heart stoppingly cholesterol laden. then cook some bacon, actually in extra olive oil, drain and set aside.
Ah, pasta carbonara. In Italy they use a type of cream which can't be purchased in the US and pancetta. It is to die for. :!)mathwonk said:heres a real recipe, but i am not really a cook.
take an egg or two and mix them up with a lot of really good parmegiana cheese, grated yourself from the good gourmet store, not out of the green can we used as a kid.
the mixture should look heart stoppingly cholesterol laden. then cook some bacon, actually in extra olive oil, drain and set aside.
then make the pasta, with lots of water. as an italian friend says "foreigners never use enough water for pasta."
it is ready when it tastes as if it is ("al dente"), or as some people prefer, when it sticks to the ceiling when flung, but my wife frowns on this method.
then drain the pasta, and pour into a thingy with holes in the bottom (collander?), and add the egg parmegiana mixture and mix it up. the hot pasta cooks the eggs enough.
then add the crushed bacon and mix further amd serve.
have freshly ground pepper and more freshly grated parmesan for people to sprinkle.
although not a cook, actually even i have had a success with this. oh yes, serve good red wine and preferably a salad if you have someone with salad skills.
That's awful! There is a lot of wild stuff that is delicious and it's too bad to waste it. If the wild garlic divides well like the cultivated kind wait until fall, dig up a bunch, divide the bulbs into cloves and replant the cloves. Maybe you can get a patch going that will keep up with your demand. One of my neighbors raises garlic and last year he gave us some purple Russian garlic that tasted wonderful, so we put some in a batch of our habanero sauce-Mmmmm:tongue2: I may have to beg some bulbs of that from him and start my own patch this fall.Evo said:I was weeding the garden the other day and I have TONS of wild garlic. It always smells so good I decided to look online to see if it was good to eat. I read a few recipes with it and decided to give them a try.
I chopped up enough to make about 2 cups, and chopped an onion, I sauteed the wild garlic and onion in butter until they onion was transparent, then tossed them with some freshly made hot couscous. OMG! That was the best dish ever! Now I fear that my craving for wild garlic will soon deplete my supply. To think for years I would throw pounds of them into the trash.