What R you doing today?

[jswordy]

Got the last of the trim molding done today. Up and down, up and down. You know, vodka tastes so good after that. Backsplash, window trim and counter outlet wiring are next. We still need to agree on a backsplash, though. After this wraps up, I have to paint and then lay LVP in the adjacent sunroom. Be so happy to get a kitchen table again!

 

[Jovimaple]

how accurate is your tilt SG in a vino ferment like that? (Have pondered getting one...) Dig Avante -- my new fav yeast for most reds!

Cheers!

Since this is the first time I used my Tilt with skins (although I did use it in a Dragonblood with the fruit in a bag), I have an update. For a couple of days, the SG varied widely as the foaming and the skin muslin bags getting underneath the Tilt would cause it to be at weird angles. Then things settled down so when I punched down the skins, I could make sure the Tilt was floating free.

Per the kit instructions, after the SG dropped below 1.010, I locked down the lid and put on an airlock. After about 15 hours, I stopped getting data. The Tilt will turn off if it is horizontal for an extended period, so my assumption is the bags floated up and got underneath it again. I tried shaking the bucket around but it wasn't enough to turn the Tilt back on.

So if you ALWAYS use skins and you do extended maceration, you may run into the same issue with a Tilt. However, you can use it up to the point of locking the lid and remove it then.

 

[Rice_Guy]

Pie day ~~

Thanksgiving pie:
premade crust
Filling;
1/2 C lemon juice
1/2 can orange concentrate frozen
2 C pumpkin/ frozen squash works too
1/4 C brown sugar
2 T cornstarch
1 Knox gelatin pkt
1 C Diced cranberry
Place crust in a pie plate. > Heat oven to 425. > Cook filling except for cranberry. > When thick mix in diced cranberry. > bake 425 for 30 minutes

(,,, this one is for church, the stars are puff pastry cut with a cookie cutter, ,,, folks eat with their eyes first)

. . . . Now to do the apple pie for Saturday.

 

[ibglowin]

The big snow dump from a few weeks ago has all melted away and the golf course is back open for business! Played last Friday and will play this week just ahead of Turkey day.

 

[jswordy]

Taking a break from polishing up our antique kitchen table. My parents bought this after they got married in 1954, I sat at it in a high chair starting in '58 and then for real as I grew up. Mom eventually got on an antiques refinishing kick and replaced it with a wood table she redid. It went to the basement, where I used it growing up to build plastic models and even for light carpentry. When I came back from college they gave it to me, and I have been using it ever since. We used to have a long tablecloth over it so we didn't care much how it looked, but now we want to try using it uncovered in the new kitchen, after the appliances arrive late this month. We're buying new period correct chairs for it.

It does have some irreversible rust and patina, but the thing is 70 years old, so that's fine.

Since it's in the house, all I can use is elbow grease. So here's after a lot of elbow grease and an awesome metal polish... these photos do not do justice at all to the remarkable difference. It still needs to be washed when finished and then coated with ceramic wax.




The legs were as dull, but I could bring those out to my polisher in the shop. It took five polishings to bring them to this...



I should pick up the kitchen backsplash tiles on Monday. Hoping to wrap this remodel up soon after the new year. We'll see...

 

[Kraffty]

My jeep, restored a couple years back, has the seasonal limitation of tubular doors and no top. It hibernates in the garage all winter. A couple weeks ago a saw an ad for a jeep salvage yard in Prescott that's only about 45 mins away from me and went over and found a hard top and a set of full doors. The top was tan colored and the doors were from a red jeep but a few days of cleaning, sanding, priming and painting and I now have a closed up jeep for the winter. I also added a winch to the garage ceiling so I can store the top in the spring and also put it on and take it off by myself.

 

[Kraffty]

Taking a break from polishing up our antique kitchen table. My parents bought this after they got married in 1954, I sat at it in a high chair starting in '58 and then for real as I grew up. Mom eventually got on an antiques refinishing kick and replaced it with a wood table she redid. It went to the basement, where I used it growing up to build plastic models and even for light carpentry. When I came back from college they gave it to me, and I have been using it ever since. We used to have a long tablecloth over it so we didn't care much how it looked, but now we want to try using it uncovered in the new kitchen, after the appliances arrive late this month. We're buying new period correct chairs for it.

I remember eating every morning at a very similar looking table at my Grandma's house. I think ours had a grey top with what looked like scribbles in white. Looks pretty nice.

 

[ibglowin]

My jeep, restored a couple years back, has the seasonal limitation of tubular doors and no top. It hibernates in the garage all winter. A couple weeks ago a saw an ad for a jeep salvage yard in Prescott that's only about 45 mins away from me and went over and found a hard top and a set of full doors. The top was tan colored and the doors were from a red jeep but a few days of cleaning, sanding, priming and painting and I now have a closed up jeep for the winter. I also added a winch to the garage ceiling so I can store the top in the spring and also put it on and take it off by myself.View attachment 118478

Nice job Mike. Looks like new!

 

[jswordy]

I remember eating every morning at a very similar looking table at my Grandma's house. I think ours had a grey top with what looked like scribbles in white. Looks pretty nice.

That's the top this one has!

 

[jswordy]

My jeep, restored a couple years back, has the seasonal limitation of tubular doors and no top. It hibernates in the garage all winter. A couple weeks ago a saw an ad for a jeep salvage yard in Prescott that's only about 45 mins away from me and went over and found a hard top and a set of full doors. The top was tan colored and the doors were from a red jeep but a few days of cleaning, sanding, priming and painting and I now have a closed up jeep for the winter. I also added a winch to the garage ceiling so I can store the top in the spring and also put it on and take it off by myself.View attachment 118478

You did such a nice job on that Jeep, and it has the classic boxy style I like. Now in an all-weather version!

 

[jswordy]

That's the top this one has!

@Kraffty It's still apart and in storage until the appliances are delivered and installed ... but now I gotta know, lol ... look familiar?

 

[Kraffty]

Wow, looks just like what I remember. Seats were covered in a plastic/vinyl type material, bright and solid but my memory on color sort of vague, yellow maybe. Looking forward to seeing the finished piece.

 

[jswordy]

Wow, looks just like what I remember. Seats were covered in a plastic/vinyl type material, bright and solid but my memory on color sort of vague, yellow maybe. Looking forward to seeing the finished piece.

Awesome! Yeah, we are ordering new retro chairs for it. Mom's chairs had green cushions. When the kitchen is finally all done, I'll take some shots. (I can't wait! Sigh...)

 

[jswordy]

Man, it is SEVENTY degrees here. I just finished opening up the house for some fresh air.

 

[winemaker81]

I had our hot water heater replaced this morning. It wasn't dead, but it had been acting up ... and it's 22 years old. I'm much happier replacing it before it died instead of going 1 to 2 weeks without hot water if we replace it after it dies.

We had our well pump replaced last April, and the team installed a new water filter. But the unit doesn't have a built-in cut-off switch, and they didn't install one in the line between the pump and the house.

While the plumbers were here, I had them install a switch. So now I turn off the switch on the house side of the pressure tank, turn off the switch between the filter and the house, and swap filters in 30 seconds.

Folks on city/municipal water miss all this type of fun stuff!!!

 

[Ohio Bob]

Went down to the river to try for steelhead, no luck. Watched the Bowling Green State University aquatic team do some electroshock surveys. The large boom on the front drapes electrodes into the water, charged by an onboard generator. The two members “troll” the river, both with landing nets, plucking steelhead into coolers for research. Saw them land two big fish right where I was casting!

 

[ChuckD]

Went down to the river to try for steelhead, no luck. Watched the Bowling Green State University aquatic team do some electroshock surveys. The large boom on the front drapes electrodes into the water, charged by an onboard generator. The two members “troll” the river, both with landing nets, plucking steelhead into coolers for research. Saw them land two big fish right where I was casting!

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I’ve spent many hours on the front of a shock-boat netting fish.

We once launched by a public fishing pier and several anglers were bitching about how there were no trout there. The fish manager seriously offended them when he suggested that the fish may be there but not biting. UNPOSSIBLE! If there were fish present they would be catching them!! So before heading out to our destination we made a pass along the pier and rolled up about 30 salmon for them to see .

 

[mainshipfred]

I finally got around to installing a hot and cold hose bib to my sink. All I had was hot and was afraid to wash carboys with the hot water.

 

[jswordy]

I had our hot water heater replaced this morning. It wasn't dead, but it had been acting up ... and it's 22 years old. I'm much happier replacing it before it died instead of going 1 to 2 weeks without hot water if we replace it after it dies.

We had our well pump replaced last April, and the team installed a new water filter. But the unit doesn't have a built-in cut-off switch, and they didn't install one in the line between the pump and the house.

While the plumbers were here, I had them install a switch. So now I turn off the switch on the house side of the pressure tank, turn off the switch between the filter and the house, and swap filters in 30 seconds.

Folks on city/municipal water miss all this type of fun stuff!!!

We've got the well but not the filter. Never needed one.

 

[winemaker81]

We've got the well but not the filter. Never needed one.

We get "chunks" from time to time. The filter keeps larger particles out of the lines.