The Coffee House

[Gary A.]

Filters are done. Bread dough moved to baking dish.

 

[Gary A.]

On to Watermelon Sorbet from the Mexican Ice Cream Cookbook.

 

[Frank F.]

and a last one I just found...

 

[snowbear116 47]

Jon - have you seen this? Funny, but I doubt I'd have dome it when ours were this little.
Muddled Up Mummy

 

[Gary A.]

Jon - have you seen this? Funny, but I doubt I'd have dome it when ours were this little.
Muddled Up Mummy

aaahhhh ... No.

 

[Gary A.]

Sorbet is in the fridge cooling off and getting ready for the ice cream maker.

 

[Gary A.]

Bread is in the oven.

 

[smoke665]

With the exception that shopping starts 20-25 miles away and MUCH farther for good stuff.... Dave lives in the country and likes it that way.

Dave the rural property we built on is just about ideal for us. The house is on a small mountain top, overlooking a valley, in the middle of 35 acres. We have a few neighbors but because of the elevation all we see are trees and mountains. Yet when we want to go, we're 5 miles from an interstate (on the other side of a mountain ridge), 15 mins from 3 super Walmarts, and 20 mins from a Mall. Happy wife! Happy husband, the best of all worlds.

 

[davidharmier60]

We are 1.4 or so miles from 59/69.
5 miles from my job.
Maybe 18 miles to a Wal-Mart one way and 22 the other way.
But decent pawn shops are 30+
Camera store 50+
Dinner should be any minute now.

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[smoke665]

@davidharmier60 Yeah we don't seem to have a shortage of pawnshops or quickstops. Have one quickstop/deli/coffeshop 2 miles from us, that sort of serves as the local gathering spot in the mornings for coffee and tall tales. A country general store/farm supply 3 miles the other way. Unfortunately only 2 camera stores in the state, neither of which is very close, but we do have internet! So shopping is only a click away.

 

[davidharmier60]

I pretty much save up cash and buy stuff cash. Got a couple neat watches from pawn. Probably get a DSLR from the camera store in Houston when the time comes. Dinner about ready. Later.

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[JonA_CT]

Jon - have you seen this? Funny, but I doubt I'd have dome it when ours were this little.
Muddled Up Mummy

Yeah...that's weird, haha. I think we'll pass.


Sustained winds are in the mid-4o mph range at the moment, gusting to the mid-50s. My parents already lost their grid-based power. They are currently running at about 70% of their homestead-based power generation. At that rate, as long as they get power back in the next 8ish days, they shouldn't need to refill their propane tank.

We've been pretty fortunate in past storms. We are a block away from the hospital, and our power gets restored ASAP when it goes. We've never been without for longer than a couple hours in the 9 years we've lived here. (Hurricane Irene, Superstorm Sandy, Winter Storm NEMO, et. al)

Only other thing to watch for us in is our neighbor's 100ft tall 200ish year old Eastern White Pine. It'll get us if it falls.

 

[SquarePeg37 8]

Omg what a game!

 

[Gary A.]

Yes ... a four run lead with Kershaw isn’t safe.

 

[SquarePeg37 8]

When you get too aggressive with the ziplock bag and the little blue slidey thing breaks off and your leftover sandwich is trapped forever...