Pretty girls*, olives, morons and maintenance

 

Written by a local kid. Her mom used to be my kid's bus driver. You can purchase a copy HERE

Picture of the author in a goof-around mood. Mrs ERJ and I ran into her at the Eaton Rapids Farmer's Market and she gave me permission to give her book a plug on my blog.

I didn't purchase the book but I can attest that I have never seen a woman lose weight after a pregnancy faster than I saw her lose weight. I suspect that meal planning and discipline had a lot to do with that.

Olives

Cutting into the olives promotes brine infiltrating and leaching out the bitter chemicals.

 

They are big rascals!

6.6 pounds for $36. Link

Green olives need to be fermented/leached before they are edible. Link 1, Link 2 (scroll down to Fermenting and Curing heading).

Antifa = White Morons

It is being reported that the rap artist who goes by the name Ice Cube had his tour bus fire-bombed by Antifa in Portland.

Presumably, the drug-addled, white morons who LARP as thugs were able to sound out I-C-E written on the side of the bus and (incorrectly) determined that it belonged to US Immigration Customs Enforcement.

In Dallas, a young, white liberal lit-up an ICE detention facility with gunfire and killed two immigrants (upon whose behalf he was supposedly advocating). Based on the ammo that was shown in the news, the young liberal used an 8mm Mauser, the primary small arms caliber used by Nazi Germany during WWII. More than a little bit of irony there.

On a sadder note: The use of the pronoun "they" for a person-singular informs us that the person who committed suicide on their class field trip was "Trans".

 

Equipment maintenance

As responsibilities for the amount of property I manage increased, I have gone from very-light in terms of equipment to fairly heavy. I now have two, yes TWO lawn tractors for mowing.

One has the original manual. One does not.

Not having the manual makes finding the proper air filter (and other parts) a bit of a scavenger hunt. I found something very close but it is either too short or the threaded screw that attaches it has balled up threads. Regardless, I cannot run the nut down far enough to secure the filter.

So I made the air filter 7/16" longer

Of course, I had to buy a scroll saw to cut the spacer out of the sheet of plywood. The "more equipment" is self-perpetuating.

Using the scroll saw brought back memories of my dad circa 1970. We didn't grow up poor but we didn't have a lot of money. A scroll saw was one of the very few power tools my dad owned. I don't even think he had an electric drill. 

Now to get on with the oil changes and investigate re-bushing the front wheels to get the wobble out of them.

Ration stamps

WWII gasoline ration stamps for agricultural-use.

Government shutdown

Yawn!

The Donks are playing chicken. Their constituents tend to get pinched more than the conservatives...and they are holding out because there is not enough pork in the budget.

Lots of theater going on. I propose that the conservatives slip in some language that Federal taxes cannot be collected when there is a government shutdown. That would get the attention of the politicians who want to spend my tax dollars. 

*OK, I lied in the title. There is only one picture of a pretty girl. Mrs ERJ does not let me post pictures of her on the blog.