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GrateEggspectations

Canugghead said:

lkapigian said:

Canugghead said:

Good luck to anyone trying to get Costco to do seasonal tire changeover, they're booking mid May 

Never heard of seasonal tire change over until now , I do at some point go from shorts to pants , but I can do that without a booking 

It's not mandatory in Ontario (wish it is) to have winter tires but it's safer and we get insurance discount, for not wearing slippers in the snow so to speak.

It was fun in Quebec when it became law in 2008
https://archive.nytimes.com/wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/quebecs-hottest-item-is-winter-tires/

Did mine several weeks back. I’d do yours if you lived closer (but only if you would cook me a hot meal). 

Canugghead

Super kind of you @GrateEggspectations

Ozzie_Isaac

Cooking onions in butter.  One of the great condiments.

Battleborn

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Cooking onions in butter.  One of the great condiments.

Your picture of the desert sunset does a lot more justice than my sunrise this morning. The sunrise to work is one of my favorite settings. 

Botch

Ozzie_Isaac said:

When you can hit the Sonoran Desert after a few days of rain, it is one of the most beautiful and magic places in the world (I've only managed to hit it once, out of several visits).  

Ozzie_Isaac

Battleborn said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Cooking onions in butter.  One of the great condiments.

Your picture of the desert sunset does a lot more justice than my sunrise this morning. The sunrise to work is one of my favorite settings. 

You know, photos never do colors justice.  Seeing  them in person is so much better.  Sun just peaking over the hills.

CPFC1905

Ian Rush, Bob Paisley, Steve Gerrard, Jan Molby - are you watching?  Names and a cultural reference that will pass you by, but in the words of Margaret Thatcher ‘Rejoice, Rejoice!’  which is a throw-back to the reference you will be unaware of in the last sentence (link at the bottom).

The mighty Eagles cruised with considerable comfort / squeezed past Liverpool last Sunday to blow the whole title race open.  This was something of a Palace tradition for several years, nicking a win against a top three team in the final throes of the season.  and Arsenal lost too of course.  But that is all yesterday’s water, to mangle metaphors.  It’s a double game week looming though I shall not detain you with the mid-weekers as there is only so much insight and analytics I can share in one go, not for legal reasons but my attention span.  

Saturday

Luton v Brentford : The Bees have done their sums and know that with last weeks win at Sheffield Utd and a win against one of the few other teams placed below them will see them all but safe.  Any points above survival are wasted effort right? 0-1 

Sheff Utd v Burnley : if this is an away win, then the Clarets could just about escape but it will need a big reversal of their form across the season.  It would also all but condemn the Blades.  But let’s go nuts. 2-2

Wolves v Arsenal : wounded Gunners will have to be back to their best despite last week’s reversal against Villa and mid-week dumping out of the Champions League.  Boiled over? Maybe, we’ll know by the end of this. 1-2

Sunday 

Everton v Notts Forest : oooh, the scorned will convene and can compare noted about how the Premier League has conspired against them / enforced the rules all teams know full well about. Come on Forest, cheer us all up and smash the Toffees - what larks it shall be.  0-2

Villa v Bournemouth : The Cherries have flagged recently and Villa are operating with a  full head of steam - a home win nudges them closer to CL entry for next season and no-one saw that coming.  2-1

Palace v West Ham : naturally we will win by a huge margin given our humiliation of Liverpool last week.  Only joking, this is Palace so 0-0.

Fulham v Liverpool : The Cottagers have nothing at stake and Liverpool, also now ejected from the CL could surmount the league whilst City are distracted. I think they will via a sparkly 0-3 victory. 

AOB

FA Cup semi-finals are 

Saturday : Man City v Chelsea could be fun and your chance to see a £2bn worth of footballer all in one place at the same time. Don’t care about the score.

Sunday : Coventry v Man Utd, in case you don’t know Coventry is a small city adjacent to Birmingham that was heavily remodelled by the Luftwaffe in the mid20th Century.   Don’t care about the score. 

Keep any eye out for the subsequent mid-week fixtures.  And here’s a link to help make a modicum of sense of my opening remarks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqZTP8-8wIs

Foghorn

CPFC1905 said:

Ian Rush, Bob Paisley, Steve Gerrard, Jan Molby - are you watching?  Names and a cultural reference that will pass you by, but in the words of Margaret Thatcher ‘Rejoice, Rejoice!’  which is a throw-back to the reference you will be unaware of in the last sentence (link at the bottom).

The mighty Eagles cruised with considerable comfort / squeezed past Liverpool last Sunday to blow the whole title race open.  This was something of a Palace tradition for several years, nicking a win against a top three team in the final throes of the season.  and Arsenal lost too of course.  But that is all yesterday’s water, to mangle metaphors.  It’s a double game week looming though I shall not detain you with the mid-weekers as there is only so much insight and analytics I can share in one go, not for legal reasons but my attention span.  

Saturday

Luton v Brentford : The Bees have done their sums and know that with last weeks win at Sheffield Utd and a win against one of the few other teams placed below them will see them all but safe.  Any points above survival are wasted effort right? 0-1 

Sheff Utd v Burnley : if this is an away win, then the Clarets could just about escape but it will need a big reversal of their form across the season.  It would also all but condemn the Blades.  But let’s go nuts. 2-2

Wolves v Arsenal : wounded Gunners will have to be back to their best despite last week’s reversal against Villa and mid-week dumping out of the Champions League.  Boiled over? Maybe, we’ll know by the end of this. 1-2

Sunday 

Everton v Notts Forest : oooh, the scorned will convene and can compare noted about how the Premier League has conspired against them / enforced the rules all teams know full well about. Come on Forest, cheer us all up and smash the Toffees - what larks it shall be.  0-2

Villa v Bournemouth : The Cherries have flagged recently and Villa are operating with a  full head of steam - a home win nudges them closer to CL entry for next season and no-one saw that coming.  2-1

Palace v West Ham : naturally we will win by a huge margin given our humiliation of Liverpool last week.  Only joking, this is Palace so 0-0.

Fulham v Liverpool : The Cottagers have nothing at stake and Liverpool, also now ejected from the CL could surmount the league whilst City are distracted. I think they will via a sparkly 0-3 victory. 

AOB

FA Cup semi-finals are 

Saturday : Man City v Chelsea could be fun and your chance to see a £2bn worth of footballer all in one place at the same time. Don’t care about the score.

Sunday : Coventry v Man Utd, in case you don’t know Coventry is a small city adjacent to Birmingham that was heavily remodelled by the Luftwaffe in the mid20th Century.   Don’t care about the score. 

Keep any eye out for the subsequent mid-week fixtures.  And here’s a link to help make a modicum of sense of my opening remarks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqZTP8-8wIs

'Twill be interesting to see how Man U conspire to make the FA Cup semi more interesting than it should be.  I do think that those that dropped out of Europe this week will have a chip on their shoulder that will be large enough to overcome their fatigue.  The fatigue won't set in until mid week.  It's times like these where a manager earns his keep as he manages the minutes.  I'm just not sure what metrics they use to decide who needs a break in any given game.

CPFC1905

@Foghorn
a lot is smoke and mirrors. Some injuries are recovered in remarkable timeframes, others linger for a long long time and are undoubtedly a mask. 
Players are very tightly monitored for fitness and conditioning with enormous amounts of data harvested to inform a matrix, by the club.  Of course that all falls flat when the player is too important or declares an injury.  

Certainly elite player workload has grown in recent years - up to 60 competitive matches for the top players.  And margins, therefore career harm - are very fine.  

There’s no collision data, AFIK, collected but it can’t be far off.  Rugby have intelligent mouth guards now and there’s more head injury assessments being carried out as a result. 

Anyhoo- let’s get ready to laugh at/with/about Utd.  👍

Ozzie_Isaac

Curious about this license plate

SamIAm2

Pressure washing driveway and sidewalks finished. I am tired.






Used my egging neighbor's old Home Depot electric pressure washer. 

GrateEggspectations

@SamIAm2

Job well done.

ColtsFan

A very close friend of mine’s son has had inspiration to be a donut maker for a couple of years now. Well, it looks like it’s becoming a reality for the little man. He’s now offering donuts on Saturdays at a little pop-up bakery. I got to sample and boy are they delicious!

This little entrepreneur also has a bunch firewood business that’s cut specifically for the solo stove and he sells smoking wood chunks at the local Ace Hardware next to the BGE’s. His Dad owns a tree service company so he has all the resources to be successful in his ventures. 

johnmitchell

^^^^ Love this post, and those donuts do look like the bomb!!! Wishing him the best of luck in his ventures 

Canugghead

@ColtsFan Love the story. Reminds me of this donut success episode on Dragon's Den, I think Gideon would enjoy watching it...
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.7081184
@GrateEggspectations Holey Confections is in your neck of the woods, have you tried it?

GrateEggspectations

Canugghead said:

@ColtsFan Love the story. Reminds me of this donut success episode on Dragon's Den, I think Gideon would enjoy watching it...
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.7081184
@GrateEggspectations Holey Confections is in your neck of the woods, have you tried it?

I am not familiar with Holey Confections. Thanks for sharing. The layered donut they feature in the DD episode seems to be what I would call a Cronut (croissant/donut). The first place I ever saw them is ArtIsIn bakery - a great local spot. Some of my favourite local sandwich places feature their bread. Suzy Q is a big name in donuts here. There is one location not far from me (bread crumbs for you 🙂). One of my absolute favourite local bakeries is Aux Deux Frères, in Aylmer. Just fantastic. 

ColbyLang

Steaks in the sous vide, prepping fingerling potatoes for a roasting, making brookies for the kiddos

JohnInCarolina

hammock time

Ozzie_Isaac

JohnInCarolina said:

hammock time

You, sir, are a true humanitarian.  I am thankful people like you are willing to hold those hammocks down.

shtgunal3

Just put a meatloaf on the egg. Green beans and taters for sides.

Canugghead

@GrateEggspectations rice grains work better than bread crumbs 

Battleborn

I’m not sure if it is a full moon tonight, but it was a sh!t show today. 

Ozzie_Isaac

Battleborn said:

I’m not sure if it is a full moon tonight, but it was a sh!t show today. 

Hope everyone made it home safe.  I look forward to your stories later.

GrateEggspectations

@Botch

Just came across this video and I thought you might appreciate the musicianship. The guy is insane. Amazing to watch live. One of the most underrated players of our time, IMO. Exceptional improvising and shredding like a mother while somehow keeping notes clean, and as a former teacher of mine used to say, “making every note count”. Ian’s a former Berklee student. 

https://youtu.be/iavvHdIfdzk?si=rF9CnQkJuIQa_56n

Dyal_SC

Back from a weekend in PIT with my brothers. First time the 3 of us have done anything together, just the 3 of us, in about 30 years. None of us really watch baseball, but the togetherness was needed and it was fun.  Got to do it more often. 

GrateEggspectations

@Dyal_SC

Great read. Cherished moments, right there. 

Botch

GrateEggspectations said:

@Botch

Just came across this video and I thought you might appreciate the musicianship. The guy is insane. Amazing to watch live. One of the most underrated players of our time, IMO. Exceptional improvising and shredding like a mother while somehow keeping notes clean, and as a former teacher of mine used to say, “making every note count”. Ian’s a former Berklee student. 

https://youtu.be/iavvHdIfdzk?si=rF9CnQkJuIQa_56n

Shredding King, for sure.  
I'll have to look into Big Wreck tomorrow!  

CPFC1905

@Foghorn
Man U let a three goal lead go, then bailed out by VAR to inch past Cov'. 
I don't know Sir Jim Ratcliffe, but you don't get to be a billionaire by being cuddly.  Even a win in the FA Cup final will not save him.  It's Van Gaal all over again. 
So - who do you think will replace Erik?   

alaskanassasin

This is how the critters on our farm earn their names, you know by standing out if you will. 

ColbyLang

Bringing the Bronco to the stealership to have the hardtop installed. They’re nervous. I sent them the 5 minute YouTube clip from FoMoCo on how to do it