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That right there might be the funniest thing I've ever seen 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 😂

I got this going on today, chicken thighs. Taking a little break from the chicken coop project.

Back last fall my sister in-law gave me a huge piece of venison summer sausage. It was probably about 18 inches long, packaged by the slaughter house in Gladys, VA. so it wasn't any "backyard shade tree chef" summer sausage, it was buffesionally made summer sausage. Hmmm, why does that remind me of me?..anyhow, It was jalapeno-cheddar and I just threw it in the freezer. I took it out last week and put it in the refrigerator. And I thought "I bet that would be good smoked". Zina cut a slice off this morning before I smoked it and said it was good. So she cut off about a quarter of it to take to turnip guy. And I whacked off this piece and put it on the offset smoker with maple wood in the firebox. After about 4 hours...I started to tell her to go get that piece back from turnip guy, it was that good, just fantastic! I wasn't even all that enthused about it at first, but now I'll take any she has to spare, it's the cat's ass!

Yes, and have as many as you want on me, and all your friends too. Just send me the bill, my address is 1958 FWD's House Hellertown, Pa.

Yeah, what Joey said!

My wife told me yesterday that I should go to the doctor. I told her that if it wasn't better this morning I would. But it does appear to be better. We have some of that Repel, and Deep Woods Off, and Cedarcide. I sprayed some of all of it on me. But come to think off it, I only sprayed my legs. I think ticks are more powerful than they used to be, they scare the crap out of me. I know several people myself who have alpha gal from tick bites. You can't eat red meat when you have that. And this tick was really tiny! It probably stayed a while longer than normal because it was so tiny I thought it was part of those scratches on my arm from the wire, until it started itching. I probably said here before when it happened, but when I still lived in Gladys I had several tick bites that I got picking blackberries in the cutover behind the house. I woke up the next morning and my face and lips were swollen, my hands were swollen to the size of small hams, and my- well, other things were swollen that weren't supposed to be. So I rushed to the doctor and he said "it's probably an allergic reaction to a tick bite, but I don't think you have lyme disease". Really - you think? Anyway, he gave me a shot in the ass and gave me a prescription for some pills that I took for a week or so and that was it. But ever since then, to this day my hands are super sensitive to heat and cold. Warm water on my hands feels like it's scalding hot and if it's under about 40 degrees I have to wear gloves because they feel like they're freezing.

It's Bob's birthday?.. happy birthday Bob!

That's exactly what I did.

I made a little more progress on on the chicken house today, and mowed the grass. I ran the tiller through the garden yesterday. It's time to plant, and the grass was knee high but I'm way behind because of the chickens. The boss keeps coming out and changing things after I've already done it a different way. But we're getting there, got the hardware cloth started around the bottom and some across the top. I changed the tarp too, the boss didn't like it. Here's the view from the back porch- the big white thing on the right is the box it came in. It had a nice picture on it, in case I needed to see what something was supposed to look like. I was using it to set my tools and equipment on too. I got a tick off my arm yesterday, so tiny you could barely see it. But it itched like crazy all night last night, and now my arm is red and swollen where the bite is. I put some Neosporin on it, and alcohol, and it's oozing nasty stuff. I'm gonna keep an eye on it.

We were planning to go...but like most of you I can not say with absolute certainty at this time.

I used to go to Chicago Firebrick fairly often and I would get there at night before they opened and I would just pull over on the side of the street and sleep until they opened the next morning. Nobody ever bothered me and I never saw any "suspicious" looking activity going on. They were up on 79th. St. somewhere I think. The only place I was afraid to park on the street at was at Martin-Marietta in River Rouge, Mi. Driving a truck in Chicago was a piece of cake compared to Boston or Philadelphia, at least I thought so. I did always have my low underpass map handy when I went to Chicago though, even though I pulled a flatbed 90% of the time. 🤣

"just a deterrent..." I don't believe that even for a second. My opinion is they would have been "testing" them on Israel at the first opportunity.