Good thing tastes are different. Wineyard snails in a delicious herbal garlic butter whitewine sauce. F****ng DELICIOUS!
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I love oysters and caviar! But I do know what you mean about the texture, and can't argue that point. I'll be remembering that visual the next time I eat some raw oysters! When I lived in Central Asia I ate a lot of stuff that they called food, like; stuffed intestine (stuffed with what, I have no idea), horse tongue, sheep eyes, fermented camel milk, fish heads, and other unidentified (animal?) body parts. Even English food was a treat after that!
I'm pretty adventurous with food and love trying new things, but some things just make you gag! My attitude is if you don't try new things then you'll never get to have a new favorite.
.True you need flavour and texture in all foods so perhaps a chocolate mouse cake with tampered chocolate walls. When you cut through a nice fluffy cake liquid chocolate runs out of it and you hear the crisp of Belgium chocolate in your mouth. Makes me hungry just thinking about it.
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That sounds like something my wife would go nuts over. Me, not so much. My favorites are cherry cheese cake and key lime pie.
Staying away from all the sweet stuff for me, used to crave the same things, worth it, lost 33 pounds since January.
Damn I only lost twenty kilos.
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Only?! That's like 45 pounds! I lost close to 30 lbs. since April. No more work related stress, plus now I have time to hit the gym every day.
Does thinking about loosing weight count?
Iv gained 10 lbs up to 180 lbs from my normal 170 lb .
Went into a local Gun / Pawn shop to see if he had picked up anything new . He had a Sure Fire light display set up , I noticed he had it full of cheaper brand lights . I picked up 2 Nebo LED lights $10 each . They work good , have a strobe feature , have a sharp cuttine eadge for striking a attacker . Kind of deceptive of him putting off brands in his sure fire case but Im use to doing business with him and he had cheap prices on them and not trying to get high end price for lesser known brand .
Went into a local Gun / Pawn shop to see if he had picked up anything new . He had a Sure Fire light display set up , I noticed he had it full of cheaper brand lights . I picked up 2 Nebo LED lights $10 each . They work good , have a strobe feature , have a sharp cuttine eadge for striking a attacker . Kind of deceptive of him putting off brands in his sure fire case but Im use to doing business with him and he had cheap prices on them and not trying to get high end price for lesser known brand .
Ok so I've lost a lot of weight. News to report I got my hands on a Nissan Juke. So we're gonna give it independent suspension and a casper style V shaped bottom, it won't be able to go as fast as my mini but the 280 nm will be able to carry a titanium alloy shell, enough to stop a fifty caliber.
I've been working nonstop on the porch here, two long grueling days now. I'm installing hardi fiber cement siding, and hope to be done with it tomorrow. All I'm sure of is I'm feeling every climb of the ladders! I hope to caulk, prime and paint the outside this weekend, and then I can take it easy and finish the interior at my leisure. As I said in a previous post, if you have projects that you want done, it will be a lot easier now than after an economic collapse. This was a project to help make the house more energy efficient if we loose or can't afford electricity down the road. It also makes the house look a lot better, which makes the wife happy. I'll post some more Picts this weekend.
Just set up a trade for tomorrow night. Im trading an older darton recurve bow that i got for 10 bucks for a remington 770 with scope, sling, case, 60rds of 30.06 and dipped in camo. Im gonna meet that guy tomorrow after work at the local PD. Im not getting too excited until the trade really is done but im pretty stoked right now.
I'm sticking with my high explosive siege arrows. Any suggestions on how to create fragment arrows? Oh and it's three weeks until the super plasma reactor is up and running. From twelve volts per second to sixty volts per second.
i'm currently working on making some arrow heads out of bone. I've got bodkins in stock, and some flint arrowheads(I don't live in a flint area) and I've got broadheads but I figure it would be good to be able to make my own arrowheads out of natural materials post SHTF.
Yea I have a bamboo field so I could simply sharpen them and put in the holes for accuracy though without the feathers it's gonna be harder to aim.
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Years ago I played around with making arrowheads out of obsidian, and got pretty good at it too. At the time I lived in an area with lots of obsidian around. Recently I've been giving it some thought about making a bow and start knapping arrowheads again.
Anyone have experience with making their own bow?
I made one out of karoo iron wood, it was actually a two string crossbow, incredibly accurate.
what about some bird feathers? I usually find a few lying around on my walks.
In za where I live we get rock pigeons huge pigeons with lots of tiny feathers and hadida's huge birds with weak feathers not exactly the best materials so the whistles are the best option if I ever run out of my 1500 arrows
If you guys and girls would like, I need to start replicating and modifiying an inside pants holster for a friend of mine tomorrow, he wants to attach his tactical torch to his handgun, so the holster needs to be resized so as to fit the torch as well. I`ll post a thread under tactical gear and equipment if you are interested, something like a step by step guide with pictures and instructions.
Well, I've had five days off from work. I wish I could say I went somewhere or did something really fun, but I've worked my butt off! I just finished day four, and today was twelve hours straight working on the porch, I finished framing the walls, got it wrapped with a moisture barrier, and finished installing the fiber cement siding today. ( not all today, but over the last four days). I also got it all caulked and primed for the paint tomorrow. This was one of those projects that I really wasn't ready to start, but the wife said it would make her happy. I just hope she's happy for a long while after this one! Next I will wire for electricity, then insulate and finish the walls inside. I'm not in as big a rush for that though. I need a little rest soon .
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What a beautiful home.
Not bad at all brent! Good for you! Its coming together great!
Thanks, I may actually finish it before I die! It's been a work in progress for ten years almost now.
I'm posting progress on this and my other preps to hopefully inspire others to start projects of their own. As I've said before, if our predictions of the comming financial storm are correct, then getting your projects completed now is important. After things get tough, it will be much harder to build and fix things with limited resources.
Went to the trap field today for the first time in months. I dropped down from a 45 average to a 40... time to get back in training before the winter league starts.
I got two of my friends on board and over the weekend I'm hooking up a spot light to radon and xenon lights and two lenses into the equivalent of a solar laser.
