Very fun weekend in Thomson with some of the Chattanooligans. We sat around and drank beer, and had a large steak dinner on Friday.
On Saturday morning we set out for a nice, 45-mile ride. Later in the afternoon we went to a blues festival, where the headline was Chuck Leavell. This was the first time that I’ve heard of this annual festival, which has also featured musicians such as Winton Marsalis and Trombone Shorty.
On Sunday morning we went out for a 34-mile ride, before sitting around to eat lunch and drink a couple of beers before dispersing.
Wordle: four, my starter was DIRTY
1st!
At the airport, 0600am flight delayed, maybe we will leave in an hour.
They found bird strike damage on the wing, need it looked at before we can depart.
Oh joy….
Wordle in 4
Saturday, I road whipped for a “staff hunt” and viewed a couple coyotes- a male and a young pup. The hunt didn’t see diddly. I managed to put half of my new crash bars on the scooter, but that’s as far as I could get until I receive the missing parts package from China!! Fortunately, the lower bars will work without the upper bars and look fine.
Sunday I made sourdough French toast with a berry compote- easy since we had plenty of fresh berries. Rode 26 with about 10 of that gravel. Was toast by the time I got home- fought the wind all the way back.
In the office for a farewell lunch.
-FP
Hope you order the most expensive item on the menu. 😀
Just harvested a big bunch of big okra pods, three days away will do that. Probably will blanch and freeze today. Also started bringing in more green bell peppers since critters continue to munch on them. I saw a path in the field peas I planted as a cover crop, so decided to check the pepper plants near that, and sure enough two more were half eaten.
Congrats Steve!
Well earned.
Pro tip: Now go back, do the same thing at 2-3X the rate, as a contractor.
73 de JG/HamWithCam
I’ve told them I’m open, but there are rules about coming back withing 6 months- they would have to jump through some serious hoops.
At the moment, they have me for 22 more days…
Or, you can realize that there is more to life than work. I probably came to that conclusion too young, time will tell…
Well, I think that’s why I’m retiring! I still enjoy it, but I know there is other stuff I want to do.
Take 6 month + off, then go bs k part time?
If you want.
Win, win!
This is what I was thinking. Six months sounds like a nice amount of time off.
I’ve been out for four year. It only gets better.
Happy Monday to everyone! My weekend felt busy but really wasn’t. Friday we went to Rathbun for early dinner, home in time to watch the Red Sox play (they’re on the left coast). Saturday Finn had a classmate’s birthday party to go to, we hired his favorite teacher to take him. He collected Finn around 10:30 and didn’t bring him back until 8:00 pm, so we had a whole day to be adults. Finally got my passport pics done so that can move forward, then mani-pedis. Sunday we went to the Braves game, the weather was absolutely perfect! Game was at noon and we left in the 8th inning and were home in time to watch the Patriots lose in the second half. I love this time of year!
Actual nip in the air this morning as I was leaving for work.
Because we checked 4 “bags” (2 boxes, 2 carryon suitcases), we had Mary & TJ pick us up at the airport. No Marta
Dropped Allan off at the station, I’m trying to navigate them home. Not working…. TJ decided to take 85N instead of 75N. (I didn’t think I needed to navigate that part of the drive) we will get home someday. Technically I’m still on a bereavement day – but I’ll work this afternoon.
HAH! Maybe you should’ve driven…
I have to admit I did the same thing on my way home to Huntsville after a concert, before I moved to Atlanta. Let’s just say it took me a little longer than it should have to return home that night.
Hmmm, might have fucked up my weekend plans due to a lack of attention. I’ve been considering trying to get a wild mushroom foraging license for a few months now, and was going to sign up today. The certification class and exam are this weekend, but in reading about the agenda I just saw the statement “a study guide will be emailed to participants a month in advance” which makes me wonder if I should put this off since I won’t have enough time to prepare. What a dummy…
Do you have the study guide? If so, just look at it and see if you can get through it this week. If it were me I wouldn’t have even opened it until today, anyway. LOL.
No, since I have yet to register I never received a study guide. There is one more opportunity this year, the first weekend of November, so I may push it off to then. I’m a little more irked at myself since I will be in Athens Friday night, and the class exam is near Greenville, SC so I would have only been 90 minutes away.
It also puts a kink into my plan to buy mushroom spawn plugs while I was at the place for the class.
Question –
Wild mushroom foraging license – what the heck is that? why would you need that?
I’m guessing it’s because there are so many poisonous ones, they want to make sure you can identify them.
Yeah, with the certification it legally allows me to sell wildly foraged mushrooms in eight states. The main purpose is to instruct people how identify safe-to-eat mushrooms over others.
so, you want to sell & teach others about mushrooms?
Is this something that can make money?
I’m just used to Davey – who knows about them, & forages for fun.
I’m not as financially well-off as Davey. 😀
I want to build confidence to pick mushrooms to eat myself, and if I can make a few bucks figuring out how to sell them too, that would be awesome.
It’s the last sentence that fucked me up.
“This 5 year mushroom foraging permit meets the criteria required by the state health departments and formally approved for the foraging and selling of wild mushrooms in the following states: South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Alabama, Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode Island. Signups will receive a study guide and slides 1 month ahead of the class.”