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welcome to the cafe
PostQuote from Astro: “Quote from AnotherKevin: “Hey, anyone remember me? It's been a while. ” When I told LIHikers that based upon your recommendation I had cat crap in my pack for my glasses, I believe he thought I was originally kidding. So despite your absence, you have been remembered. ” It's masterful branding - the name is certainly memorable!
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welcome to the cafe
PostHey, anyone remember me? It's been a while.
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Darn Tough
AnotherKevin - - Gear
PostQuote from IMScotty: “Quote from Astro: “Ever try gaiters to keep the sand/dirt out? ” I do not use them , but I have observed others do. I think in the desert, it is a losing battle anyway. ” Likewise in the swamp. On my Nothville-Placid sorta-thru hike, my socks were always full of mud. I used a lot of Gurney Goo and brought three or four pair. At every stop, I washed the ones I had on and put on whichever pair was driest, which helped only to the next mud hole or ford. Don't think gaiters wou…
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the football thread
PostI'm sure WOO likes all the attention paid to the Superb Owl.
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GHD I.......II
PostGHD - won't work. Gotta go to a funeral. Life keeps on getting in the way of hiking.
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Quote from Astro: “Quote from AnotherKevin: “Quote from SarcasmTheElf: “Crappy. The weather is crappy. One-two inches of snow followed by freezing rain, followed by a deep freeze. Could be worse though, I live on the Housatonic at the bottom of its valley. A mile away and just a couple hundred feet higher in elevation they got a fullblown ice storm complete with downed trees and power outages. ” Over here we got about a foot and a half of snow, and it was -2 °F and blowing a gale when I walked t…
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MLK VII
PostQuote from CoachLou: “I don’t know the road conditions then, but we have taken that sleigh ride to the Inn before. ” The last MLK that had the sleigh-ride, they closed the Thruway. I know that's a "don't care" for you Connecticut folks heading east over the Bear Mountain bridge, but that would have been a real challenge for me getting home. (Don't know what happened this weekend, didn't check the conditions downstate.) We got about a foot and a half of fluffy snow up here over the weekend. I did…
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Quote from SarcasmTheElf: “Crappy. The weather is crappy. One-two inches of snow followed by freezing rain, followed by a deep freeze. Could be worse though, I live on the Housatonic at the bottom of its valley. A mile away and just a couple hundred feet higher in elevation they got a fullblown ice storm complete with downed trees and power outages. ” Over here we got about a foot and a half of snow, and it was -2 °F and blowing a gale when I walked to work this morning. I even decided to put on…
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Whiskey Thread
PostQuote from Drybones: “Tried a couple of scotches this weekend, to me not worth the money, neither of these is as good as the Glenmorangie which is nice with a cigar but other than with a smoke I'd prefer Evan Williams at 1/7 the cost. ” You would not like the kind of Scotch I drink, then, definitely! (The whiskies from Islay, Jura, Oban, Orkney, ... have everything that non-Scotch drinkers hate about Scotch, turned up to 11.)
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Forecast bad enough to cancel the MLK weekend trip. Down there in Harriman, they're saying 5-9 inches of snow Saturday night with freezing rain on top of it. Up here, it's supposed to be 12-18 inches of snow, slight chance of freezing rain, and then temperatures plunging to about -6F and wind chills well into the -20's. Even before Coach Lou waved us off, I had already crossed the line into "I'm not expendable. I'm not stupid. And I'm not going." Damn. Wanted to see the guys.
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MLK VII
PostGroundhog Day? Again? Do we have to keep doing it over until we get it right? (Around here, we're doing it all wrong...)
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Re-inventing Yourself
AnotherKevin - - General
PostQuote from Blue Jay La Fey: “Quote from max.patch: “can someone land a chopper in your back yard and have you shade tree mechanic it? ” If you mean motorcycle yes, although I don't weld. If you mean flying car no. ” Original poster is a helicopter mechanic. For real.
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Re-inventing Yourself
AnotherKevin - - General
PostQuote from chief: “you guys seem to have a million ways to retire yet not retire. more power to you, but i am not particularly impressed so i'll exit this conversation. ” Hiking is a thing I want to have time for. There are a lot of other things I want to have time for. Hiking is fun for a weekend or even a two-week vacation, but after a section hike, I'm ready to get back to down and do other things. Some of the things that I'd do even if The Man weren't telling me to do them look like 'work' t…
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The weird thing about these orders is that a lot of the Trail is on state or private land, and the NPS is dictating to the landowners what they can do on their own property. "We won't insure the volunteers, and we've told the ones in our program to stop," that's fair. "We won't indemnify you against liability from Trail users," also fair. But, "you may not do cleanup on your own property because we have an easement" or "you may not allow visitors to enter your land because we're shut down," is s…
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Whiskey Thread
Post3214964_0.jpg (Me, I'm partial to Oban, Isle of Jura or Highland Park - but I'd not say no to Lagavulin, Caol Ila or Bowmore!)
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Re-inventing Yourself
AnotherKevin - - General
PostI'm still in the corporate world full-time, but I'm planning to blow it off as soon as my wife (who has some long-term health issues) is Medicare-eligible and my daughter's wedding is paid off. Sooner if the company forces me into it. I enjoy being an enginerd, but enough is enough. As far as what I'll do in retirement, "so many projects, so little time." I'll still be busy, but the mix will have a lot more work pro bono populo. Assuming that Mother Nature spares my health for a while, of course…
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You don't need self-rising flour, just add 1 1/2 tsp of baking powder and 1/2 tsp salt per cup of regular cake flour. Replace half the baking powder with baking soda if you're using buttermilk or soured milk - which you should, the biscuits need the acid to rise properly. Swans Down or King Arthur cake flour works well for a lower-protein fine-milled flour, which is what you want for fluffy biscuits. If all you can get is all-purpose flour, you can try using 7/8 cup of all-purpose flour and 2 ta…