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Hey Ric @blessingx, what is Esme's costume this year?

Stretch hit it on the head. More of the same.

Found it! Luckily, Biker Jim's Gourmet Dogs still seems to be open.

RIP pioneering funny man Mort Sahl. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/arts/television/mort-sahl-dead.amp.html Also RIP the Falling Rock Tap House, which was a regular feature of RMAF weekends. I can still picture @Sherwood drinking beer there with an electric blue mohawk hairdo. Good times. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/10/25/dining/drinks/craft-beer-bars.amp.html

I had meant to post about Paddy but forgot. He and the Chieftains were a phenomenon. Wondering if they will continue without him. RIP Paddy

Condolences to you and your wife, Chris. And more fucking off of cancer too.

Hope you had a great day! Cheers!

Hope it's been a good one! Cheers!

Buy a prefab shed. Rent a storage unit. Build a quick wood rack on the outside of the garage with a shed roof or tarps.

I might have to try them sometime.

Braves walk off against the Dodgers...again!

Do you regularly wear tights?

Have a great one Peter! Cheers!

Have a great one Iain! Cheers!

Now we know what the loud CRACK BOOM! was a few weeks ago on a very windy night. This is up the gully on our property. Miraculously, it did not crush the drainage pipe.

Currently at our first concert since covid. Wilco outdoors in Napa with proof of vaccination. Feels weird but good.

I'd buy these

Built most of a cyclone dust collector. Details and some duct work tomorrow.

For those playing along at home, the short wall to the right is in and all the sheathing is on. I got the copper door pan today but won't put that in place permanently quite yet.

Milo & Otis took a big step towards enclosing the new shop today. We framed two of the three walls with rough openings for double doors and a 4x4 window. All studs are old growth straight grain Douglas Fir that I salvaged from the house my brother is about to tear down. Straight and sound and fun to work with. Tomorrow we will build the third wall on the floor and then plop it into place with the sheathing and clapboards already on it because there is no room to work between the rock wall and the framing over on that side.

The coloring looks weird in those photos. I forgot to mention that is burrata cheese on arugula greens.

Inspired by Doug, I made a focaccia recipe from the NYT -- focaccia with herbed honey plums and prosciutto. The dough didn't rise as much as expected but it was delicious.

I built my sister a redwood clad mailbox stand Then Steve and I tried to dig post holes in dry, compacted dirt before hiring a guy named Sergio to do that task. We set the posts with a high tech expanding foam product made by Sika that worked great. It is in a bag with two bladders that you pop to combine and then pour in the hole. It works very fast and was set in three minutes. No bracing and waiting for concrete to set.. The best part is that Home Depot had marked down these bags from $10 to $2.38 and when I checked out they were rung up as $0.01 each. Two cents for footings is pretty cheap.

That looks delicious and makes me want to go stand in line at Liguria Bakery

Hand pie then?