What Manly Things Did You Do Today?

My wife has a lot of vintage sewing machines and I'm learning to repair them as my rates are a little cheaper than the guys at the shops. I decided that I ought to know how to sew a little so that I can understand better about how to adjust, maintain and repair them. So I'm making a quilt for my bride. 3 hours in front of a Singer 301 is back aching work.

 

In the morning I spackled a couple of spots on the kitchen wall. I will paint over them a bit later. After that, I went over to the archery range to put together a shelf unit and put an assortment of things on it, in an organized manner. The fun part was using the rubber mallet, to make to legs go into the holes.

 

I installed a new output jack on my wife's favorite bass guitar.

 

Shower and shave-head and face with my r41; it was great. Changed the oil in my truck. Paid Bills big enough to be Williams( little humor...very little). And made a big pot of Gumbo with enough sausage it to choke a horse.

 

Took the girls for a walk in the woods. Tried out the Face Watch Compass trick, works like a charm (assuming the sun is out).

 

I honed three Straight Razors, washed the truck, played with my daughter and her new puppy. I Ate Barbeque for lunch and dinner, and spent all day with the family.

 

Got up early & rode my motorcycle to lunch... 350mi.

 

Sharpened my EDC knife(Buck Spitfire).

 

Re-seasoned my four cast iron skillets yesterday. 10, two 8's and a 6.

 

Shaved my face.

 

Me too!

 

Our food processor smoked the original switch so I looked online to find that the parts were no longer available. I determined that it needed a spdt switch, and I ordered one from a dealer on EBay. When the switch came I had to figure out how to wire it, and I soldered it into place. Food processor now works great again! Yes I know that a food processor is rather inexpensive, but now I am king and ruler of this one!!!

 

Hard to beat the gratification that comes with fixing something yourself.

 

I fixed the loose wheels on my bow bag, after 3 e-mails and 2 calls to the company failed to yield any instructions on how to do it.

 

The nice thing about being retired I can sit around and smoke all day long. No - not that type of smoking - I mean smoking meats, cheese, fish et cetera. Below is today's adventure in smoking. I got a very nice fillet of steelhead (a member of the salmon family) which is abundant here in the northwest rivers. Got up at 5 a.m. to dry brine the fillets (I cut them into about 4 inch strips). Brine = 4 cups brown sugar mixed with 1 cup kosher salt, 1 tablespoon of ground black pepper and 1 tablespoon of granulated garlic. Cover and let sit in the refrigerator for about 6 hours, air dry to form a pellicle for about 2 hours, and then smoke at 180 deg F for about 3 hours until internal temperature of the thickest parts reaches 140 deg F. Used only apple wood for the smoke and a light brushing of honey mixed with bourbon during the last 30 minutes. Photo 1 is the end of the air drying with the pellicle formed on the surface. Photo 2 is the smoker smoking away. Photo 3 is the finished product. Now to vacuum seal and put in the freezer - except for one fillet that doesn't really exist anymore.

 

Designed a neighborhood cable plant, coordinated 5 underground crews to place cable in the ground at jobs to meet deadlines. Took my daughter to dance class. Had a couple brews, showered, and shaved. Had a man to man talk with my son about his behavior at school that resulted in a referal, then issued him a list of manual labor.

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