What Manly Things Did You Do Today?

'Tis the season!
My wife's tomato garden is loaded and soon we'll be up to our elbows in a wide variety of heirlooms and such…

Toady's Honey-Do list:
• put up new blinds on four windows
• hung new towel rack in the boy's bathroom
• Moved piles of clippings and old fruit from all our trees into the composter
• actually found time to work on my razor orders….hard to find time these days!
:whip:

 

Did laundry, picked up the dining room and living rooms, vacuumed, mopped the kitchen floor, tossed some dogs on the grill for my grandson and me.

Nuff said.

 

Weren't they kinda heavy?!

 

Dogs on the grill or a grill on the dog?

 

Yeah, that's why I had to smoother the dogs with Dragon's Breath chili - made with 2 jalapenos, 2 habaneros, hot sausage. Mmmmm.... good! Had to get my strength back.

 

Replaced my mom's garbage disposal.

 

My tomatoes quit producing due to the heat, I just planted my fall tomatoes, probably a bit late. Hopefully I;ll have tomatoes in Oct and Nov before the first frost.

 

Polished a bunch of kitchen knives on my new buffer then sharpened them on the hones.

 

I made Potato Bacon Cheddar Tart. This crap is something only a man would eat and just thinking about it is enough to clog my arteries.
Worst of it all, after I had eaten a portion I went back for seconds.

 

Looks very tasty!

 

Made meatballs (for yesterday's sauce) from some locally raised ground beef.

 

Why didn't you choose the lean beef?

 

It was alright, I guess. But not worth the effort. Maybe if I used more cheddar? I assumed that 500g would be enough. The jokes on me, since I forgot that there is no such thing as enough cheddar.

 

Because I didn't want the meatballs to come out crooked, of course!

 

Needs more bacon.

 

The guy on youtube said I shouldn't

 

I took a nap
and it's not even football season yet.

 

Worked on about a dozen razors. Near completion on a custom job and took these eight Sheffield blades to the compounds on the buffer.
Next step for all these is some hand-sanding & polishing…

Blades (clockwise, starting top right): B.J. Eyre & Co. Late W. Greaves & Sons; Sheffield, 9/16" (1850-1858); Unknown Maker 4/4" (circa 1830-1840), Marshe & Shepherd, Sheffield 11/16"(1830-1850), Geo Wostenholm & Sons IXL, Sheffield, 5/8" (circa 1890-1900), Geo Wostenholm & Sons, Washington Works, IXL, Sheffield, 6/8" (circa 1870-1880), Geo Wostenholm & Sons, Washington Works, IXL, Sheffield, 13/16" (circa 1850-1870), Geo Wostenholm & Sons, Washington Works, IXL, Sheffield, 7/8" (circa 1870-1880), F. Fenney Tally Ho, Sheffield, 8/8" (circa 1835-1850).

 

That's my response to most recipes…..