Made my way to Toms today and enjoyed some steaks cooked on the grill!
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Site seeing tomarrow 8)
There ain't much better than a slab of beef cooked over a wood fire. My taste buds are waterin'.
Those are not steaks! They look like full quarters to me :D Looks like some good eatin' :) Any day spent with Tom would be a good un' in my book :) Kirk you are now the "Travelling Sawyer" 8)
Those steaks look as thick as the ones in the picture with Charlie , the only thing I dont see is the JD in a water glass, maybe it was used on the steaks this time?
Mike, thats what I told Tom. I took one look at them steaks and said those arent steaks, thats a side of beef!
Sure was tasty.
Cant get any cutting done while Im here though. Locals say its to cold to work outside :D They need to come up north. ;D
Why kirk he just fatting ya up for tommow. :D :D
reeemember all he pays is a can o peas ta help him saw.
Now u makes shore he feeds ya a good mess a GRITS in the morning for ya gets going
ya'll have a good time ya here :) :)
Quote from: Chet on March 15, 2005, 08:56:57 PM
There ain't much better than a slab of beef cooked over a wood fire. My taste buds are waterin'.
I guess great minds think alike! In the winter, I'll sometimes get some serious coals going in the fireplace, then slap a camping grill on top and cook me up a steak, which is exactly what I did for dinner tonight. Can't beat it!
I'm jealous of ya Kirk...it's nice to see green grass and people in t-shirts, particularly red ones. ;)
Oookay...
I'm learnin' me amerikan...
"STEAK" is translated to Australian as "Warm the @rse of a cow and throw it on a plate"...
I see now.....
hehehe
Oh, and too cold? Does that mean it was LESS than about 18C?
asy :D
asy, that was funny :D :D :D. You aussies certainly have your own way of doing things.. Yes, 18 is cold for the Florida residents. Their furnaces kick in at 20!!! Steak on the grill ahhh breakfast of champions!
Kirk, did he make you carve your own utensil before you could eat or is that an honor he reserves only for his family? :D
Thick Sliice Bacon, Eggs, Toast, Coffee and ....................................GRITS 8) 8) 8)
Breakfast for champions!
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Been there. Done that. I recognize that expression... :D (grits) :-\ ;)
KIRK
You were on a roll, until you mention GRITS :D :D :D ;D
Kirk we might haves us another convert here on da GRITS side. ;D :D :D :D :D
Ya might not get me on the grits but seeing as how my smoker, grill and fire pit are all still under at least four feet of snow those steak is killin me 8)
Aaaah snow...
I remember it fondly...
I took the kids once for a play in some snow. Few hours drive, hour or two in the snow, few hours back.
That was enough.
asy :D
Well today Tom gave me the grand tour. Spent the day visiting cusomers and generaly "Pickin & Grinin" ;D You see, its STILL to cold to cut anything......................NOT ;D
He took me to see a Corley saw. OK, You guys with circle saws are bonified wackos :o I had NO IDEA of the danger involved in operating a Circle saw. My hats off to you guys. I just may be a bandmill whimp ;D
You see, when the sawyer laughs and points to debris stuck in the ceiling or holes in the roof from flyhing teeth I can only say ............NOT FOR ME!
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From there we went to Tommy's place. What a hoot. Good Folks!
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Got to get on the road early tomarrow so I have to bring my visit to an end. Stay tuned for the next stop!
Aint it great to meet another FF member AND eat GRITZ!!! :D
What model Corley is that ??? That's a good looking setup. Wish time would have let me get up that way. There's always next year ;) Flying debris and teeth ??? no big deal ;) It usually goes straight up 8) 8) 8) 8)
lIt's a Corley 4045 that his Grandad bought new in 1953. John Drew says he was cutting a pretty good board when he was 12. :D
Kirk just drove out of the drive, headed for the panhandle of Florida. He has a business meeting there at 6 tonight and it'll take him the better part of the day to get there. I-10 is a long, lonely, straight, uninteresting road. I don't envy him the trip.
It rained all night last night and hasn't stopped even yet. We weren't able to walk the woods, but I did get to show him a little of the Hard wood ridge that runs through the place. He could see the area where the tree with the hole in the bottom is located, that Jeff and I played around with when he was here. It was just too wet to walk around in the stuff. I wanted to take him to the creek but don't think my 4x4 would make the trip. When you get one of them stuck, you have a mess. :D
The visit was a lot of fun. Kirk is a very congenial young fellow, willing to listen as well as talk. I am always excited for friends who visit to meet my friends and customers who live here. Kirk seemed to enjoy them and the drive too.
Kirk had caught a cold in Savanna and was feeling pretty bad by the time he got here. He bought out the local drugstore and was swallowing OTC medicines and sniffing Afrin all day yesterday.
Going to bed last night with a throbbing head he awoke with the cold in his chest this morning and was feeling a little better. That's a bad situation, to have to travel like that. Hopefully he's on the mend now.
We went to a "long-time" local Bar-B-Cue house, called "The Pig" (original, eh?) last night and he was introduced to mustard based sauce. The Dang boy picked up the tab. :-\ I had myself a couple of orders of Ribs off of the "all you can eat" menu. Man! they were good. The beans, french fries and a bi-ig glass of Iced, sweetened tea made my evening.
We didn't get any TV watching done, so I turned on the news this morning to find that California sentenced that Scott Peterson guy to death and found Robert Blake guilty. That was enough, I turned it off before anymore "entertainment news" spewed forth, and Kirk and I took a short walk to the edge of the woods before he left.
We had a good visit and I would have enjoyed having him around longer. My impression of Kirk at the pig roast was correct and I found him to be a genuinely nice young man with an apparent good work ethic and eyes on success. :)
Robert Blake=not guilty ;) Hope ya get to feeling better before to long Kirk. That southern bug is a nasty one :(
Minor correction there, Tom. Robert Blake was found NOT guilty. ;) Say's he's broke now, and needs a job. Maybe he could get on as a spokesperson for the NRA. ::) :D :D :D
Any chance you gave Kirk my phone number? He'll be passing right by my place. I know he'll have a time crunch on his hands, but a howdy-do and a cuppa joe would be better than nuthin.
He's on his way to Darlington, Dan. I told him where you were but couldn't find your pnone number.
I'm sending you an IM
Guess I'll have to turn that confounded machine back on and listen again. :-\ Dad-gummed people talk too fast. My brain can't switch gears fast enough to keep up with them. I might have to wait on the newspaper. :D
Darlington? ??? Where's that? It don't even show up on my map.
It's one of those "created" developments, I think. Out by De Funiak Springs somewhere.
Well, I hope Kirk found Darlington. Tom gave me his cell # and I called him. He had a few minutes to spare, so he stopped by for a brief visit. ;D :) ;D :) 8) I can only repeat what others have said; What a nice guy!! :)
I had about 45 min. notice before his arrival, so I ran out and persuaded the Hootiemobile to load us a log onto the mill. Hustled around and got everything ready, so we'd have time to saw up the log. Just as I got everything in place, he was here. After a few minutes of the usual polite greetings, we fired up the mill and got down to business. I opened the log and made the first few cuts, then turned it over to Kirk. Even though he had never even seen a multiblade mill before, he was able to saw out some really nice pine boards, after just watching for a few minutes. We shut the mill down after that one log, so we could have a little visiting time. Once he learned that his destination was in the other time zone, we had a little extra time to spend. We used that to have a little walking tour of my place and to look at some types of lumber that he doesn't get to see up there where he comes from. I think he likes the sweet gum. ;D
When the time came that he just had to get on the road, I asked him where Darlington was, as it wasn't on the map. "It's on my map," said he. He pulled out his atlas, and, sure enough, it wasn't there! Gee, I hope he found it! :D :D :D
Well DanG it sounds like you & Tom have done a good job of taking
care of Kirk while he's on the road. I'm sure he enjoy the time he got to
spend with both of you . I think both of guys are pretty good Ole boys
for doing that ! 8) 8)
Credit Tom with that. He fed and housed him and didn't make him work. I worked him for 'most an hour and sent him packing. ;D :D :D :D
Linda did feel sorry for him, and gave him a cup of coffee, though.
About this cold thing....I was bundled up in a flannel shirt and field jacket, and Kirk dismounted from his truck in a t-shirt. He ribbed me just a little about it. :-[ Then, while I was getting the saw adjusted to the log, he quietly slipped over to the truck and donned a Carhaart. :D :D :D :D
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That's a pic of Kirk making some serious sawdust.
Making a nice pine board.
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Good job on the picture's DanG 8) 8)
Huh. Now you got me scratching my head. This is my neck of the woods, and I know I've heard of it, but DanG if I know where. Gotta be close to the Alabama line if it's near DeFuniak.
Can't keep scratchin' like this. I don't have enough hair as it is.
I'm beginning to believe that living near the panhandle causes hair loss! :D
I resemble that, Roxie! :D :D :D
Riles, where ya at, buddy? Kirk said it was North of Defuniak on hwy 83, I think. It wasn't on his atlas map, but he said it was on the big one.
Met with another Panhandle sawyer today. I'll start a new thread for that one. :)
Living in Shalimar this time, part of Greater Metropolitan Ft Walton Beach. Just finished up my 20 years with Uncle Sam. Had three tours here flying gunships for a total of 15 years (well, my house was here for 15 years, I was usually someplace else). Spent many hours orbiting overhead L.A. (Lower Alabama), which is why Darlington seems to jiggle in the back of my mind.
Just have a little time left here, which is strange. This is the longest I've ever lived in one place, even if it was off and on over the last twenty. The wife has two years to go on her career before we retire to the farm in NC. We're headed to LA (Louisiana) later this spring.
Beauty of the FF is that it doesn't make any difference where you live...
Welcome to the Forum, Riles. There are several other airplane drivers on here, including me. Well, I guess I'm definitely and EX-pilot, since I haven't flown since 1969. We probably got enough to start our own little Air Force, but all of us are too pore to buy the DanG gas! :'(
Hey, if y'all get the urge for a little day trip, I'm only about 2 hrs away from ya. ;D
We ain't heard from Kirk, yet. Wonder if he's still wanderin' around looking for Darlington? :D :D :D
Quote from: DanG on March 20, 2005, 12:08:05 PM
Welcome to the Forum, Riles. There are several other airplane drivers on here, including me. Well, I guess I'm definitely and EX-pilot, since I haven't flown since 1969. We probably got enough to start our own little Air Force, but all of us are too pore to buy the DanG gas! :'(
Hey, if y'all get the urge for a little day trip, I'm only about 2 hrs away from ya. ;D
Look out Riles, He'll have ya workin on his mill!!!
(Rumour has it there's also coffee and chatting involved though)
asy :D
I may have to take him up on it. I just put 6000 trees on the farm in NC, be nice to see what the far end of the deal looks like. I've been toying with the idea of getting a mill, but I don't think there's enough standing timber on the farm right now to justify the purchase.
DanG, just for the sake of accuracy I have to say that I was a navigator and not a pilot. Back seat driving, so to speak.
Besides tree farming, I'm considering furniture making, gardening, running a landscape nursery, and being a consulting forester for a living. I just can't decide what I want to be when I grow up.
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Well, there ya go! Just don't grow up, and ya won't hafta worry about it. ;D ;D
Hey, navigatin' is the hard part of flyin', anyway. I never flew anything big enough to have a special guy for that chore. Hadta do it all myself, or delegate it to my "Peter Pilot." That was usually a risky proposition. :D :D
Y'all come on over anytime. I'd love to meet ya, and get some free lab....er, I mean, visitin' in. ;D
Well I made it back home this weekend and have to say if any of you get the bug going around I feel for you. Things got worse for me after Darlington. Been down practically all week. Driving didnt help much but I can type some today!
Tom, Thanks for everything. I really enjoyed the visit and look forward to doing it agian sometime, except without the cold ;D
DanG, Looks like I got to set the record straight. I only put that there coat on to keep the sawdust off of me ;D I appreciate the hospitality. Wish I had more time but you know how road trips can be. Thanks for letting me try the MD mill. Quite impressive............................and SIMPLE! Even I could run it :D
I did find Darlington. It is off of state road 181 up near the AL boarder. It was 32 miles southwest of Fort Rucker, or Enterprise. I stayed up there as it was the closest hotel without going south of I10.
VERY SMALL PLACE, but the fire department there covers quite an earea.