The 50 Plus Cafe, Pub, All-Nite Greasy Spoon and Dive Bar

[B2fromA2looking4U]

Honeycrisp are really good just a touch tart. They actually have a sweet-tart flavor at the same time. A few days too long and I think they get too sweet. I think the zestar are next in flavor. They're just a bit too firm yet, but the flavor is coming long nicely. (There are ~dozen honeycrisp and ~dozen zestar trees. So we shouldn't run out anytime soon! )

These wolf rivers are known to make you wait until the bitter end of the season. They're really not very good until they're ready. The sweetness is coming along, but there is a bitter flavor that needs to mellow first. To give you an idea, even the deer don't like them now. Once ready, cooked and sauced they are really good. It only takes three to make a pie. Apparently over a pound each is not unheard of. I'm still 2oz short of that.

3 for a pie? I will look for them at the local market!

 

[subdudeme13]

They are so good this time of year!

I read they do help lower colesterol, especially LDL. They make a great snack. I use an apple corer/slicer and then eat them like potato chiips.

 

[B2fromA2looking4U]

 

[subdudeme13]

crunchy and tart? sign me up!
I'm a Granny Smith gal at heart but willing to step out and try another tasty apple.
well, unless they're disagreeable suckers before they've sweetened up?

Granny Smith are the best for pie.

 

[B2fromA2looking4U]

Good morning denizens of the greasy spoon. My sleep was interrupted this time by something getting in my eye. I think it was an eye lash. But at midnight one is not thinking clearly. I finally flushed it out but lost too much sleep. Once up, I am up. So a nap is on the agenda.

 

[B2fromA2looking4U]

 

[subdudeme13]

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I was looking for that! Thought you might have been slacking!

 

[B2fromA2looking4U]

I was looking for that! Thought you might have been slacking!

Me slacking?

 

[subdudeme13]

Me slacking?
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My favorite actor! What is his name again?

 

[subdudeme13]

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Great! I can go back to walk on the beach today! All the crowds will be gone!

 

[Boat1]

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...and the gate is still locked.
Naked Sunday got extended for another day!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Rolled up on the job half an hour ago. No one was here. Siding crew is slowly dragging in. They tried to get in a workday on Saturday, but people complained and called management, who called me, who called them and told them we were busted and had to go home. It was worth a shot.

Interior doors go on today. That’ll be a nice touch. Sheet rock next week.

 

[dkak001]

There are so many wonderful varieties. In SE Mi we are seeing Courtland and Honey crisps. More coming in the next few weeks. Apple crisp time of year is very near !

I had to go back in photos to look for the wolf rivers. It looks like we finally picked them the second week of November the other year. So, probably over a month to go yet. Some sources say mid October, but I think our season starts so much later we have to wait longer. Blossoms can be 3-4 weeks behind just a bit south of here.

So many of the heirloom apple varieties have been forgotten about. All of their quirks and knowledge about them. I don't mind the oddball apples or old varieties. I find food history interesting, and apples are so varied in texture, taste, and season. Learning about and trying them is always fun. We have some that have been on the property for probably 80+ years now. No idea what they are. One is a early yellow apple that forms a very sticky waxy coating after picked. They last forever in a paper bag in the pantry. No one cares about those aspects of apples anymore. I've grafted one from down the road that makes a huge (Again, three apples to a pie), extremely tart soft fleshed apple. Makes amazing pies and sauces, but you need A LOT of sugar to make them edible.

 

[Boat1]

Rolled up on the job half an hour ago. No one was here. Siding crew is slowly dragging in. They tried to get in a workday on Saturday, but people complained and called management, who called me, who called them and told them we were busted and had to go home. It was worth a shot.

Interior doors go on today. That’ll be a nice touch. Sheet rock next week.

I don't envy your position... I'm grateful that I'm nothing more than an offshore oilfield prostitute!

 

[Boat1]

I had to go back in photos to look for the wolf rivers. It looks like we finally picked them the second week of November the other year. So, probably over a month to go yet. Some sources say mid October, but I think our season starts so much later we have to wait longer. Blossoms can be 3-4 weeks behind just a bit south of here.

So many of the heirloom apple varieties have been forgotten about. All of their quirks and knowledge about them. I don't mind the oddball apples or old varieties. I find food history interesting, and apples are so varied in texture, taste, and season. Learning about and trying them is always fun. We have some that have been on the property for probably 80+ years now. No idea what they are. One is a early yellow apple that forms a very sticky waxy coating after picked. They last forever in a paper bag in the pantry. No one cares about those aspects of apples anymore. I've grafted one from down the road that makes a huge (Again, three apples to a pie), extremely tart soft fleshed apple. Makes amazing pies and sauces, but you need A LOT of sugar to make them edible.

Dammit man.... now I have wood aaaaaaagain!!!

 

[likes2watchU]

It's finally supposed to cool down for a few days here. It's unusually warm, which has ruined the fall colors this year.

How does that affect your apples?

 

[likes2watchU]

Glad you're feeling better, Likes! Have you moved away from snake dreams? (Shudder!)

No snake, snakes last night... human variety snakes instead. Bizarre and lots of running. Was kind of like playing football where my team was playing 2-hand-touch and the other team was playing tackle. Way too much dodge-and-weave with running, running, running. I'm exhausted

 

[dkak001]

How does that affect your apples?

Some apples seem to like frosts. My guess is they're still growing with the heat, but honestly have no idea how they'll turn out.

I think apples can be somewhat like grapes. Wine makers talk about certain vintages being better than others. These apples seem a bit different every year, some years better and some worse. But I don't have enough time with all of these to know what does what to who yet. Honestly, it's nothing scientific yet...

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

I wish I could relive the dove hunts. We posted farmland from a guy who rotated corn and soybeans. Some of each every year. 'We' was a bunch of engineers that worked with my Dad at the mylar mill. Good friends even after my dad died young. My mom now 92 out lived em all. Now days I don't get to see things rural up close like that either. There is a lot to miss. And the "Bob" in that sauce. Related to old southern money, he would come up with some really cool forests to hunt deer in. One I remember missing opportunity at deer for watching the swamp for alligators. You don't hear them. Wild pig were scary for a skinny 14 year old too.

Man I miss those huge Dove Hunts! Used to be a big deal down this way. Back when it actually would cool off is September and October one of the local clubs would have a Shuck&Shoot. Big oyster roast and dove hunt. One farmer had a couple hundred acres he opened up. It was on a main road so every damn kid in two counties showed up. It was like WW3…a bird would go down and ten people ran out to claim it!. I gave it 30. mins and left…

I've always been lucky able to sleep. Sometimes even feeling tired when I don't want too.
After 55 or so I had the pee thing. Constantly waking slightly to ruin a dream or just he feeling my head is pressing the pillow. Pee and back to sleep. I lived with it. Until a few years ago. First I stopped drinking beer. Not on purpose. I was going to have cataracts and thought hmmm. When is the last time I went without beer? I stopped for three weeks or more. Two before the first one and a week or so after the second one. I wasn't in a hurry for a beer. I had started back on the wine. When I has a sip off my first beer I felt it warm my face immediately. Not too long I felt tired. I didn't have any more and I did not miss it. Stopping to pee at night was a little different but didn't get my attention. The next year during a physical the doc advised we could continue no meds for slightly elevated blood pressure and not drinking coffee would help. I stopped cold turkey like I did smoking at the age 34 and the beer the previous year. I had headaches so bad I couldn't sleep. Finally figured out that coffee I made that didn't need a cup was causing withdrawals. Got well and continued no coffee and noticed I was up only 2 times a night to pee. That luxury went away. Long story short, I had done some damage to the prostate from riding my bike. I didn't know it was my bike but enough discomfort where I visited the urologist. End game of that was physical therapy. Kegal's. Look up male pelvic floor exorcises and read whats offered at Mayo and Cleveland clinic. 3 positions and 2 exorcises per position. I think this is what made the biggest difference. And made a differnce in other ways too. Then another year and another physical the doc told me I was fat, like non-alcohol fatty liver and I was dehydrated. Now I try to drink at least 2 liters of water outside of what I normally drink. Aside from water only milk after dinner and wine with. For a while drinking so much water was a problem. Now I often fall asleep 10:30ish and wake up at 8am. Can't explain it. If I do wake up it is uncanny. The clock reads 3:31 or somewhere before or after 4:15. If I eat late I will wake up an hour or two after I fall asleep. That is probably too much wine. When I eat late I tend to snack as I procrastinate, which translates to a whole bottle of wine.
Make sure you are hydrated, lighter colored pee. And give the kegal's a try. Even if its the easy ones you can do sitting in a chair. Once you master it, I find I can do it while driving. It does take a little practice. Which I will admit like any exorcise I find annoying.
There was a time in my IT life where I worked inside big pharma. I avoid medication. Most medication causes symptoms, possibly even the wake up every few minutes to pee one.

I have a bad habit of perusing the Oracle of all knowledge (UT000b) and saw something about your last sip of water at night (she had a couple of supplements she was taking) should be salt water?

Never heard of such, but here’s her theory; the salt water moves to replenish cells and doesn’t go straight to your bladder. That way you don’t feel the “need”…haven’t put this to trial and error yet, but sounds good?

Sounds fun!

I always thought you were a nut cake!

Hopefully your mom is doing ok.

Momma is doing fine. Not very mobile but she’s feeling better. Nutcake—-guilty as charged! . Just ask SWMBO…

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Whoops…forgot something…

 

[Tweedledude]

Here we go October yahoo. Gonna be a slow morning after that not so wonderful sleep. Have a great day all.

 

[likes2watchU]

3 for a pie? I will look for them at the local market!

When I looked in my area, they weren't at the local market. A web search suggested I call local orchards as this would typically be an heirloom variety not widely available.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

I had to go back in photos to look for the wolf rivers. It looks like we finally picked them the second week of November the other year. So, probably over a month to go yet. Some sources say mid October, but I think our season starts so much later we have to wait longer. Blossoms can be 3-4 weeks behind just a bit south of here.

So many of the heirloom apple varieties have been forgotten about. All of their quirks and knowledge about them. I don't mind the oddball apples or old varieties. I find food history interesting, and apples are so varied in texture, taste, and season. Learning about and trying them is always fun. We have some that have been on the property for probably 80+ years now. No idea what they are. One is an early yellow apple that forms a very sticky waxy coating after picked. They last forever in a paper bag in the pantry. No one cares about those aspects of apples anymore. I've grafted one from down the road that makes a huge (Again, three apples to a pie), extremely tart soft fleshed apple. Makes amazing pies and sauces, but you need A LOT of sugar to make them edible.

I went looking for that heirloom seed bank at NCSU but can’t seem to find it. It was an article in Garden&Gun a few years ago…I did find NC Apple Growers site, and low and behold the first one on there…Arkansas Black…and all the other varieties I’ve seen y’all discuss…

Need to up my apple game…

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I don't envy your position... I'm grateful that I'm nothing more than an offshore oilfield prostitute!

It could be worse. I have this particular job site almost exactly where I want it. I’m not working very hard. Mostly, it’s the time I have to put in simply to be here. It is more as though I am here for the institutional knowledge I bring as opposed to the actual work I do.

I like it!

 

[likes2watchU]

I went looking for that heirloom seed bank at NCSU but can’t seem to find it. It was an article in Garden&Gun a few years ago…I did find NC Apple Growers site, and low and behold the first one on there…Arkansas Black…and all the other varieties I’ve seen y’all discuss…

Need to up my apple game…

Here are a few resources for you:
Heirloom Apple Production
Library MakerSpace: Seed Library
North Carolina Production Guide for Smaller Orchard Plantings