After taking a year off in 2022, we decided that we were going to make cider again this year. Three crates of apples were ordered which allows us to make roughly 150 gallons of cider. We invite a few friends and neighbors over and get to work. In four to five hours we will have 200+ jugs of cider pressed and filled with plenty left over for making hard cider. The press is vintage, but we have upgraded it to be hydraulic. That makes pressing the apples so much more efficient. We drop a bushel of apples into the hopper to grind them up, that then falls down onto our…
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It was good knowing you but it is time for us to part ways. I was an early cord cutter adopter. Did it back when it was unthinkable to most. My only pre-requisite was that I needed Nickelodeon since my daughter was still young. I came across something called directvnow. It was $30 or $35 a month back then. Since I was what they called an early adopter or beta tested they even gave me an extra $5 off a month for some time. It was great. Then it changed names a few times, AT&T bought them and they changed the name a couple times: AT&T Stream, AT&T TV… Now…
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Just enjoying a mid-day Hoyo de Monterrey cigar after 18 holes of disc golf. Yes, disc. Haven’t played for a year and forgot I’m not half bad at it.
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After purchasing a new house in Virginia a couple years ago, we find ourselves with one house too many. Two is manageable. Three is just silly and one doesn’t get visited. Last year solidified that. We stayed at the lake house for a total of two times. That’s it! We went to the lake often to go out on the boat and since home is only an hour away, we didn’t find the need to stay at the lake house. We just used it as a place we would deposit our clothes and dry out towels. At first I was very hesitant to do anything with it. Our current cost…
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So what happened is: I went to crack open the beer and of course it just didn’t open. I hit it with the backside of my knife (the part that breaks car windows) and it wasn’t going down. So I used the knife to pry it up (I really wanted that beer!!!) and this is what I saw.
