Hoping for a great year for all Tool Talk members and their families!
Let's make 2013 a banner year for old tool fools like us!
Yes Happy New Years possums, I hope 2013 is healthy, wealthy and wise for you all.
Down here we have already had New Years Eve, I had a quiet one at home having a few very nice home brews.
Batz
All the best to everyone in 2013!
:) Have a Safe & HAPPY NEW YEAR!!, Hope 2013 is a great year for all.. See you Next Year!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND i HOPE YOU ALL FIND THAT ONE TOOL YOU HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR. I CAME CLOSE THANKS TO mRCHUCK bob w.
A healthy, prosperous, and happy New Year to all of us.
Happy New Year everyone!! :-)
Whoops !!! Almost missed this !
Happy New Year !!
Brian L.
Happy New Year.........
I hope everybody had their black eye'd peas, hog jowls, cabbage, and cornbread for luck! Happy New Year!
Here's hoping for a good year for yard sales,estate sales auctions and all those other places where we find our treasures. Happy new year to all.
This means my yearly allotment of rust starts all over again? Happy new Year
Happy New year to all and thank all of you for the interesting information y'all have given. I have one goal in addition to my normal dailyy stuff and that is to learn at least one new thing each day. Well if I have learned nothing during my day I can always count on someone here to give me some NEW insight on MANY things. I thank y'all fer that.
Rich
Quote from: OilyRascal on January 01, 2013, 08:23:24 PM
I hope everybody had their black eye'd peas, hog jowls, cabbage, and cornbread for luck! Happy New Year!
Oh Yeah and it was great. Going back for more before I hit the sack.
Quote from: OilyRascal on January 01, 2013, 08:23:24 PM
I hope everybody had their black eye'd peas, hog jowls, cabbage, and cornbread for luck! Happy New Year!
Yep! Well, my recipe for Hoppin' John is a little different, but that's the stuff! Haven't missed making it for close to 50 years. Black eye peas, rice, a pound of bacon, an onion sliced and sauteed in a cube of butter, couple of dry red peppers and salt. My wife's a New Englander, and all the fat makes her eyes cross. I tried to explain that's for the ease of life, but she's still looking leery. Black eyes and greens is her background.
I almost struck out this year, though. New Years snuck up on me and I hadn't got the black eyes. I knew better than to look for them close by (knew lots of folks around here would be making up a batch. So I went to the Safeway store in a more Yankee neighborhood. There was a big empty space where the dried black eye peas used to be. One of the clerks looked in the back and said they were out, but they would have some *tomorrow.* I told him I had to be cooking them in a half hour, and he looked really perplexed. But I found some frozen black eyes and the day was saved.
Never used to have a problem finding black eyed peas, but this is the second time I've found the shelves of a store empty!
How many of us have this tradition? I always thought it was a Southern thing, but the Yankee store was empty...
Quote from: Branson on January 02, 2013, 09:07:17 AM
.............Never used to have a problem finding black eyed peas, but this is the second time I've found the shelves of a store empty!
Just a couple of plants and you still wouldn't :)
I assumed it was a southern thing myself; having grown up in the south and lived in the north.
Quote from: OilyRascal on January 02, 2013, 12:07:08 PM
Just a couple of plants and you still wouldn't :)
I assumed it was a southern thing myself; having grown up in the south and lived in the north.
Yeah, but it' a little late to plant them.:-)
Well, the Central Valley was 60% one generation removed from the South back in 1960. My father's family has lived in North Carolina since around 1770, so I'm still thinking it's a southern tradition. But that's why I went to the Yankee neighborhood Safeway supermarket. They even have collard greens there now.
Quote from: Branson on January 02, 2013, 06:48:26 PM
Quote from: OilyRascal on January 02, 2013, 12:07:08 PM
Just a couple of plants and you still wouldn't :)
I assumed it was a southern thing myself; having grown up in the south and lived in the north.
Yeah, but it' a little late to plant them.:-)
Well, the Central Valley was 60% one generation removed from the South back in 1960. My father's family has lived in North Carolina since around 1770, so I'm still thinking it's a southern tradition. But that's why I went to the Yankee neighborhood Safeway supermarket. They even have collard greens there now.
We have Collards/greens in the garden NOW, and they're doing well....very well. Its my personal favorite green of all. As a note: both sides of my family tie back to roots in Anson County NC - 4 generations back in both cases. Maybe it's a NC thing :)
Quote from: OilyRascal on January 02, 2013, 07:14:03 PM
We have Collards/greens in the garden NOW, and they're doing well....very well. Its my personal favorite green of all. As a note: both sides of my family tie back to roots in Anson County NC - 4 generations back in both cases. Maybe it's a NC thing :)
In and around Highpoint here (one of my favorite finds is an army issue WWII tool box made by a branch of the family) . The collards are doing fine in the raised bed -- my wife's favorite. Me, I'm partial to kale, but there isn't a green I don't like. They're all good with a bit of butter or vinegar.