Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967

Well, "Apple Pie Season" is upon us! With that established, I'm lookin' for suggestions on handy bottles for sharing the wonderful golden libation. Undoubtedly my best experience was a number of years ago, when I managed to buy a case of "factory second" Platte Valley Corn Whiskey jugs. They were perfect! Capacity 750 ml (a shade over 25 ounces), cork stoppered... dangit, I wish I coulda bought a dozen cases! Anyway, I have but one left, and I ain't a-gonna part with it. A few years ago, Ms Helen Brimstone bought a bunch of stainless steel hip flasks, and we gave 'em out at Christmastime filled with Pie. They were okay, but much smaller (less than half the size), and even being stainless not the best material for keeping Pie ~ "drink it soon!" So - if y'all were gonna be giving out Apple Pie for the holidays, what would you bottle it in~? The "Jug!"

If I ever find myself with some free time, I'd like to get some light canvas (painter's drop cloth?) and make some "grocery" bags. And stencil an abstract of THIS guy on the things!

If Dave's in the Panhandle, there's not much between him and the North Pole other than a few strands o' "Bob Wahr..."

So @Buckshot Bear, do y'all gots any bears down that-a-way...?

I've crossed paths with bears. Quite a few times. It's been many years since I've purchased a bear tag. During my younger deer hunting days, part of bear season ran concurrently with deer season. Then it changeed, and I think it's changed back. Anyway, I was always having "bear encounters." So at some point decided that the best thing to do was to start buying a bear tag every year. Not that I wanted to shoot a bear; I figgered that it would be good insurance against crossing paths with bears going forward. It worked! Never had a bear encounter while carrying a bear tag. One time back in the last century, ol' Hank and I were hunting up in northern california. And we had both bear and deer tags. So a buddy drove us to the top of some ridge, with our intent to work our way down the mountainside. At one point, we crossed over our buddy's tire tracks. And right there, superimposed on the tire tracks, were FRESH bear footprints. "Hank, it looks like he moseyed off toward the right!" "Yup, it sure does! So we're moseying off toward the left!" That was the closest my "[Anti-] Bear Tag Insurance" ever came to not working.

Y'all are just too danged festive....

Hey... y'all gotta admit (IF you watched it!), this movie had one of the best - if not THE best - crowd-running- from-the-monster scenes of all time!!

Definitely one of the best "special effects" of the film! And I think it was better than Richard Boone in "The Last Dinosaur" of eight years later.

Watching the movie right now!

They might be a mite less eager if they knew of his sentence (the preliminaries of which he avoided by dying first!), which was to take place AFTER the pre-trial torture: "Their genitals would be cut off and burnt before their eyes, and their bowels and hearts removed. They would then be decapitated, and the dismembered parts of their bodies displayed so that they might become 'prey for the fowls of the air'". Now... talk about a deterrent...!

A fun pipe dream, though...! And just for fun!

SO "AI"... but funny!

The Great Wall of... Montana~? Interesting.

But remember... if it hadn't been for that "stuck" ball in Game 6, there may not have been a Game 7. And "if" frogs had wings they wouldn't bump their butts. Lordy, but ya just gotta love the game! Another peek back:

Oh, heck YEAH I'd try it! A few years ago at a Boy Scout "Camporee" we had an ice cream contest. The winner? Maple Bacon Vanilla!

I would've liked to have seen a different outcome, but what a terrific series! Seventy-four innings of baseball!!

Anyone familiar with Yuma? Headed there for a couple of days. Other than tomorrow's funeral, anything worth seeing or doing...?

Shux... I used to buy boiled peanuts from Chinese street vendors in San Francisco!

Cyrus, that looks like a reeeally sweet shotgun! I'm going to be following this thread... bought a 28 ga Mec a few years ago, and finally bought a gun (nothing that nice!) earlier this year. Still haven't shot it. And at $78 for two boxes of shells I bought for dove season (this is california, after all) I will definitely be loading for it.

At two grand, I ain't a-gonna be buyin' one. But if someone might like to give me one, well... I'll have mine in .44 mangle'em, thankee ver' much!

Well...?