The DisFort's Chit Chat Cafe

[Teamubr]

A little cafe/ice cream place in town looking for help. I like "Have pulse, will hire" too.



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[Sjm9911]

Maybe I will move , I qualify for that job!

 

[PaHunter]

A little cafe/ice cream place in town looking for help. I like "Have pulse, will hire" too.

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I applied for a job part time and have heard nothing back from the employer, nearly two weeks now.

 

[Sjm9911]

I applied for a job part time and have heard nothing back from the employer, nearly two weeks now.

Thats because the job opening is the manager, he made the sign and then quit. Lol.

 

[Teamubr]

I applied for a job part time and have heard nothing back from the employer, nearly two weeks now.

Chris,

You can apply at Northside. You'll be working with mostly teenage girls. The commute will be a little long, but...

j

 

[Teamubr]

Northside has been updating their sign over the last few days. Their Facebook page says; "The job market keeps changing"



j

 

[Sjm9911]

The no weirdos thing knocks me out of the running. Looks like PA Hunter has the job. Who would have thought this position was so compatative.

 

[FtW Mike]

No WEIRDO'S !!!!! How dare they discriminate against me, They will hear from lawyers !

 

[jbrostek]

@FtW Mike I am not weird, everyone else is....

 

[Teamubr]

Stopped in Northside for some ice cream. Here's their sign now.


j

 

[garneska]

Whisky had so much fun at the dog park tonight that fun continued for her first shower. She actually did really good. I need to work on my dog bathing skills but the fancy shower worked great.

before



after


sorry no pics during. This is a family website

 

[FtW Mike]

Ed I hope you know I would happy and honored to spend time at a campground with you. Heck we would love to host you and your SAINTED BRIDE for breakfast one day. I will even break out a 5 pound block of Quality Scrapple for the occasion.
The reason I don't tend to have my phone when I go exploring is I tend to have one or Both of the Savage Sisters with me. Controlling them and the camera at once won't happen.
Let me check our schedule and I'll PM you tomorrow with our schedule up to and including our return from Disney in the New Year.
Lucille is the big Rod Stewart Fan although I will happily admit to enjoying his shows. I am a huge fan of one his musicians , Toby.
This is Toby. He called her that the first time Lucille dragged me to one of his concerts ever since knowing she is in the band happy to go

 

[Teamubr]

Ian said they just got this in at Sam's.

6ft tall Doom Buggy with the hitchhikers.



A mere $140, but no site at the Fort is complete without one.

j

 

[bama_ed]

I was busy last week. I replaced the toilet in the back bathroom.

I know, I KNOW, too much excitement for one post. I'm no Renaissance man like @jbrostek, but I do know my way around a toilet both inside and out. *I have experience* - don't ask me what

So the back bathroom in our 90+ year old house (the other bathroom is off the master bedroom) had what I would call a LOW/child toilet (about 14" above floor level). Currently all our kids are grown adults that we would like to have them come visit us and .... well .... a higher throne is preferable.

Home Depot (and YT) is my friend for us ignorant DIY'ers. Here is a pic of the old T is the foreground and the new T in the far back corner.



The finished, FINAL product is in this pic (after a return visit to HD to rectify a cracked hinge on the seat in the 53# toilet kit. I won't stand (or sit LOL) for a damaged product. @Teamubr wouldn't accept a damaged product I know (that was my motivation)). By mid-afternoon, all was good.



Pivoting the next day to demonstrate my versatility, I prepped 4# of fresh cherries for pies (de-stem, pit, and cut/dice) which was a LOT more work than I expected (never done it b4).



And yes, @FtW Mike, I did wash my hands before I started to take the stems off.

Not that I was COUNTING (at the beginning) but 4# was supposedly enough for 2 pies. And I counted the cherries as I took the stems off. 151 of them.

Then I pushed the pit out with the unsharpened end of a #2 pencil (YouTube is my friend again).

After ripping the bottom off the first few cherries, I got a sharp knife to cut an X on the bottom of the cherry so the exiting pit would pass more easily and leave the bottom parts of the fruit.

Three times touching each fruit. 450X for two pies fruit. My first time, don't know if it's worth it. Might do blueberries next. You just freeze them, right? No prep?

Working next on a reclamation project that goes back to a past Gulf State Park trip. I'm ashamed of my negligence but it has to be done (for the future).

Bama Ed

 

[4077]

I was busy last week. I replaced the toilet in the back bathroom.

I know, I KNOW, too much excitement for one post. I'm no Renaissance man like @jbrostek, but I do know my way around a toilet both inside and out. *I have experience* - don't ask me what

So the back bathroom in our 90+ year old house (the other bathroom is off the master bedroom) had what I would call a LOW/child toilet (about 14" above floor level). Currently all our kids are grown adults that we would like to have them come visit us and .... well .... a higher throne is preferable.

Home Depot (and YT) is my friend for us ignorant DIY'ers. Here is a pic of the old T is the foreground and the new T in the far back corner.

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The finished, FINAL product is in this pic (after a return visit to HD to rectify a cracked hinge on the seat in the 53# toilet kit. I won't stand (or sit LOL) for a damaged product. @Teamubr wouldn't accept a damaged product I know (that was my motivation)). By mid-afternoon, all was good.

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Pivoting the next day to demonstrate my versatility, I prepped 4# of fresh cherries for pies (de-stem, pit, and cut/dice) which was a LOT more work than I expected (never done it b4).

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And yes, @FtW Mike, I did wash my hands before I started to take the stems off.

Not that I was COUNTING (at the beginning) but 4# was supposedly enough for 2 pies. And I counted the cherries as I took the stems off. 151 of them.

Then I pushed the pit out with the unsharpened end of a #2 pencil (YouTube is my friend again).

After ripping the bottom off the first few cherries, I got a sharp knife to cut an X on the bottom of the cherry so the exiting pit would pass more easily and leave the bottom parts of the fruit.

Three times touching each fruit. 450X for two pies fruit. My first time, don't know if it's worth it. Might do blueberries next. You just freeze them, right? No prep?

Working next on a reclamation project that goes back to a past Gulf State Park trip. I'm ashamed of my negligence but it has to be done (for the future).

Bama Ed

Never tried a cherry pie with doing all that cherry work… I am apple, pumpkin, and blueberry all the time…

I’ve often thought I would like to do a cherry pie.. but not so sure anymore…

 

[jbrostek]

@bama_ed I thankfully have not had to mess with any toilets lately. I had my fair share in the last house when I redid every single bathroom floor.

You have the patience I lack, I would have bought some canned cherry filling and called it a day. Even though I can eat and pit a bag of cherries without question....go figure.

The china cabinet is progressing slowly. I am refinishing the two rosewood inlay doors before I get started on the big and tall top cabinet. No picture updates to offer yet.

On the golf cart side of things I sorted out the issue Ken was having on first weekend. It seems someone messed up and their charge profile for lithum is wrong, in order to charge a 36v pack you need at least 43.8v to get too 100% State Of Charge (SOC). The first charger was set at 40.8, which is only good for about 20% SOC. We returned that one and found another that charges at 44.6V which is perfect to get to 100% SOC. I also finished installing the shunt monitor in the dash and upgrading the last motor cables to 4GA welding cable. The cart runs great but I now see that the off the shelf batteries are limiting current to 100A. We have a plan formulating that I will buy/build 2x 36v battery packs at 50-100AH each with a 200A/400A Peak BMS on each. This will give up to 400A and more peak for the motor which is what a golf cart usually can draw off lead acid. This project has been fun, I love to learn new things and we have a plan to use the current 3 12v lifepo4 batteries in our RVs for next season. I maybe even get the victron inverter I been eyeing up in the process. Photos to come after this weekend, I seemed to have forgotten to take them.

 

[bama_ed]

Never tried a cherry pie with doing all that cherry work… I am apple, pumpkin, and blueberry all the time…

I’ve often thought I would like to do a cherry pie.. but not so sure anymore…

Jimmy, you sound like me. Apple, pumpkin, and down here in the south, pecan pies (with an occasional blueberry or raspberry pie in the mix) are the norm. And being from Ohio, I have some prepared rhubarb always available in my garage freezer. (It doesn't grow down here in this warm climate so we have a few weeks in May when it's shipped into the grocery produce departments).

But I love cherry pies (and DW doesn't-more for me?) so as I mentioned in the post above, never done this before and like you, I may not ever again. The canned filling sounds more and more like an easy bail-out route.

I might make a pie around Labor Day (Week 1 in college football) so if it turns out I'll post pix. But it sure would be delicious with a big ol' scoop of (low-fat) vanilla ice cream.

Ed

 

[4077]

Jimmy, you sound like me. Apple, pumpkin, and down here in the south, pecan pies (with an occasional blueberry or raspberry pie in the mix) are the norm. And being from Ohio, I have some prepared rhubarb always available in my garage freezer. (It doesn't grow down here in this warm climate so we have a few weeks in May when it's shipped into the grocery produce departments).

But I love cherry pies (and DW doesn't-more for me?) so as I mentioned in the post above, never done this before and like you, I may not ever again. The canned filling sounds more and more like an easy bail-out route.

I might make a pie around Labor Day (Week 1 in college football) so if it turns out I'll post pix. But it sure would be delicious with a big ol' scoop of (low-fat) vanilla ice cream.

Ed

I like pecan pies as well (have made it with a recipe I found that was fairly simple the last few years). I think I would have to research what pre made cherry pie filling to use next time as I just remembered that I did actually make a cherry pie in the last 2 years (but it partially with a frozen pie crust and really cheap cherry filling… the result was, well, no bueno. Never again a crust that I didn’t make, but need to go for quality cherry filling, as well…

 

[jbrostek]

Holiday weekend is coming quickly. Today I am working and trying to get things packed up for the RV. I ma heading to the track tonight to be there for our friend who just lost her husband. Tomorrow I will work from the RV, should be a quiet day and I can catch up on some posting here maybe. f

Original weekend plans had DW joining me for part of the weekend. However, with the girls father now down with covid, they are staying here. So I have no idea what that means for the weekends plans from her side. I just know I still gotta pack some clothes, maybe wash the dust off the truck and head to WV in about 2 hours time. Rest of the camper is packed up already.

 

[Sjm9911]

Ok people, cruise in 3 days, ill post some pictures when I get back. This one is all vacation, no camper, cooking or packing more then clothing, so I may hate it. Lol. Work , is still bad. Choices will have to be made at the end of the year. Unfortunately, it feels like I am back at college, where the professer knows less then I do. And that was the honners classes. My situation now is way worse. So, I can stay , fight and try to bailout stupid ideas. This would require basicly starting over and retraining the bosses and there people or just say see ya. Its not easy as others will still be stuck having to work.