CM1995
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Who would want an english muffin when you can have a biscuit??
:tong
Who was driving the 1 ton?
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The Pipeline
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Who would want an english muffin when you can have a biscuit??
:tong
Who was driving the 1 ton?
monster76
Senior Member
So the Marooka has been gone for a month. Right after I posted that we started to have issues with it shutting off randomly, apparently it's real problem was undetermined. But the lady that ran it was laid off anyways. So we went back to using a tow behind on one of the trucks. No big deal but I still never figured out what kind of blower was on the back of it.
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If it's someones birthday from our crew we usually try to do something special for lunch. This time it was our teamsters birthday (orange shirt) and we got hot wings and cake!
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Some of the awesome hills we get to curlex (spelling?). Someone at the top rolls it to the person in the middle who straightens it out and rolls it to the person at the bottom. Then we got a guy or 2 that goes behind and pins them. Lucky for us we had some 8 foot rolls left to do this hill. Sucks doing such a big area with 4 foot rolls but that's all they are getting us at the warehouse now.
This is our new operator :tong
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You know by now I have to have a picture of Moose in all my posts! So here's another one! He was hanging out running around the yard while we filled stemming bags.
I saved the best picture for last.
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I bought a new truck! 2000 F350 Short Bed with a 7.3 in it. Has a little over 200k miles but was well taken care of. Bought it off one of the assistant spreadmans
Sold the Bravada to some guy in the yard. He hasn't come to pick it up yet but has given me half of what I asked for it. My fist vehicle... wish I could keep it just because! Haha. I'll try not to cry as he drives off in it.
nice truck and dont worry 200k aint bad at all my 99 7.3 has right around 350k my old mans 7.3 has more than mine. and neither one of us are planning to get rid of our trucks any time soon.
HEO Girl
Well-Known Member
If it's ravioli and I can heat it up somehow yes. But if I gotta eat it cold Sketti-O's is where it's at.
Biscuits are bleh. I want an english muffin!Who would want an english muffin when you can have a biscuit??
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Who was driving the 1 ton?
Our teamster was. I guess from what I hear they tried to run him off for it too. I didn't think it was his fault, couldn't of really been helped, it just happened.
Glad to hear that!
willie59
Administrator
Why does no one in the south know what an English muffin is? Actually, we do know what they are, but you moving from Maine to Nashville Tennessee, I'm quite certain you have discovered food items and choices are "regional" HEO. Much the same way, as my experience in Massachusetts back in the early 90's, they had no clue what a Pinto bean was, nor did they have them for supper. Couldn't find country sausage there, only sausage links for breakfast. And yes, a true southerner likes grits, the debate is to eat them with butter and sugar or just with black pepper sprinkled on them. And CM is spot on, we do biscuits.
Most all southern cooking goes back to the early days of our nation. In the south, in the days before electricity and refrigeration, food was prepared with what you had to work with. Cornmeal, flour, slab of bacon, salt cured pork, churned butter, buttermilk, and all manner of vegetables were on the menu. Beef had to be prepared fresh and quick, again, we didn't have refrigeration or ice blocks from the great lakes. Same with fish, catch it and prepare it that evening. Salt cured pork, hams and bacon, were mainstays, as well as meal breads, cornbread and biscuits, veggies were fresh in the summer and canned for winter use.
Most all southern cooking goes back to the early days of our nation. In the south, in the days before electricity and refrigeration, food was prepared with what you had to work with. Cornmeal, flour, slab of bacon, salt cured pork, churned butter, buttermilk, and all manner of vegetables were on the menu. Beef had to be prepared fresh and quick, again, we didn't have refrigeration or ice blocks from the great lakes. Same with fish, catch it and prepare it that evening. Salt cured pork, hams and bacon, were mainstays, as well as meal breads, cornbread and biscuits, veggies were fresh in the summer and canned for winter use.
willie59
Administrator
Yes, cornbread is a must with pinto beans and fried taters FSERVICE, along with some homegrown maters and slices of onion, a little chow chow to go with the beans. And yes, I always make cornbread with buttermilk, and, coincidentally, I made some fried cornbread just yesterday.
willie59
Administrator
& I didn't get a invite!!!! I see how you are!!! lol it sounds really good especially the chowchow, haven't had any for years!! THATS TRUELY HOW YOU CAN TELL IF YOU ARE FROM THE SOUTH
I'm southern born and southern bred FSERVICE.
LoL, sorry about that monster76, but I'm very proud of HEO, she has a dream and she's pursuing it. Left her home state of Maine, traveled to Virginia, and now in Tennessee. She's experienced a lot of changes of scenery, I'm hoping she experiences the various cuisines that come with the territory that she's in at the time.
willie59
Administrator
Well, it's kind of funny now. HEO was a teenager here, and yes, she had her "teenage tendencies", managed to get herself banned on occasion.
But it's all good, she has matured and has always had a dream of working with heavy equipment. But unlike those who only "have a dream", she's chasing after it. She's our beloved pet project here and has our respect and we do all we can to encourage her. 
mitch504
Senior Member
Well, it's kind of funny now. HEO was a teenager here, and yes, she had her "teenage tendencies", managed to get herself banned on occasion.
I second that, Willie. She hasn't sat around waiting for what she wants to be handed to her, and she hasn't complained about starting at the bottom And working her way up.
We sure should be proud of her (even if she does eat English muffins and spaghetti-Os).
Mitch
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Senior Member
HEO Girl
Well-Known Member
Thanks guys! No one ever got anything from just sitting around a moping about. Well, maybe unless you have rich parents, which I do not lol.
I'm kicking as...-er I mean butt, and taking names!
Yes there is certainly a difference in food from up there to down here. They have all kinds of canned foods that I've never really seen before. I tried a muscadine grape the other day, never had that before. I'm not a huge fan of corn bread, I don't really like a whole lot of breads really, except english muffins. Everyone brings a ham and cheese sammich with bread and I just bring ham and cheese rolled up together for lunch sometimes. I still have not tried neck bones and rice, it kinda sounds nasty. I did try some gumbo, but it wasn't homemade and I wasn't really a fan. I am not as brave down here as I was when I first went to New York to visit my brother, there I tried, pigs tails, bone marrow, and Thai food (the real stuff). I actually loved every single bit of it. Bone marrow is right up there with my love for butter, seriously, it was like so much amazingness in my mouth.
Most people new who talk to me always ask almost immediately where I'm from because "I don't sound like I'm from anywhere near the south."
Stock those look more like our "Cup of Noodles"
These are Sketti-O's and they are delicious! Don't let anyone tell you different!
I'm dog sitting another foremans ole' girl (She's 14, black lab) while he flew to check out another job for a couple days. This is the black lab that Moose met his first day out on the right of way last year when he was just a couple days over 8 weeks old. Round' here I don't give out "free" treats, you gotta work for them. This is Moose and Zoey sitting for a treat. I call Zoey my sweet and gentle girl and Moose is my bull in a china closet who steps on your feet. I have a huge bruise on my right foot that NEVER heals because he's always stepping on it.
We got called to remove a deer off of the ROW and bring it to the road so Metro could come and pick it up. Seemed like it had died not to long ago, it was stiff but wasn't bloated at all. The ticks on this thing were insane to see. We aren't sure how it died. I wanted to cut off a whole back leg or something and stick it in my freezer for a month (kills parasites) so I could get free meat for Moose! But they said no
Nice rack on it though.
I'm kicking as...-er I mean butt, and taking names!
Yes there is certainly a difference in food from up there to down here. They have all kinds of canned foods that I've never really seen before. I tried a muscadine grape the other day, never had that before. I'm not a huge fan of corn bread, I don't really like a whole lot of breads really, except english muffins. Everyone brings a ham and cheese sammich with bread and I just bring ham and cheese rolled up together for lunch sometimes. I still have not tried neck bones and rice, it kinda sounds nasty. I did try some gumbo, but it wasn't homemade and I wasn't really a fan. I am not as brave down here as I was when I first went to New York to visit my brother, there I tried, pigs tails, bone marrow, and Thai food (the real stuff). I actually loved every single bit of it. Bone marrow is right up there with my love for butter, seriously, it was like so much amazingness in my mouth.
Most people new who talk to me always ask almost immediately where I'm from because "I don't sound like I'm from anywhere near the south."
Stock those look more like our "Cup of Noodles"
These are Sketti-O's and they are delicious! Don't let anyone tell you different!
I'm dog sitting another foremans ole' girl (She's 14, black lab) while he flew to check out another job for a couple days. This is the black lab that Moose met his first day out on the right of way last year when he was just a couple days over 8 weeks old. Round' here I don't give out "free" treats, you gotta work for them. This is Moose and Zoey sitting for a treat. I call Zoey my sweet and gentle girl and Moose is my bull in a china closet who steps on your feet. I have a huge bruise on my right foot that NEVER heals because he's always stepping on it.
We got called to remove a deer off of the ROW and bring it to the road so Metro could come and pick it up. Seemed like it had died not to long ago, it was stiff but wasn't bloated at all. The ticks on this thing were insane to see. We aren't sure how it died. I wanted to cut off a whole back leg or something and stick it in my freezer for a month (kills parasites) so I could get free meat for Moose! But they said no
Nice rack on it though.
bill onthehill
Senior Member
You have to get with the hillbilly way of spinning stories and tell folks how you spun the ex around twice and took it down with one swing. Nice looking young buck anyway. Glad to see you are getting a break from the rain. A wet muddy summer takes it's toll on you.
ValleyFirewood
Senior Member
What part of Maine? I grew up in Northern Maine, moved to Alaska in 2002.
HEO Girl
Well-Known Member
I lived in Augusta pretty near all my life. So I'm kind of in the southern part of Maine. Northern Maine is my favorite though.
It's a wicked sexy farmer's tan :naughty! I used to tan after work a couple times a week to keep my body even'd out. Then I just stopped caring, so the rest of me is extremely pasty white lol. Not like I have any time to go to the beach or the pool or anything like that anyways.
On a side note
2 Days Off!!! Got out at noon today!!