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Just say one thing to upset them and you will never survive.
I posted here a few weeks ago that my bride had made some candied peppers. Some jalapeños and others in a sugar fueled elixir of joy. But, in a jar by themselves, secretly holding the potential of a male Tyrannosaurus that could breathe WWII mustard gas was a small jar of candied Carolina Reaper peppers.
Now folks know I like peppers. I eat a LOT of jalapeño and other chilies and my wife’s regular candied peppers include jalapeño, banana and pimento peppers. They’re delicious and I love them.
The small jar….
I put 2 of the small shriveled orange red orbs on my plate with some eggs and sausage this morning. I cut a small piece of the pepper and ate it with my eggs.
What happened next isn’t entirely clear. I remember the pain starting in my jaws and tongue followed by snot, tears and prayer. I was overwhelmed, over matched and over …. Just over.
To call this hot, is like calling gasoline flammable. I struggled to breathe, I couldn’t see, I was nauseated. Then in a hard to grasp point of time and space, my stomach revolted. It felt as if my stomach was being punched, stabbed, burned. Pain, serious pain in my gut had me doubled over. Was a rat gnawing at my gastrointestinal walls? Was this how it was going to end?
I found myself in the bathroom heaving, hoping the offending nightshade would come out of me and cease its assault. I am ashamed to say I lost the fight with my intestinal fortitude and my pants paid a heavy cost.
I remember when the pepper came up. I knew victory was possible now if I could hold on. My stomach was still being stabbed by what must be Reaper juices but the main offender was now out. My throat was stinging anew, the pepper fought on its way to the porcelain bowl and wasn’t giving me an inch. Tears streaming, snot hanging like a rope I looked up at my wife who was trying desperately to not guffaw and offer support to the man she respects and honors every day. She uttered “I’ll throw them out”.
Yes. Yes you will.
Now folks know I like peppers. I eat a LOT of jalapeño and other chilies and my wife’s regular candied peppers include jalapeño, banana and pimento peppers. They’re delicious and I love them.
The small jar….
I put 2 of the small shriveled orange red orbs on my plate with some eggs and sausage this morning. I cut a small piece of the pepper and ate it with my eggs.
What happened next isn’t entirely clear. I remember the pain starting in my jaws and tongue followed by snot, tears and prayer. I was overwhelmed, over matched and over …. Just over.
To call this hot, is like calling gasoline flammable. I struggled to breathe, I couldn’t see, I was nauseated. Then in a hard to grasp point of time and space, my stomach revolted. It felt as if my stomach was being punched, stabbed, burned. Pain, serious pain in my gut had me doubled over. Was a rat gnawing at my gastrointestinal walls? Was this how it was going to end?
I found myself in the bathroom heaving, hoping the offending nightshade would come out of me and cease its assault. I am ashamed to say I lost the fight with my intestinal fortitude and my pants paid a heavy cost.
I remember when the pepper came up. I knew victory was possible now if I could hold on. My stomach was still being stabbed by what must be Reaper juices but the main offender was now out. My throat was stinging anew, the pepper fought on its way to the porcelain bowl and wasn’t giving me an inch. Tears streaming, snot hanging like a rope I looked up at my wife who was trying desperately to not guffaw and offer support to the man she respects and honors every day. She uttered “I’ll throw them out”.
Yes. Yes you will.
Not true.... Humans had the capability when coupled with unlimited time on their hands and, hey, had to eat. And the churches had the money. Craftsmen worked their entire lives (about 40 year average life span) on buildings that took hundreds of years to complete. Manpower was... manpower. Blocks move with block and tackle. Not cranes. Noone had to commute home 45 minutes or spend their time checking e-mail. Or watching TV. Or having to take their kids to Disney World.
Geology is pressure versus time. Pressure is humans chipping away. Time is measured in hundreds of years. Manpower is unlimited.
The restoration of Notre Dame, in addition, has brought together not only hundreds of the 'last remaining' craftsmen of this type. But it has created apprentices, tradesmen, revived skills and done an amazing job of bringing back much of the handwork that went into these amazing buildings. Now these people are 'fanning out' around the world with the skills to restore (and rebuild and build) treasures that folks still say "How did they do that." And they benefit from sawmills, cranes, laser levels, cement mixers and all kinds of things that had to be done... the hard way.
There are several good YouTube videos/documentaries of a project in France where they have rebuilt/built a castle using only Dark Ages/Medieval methods. I think it's complete now. It was a living history project to start (historians and PhD's) then morphed into more of a trade school and finally a tourist attraction and sort of a 'reality show' on the BBC and French TV. It's quite brilliant seeing how they figured out the 'methods' and then replicated them. Then taught them.
I can tell you from my first experiences building cannon carriages starting about 10 - 12 years ago... that I learned more about artillery and the GENIUS of the cannon makers than I ever imagined. Seeing the engineering of a Civil War carriage was seeing 500 years of 'Trial and Error' and 'pure genius' put to work to make carriages that could take the shock and pounding of artillery fire. These were amazingly-engineered pieces and represented the high-water mark of the wood artillery carriage... all of them being obsolete within a few years and replaced by the screw-breech iron carriage and hydraulic recoil systems of the 1880's. Reverse engineering blueprints and the dozens of originals I examined were like a lightbulb going off. One that said "These people were geniuses!"
Cheers,
Sirhr
Send them to me. I want to try this ride.
I have become engrossed in shoe and boot making videos. Repairs, resoles, new shoes, restoration and polishing…. Not even sure why but I love videos like this.
JK Boots is one of the 4 main PNW boot companies that famously make smoke jumping, fire fighting and logging industry boots. They still make nail down boots in the $6-800 range but recently began making this stitch down construction general work boot called the 300 series at just under $400.
I found out years ago, boots matter and Walmart or Dicks isn’t the place to get boots that will last and feel like an extension of your feet.
Still made by hand and very high quality for a different use using less intensive techniques. I will be buying a pair of these.
JK Boots is one of the 4 main PNW boot companies that famously make smoke jumping, fire fighting and logging industry boots. They still make nail down boots in the $6-800 range but recently began making this stitch down construction general work boot called the 300 series at just under $400.
I found out years ago, boots matter and Walmart or Dicks isn’t the place to get boots that will last and feel like an extension of your feet.
Still made by hand and very high quality for a different use using less intensive techniques. I will be buying a pair of these.
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Thai chilies that have been crossed with a couple other hot peppers and Tabasco peppers all blended together and now fermenting for future hot sauce.
Back 12 years ago (seems like just yesterday), my fellow Military History Class were all working on topics for our Theses... And in a fit of despair at not being able to come up with a topic, I wrote up a few "Things that we would NOT be allowed to use for our thesis topics. That started to make the rounds as everyone kicked in a few.
So we ended up with this list of "Topics that are forbidden for our Masters Thesis." I forgot about it. But it's actually pretty funny in retrospect:
The Horst Wessel Song: The 99 Best Covers from Petula Clark to P-Diddy
"Band of Brothers, the Greatest Miniseries Since Shogun."
Arctic Warfare: The Evolution of the Combat Zamboni.
The Nazis Surrendered the day Chuck Norris was born: Fate or Coincidence?"
"So what if Lawrence was a Poofter, he killed a lot of A-Rabs!"
"What does napalm really smell like in the morning?"
"The best 101 Somali Jokes told during Gothic Serpent."
"Springtime for Hitler: An analysis through the lens of modern dance theory."
"The LeMay and McNamara Japanese Hibachi BBQ Cookbook"
"Max Klinger's impact on 1950's Poodle Skirt adoption."
"Should 'Special' Forces ride in short C-130’s?"
"Nathan Bedford Forrest, unsung hero of the Tuskeegee Airmen."
AC/DC or Wagner: Which goes better with Air Assault?
Never Fired, only dropped once: Testing Italian Combat Rifles
Union Carbide: Killed more Indians than Robert Rogers
"Why only losers retire as an USAF O5 to become college professors"
Napoleon: The Hobbit who Ruled Europe
Suicide Bombers: Are they entitled to Free Healthcare?
Ham and Pinto Beans in Gravy: A Low Point for Army Material Command?
French War Heroes, the Shortest Capstone in History.
Stephen Ambrose: Why are historians jealou$$$$?
Dan Rather: Flack Jacket Fashionista or Flaming Fruitbat of the Front Lines?
Why doesn’t Charlie Surf?
Why does it Hurt when I Pee? A GI's Guide to "Fraternization" in France.
Paris’s Most Revered Monument: The Arc de Capitulation
"If the Korean war was only 3 years, how could MASH have lasted for 12?"
If Indians had invented the Gating Gun, who’d own the Casinos?
The evolution of the U.S. Army doctrine that no one reads or follows.”
"Is anything worn under a combat Kilt... or does it all function just fine?"
"The evolution of the French Reverse Azimuth compass"
Can you kill a Marine by throwing sand and water on the wall and telling him to hit the beach?
"The Swiss Army Knife: so badass it's kept invaders out for centuries."
"Kony: Warlord or Africa's Most Successful Daycare Provider?"
"How ODESSA smuggled Grammar Nazis into Harvard."
"Bomber Harris vs. Curtis E. LeMay: Who Bounced more Rubble?"
"The Demise of the Third Reich: Eva Braun in command"
"Would Stalingrad have Ended Differently if it were fought in Minsk?"
What the Hell was Clausewitz Thinking?
"Women on the Front Lines: Do sandwiches made in combat taste better?"
"The Campaigns of George Washington from the Perspective of his Horse."
What Did Pyle do to the Gunny’s Beloved Corps?
"Iraq 2003: The U.S. invasion as seen by an Iraqi from behind a goat"
Seafood Recipes from the Galley of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
"Why the book written by our Capstone Advisor sells for only $2.50 on Amazon?"
"Gettysburg: new insight from my dad's uncle's father's cousin's greatgrand father's brother's experiences during the fighting on Culp's Hill
"Schultz: He knew a lot more than he let on."
Would Custer have survived if he had deployed F-Troop on his flank?
Did the French plant roadside trees so Germans could march in the shade?
Powdered wigs: Regulation or Continental Army Relaxed Grooming Standards?
Can you really hang out Laundry on the Siegfried Line?
If you run from a Sniper, will you really die Tired?
A couple were sanitized.... but it was still great!
Cheers, Sirhr
So we ended up with this list of "Topics that are forbidden for our Masters Thesis." I forgot about it. But it's actually pretty funny in retrospect:
The Horst Wessel Song: The 99 Best Covers from Petula Clark to P-Diddy
"Band of Brothers, the Greatest Miniseries Since Shogun."
Arctic Warfare: The Evolution of the Combat Zamboni.
The Nazis Surrendered the day Chuck Norris was born: Fate or Coincidence?"
"So what if Lawrence was a Poofter, he killed a lot of A-Rabs!"
"What does napalm really smell like in the morning?"
"The best 101 Somali Jokes told during Gothic Serpent."
"Springtime for Hitler: An analysis through the lens of modern dance theory."
"The LeMay and McNamara Japanese Hibachi BBQ Cookbook"
"Max Klinger's impact on 1950's Poodle Skirt adoption."
"Should 'Special' Forces ride in short C-130’s?"
"Nathan Bedford Forrest, unsung hero of the Tuskeegee Airmen."
AC/DC or Wagner: Which goes better with Air Assault?
Never Fired, only dropped once: Testing Italian Combat Rifles
Union Carbide: Killed more Indians than Robert Rogers
"Why only losers retire as an USAF O5 to become college professors"
Napoleon: The Hobbit who Ruled Europe
Suicide Bombers: Are they entitled to Free Healthcare?
Ham and Pinto Beans in Gravy: A Low Point for Army Material Command?
French War Heroes, the Shortest Capstone in History.
Stephen Ambrose: Why are historians jealou$$$$?
Dan Rather: Flack Jacket Fashionista or Flaming Fruitbat of the Front Lines?
Why doesn’t Charlie Surf?
Why does it Hurt when I Pee? A GI's Guide to "Fraternization" in France.
Paris’s Most Revered Monument: The Arc de Capitulation
"If the Korean war was only 3 years, how could MASH have lasted for 12?"
If Indians had invented the Gating Gun, who’d own the Casinos?
The evolution of the U.S. Army doctrine that no one reads or follows.”
"Is anything worn under a combat Kilt... or does it all function just fine?"
"The evolution of the French Reverse Azimuth compass"
Can you kill a Marine by throwing sand and water on the wall and telling him to hit the beach?
"The Swiss Army Knife: so badass it's kept invaders out for centuries."
"Kony: Warlord or Africa's Most Successful Daycare Provider?"
"How ODESSA smuggled Grammar Nazis into Harvard."
"Bomber Harris vs. Curtis E. LeMay: Who Bounced more Rubble?"
"The Demise of the Third Reich: Eva Braun in command"
"Would Stalingrad have Ended Differently if it were fought in Minsk?"
What the Hell was Clausewitz Thinking?
"Women on the Front Lines: Do sandwiches made in combat taste better?"
"The Campaigns of George Washington from the Perspective of his Horse."
What Did Pyle do to the Gunny’s Beloved Corps?
"Iraq 2003: The U.S. invasion as seen by an Iraqi from behind a goat"
Seafood Recipes from the Galley of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
"Why the book written by our Capstone Advisor sells for only $2.50 on Amazon?"
"Gettysburg: new insight from my dad's uncle's father's cousin's greatgrand father's brother's experiences during the fighting on Culp's Hill
"Schultz: He knew a lot more than he let on."
Would Custer have survived if he had deployed F-Troop on his flank?
Did the French plant roadside trees so Germans could march in the shade?
Powdered wigs: Regulation or Continental Army Relaxed Grooming Standards?
Can you really hang out Laundry on the Siegfried Line?
If you run from a Sniper, will you really die Tired?
A couple were sanitized.... but it was still great!
Cheers, Sirhr
Nothing like a pair of quality leather boots. Been wearing White's boots for many years now and my everyday work boots several of which have been rebuilt several times.
And you guys made fun of me when I tried some on my Egg and Bacon Sammich...
This is very accurate!
Sirhr
Well mine is Liverius. @akmike47, Someguystaintius doesn’t really roll off the tongue but maybe we can shorten it to Sam
Those
look a lot like Nick’s Boots. Totally worth the cheddar.
I totally need that "you know you can't afford that" wallet, but can't
find it on the interwebs...
find it on the interwebs...
Nice collection. I had a pair in Montana that had little spikes coming out of the soles. Corks IIRC. You could really stick to a tree. Now I find RedWings are enough. The made in America ones are great, comfortable the day you put them on.
And, not a soul in sight
Nick’s, White’s, Wesco and JK are the big players in “PNW boots”.
Whites and Wesco by far the oldest. Wesco has an aprox 14 month waiting list
. JK was started by an immigrant who absolutely loves the USA. Heritage collection Red Wings are really nice boots and affordable. Machine made but great quality.
