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Jammin’

Friday, September 11th, 2009
My new place happens to have a huge plum tree in the driveway. I actually had no idea what was growing on it until my mom visited one day and told me they we’re good Italian plums.  After a couple of hours on the orchard ladder I had a huge box of them ready for jam making.   I’ve never made jam before so some assistance would be required.  The folks came over for an evening of cutting, mincing, boiling, mixing and canning.  This all equates to a hell of a sticky mess but quite a bit of rewarding good jam.

Dirty-->Cleaning-->Clean

Clean--Choping to depit

Clean-->Choping to depit

Chopping-->Mincing

Mincing with the Cuisinart. This thing is incredible! Never thought I could get so excited about a kitchen appliance. Mince into small 1/4 raisin size bits.

Mincing with the Cuisinart. This thing is incredible! Never thought I could get so excited about a kitchen appliance. Mince into small 1/4 raisin size bits by tapping pulse mode.

5 1/2 cups of minced plums. Then add pectin (makes it jelly like), 1/4 cup of lemmon and 1/4 slice of butter. FYI the butter keeps it from foaming up.

5 1/2 cups of minced plums. Then add pectin (makes it jelly like), 1/4 cup of lemmon and 1/4" slice of butter. FYI the butter keeps it from foaming up.

Mix like hell til it boils. Dance if your dad.

Mix like hell til' it boils. Dance if your dad, or is it jamming?

Now add 8 1/2 cups of sugar. Thats about 1/3 of a bag. Thats a cubic shit-ton.

Now add 8 1/2 cups of sugar. That's about 1/3 of a bag. FYI that's a cubic shit-ton.

After mixing at a boil for 4 minites, poul into jars. Leave about an 1/8 at the top.

After mixing at a boil for 4 minites, poul into jars. Leave about an 1/8" at the top.

After filling clean the top off, put a lid on and a ring around it. Whammy-done!

Batch one done - they sit upside down overnight to seal.

All done - 50 jars later

Cheers! All done - 50 jars later

So what to name it? I was thinking Munsons Famous Jam Sauce. Perhaps I should make it Munsons Famous Italian Plum Jam Sauce as not to confuse people.

So what to name it? I was thinking "Munson's Famous Jam Sauce". Perhaps I should make it "Munson's Famous Italian Plum Jam Sauce" as not to confuse people.

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Hot Heater

Friday, August 7th, 2009

We just had our first stolen gun come into the shop. My dad was buying it from a guy on the east coast and when I ran the background it came back stolen.  Apparently it was reported stolen in Houston but the seller did not know that.  The seller said it passed a background check on the east coast and offered a full refund.  We are going to work on getting it back after the matter is cleared up.  A deputy came by to hold it in the meantime.

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Wet Cat

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

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500 Miles

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

So I just logged my 500th mile on my Nike+ System.  I’ve ran more in the last year and a half than the entire first 25 years of my life.  Never thought I’d be running so much but it is truly relaxing. 

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Pmag bonanza!

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

So I now have almost 600 magpul Pmags on hand.  I’ll be selling the to local PD’s as well as anyone else interested in a good magazine.  I ran one over with my truck and it lived.  The aluminum mag I ran over is unfortunately no longer with is:( 

I met some interesting people at the gun show.  By interesting I mean freaky, holy hell, yikes, creeper, get away from my booth pederass.  There we’re some pretty cool normal people as well.  The best was a thug wearing an Obama shirt.  I can only imagine what was being uttered under everybodys breath.

As a reward for working in the concrete expo center all weekend I hit the river on Monday.  It was a great day to be rowing.  

I get funny looks when I row naked

Mines like the one on the left, but without the motor, tower and radio. And mines paid for.

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March Madness = Clean Teeth!

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

I can’t say I follow basketball much. About a day before the NCAA basketball tourney started Barnese convinced me to submit a bracket. There we’re 34 people putting in brackets this year.  I looked on CBS Sports and ESPN and averaged all the analyst picks for the big games(final 4, championship, etc). The rest of the picks I guessed with brilliance like “ooo, Gonzaga is kinda close to Portland so they will go kinda far.”

Sooooo look what happened!!!

To celebrate, I made a visit to my dentist to get cleaned up.  It had been a long, long, long time so I got a bunch of stuff done.  Three longs in a row = 1 decade.  I got 2 fillings that fixed cracked teeth and then I got them all polished up.  I’ve never been so excited to have dental work done!

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Boise Hash House Harriers

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

My first hashing happened to be in Boise at the tail end of my trip out there. Hashing is running with a little drinking mixed in. And then a lot of drinking at the end. You follow flour stripes along the course and yell “On On” when you find a stripe so everyone can follow you. Eventually people get nicknames that are quite filthy and also quite funny.

Opening blessing for new hashers. They poured beer on our shoes and threw flour on us.

Opening blessing for new hashers. They poured beer on our shoes and threw flour on us.

On-On!

On-On!

Lots of different terrain

Lot's of different terrain

Newbie ritual...I hope my urinal was new when they started using it!

Newbie ritual...I hope my urinal was new when they started using it!

Naming ceremony with lots of dirty songs

Bjorns friend and fellow hasher Bo, AKA Hello Kitty

Bjorn's friend and fellow hasher Bo, AKA "Hello Kitty". The hash group put down 74 pitchers.

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Weird findings in the woods

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

I was out running at Tryon today when I came upon this odd sighting.  I have no clue what the truck is for, but I aplaud the forwardness of the individual that drives it.  No beating around the bush there.

 Edit: Googled “Pussy Wagon” and found out it was from Kill Bill: Volume 1 which I have not seen.  I have seen True Romance which was a great Tarantino film.

If you want to read about other weird findings in the woods click here.  This is an entire forum post dedicated to the odd things and experiences Oregonians have found in the woods.  At the time of this entry, there were 733 posts and over 75,000 hits.  I added 2 posts there and one involves finding a midget!

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Shamrock Run 2009

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

Dapper convinced me to wake up at 6 this morning to go run the shamrock 5k downtown.  We figured since it was only 5k, we would go out the night before.  We hit it pretty hard Saturday night and waking up was the exact opposite of delightful.

@ The Marathon "training"....

On the move!

I probably would have bolted that together...

Breakfast @ The Beaterville....The Matador is perfect!

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Row, row rowing my boat

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

So I’ve decided to try and work my upper body a little since I run a lot for my lower body.  Possible ideas were weight lifting, swimming, cutting/ chopping wood or rowing up the river.  So I picked rowing up the river in my duck boat.  I looked very impressive pulling down the boat ramp next to the $70,000 Master Craft putting in next to me.

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