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"I had to broil the goose breast in my my oven...

John"

John, goose meat is sky carp. Not fit for freezing and certainly not fit for this man's consumption!

I did charcoal beef steaks some time back on New Year's Eve at -22f right here in Iowa. Me and my bride have done so for the last 44 years. It has never been "too cold"

TL

Nothing wrong with tea, when is served boiling anyway!

Back in the 80's, the regiment I was in, the Royal Welch, celibrated 300 years of continious unbroken service with a series of parades at Powis Castle.

We had guest of honour and troops from affiliated Regiments from various parts of the world but the undoubted highlight was a Drill Display Team from the USMC.

I don't recall how many came over, but with the senior Officers, avarious hangers on, and the actual Drill Team, it must have been 30 or 40 Marines.

IIRC they were over for about 10 days, and had a great time. Most of the team were young Marines based at Arlington (sp?) and were lads of about 19, or 20, farm boys from the mid West. For most, this was the first time outside of the US, and they were still a little "green"..

First night they got off we took a bunch of them around the local pubs and got them well and truely hammered on the various Real Ales and micro brews...The next day, when he saw them, I gather their Gunny was far from happy with them or us!

I think they were pretty much grounded after that, until after the final parade when we had a Regimental dinner and they were our guests..I don't think they paid for a drink all evening and I think they thought they been caught up in a riot at one stage (mess rugby) but when the figured what was going on, they had the good spirits to enter a "team" and try to "lose" as well...Good bunch of guys and *very* talented at what they did..

Regards,

Peter

I like a cup of tea in colder weather especially in the early afternoon. Had one today when I got home. It was real tea properly brewed in a real Brown Betty.




Upsetting the Gunny is what I lived for but then I was a sailor.

It's been in single digits here in RI for a while now. The only good thing is it makes the snow light and powdery and easier to shovel. It is cold enough, however to render snow melt useless, unless you buy the little packing foam peanuts for $10 a bottle. Every day it doesn't snow and I don't have to go out and shovel is a good Winter day here.

I was too cold to hunt last week after about 4 hours in my stand. It was in the single digits and I had the wind blowing snow in my face. I had four deer milling around about 40 to 75 yards in front of me. I didn't want to climb down, but the cold air was hurting my nose. I was buried in layers, had a scent lock mask over my nose and a balaclava but my sinuses were aching. I had to go in. That doesn't happen too often. It's cold.

You mean...like...real fire? How uncivilized.

I've never had a beer sit still that long.

The electricity was sluggish in the lines this morning. It took a while for the lights to turn on......

20 above zero when i left home this morning.

shoulda went fishing instead of work.

Words to live by...