@BillBbriii I love coconut. Macaroons are my favorite coconut treat. Well a coconut donut doesn’t hurt either. Zero calories.
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Kurt Robl
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Thursday Bakeday. Easter prep. My favorite cake. Coconut. 🥥 Can't wait.
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@natrinicle @The_GayRedneck Freight Train or just Bulldozer size rn?
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@RoblKurt @The_GayRedneck You should also be careful when Sampson comes barreling through!
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@The_GayRedneck is unpacking some more of the most recent off-cast freebie sets and sorting them and that's not all and not even counting the complete kits he's also gotten for free...
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Today marks 47 trips around the sun! I went shopping for plants on my birthday, I must be getting older.. and gayer...🤣 Gym tomorrow...48 will be... more muscular...
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@DanaLeaB1 Some are absolute sweetheart babies but the statistics don't lie and I've seen the same! Not knowing this one I wasn't about to tempt fate! Already fell off a ladder yesterday, don't need Pitbull attack on my roster...
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I walked outside to load up the truck and was confronted with a pitbull this morning... Had a collar, seemed nice enough, but was starting to do the dog point position so I turned right around and went back inside to call animal control. Don't wanna shoot someone's pet so I figured I'd let them handle it...
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Got a carpet remnant at the hardware store... Sampson approves! There's still a whole lot outside cause it was ~8'x6' and the roll was ~12'x14'...
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Last week in Baltimore, Uber charged me $85 for a trip that usually costs $20. So today, I called Lyft and was picked up by a guy named Mike. He was driving a red F-150, clearly a work truck, full of tools and lumber...
I sat up front.
“How far to the airport,” I asked.
“Fifteen minutes,” he said. “You in a hurry?”
“Not really,” I said. “Are you?”
“Never.”
As we merged onto the road and settled into the slow lane, I asked Mike if he was a carpenter in real life.
“Among other things,” he said.
“Jack of all trades?”
“Well, I don’t know about that,” he said. A while ago, I was a plumber’s helper. Then I worked in the heating and air condition game.”
“How was that?,” I asked.
“Hot and cold,” he said.
I couldn’t tell if he was making a joke or not. His voice had a midwestern drawl with no expression on his face.
“After that, I started carpentry. Trim, then framing."
“You retired now?
“No. I build campers these days.”
“What kind of campers?” I asked.
“I build them small ones you can tow most anywhere. They call ‘em teardrop trailers. I build ‘em by hand, one at a time.”
“Yeah? How’s the quality,” I asked.
“Pretty good,” he said.
“Got a website?” I asked.
“Sure,” he said.
“What’s your website called?” I asked.
“Mike’s Pretty Good Campers.”
“Your company is called 'Mike’s Pretty Good Campers?'”
“I like to manage expectations,” said Mike.
"Under promise and over deliver?"
"That's the idea," said Mike.
"Is that what you were doing before you picked me up? Building a pretty good camper?”
“Yup. But I was frustrated. I don’t work when I’m frustrated. So, every now and then I step away.”
“And drive a stranger to the airport?” I said.
“Never too frustrated to drive.” said Mike. “Driving relaxes me. Besides, we ain’t strangers no more, are we?”
“No,” I said. “I suppose not.”
As we turned on Airport Road, I said, “So what’s the plan? Wait for another call? Or head back to the shop?”
“Ain’t decided yet. Guess I'll see how I feel in a few minutes.”
“Good plan,” I said. “By the way, if I like your website, do you care if I share it on Facebook?”
“Why do you want to do that?” he asked.
“I’ve got a few people who follow me on social media. Maybe some want a pretty good camper, custom made by a quasi-retired carpenter who drives for Lyft when he's frustrated?”
“Can’t hurt,” said Mike. “Once people see these things, they fall in love with ‘em. They got conventions all over the country for teardrop trailer owners. Thousands show up.”
As we pulled up to the airport, Mike asked me what carrier I was on.
“American,” I said. “Right here is fine.”
“Pre-check?” he asked.
“Yes,” I said.
We pulled up to the curb. I hopped out, as Mike dragged my bags out of the bed of his truck.
“You look familiar,” he said. “Have I driven you before?”
“I don’t think so,” I said. “I would have remembered. Thanks for the lift.”
“No problem,” he said. “Was the ride okay?”
"Pretty Good"
Source: Mike Rowe
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Thursday Bakeday. Malibu Rum cake with a white rum drizzle. Dug into the archives for this one. Recipe from Bacardi dating back to 1975. A classic and always a hit. Over a cup of rum. Tried with Malibu because it is my weakness.
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@natrinicle It’s surprising the amount these 2 door convertibles can hold. I did a full Costco run once, got outside to the car and said ”Oh shit.” Whelp, start on the passenger floorboard and work your way up. Plus the trunk.
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Tell me a Miata isn't the perfect grocery getter! $200 of groceries and $300 at the hardware store though Light did need to sit on my lap on the way back...
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@The_GayRedneck knows I love hummingbirds cause my Grandmother did.
The year that she died, a hummingbird flew in and out of my open door ~4x for ~60 seconds the day before my birthday. I managed to snag a picture of it doing this and now I've got a camera that's solar powered to feed them and catch their pictures!
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How many people does this affect?
A Brazilian! 🤣
Really though, not cool! 🤬
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Those fear-mongering about Iran turning into Iraq or Afghanistan are missing one crucial detail. Iraq and Afghanistan didn't have a Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi for all the factions to rally around. This is a fundamentally different situation, and the opposite of a forever war.
🇮🇷 Association of Iranian Royalists@IranRoyalists
Show this to anyone spreading regime propaganda calling Reza Pahlavi a dictator. This woman, Shirin Ebadi was vehemently ANTI-SHAH. Despite being one of Iran's first female judges, she joined Islamist & Marxist protesters to help topple the monarchy in 1979, after which the islamists demoted her and she left for a new life in the UK. When asked in 2023 what she lacked under the Shah that made her support the 1979 revolution, she replied: "Brain. We lacked brain." We refuse to accept her apology for what she did to Iran. We've criticised her quite harshly in the past too. But our #KingRezaPahlavi not only forgives her, he's put her in charge of the Transitional Justice Committee to build a better future for Iran. That's what real leadership looks like. Our king is uniting even the Iranians who opposed monarchy because he's not fighting for an ideology or for his own power. He's fighting for Iran. And that's why we, the people of Iran, are going to win this war.
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@The_GayRedneck This story is so bizarre, not the shopping kind either.
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Seeing as Hamas is just an Iranian proxy group, and Mojtaba Khamenei is gay, I'm pretty sure that makes him the Supreme Leader of Queers for Palestine 🤔💁🏼♂️
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Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei’s first interview since the big announcement. Why are you gay ? .....Show more
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