Arcade Hunter

Forgot to post last night... The only thing I would do differently is add more leeks. I saved the leaves too in a ziplock bag and tossed them in the freezer. I read somewhere that you can make pesto from them. Anyone ever try that?

Happy birthday!

Glad you think this is so funny Steve B. Thanks and have a great evening

No..lol.. I really do respect everyone's opinion on here. For myself, I am taking this thing very seriously, and that is my opinion and my right to do so. I am not happy with some of the lack of complacency I see from the general public and businesses especially; businesses deemed essential and non essential. My mother is 92 and she has been stuck in the house since this thing started and I cant go over to her house to change a damn lightbulb for her.. if I had it (the covid) and passed it to someone else, especially a family member, found out later down the road, I wouldn't be able to deal with that. My grandson was born while the first covid was in MFS... I haven't met him yet and that is my choice and my families choice. Anyways... I vented again, this thing really sucks and it is important to stay the course until this thing is done. I hope everyone stays safe by being smart

Because money is more important than human life. Period.

Jeremy, We already do this where I work. There are sign in sheets that include a questionnaire as to any symptoms you may have had in the last two weeks. If you check out ok, you don a mask and enter. That is working as long as someone is monitoring the front door. Monday about 3:30 pm, the snack machine vender entered the building from the FRONT entrance after the receptionist had already left for the day. This guy apparently cant read and did not sign in or take his temp or perform any necessary SOP to enter the building . He wanders around and finally ends up at my desk asking me where the cafe is... no mask etc. Thats a breech for sure. My point is there is going to be a time where the guard is left down and the system works fine on paper but there are cracks where this slips through. This was the first time this guy has serviced our facility also. Stuff like this only works if there is 100% vigilance. Assuming he was positive, I now am self quarantining myself for another two weeks. Of course, management doesn't want the slip up to be known, so business as usual. Lets just pray covid is not in our place because our IV bags go all over the country.

No.. lol... I lived and hunted in Arcade... not too much to read into it. I miss hunting there though. Took a lot of deer there.

It was fantastic! I have a turkey breast in the freezer... I am thinking about smokin that bad boy. Ill post when I do this

Yes Chef... I found several patches of them the other day and had time to harvest a few after work today. My son in law has tons of them in the southern tier but he said they are just popping up. I was surprised to see them this big already myself.

work in progress.. more to follow: Making wild leek and mushroom sauce on Farfalle pasta... the sauce is reducing on the stove now... house smells great!

Have not see this in a long long time! I kinda wish I kept my old one... I had a lot of games for it

I have always wanted to can some venison.. A pressure cooker is on my list of essentials

This is tough diagnosing from the armchair but here a few thoughts I have as to track down what is going on. You will need some good diagnostic equipment and a scope and the wiring diagram for your truck. First, a full vehicle scan is needed. Making sure all modules that your truck has get scanned, I would be looking for "U" codes. U codes tell you that certain modules lost comms with the ecm. Fix that stuff first to get comms back. Check powers and grounds to any modules that are not communicating. My gut tells me something whacky is going on with the BCM. Powers and grounds need to be checked using a test light... a headlight bulb works good for a test light cause it will let about 4 amps through the circuit you are testing.. a multimeter will send you on a wild goose chase if you use one to test for powers and grounds cause it's not pushing any amps through the circuit. The cat inefficiency codes may or may not be the cats... I've seen stretched timing chains and belts throw cat codes because the engine is running too rich... Maybe that's why they went after the distributor. Have to look at fuel trims and see if the ecu is in control of fuel delivery... If the thing is running too rich all along and they replaced the cats and it throws the cat codes, the new cats may be destroyed. (bad news cause its not a cheap date) The tranny and the cat codes sound like different problems as long as they do not share the same powers and grounds. Downstream o2's may share that ground. This one is probably going to be a bitch to fix without the proper diagnostic equipment and some electrical expertise..

Sorry I missed this Jeremy... Happy belated birthday to you!

Decorated all the Easter cookies last night... Dinner was a frozen pizza (not worth a pic)

First smoke in my new used smoker.. flank steak with a mustard rub!

Put some fresh Polish sausage on the charcoal last night... side salad of tomato and cottage cheese

I found a few patches of them .. going back in the next few days to harvest some. Can you freeze the wild leeks for later use?

Same here.. Prayers sent

Looks awesome!

Sunday's project... smoked flank steak. Rubbed with a mustard rub I ran across on FB and smoked with pecan wood chips. Very tender and my first success with this smoker. Had to take a walk to Akron falls after dinner because I ate wayyy too much

Eggplant lasagna! The sauce is homemade the day before.. Sue's home canned tomatoes with my ground venison...

The death rate percentage for Erie County is skewed. We are not doing a lot of testing here. There are so many more people out and about walking around that are positive and have not been tested. Now I have to go back to work Monday morning and get put in the situation where I am not in control of who I am around and how close I am to them. 70 people in a small building, you can't stay socially distanced. It is physically impossible. Cant tell me these 70 people in that building dont go grocery shopping and hit up the Home Depot on their way home from work. Another thing that just pisses me off is I am to be working on a project that is not deemed live saving... the other side of our business is but they get away with doing this crap. Corporate greed at its finest, any loophole to make money. Sorry for the little rant... people are either too stupid to do the right thing or they are too smart at finding just the right loophole to fuel their greed.

Thanks everybody! I couldn't be happier except that I can't meet him until this pandemic is over but I will settle for pictures for now.

Nope... Thats mine... I have one in each vehicle for just such an emergency!