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TimButterfield
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Happy Monday! Today is the chili and cornbread cook off at work. My LT Wright Frontier Valley did all the chopping, slicing, and dicing. It always tastes better at home when you can simmer it all day in a cast iron Dutch oven, but crock pots are pretty handy for taking it on the road. I did brown the ground beef, onions, and peppers in cast iron before combining everything in the crock pot so that will have to do.
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Same stuff on a new day still can make interesting pics
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My moment of realization of how good tea can be came several years ago when I stopped wringing out the bag in my cup. I battled tea stains on my teeth for close to two decades. One day I stumbled across an article explaining how wringing out the tea bag squeezes tannins from the plant material into the tea and makes it bitter. So I tried it - I stopped wringing out the bag. And man, the taste was great - I never knew tea could be that smooth. And a few weeks after my next dental cleaning, I noticed the stains had not returned - and several years later, they still haven't returned. Amazing two-for-one learning lesson!
Of course, I'm still tempted to wring out the bag every time - it just seems wrong to not get those few extra drops out. But I have to push that part of my OCD self out of the way and drop the bag in the trash. It's a daily struggle, I tell ya!
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Milk no sugar is known as a Julie Andrews.
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Happy Monday! Today is a Buck 293 Inertia - the Walmart exclusive version handle style. If this assisted-opener had a left-handed pocket clip, it would get a whole lot more pocket time - and maybe even *gasp* replace my Micarta 112 Slim Pro as my primary every day carry knife.
The weak point of this knife is that if the pivot bolt works loose, the ball detent on the safety won’t work and the knife could open in your pocket. I saw it happen to a guy - who was playing basketball - in jeans. Anyway. He noticed it and only got a relatively minor cut on a finger trying to get it out of his pocket. He was also a young man and the knife was his first ever assisted opener so I think he flipped it 1000 a day - accelerated lifecycle testing, for sure. So as long as you Locktite the pivot bolt and check it occasionally (and are right-handed), it’s a fantastic knife. Incidentally, an M-16 A2 front sight tool fits the pivot bolt perfectly.
The weak point of this knife is that if the pivot bolt works loose, the ball detent on the safety won’t work and the knife could open in your pocket. I saw it happen to a guy - who was playing basketball - in jeans. Anyway. He noticed it and only got a relatively minor cut on a finger trying to get it out of his pocket. He was also a young man and the knife was his first ever assisted opener so I think he flipped it 1000 a day - accelerated lifecycle testing, for sure. So as long as you Locktite the pivot bolt and check it occasionally (and are right-handed), it’s a fantastic knife. Incidentally, an M-16 A2 front sight tool fits the pivot bolt perfectly.
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