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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Papaw on December 31, 2012, 10:29:22 PM
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Hoping for a great year for all Tool Talk members and their families!
Let's make 2013 a banner year for old tool fools like us!
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Yes Happy New Years possums, I hope 2013 is healthy, wealthy and wise for you all.
Down here we have already had New Years Eve, I had a quiet one at home having a few very nice home brews.
Batz
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All the best to everyone in 2013!
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:) Have a Safe & HAPPY NEW YEAR!!, Hope 2013 is a great year for all.. See you Next Year!!
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HAPPY NEW YEAR AND i HOPE YOU ALL FIND THAT ONE TOOL YOU HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR. I CAME CLOSE THANKS TO mRCHUCK bob w.
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A healthy, prosperous, and happy New Year to all of us.
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Happy New Year everyone!! :-)
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Whoops !!! Almost missed this !
Happy New Year !!
Brian L.
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Happy New Year.........
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I hope everybody had their black eye'd peas, hog jowls, cabbage, and cornbread for luck! Happy New Year!
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Here's hoping for a good year for yard sales,estate sales auctions and all those other places where we find our treasures. Happy new year to all.
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This means my yearly allotment of rust starts all over again? Happy new Year
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Happy New year to all and thank all of you for the interesting information y'all have given. I have one goal in addition to my normal dailyy stuff and that is to learn at least one new thing each day. Well if I have learned nothing during my day I can always count on someone here to give me some NEW insight on MANY things. I thank y'all fer that.
Rich
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I hope everybody had their black eye'd peas, hog jowls, cabbage, and cornbread for luck! Happy New Year!
Oh Yeah and it was great. Going back for more before I hit the sack.
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I hope everybody had their black eye'd peas, hog jowls, cabbage, and cornbread for luck! Happy New Year!
Yep! Well, my recipe for Hoppin' John is a little different, but that's the stuff! Haven't missed making it for close to 50 years. Black eye peas, rice, a pound of bacon, an onion sliced and sauteed in a cube of butter, couple of dry red peppers and salt. My wife's a New Englander, and all the fat makes her eyes cross. I tried to explain that's for the ease of life, but she's still looking leery. Black eyes and greens is her background.
I almost struck out this year, though. New Years snuck up on me and I hadn't got the black eyes. I knew better than to look for them close by (knew lots of folks around here would be making up a batch. So I went to the Safeway store in a more Yankee neighborhood. There was a big empty space where the dried black eye peas used to be. One of the clerks looked in the back and said they were out, but they would have some *tomorrow.* I told him I had to be cooking them in a half hour, and he looked really perplexed. But I found some frozen black eyes and the day was saved.
Never used to have a problem finding black eyed peas, but this is the second time I've found the shelves of a store empty!
How many of us have this tradition? I always thought it was a Southern thing, but the Yankee store was empty...
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.............Never used to have a problem finding black eyed peas, but this is the second time I've found the shelves of a store empty!
Just a couple of plants and you still wouldn't :)
I assumed it was a southern thing myself; having grown up in the south and lived in the north.
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Just a couple of plants and you still wouldn't :)
I assumed it was a southern thing myself; having grown up in the south and lived in the north.
Yeah, but it' a little late to plant them.:-)
Well, the Central Valley was 60% one generation removed from the South back in 1960. My father's family has lived in North Carolina since around 1770, so I'm still thinking it's a southern tradition. But that's why I went to the Yankee neighborhood Safeway supermarket. They even have collard greens there now.
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Just a couple of plants and you still wouldn't :)
I assumed it was a southern thing myself; having grown up in the south and lived in the north.
Yeah, but it' a little late to plant them.:-)
Well, the Central Valley was 60% one generation removed from the South back in 1960. My father's family has lived in North Carolina since around 1770, so I'm still thinking it's a southern tradition. But that's why I went to the Yankee neighborhood Safeway supermarket. They even have collard greens there now.
We have Collards/greens in the garden NOW, and they're doing well....very well. Its my personal favorite green of all. As a note: both sides of my family tie back to roots in Anson County NC - 4 generations back in both cases. Maybe it's a NC thing :)
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We have Collards/greens in the garden NOW, and they're doing well....very well. Its my personal favorite green of all. As a note: both sides of my family tie back to roots in Anson County NC - 4 generations back in both cases. Maybe it's a NC thing :)
In and around Highpoint here (one of my favorite finds is an army issue WWII tool box made by a branch of the family) . The collards are doing fine in the raised bed -- my wife's favorite. Me, I'm partial to kale, but there isn't a green I don't like. They're all good with a bit of butter or vinegar.