What a cluster fuck this is. Who’s tired of this? Just me?
Anyway I can go back to 2019?
I think we’re all tired of this brother. It’s time to move on. Get the vaccine, don’t get the vaccine. Let’s move on.
I didn’t even care about how we played against MSU. I was just happy to be back tailgating and with my Cane brethren.
I am exhausted as well. Quite a few of my friends have succumbed from Covid. It seems to me the Chinese should be offering massive reparations to persons throughout the world. Our best strategy is to maximize our survival chances by losing weight, eating less processed food, taking vitamins to enhance the immune system, getting more exercise, spending more time outdoors.
I am giving up all hard liquor in favor of red wine which is high in resveratrol, good for the heart. I am also limiting myself to two glasses a day. I have cut down to one cigar a day. I love cigars and spend more than one thousand dollars a month on them.
It’s crabbing season in the Mobile/Tensaw Delta. There are trillions of crabs in the river this time of year. If you ever had to dispose of a dead body, this would be the place to do it. Just drop a chicken leg over the side of the pontoon boat, and in a matter of seconds you’ll have a crab attacking it. Slowly draw up the line, and net the crab. In two hours, I ordinarily catch about forty crabs, huge ones, some ten inches from point to point. I put the crabs in an ice chest. The ice paralyses them. So you pick them up by their flipper and couple legs, put your thumb under the point of the shell, and wrench the shell off the crab. Scrape out the lungs, sometimes called the Deadman’s fingers, with a knife, and blast all the yellow crap out with a hose nosel leaving only the meat. The yokels love to eat the yellow stuff which is hepatic tissue, but I find it disgusting. Into the steamer go the crabs, layer after layer, each layer sprinkled with Old Bay. Steam them just short of twenty minutes in beer, and you have a king’s feast. It’s a lot of work picking the meat out of a crab, but it is worth it. Maryland style crabs are the best.
A few weeks ago, my friend named Beef Stew shot a gar with his bow. It was about six feet long and weighed about 75 lbs. Gars are actually good eating. To clean the gar you use tin snips to cut straight up the back. Gars have very tough hides, so it’s quite a task cutting them open. Once you get them open, the meat along the back is soft and pure white. We scoop out the meat, add cornmeal, jalapenos, and cheese and press them into gar balls. We deep fry them like hushpuppies,and voila you have a real Southern treat. We ate gar balls together with squirrel dumplings. If you’ve never eaten a squirrel, they taste much like rabbit. They’re pretty good.
No moonshine for me on this trip. I brought a nice bottle of Spanish wine. Spanish reds have the highest concentration of reservatrol. So nice at the camp. I have no television. My phone goes on airplane mode, and I have a stack of books to read. Living down on the bayou is great.
Sounds like bikki’s already had more than his 2 glasses of wine to me.
For the life of me I have never heard of gar, but it was interesting looking them up.
Bikki, no one does red wine better than California. And forget about Napa. Get your wine from Paso Robles and you’ll never look back.
I shall try Paso Robles. If I don’t like it I’ll put you on my waterboarding schedule along with Djrion.
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Bikki always sounds like he has had more than two glasses of wine. Whine with cheese… I love that he thinks people read his posts when every single post is filled with the same message of bigotry and hatred.
Oregon Pinot > Cali Red btw
Bikki is making me hungry talking about all those crabs. Sounds awesome.
I didn’t realize gar was good eating. They’re ugly scary looking Fers.
Always look for Oregon and to a lesser extent, Wash State Pinot Noir
NW Pinot is pretty good, but it hasn’t beaten Paso in my opinion, altho I’ve probably tried more Washington than Oregon. Really the whole west coast dominates the US.
I’ll make it a point to pick up a Willamette Valley Pinot. You guys should try one from Santa Rita Hills or Lompoc, of all places. I do like Pinots but also go with Syrahs, Zins, and Cabs.
There is no where earth producing more and better wines than California. There are thousands of twenty dollar bottles that will knock your socks off. Spain, France, and Italy have great wines, but nothing on the order of those of the Golden State.
Taking 305’s advice at lunch, I ordered a bottle of Double Black Red Zinfandel from Paso Robles. It was only $18. It was not only good, but wonderful. I drank more than two glasses, and had Lisa not stopped me, I was about to buy a second bottle. I’m not a wine expert, but I know instantly what I like. Actually, I was unfamiliar with the Paso Robles region. Next time I’m in California, I may take their wine tour.
Thanks 305, for the recommendation. I’d be living in California were it not for taxation. It’s a beautiful state.
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You put me to the test quickly! Happy to hear you enjoyed it and I won’t be on your waterboarding schedule.
Paso Robles is about a 4 hour drive from me. Driving down the dirt roads and doing tastings at the wineries is top notch. I’ve never done Napa, but I hear it’s overpriced, with $40 tastings. Paso is quaint and will only set you back $10, and there’s a good chance the wine is superior. (Some places are getting a little more fancy/pricey these days, but then you can slum it in Lompoc as an alternative.)
Paso also has a nice downtown strip with a large park square. It’s a small town so there’s not a lot there, but it’s nice for a visit. I’ve considered moving to Paso but it gets too hot in the summers. A better location would be closer to the coast, say San Luis Obispo. Cool weather but I’m not convinced that city has any character.
Am I doing a good job with my bikki-like rambling?
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You’re doing a splendid job, 305. You are fast approaching curmudgeon status. Forgive me for threatening to waterboard you.
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That’s nice of you to apologize bikki. But it was still funny. 
One thing we haven’t discussed is whether persons who have had Covid and recovered should accede to being vaccinated. IMO, the answer is emphatically NO. People who contract Covid under 70 years of age survive the illness at almost a 100% rate. Those beyond 70 years of age have a 95% recovery rate. Why in the world would any sane human take the vaccine (I guess I experienced a bout with insanity) when the shot does not prevent you from getting Covid and may cause nightmarish side effects in the future.
From what I’ve seen thus far is that those who get COVID are not recommended for vaccines for 2-3 months after they recover - as they obviously have antibodies.
As for nightmarish side effects - again - few and far between - and it’s possible that someone who got COVID and had a really tough time with it may be motivated to get the vaccine to potentially keep from getting it - or - if they did - prevent severe disease.
Willamette is an excellent region for sure.
If I may make a suggestion though, having part of my daughters baby shower in Dundee:
Sokol Blosser
Their less expensive are always great and their higher expense are fantastic. Great vineyard.
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And unless you are in a risk group…you are 99.8ish
That doesn’t qualify as “few and far between”?
Or higher lol
So yay! Thank god for horse dewormer!
I’ve had it twice.
March 2020 after being face to face with someone that nearly died(vent for 1 month) on a trip. I was really sick for 3 weeks and weak for 3 months.
Pfizer March/April 2021
August 2021 after traveling to PR then Florida. Was sick for 3-4 days and weak for 1-1.5 months.
Both times my heart and lungs got hit pretty hard.
I’m not pro vaccine or con vaccine. What I will say, everything the vaccine does to you the virus does to you and the virus likely does it much worse. I hope none of you get it and I hope these potential drugs work.
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