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Rodent

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  1. I found this car listed for sale online, unless more than one Subaru dealer in Syracuse has one. It is an xDrive M4 Competition, so it is AWD, but not with great road clearance. It has already had 3 owners per CarFax. It has 15K miles (low), not 1500. That said, I worked at two Ford dealerships in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Being close to Tahoe, you guys would be surprised at what "toys" we received as trade ins on Eddie Bauer Explorers and Broncos because someone needed a "practical" snow vehicle to visit the million dollar+ cabin in the winter. More Porsches than you can shake a stick at, Corvettes, a near new 93 Mustang Cobra, and various other things that looked weird sitting next to previous daily rental Taurus and Tempos on the used car lot.
  2. Picky I can be when I wake up with a plethora of boogers.
  3. Over the river and through the woods is not where my grandmother lived.
  4. Get her recipe and/or have her teach you how to make them. You never know how long she will be around. My spouse's grandmother allegedly made the best pancakes ever, but her recipe was lost for 50+ years after she died. After quizzing the spouse and the SIL, I found a recipe online that they both agree is on point. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/42688/fluffy-canadian-pancakes/ Separating the eggs and beating the whites into almost a meringue makes them amazingly light and airy. They both remembered that she separated the eggs when I shared this recipe with them. It's weird to me that their grandmother cooked anything. Their Grandpa was an accountant / money launder for a couple of big name Hollywood types and the grandparents had live in help that did almost everything.
  5. I double the amount of lemon zest that the recipe calls for. We don't think they are lemony enough the way the recipe is written. YMMV.
  6. Not sure how you can stir Vallejo, Mission, or the other acrylics in the squeeze bottles, but go ahead and try. I for one am experimenting with these for brush painting small parts. My LHS carries them, so I will give them a shot, although I am not thrilled with them.
  7. Not dinner, but Sunday brunch. Lemon ricotta pancakes from scratch. fresh(ish) blueberries, butter and maple syrup. Fresh-squeezed orange juice from oranges that were hanging on the tree in the front yard about an hour before this photo.
  8. Simple Monday night dinner last night, LOL. Crab and ricotta ravioli with lemon zest and dill (homemade pasta) in a lemon-butter sauce with a warm spinach bacon salad and some Grocery Outlet brown & serve breadsticks. And a glass or two of California Chardonnay.
  9. We have a customer using a deprecated version of Firefox on a Win8 machine that can't figure out why PDFs in our product aren't working for him.
  10. I personally would prefer the 1970 as well because I prefer the 1:1 over the 1972. 1972 was the beginning of the end with the compression ratio dropped from 10.5 to 8.5:1. 1970-71 were the high water mark of the 340 to me. I am not a Mopar fan at all, but I do like and respect the 340. That said, more is better. Someone will buy these kits and I am glad they are bringing some of these kits back / reimagined.
  11. I would have to go back and look at the story I read yesterday, but for his guilty plea I believe he was given 150 community service hours related to the SoCal fires and made to pay restitution for the damage to the plane. I believe that amount is around $65k.
  12. 8)?, your ID says you are 21
  13. A $241k + vehicle on the freeway yesterday evening.
  14. Some versions of the AMT '66 Mustang coupe have something similar.
  15. I haven't heard anything regarding sentencing yet, just that he pleaded guilty. That saves the taxpayers untold dollars proving that he did it. He could still get time in federal prison and a pretty hefty fine. I was surprised to see how old he is. I (wrongfully) assumed he was some millennial looking for YouTube, X, FakeBook, etc. views.
  16. One of the most amazing dog poo-related things I have witnessed was in the neighborhood park. The human bagged a sizable Golden Retriever exhaust, tied the bag and handed it back to the dog. The owner pointed to the nearest trashcan, and the dog trotted over and disposed of the bag. I wish they were all trained to do that. Humans AND dogs, LOL.
  17. This arrived today from FleaPay. Sealed inside except for the glass and tires. Miraculously they didn't find each other in the box. It has been raining here and the shipping box was soggy to the point of almost coming apart when the post office delivered it, but the kit box was dry. I think $19.99 plus shipping was a deal. All the talk on here of the old Monogram Fords made me want one.
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