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Post by HiTemp on Nov 21, 2018 18:34:51 GMT -7
Hope you and your family have a safe and great (and warm) holiday. Having just three of us this year because I just got back from visiting two of my kids, one in Norfolk, the other in Maryland. Day we left MD for home it was cold and spitting rain, plus there was this white fluffy stuff accumulating on the ground. They can have that stuff. Bought a new truck this year, so this was the first time I put any more than a few cross-town miles on it. Thousand miles up, thousand miles back.
The wife went to the grocery the other day to pick up a bird. They were having a special, a turkey for $5 if you spent $35 or more. We were looking for something around 12 lbs for us, and she told me "I got one that was just over 11lbs because that's the biggest I could find. They had a lot to pick from but they were all just over 11 lbs." It's been thawing in the fridge for a couple days and today I pulled it out to brine it overnight. It's not just over 11 lbs.. what she read as the weight - 11.14 LB was actually the date it packaged - 11.14.18. The actual weight was 24.1 lbs! So I guess I'll be eating turkey for the next two weeks. But hey, for 5 bucks why not?
Anyway, have a great Thanksgiving!
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Nov 24, 2018 12:24:02 GMT -7
Thanks, hope yours was good. I guess better to be sick of eating turkey than eat it all and no left overs, I hate that. Worked out I was traveling a lot this week despite being home for thanksgiving, the day before I had run to run to CO, hunkered down to get overstuffed on thanksgiving. But despite trying really hard not to get anywhere close to town on black Friday, ended up having to go to Sidney NE, and was dumb enough to swing into Cabelas. Actually was not that bad, they had what looked like a tarmac apron guide without the lighted batons guiding people into check out lanes, and I must have missed most of the crowd anyway becasue I arrived too late for all the door buster stuff. Too bad being absorbed by Bass pro ruined it though, its Bass pro with a different name, no more bargain cave, hardly any used guns and the "bargain" priced stuff is expensive now. Anyway weather cooperated, mom and Kayla both made it in and out without issue, and held off our reminder its winter until today when we get 35 degrees and 3/4"rain/snow mix so far. But I might just about take that rather than the 50mph wind we had the last day or 2. Still miss summer though.
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Post by HiTemp on Nov 24, 2018 17:57:17 GMT -7
Funny you should mention that about Cabellas. There are none near to me but I passed one on the interstate on the trip up north and it was just at the time we were about to change drivers and stop for a little walking break. I decided to check it out and my reaction was pretty much the same as yours... "What we have here is Bass Pro with a new name and more fishing gear aisles." Every once in a while BP has something at a decent price, but it mostly seems to be stuff you wouldn't normally buy. I was looking to pick up another .12 ga and they keep putting them on sale but it's always a model I don't want, like one with a pistol grip or one that won't chamber a 3" shell, or one with a goofy choke. Where the hell is the good ol' Mossy 500 without all the Rambo attachments in the sale? Nowhere to be found. In the warm weather I go through tee shirts like a man with a cold might go through a box of Kleenex. Happened to be in BP and saw their tees on sale for $4 each, so I picked up ten of them. I don't give a fig about their logo, I just want something to keep the sun off my back. After the second time through the laundry these shirts looked like a baby gorilla had been hanging on the front collar for a couple months. I put half a dozen of them in my rag bag out in the shop, and don't you know when I was doing a carb rebuild on my chainsaw this year these BP tee shirts weren't even good for wiping off the dirt and pitch, even when assisted by a bit or brake cleaner. What a POS shirt! I'd cut them in strips and try tying up my tomato plants with them but I don't want another disappointment out of them. Ha, don't get me started on BP. Glad you and your family had a nice holiday. I'm still looking at enough leftovers to last to mid January if I could find a way to keep the meat from spoiling. Put one whole breast in the vac sealer and froze it already, still have a ton of turkey left. Think I might get the wife a good fishing scale for the next time she's out to buy a turkey.
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Nov 24, 2018 19:55:54 GMT -7
Yeah Cabelas hasn't been all that great for the last couple years, but they did have their bargain cave, where in years past is where they dumped all their return items, sometimes at a pretty good discount, as well as a lot of gun parts etc they couldn't move fast enough. Oh well, the family wanted to keep it, but share holders wanted the 5 billion payoff, so chose to sell. Kind of hit Sidney NE hard. BP shut the corporate office and call center down and even though they moved a few back to Lincoln, it was an immediately 350 jobs cut with the call center in a town of about 7000, and all told hired around 2000 people, though many are staying so far, there was a round of buyouts and early retirement packages etc, and then they started cutting the overhead in management, last I heard was another couple hundred jobs gone. Pretty much the horror story when corporations get merged. No one knows what they are going to do with the store. But Sidney is isolated along I-80, and that really is the only big thing going there. Making that just another Bass pro is not going to draw people out there. Anyway I suppose you can draw the line at turkey pudding etc, and just feed the dog.
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