Sunday Morning Smoke

Good morning , it is Sunday FEBUARY 3,2008, the Groundhog saw his shadow yesterday in Punxatuanny Pa & we are all set for 6 more weeks of winter , well thats thew way it goes, but if the groundhog dosent see his shadow we are in for 6 more weeks of winter so I have no idea why we even worry about what the groundhog has to say, , its just an excuse to have a party, well I have learned over the years, I dont need an excuse to have a pasty, , I celebrate LIFE every day , when its all over , & we all meet God face to face do you want to be in a pristene body still with the wrapping on , or in a worn out body yelling Man what a Ride , well I plan on the later, when I go , I will be all used up, , lets face it , we are here to Enjoy our life, so getb out there & enjoy!!!!!,
busy few day at the shop, ,,Tuesday was a whole other story, the worst day since we opened , it was cold & rainy & we had a great monday , so I guess the people just stayed home , warm & dry, It was a gppd week overall , we didnt hit our numbers from last jan . but we were doarn close , & if we have a good first qtr. I might ask the boss for a 5 buck a week raise hahaha , right now I get a nice fresh 20 bucks a week , well I think I might want 25 a week from here on out hahahaha , lets face it prices are going up on food gas & the cigars havent kept pace with the cost of doing business, well i might have to start charging for coffee at the shop, or just get washable cups, the way we go through a case of cups is crazy, I have my Cuesta Rae travel mug that I use all the time , a few other regulars have there own mugs but I am going through a sleeve of cups a day, I dont count the pots of coffee anymore , dammmm I think some one might be steeling the cups hahahahaha , maybe I should just stop at the local coffee shop & get cups from them , they give me the cups for free & I dont charge them to advertise in my store ! hummmmm I wonder if that wiull work, but my coffee is better than there coffee hahahaha , now I dont make capachino or lateys or any of the disigner drinks, JUST Coffee , & some times I will add a few extra scoops of dark roast coffee & make a pot of espresso strength coffee, yea baby that will put a slide & glide to your walk !
when I got up early this morning everything was covered in a sheet of ice , it was just short of spacutular , but now the sun is out & the sky is blue & the frost is gone from everything & it is looking like a regular winter day , little patches of snow are in the fiels & at the end of the drive way , but the walks are all clear as well as the roads,
I got the estamate of the deer damage to barbs car, 1800 bucks & one dead doe, thank GOD the air bags didnt go off, might have totaled her Contour , my Sable was in the shop & I was driver her car, , small but comfortable compaired to my sable, but I like the little beast , with a V6 that thing has more get up & go than my car for sure , hers might be a little older, than mine, but it has about half the milage on it , thew big draw back to her car, no cup holders or big enough ashtray, I have a BIG ashtry in the sable, it fits right in the cup holder & holds a lot of cigar ashes & butts , the console gets a lot of ash that misses the ashtray hahaha , hey its MY car & it looks like a car that a smoker would own, the drivers seat has a few burn marks in it the shifter is also got a few "battle scars" on it as well as the head liner & sunroof, I dont smoke in her car just no place to put my coffee cup & the ashtray is tiny, so I hold my coffee & drive , just dont have the cordination to do it all any more, I remember when I drove a stick shift with out a cup holder, drank coffee on my way to work, tied my neck tie, ate a donut & smoked a cigar & never missed a shift on the way !, but now I have grown old & soft, ( in more ways than one hahaha )
I need that cup holder, I need the BIG ashtray, I need a sunroof to vent the smoke , her car has a sunroof , but it just dosent have the feel on my car 7 it smells like a ladys car, not a cigar smokers car, she cleans her car all the time, mine gets washed when it rains ! hahaha
The Grandsons have been busy all week, there was a science fair this past week 7 the older one entered some plants that he wattered with coke, sprite & other soift drinks & a control group he did with just water & mulch , the plants that did the best were the ones with a steady diet of BEER, , after it had been filtered through his fathers kidneys hahahahaha ( this one was not in the control group) , but in a seperate box in the basement in the workshop awy from all the outer plants Hummmm I just wonder why he never came up stairs to use the bathroom , hahahahaha , report cards hit the mailbox this week, both did great , , all A's but for one B , the older grandson is getting bored & just didnt pay attention , so he is thinking of picking up a cyber class to stay sharp , dammmmmm I have no idea where they get ther smarts, sure wasnt from ME hahahahaha , spoeaking of Smarts, my daughter just got finished at Duquesne Univ, 3.87 GPA , MagnaCum Laudy , & the best part about this diploma, I didnt pay a cent for it, Up front anyhow, she supported herself with help from her husbandof course, & worked a full time job& still hit the books to graduate at the top of her class, , it is a big difference going to school as an adult, that a teen ager, now you all ready know how may beers it takes till you Barf , no reason to try & beat the old record when you know you have a husband & kids at home that will expect you to be ready no matter how hard you "studdyed " last night ! , ahhhh yes I remember that time of my life , studdying, hummmmm , how many beers per chapter was A tale of 2 Citys ? & back then Beer was just that BEER, no lite beer, no flavored coolers, JUST BEER , the way the German purity laws tell you, BEER, is WATER , Barley , & hops , dont be sticking Coryander in my beer or lemon grass, let alone fruit, like who wants a lime stuck in the neck of a corona ? come on , if you want to drink some thing with a lime in it have a daquari or a gin & tonic, dont put a lime in my beer thatn you ! , I love lime in a pie or in a mixed drink when I have one ( which are few & far between ) if there is no scotch or coffee I will have iced tea or water , no reason to confuse my taste buds but tossing in a glass of Coke or rootbeer hahahaha
since its Sunday & if I want to keep PEACE in the house I have a hunk of Chuck roast getting ready to be creamated , if thats what she wants , that what she gets , I give up trying to get her to eat rare beef, & a chuck needs to be slow cooed & it has a great flavor & makes some of the best gravy I have ever had or made , I just wish the markets sold the 7 bone chuck again, it had a better flavor than the boneless cuts that are being sold now, , & I BUY a shank to get the bone to cook with the meat to add the flavor, the old butcher shops would give you a pile of bones, now they charge you for them, dammmmmm what ever happened to this countrys eating habbits, , I used to be able to buy PURE lard in the grocery store, now I need to order it 3 weeks in advance , you need LARD to make pie crust & REAL Donuts need to be cooked in LARD, not peanut oil , dammmm Hippy do gooders, vegans beware I am a MEAT EATER, T REX of the modern worldI am at the top of the food chain , ( unless I run into a grizly of the dreaded great white shark) hahahaha , but as a Human I eat meat , veggies & grains of all sorts, some natural, some Fermented & distilled to the purest essence of the grain ! hahahaha , I enjoy a fine cigar a few times a day & indulge in a bit of high risk when I eat raw tuna, , shrimp ,salmon, & beef, the way to cook coby beef is slice it thin & let the heat of your mouth cook it ! hahahahaha , now I do cook my pork chicken other game animals but some things are just better in there natural state, kind like P-$$y , you dont want that cooked before you eat it ! hahaha , but I digress & get a little gross, but dammmm that what we are here for , TO LIVE LIFE to its Fullest & if you never get anything from reading my posts you will now that I love being alive & living life to the fullest I can handle, with out making the wife mad, well I almost never cross the line hahahaha !!!

lat night my flag light & walkway lights were not on the ground fault had tripped & since it was cold & I didnt want to mess with the electric in the wet & cold I just unpluged everything but the flag light , , I didnt want to take down the flag, so today I will be going out with the circut tester & find out why I was poppong the GROUND FAULT, , dammmmm that going to take away @$$ time in the Qtr.Deck, well the heat is on the Kona is almost gone & I have a pot of Dark roast Italian coffee ground verry fine , that I will dump in the press pot & pour through a filter, as I dont think the press in the pot will catch the fine particals of coffee, & I just dont like to drink the grounds , I chew enough coffee beans all ready, dont need water loged bits in my cup !
I have a few new cigars to try today, we got all 19 different facings of the Altadis Cabnet selection, 5 different Por Langera, 5 different Upmans & Montes & 4 R&J , dammmm 19 new cigars to smoke, that might take all week hahahahaha maybe 3 days anyhow, I am starting with the coronas & working up to the BIG SOB'S , still havent found a better morning smoke than the Don Carlos #3 , I think I like it better than the Contraband Monte corona I had yesterday , not that I would ever comllain about a contraband Monte or anything like that, but I have a feeling the greatness is in the reputation, I wonder how many of us cold do a Blindfolded taste teast, not just unbanded cigars but an actual bling fold, so you cant see the construction, the color , the cap or the ash, a truely BLIND taste test & pick out the contraband Monte or R&J from a great excepped cigar from the Padron anniv. line or an Opus , Hummmm I wonder, I would be willing to try this, But the "Buddys " I got will keep the contraband snmpoke & toss in a Swisher or a blunt ! hahahaha , I just dont trust them if I cant see them hahahaha
, well its about time for me to head out to the QTR.DECK, , OH yea today is superbowl sunday, I dont think I will be anyplce near a TV today , I dont think I will miss much ! , just hope I have the numbers on the football pool !!!!! Enjoy, Vince

Good morning it is Sunday 10 Feb, 2008, it has been a busy week here in da Burgh, our shipment of "Cabnet selections" from Altadis was delivered & so were 16 cases of Humidors, an after Christmas blow out of the warehouse so I loaded up just in time for fathersday !!! , I took my wifes car to the body shop (after hitting a deer last week ) & got it back Saturday, well it is going back on Monday, they missed a bit of paint , , not that a blind person wasnt able to see this, the car is Blue, they put on a used door & rocker cover from a white car , BIG white stripe on the bottom of the door & top of the rocker panel cover , , the chin spoiler is hanging down on one side & the door latch on the door that was replaced still had the deer fur jamed in it , , if your going to use the same handle , the lest you could do was clean it up a bit , dammmmmm , verry disapointed in the quality of the work, 1800 bucks wort of dead deer , Oh well you all knowe the old saying , if it has tires or tits it will give you trouble , so it has tires & the owner has the tits , I got stuck with all the dealings with the shop. LUCKY ME.
we had a white out this morning 45 MPH winds with snow, wasnt able to see the trees across the street , it was solid whits, now the sun is out the winds have subsidded a bit & the new blanket of snow is covering everything & the view out my window is beautyful, I have all ready went out & turned on the heat in the Qtr.Deck, it was 35 F in side this morning, I hope it is about 65 by the time I am ready to go out for the afternoon cigar, didnt get a morning one in , just slept in till after 10am dammm I needed that, today will be a Laugavulin day in the qtrdeck, , it would be a laphroaig day but I dont have any , drank it all friday night at the shop, , so today the coffee will be the end of the kona & the start of the Black silk a dammm tasty product from Folgers of all places, i had some at the supermarket one day this past week & I bought it , dammmm tasty & smooth, a "sliky" feel on the mouth , I have been roasting my own for some time & this is a real find IMHO, , I like it , but dont go by my taste buds , I like ketchup on a hotdog some times ! , YES I know MUSTARD is the propper condiment on a dog , but I dare to be different hahahaha
Since it is Sunday & the Boss wants her Hunk of beef , I have a chuck roast readt to go in the cast iron pot & get tender , I was going to add some tomato sauce , but then I will need to make a mess making sauce first, I dont think I want to get that busy in the kitchen so it will be in a beef stock & the potatos & onions & carrots with a little celery will be the sides , dammmm it is getting boreing here on Sundays , BUT thats what she wants, & BY GOD THATS WHAT SHE GETS , keep peace to keep PIECE hahahaha
My daughter got a new Mazda SUV , traded in the van , now she is a some what happy camper, mom in a mini van no more , now she is MOM in a 4wd SUV gas guzzler , hey all I know is with her 2 kids his 2 kids the 6 of them need a limoto get arround hahaha .

went to the eye doc again, got a steroid injection in the right eyeball, dammmmm thats freeky this is the 3rd or 4th time I have gotten this, , but it is seaming to help with the vision a bit, , a bit PAINFULL but better than Brail ! & to add to the mix I did go to the regular MD , & dammmmmmmmm over the holidays I went from 220 to 233 , 13 pounds of JUNK food showed up dammmmmm better stop this before I end up back where I started at 417, , dammmmmmm I thought I was cured of the over eating but I think it might not be true, I think it is more like a guy from AA having a beer or 2 instead of a bottle of gin, sooner or later the old habbit returns, so today, NO MORE Chocolate , dammmmm thats going to be tuff, I was never a sweet eater the deserts didnt excite me as much as having a second porterhouse did , but now the sweet tooth has been awakened & I am in deep $hit , chocolate covered nuts are my down fall !


well its almost noon & I need to get in the kitchen & start the hunk of beef for the boss ! Enjoy, Vince

mustard on a burger, only if its BROWN, , the ONLY thing I use yellow mustard with is a develed egg, other than that Yellow mustard has no place in any of my food, , I am not a big dejoun fan , I like Spicy Brown mustard by Hinze, of course, gotta be a brugh company & as far as I know its the only game in town, I do like a dipping sweet mustard Horelockers , its great on a pretzel , it has a mouth feel like it has been thickened with corn starch , I dont know if it has or hasent, it is think & shinny like a glassey or jelly , , about the only thing I dont like on a dog is mayo, thats just sick ! , How ever mayo on Bologna with lettuce & tomato , is OK as long as the bread is something other than white bread like wonder bread, dammmm thats stuff is just nasty , I want bread I can chew ! , enjoy, Vince

Joes & the horelockers mustard, I saw the hose radish for the shrimp !!!

Just came in from the Qtr.Deck dammmmmmmmm its COLD out 40MPH winds & an 11 below zero wind chill, the windows in the Qtr.deck are leaking like a sive, there is snow on the floor from the exaust vent !, way past time to bring in the Brass monkey hahahaha
Today would have been a great day for soup , but the boss wanted a hunk of beef so thats what she got, , it was tasty & tender , but BORING , I gotta get her to enjoy some thing else, but it is easy, just pop it in the oven & let the cast iron pot do all the work,
maybe she will try a hunk of roast pork next week ! hahaha , or even Chicken, I have a few recipes for chicken hahahahaha , yea like I need a recipe hahahah, well what ever she wants thats what she will get,
I have to pick up the pain inn the @$$ daughter at 8:30 Monday morning, she is getting the remote starter installed in her new SUV, , No idea why she did nt get it done before she picked it up !, well I need to get her, then go back to the body shop with my wifes car, as they did a piss pore job on it , take her back to pick up her car when its finished & then I get to go to work & stare at the walls , I bet we have a VERRRRRY slow day on Monday, no one will be out and about, the low tonight is ZERO with a wind chill of twenty below, I dont even want to think about going out in the morning dammmmmm it will be COLD , long johns for sure,
well thats about all I have for the update , keep you hands & feet warm watch out for frost bite , & all you guys in the Bahamas well just KMA hahahaha Enjoy, Vince

good morning it is Sunday ,17 Feb,2008, just a few days past Valintines day & I still have a slight sugar rush hahahaha , My wife got a new large type Bible from me & I got a box of Don pepin Garcia Cigars from her, No chocolate this year Yea like we both need it hahahaha , we have a few inches of snow on the ground right now but it is raining & the high today is in the low 50's....... just like the burgh, the weather is never what it should be , , why cant it get cold in December , stay cold till the end of Feb. & then warm up , , get all the snow for the season in the first few weeks & then it stays on the ground till the spring thaw, none of this melting & refreezing, all it can do is make life miserable for the road crews , the salt gets into the bridge decks & supports & starts them rusting before they should, , the water gets in the surface of the road , freezes & breaks up the asphalt & the dammmm salt eats the cement, & the guys who build the roads know the weather is going to chew up the job, so they build it fast & cheep so that they can get the repair contract next year to fix what they just built, ahhhh yes politics in action, , John smith is the political big shot, Joe smith is the contractor bidding against bob smith & dan smith ( all cousins) so no matter who gets the job, the smith family gets a kick back & we the tax payers get to pay for it all. Capitalisum at it best ! , the only problem I have with it , I'm not related to the smiths ! hahahaha
well enough of the soap box BS lets get back to the Sunday Morning smoke , Lat Friday night we had a Playboy cigar tasting at King Beaver Cigars , the place was packed , a good bit of Glenlivette , Spayburn & Jhonny walker Black was consumed as well as a lot of cigars & 2 cases of beer , one Sam Adamas & one Coors Gold , I didnt have any beer at all but its been so long since I had a Coors , or a sam Adamas, I dont know what I would have had, , , , Just cant do the carbonation anymore , a few sips & I am FULL, well that will never work, so I just stay away from the beer, , the local brew pub closed when I stopping drinking beer , I didnt realize I was keeping it open hahahahaha

BIG menu change today , NO BEEF for the boss today, I have a hunk of PORK to cook today , it will get a quick dip in the hot oil to crisp the out side & them low & slow in the oven with some dry & fresh fruits & a little oniona little home made BBQ sauce might just get made today if I have the time hahahaha , I will be heading out to the Qtr.deck to turn on a little heat , even with a high of 50 thats just a little cool to be sitting i short sleves & enjoying a cigar , so a little heat will be welcome today .
I have no other plans for today the boys are spending the weekend with there dad in West Va . doing Lord knows what , to cold to go fishing to warm to go sled riding, but I am sure they will find some sort of problems to get in to , no different if they were here with me, WE would find something to get into to tick off there mother or grandmother, hey thats what we are here to do raise the kids like we were raised , having grandsons is the reward for not killing our kids when they were young ! , I loved hanging out with my grandparents when I was young& now that I am the grandfather & find the same peace & harmony I did when I was a kid, well I guess I still am a kid, just one with a drivers licence & the cash flow to buy my own cigars & whisky,,,, dammmmm thats scarry, my wife trusts me to take her grandsons out, yea they are my grandsons also but you cant tell her that ! she is as protective as a mother lion with her cubs & of course she will keep telling our daughter she is raising them kids all wrong ! hahahaha

well the Boss has awakened from her buity sleep & is wondering why I dont have breakfast started so I guess I better get off the computer & start making the stove my priority , bacon & eggs sound ok to me , but she wants french toast so it will be french toast & bacon , warm maple syrup & fresh fruit & the first pot will be Kona the second will be a pot of FOLDGERS Black Silk , I have no idea why but I like that stuff with a cigar so when I hit the Qtr.Deck I will have my Sunday morning Don Carlos #3 , a cup of kona & the rest of the day will be the Black silk, , who knows how long this one will last , if I realllllly get too liking it the manufactuering company will stop production of it , or my taste buds will change or just get tired of it , then it will go on sale but I dont want it anymore, but isnt that the way things always go ?
lets face it life is a crazy mixed up mess & if everything went smooth no one would develope any charactor or backbone , we are products of our own worse fears & imagination , we need advercity to make us think & with that philosiphacal note , I think I will have a cigar & some more Coffee, ENJOY, Vince

Dammmmm I just went back to the start of this thread, 22 FEB 2004, in a few days it will be a 4 year old running thread, I have no idea when it started over on CA but it got moved over here & I havent had any reason to run it back there at all, I still hit it a few times a month just to make sure its still there ! but this is the place I post most often,some good people here as far as i can tell ! hahaha Enjoy, Vince

Good morning , it is Sunday Feb.24 ,2008 a Sunny day here in da Burgh with an inch or more snow on the ground & the blue sky it is a great day for a walk with a cup of coffee 7 a cigar, yea the walk from the front door to the Qtr.deck , even with the sun out & no clouds it is only 28F right now , to cold for a cigar outside, so I will be heading to the Qtr.Deck asap with my morning Don Carlos & a big mug of Kona , , I had to get a NEW coffee pot last night , the old one just gave up, I guess 3 pots a day or more for a year & a half was just to much for the gavalia FREE pot , but mine lasted a lot longer than the one my wife had, (same style pot,different color) & her pot only made one pot a day vs the 3 in mine , well both were free so I cant complain, how ever I dont get much coffee from gavallia any more so getting an other free pot well I guss they are in the business of making money so I went to the local dept.store at the "Mall" & looked at all the pots in all the store & settled on the Cusinart 12 cup on sale for just under 60 bucks , I did see a 14 cup unit but it was almost twice the price of the 12 cup , well for the difference in money i could have almost got 2 of the 12 cup units ( they were on a sale & the 14 cup unit was full price )
so I am sitting here sipping coffee from the new pot, tastes just like coffee from the old pot !
the Birds are starting to hit the feeder a little more the cardinal;s are back , saw the female this morning , & there must have been a dozen or more doves out there this morning, dammm when you dont have the shot gun handy, i hate them, in the summer they are up at the crack of dawn making all kind of noise , the sound the make on take off will wake the dead, flapp flappp flappp , & they are go at the same time , like a stampeed , soon the spring thaw will hit & all the birds will be back & I will be filling the feeder with 11 pounds of food a day , thats a 20 pound bage every other day , gets a little costly in the summer , & dammmmmm the Bird shit is all over my car all summer, got to remember to close the sunroof this year hahahaha
NO ROAST BEAST to day , I Dont want it & I over rulled the Queen & refused to cook a hunk of beef for her today, & after the swelling of the left eye gets back to the point where I can see out of both eyes ( hahahaha ) I have some bacon wrapped filets I am going to do on the grill today, , she loves her beef , so she gets beef one way or an other hahahaha
I will grill some yukon gold spuds along with the beef & I might make a little slaw salid with broccoli & raisins & dryed appricots , toss in a little crumbled feta cheese maybe ....
we got a new cabnet humidor at the shop last week, but I am having trouble controllong the humidity, at the top the temp is 76 F & the humidity is 43% & the bottom of the cabnet the temp is 70F & the humidity is 85% , I thought it mightn just be the digetal gages, so i switch places with them & still got the same readings , the cigars on the top seam dry & & they crack when you roll them between your fingers , so Im pulled everything off the top shelf, & put them in a different cabnet, , the next shelf is holding a constant 70/70 ,so I just live with it !!!
my wife went to a baby shower yesterday, one of the nephews is going to be a father for the first time , he is the oldest of my brother in laws 3 sons & the last one to have any kids , both his younger brothers have 2 each, so the next generation of cigar smokers is in good hands !!!

We are all ramping up for the cigar crawl this may 17 , I have been in training all year , hitting the heavy Bag & cigars but still staying the speed bag of the light small cigars as well, keeping my daily count to about 10 , dammmm this is getting costly , got to stop keepong records of the expences to dammmm depressing hahahaha , but come the crawl I will be ready, check out the web site
http://www.cigarcrawl.com
& check out the link to the pod casts , great fun for all !!
the coffee pot just let me know the next pot is ready , beep beep beeep, , dammm now I dont need to stand there & watch it, now it calls me when its ready, dammmmm what will be next, will it pour it self ? hahaha
I was having a little bit of pipe tobacco Thursday night , a balkin mix with a little extra latacia , what a kick now when I blow my nose I can still get a little tast of it , dammmm what a Rush ! hahahaha . Gotta stop inhaling that stuff, hahahaha
why do we as humans want the altered state , the buzz why do we crave it why do we go after it , I am a slave to my taste buds & i will readly admit it , I do enjoy the taste & texture of a lot of different food , drinks & cigars well tobacco in general , , my taste buds steer me tward dark chocolate , dryed friut, & whole grains as well as brown rice , dark roasted coffees( all but kona , then i like it light ) & as far as cigars , well I like them all from the lighest claro to the darkest maduro ( oscuro ) , from the mildest Connecutt wrapped stick to the boldest tripple Lieghero on the market today there is a time & a place for just about any cigar you can think of . & right now I am thinking of a Oliva #4 series O , a great fallow up to the Don carlos #3 , after the fillets at 4/4:30 today i have a GOD OF FIRE that my brother in law just brought back for hisd trip to Fla. & the mecca of cigars Ebor City, nice gift , but he only gave me ONE , dammmmmm ! & I finished the Laugavulin last night, looks like it will be Dalwinnie .
Thats about all I have this week, it was a good week at the shop & the grandsons were busy & didnt come to visit at all this week, & I didnt get down there to do much so nothing new from the rug rats this week, , I guess we all needed a break hahahaha
I dont know about all of you , BUT I am going to have a cigar, a cup of coffee & relax til,l its time to cook about 4 today !! Enjoy, Vince

Dammmmm your making me hungry !!!!!!

good morning it is Sunday March 2 ,2008 , we made it through Feb. the worst month of winter here in da burgh in a long time , we had a ton of snow the last week & my wife is tired & sore ftom shoveling it hahahaha , I did clean a little snow my self in front of the cigar shop , just so people didnt drag it in on there feet when they came in to BUY a cigar , I would rather clean it off the side walk than off the floor in the shop. , a few passes with the shovel is better than a few passes with the MOP !
This past week we saw the Passing of Myron Cope , the nazel voice inventor of the Terrable towel & the voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers along with announcer Bill Hillgrove , myron started the towel waving as a promotion because the radio station that he was a sports reporter for didnt want to spend any money on give a ways , he told the fans to bring a yellow ( Gold) or black hand towl to the game , well the statium was FILLED with towel wavers that next Sunday & soon the logo was silkscreened on towels all over the city & the Dynasty that was & is PITTSBURGH STEELER FOOTBALL was born ! , well Myron passed away this past week at the young age of 78 or what ever it was , he retired a few years ago when his voice just got worse than it was , how that ever happened I have no idea , his voice in fine tune could scrape paint off the wall,, but with age & poor heath it did get worse & since his writing skills wernt effected he did write a sports coloum in the local paper for a few dozen years , , he will be missed buy the city & the sports world, I have a buddy in Bolixy Miss. who is a Burgher transplanted down there & he said that it made the ESPN nationl news , so he it is to you Myron , YOI & DOUBLE YOI , hummm haaa , a salute a sip of Coffee , a fine cigar & a weeee dram of scotch , , May ye be in heaven a full hour before the devil knows your dead ...

its still a bit chilly here in da burgh with 6 to 8 inches of snow on the ground , the drive way has snow piled up over waist high all the way from the street to the side walk to the back deck , the walk way lights are burried & glow through the snow at night , looks kind of cool & inviting ! , but a real pain tp change the bulds this way !!!!

I will be heading out to the Qtr.deck soon, I have a pot of Kona almost finished & will be brewing up a little Sumatra next & I have a RockyPatel Sumatra wrapped torp to go with it , & I might just have a few drams of whisky with it ! ( You CAN bet the ranch & the water rights to it on that )

I need to find a new travel mug for the wife, she broke the handle off her old one & I dont seam to find many with handles on them, lots of Tumblers , that are insulated , but carring 2 mugs & the snacks that fo with it , you ned to have handles on the cups, that way you can hold both mugs in one hand, the bag of cookies in the same hand & still have a free hand to open the door ........ hahahaha , I did find a nice plastic NAVY travel mug but it lets the coffee get cold to fast, she wants a stainless steel one that is dish washer safe, I know if I look hard enough I will find her one she likes , I have been using the same mug for so many years I cant tell you how old it is . Do any of you remember the black mug Cuesta rey was giving away a few years ago? well I have 2 of them & thats what I have been using ever since , its not insulated , just a plastic travel mug with a snap top lid, , I have a wonderfull stainless steel Navy Mug with a twist off cap sitting on the shelf, I just like the Custa Rey mug, there is a grove for your thumb I just love it for that reason, it isnt insulated & the coffee gets a bit cool , very fast, SO what its is a comfortable cup & if I need to drink it faster to keep it hot , well so be it , hot or cold the cup is a part of my right hand , & a cigar in my left hand, , I need a third hand toi hold the snifter of scotch , just like I need a third leg & foot to drive a stick shift car hahahahaha
last Sunday I made a bacon wrapped filet that just melted in your mouth, a little pan sauce some grilled potatoe wedges & we were home free, this week its back to the Roast beast....... BORING ! but thats what she wants !
we were at the daughers place last night for a few minuts the Diploma from Duquesne Proudly hanging on the wall Magna Cum Lauday ( or how ever you spell it ) , I never got one of them or a Phi Betta Kappa key,like she did ,, I think she is going to be a professional student, at 35 with 2 boys at home she is telling me she is doing this to get the boys to understand that an education is nothing to over look, both boys are getting straight A 's but the older one is Bored at school & wants to go tothe Cyber school next year , he wants to do more than he can in class as the class can only go as fast as the slowest students will let it, & he feels trapped , so it looks like no school bus for him next year , go to class in your Pajamas on the computer !, he has a few social skills all ready , but I think he will miss the people to people interaction, & the GIRLS ..... cant get a girl friend in the cyber classroom, , no holding hands , & no wet palms , or little beads of perspration on the lip when you fo to talk to he in the lunch room ! hahaha, ahhhh its great to remember that time of my life Remember Purberty ? hahahaha some of you might want to for get it , but I had Fun, & am still having fun ! & will be till the day I die, LIFE is an adventure , Enjoy, it ,,,, Vince

Good morning & welcome to daylight savings time , it is Sunday 9 March 2008, dammmmm I am still writing 07 , , well I guess its only natural, the only time I worry about a date is here one time a week, , since i dont write any checks I have no reason to worry about what year it is hahahaha
I made a little flap jack batter this morning & now I am suffering from a sugar over load,, just way to much of that maple syrup dammmm I havent felt this bad in a long time , a sugar rush of the 10th degree, dammmmmm I hate this , feels like my skin is crawling off of my bones & the nausia is overthe top, gotta cut back on the sugar , but it did taste great , NOW I suffer ! , we have had Snow, rain & ice all week it was & still is a mess right now the wind chill is making it feel like it is just above Zero F , the wind is just cutting like a knife , I dont think I will be headed to the Qtr.deck anytime soon, just way to cold , by the time it gets warm in there it will be time to go to bed & thats just a waist of heat if no one is going to use it ( according to my wife ) so I will not be going out there today , if needed I can go to the shop or just sit in the car to stay warm !
looks like the rest of the day will be a standard sunday in the burgh the sunday paper will be torn up looked at , cupons cut & cartoons laughed at , headlines are of a shooting on the main street of Beaver Falls right in front of the theater , a stupid drug deal gone bad, when will the kids learn, dont mess with that stuff, its just plain stipid, big bucks for the seller & a life of torment for the buyer , I sure am glad i never got caught up in the life style like that, hey its bad enough to spend all the money on cigars & scotch !!!!!
well I dont have a lot to say this week, so I will be getting off the computer soon & I will be getting ready to make noise in the kitchen I havent the faintest idea what is defrosting as we speak , what ever it is will be getting cooked soon !
Enjoy, Vince