Summer Activity

[uncle ernie]

Just wanting to gauge this forum's weekend summer schedule:

Mind you, I'm from Michigan, so the summers are a rare commodity and to be spent effectively. My weekend schedule is a follows:

1. Get up around 7:00am and fire up the charcoal barbecue grill
2. Prepare my spice rub for the pork shoulder or brisket or multiple racks of ribs and chicken
3. Spice the meat and get them on the grill by around 9:00am
4. Get coffee going and enjoy with the spouse on the patio
5. Maintain barbecue at 250 degrees and keep hickory, apple or cherry wood smoking in the barbecue
6. Around 1:00pm get rum punches ready and select my first afternoon smoke, most likely, a CAO brazilia amazon.
7. Get the Caribbean tropical music on the outdoor speaker going
8. Hang the rest of the day while drinking rum punches, keeping the fire at a maximum 250 degrees, and enjoying a carefully selected cigar smoke.
8. Around 5 or 6 pm, remove the pork shoulder, for example, pull it, top it on some buns with some cole slaw and homemade barbecue sauce and have the best southern style pulled pork sandwiches ever.
9. Hang with the spouse, select an after dinner cigar smoke, continue drinking rum punches and watch the sunset.

That's my ideal weekend.

 

[Macallan]

1. wake up smoke diploma
2. after first diploma smoke second diploma
3. grab my 12 guage and hit the skeet range
4. after some more diplomas, rounds of skeet, and some sporting clays off to the butcher
5. steak on the grill with sinatra on the speakers
6. diploma break
7. throw the steaks on and clean the gun (the smell of red meat and gun oil is great when mixed with some cigar smoke)
8. eat steak
9. diploma and scotch to finish the day

did i mention i like diplomas

 

[bildo792]

1. get home around 3am from the bars where i will meet lots of hot 21 year old tourist girls.
2. get up around 9am and shower, then head to the beach while smoking one of my favs.
3. call any girls i met the night before and meet up with them on the beach while smoking another cigar.
4. go to the bar to meet more ladies and smoke a cigar.
5. repeat

 

[Woodgirl]

I hope you guys don't mind if I live vicariously through you all...except for the picking up tourist chicks part.

And this should make you all appreciate your lives a wee bit more:

Get home late from soccer game, sleep, wake up at 5 am to tend to toddler, give said toddler antibiotic for ear infection and breakfast. Watch Wiggles and Higglytown Heroes and get depressed I know the lyrics to songs. Go to gym. Write 6 page paper on religion for husband. Spend afternoon outside chasing toddler until bedtime. Open bottle of wine and sit outside with husband and neighbors around their fire pit, smoking good cigars (haven't decided what kind yet...) and enjoying life.

I guess other than the Wiggles and the religion paper, I've got it just the way I want it.

 

[mathetes]

Woodgirl,

Go and see the Wiggles live and your opinion will change - I was in tears to see how excited my two year old was to seen them.

That said, the other's schedules have some appeal, too!

 

[bildo792]

i like kids, but for now im going to leave that part of the day up to the pros (you guys). Your nights sound pretty fun to me though. I love a good bonfire.

 

[Bloofington]

I'm hanging with my Uncle Ernie and my new best friend Macallan this summer. :mrgreen: :thumbsup: You'll find me over by the food. umpkin: :sm_angel:

 

[Woodgirl]

I hear you. I'm thinking of having a "pot luck" (you know us wacky midwesterners)--uncle ernie brings the rum punch, macallan brings the diplomas and sinatra and bildo can bring his tourist girls that tell him they're 21. :wink: If I were a guy I'm sure I'd be jealous, though.

mathetes--you are a better parent than I. A half hour of the Wiggles on TV (for free) is already more than I can stand. We spent a ton of money seeing "Sesame Street Live" and getting primo seats, parking, requisite t-shirt and elmo doll and my son didn't care at all and couldn't wait to leave. Next time I'm going to wait until he specifically asks to go (or can drive himself).

 

[bildo792]

(or can drive himself).

in high school i never understood how kids could total their cars and their parents would buy them a new one about 2 days later. Recently my mom explained.... "its because the parents want to get their Ba****d teenage kids out of the house and away from them."

i think my friends and i traumatized my mom during our high school years. (her house was the hang out) If karma plays into anything im sure my kids will make sure my parenthood isn't easy.

 

[Wolfdaddy]

5:30 am: Get up
6 am: go to work to drop off the keys I forgot to leave there this afternoon
6:15 - 6:30ish: go home, go back to bed
8:30 - 9:00 am: get up, call girlfriend, shower
9:30: go to the bank and deposit paycheck
10:00: my girlfriend will be at my house by now

We're gonna go and get her a cell phone, then I need to get some new jeans that look halfway decent. We'll probably grab lunch at Quizno's or someplace.

2:30 - 3:00 pm: She has to go home so she can be there when her daughter's dad drops her off. She has to work at 4.

After she leaves my house, I'm gonna smoke the famed Diploma and see what all the fuss is about. After the Diploma, I'm gonna put all the pics from tonights gigs onto webshots so I can share them with my bandmates and anyone else who wants to see them. After that I have no solid plans.


Sunday:
7 am: get up, shower, go to church at 8:30 for music practice
8:30 - 11:30: church
11:30 - 12:30 or 1: babysit my girlfriend's daughter, feed her lunch, etc.
1:00 - 4:00 or 4:30: chill with the girlfriend. She has to work at 5.
4:30 - 5:00: come home, smoke a cigar. Dunno which one yet.
5:00 - 10:00 pm: whole lotta nothin
10:00: bed



that's just for this weekend. every weekend will be different.

 

[Ando]

Hmm typical weekend...

1. 0430 - Wake up
2. 0445 - Carry out drills training exercises - dawn raids, parachute drops, building seizures etc
3. 0900 - Breakfast
4. 0930 - Tidy barracks
5. 1100 - Rugby training
6. 1400 - Shower off after rugby, kick back and have a cigar
7. 1600 - Strip down platoon weapons and clean thoroughly
8. 1800 - Meeting with RSM
9. 1900 - Releived of duty - have some dinner with fellow officers
10. 2000 - Light up a nice cigar
11. 2100 - Enjoy a nice class of port/whisky/wine/beer
12. 2105 - Another cigar...
13. 2200 - Go for a few drinks with friends
14. 0100 - Return to barracks to sleep

Repeat for sunday... except we practise ceremonial duties rather than offensive manoevres.

 

[Amy]

got home about 2:30 last night from bar hopping and ending up at a venue watching a freinds band rock the house.

drank a gallon of water and crashed hard.

10:15 wake up, think about going back to sleep, finaly get up.

10:30 shower

11:00 check email and write this post.

11:15 find some food and drink more water.

11:45 have a nice smoke.

1:00 watch a movie

3:00 maybe have another smoke

4:00 go to costco

5:00 meet up with roomates (they had to work today, SUCKERS!!!)

6:00 saturday evening service

7:30 church is over, roomates and several freinds from church grab pizza and figure out what would be most fun.

get home probly about 12 or 1.

if it werent raining outside i would probly meet some folk at gasworks park and toss around the frisbe/football.

 

[Bloofington]

Notice Ando mentioned rugby training. I RESPECT :thumbsup: those blokes who play rugby. Back here across the pond we don't see or hear much of rugby, let alone meet anyone who plays, but I have had the occasion to know a few folks who did. Anyone who's ever watched even a minute of rugby on TV or read anything about how the game is played in a book knows that these fellas are SICK, TOUGH dudes. You've gotta be a man's man to play that sport.

Rugby is basically we're going to line up against you guys after drinking a keg. We'll take the ball first. You guys will have a keg of your own first and line up to stop us. When the whistle blows, we roll ourselves up into a ball, smash into you, kicking your balls, giving you purple nurples, sticking our fingers into your eyes, and ramming our fists down your throats. After about half a minute the whistle will blow, and we will have moved the ball approximately one meter. Then we do it all over again.

Or something like that. :duh: Anyway, like I said I'll be at my favorite Uncle Ernie's house with my new best friend Chef Macallan and escorted by my heavily armed English contingent headed up by Ando. Save some Spotted Dick for us.

Bangers and Mash, anyone?

 

[Tombstone]

Haha, I used to play Rugby in highschool. That was some mad fun. Sure we tried to hurt each other but we'd get back up (assuming we could) and try to hurt them back.

Anyways my summer is gonna be crappy. Work a lot so I can pay off my student loans. Perhaps go home for a couple of days and chill with my friends who are at other universities and have a few cigars with dad. The working part sucks but otherwise it all should be good.

 

[uncle ernie]

I'll have the rum punches, home made crab cakes and jamaican jerk ribs ready for you all. Its always an open invitation because I make enough for a large party every weekend. Can't wait for hot weather...Michigan weather is getting old, and my wife and I are seriously considering another state, like south carolina. There I can smoke cigars pretty much year round as opposed to only 4 months (outside) in michigan. Can't smoke in the house.

Uncle Ernie

 

[bildo792]

South Carolina!!!! Move down here, ill introduce you to the members of the club i am in and you can join it. I was just in the "habana room" enjoying some cigars with a great group of guys. One of them gave me a 1926 and another filled two glasses of Norton wine that isn't exported from where it is grown (somewhere in the states). I will pretty much live there from now on because i don't smoke inside my place. Can't say enough about this area, i moved down here from columbus ohio once i got sick of the weather. The people and the weather couldn't be nicer. I also learned how to smoke a pipe today when i decided i wanted to try it. Can't comment until i smoke it a few more times. The other members of the club are super helpfull. I wouldn't be surprised if i know about 1000 times as much about cigars in a few months. Its like chatting on this forum only live and in person.

 

[Ando]

The Game of Rugby!

Ok, in rugby two teams of 15 men line up against each other. There are 8 forwards and 7 backs. The forwards do all the hard work, scrums, rucking and mauling (thats basically a big fight for the ball!) and the backs are the pacey guys who usually score tries and carry out much of the defence. We don't have special teams of anything like American football.

It is the most exciting game to paly EVER! I love it! I started playing when I was 7 at my local club, then was school rugby captain, then captain of my regimental rugby team. At the beginning of June its the Army vs Navy rugby grudge match! I'm training really hard at the moment to try and get in the army team. It's pretty tough tho, they have quite a few men to select from! I'll let you know how it goes!

I encourage all of you to do your best to watch a game of rugby soon! Watch the Super 12's or something!! What a game!! :thumbsup:

 

[uncle ernie]

No offense to american football because I love the NFL and I love the Detroit Lions although I've gotten heartburn watching them on several occasions...but I think you need titanium grapes to play rugby because of the lack of pads and such. I'm impressed by that game and hope it makes an eventual impact in the U.S....

 

[Ando]

Just received this letter from my Regimental Sergeant Major. Very pleased...see below at position #10... :rnr:

 

[bildo792]

very impressive, hopefully you beat the hell out of some people and have a good time.