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Beth Gallagher said:
I am the same with capers. I'm pretty sure the jar I have has been in there since we bought the fridge in 2021 and I replaced all the expired condiments. If not for the old fridge dying, I'd still have the 12-year old condiments in there.
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I rely on StillTasty.com as my shelf-life reference guide. I was surprised that capers expired at all. I figured anything in brine was pretty much preserved forever.

I need to figure out how long the smoked salmon is good for. The date on the package is the Packed Date (yesterday.) At least, I assume it is. All the dates on the 3 types of packaged salmon had just passed, and none said "Use By." None said "Packed On" either.
 
John Brunner said:
I rely on StillTasty.com as my shelf-life reference guide. I was surprised that capers expired at all. I figured anything in brine was pretty much preserved forever.

I need to figure out how long the smoked salmon is good for. The date on the package is the Packed Date (yesterday.) At least, I assume it is. All the dates on the 3 types of packaged salmon had just passed, and none said "Use By." None said "Packed On" either.
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I just rely on my eyes and nose, and occasionally a taste. If something still looks OK (no mold or cloudy liquid) and smells OK, I assume it's OK. :D

I don't know anything about smoked salmon since I have never bought any. I really dislike salmon.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
I just rely on my eyes and nose, and occasionally a taste. If something still looks OK (no mold or cloudy liquid) and smells OK, I assume it's OK. :D

I don't know anything about smoked salmon since I have never bought any. I really dislike salmon.
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I'm not a big salmon fan, either. It's the fish that's not really a fish when it comes to flavor and texture. But I do like lox.

side story: I was trying my hand at making salmon one night, and it was marinated in citrus juice. I figured if 4 hours was good, overnight was even better. Nope. It was sort of a poor man's ceviche, but not "cooked" enough to eat.
 
John Brunner said:
I'm not a big salmon fan, either. It's the fish that's not really a fish when it comes to flavor and texture. But I do like lox.

side story: I was trying my hand at making salmon one night, and it was marinated in citrus juice. I figured if 4 hours was good, overnight was even better. Nope. It was sort of a poor man's ceviche, but not "cooked" enough to eat.
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Eww. 🤢
 
John Brunner said:
I drove into the big-ish city and had Chinese buffet for lunch. Then I picked up the makings for lox & bagels (bagels, smoked salmon, cream cheese, capers, red onion.) I'm having one of my food hankerings again.

I bought capers because the ones in the fridge are maybe 5-7 years old. I read that 3 years is about their end-of-like.
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SO buys the quart containers for me. I enjoy them on bread with butter/cream cheese.
 
No capers and no olives for me. Olives honestly make me physically ill. But I love kosher dill pickles and sweet pickles in potato salad.

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I am resting and eating toast, while I wait on the farrier.

I did get the overhang area mostly cleaned out with the JD yesterday. What I could ‘t scoop or drag with the FEL, I pushed to the man gate. This morning, I took the big landscaping rake and pulled it all out through the man gate into the side yard, and spread it around, to be mulched under with the belly mower on the tractor at some further point in time, TBD.

That all said I am so mad at the Arabian. He has pulled more hay out of the barn and it almost looks like I didn’t do any cleaning yesterday. I know it’s him because I’ve had enough horses in 23 years on this property that I know who did what and who does what. And it’s all him dragging the hay out.

It is not as frustrating or expensive as @Beth Gallagher ’s granddaughter over running the water in the upstairs bathroom and causing the ceiling to cave in, but it is frustrating when pushing or pulling a rake full of hay is the last thing I want to do🤯🤯

This is only this farrier’s second visit. I really like him a lot or he wouldn’t be back. More important the horses like him a lot, which was a surprise because they don’t like too many people messing with their hooves. I like him because he does not have the hard and fast rule of the horse must keep their hoof on the hoof stand or we’re just gonna give him some drugs. This guy isn’t like that if he has to trim a hoof the old-fashioned way and put it up on his knee that’s what he does.

It is very frustrating to me that I have been trimming my own horses my entire lifetime, but I am in such bad shape these days, I can’t even pick up the hooves on the left side to pick them out because that shoulder is so bad.

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My electric company’s tree trimming subcontractors were here yesterday — that was exciting lol lol. I didn’t think to get a picture of the big humongous tree shear equipment they were using, but they had that thing intentionally jackknifeed down in the swamp with a circular saw on the end of the boom, trimming the trees back from the powerlines. It was amazing to watch you could tell the guy running that equipment that was not his first rodeo.

I was told they will be back sometime today with wood chopping equipment to clean up their mess. More excitement.🤠🤠

My intent after the Farrier leaves, is to go horizontal for the rest of the day if at all possible. I left the gate down in the swamp unlocked so they can get in there if they have to, and they have the power company’s universal key for their padlock on my driveway gate; they have to come in from this direction, they can do that too.
 
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Connie Bennett said:
My electric company’s tree trimming subcontractors were here yesterday — that was exciting lol lol. I didn’t think to get a picture of the big humongous tree shear equipment they were using, but they had that thing intentionally jackknifeed down in the swamp with a circular saw on the end of the boom, trimming the trees back from the powerlines. It was amazing to watch you could tell the guy running that equipment that was not his first rodeo.
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I am amazed by the huge saws suspended from helicopters that they use to clear power lines. I can't imagine having to pilot a copter and guide that huge blade.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
Here's one...

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That is insane to see how that pole sways so close to those power lines. Back in the day, I would have assumed that to be operated by an ex-Nam pilot, since those guys could thread a needle. Now I have no idea where those pilots could have received such training/experience.

When Connie talked about her trees being trimmed, it reminded me of when the entire region lost power for over a week because of the "El Derecho" wind storms. My rural, electrical co-op went scorched-earth on the power lines. I'm 1/2 mile off of the paved road, so there's a long cleared path for the lines that serve me and my 2 neighbors. I came home from work one day and my tree line had been pushed way back. At first I had no idea what had happened. I picked up a lot of new yard to mow.
 
John Brunner said:
That is insane to see how that pole sways so close to those power lines. Back in the day, I would have assumed that to be operated by an ex-Nam pilot, since those guys could thread a needle. Now I have no idea where those pilots could have received such training/experience.

When Connie talked about her trees being trimmed, it reminded me of when the entire region lost power for over a week because of the "El Derecho" wind storms. My rural, electrical co-op went scorched-earth on the power lines. I'm 1/2 mile off of the paved road, so there's a long cleared path for the lines that serve me and my 2 neighbors. I came home from work one day and my tree line had been pushed way back. At first I had no idea what had happened. I picked up a lot of new yard to mow.
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Those helicopter trimmers have been a thing for many years now in the southern states. I remember driving down the highways in Alabama and Georgia and seeing how squared-off the trees looked along the road, then I learned about the copters. I believe Nancy Hart talked about them on the old SOC.
 
John Brunner said:
I didn't do a lot. My neighbor called me because a small tree had fallen and was intruding into our right-of-way...and I have a tractor. You could still get around but it was a bit of a hazard. So I drove up and shoved it back into the woods and cleaned up the debris. As long as I was up there I shoved some other stuff back that was close to the road, and then on my way back cleaned up some limbs we had trimmed from his trees a while back but had not pushed into his woods.
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I scold hubby for doing that. He is making a berm like in Africa to keep the lions out. But here I worry it is just a fire hazard lately. I have put off cutting back our woods for just that reason because we need to burn the branches eventually. That and I am lazy.
 
Faye Fox said:
I have two large boxes full of clothes that need to go to Goodwill, but I don't have the good will to fight the traffic getting there.

I have no idea what I will do today, but it will be a masterclass in wasting time and burning daylight. I may do laundry, but that isn't carved in stone yet.
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I think you should do a masterclass youtube while you are actively doing those.
 
Speaking of capers, we use them a lot here in our cooking. I keep forgetting to ask for a pickle with my sandwiches too as I do love them. Years ago there were served automatically.

Another pickled delicacy I cannot find anymore is lamb's tongue. They were delicious and when I got older, we'd be able to get them with a beer in a bar near our college.
 
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