Guy gets turkey from store. Places FROZEN turkey in pan, in oven. 6 hrs later, it is thawed out, and there is a small bag of giblets inside, and it is not done, because it started out frozen. But it is Norman Rockwell beautiful, on the outside!
1/2 of the guests are texting, during the blessing, during the meal, and after the meal. Some are outside, texting.
A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery store, but couldn't find one big enough for her family. She asked the stock boy, "Do these turkeys get any bigger?" The stock boy answered, "No ma'am, they're dead."
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!
N
A buddy of mine went turkey hunting one year.
I asked did he get any.
He said "yeah, I shot several... but I probably scared the s..t out of everyone in the frozen section on aisle 5".
:woot: :good: :woot:
Nothing went wrong this year.
Power has been out since 8 pm last night.
Turkey not he grill since 8 Am.
Had about ten family members over and had a great time.
All is good!
Pwr out is good.... good for family!
My only goof was arguing with my Mother about where the Twin City Tractor came from. Turns out we were both wrong. Considering how good the meal was and the fact that she did the cooking. I never told her that.
James
I went Elk Hunting in Colorado. Friends asked if I got anything.
I said yes.
I got a couple of days off.
Were you debating Minneapolis or something incredibly specific to one particular Twin City Tractor.....the one purchased at Hank Hurley's farm auction south of Hinckleyville back in '36 or '37?
My Dad had a Minneapolis Moline M5 back in the 60's when I was a kid. Before that he had two Twin City tractors with the tricycle front end that he used plowing cotton. When it came to breaking land he would take the front end off both of them and connect them with an I-beam, rig up a hand clutch that worked both tractors along with another lever for each brake. He would use that for breaking land. When he got the M5, it would pull the breaking plow by it's self.
The discussion was about the Twin City's. I thought they were a specific model of the Minneapolis Moline brand. My mother thought Twin City was a nickname for any of the Minneapolis Moline brand. Turns out we were both wrong. Twin City Tractor was made by Minneapolis Steel and Machinery before it merged with Moline Plow and Minneapolis Threshing Machine to form the Minneapolis-Moline Company.
I looked alot like the tractors in this video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkD2vp0gEFg
James
There was a time about 100 years ago when almost any manufacturer of machinery thought they could also produce what we refer to as tractors. Many tried. Few succeeded. There was even a Ford Tractor Co. that was set up just to fool the buyers into thinking Henry Ford was the manufacturer. That is why the early tractors he produced were called Fordson instead of Ford. Rumley Oil Pull was another early name in tractors. Waterloo Boy was another.
Something I did not know for many years was that there was a big argument over which way a moldboard plow should move the dirt. The standard has become that the dirt moves to the right. In the early days just as many moved it to the left as to the right. It was dependent on what the custom had become in a region. It had to do with how the pulling units (horses, mules, etc.) had been trained to turn at the field end.
