Holiday Friday What's In Your Cup/On Your BBQ/Plans Thread
Mates,
End of summer Labor Day Weekend thread. We have slight normalcy leaking back into our lives with some college football being played this weekend and also the genuine hope that in 2 weeks we'll be watching real live high school football in various places in Michigan. Oh the heart jumps in anticipation.
Earlier, a number of you laid out your plans for the weekend. I have it on good authority that mgoblogger Scanner Blue will be visiting the farm tomorrow for a bike ride and run, joining the 'Daddy-daughter duathlons' that me and one or both daughters have been doing 2-3x/wk for the last 6 months or so. Trying to entice robf to join us as he hinted at a possible trip up north. For those that visit, bring a cooler so we can send you down the road with some farm goods - beef, eggs, and maybe we'll go berry picking at the north end of the farm.
You've got CFB tomorrow starting at 1:00. Of particular interest is a game at 1:30 where two of last year's opponents, Memphis State and Army square off. Holding out hope for Mr. Yacht to pull a rabbit out of a hat and actually tilt us toward B10 football.
So what's in your cup, what's on your grill, what's on tap for you this holiday weekend?
XM
September 4th, 2020 at 9:16 PM ^
'no trigger' can't be true. you took the time to crap post in a thread that is devoid of politics or controversy. what 'slog' is there here? and if it's so difficult, go on to another thread.
kids in general and kids athletics have been severely affected by covid. its natural to have that as part of many of the discussions. do you have any, and if so, what age(s)?
September 4th, 2020 at 10:05 PM ^
No trigger is absolutely true, are you that full of yourself to think that a logical person cannot think that you suck?
I absolutely did not crap post. I said that you personally are boring and that other people are more entertaining. Is that so hard to believe? If so, you are the definition of a psychopath., congrats.
Dont preach to me about kids and athletics. I coach a spring sport that was cancelled last year. I have seen kids cry about the loss of a season. Have you? I bet not! Because your season has not been cancelled. It has just been pushed into mine!
September 4th, 2020 at 10:46 PM ^
you certainly can think i'm not that great of a guy. heck, you'll have a lot of company. but the issue is that you would bother to mention that in such an innocuous thread and completely without provocation. i'm sorry that it eats at you so deeply. triggered, i guess.
and fwiw, our season didn't get pushed to the spring since the warden changed her mind yesterday and let the inmates play this fall. lots of smiles, but nobody shed tears here prior to that, a little stronger fabric than that around here.
September 4th, 2020 at 10:49 PM ^
Oh, the warden? Who is playing politics now?
And it is still cute that you do not know what triggered means.
September 4th, 2020 at 11:05 PM ^
triggered is you. see definition:
An emotional/psychological reaction caused by something that somehow relates to an upsetting time or happening in someone's life. This reaction is often found to happen in war veterans, people suffering with PTSD, depression, and other mental disorders.
"Jim gets easily triggered."
you are the 'jim' in that definition. and the mild mention of the warden a few minutes ago wasn't what triggered you a half hour ago.
this is a place where you can build some genuine friendships. two of my favorite mgobloggers will be visiting the farm tomorrow. maybe if you were up north sometime you'd stop by and find out that i'm not the worst guy in the world. who knows, you might actually enjoy meeting me and my family.
September 4th, 2020 at 11:11 PM ^
I hate to tell you, but i have no ptsd. You are far more likely then I to have taken too many blows to the head.
Quit drinking and goto bed.
I do not want to goto your farm. If i have not made this clear enough, i find you creepy. I am not your "jim." I just find you creepy.
Stop inviting me to your secluded land.
September 4th, 2020 at 11:26 PM ^
If you don't like XM's posts, don't click the obvious XM linc. It may be one too many for you.
September 4th, 2020 at 11:32 PM ^
I am not a huge damone fan either, but he often puts up the same friday posts and has a flame bbq going on and /or a solid drink suggestion.
September 4th, 2020 at 10:25 PM ^
Who are you? I don’t even recognize this screen name. Trashin on a good poster because you don’t agree with his views. Man, talk about a total douchebag. You’re the reason this message board fucking sucks now, not XM. Sorry, dude, but get a fucking life.
September 4th, 2020 at 10:36 PM ^
You are totally right. I should be slobbing all over xm even though he doesnt know the definition on slog, trigger, or politics.
And, I Have Been a Member Longer than He Has!
September 5th, 2020 at 12:16 AM ^
No, you just shouldn’t be a dick. Words to live by bud.
September 5th, 2020 at 12:24 AM ^
I dunno. I bet he has a longer member than you have.
September 5th, 2020 at 1:23 AM ^
You strike me as the kinda guy who would like to see the competition.
September 5th, 2020 at 1:45 AM ^
Sure. Why not?
September 4th, 2020 at 9:12 PM ^
I'm sitting on my deck on this beautiful evening, enjoying bourbon in my glass and PREPPING FOR OUR WEEK 1 OPPONENT. Can't believe the whirlwind that went on the past two days, but so excited for my players and athletes all across the state.
September 4th, 2020 at 9:17 PM ^
is a wild turnabout, but tears of joy in our house. maybe yours, too.
September 4th, 2020 at 9:23 PM ^
I'm just so happy for kids all across the state. Happy for your sons, their teammates, happy for our opponents, happy for everyone. I hope and pray that we can do this safely and that the rug doesn't get pulled out from under the kids again.
September 4th, 2020 at 9:28 PM ^
I'll be working a couple hours overtime in the morning, but then the kids and I will be making a stop at Westborn Market in Dearborn for a few things for dinners this weekend. As for the rest, we're doing a little grilling and a lot of sitting about doing very little of note.
September 4th, 2020 at 9:38 PM ^
sounds like a substantial upgrade in your health. true?
September 4th, 2020 at 10:21 PM ^
I miss Westborn Dearborn.
September 4th, 2020 at 9:28 PM ^
Pork butts and bourbon. Gotta feed the neighborhood. 3 8lb pork shoulders started at 7am with hickory, Apple and jack Daniels whiskey oak wood chips. Went to work. Stopped off at Earnest Brew Works in Toledo Oh on the way home. Some of the best local beers. Wife texts about 7pm that the pork is almost done. Come home, and shred and serve with some bourbon on the deck. Life is good even without football. Neighbors stopping by for their samples.
September 4th, 2020 at 10:11 PM ^
Playing Stonebridge tomorrow morning...and preparing to make a mess of it for 18 holes. Haven't played there in 20 years. We'll see how this goes.
September 4th, 2020 at 10:20 PM ^
Going to the old man’s lake house with the wife and kid Sunday. Drinking Pumking (again). It’s so fuckin’ good.
September 4th, 2020 at 11:08 PM ^
Manhattan
Going fishing on Lake Michigan tomorrow
September 5th, 2020 at 12:01 AM ^
Depressed drinking! Probably just whiskey, gin, and rum straight. No Michigan football this Saturday. Even if we were to lose @ Washington it would have been fun watching. Now I have nothing.
September 5th, 2020 at 12:12 AM ^
Went to my mother-in-law's 80th birthday party tonight at my brother-in-law's house. Normally I don't dig these kinds of events but this time was different. My nephew has a turtle he got in Chinatown who he named named El Chapo. El Chapo escaped several weeks ago, and my nephew claimed he had only walked away for a few seconds (he's a turtle -- how fast could the getaway have been?) They found El Chapo days later, nestled in the cucumber garden. My sister-in-law lamented about how they're all immunocompromised and worried about how Covid might affect them (my husband's brother lost his spleen and his wife's son has Down's Syndrome) and yet they smoke like chimneys, lighting up one cig after another. There was one guy there with bright green hair, taking photographs, and another whose name was Paul and had no discernible relationship to anyone there. I have no idea who these people were. There was a cat named Buddha wandering around, eating cheese and crackers off the buffet table. And then everyone made toasts to my mother-in-law after inhaling helium from all the balloons. Most fun I've had since this whole Covid thing started.
September 5th, 2020 at 12:20 AM ^
This was a wild ride from beginning to the end Wendy.
lets see what I got ... uh ... nothing.
i have been drinking PBR, Oberon, Masthead IPA and Oban Little Bay and now I’m watching the moon set over my front yard. That’s all.
September 5th, 2020 at 6:42 AM ^
glad you had that much fun. sounds like a scene from a comedy movie that would be gold to capture.
my money is on the turtle.
September 5th, 2020 at 12:22 PM ^
To add to the turtle story, the turtle was one of two purchased in Chinatown to make soup. Turtle #1 succumbed to the soup kettle months earlier. Turtle #2, El Chapo, was saved the agony, and has now grown to be the size of a frisbee. The only potential foe in the house is a 28 pound orange cat named Taco, but so far, he's left El Chapo alone. I'm glad I wasn't invited over for the turtle soup because I would have vehemently declined. I avoid eating anything that could also be a pet.
September 5th, 2020 at 6:54 AM ^
Cup: water Pipe: weed BBQ: tombstone pizza with m&ms and freedom fries
September 6th, 2020 at 9:17 PM ^
Doing a prime brisket tomorrow starting at 4 AM. Hoping this hockey game doesn't go into OT