Red Mosquito

Strat wrote:Shit, now it looks like tomorrow is a high of only 7 and negative windchill so tomorrow is gonna be brutal. Strat would love to hole up in a bar to keep warm but he decided to do Dry january instead!

doug rr wrote:damn..we buy 1 quart for about 10-12 days..mainly for cooking or the occasional bowl of cereal..most of it ends up going bad

Chris_H_2 wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

dad wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Yeah, gonna be mild here this weekend, then come Monday the arctic blast and possible snow here for the first time in 4 years. Gonna go buy all my bread and milk when it is warm before all the panic people go Sunday and Monday.

how much milk do you guys drink in your house?

it was a figure of speech!

My wife and I don't drink milk, but when her youngest is here with us (he will be next week) he goes through about 2 gallons a week by himself. Dude is a freshman in high school and in the past year grew 6 inches and counting.

2 gallons?!?

buy a cow.

Yeah he's in two ongoing sports and a musical rehearsal. Dude is nonstop but also nonstop groceries!

how much for a gallon of organic fat-free milk down in sou ... nor ... your neck of the woods?

Chris_H_2 wrote:

Strat wrote:Shit, now it looks like tomorrow is a high of only 7 and negative windchill so tomorrow is gonna be brutal. Strat would love to hole up in a bar to keep warm but he decided to do Dry january instead!

meantime, the rest of the native Minnesotans that have lived there forever are laughing at the suggestion that that is brutal.

Chris_H_2 wrote:

doug rr wrote:damn..we buy 1 quart for about 10-12 days..mainly for cooking or the occasional bowl of cereal..most of it ends up going bad

i only ever cook with whole milk, and that lasts for months.

doug rr wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

doug rr wrote:damn..we buy 1 quart for about 10-12 days..mainly for cooking or the occasional bowl of cereal..most of it ends up going bad

i only ever cook with whole milk, and that lasts for months.

I only buy whole as well..months sounds gross

Strat wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

Strat wrote:Shit, now it looks like tomorrow is a high of only 7 and negative windchill so tomorrow is gonna be brutal. Strat would love to hole up in a bar to keep warm but he decided to do Dry january instead!

meantime, the rest of the native Minnesotans that have lived there forever are laughing at the suggestion that that is brutal.

When it hits -30 windchill, its brutal i don't care who you are.

But yes, living in Vail made me soft. Winter paradise to winter hell!

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

dad wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Yeah, gonna be mild here this weekend, then come Monday the arctic blast and possible snow here for the first time in 4 years. Gonna go buy all my bread and milk when it is warm before all the panic people go Sunday and Monday.

how much milk do you guys drink in your house?

it was a figure of speech!

My wife and I don't drink milk, but when her youngest is here with us (he will be next week) he goes through about 2 gallons a week by himself. Dude is a freshman in high school and in the past year grew 6 inches and counting.

2 gallons?!?

buy a cow.

Yeah he's in two ongoing sports and a musical rehearsal. Dude is nonstop but also nonstop groceries!

how much for a gallon of organic fat-free milk down in sou ... nor ... your neck of the woods?

No idea. does $3.89 sound right? We don't even keep milk in the house when he is with his dad, we'll send any leftover with him when he moves over.

Edit - just looked it up. Store brand organic is $6.98 a gallon.

Chris_H_2 wrote:

doug rr wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

doug rr wrote:damn..we buy 1 quart for about 10-12 days..mainly for cooking or the occasional bowl of cereal..most of it ends up going bad

i only ever cook with whole milk, and that lasts for months.

I only buy whole as well..months sounds gross

just follow the expiration date (which for the brand i buy from the whole foods, is literally months)

doug rr wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

doug rr wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

doug rr wrote:damn..we buy 1 quart for about 10-12 days..mainly for cooking or the occasional bowl of cereal..most of it ends up going bad

i only ever cook with whole milk, and that lasts for months.

I only buy whole as well..months sounds gross

just follow the expiration date (which for the brand i buy from the whole foods, is literally months)

I just bought Whole Foods whole milk this morning..it expires in 9 days

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

doug rr wrote:
also..as of yesterday, I am now an official Canadian as I received my permanent residency status...I'm now a dual citizen

W.M.Eh

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

doug rr wrote:
also..as of yesterday, I am now an official Canadian as I received my permanent residency status...I'm now a dual citizen

W.M.Eh

ahem

Chris_H_2 wrote:

doug rr wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

doug rr wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

doug rr wrote:damn..we buy 1 quart for about 10-12 days..mainly for cooking or the occasional bowl of cereal..most of it ends up going bad

i only ever cook with whole milk, and that lasts for months.

I only buy whole as well..months sounds gross

just follow the expiration date (which for the brand i buy from the whole foods, is literally months)

I just bought Whole Foods whole milk this morning..it expires in 9 days

your whole foods sucks then and doesn't turn over inventory quickly.

doug rr wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

doug rr wrote:
also..as of yesterday, I am now an official Canadian as I received my permanent residency status...I'm now a dual citizen

W.M.Eh

ahem

sorry, I missed this..I only understand the eh part though

Chris_H_2 wrote:

doug rr wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

doug rr wrote:
also..as of yesterday, I am now an official Canadian as I received my permanent residency status...I'm now a dual citizen

W.M.Eh

ahem

sorry, I missed this..I only understand the eh part though

whole milk eh

doug rr wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

doug rr wrote:
also..as of yesterday, I am now an official Canadian as I received my permanent residency status...I'm now a dual citizen

W.M.Eh

ahem

sorry, I missed this..I only understand the eh part though

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

doug rr wrote:also..as of yesterday, I am now an official Canadian as I received my permanent residency status...I'm now a dual citizen

doug rr wrote:
also..as of yesterday, I am now an official Canadian as I received my permanent residency status...I'm now a dual citizen