A nice sunny day outside with temps around 80. We will be in the windowless big fridge for most of the day.
The ice making starts today. Seal the edges, put down a list coat of ice on the floor and set the hacks. At least there are lots of new toys to play with including a laser temperature gun. I did forget to order one toy, the battery powered backpack sprayer. The manual pump one works fine but it really gets tiring when sealing the lines.
First year on our own without the expert guidance of Shorty. Will be installing his signature hog line, a nice red one.
Later,
JH
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
End of summer
Really went fast it seems. Guess all the trips to South Jersey ate up a lot of time. The fall approaches, the ice is going in and the annual meeting at LBI is coming up. Hopefully the Phillies are playing in October as well.
Weather for next week - 80's outside, 30's inside. Really not fun at all to get off the ice and go outside and just melt in the "heat".
Enjoy the last long weekend of summer.
Later,
JH
Weather for next week - 80's outside, 30's inside. Really not fun at all to get off the ice and go outside and just melt in the "heat".
Enjoy the last long weekend of summer.
Later,
JH
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Holiday weekend
Mrs. JHcurl just sent out the schedule for ice making. What are you doing for the long weekend - BBQ, pool, beach? Us, we get to spend a long time in a windowless cold room watching water freeze. Yep, gonna start the whole process on Sunday so we can be done by the next Saturday. That way we can have the ice tech clinic folks help with the scraping and pebbling. At least we don't have to start curling right away.
On a more enjoyable topic, the Phightins' come back from an 7-0 hole to beat the Mutts last night. Back in first, hopefully to stay.
Later,
JH
On a more enjoyable topic, the Phightins' come back from an 7-0 hole to beat the Mutts last night. Back in first, hopefully to stay.
Later,
JH
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Early Ice
Well, the Phils are still winning and the Mutts won't lose. At least they are playing good right now. Big series coming up this week against the Mutts.
The title?, Nutmeg got approved by the USCA for early ice. Compressor goes on next weekend and we start the process on Labor Day. Should have ice by the 6th or 7th. Getting all our ducks in a row. Mrs. JHcurl is handling the schedule and already has a bunch of time set aside for various folks including the US wheelchair team (Bronze medalists from the Worlds).
Early ice means early GNCC news. The rocket scientist has a new men's team lined up and they will be in town for some practice. One of the Canadian transplants is lining up women for a "tryout" type event and hopes to form a team for the playdowns. That should be interesting. The wheelchair team is coming in for three days I think. I get the job of lining up some games for them.
Also having an ice tech clinic in September. Lots of fellow ice men coming in. Have to stock up the ice shed with some supplies (beer) to keep them happy as they help us scrape and pebble and shovel snow.
Info on the early ice can be found on the Nutmeg site if you are interested.
Later,
JH
The title?, Nutmeg got approved by the USCA for early ice. Compressor goes on next weekend and we start the process on Labor Day. Should have ice by the 6th or 7th. Getting all our ducks in a row. Mrs. JHcurl is handling the schedule and already has a bunch of time set aside for various folks including the US wheelchair team (Bronze medalists from the Worlds).
Early ice means early GNCC news. The rocket scientist has a new men's team lined up and they will be in town for some practice. One of the Canadian transplants is lining up women for a "tryout" type event and hopes to form a team for the playdowns. That should be interesting. The wheelchair team is coming in for three days I think. I get the job of lining up some games for them.
Also having an ice tech clinic in September. Lots of fellow ice men coming in. Have to stock up the ice shed with some supplies (beer) to keep them happy as they help us scrape and pebble and shovel snow.
Info on the early ice can be found on the Nutmeg site if you are interested.
Later,
JH
Friday, August 15, 2008
An online curling institution closes
Farewell to InTheHack. It is where I got my start in the world of online curling stuff including blogging.
I got to meet Mike on one of my trips to Ottawa. Nice guy and he was really forward thinking about doing stuff on the internet. I guess Gerry and Dallas are now the kings of internet curling chat. Well, they are nice guys too.
If you need some curling gloves for this season sounds like Mike still has a bunch. I will be ordering some for this year. Who knows, they might even be a collectable at some point with the InTheHack logo on them.
Thanks Mike for making InTheHack a place to meet new friends and find people to argue with over curling.
Time to head over to CZ and start up the discussions that were pending at ITH.
Later,
JH
I got to meet Mike on one of my trips to Ottawa. Nice guy and he was really forward thinking about doing stuff on the internet. I guess Gerry and Dallas are now the kings of internet curling chat. Well, they are nice guys too.
If you need some curling gloves for this season sounds like Mike still has a bunch. I will be ordering some for this year. Who knows, they might even be a collectable at some point with the InTheHack logo on them.
Thanks Mike for making InTheHack a place to meet new friends and find people to argue with over curling.
Time to head over to CZ and start up the discussions that were pending at ITH.
Later,
JH
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda
Typically what we say after a day at the horse track. But the trip to Saratoga was great and the betting was pretty good.
Went up Saturday morning and arrived at the track in time for the second race. Watched the horses wander around the paddock and then made some bets. This was a "baby" race, all two year olds most of which had never run a race before. So it is a total crap shoot who will do well. Mrs. JHcurl picked the right winner and I had a couple to show. We ended up cashing in for $140 right away and that set the tone for the day. I think we only lost on one race and ended the day well ahead.
Had a nice meal that night at the place we stayed for part of the honeymoon. Also stayed there again and it is a very nice hotel.
Next day we are meeting some fellow curlers from Plainfield so we head for town to do a little shopping before the races. Back to the track with a table in the Terrace restaurant which is on the third floor with a wonderful view of the entire track. The betting day does not go nearly so well but still ahead overall. The rest of the crew heads out before the final race to get home at a decent hour. We decide to stay since we are staying the night and might as well hang out for a while. A really good decision was we hit the exacta and the trifecta in the last race for a win of $140. Once again puts us slightly ahead for the day. Only shoulda was we had actually picked the first four finishers (superfecta) and if we had bet it would have paid a nice $1100. Oh well.
A wonderful way to spend the almost anniversary weekend.
Later,
JH
Went up Saturday morning and arrived at the track in time for the second race. Watched the horses wander around the paddock and then made some bets. This was a "baby" race, all two year olds most of which had never run a race before. So it is a total crap shoot who will do well. Mrs. JHcurl picked the right winner and I had a couple to show. We ended up cashing in for $140 right away and that set the tone for the day. I think we only lost on one race and ended the day well ahead.
Had a nice meal that night at the place we stayed for part of the honeymoon. Also stayed there again and it is a very nice hotel.
Next day we are meeting some fellow curlers from Plainfield so we head for town to do a little shopping before the races. Back to the track with a table in the Terrace restaurant which is on the third floor with a wonderful view of the entire track. The betting day does not go nearly so well but still ahead overall. The rest of the crew heads out before the final race to get home at a decent hour. We decide to stay since we are staying the night and might as well hang out for a while. A really good decision was we hit the exacta and the trifecta in the last race for a win of $140. Once again puts us slightly ahead for the day. Only shoulda was we had actually picked the first four finishers (superfecta) and if we had bet it would have paid a nice $1100. Oh well.
A wonderful way to spend the almost anniversary weekend.
Later,
JH
Friday, August 8, 2008
A weekend away
First to statisfy DC, the Phillies are still in first. The Mutts take on the Fish this weekend so the Phightins' need to sweep the Bucos.
And we are taking a weekend off of traveling to NJ for a little D&B in Saratoga Springs. That's drinking and betting. Staying at the hotel where we spent part of our honeymoon and our anniversary is only a couple of days away. So that is kind of appropriate.
Hopefully the weather improves up there. They cancelled todays racing after two races because of all the rain.
Later,
JH
And we are taking a weekend off of traveling to NJ for a little D&B in Saratoga Springs. That's drinking and betting. Staying at the hotel where we spent part of our honeymoon and our anniversary is only a couple of days away. So that is kind of appropriate.
Hopefully the weather improves up there. They cancelled todays racing after two races because of all the rain.
Later,
JH
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Curling club championship
As reported today in The Curling News blog there is now a national club championship being set up in Canada. As all my curling readers probably know there is also a US club championship. Interesting.....
There were rumblings that I heard about that the WCF was thinking about setting up a World club championship. I would think that with Canada on board this just might just be something that could occur. Of course, all the eligibility elements would have to be worked out. Who knows, probably wont happen until I am too old anyway. Got to start working on that senior team I guess.
Later,
JH
There were rumblings that I heard about that the WCF was thinking about setting up a World club championship. I would think that with Canada on board this just might just be something that could occur. Of course, all the eligibility elements would have to be worked out. Who knows, probably wont happen until I am too old anyway. Got to start working on that senior team I guess.
Later,
JH
Monday, August 4, 2008
Pork roll, tomatoes and corn
Sorry DC, no pork roll which I never remember calling Taylor Ham. But Chris we did have lots of hoagies, so many that the women at the pizza place now knows Mrs. JHcurl by name.
The added bonus of spending so much time at home was the fresh tomatoes from the garden. The extra added bonus yesterday was eating a sun warm tomato in the garden while picking others. Dad would save seeds from year to year to get the biggest and best plum tomatoes you can imagine.
Also picked up some fresh corn yesterday. Stopped by a local farm I know where you go into the barn and buy it off the tractor that just pulled in from the field. Yummy describes it all.
Yesterday was spent packing up the big stuff to haul home to CT. A friend of ours drove down in his pickup to help out. Of course, driving home on the NJ Turnpike and various NY roads at 70 mph, I was a little worried stuff might fall out. But everything was fine until we got about a mile from home.
On the Merritt Parkway, our friends truck about 10 cars ahead of us. All of a sudden traffic is coming to a screeching halt and I notice that the truck is the first car in the line of stopped cars and there is stuff laying on the side of the road. Turns out that a car in front of him lost two kayaks off the top and they were headed right for him. Lucky bounces took both of them off the road but it was close.
Got everything out of the old homestead at this point. Now just have to find a place for it at home.
Later,
JH
The added bonus of spending so much time at home was the fresh tomatoes from the garden. The extra added bonus yesterday was eating a sun warm tomato in the garden while picking others. Dad would save seeds from year to year to get the biggest and best plum tomatoes you can imagine.
Also picked up some fresh corn yesterday. Stopped by a local farm I know where you go into the barn and buy it off the tractor that just pulled in from the field. Yummy describes it all.
Yesterday was spent packing up the big stuff to haul home to CT. A friend of ours drove down in his pickup to help out. Of course, driving home on the NJ Turnpike and various NY roads at 70 mph, I was a little worried stuff might fall out. But everything was fine until we got about a mile from home.
On the Merritt Parkway, our friends truck about 10 cars ahead of us. All of a sudden traffic is coming to a screeching halt and I notice that the truck is the first car in the line of stopped cars and there is stuff laying on the side of the road. Turns out that a car in front of him lost two kayaks off the top and they were headed right for him. Lucky bounces took both of them off the road but it was close.
Got everything out of the old homestead at this point. Now just have to find a place for it at home.
Later,
JH
Saturday, August 2, 2008
"south" North Dakota??
Well we spent the day cleaning out the house. Had a lot of help from my cuz and his BIL and a few others. Good thing we got the 20 yard dumpster as it is almost full. Dad did not have one of anything. The least amount of stuff I found was the three chainsaws of which I think only one worked.
Was in the basement going through the myriad of tools and such. Mrs. JHcurl yells down that there is someone to see me. Turns out to be someone who I went to high school with and still lives in town and I think in the same house. I think that South Jersey (at least parts) are very much like the rural Midwest. People grow up and never leave. Spend their whole lives in the same town or at least close by. Not that that is a bad thing. I still miss the lifestyle here. It is so relaxed and down to earth. Mrs. JH would probably go out of her mind in a week. Me, I would be happy in the garden, fishing in the river and just watching the rest of the world progress into the future while South Jersey just rolled along.
Anyway, go catch up with DC in Finland now.
Later,
JH
Was in the basement going through the myriad of tools and such. Mrs. JHcurl yells down that there is someone to see me. Turns out to be someone who I went to high school with and still lives in town and I think in the same house. I think that South Jersey (at least parts) are very much like the rural Midwest. People grow up and never leave. Spend their whole lives in the same town or at least close by. Not that that is a bad thing. I still miss the lifestyle here. It is so relaxed and down to earth. Mrs. JH would probably go out of her mind in a week. Me, I would be happy in the garden, fishing in the river and just watching the rest of the world progress into the future while South Jersey just rolled along.
Anyway, go catch up with DC in Finland now.
Later,
JH
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