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The Screencaps Facebook Group is going strong
What a relief.
I can now open Facebook and see the great readers of this column conversing like adults and not arguing over school levies or random stupid topics like the effectiveness of roundabouts.
And I don't have to start the topics and/or moderate the conversation. Adults are being adults in the Screencaps Facebook Group and making the social media app actually useful.
Are you sick of Facebook? Make your experience a whole lot better. Go follow the Screencaps GROUP page where you get to set the topics.
SW Ohio beer sales update from my brother the beer man
Here are the major takeaways from his latest call on Thursday:
I don't believe this is real. Someone prove me wrong
I am on the hunt for the worst of the worst tipping requests from self-serve machines, especially gas pumps. I need to see at least one more photo of a pump requesting a tip before I'll believe this is real.
Email: joekinsey@gmail.com
Bachelor food reports
• Michael J. in Chiraq says:
The best frozen pizza is Garlic Bread Pepperoni Tombstone. So damn good. It's also a frequent meal when I've got the house to myself. Another meal I make when I'm by myself is Mac & Cheese with hamburger mixed in it. Since normally it's made with three kids in mind and they're not going to eat it with the meat mixed in.
• Chris in NE writes:
Saw JD in Wichita's post. Here are my worthless .02:
Clay Travis aka Rich Man's Division: Springing for delivery Lou Malnatti's from Chicago. Elite stuff if you like Chicago-style pie, also crazy expensive.
Best bang for your buck frozen pizza aka Screencaps: JD is spot on, Red Baron is really hard to beat. When they go on sale 4/$10 you gotta load up.
Sneaky best frozen Chicago-style pizza is the Brew Pub brand. It's like $8.
Worst frozen pizza aka Bobby Burack division aka I wouldn't feed this to a Colorado fan: Jacks. Jacks is terrible.
Trucks that go hard
• John L. spotted this one:
On the approach to the Lincoln Tunnel in NYC
Help a fellow TNMLer
• Kevin in Toboso, OH writes:
Mowed early this week (maybe last of the year). Deer hunting tonight. Here is my dilemma.
I am so pissed with the push mower I have. It is a craftsman (free from my mom who has aged out of push mowing) and runs just fine but the bagger absolutely sucks. Two, maybe three stripes and the discharge is plugged with grass. Colossal PIA. I have put new blades on twice and keep the thing clean. Scrape and wash after every mow. It just doesn't p/u enough grass. I loved my old mower but she finally gave up the ghost after 25 years. The bag on that SOB would drag on the ground it was so full.
Anyway, I feed the clippings to my moo critters and want a recommendation for a good self propelled push mower that will hold a giant freaking bag of clippings so I dont have to stop every 2 minutes to dump it. Thought I might snag a new one on sale this fall? Any advice from screen cap readers would be welcome.
Has to be a push mower because I still have a daughter that mows for her room and board.
Gas or Battery?
• Chris E. writes:
I mentioned on the new Screencaps FB page that now that my oldest is old enough, I'm ditching the lawn service and are going to mow our own.
My wife works a crazy ER schedule that is completely random, so when Jr. was born, we decided that the best way to keep the yard maintained consistently, and me being able to watch the littles - while she was working - was to hire someone to take care of it.
Now that Jr. is of age, we're getting back in the game! I'm starting from a clean slate equipment-wise and wanted to pose to the TNML crew the question "Gas or Battery" when it comes to mowers and string trimmers. I have less than half an acre of well-established, lush turf.
I like the convenience of battery (vertical storage, no gas cans, no mixing, no maintenance, ease of start-up, etc.) but wonder about the actual power/performance.
Looking at the higher-end walk-behinds that I can pair with a string trimmer with same battery type (i.e. the EGo 56V). From what I've read, two batteries will have me well covered for my lawn. Does anyone out there have 'Ragrets' or cautionary comments going with battery-based mowers?
Not doing it to save the whales, just want to find the most convenient option that will work for my situation.
#TeamSunset
• Rob in NC writes:
I don't have a preference of Set/Rise, they all are great and let you you know where you stand. My daughter got this tonight..High Rock Lake.
• Nathan in Atlanta checks in:
I have spent many summer nights on the Gulf of Mexico and that has made me a sunset man. It's hard to beat such consistent beauty. It's only enhanced by watching the kids run around while sunsets behind the pier. But, on this one morning in Jekyll Island, GA I became a sunrise man. No wonder they are called the Golden Isles.
• Tom Q. is also on this side of the aisle:
From my backyard in Wisconsin. Get to see these on a regular basis.
#TeamSunrise
• Matt W. in Indiana writes:
Sunrise.
Bodhi. He poop-walked into the pic.
First Tee. Day One at Whistling Straits.
#TeamBoth
• Owen B. writes:
Love ‘em both, but sunsets are tougher given the early wake up.
Sunset - Marquette, MI
Sunset - Gulf Shores, AL
Sunrise - Cadillac Mtn (Bar Harbor, ME)
Sunrise - Grand Canyon, AZ
Winter might have arrived for our Crosby, North Dakota readers
• Dillon L. says the high on Sunday is expected to be 25:
Our fall has been cut short up here with around 10-12 inches falling between last night and today. I'm only useful with the grill so I'm dubbing yesterday as the start of Blackstone winter. Actually wasn't too bad.
Kinsey:
For those of you who are new readers, we have a group of readers way up in the far northern reaches of North Dakota who send in reports on life just a few miles from the Canadian border. You could walk into Canada from the 9-hole golf course these guys play at.
I'll speak for the group when I say we love the Crosby, ND reports because it feels like early settlers of the Plains sending reports back to those in the east. This is big-boy winter weather territory.
I need to ask these guys how far it is to the nearest Taco Bell. I can't imagine hanging at the local bar and all of a sudden craving Taco Bell. That would be pure torture. Based on my initial Google Search it looks like the nearest Bell could be 67 miles south in Williston, ND.
That's it for this beautiful Friday morning. We're expected to set a new all-time high temperature this afternoon of around 81 degrees. Tomorrow it's going to be around 53, but for now, the windows and doors are open to let this incredible fall air flow through this suburban Ohio house.
Go hard for the next four hours and then enjoy those lunch beers and maybe a quick 9 before heading home to take your wives out to dinner. You've earned a quiet Friday.
Take care.
Email: joekinsey@gmail.com