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Good point. I'm using cider vinegar as a fairly minor component, but you're absolutely correct. Your linked video is the one I watched that sold me on butcher paper for the wrap. The brisket got past the stall overnight without any wrap, but I'm still going to wrap it soon to preserve moisture. It's at 190 F now. In a couple of hours I'll add a rack of ABTs (bacon-wrapped jalapeño poppers) to the smoker. The family now insists on those whenever I smoke something.

That's what I think too. Even if you're OK telling your best buddy, you have no idea who else he talks to in his circle of friends. He could easily tell someone else in a conversation, "hey, I was over at John house, you should see all the firearms he has". So, loose lips sink ships, the less people who know what you have and where it's stored, the better. Even my wife doesn't know what's in my collection. My two boys have a better idea, since they go to the range with me. That's it. Some other family members know I own "something", but that's where it ends. Criminals aren't usually known to the sharpest knives in the drawer, and will attempt to break in and steal stuff, even with alarm systems. This is why I feel video surveillance is way better than alarm systems, so you will have video proof of what happened, not just an alarm going off.

You have to have claimed at least one child dependent to get the rebate check. No checks to seniors or couples with grown or no children. That leaves out the majority of NJ citizens. JERSEY SUCKS!

If a town reassesses ONLY your house and find the value higher, your tax bill will go up and everybody else's will go down a little. If they reassess all of the houses in your town and they are all found to be higher, the tax bill will be the same. The town's budget doesn't increase just because the property values go up.

Tax offices or municipalities don't get more revenue because home values go up, or less if they go down. Property values simple determine what percent each resident contributes to the budgets bottom line. It's only a joke because under a business it's 100% an investment, land isn't depreciatlble but the taxes are expenses, and the structures are all depreciate capital assets with write offs and expenses. Imagine if the average person was given the same tax treatment...

If one is reasonably confident in their storage and overall home security, then they have the luxury of making themselves a target for a firearms burglary. It doesn't mean someone won't try, it's just they are less likely to get away with it. Make no mistake, moving or not, leaving guns or ammo out in plain view can only invite problems. Sometimes people you know and think you can trust, simply cannot resist temptation. I'm not talking about your best buddy, though you can't entirely rule out close friends. But, the less you know someone, the more likely they are to steal something from you, and the more tempting it is, the more likely they are to do it.

This. I moved two years ago and I told my realtor that showing were to be by appointment only with NO exceptions. I told him there were guns and ammo in the home and there could be no lockbox on the house and nobody could be allowed to be in the master suite without being accompanied by my realtor (that's where the safe was). Between that and the camera I was reasonably confident that things would be fine, and they were. I didn't care that people knew I was a gun owner (I couldn't really hide my reloading room) but I wanted to be sure strangers had as little access to the guns as possible.

ALL BLACK SOLD

Actually one year ago yesterday we sold our NJ house. One year ago today we permanently landed here in FL.

Shamelessly stolen from one of the pilot boards: Once in a while we just have to stand back in awe of our government. The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, is proud to be distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever - to 46 million people. Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, asks us, “Please Do Not Feed the Animals." Their stated reason for the policy is because "the animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves.” This ends today's lesson in irony....

love handles.webp Well, that didn't work. Anyway,,, shows Horizontal Harris saying that now that she's VP she needs to go to the gym to lose the love handles. Cat says she'll look funny without ears.