I use lump exclusively. I think it takes slightly longer to get to temp, but not by much. It also leaves much less ash, and I don’t have to clean out my ashes as often. Also, when done with a cook, I just shut the vents and let the fire die out. When I go to light the grill again, there is some...
My wife and I made around $5k more in 2023 than we did the previous year. We ended up owing $1800 this year, where last filing we only owed $200. Nothing has changed. Same jobs, same deductions, just a slight raise for both of us.
Funny thing is that last year we got an $18 refund from the...
I bought a huge box of 250 tumbleweeds on Amazon about 2 years ago. They never go bad. Put it under a chimney for high heat cooks, or right in the middle of a pile for slower cooks. Haven't needed lighter fluid yet. And I do save my used paper towel rolls to get the chimney going faster.
2025 Hot Salma stole my wallet and used my ID to buy a hunting and fishing license and now the State is considering new legislation authorizing a new universal license that includes access to all sporting events.
That should cover it.
LED lights will easily last 10+ years. Its the LED drivers that are the problem. Cheaper bulbs use cheap drivers to convert the 120v to the lower voltage of the LED bulb. It's not the LED that goes bad, its the drivers. Buy good bulbs (dont cheap out) and they will last a long time.
If one of my boys came home and told me his date's dad had done any one of the things in this thread, or even worse, I would have laughed and said "thats a good dad right there."
And as to the comment about "threatening to murder an adolescent" - brother, if anyone, of any age were to hurt one...
My oldest daughter went to prom when she was 17 with a boy as just friends. I knew the kid and wasn’t to worried, but I’m still a dad.
He picked her up in his dad’s shiny lifted Jeep, opened the door for her, and came around to get in the drivers door as me and the wife watched. I yelled “HEY”...