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Comment on The Illegal Dam by Rina van Coller

Rina van Coller — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:23:05 +0000

Full marks for Mr Ryan de Vries who are so passionaite about his beavers. I would have done the same. Please leave the poor beavers to do what they do best - building dams. Its their dam dam too!!

Comment on Where is Joe? by Joe

Joe — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:01:14 +0000

Joe is painting and painting and painting and sanding and cutting grass and cutting more grass and moving. And to infrequently sleeping. My internet is off where my computers are and on where they aren’t. I hope to rectify this during the weekend.

Comment on Trans-Am Day 11 - Lexington to Troutville, VA by Joe

Joe — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:59:58 +0000

I’m moving into a new house and have been swamped. I will hopefully have most of it up before then. Once I get my computers back up, I’m going to try to keep up the one day per week of posting the trip and editing the trip pictures.

Comment on How To Build Bicycle Panniers by Joe

Joe — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:58:52 +0000

Good Luck. I wish I took mine on a few more shake downs before the trip, but they did the job.

Comment on Where is Joe? by Brad

Brad — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:21:45 +0000

Good question! Where is Joe??

Comment on Trans-Am Day 11 - Lexington to Troutville, VA by Ken Gross

Ken Gross — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:19:18 +0000

Great journal and presentation of Trans-Am! Anything after day #11?

I researching making the trip, perhaps Spring of ‘09 after retirement.

Regards,

Ken Gross

Comment on How To Build Bicycle Panniers by trebuchet03

trebuchet03 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:50:43 +0000

Joe, I just wanted to say thanks! Making midship panniers for my ‘bent have been on the back burner for too long - I’m calling the folks at the rain shed tomorrow to get more info on a few fabric options (If the Yellow Keprotec with Kevlar is water resistant/proof, that’s what I’m buying ). I just wanted to say thanks for the inspiration - when I’m done, I’ll probably post it on instructables.com

Comment on Recipe - Mom’s Hamburger Stew by Mom

Mom — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:38:48 +0000

I am making this much simpler these days. I get 3 bags of the soup mix that has potatoes already in it and add it to the ground beef and spaghetti sauce.

This makes it so fast. You have to add water to it to make it actually soupy. I sometimes add Spike too.

I can also use leftover spaghetti sauce and 1 bag of soup mix. I tend to always add an onion - oh, well, I will need to learn to cook differently when Amy is here.

Comment on 30,000 Hours Later and I’m Engaged by JohnR

JohnR — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:03:51 +0000

Hey Joe,
I am glad that you had more inventiveness than I had , couldn’t think because of the nerves. Good Luck and God Bless you both in your new life together Kudo’s from the North

Comment on What an Engagement! by Amy

Amy — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:43:31 +0000

You’re right Joe! If something like this happened when you popped the question, it would not have changed my answer. You are far to amazing to lose like a balloon in the wind! I’m gratefully that you are smart enough not to hide a $12,000 ring inside a balloon. Also I am grateful that you know me well enough to know that a $12,000 ring to me would be too much! It’s not about what the ring cost it’s about the love that is behind it…I know that you know that already! That’s just one of the many reason why I picked you!

Comment on Amy and Joe by Nate and Sue and crew

Nate and Sue and crew — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:11:24 +0000

Sir PRIZE,SIR prize,SIR PRIZE!!! I guess the Sir Joe caught his prize Amy!!

Congratulations to the both of you and may you have at least 700,794 more hours of pure happiness together!!

May all your dreams come true
May all your skies be blue
The best is yet to be
Is this just too corn knee??

Any who,

God Bless

Love Aunt Sue and crew

Comment on Amy and Joe by Teresa

Teresa — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:05:01 +0000

Congratulation Joe and Amy! I am very excited for you.

Comment on How To Build Bicycle Panniers by Jon J

Jon J — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:19:20 +0000

Thanks for sharing your pannier expirence. Jon J.

Comment on How To Build Bicycle Panniers by joesacher.com » Blog Archive » Sewing Machine Lock Stitch

joesacher.com » Blog Archive » Sewing Machine Lock Stitch — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:50:22 +0000

[...] Here is the most ambitious thing I’ve made with a sewing machine. Posted by Joe Filed in Cool Images, How to [...]

Comment on Happy Birthday To Me by Joe

Joe — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:26:04 +0000

She can see the bags being made, if she hasn’t already, on this page.

I also put up a picture of Amy and I.

Comment on Happy Birthday To Me by Scott C.

Scott C. — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:27:06 +0000

Joe,
Have you posted any pictures of you and your bride-to-be?
Happy Birthday, oh yeah, I showed Tricia, my wife, your site and the pics of the bike and explained to her how you made your own bags, she was surprised at that, I told her if you went to school with him, you would not be surprised because he was one of the very few guys at Rose who did not seem to sweat too much trying to figure out just about anything. Reading some of your family’s posts gives me a little picture of why that is! Very cool.
SC

Comment on Happy Birthday To Me by Mom

Mom — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:57:00 +0000

Food Fact:

German desserts are primarily dry cakes - very thin - several layers with scrumptious fillings added between each layer.

When we make a German Chocolate Cake that is moist - and has only 2 or 3 layers - it is Americanized.

Comment on Happy Birthday To Me by Grace

Grace — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:42:04 +0000

Mine was dry when I made it from scratch, too. I think it’s the recipe more than the baking time. Might try adding a cup of sour cream. That’s my “secret” ingredient any time I make a chocolate cake, even from a mix. Makes it very moist and yummy.

Ok, off to my Weight Watchers meeting now…

Comment on Happy Birthday To Me by Brad

Brad — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:33:17 +0000

Happy Birthday Joe!

Sorry it’s late, forgot when your Bday was! That cake looks awesome!

Comment on Recipe - Pizza Dough and Sauce by Mom

Mom — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:26:53 +0000

Wow! I remember making so many pizzas when the boys discovered our girls! We had kids here all the time - tons of them.

I got the Pepperoni and Mozzarella cheese at a place like Sam’s - might have been Sam’s even - just don’t remember.

We had all kinds of toppings - and the sauce was Prego Mushroom Spaghetti Sauce with some tomato paste added in to make it thicker - and some Italain seasoning - or oregano - whichever I had handy.

My stone broke too - can’t remember if it had a pizza on it at the time - or if someone put it in the cold sink while it was hot - I believe it had a air bubble in it at the place where it broke. We graduated to those big round aluminum pans that had holes in them.

This pizza phase of our lives was just prior to Ruth and Grace meeting Mark and Paul - so, they don’t remember that.

When Mark and Paul started coming over for supper most nights, the other boys stopped coming - for some reason. So, we went back to regular meals.

One of our rules through the years had always been that you didn’t need to eat a lot of everything - but, you did need to take one spoonful of everything. Nobody dictated just how much you put on that spoon - but, you were not to complain about the food.

If you complained about whatever I cooked (even if it was tuna tacos - but, that is another story!) then I would give you another spoonful that you had to eat. If you said that you didn’t like it - you might get two spoonsful.

Our meals were really pleasant after that rule started getting enforced. Nobody complained. Sometimes they didn’t eat a lot and raided the fridge after I had gone to bed, but, we had complain free meals.

I remember one night when Rich(Dad for you all) ate the food without complaint - but, he told me later that he never wanted to have that served again. He really had no worry because I had already forgotten what was in it anyway! I think that was the night that our Chinese Goop story got started.

Now - here’s the reason I went into all of this -

When Mark and Paul started eating with us they were not real familiar with the variety of vegetables we ate. One night Mark took the bowl and gave Ruth a desperate look - she whispered to him to take a spoonful, eat it and keep his mouth shut or her Mom would give him another spoonful and make him eat it.

I had to leave the table! Rich came to find me and I was doubled over with laughter. He told me to not let the kids know what I overheard and to just act normal.

The boys were eating vegetables to be polite. By the time they married the girls, they told us they really didn’t mind vegetables that much anymore.

Oh, what guys won’t eat for love…..