Who needs soap operas when we’ve got small towns?

[barnhart]

44, 43, 42 41 40 39 38 37....

[ohio jones]

T minus 7h45m until smoke down.

As you wish.

I was going to wait a bit longer, but since you started the countdown, the fire has been lit.

[JohnL]

I have one whole ham smoked down. Got another one started that should be ready by 9.
Things and people get really lopsided and mean when those summer temps climb.

[JohnH]

I have one whole ham smoked down. Got another one started that should be ready by 9.
Things and people get really lopsided and mean when those summer temps climb.

It's been 75° F (24° C for you if you're on the other side of the pond) today. Tempers seem not to be temping too much, although my kids did seem to have Saturday-afternoon naughtiness that was remedied with a few 3 minute timeouts, which needed restarted a few times.

[Szdfan]

101 today. It’s so dry that there’s a red flag burn ban in place. Severe thunderstorm warning.

[temporal1]

62F now, drizzle this morning, 49F tonight. nice+cold. and wet.

[Soloist]

101 today. It’s so dry that there’s a red flag burn ban in place. Severe thunderstorm warning.

Wife: Still preheating here. Enjoying my AC though.

[R7ehr]

78 here now, high of 80, low of 53.

[Soloist]

78 here now, high of 80, low of 53.

I miss Summers west of the Rockies with low humidity, and especially in the northwest where there were only one or two nights a year that the window fan wasn’t enough.

I don’t miss the smoke though that you’ll be getting later this summer

[sojourner]

Well, since I do like a good mystery, let me pile on.

I don’t really have a reason to doubt this article as truth.
While the OP has in the past shown that he’s a bit forgetful (Such as starting multiple threads with similar content only a few months apart) he’s talked quite a bit about smoking.
If someone is spinning tales, it’s really hard to keep things straight especially if you’re older and forgetful to begin with.
Even tho I believe he feigns ignorance in regards to MaxPC, I don’t think that his posts are primarily fiction. IMO he’s interested in conversation but not interested in exposing the link between himself and MaxPC. Perhaps because Max wanted it that way.

Hi sojourner (sorry don't know you're real name). Piling on. Is that a Mennonite thing?
Yep I forget I already started a thread on a topic once. Maybe twice. But that's because posts and topics whizz by so fast on this forum it's sometimes hard for me to keep up. Then there's those who deliberately sidetrack a thread. Whatever.
Nope, don't know Max at all. Don't know why that fiction persists. Maybe it's a part of that Mennonite game. Again Whatever.
If you have any questions about smoking meats or cheeses I can chip in on that.
Have a gooder.

Hi John or whatever your real name is.
I'm a busy man thus my delayed reply.
I'm unsure why you'd want to credit Menno's with a popular modern day idiom. Although I guess it's a method of deflecting.
I sure don't mind if you start multiple threads about the same thing or your tendencies to be forgetful. I was merely pointing out similarities between you and Max. I've noticed some other similarities as well.
Notably, you mostly ignoring past veiled references to the connection between you and Max.
Any other person would wonder why he is thought to be someone else all together. However, you are content to basically say,"Nothing to see here, don't know him, carry on". Or simply ignore it. EXACTLY how Max would respond when being called out with his glaring inconsistencies.
Anyways, I have always taken your posts at face value. If it weren't for this "hard evidence" I wouldn't think anything unusual about your posts.
And I'm not tech savvy enough to know if this "hard evidence" really does implicate you or not. However, most here seem to think it does.
Max certainly bent the truth a long ways, so if you are the same person; it's reasonable to think you'd do the same.
The "fiction" persists because you have never fully addressed it. It would really be quite simple to make it all go away. This isn't rocket science. Either you enjoy the soap opera, or you don't want the truth revealed. Nobody is going to buy "Nothing to see here."
You've spoken a few times of Mennonite games. 2 games that were popular when I was a youth were v-ball and rook. Other games, on these threads, might not be games, but life. Not even being played only or mostly by Mennonites. Many folks are represented here from different walks of life. In the Menno world there is a very broad spectrum where only a fraction of which is represented here.
I really know nothing about smoking meats or cheeses. I do tend to use my fire pit for grilling purposes in the summer.
Well, that concludes this evenings soap opera.
P.S. My former neighbor moved to NC a couple of years ago. Close to the coast. I keep thinking of going down there visit him. Maybe work will slow this fall...