There's too many things to celebrate: Oct 11 Monday Columbus Day Federal Holiday Oct 11 Monday Columbus Day State Legal Holiday Tennessee Oct 11 Monday Columbus Day State holiday 22 states Oct 11 Monday Fraternal Day State holiday Alabama Oct 11 Monday Yorktown Victory Day State holiday Virginia Oct 11 Monday Discoverers’ Day State Observation Hawaii Oct 11 Monday Native American Day State holiday South Dakota Oct 11 Monday Native American Day State Observation Oklahoma Oct 11 Monday Indigenous People's Day State Observation 30 states Oct 11 Monday Indigenous People's Day State holiday DC, ME, NE, NM Oct 11 Monday Indigenous People's Day Observance Oct 11 Monday American Indian Heritage Day State holiday Alabama Oct 11 Monday Boston Marathon (Tentative Date) Sporting event
I thought Columbus Day was everywhere in the country....guess not
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There's too many things to celebrate:
Oct 11 Monday Columbus Day Federal Holiday
Oct 11 Monday Columbus Day State Legal Holiday Tennessee
Oct 11 Monday Columbus Day State holiday 22 states
Oct 11 Monday Fraternal Day State holiday Alabama
Oct 11 Monday Yorktown Victory Day State holiday Virginia
Oct 11 Monday Discoverers’ Day State Observation Hawaii
Oct 11 Monday Native American Day State holiday South Dakota
Oct 11 Monday Native American Day State Observation Oklahoma
Oct 11 Monday Indigenous People's Day State Observation 30 states
Oct 11 Monday Indigenous People's Day State holiday DC, ME, NE, NM
Oct 11 Monday Indigenous People's Day Observance
Oct 11 Monday American Indian Heritage Day State holiday Alabama
Oct 11 Monday Boston Marathon (Tentative Date) Sporting event
I thought Columbus Day was everywhere in the country....guess not
It's also National Sausage Pizza day.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
Well while we are at it let us all wish oldfarmer50 a happy National Farmers Day.
I'll drink to that! Milk of course
Party pooper. :@
jmonroe
Well it's for the farmers...they grow milk, not alcohol.
For years I worked with a guy who had a smallish dairy farm, about 70 Guernsey’s. He said when he was a kid, after milking them he’d take a few nips of his fathers brew when he found his fathers hiding place in the barn for it until he got caught.
FWIW, I was never a big milk drinker but I do like buttermilk. Mrs. j won’t go near the stuff.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis Ultimate just like jmonroe's. '18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)
When I was working in the booze business I got a complaint one time about one of our local small distillers. They had introduced a vodka, which they made from local apples. Now, I never knew you could make vodka from fruit, but you can make alcohol from most anything that has sugars in it. Once it gets distilled a few times, the flavors are mostly gone and you have clear spirits.
What I did not know at the time (and neither did the distiller) was that there are international standards for what certain names of booze can contain and what they can be made from. When it came to vodka those allowed grain or potatoes, but not fruit. That was a dilemma. This outfit was making a tiny volume of the stuff, only selling it at their own storefront, wasn't going to export it, and wasn't trying to deceive anyone. What I ended up doing was writing him a letter informing him of the situation and letting him decide what he wanted to do. He told me his preference was to just carry on as-is for a while and see what happened. That was fine by me as I wasn't going to die on that issue.
It's eight days post my Myeloma bone marrow stem cell transplant surgery. I feel and look great and just waiting for my energy and cell counts to recover to near normal levels before I'm discharged from the hospital in about a week or so. Thank you all for your prayers and words of comfort.
Oh, and them Red Sox, they are just the tonic a sick body needs to heal.
It's eight days post my Myeloma bone marrow stem cell transplant surgery. I feel and look great and just waiting for my energy and cell counts to recover to near normal levels before I'm discharged from the hospital in about a week or so. Thank you all for your prayers and words of comfort.
Oh, and them Red Sox, they are just the tonic a sick body needs to heal.
That’s great news, keep up the good work.
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
they did just come out with a redesign and I don't recall that nose, but the side profile changed, and that is definitely the old window line. could be a photo trick too making the nose look longer.
When I was working in the booze business I got a complaint one time about one of our local small distillers. They had introduced a vodka, which they made from local apples. Now, I never knew you could make vodka from fruit, but you can make alcohol from most anything that has sugars in it. Once it gets distilled a few times, the flavors are mostly gone and you have clear spirits.
What I did not know at the time (and neither did the distiller) was that there are international standards for what certain names of booze can contain and what they can be made from. When it came to vodka those allowed grain or potatoes, but not fruit. That was a dilemma. This outfit was making a tiny volume of the stuff, only selling it at their own storefront, wasn't going to export it, and wasn't trying to deceive anyone. What I ended up doing was writing him a letter informing him of the situation and letting him decide what he wanted to do. He told me his preference was to just carry on as-is for a while and see what happened. That was fine by me as I wasn't going to die on that issue.
According to U.S. law Vodka has to be a neutral spirit so it can be from any source as long as it's distilled enough to remove any color, flavor and order. So yes it can be made from apples.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
When I was working in the booze business I got a complaint one time about one of our local small distillers. They had introduced a vodka, which they made from local apples. Now, I never knew you could make vodka from fruit, but you can make alcohol from most anything that has sugars in it. Once it gets distilled a few times, the flavors are mostly gone and you have clear spirits.
What I did not know at the time (and neither did the distiller) was that there are international standards for what certain names of booze can contain and what they can be made from. When it came to vodka those allowed grain or potatoes, but not fruit. That was a dilemma. This outfit was making a tiny volume of the stuff, only selling it at their own storefront, wasn't going to export it, and wasn't trying to deceive anyone. What I ended up doing was writing him a letter informing him of the situation and letting him decide what he wanted to do. He told me his preference was to just carry on as-is for a while and see what happened. That was fine by me as I wasn't going to die on that issue.
According to U.S. law Vodka has to be a neutral spirit so it can be from any source as long as it's distilled enough to remove any color, flavor and order. So yes it can be made from apples.
When I was working in the booze business I got a complaint one time about one of our local small distillers. They had introduced a vodka, which they made from local apples. Now, I never knew you could make vodka from fruit, but you can make alcohol from most anything that has sugars in it. Once it gets distilled a few times, the flavors are mostly gone and you have clear spirits.
What I did not know at the time (and neither did the distiller) was that there are international standards for what certain names of booze can contain and what they can be made from. When it came to vodka those allowed grain or potatoes, but not fruit. That was a dilemma. This outfit was making a tiny volume of the stuff, only selling it at their own storefront, wasn't going to export it, and wasn't trying to deceive anyone. What I ended up doing was writing him a letter informing him of the situation and letting him decide what he wanted to do. He told me his preference was to just carry on as-is for a while and see what happened. That was fine by me as I wasn't going to die on that issue.
According to U.S. law Vodka has to be a neutral spirit so it can be from any source as long as it's distilled enough to remove any color, flavor and order. So yes it can be made from apples.
This was not in the US. Our laws are different.
I looked it up and the Canadian law states that vodka can be made from potatoes, grain or any other material of agricultural origin. It also states that if it's not produced from potatoes or from potatoes and anything else it has to state "produced from" with the items it was produced from. So from what I have come up with it would be perfectly legal in Canada as long as it's labeled "Produced from apples".
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
I looked it up and the Canadian law states that vodka can be made from potatoes, grain or any other material of agricultural origin. It also states that if it's not produced from potatoes or from potatoes and anything else it has to state "produced from" with the items it was produced from. So from what I have come up with it would be perfectly legal in Canada as long as it's labeled "Produced from apples".
That is the definition since 2019. At the time it read:
"B.02.080 [S]. Vodka shall be a potable alcoholic beverage obtained by the treatment of grain spirit or potato spirit with charcoal so as to render the product without distinctive character, aroma or taste."
I didn't just pull it out of my wazoo. Since it was my job at the time I actually consulted with, y'know, experts, not some guy on the internet.
The 2015 S4 out of Arizona 11 months ago is no more. Cruising down the highway in top gear yesterday evening, a vibration, massive black smokescreen out the tailpipes, dummy EPC and Engine Lights, and loss of power. Towed to my Audi shop de jour by Triple A (95 minutes to get tow truck).
Short of 45,000 miles I'm getting a recommendation that I need (as suspected) a new engine, used or new. Very difficult to find a used S4 motor with such low mileage as mine. Ball park $7-9K for a used one 50 to 100K miles on it. Audi quoted $14,200 for a new one apparently.
The RISK of used cars.....:(
Of course, the shop manager says he's curious why the engine catastrophically failed too, since he's never seen one with low mileage fail, but that the diagnostic money for that is better put towards a new engine (used or new).
'18 Porsche Macan Turbo, '16 Audi TTS, Wife's '19 VW Tiguan SEL 4-Motion
The 2015 S4 out of Arizona 11 months ago is no more. Cruising down the highway in top gear yesterday evening, a vibration, massive black smokescreen out the tailpipes, dummy EPC and Engine Lights, and loss of power. Towed to my Audi shop de jour by Triple A (95 minutes to get tow truck).
Short of 45,000 miles I'm getting a recommendation that I need (as suspected) a new engine, used or new. Very difficult to find a used S4 motor with such low mileage as mine. Ball park $7-9K for a used one 50 to 100K miles on it. Audi quoted $14,200 for a new one apparently.
The RISK of used cars.....:(
Of course, the shop manager says he's curious why the engine catastrophically failed too, since he's never seen one with low mileage fail, but that the diagnostic money for that is better put towards a new engine (used or new).
That’s always my fear when buying a used car. Maybe that’s why I buy cars that can be left on the side of the road when something big goes wrong.
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
that is certainly a bummer. value wise probably worth doing the replacement, though at that point you are just wondering about the health of another engine. Not sure what it is worth dead though.
The 2015 S4 out of Arizona 11 months ago is no more. Cruising down the highway in top gear yesterday evening, a vibration, massive black smokescreen out the tailpipes, dummy EPC and Engine Lights, and loss of power. Towed to my Audi shop de jour by Triple A (95 minutes to get tow truck).
Short of 45,000 miles I'm getting a recommendation that I need (as suspected) a new engine, used or new. Very difficult to find a used S4 motor with such low mileage as mine. Ball park $7-9K for a used one 50 to 100K miles on it. Audi quoted $14,200 for a new one apparently.
The RISK of used cars.....:(
Of course, the shop manager says he's curious why the engine catastrophically failed too, since he's never seen one with low mileage fail, but that the diagnostic money for that is better put towards a new engine (used or new).
That’s always my fear when buying a used car. Maybe that’s why I buy cars that can be left on the side of the road when something big goes wrong.
With used car prices these days you'd be forced to at least tow it to find out what your looking at....
Funny enough a young kid came by while I was stranded waiting for the tow truck and asked if I was interested in selling because he's bought cars from people stranded or with a broken down car before. LOL. He didn't make an offer. I took his name and number. LOL.
'18 Porsche Macan Turbo, '16 Audi TTS, Wife's '19 VW Tiguan SEL 4-Motion
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Beat me to it.
Oct 11 Monday Columbus Day Federal Holiday
Oct 11 Monday Columbus Day State Legal Holiday Tennessee
Oct 11 Monday Columbus Day State holiday 22 states
Oct 11 Monday Fraternal Day State holiday Alabama
Oct 11 Monday Yorktown Victory Day State holiday Virginia
Oct 11 Monday Discoverers’ Day State Observation Hawaii
Oct 11 Monday Native American Day State holiday South Dakota
Oct 11 Monday Native American Day State Observation Oklahoma
Oct 11 Monday Indigenous People's Day State Observation 30 states
Oct 11 Monday Indigenous People's Day State holiday DC, ME, NE, NM
Oct 11 Monday Indigenous People's Day Observance
Oct 11 Monday American Indian Heritage Day State holiday Alabama
Oct 11 Monday Boston Marathon (Tentative Date) Sporting event
I thought Columbus Day was everywhere in the country....guess not
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
It's also National Sausage Pizza day.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
Well while we are at it let us all wish oldfarmer50 a happy National Farmers Day.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
For those wanting to dig for the oldest years.
https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/october-12/
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
jmonroe
'18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
FWIW, I was never a big milk drinker but I do like buttermilk. Mrs. j won’t go near the stuff.
jmonroe
'18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)
https://hvwinemag.com/harvest-spirits/
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
Actually a lot of alcohol comes from grains
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
What I did not know at the time (and neither did the distiller) was that there are international standards for what certain names of booze can contain and what they can be made from. When it came to vodka those allowed grain or potatoes, but not fruit. That was a dilemma. This outfit was making a tiny volume of the stuff, only selling it at their own storefront, wasn't going to export it, and wasn't trying to deceive anyone. What I ended up doing was writing him a letter informing him of the situation and letting him decide what he wanted to do. He told me his preference was to just carry on as-is for a while and see what happened. That was fine by me as I wasn't going to die on that issue.
2017 Cadillac ATS Performance Premium 3.6
It's eight days post my Myeloma bone marrow stem cell transplant surgery. I feel and look great and just waiting for my energy and cell counts to recover to near normal levels before I'm discharged from the hospital in about a week or so. Thank you all for your prayers and words of comfort.
Oh, and them Red Sox, they are just the tonic a sick body needs to heal.
I’d rather have that than turkey.
2025 Ram 1500 Laramie 4x4 / 2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
jmonroe
'18 Legacy Limited with 3.6R (Mrs. j's)
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
Actually a lot of alcohol comes from grains
Don't forget the GRAPES!!!!!
Looks like an Acura SUV to me
Excellent news @bwia !
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '98 Alfa 156 2.0TS; '08 Maser QP; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '11 Mini Cooper S
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
2017 Cadillac ATS Performance Premium 3.6
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
? Fisheye lens?
"B.02.080 [S]. Vodka shall be a potable alcoholic beverage obtained by the treatment of grain spirit or potato spirit with charcoal so as to render the product without distinctive character, aroma or taste."
I didn't just pull it out of my wazoo. Since it was my job at the time I actually consulted with, y'know, experts, not some guy on the internet.
2017 Cadillac ATS Performance Premium 3.6
Even in Canada...
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
2021 VW Arteon SEL 4-motion, 2018 VW Passat SE w/tech, 2016 Audi Q5 Premium Plus w/tech
Well now I have to go get a kitchen sink.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
Well now I have to go get a kitchen sink.
Cruel and unusual punishment
2021 VW Arteon SEL 4-motion, 2018 VW Passat SE w/tech, 2016 Audi Q5 Premium Plus w/tech
2017 Cadillac ATS Performance Premium 3.6
It's just a very large banana split.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
punishmentnourishment.2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
The 2015 S4 out of Arizona 11 months ago is no more. Cruising down the highway in top gear yesterday evening, a vibration, massive black smokescreen out the tailpipes, dummy EPC and Engine Lights, and loss of power. Towed to my Audi shop de jour by Triple A (95 minutes to get tow truck).
Short of 45,000 miles I'm getting a recommendation that I need (as suspected) a new engine, used or new. Very difficult to find a used S4 motor with such low mileage as mine. Ball park $7-9K for a used one 50 to 100K miles on it. Audi quoted $14,200 for a new one apparently.
The RISK of used cars.....:(
Of course, the shop manager says he's curious why the engine catastrophically failed too, since he's never seen one with low mileage fail, but that the diagnostic money for that is better put towards a new engine (used or new).
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
tough call.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
Funny enough a young kid came by while I was stranded waiting for the tow truck and asked if I was interested in selling because he's bought cars from people stranded or with a broken down car before. LOL. He didn't make an offer. I took his name and number. LOL.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.