New England B.S. Thread

The instrument, but maybe it would apply to the storage kind as well lol

Yeah idk how I would have dealt with it if I wasn't born in it. I was brought home in a snowstorm! That said, I wouldn't mind spending part of my life someplace where its warm half the year and warmer the other half lol.

 

Probably. I know that some of the craft bourbon distilleries are committing sacrilege and are using maple barrels for aging some of their one-offs now, instead of just new-charred American white oak.

 

Your Ford didn't have that?

Mine does--think it was part of the XLT power equipment group, which I thought you had.

 

Nah. Had a rear defroster instead, which honestly for me is handier, since snow from the bed always blows up and deposits itself on the rear glass during a storm. I'd prefer that this truck have that setup as well, but it is what it is.

 

I have both

You can see the grid for the defroster here.

 

Aha, that's cool. Was not an option in '16, I think. All of the trucks they had on the lot had either a rear slider or a rear defroster, but not both. Some of the more stripped-down XL's had neither.

 

I think I'd rather have just the slider if I had to choose.

There was never a time in the Tacoma where I wished I had a defroster there, but I love the slider. I've even used it for long pieces of wood trim that I didn't want to hang way out of the bed.

 

Interesting. at the rate the booze industry is coming up with stuff, ill never run out of new things to drink!

 

For sure. Makes it hard to keep all of your 'favorites' in stock though. I need to get a larger liquor cabinet because I have such a variety now, haha!

Meh. Sliders are nice during the summer, defrosters are nice during the winter. I have to go to work regardless of the weather, and it seems like I've always got a snowdrift up against my rear window by the time I get home. So for that alone I'd prefer the defroster, especially now that all the windows in a truck roll down, instead of just popping the rear edge out an inch or two.

 

I'm getting into cocktails which sucks. cause then the amount of stuff you need for a drink triples. Plus I also love beer and there is always new brews to try. I'm working on getting a nice stockpile going.

 

For sure. Plus you've got to keep all of the ancillaries like vermouth, a variety of bitters, etc.
The trouble with a nice stockpile is that you've got to stay on top of it. I went almost a year without replacing what I used up, figuring I'd just restock the next time I went to New Hamster. Ended up being a $250 trip, lol.

 

is it bad that I drop a hundred at those road stops every month or so?

 

Gotta love govt booze. although apparently our neighbors are pissed and consider it "tax evasion"

 

I call it smart shopping, In laws live in NH, this makes the drive down worth it.

 

No, because it'd be $130 if you did it in Maine.

Yeah...Maine actually has a spot on the tax form for you to 'volunteer' to pay taxes on stuff that you bought out of state.

 

I don't blame you. I try not to take our liquor laws for granted. I went to go buy beer in MA at 9am at a Market Basket and was disappointed.

 

now that's a waste of space

 

Girl's Rav4 says it's 92° here in Watertown.

Looks like this year in New England, we're having Winter > extended winter > Summer

 

Honestly it seems like the last couple of years the whole season schedule got rotated by a month. I had the boat in the water on a 70 degree day the weekend before deer season, we still had snow on the ground here a couple of weeks ago, etc.

 

just get a cap