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As promised, I hiked a bit higher up today since was yet another very crisp and clear day to take some arial shots of our local lake San Marcos and our local dam. Boy oh boy, did I get fat and lazy over the winter as I was gasping a bit on this hike :D

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Next weekend the GSD and I are planning on hiking up this one which starts just a few miles drive from my house. This is about a 6 mile hike loop (I've been there several times and it's only moderately challenging). The neat thing about this hike is that there's a place up there with a pole exclusively dedicated to bygone doggies where people hang the collars of their departed best friends. I lost my Black Lab/Retriever Coal on March 2nd 2016 so it'll be fitting to retire his dog collar and tags the next weekend around the time of his anniversary since I couldn't make it up here last year. He loved this place :)

https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/elfin-forest-olivenhain-reserve-loop-trail

Maybe I'll also take the EDC1 plus perhaps the FK-D3v for some glamor shots only :cool:
 
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The weather guessers finally got it right. They said that it would snow and it did. I think we had about 2" on the ground when it got cold enough to stick. It was 14º at 6AM and warmed up to 22º at 8AM. Just a nice spring day in other parts of the country, but this is AZ.
 
grogimus said:
The plants are struggling but keeping pepper plants going indoors through the winter has its upsides. These two Apocalypse Scorpions should jazz up a batch of chili pretty well.

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Are those as fuming hot and nasty as their name suggests?!
 
Casinostocks said:
Are those as fuming hot and nasty as their name suggests?!
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It's pretty brutal. I like growing hot peppers sometimes but I don't do crazy stuff like eating them whole. Those two will be all the heat a big pot of chili needs. I brought about 15 plants in before it froze, looks like 10 of them are going to make it till spring. I let a Carolina Reaper plant go to seed and it's looking pretty rough, hopefully it pulls through since it's my last one.
 
My wife won't eat anything that even tingles. One time when we were in Sedona I decided to try the salsa with the warning sign. I think it was just made with habaneros. I dipped the corner of a corn chip in it and eat it. "Well", I said, "That's not too..................:eek:" HORY SHEET! My throat burned for an hour.
 
grogimus said:
It's pretty brutal. I like growing hot peppers sometimes but I don't do crazy stuff like eating them whole. Those two will be all the heat a big pot of chili needs. I brought about 15 plants in before it froze, looks like 10 of them are going to make it till spring. I let a Carolina Reaper plant go to seed and it's looking pretty rough, hopefully it pulls through since it's my last one.
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My pallet has developed a higher tolerance than some so I eat fresh jalapeño and serrano peppers whole with food but dang I rather be tarred and feathered than letting fresh habanero or ghost peppers touch my tongue!!! Those which you grow look like they belong up there in the same hotness level!
 
Casinostocks said:
My pallet has developed a higher tolerance than some so I eat fresh jalapeño and serrano peppers whole with food but dang I rather be tarred and feathered than letting fresh habanero or ghost peppers touch my tongue!!! Those which you grow look like they belong up there in the same hotness level!
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We might make a little more out of those hot ass peppers in the Midwest. I don't have a long enough growing season for most of the superhots to mature here. Those Apocalypse Scorpions were blooming in August of last year, they're just now ready.

A guy a couple blocks over grew two Carolina Reaper plants this year, they were as tall as I was in October and had 200 pods apiece easily. He couldn't identify the location of his children though, I was concerned about their fertilizer needs.
 
Maybe one of the ugliest things posted here. I made this knife 3 or 4 years ago for my brother in law. Before he was my ex brother in law and I wanted his skull as a drinking mug. He somehow got the weird vibe that I didn't care for him much anymore and gave the knife I made him to his oldest kid (my oldest nephew). It's pretty beat up and a bit dull now. 1084 steel, and my version of 'tooling' at the time was tracing over some patterns for gutters with a ballpoint.

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I hope your nephew appreciates that fugly thing for the time and feeling you put into his dads gift! It’s design suggests mucho functionality.
 
UffDa said:
My wife won't eat anything that even tingles. One time when we were in Sedona I decided to try the salsa with the warning sign. I think it was just made with habaneros. I dipped the corner of a corn chip in it and eat it. "Well", I said, "That's not too..................:eek:" HORY SHEET! My throat burned for an hour.
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Once upon a time I was pretty into fantasy football. It was mostly just because of the draft party though, we'd all make some good food and it was a good time. Most years I made stuffed jalapenos and whenever I did I'd make a couple using habeneros instead of jalapenos because it'd be funny to see some dumbass eat them. Without fail once the booze started flowing I would be that 'some dumbass' and eat them myself. :eek: I'm just glad I wasn't growing these superhots back then!
 
Bro my dad's hippie friends gave me a garden fresh habanero when I was like 10 years old...I was dying, I ate all of their ice and drank all of their milk. When I was in college, there was a wing spot called Cluck U, they had different levels of hotness ranging from nuclear to thermonuclear to 9-1-1--the secret ingredient in the 9-1-1 wings was literally pepper spray. So if your peppers stop kicking people hard enough, or you don't have enough one year, maybe you can just spray your super bowl fixins with pepper spray.
 
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