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Actually 21 years is far too old for such a wine but this forgotten bottle was a surprise. Still very complex and elegant with black currant notes.
Eigentlich sind 21 Jahre viel zu alt für einen solchen Wein, aber diese vergessene Flasche war eine Überraschung: Immer noch elegant und vielschichtig mit Noten von schwarzer Johannisbeere.
If I could write a letter to me
And send it back in time to myself at 17
First I'd prove it's me by saying
"Look under your bed
There's a Skoal can and a Playboy
No one else would know you hid"
And then I'd say I know it's tough
When you break up after seven months
And, yeah, I know you really liked her
And it just don't seem fair
But all I can say is pain like that is fast and it's rare
And, oh, you got so much going for you, going right
But I know at 17 it's hard to see past Friday night
She wasn't right for you and still you feel like there's a knife
Sticking out of your back and you're wondering if you'll survive it
SL has many options to live...
i was for many years at the universe of GOR ( books written by John Norman)
This is the reunion party of the ghost marauders ...
Thank you for the great time an skoal!
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Would you like a cucumber sandwich? lol. 💋
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Ayy
My girl is bangin'
She's so low maintenance
Don't need no champagne poppin' entertainment
Take her to Wendy's
Can't keep her off me
She wanna dip me like them fries in her Frosty
But every now and then when I get paid
I gotta spoil my baby with an upgrade (ayy)
Ayy, ayy, ayy
Yeah, we fancy like Applebee's on a date night
Got that Bourbon Street steak with the Oreo shake
Get some whipped cream on the top too
Two straws, one check, girl, I got you
Bougie like Natty in the styrofoam
Squeak-squeakin' in the truck bed all the way home
Some Alabama-jamma, she my Dixieland delight (ayy)
That's how we do, how we do, fancy like, oh
Fancy like, oh
Fancy like, oh
Fancy like, oh
Uh, don't need no Tesla (don't need no Tesla) to impress her (to impress her)
My girl is happy rollin' on a Vespa (there she go)
Don't need no mansion (ooh) to get romancin' (woo)
She's super fine, double wide, slow dancin' (slow dancin')
But every now and then when I get paid
I gotta spoil my baby with an upgrade
Ayy, ayy, ayy
Yeah, we fancy like Applebee's on a date night (that's right)
Got that Bourbon Street steak with the Oreo shake (ayy)
Get some whipped cream on the top too (gotta add that whipped cream)
Two straws, one check, girl, I got you (girl, I got you)
Bougie like Natty in the styrofoam (styrofoam)
Squeak-squeakin' in the truck bed all the way home (all the way home)
Some Alabama-jamma, she my Dixieland delight (ayy)
That's how we do, how we do, fancy like
My new, clean blue jeans without the holes in 'em
Country kisses on my lips without the Skoal in 'em
Yeah, she probably gon' be keeping some Victoria's Secrets
Maybe a little Maybelline but she don't need it
In the kitchen light radio slows down
Boxed wine and her up-do goes down
Ayy
Yeah, we fancy like Applebee's on a date night (that's right)
Got that Bourbon Street steak with the Oreo shake (ayy)
Get some whipped cream on the top too (gotta add that whipped cream)
Two straws, one check, girl, I got you
Bougie like Natty in the styrofoam (styrofoam)
Squeak-squeakin' in the truck bed all the way home (all the way home)
Some Alabama-jamma, she my Dixieland delight (ayy)
That's how we do, how we do, fancy like
The Baltika brewery (пивоваренная компания Балтика) was built in Leningrad in the new mixed-use district of Parnas according to the design of the Gipropischeprom-2 Institute. Construction of the brewery began in 1978 and was completed in 1990, just a year before the collapse of the USSR, with the brewery receiving the most modern equipment. In 1992, like most other enterprises, it was privatized and reorganized into a joint stock company of open type (ОАО Балтика). The largest shareholder and investor of Baltika became the Scandinavian holding Baltic Beverages Holding AB (BBH), later absorbed by Carlsberg and Scottish&Newcastle. The company promptly developed a line of new beers called Baltika No. (from 0 to 9 as the strength and ageing increases), which became extremely popular in the 1990s in the former USSR and was sold abroad. In 2008, Baltika fully joined the Carlsberg Group, which became the owner of 85% of shares; in 2012, the Carlsberg Group bought the remaining shares from minority shareholders, becoming the owner of 100% of Baltika Breweries. In 2013, a decision was made to change the organizational and legal form from a joint stock company to a limited liability company. Today Vladimir Putin signed a decree on nationalization of the company.
Skoal!
I wear a greasy ball cap
I like my shirt un-tucked
I spend Saturdays working on my truck
I don't like to fight
But I ain't scared to bleed
Most don't mess with a guy like me
'Cause guys like me drink too many beers on Friday after work
Our best blue jeans have Skoal rings
We wear our boots to church
So rough around the edges
It's hard to believe that girls like you
Love guys like me
**Eric Church**
(Client)
The Baltika brewery (пивоваренная компания Балтика) was built in Leningrad in the new mixed-use district of Parnas according to the design of the Gipropischeprom-2 Institute. Construction of the brewery began in 1978 and was completed in 1990, just a year before the collapse of the USSR, with the brewery receiving the most modern equipment. In 1992, like most other enterprises, it was privatized and reorganized into a joint stock company of open type (ОАО Балтика). The largest shareholder and investor of Baltika became the Scandinavian holding Baltic Beverages Holding AB (BBH), later absorbed by Carlsberg and Scottish&Newcastle. The company promptly developed a line of new beers called Baltika No. (from 0 to 9 as the strength and ageing increases), which became extremely popular in the 1990s in the former USSR and was sold abroad. In 2008, Baltika fully joined the Carlsberg Group, which became the owner of 85% of shares; in 2012, the Carlsberg Group bought the remaining shares from minority shareholders, becoming the owner of 100% of Baltika Breweries. In 2013, a decision was made to change the organizational and legal form from a joint stock company to a limited liability company. Today Vladimir Putin signed a decree on nationalization of the company.
Skoal!
insulated isothermal wagon model 16-6935 was designed for the Baltika Breweries LLC on the base of covered wagon model 11-280 built by Altayvagon (code 22) and was produced from 1991 y. This car was refurbished by the "Wagon repair depot Pavelets" (code 416, Moscow region) in 2017 y from the car made by the Altayvagon in 2004. Due to some internal modifications made for beer's glass bottles transportation its internal space reduced to 100 m3 from initial 138 and load is shortened to 63 t. This car has lost both the characteristic original blue coloring of the Baltika cars that appeared on the railroads in the late 1990s and large inscription "Baltika" the last obviously because of the law on advertising of alcoholic beverages, however, it retains a small inscription "БАЛТИКА" seen to the upper right.
She's a promotional model at an un-named smokeless tobacco hospitality suite at the NHRA U.S. National drag races.
If she contacts me, I'll give her the hi-res version if she could use it.
Porsche 956 Group C Race Car, originally part of the Rothmans Team before rebranding for Skoal Bandit
This sculpture was seen at the inner courtyard of the FWHTG (university of applied sciences / technical college).
De gustabus non disputandum est!
On matters of taste, there is no dispute!
Skoal,
L'Chayim,
Cheers,
Slante,
To Your Health,
Salute/ Cin cin,
Baruch HaShem
...
Camelia 'Yule' is aptly named for the month of December. Merry Christmas and Seasons Greeting to my Flickr Friends (Skoal!)
insulated isothermal wagon model 16-6935 was designed for the Baltika Breweries LLC on the base of covered wagon model 11-280 built by Altayvagon (code 22) and was produced from 1991 y. This car was refurbished by the "Wagon repair depot Pavelets" (code 416, Moscow region) in 2017 y from the car made by the Altayvagon in 2004. Due to some internal modifications made for beer's glass bottles transportation its internal space reduced to 100 m3 from initial 138 and load is shortened to 63 t. This car has lost both the characteristic original blue coloring of the Baltika cars that appeared on the railroads in the late 1990s and large inscription "Baltika" the last obviously because of the law on advertising of alcoholic beverages, however, it retains a small inscription "БАЛТИКА" seen to the upper right.
The Baltika brewery (пивоваренная компания Балтика) was built in Leningrad in the new mixed-use district of Parnas according to the design of the Gipropischeprom-2 Institute. Construction of the brewery began in 1978 and was completed in 1990, just a year before the collapse of the USSR, with the brewery receiving the most modern equipment. In 1992, like most other enterprises, it was privatized and reorganized into a joint stock company of open type (ОАО Балтика). The largest shareholder and investor of Baltika became the Scandinavian holding Baltic Beverages Holding AB (BBH), later absorbed by Carlsberg and Scottish&Newcastle. The company promptly developed a line of new beers called Baltika No. (from 0 to 9 as the strength and ageing increases), which became extremely popular in the 1990s in the former USSR and was sold abroad. In 2008, Baltika fully joined the Carlsberg Group, which became the owner of 85% of shares; in 2012, the Carlsberg Group bought the remaining shares from minority shareholders, becoming the owner of 100% of Baltika Breweries. In 2013, a decision was made to change the organizational and legal form from a joint stock company to a limited liability company. Today Vladimir Putin signed a decree on nationalization of the company.
Skoal!
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Funniest picture ever. Notice the Skoal ring on the pocket of Mark's Wranglers. He made that using a power sander. He also packed his beef jerky chew and pretended to dip throughout the night. He looked so authentic that he got pulled onto the dance floor by a cowgirl. I also like the tire marks and empty cups on the ground.
The shadows grow long on a March evening in Pecos, Texas.
It’s 6:28 pm on Saturday, and though the bustling center of the Delaware Basin oilfields doesn’t sleep, it does wind down toward day’s end.
A field pumper rolls south on now-quiet Hwy 17, his white four-wheel-drive Chevrolet pickup truck spattered with mud and wearing a layer of dust after bouncing down the rough and rutted and potholed caliche roads that have been laid out to the oil and gas wells of the Chihuahuan Desert.
It’s been a long day, and he’s covered many miles checking on the production rates of his assigned wells. He’ll make sure his field compressors are still running, the flares are lit, the burners in his heater treaters are lit and the dump valves aren’t stuck open, check the VRUs---Vapor Recovery Units, gauge his on-site oil and water storage tanks, and call in his loads to the trucking companies. If the well is already connected to a gathering pipeline system, he will take the meter readings off the transfer pump, or LACT unit---Lease Automatic Custody Transfer unit, where barrels of oil are converted to dollars and cents as they are pumped out of the on-site storage tanks and into the buyer’s pipeline.
His day started before dawn, when he relieved the night pumper. If he’s lucky and has a good wife, she packed him a full lunch box, perhaps with menudo or chorizo or asada, or pot roast or barbequed brisket or grilled chicken breast and plenty of vegetables, all to be heated up on-the-go in a plug-in-the-cigarette-lighter oven.
Around 11:30 in the morning, his breakfast tacos have worn off. He’ll find a quiet place on the edge of a lease pad miles from civilization, pull down his tailgate and enjoy his lunch amongst the creosote bush and cactus of the wide-open Pecos River Valley.
But by 6:28 pm, he’s worn out, bone-tired from the bone-jarring roads he’s spent his day on. Perhaps he’ll stop just down the road at the Burrito Depot and pick up a couple with asada con papas, stop at the Pilot truckstop and fuel up the Chevrolet and run in and get another can or two of Skoal, and head home.
And no dirty boots in the house.
He’ll slip off his steel-toed Timberlands, slip on his flip-flops, and leave the boots on the floorboard of the pickup.
Around the shower drain will swirl the essence of the Delaware Basin: Caliche dust, sweat, body odor, sulfur, and 40 API gravity crude oil.
He’ll swig down a Coors Light or two, or maybe a couple of Carta Blancas with lime, and tell his wife about his day as the kids clamor for his attention.
Sleep will come easy.
On this Saturday evening, the Pecos Valley Southern is quiet as well. A 60-year-old GP35 with a colorful past sits silent on the light iron, her prime mover switched off, gondolas and bulkhead flats of downhole casing knuckled up on her drawbar.
The old mill has come a long way from the day in 1965 when she rolled out of La Grange wearing the new Frisco image of mandarin and white paint. She would come to know the Cascade green and black of the Burlington Northern before the H1 of the BNSF.
Larry’s Truck and Electric slapped white LTEX lettering onto the cab below the road numbers, swatted her on the ass and sent her south to Texas.
Come Monday morning the crew will arrive early, and sixteen cylinders will cough out their characteristic blue EMD smoke as they come to idle. Paralleling Texas Hwy 17, they’ll shove south under Interstate 20, past the Eagle’s Nest and Box House Village and Pecos Sun RV parks, passing the turnouts for two transload spurs along the way until they arrive at CTAP pipe yard, a little more than three miles from their starting point. The money-making portion of the shortline stops here, where they will swap loads for empties and head back north to the small company yard alongside Union Pacific’s former T&P Toyah Subdivision mainline.
25 miles south of CTAP at Saragosa, the rails disappear into the sands of Reeves County, still pointing towards the Davis Mountains and Wild Rose Pass and the Mexican border that the initial $45,000 dollars’ worth of capital in the year 1909 never allowed J.G. Love and F.W. Johnson to realize. The line reached San Solomon Springs at Toyahvale, 40 miles south of Pecos, and stopped, there to be condemned to the same meager existence that so many desert shortlines have suffered from throughout history.
Today’s PVS is a Watco property, the company website describing it as having a trackage length of 27.8 miles, most of it covered in blown sand and Russian Thistle that has sprouted up in profusion along the roadbed. At that distance, the railheads are covered by the blacktop surface of Reeves County Road 311 as it crosses the roadbed and winds its way through the irrigated alfalfa and cotton fields of the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas.
South of there, if one knows just where to look, the old roadbed is still visible to the discerning eye. In the early 1970s, big yellow Caterpillar earthmovers---bulldozers and scrapers and graders and sheep’s-footed rollers---bit into it, ripped the heart out of it, transported it, spread it around and compacted it, and then the pavers laid the lanes of Interstate 10 across it, cutting off any hope of an old 4-4-0 rolling a rickety coach filled with tourists of ever again reaching the soothing waters of San Solomon Springs.
Time keeps ticking.
In a few hours, our pumper will shut off his blaring alarm, pour himself a cup of coffee and sit at the kitchen table and contemplate the day.
There are no Sundays in the oilfield.
---RAM
Rick Malo©2025
A very wet West Quay, Ramsey.
A foretaste, perhaps, of what was to come on the Friday of race week.
The three bikes in the foreground are two GSX-R Suzukis (the middle bike looks to be in Skoal Bandit colours) and an MHR 900 Ducati.
This sticker collection started in Halloween 2001 and it goes as follows: Plankton Man, Naco, DC Shoes, Emerica, ESM Artificial, Pop Lab, Hello Shitty, Acamonchi, Cacamonchi, Baker Skateboards, Buddy Cianci has a posse, Yoda, Join and Die, Propaganda, Flanda, Atletico Sound sister, Cleon Peterson, Luke Skywalker, Transworld Skateboarding, Thrasher Magazine, Paul Frank, Vegetarians are sprouting all over, Apple, Pepe Deluxe, Phunk Studios, C-3PO is gay, Crass, The Cure, Menudo, Dave Kinsey, Unlearn, Obey, Obey Giant, Apathy, Suave Records, Nortec Collective, El Santo, Phantasma, Go South, Atletico, Pig, At Syber, Submit, The Seventh Letter, Ford Proco, Skoal, Evoke, Evoker, Voke, Stain, Arte Postal, Pop Tripper, Vision Street Wear, Evil Design, Cha3, Spacewurm, Genomh, Get Down, Escientific Collective, Burton Snowboards, Willy Santos, Do The Math, DTM, Understood Skateboard Artshow, Eye Candy Magazine, Tu No Existes, Pink Panther, Stale Donut, Tillamok Cheddar, Superior Mix Drum and Bass, With Remote, Conformity Equals Midlife Crisis, Poopie Pants, I Threw Up, Jeff Koons, Michael Jackson, Bubbles, Love Gun, Pop Lab, Guerrilla Fanzine, Nortec, Colosio, Zero Lopez, The Visual Mafia, REP, Circa, Zero Chris Cole, Flying V, Volcom, DC shoes, Unlearn, Muska.
1983 Brands Hatch 1000kms winner, John Fitzpatrick and Derek Warwick. One of just two original 956 to beat the factory team. Sole 956 to race, and win in the US, Elkhart Lake. 2nd at Imola and podium at Silverstone in 1984 for final JFR owned round, in Skoal Bandit #55 livery. Raced at Le Mans by Alain de Cadenet and Chris Craft in 1984.
Chassis #114. One of only four Works Rothmans spec cars built for the lead privateer teams. Podium and led Le Mans in 1984, plus 2 fourth places in ‘85 and ‘86. Pole at Spa and multiple podiums in 1984, and secured Derek Bell the 1986 Drivers World Championship due to a tiebreaker in a Supercup race that year.
1983 Brands Hatch 1000kms winner, John Fitzpatrick and Derek Warwick. One of just two original 956 to beat the factory team. Sole 956 to race, and win in the US, Elkhart Lake. 2nd at Imola and podium at Silverstone in 1984 for final JFR owned round, in Skoal Bandit #55 livery. Raced at Le Mans by Alain de Cadenet and Chris Craft in 1984.
Chassis #114. One of only four Works Rothmans spec cars built for the lead privateer teams. Podium and led Le Mans in 1984, plus 2 fourth places in ‘85 and ‘86. Pole at Spa and multiple podiums in 1984, and secured Derek Bell the 1986 Drivers World Championship due to a tiebreaker in a Supercup race that year.
**Explored**
I wish I had a party to go to in this get up today. It's fun dressing like pwt. Do you like my necklace? I made 'er myself. ;)
Hope everybody has fun plans for Halloween. I plan on doing my drinking right here at the lake where I don't have to drive anywhere. And in case you were curious, I do plan on wearing this for the rest of the day. Haha. I might even drive up to the liquor store to get some 40's of Colt 45 in this. It seems appropriate.
365 Days (self portraits): Day 214