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03-29-2020, 01:05 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: North of Seattle, WA
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What are you doing to pass your "Stay at Home Time"?
No doubt many of us here had other plans for their time about now. If your RV is at home, many might have run out of projects by now so what are you doing to pass the time.
For me, I spend a lot of time reading, watching an occasional movie on Amazon Prime, and ride my bike around my deserted streets when the weather is nice.
I also have been giving my smoker a workout. Our local "Cash and Carry" store that usually supplies small restaurants has had a large supply of meat. I recently picked up a large Brisket and full Pork Loin.
Smoked the Brisket the other day (13+ hours) then ran it through the slicer so I could pack it in "meal sized" vacuum bags. Froze them and they can be thawed/reheated using the Sous Vide method where they are just as good as if cut off the brisket fresh out of the smoker.
Right now I'm doing the same for the Pork Loin that spend most of yesterday marinating in the refrigerator. Plan on using the slicer to cut it into nice boneless, smoked, pork chops, which will be then vacuum packed and frozen just like the brisket.
I have a Son and Daughter who live fairly near and I just get some of the frozen packages to them using a "Cold War Spy Drop" method. I bring the packages to an agreed upon location and time. Put the package down, back off, then they pick it up and put it in their freezer.
Since I can't (or in reality shouldn't) eat a whole brisket or pork loin, I share some with the kids and the rest is now ready for when I can go camping again.
Quarantine issues aside, I've been doing this for a couple years now for smoked meat to take in my TT on trips. Replaced the Outside Kitchen refrigerator with a small freezer. Filled it with smoked meats, frozen veggies, and even a couple of treats. Run it on an inverter and it performs flawlessly with my 160 watt solar panel kit keeping up with the batteries Freezer only draws 96 watts.
Anyone else want to share what they're doing to fill the time they would otherwise be out camping in?
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03-29-2020, 01:31 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Wyoming, Iowa
Posts: 266
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Doing some basement remodeling and yard work on our acreage. Normally would be working on and washing the fifth wheel but due to the current circumstances, getting our fish and ski boat ready. Wife and I can self isolate on the local lakes/rivers doing some fishing. Thinking the rv may have to stay in the shed for some time.
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03-29-2020, 01:53 PM
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Multi-Slacker
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: SoCal
Posts: 2,279
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Building a Roubo-ish split top workbench and messing with the ~50,000 images in my digital library, reading.
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03-29-2020, 02:19 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2020
Posts: 712
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Not sure if you know of him already but check out Paul Sellers on YT. If you are building a Roubo-ish bench you are probably into hand tools. Good resource.
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Originally Posted by CurtPutnam
Building a Roubo-ish split top workbench and messing with the ~50,000 images in my digital library, reading.
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Working on mods to the new camper and preparing the sailboat for the season.
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2022 Grand Design Imagine 2800BH
2020 Rockwood Roo 19 (Sold Jul 2022)
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03-29-2020, 02:22 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2019
Posts: 4,298
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I’ve put off of major indoor wall painting project for years. It seems I could never get started on it because there were always more fun things to do outside. Well, as my adult son noted, it took a pandemic to get me stuck inside and finally get the painting started. As long as the home improvement store stays open, I’ll have no shortage of things to do.
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03-29-2020, 02:28 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: TEXAS
Posts: 9,097
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Reading, watching tv, editing my backload of videos, chores including yard work.
You've succeeded in making me extremely hungry for some good smoked meat.
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03-29-2020, 03:18 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2017
Posts: 158
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Restoring a 1977 Camaro LT with and for my 19 year old grandson.
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03-29-2020, 03:58 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: x
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Watching way to much NetFlix and eating way too much food
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03-29-2020, 03:59 PM
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Señor Member
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Pacific Northwet
Posts: 287
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Loading the woodshed for next winter, reading, some yard work, indoor house work, staring longingly at the RV.
Pretty much the same thing I do every March come to think of it now....
Edit: oh, yes. And helping DW bottle about 90 bottles of homemade wine.
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03-29-2020, 04:02 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: North of Seattle, WA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Reverse_snowbird
You've succeeded in making me extremely hungry for some good smoked meat.
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I'm always hungry for good smoked meat. Since I'm all alone in the house since 2016 I've found that my vacuum sealer and Sous Vide make it possible for me to keep plenty of it in the freezer so I can enjoy it for months. A 13# brisket was under $30. Cheaper than hamburger is currently selling for here and a lot tastier when cooked.
For those unfamiliar with Sous Vide cooking, it relies on the food being sealed in a container and heated to a specific temperature. A water bath and precision heater, capable of regulating water temp within one degree, allows one to return a piece of smoked meat from frozen to exactly the same state it was in when it came out of the smoker.
It's also perfect for cooking steaks that are absolutely perfect to your taste. Great to prepare steaks ahead of time then just give a couple of minutes on each side on a hot grill for the proper "char" without over-cooking the center.
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"A wise man can change his mind. A fool never will." (Japanese Proverb)
"You only grow old when you run out of new things to do"
2018 Flagstaff Micro Lite 25BDS
2023 f-150 SCREW XLT 3.5 Ecoboost (The result of a $68,000 oil change )
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03-29-2020, 05:13 PM
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Multi-Slacker
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: SoCal
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hobienick
Not sure if you know of him already but check out Paul Sellers on YT. If you are building a Roubo-ish bench you are probably into hand tools. Good resource. Working on mods to the new camper and preparing the sailboat for the season.
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I prefer this guy (Derek Cohen) and his approach to Sellers - who is mostly behind a paywall. Derek has some awesome skills, is an innovator, and does it for free. Check out his latest Moxon vise.
In The Woodshop
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03-29-2020, 05:31 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2018
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Contemplating my “essential” status and wondering what stay at home really means when most of the workforce seems to still be essential and working. Even the gardeners and landscapers are still maintaining the grounds of office buildings and developers condos anhotels are still being built. Essential has an interesting definition.
Going out to car dealers and test driving cars. Yes, they are open. Hiking in a favorite spot. Not technically open, but we’ve seen a only handful of folks on this trail in the last decade of use, so not worried. Going to our storage facility to work on the trailer. Yes, it is open and lots of traffic there and on the road. Yard work, car maintenance at home. Hitting Lowe’s for supplies. Taking long walks. Making chili, RiBs grilling burgers, and watching movies. Still haven’t had time to do many things I’ve been too busy to do like reading a good book.
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03-29-2020, 06:35 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2019
Location: Georgia
Posts: 194
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I have struggled greatly with adjusting to working from home. I just can't get a schedule going, especially when I've been run down from allergies and a sinus infection. Hoping that this week I can get off the couch and start some projects, including getting the camper ready for the day we can get out again. DH is an essential employee, so he isn't affected by all of this except there's no where to go out to lunch lol.
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03-29-2020, 07:28 PM
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Who Dares, Wins
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Chester County, PA
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Still going to work. We are now at single officer patrols per shift and rotating 6 - 8 hour shifts with some time off and then right back on. I don't get to work from home. Our daughter have been sent to in laws for 6 days at a time while both the DW and I continue to work. Worst part about this is not getting to see my 7 year old daughter but a few hours each week. Even harder on her.
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03-29-2020, 09:15 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Shreveport LA
Posts: 650
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Working in the yard, cleaning and working in the house. Rest. Repeat. Our kids have grounded their parents and threatened us with a spanking if we leave. Only time we have permission to leave is to walk the dogs.
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03-29-2020, 09:17 PM
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Jeff
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Florida
Posts: 93
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Working from (as usual), cleaned all the windows outside today, watching TV. That’s about it so far
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2019 Coachmen Mirada 35BH
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03-29-2020, 09:34 PM
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Site Team
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 4,499
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Mowing, cleaning up boat, replaced 3 batteries in boat ($$ ouch) installed Chromecast in motorhome, mowed again, bathed the dog, deployed disaster relief feeding trailer, posted synopsis of bible study lesson on FB group, drove wife to appointments to fit heart patients with zoll life vests, visited mom in nursing home through the window every other day, took meals to father-in-law who is home alone with dementia while mother-in-law is in rehab for hip surgery, watched a little tv, pressure washed the patio and all patio furniture, replaced water heater in home, cooked a deer roast for wife while she was at work, took boat for test run, worked on computer, stocked up on a few groceries and supplies, ran all 3 generators for 30 minutes each, sent snacks to hospital employees, gave 800 N95 mask to local police department who had none, slept a little, and starting all over tomorrow.
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03-29-2020, 09:37 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: KS
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Mike you and I are on the same page...I cooked a Brisket as well Tuesday. We have been eating it in different ways all week but there are 3 of us so it goes quicker. We had brisket and burnt ends. Sandwitches, sloppy Joe's, nachos, and burritos. I am making a pork butt this week. When I freeze I reheat via boiling as well.
I spent 1 day working on the truck and another cleaning up all 4 of my smokers and mowing.
I bought a bidet seat to install. I have wanted one for a while and since we are almost 2wks in with no TP on shelves it got me permission from DW to spend the $ on a good one. I will have to put an outlet in but should be easy.
I have some trailer projects lined up but this was the first weekend it did not freeze so I have not dewinterized it yet. I will be installing the convection oven I recieved over the holidays, putting in a new battery (debating AGM or Battleborn) which will lead to an updated converter, Victron monitor, and a solution to TV charging. It will compliment the panels I have been testing out. Amazon taking until mid april is slowing these projects down a bit.
While on confrence calls I have cleaned out junk drawers and shelves that were cluttered but there is lots more to do.
I have also spent a lot of time on video chat with family members and shopping and delivering to parents via the drop methods you mentioned.
My biggest problem is work no longer has boundaries because I am always home and its crimping my plans to work on things.
Stay safe!
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03-29-2020, 11:01 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: TEXAS
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Originally Posted by doc73
Still going to work. We are now at single officer patrols per shift and rotating 6 - 8 hour shifts with some time off and then right back on. I don't get to work from home. Our daughter have been sent to in laws for 6 days at a time while both the DW and I continue to work. Worst part about this is not getting to see my 7 year old daughter but a few hours each week. Even harder on her.
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You and your wife are our heroes. I know that doesn't mean a lot to a seven year old, but it does to the rest of us. Your in-laws deserve a special thanks for taking care of your daughter so that you can help take care of the rest of us.
Thank you.
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03-30-2020, 02:16 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2020
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Nothing special since I've been working from home since 2011.
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