A million dollar plastic single......................... The Great Dobransky came out and we were getting him up to speed with his new R5 rig yesterday.
Ray Swindle wrote:
Bill, this is not good news for our country. I am isolated from the working world by living a retired life in cozy Central Texas. (I consider shooting high school and college sports for the local newspapers a hobby.) We don't eat out much or shop in stores. I do the grocery shopping (an old habit I love) and I do see longer wait times at the deli and fish market, (fresh beef is too expensive for us). I assume this is due to the employment problem as they do have "We're Hiring" signs in the area.
I don't even know how to change the attitudes, or, 'new normal for our culture' you have described. Guess it is good to be an old guy who doesn't have long to deal with the lasting effects of the new normal.
Good Morning Ray!
Attitudes are not changing around here. They are getting worse! .....Dumb is forever the saying goes!
The meat prices, at least here in Maryland, are not due to employment issues.
The local butcher buys direct from the cattle owner. His butcher's are well paid! It is well priced but scarce!
The prices are set buy a middleman at the grocery stores. Why? Because my local butcher sells out of his meat, chicken and pork stock as soon as he posts it! So off to the stores where the cattle man sells to his supplier and the supplier raises his prices to the stores.
The local grocery stores want $30 bucks for a small roast and a few (2) steaks. Hamburger $15 a pound!!!!!!!
People are still getting paid more NOT to work than work here! Prices are skyrocketting here for all items. Still NO Kellogs Rice Krispies for months. Thanks to Jim, our Texas Krispies are keeping us, or Suzanne, happy..but they are running out also.
It is a Mad World and getting worse!!
Sorry to rant!
Dan
Danpbphoto wrote:
Good Morning Ray!
Attitudes are not changing around here. They are getting worse! .....Dumb is forever the saying goes!
The meat prices, at least here in Maryland, are not due to employment issues.
The local butcher buys direct from the cattle owner. His butcher's are well paid! It is well priced but scarce!
The prices are set buy a middleman at the grocery stores. Why? Because my local butcher sells out of his meat, chicken and pork stock as soon as he posts it! So off to the stores where the cattle man sells to his supplier and the supplier raises his prices to the stores.
The local grocery stores want $30 bucks for a small roast and a few (2) steaks. Hamburger $15 a pound!!!!!!!
People are still getting paid more NOT to work than work here! Prices are skyrocketting here for all items. Still NO Kellogs Rice Krispies for months. Thanks to Jim, our Texas Krispies are keeping us, or Suzanne, happy..but they are running out also.
It is a Mad World and getting worse!!
Sorry to rant!
Dan
Dan, around here the cattlemen take their cattle to auction. Below are the average prices Texas cattlemen are getting for steers, heifers are a little less. The weight is for on the hoof, the average net weight after carcass, bones and fat is 55-75%. Anyway, if you average everything out, the cattlemen are getting about $3.00/pound for beef, net. Before the pandemic my wife and I would buy a couple of beef tenderloins for $16/pound. Now, that same cut is $40/pound. I can guarantee my farmer is not making that much off his beef. He has offered me a cut and wrapped steer at a great saving. I turned him down because my wife and I would not eat that much beef before it "began to turn"...if you know what I mean. And his beef is equal to the Angus beef sold in our local market.
(edit) ps: Just got back from the grocery store. Ground hamburger, 97% fat free = $6.97/pound. Top Choice tenderloins, center cut are still $40.99/pound.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
The 5DSR is on it's way as well, may camera cases are getting lighter by the moment. I'm sure that won't last..................
Dan, I bought some sticky rice flour to make cakes for the Chinese New Year, it had been $0.99 a bag for a long long time, now it's $2.29! A lot of the raw materials that go into making parts for our medical disposable products have been out of stock, even freaking sterile water! If you think it's bad now, wait until the truckers decide to give the middle finger solute to those in power! What a sad situation we are in!
Got some shots of a snowy owl this morning in the Amish area in Lancaster, Pa. A lot of beautiful barns there! This is my second time to see a snowy owl in the wild and the first time to be able to photograph one in flight.
Douglas L wrote:
Dan, I bought some sticky rice flour to make cakes for the Chinese New Year, it had been $0.99 a bag for a long long time, now it's $2.29! A lot of the raw materials that go into making parts for our medical disposable products have been out of stock, even freaking sterile water! If you think it's bad now, wait until the truckers decide to give the middle finger solute to those in power! What a sad situation we are in!
Got some shots of a snowy owl this morning in the Amish area in Lancaster, Pa. A lot of beautiful barns there! This is my second time to see a snowy owl in the wild and the first time to be able to photograph one in flight.
Douglas L wrote:
Dan, I bought some sticky rice flour to make cakes for the Chinese New Year, it had been $0.99 a bag for a long long time, now it's $2.29! A lot of the raw materials that go into making parts for our medical disposable products have been out of stock, even freaking sterile water! If you think it's bad now, wait until the truckers decide to give the middle finger solute to those in power! What a sad situation we are in!
Got some shots of a snowy owl this morning in the Amish area in Lancaster, Pa. A lot of beautiful barns there! This is my second time to see a snowy owl in the wild and the first time to be able to photograph one in flight.
Thanks Douglas!! Yes Lancaster is a fantastic photographers paradise!!!! Glad the "snowy" was agreeable! They are rare.
Thanks for the "rice" recipe! Suzanne's present ilosotmy diet requires rice in any form but mainly her Rice Krispies.
Our stores have not had RK since last year! The sugary cinnamon RK sure..shelves are full... get those kids wired up to sit at home and do nothing!
Thanks!
Year of the Tiger!
RD
The situation here is just unrecognizable! I feel like I am in a Twilight Zone fog! We, Americans(not politicians), are better than this! I thought.....!!!
Those skycranes are real workhorses. We used one to transport an F-4 Phantom from Ellington Field in Houston to Camp Mabry in Austin.
In other news, basketball regular season is winding down, playoffs are about to begin as soccer is midseason and baseball/softball are heating up. Could be busy...
Ray Swindle wrote:
Dan, around here the cattlemen take their cattle to auction. Below are the average prices Texas cattlemen are getting for steers, heifers are a little less. The weight is for on the hoof, the average net weight after carcass, bones and fat is 55-75%. Anyway, if you average everything out, the cattlemen are getting about $3.00/pound for beef, net. Before the pandemic my wife and I would buy a couple of beef tenderloins for $16/pound. Now, that same cut is $40/pound. I can guarantee my farmer is not making that much off his beef. He has offered me a cut and wrapped steer at a great saving. I turned him down because my wife and I would not eat that much beef before it "began to turn"...if you know what I mean. And his beef is equal to the Angus beef sold in our local market.
(edit) ps: Just got back from the grocery store. Ground hamburger, 97% fat free = $6.97/pound. Top Choice tenderloins, center cut are still $40.99/pound....Show more →
Good Morning Ray!
Sorry late in responding to your post!
Yes the same method of cattle sale is the same here also. But we have a few private butchers that have products that the stores are out of or "out of sight" price wise.
Many, if not most, of my friends I grew up are farmers. Cattle, grains and dairy. They are not happy at what they get for their beef, yes a tad more than usual, but the price at the grocery store versus what they made is really out of sight! I do all the food shopping so when I walk out from the grocery store with milk, eggs, chicken...staples of everyday life and my bill is over $50 for 3 bags!!!
Yes I realize the workflow from auction to store. Farmers seem to get the short end of the stick to me.
Thanks for the tables! It is great to have dirty fingernails brother! In my next life, I will be a farmer!!! It is in my blood!
Dan
anthonysemone wrote:
Uplifting II
Darn brother, this is how we got vehicles we needed, Infantry, during Vietnam. A quick serial/unit name change and voila...we got what we needed! God bless the "chithooks"!!!!! Me Auzzie mates were instrumental in getting us some motorized eqpt us groundpounders needed!!!
Great photos Marine!
S/F Brother!
RD
Thanks, gentlemen, for your comments. Backstory: my wife and I were having a cup of Joe this AM and I heard the distinct sound of the blades of a chopper, but louder than the usual PPD copters tracking the scumbags in the City. I hopped up, saw this guy up there and said,
OMG, I gotta get a pic of one, oops, I said, 1/320s on the shutter won't blur the blades like you guys here on the MA2A who are Pros at sharp pics at like 1/2 min, so I went to 1/60s and handheld the R6 w/ the 100-400 II. Blurred the props, but I wasn't rigid enough handholding the rig, so the chopper suffered that. Not often I get to see this off the porch of our 10th floor unit, but I had to make sure I put it up here "just because."
Jan-Arie, just standard .jpgs out of the R6 but hugely screwed around with in LR latest version, "to taste" as is said." Yes, I really like B&W.... I'm so drawn to that medium, probably because I'm so freakin' old. Glad you liked it.
Douglas, and any of ya'll down that a way or elsewhere passing by/through Philly. Lancaster is 70 miles from where I live. Reading PA somewhat less. My long distance precision rifle range is but 20 miles from Lancaster in extraordinary PA Dutch territory (www.nhrpc.org.) Goodness sakes, I love them. They are the most considerate, conscientious, caring people one could ever ask for, even as I get out of my vehicle in shall I say "A fully rigged condition." We are loved there and we reciprocate it. Anyhow, with a PM head's up, I can work out a meet up with "yinz."
Had an usual experience this morning, who knew that hay is like dynamite? I was headed out to work on Faith's little barn and a trailer load of new hay bales spontaneously combusted in front of me. I decided to take the photo op when it was offered..................
