Bike Around Bozeman

With the Twez.

Ass-biting Dog!

What a butthole! We are going to thoroughly study breed temperaments before we get Sneakers, b/c I will not have an ass-biting dog. 

Pshhh I was running and the owners were right there when the dumb dog bit me. 

Top of the big tanks

Took these with my phone, so they're not that great.  And to give you some perspective, each section of the ladders on the side of the tank (on the middle of the 3 taller ones) is about 20' tall.  So the platform at the top is about 60' off the top of the building, which is 30' off the ground.  It was a really good view from up there!

Above: Picture of the tanks from the roof.  The three on the left are the three for the CMB project.  The shorter ones are actually just as large, but shorter and wider.  Those are for the next project which is seems we're not actually gonna be very involved in.  It's hard to tell from the picture, but there are 15 in total (our 3 plus an additional 12).

Margherita flatbread

WORK IN PROGRESS

 

Ingredients:

• Pizza dough
• 1 garlic clove or garlic powder
• 1 tomato
• Basil
• Mozzarella cheese
• Olive oil

 

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 450 F
2. Dice ingredients
3. Flour pizza dough and roll out very thin
4. Once dough is rolled out, coat in olive oil
5. Sprinkle ingredients onto dough
6. Bake for 20 minutes

 

 

 

Pepper pot soup

WORK IN PROGRESS

Ingredients:

• Tripe
• Ground beef
• Beef bouillon
• Water
• Onion
• Black pepper
• Green pepper
• Onion
• Diced potatoe(s)
• Optional: Carrots
• Optional: Corn
• Optional: Tomato

Directions:

1. Prepare ingredients
2. Make soup out of them!

Navy bean soup

TBD

Meatloaf

Ingredients:

• 1 lb of hamburger meat
• 1/2 sleeve of saltine crackers
• 1 packet of Lipton Recipe Secrets Soup & Dip Mix
• ketchup
• 1 egg 

Directions:

1. Heat the oven to 350.
2. Crush the saltine crackers.
3. Mix in the egg, packet of Lipton Recipe Secrets Soup & Dip Mix, meat, and some ketchup.
4. Put the mixture into a pan, and put a layer of ketchup on top.
5. Bake for 30 minutes.

 Ready to serve!

Chicken Tortilla Soup

WORK IN PROGRESS

Ingredients:

• Black beans
• Corn
• Tortilla strips
• Peppers
• Onions
• Chicken breast
• Chicken broth

Directions:

1. Dice chicken breast, peppers and onions
2. Put chicken, corn, peppers and onions into frying pan on medium heat for 15 minutes
3. After chicken has been cooked fully, mix contents of frying pan with chicken broth
4. Cook in broth for 1 hour
5. Let the dog try a little bit to see if its safe to eat or not
6. If the dog is still alive 24 hours later, EAT... if not, BURY DOG AND THROW AWAY 'SOUP'

Barbeque Chicken Pizza

Ingredients:

• Pizza dough
• Chicken breast
• 1 Onion
• 1 Pepper
• Mozzarella cheese
• Barbeque sauce
• Cilantro

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 450F
2. Roll out dough to ~1/2"
3. Dice ingredients
4. Spread BBQ sauce as evenly as possible - use roughly 9 oz. for 12"-14" pizza
1. Sweet Baby Ray's Honey Chipotle is a good choice :-)
5. Sprinkle ingredients evenly over pizza (generous amounts of onion and pepper for an even, sincle layer of toppings, only a little cilantro on top of cheese for flavor)
6. Bake for 15-20 mins, until cheese and crust begins to brown

Chicken Pot Pie

Ingredients:

• 1 small can of Campbell's Cream of Chicken
• 1 bag of frozen mixed vegetables (carrots, beans, corn)
• 16 oz of chicken, either canned or rotisserie
• 1 pie crust (2 pieces, top and bottom)
• 1 tsp of salt

Directions:

1. Heat the oven to 450.
2. Boil the vegetables in a pot on the stove.
3. Place the bottom pie crust in the pie pan.
4. Drain the vegetables. If you are using rotisserie chicken, leave a small amount of water. The canned chicken should have enough in it already. 
5. Mix in the salt, chicken, and cream of chicken with the vegetables.
6. Put the mixture into the pie pan.
7. Put the top pie crust on the pie, and poke holes in it.
8. Put the pie in the oven for 15 minutes.
9. Leave it in for another 20-30 minutes at 350. 

All ready to eat!

Take Off in the Blue

Sypes Canyon Trail

It's kind of hard to see, but from the top, you could see the little snow storms going all across the valley.

It got pretty cold near the top! I am eating a granola bar and doing my best impression of a little bitty chipmunk begging for kibbies.

Nervous Wesley

Here's the man himself in his white tux. We thought it was funny that he is too nervous to even touch her bare skin.

Getting my hands dirty

Yesterday Jeremy (the good foreman of the company we use for a lot of work from Wisconsin) told me that he was 2 gaskets short for some of the piping that I wanted them to finish by Monday.  So I checked the store room at the brewery but they didn't have any that size.  The guy in the store room mentioned to me that I could make my own, so I did that and they came out pretty well for limited tools and my first try in a hurry.  The black is one that I took out of the piping they had finished, and the two red ones were the ones I cut.

Fixin' the ol' barn

So on the right are the two 2"x4"'s that we screwed together on top of the jack on top of a piece of wood on the ground.  On the left is the beam that we fixed.  I should have thought to take a before picture so you could see how far we needed to move it.  Originally the bottom of the beam had fallen off the pier (concrete column) that it was sitting on.  So we jacked up the beam (the horizontal piece thats above both of these) and the support basically fell out from under the beam.  Then we put the bottom of the post on top of the column and filled back in around it with stones.  Then we started jacking up the beam more and I got on the ladder you see on the left and started hitting the post with the sledge hammer.  The bottom stayed in the same place because it was already on the pier, but we had to move the top about 18" and it usually took me a few hits to move it an inch.  And then my dad would jack up a little higher and I would hit it again.  Every time there were some scary cracks and creaks.  I was very afraid we would break the beam, that would have been a big problem.  But luckily we didn't and now everyone can be happy!  The End~