Austin and I talked about changing the name of the Walton’s Community to the Meatgistics Community, as this is your guys place to post recipes, tips & tricks, ask questions and just share your cooking or drinking experiences!

Well, it is now the Meatgistics Community so rejoice!

So, I took Thursday and Friday off from work! I needed it, needed a little bit of time away to try to recharge my battery a little and do some stuff around the house. I had been hoping to spend most of that time working on the house with my wife but her plant was plagued with issues, so we got to spend a little less time together than I had hoped. Ate too much, had a few drinks and slept in (7 am!) every day!

I have trouble doing nothing for more than a few hours and we wanted to do some upgrades to the house, so we decided to make up for not doing anything on the outside of the house for the last 2 years by redoing the front landscaping.
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Thank you for all you have done for this country and all you will be asked to do in the future! I have created the group US Veterans for anyone who wants to join, this way a badge will show on your posts. Sorry, we should have thought of creating this group years ago. We will have a 10% off coupon emailed to anyone who joins this group!

For everyone else, we rely on everyone’s honor to not claim something that isn’t yours.

Tex_77 1st, dont be ridiculous, Brutus is a 186 lb killing machine, who hides from loud noises like trucks, pots dropping and is also afraid of sewers and for sale signs. Riggins was a fighting dog before we got him so he deserves to be soft if he wants now!

Okay, Rachel has the upvote button disappearing when you have already clicked it, we toyed with it being highlighted in yellow but it didn’t look very good, so disappears when you upvote, then if you downvote it by mistake or something the upvote reappears and the downvote disappears. So, anyone see any questions on this in the next few weeks/months be sure to let them know what it means.

Hey guys, finally a few quick minutes away from what I have been working on and I wanted to let you guys know I heard from my brother Dr_Pain today. I know Chef posted about it recently but I don’t know if that thread went into detail about how wrongly things went after the initial success. My man has been SERIOUSLY sick for a while, a few times close to Death (his words) due to problems with the initial surgery.

The good news is that when they had to go back in they were able to make a change so it looks like he should heal and not need the bag in about 6 months. He said he was delerious with 103° fever for a few days. He said I appeared to him with wings of ivory and gold and told him that through sausage he shall find god…okay, that last bit isn’t true!

Ive got some things going for him but all in all I think he just wanted to let everyone know he is alright! If Chef has already updated all of you on this I apologize, this is only the 3rd time I have been able to log in all week, which sucks but is SO MUCH BETTER than what Claude has been going through. Things like this really help me concentrate on being thankful for my health!

For those of you who can’t come, this is what our booth looks like!

So, you might have noticed Austin and I have not been on Meatgistics for a few days. That is because we were furiously working behind the scenes to get the new version of waltons.com (waltonsinc.com still works but as of now we are waltons.com!) and hoping to launch it today. Sadly, we had a few issues with payment processing so we are not going live today. Austin and I are looking at next Tuesday now so we can have everything perfect for it. If the payment processing gets fixed early enough today we MIGHT go live tomorrow, but in all likelihood, we will hold off until Tuesday.

Couple of new features of the new waltons.com will be A) you can use multiple coupons sometimes, 2 10% off coupons wont work, butif we have a free shirt or hat coupon and you want to use that with your 10% off you will be able to do so. B) infinite shopping lists. This means you could potentially create all the shopping lists you want for the entire year and then just go through and place the order as needed. C) Better connection to videos and meatgistics content. I am sure there are others but I need to get back and work on getting it live!

.22 magnum Henry lever action quail forever gun!!

So, we finally got Brett Walton and Kurt Carter ( he has a Meatgistics account but I will let him keep that private for now!) to sit down and trade old Walton’s war stories! We went way way way over time, it is by far our longest podcast. We toyed with the idea of breaking it up but instead, we will release the entire thing tomorrow. We hope you guys enjoy it as much as we enjoyed recording it!

Dylan and I did 75 lb of sausage today. 1 batch of the Salami with some dry red wine added, one of the Pepperoni and 1 of Habanero BBQ, each one was 25 lb. On all of them, we used the Bactoferm TSP-X Starter Culture. We stuffed them into Beef Middles and put them into our eller cabinet. We are going to check tomorrow to make sure we have achieved the needed pH drop and then we buckle in for the long wait!

HerbcoFood Oh man that looks amazing!! Love lobster, I want to be closer to the ocean so I can get better sea food but ALSO be far away from the ocean for not getting eaten reasons!

John Belvedere Man, amazing job on both fronts! You went all the way down to the studs and went deep on the jerky, awesome job, glad to have ya back!

You all know how big of a fan of the flag I am too so I might very well have one of these!

Departing Contestant Is a big fan as well. Great silly walk

Tex_77 Nope, I still havent had an issue but I’ve been gone for a bit so I don’t know if it has been kicking people off and I see that we are still on the old version so I don’t think it has happened yet!

RafterW Yup, that is the place, they have done a great job in there. Dont know what happened to Thunderbirds, they weren’t there long but it seems to be doing really well now. Actually…I take that back, I do know what happened, not a good story.

processhead That actually would have worked really well for what I was wanting too…I am a big buyers remorse guy though, I always buy something and then see something else and think “oh, that was better wasn’t it?” I assume you like that though?

bocephus Darn it, now I have to listen to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6VZ-YOir-w

Craig Rice That’ll work, I just made the giveaway so I can be all good to go on the 1st!

Tex_77 You gave me like 3 days notice on a weekend that I took a day off (finally) to spend time with my wife! RafterW I might do it just annoy Tex now! Yeah, that was what I saw is them in those chutes and man o man did they look intimidating!

On a related note…if we found a way to be able to play/listen to posts you guys made on the podcast, would people be interested in that? Right now I am thinking of having a weekly hashtag that people could post to their social media, then we would collect them and play them…well the ones that weren’t from beekeeper84 !

RafterW I have shot at range 54, nice place with good help but Rainier https://www.rainierarmsfa.com/ is a lot closer to both work and home so it is easier. Plus, I know head trainer there so that helps. Ive also gone to Bullseye for their indoor 100-yard range.

GWG8541 Yeah, I am sort of figuring that out. I initially had it all the way up but then realized that is actually makes it harder at anything beyond 30 yards or so to hit a small target. Aim small miss small is a good idea in my mind (and just as importantly it was in The Patriot!) so that is what I try to do.