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GENERAL TOPICS => Tall Tales => Topic started by: Major 2 on June 01, 2018, 05:01:04 AM
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Up and at um ...coffees perking and rain is still falling
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Woke to rain here also...lets kick summer off now.
Thank you for the coffee M2
Gotta get going on chores i have to return to work this afternoon.
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Morning y'all.
Thanks fer the coffee.
'Tis 63 and overcast. High of 73. Normal high. ::)
Slim
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Up, leaving in about an hour, will check in later if I can get a signal.
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Mornin Y'all, 75 degrees going to low 80's 95% humidity overcast. Good day to stay inside and drink Swee'Tea. Enjoy your day.
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Rains have abated , at least in this vicinity...but new storms will roll in this afternoon.
What's the event Del.... are you using the new Chuck wagon ?
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The storms have started back up here now. Our ducks still don’t mind it but everything else has seeked shelter for now.
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Afternoon all.
71 here right now, heading for 80. Not a cloud in sight.
Deer got into one of my garden patches yesterday. Ate all six of the sunflowers, two bean plants and trampled the one pumpkin that had sprouted. Lucky me.
I was just informed today that I'll be attending a funeral tomorrow, so that kind of takes the wind from one's sails.
--TK
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Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are ready.
'Tis 50 and overcast. "Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s. East wind 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent."
Slim
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Storms returned as expected , rained steady from 5pm till about 7p then spurts till 10p, cleared up this morning but won't last.
For my 1st. day of Vacation ....
No plans or agenda, might go to the toy store and/or tinker in reloading room, pretty tame stuff today.
X-over needs washing but that will have to wait till the rain cycle stops , same for a range visit :(
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Thanks for coffee Slim
Chances of scattered showers today- bigger chance of Tstorms tomorrow. As it moves out of Florida.
Farmers market again this morning.
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Gonna doing some bullet casting. Need to go to the toy store and get some primers.
Slim
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Good morning folks. Another hot one. But it's supposed to cool off next week. Need to do some reloading and load development this week. Getting low on my rifle 45 lc. Still working on a load for my krag/ scout rifle build but it's been too hot. No fun shooting in the heat or cold. And soon all of those skeeters will hatch out with all the water that's in the ditches, oh boy. 'Skin so soft' keeps them away pretty good.
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So does a good dose of burning Black Powder
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and garlic ....
Got to take my G8 phone to the dealer....the receiver volume is so weak I have to have it on speaker just hear the caller...
stupid anoyning ....
Since the Cell phone place is next to the toy store , that will be the excuse ;) and since the BBQ joint is across the street...
I'll kill 3 birds with one stone....
gotta love it when a nothing day plan takes care of itself ...OH yeah ! and its raining imagine that !
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Got 200gr .309 bullets cast. Be doing .357 after lunch.
Slim
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Afternoon all.
Sunny and 70 right now. Head for 90 in town.
It seems that the funeral I was supposed to be going to was rescheduled, so instead of that I've been drafted into a city trip. It's only forecast for 102 down there, so I don't know why I'm worried. :-\
I'm planning a trip to the fun toy store while I'm down there. I need a new "tactical" backpack for search and rescue. Our new medical and survival kits attach with MOLLE gear, and in the interest of across the board familiarity the lieutenant wants all of us to attach both in the same way/place: on the webbing med on left and survival kit on right. Alrighty then.
I also need to pick up some new hollow point 9mm. I burned four of my ten remaining Hydra Shoks on a rattlesnake last night (he tasted good over an oak fire). I'm thinking I'll try some TAC-XPD from Barnes, since those should work well through my dad's short barrel too.
Now if you'll excuse m, I'm going to walk my dog before having to leave.
--TK
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Was going to cast up some .45 cal bullets this morning-before it got hot. Instead spent too much of the day trying to coax the Mighty Mail Blazer to hit on all six cylinders-unsuccessfully.
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Was going to cast up some .45 cal bullets this morning-before it got hot. Instead spent too much of the day trying to coax the Mighty Mail Blazer to hit on all six cylinders-unsuccessfully.
Bummer.
Slim
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Was going to cast up some .45 cal bullets this morning-before it got hot. Instead spent too much of the day trying to coax the Mighty Mail Blazer to hit on all six cylinders-unsuccessfully.
Uh Oh ! :(
My plans altered a might also....the visit to the Cell phone store was successful, easy fix a few strokes of a little nylon brush to clear the lint , sawdust etc. and viola I can hear :D that's outta the phone speaker slot not me ::)
Toy Store was uneventful, nothing in my immediate area of wishful obtainium :-\
I passed on BBQ for a roast beef sub from Publix ( for those not familiar, its a Florida-Ga. chain of Super Markets, the deli makes a jam up variety of subs or wraps and at bargain prices )
Which leads me to today , no rain...so far ??? ...."SHE that shell be obeyed " is going to the SKY PILOT's oratory with a lady friend.
I figure to load some 8MM Lebel.
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I passed on BBQ for a roast beef sub from Publix ( for those not familiar, its a Florida-Ga. chain of Super Markets, the deli makes a jam up variety of subs or wraps and at bargain prices )
Hope you didn't step on too many "dying in" teenagers while you were there.
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Publix all oveer Alabama too- the Roastbeef is a favorite. Kind like their pimento cheese spread too.
Might i add- keep a can if compressed air around. Great for cleaning the little speaker and charging ports on phones. Or your keyboard
Morning Coffee is up. Gonna get shower then head to church.
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Speaking of groceries. We had a nice Piggly Wiggly store in Aurora but was sold to the arab owner of the mini mart who ran it into the ground and now he uses it for ?? storage. Coming from Bal'mer 46 years ago I'd never heard of a piggly wiggly store. I remember seeing a Pig semi in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Good movie. Now Aurora has two of those ubiquitous 'dollar' stores. I always think when one of these things get robbed, how much money the robber got... a dollar.
Thanks for the coffee.
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Morning y'all.
Thanks fer coffee.
'Tis 61 and cloudy. High of 65.
Slim
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We still have the “Pig” Piggley Wiggley here and the dreaded Dollar General. No Food Lions or Harris Teeters or 7/11’s. I do wish we had Wahwah’s around the area their sandwiches were great. Could get them 24/7, great when you are on the way to a CAS match and you didn’t pack one.
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Wa Wa's landed here about 7-8 years ago , first just 2 and it was even local news worthy.
Now they are everywhere, there are 5 of them within 2 mile radius of my work twenty.... good Coffee too !
I like the Breakfast burrito , subs are fresh but Publix I think are better....
As for Piggly Wiggly , I haven't seen them attempt Florida openings unless it up in the panhandle area ... But their Green Been Casserole is great... and when Georgia or Ala. I get some.
We do have Winn Dixie , but they are closing stores all over the State
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Dollar Generals are everywhere here. Even my town, Richland , population about 1800 has one. Nearest bigger town, Lebanon (around 8-9,000) has 5 of them!
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Afternoon all.
101 here currently. Humidity is around 20%.
Just got home from walking the dog. It was hot, but I have a happy dog now.
--TK
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Thank you for corrected spelling - yes i agree Publix is better than Wa Wa . Cept they stay open. Winn Dixie is still strong here also.
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"... yes I agree Publix is better than Wa Wa . Cept they stay open"
Roger that !
Cincinnati based Kroger tried to buy out Winn Dixie ..I think the Feds blocked it :-\
Now Kroger is looking to buy The Fresh Market a North Carolina based chain and get in to the Florida market and give Publix a run for the food market predominance.
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Good afternoon or evening to you all. Decided to stick my nose in and say a word or two.
What is this thing you are speaking of, calling it rain? Actually, we had some here a few weeks ago, about .02 inches, caused all sorts of hate and discontent. I can't come up with any excuses for the way folks here handle precipitation; they are all from places that get a goodly amount of it, but they seem to have a mental block about how to drive and act when it does come down. No worries for me, though, I just stay put until it dries out again - by the way, did I ever mention that I do not like rain? Can't figure out why, I lived where it rained for most of my life, and dealt with it, but now, I like living where it doesn't do much of that.
I like my HighPower. It is an Argentine contract Belgian Fabrique National model 9mm. Probably my favorite shooter for an all around handgun; just one of those things that is "right". I had some glitches with it when I first got it, stovepiping with 115 gr bullets, and with some 124 gr; going to +P loads seemed to cure that, so a gunsmith here gave me a procedure to cure it: decide on a load I wanted to use, , and trim a wee bit off of the recoil spring until the gun runs right without a glitch; wound up taking almost a full turn off, but now it runs well with almost anything I can stick in it.
LR talking about the garden and fruit fits me right now, except I don't have the garden, just the fruit. Mrs. Hairy is bringing me lots of it every time she goes to the grocery, so I'm busy washing, pitting, cutting up, and freezing berries, cherries, and pineapple, at this point; later, it will be something else, but I won't complain, the stuff is good. Speaking of which----------------
Gotta go see what I need to do about that.
Later.
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No joy on the blazer, still running on just 5. Changed plugs, wires, rotor and cap. Don't think it's ignition at this point. Compression from 150-180, not bad for a 200,000 mile car. If it's an injector, I'd rather let a shop do it, if I can get someone on it right away. Injectors on that one are inside the intake manifold.
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We have wobbly hogs around here.
Slim
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Rains have abated , at least in this vicinity...but new storms will roll in this afternoon.
What's the event Del.... are you using the new Chuck wagon ?
Rock Creek Station, as in Bill Hickok.
Won't see the wagon till Aug in Kansas. He is still sorting through the gear.
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Interesting trip, roasted, got good and wet in t storm and gave up the bedroll for the pickup seat. Reason not to have buckets. That was Friday/Sat morning early.
Had a half cup of ran, I know that cause the 3 coffee cups on picnic table were half full. ::)
Nice yesterday, almost froze last night, could see my breath. Should have taken more blankets. Wasn't suppose to go below 65 at night. Forecast changed about the time I arrived on site. Got to learn to take more.
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A fly may have kept you dry.
Drier air has moved in . With a cool front, at least for a few days.
Suzanne picked a few blueberries last evening.
Coffee is up.
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Rock Creek Station, as in Bill Hickok.
Won't see the wagon till Aug in Kansas. He is still sorting through the gear.
Ride shotgun this trip ?
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https://youtu.be/nAEX0VPLzXs
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Morning y'all.
Thanks fer the coffee.
Didn't sleep well, so gonna feed the animals and go back to bed.
'Tis 59 and sunny. High of 77.
Slim
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Nope on the shotgun.
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Afternoon all.
Sunny and 85 as of 11:45. Headed for 100. Got 102 yesterday. I'm thinking a trip to the higher elevations might be in order.
My garden is being assaulted by pincher bugs and crickets, and I am frustrated. I've tried flour dusting, soapy water, isopropyl alcohol, and just applied some diatomaceous earth. We'll see how it goes.
Now I've got a few errands to run. Get the mail, some chicken food and veggies for dinner. Then I'm going to take the dog out.
--TK
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Afternoon all.
Sunny and 85 as of 11:45. Headed for 100. Got 102 yesterday. I'm thinking a trip to the higher elevations might be in order.
My garden is being assaulted by pincher bugs and crickets, and I am frustrated. I've tried flour dusting, soapy water, isopropyl alcohol, and just applied some diatomaceous earth. We'll see how it goes.
Now I've got a few errands to run. Get the mail, some chicken food and veggies for dinner. Then I'm going to take the dog out.
--TK
DDT
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We use dishwashing liquid, spritz’d on the plants. So did my granny. But you have to reapply after rain and heavy morning dew. Oh the joys of gardening. ;)
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Put in Tomatoes a few years... looked forward to fresh vine ripe 'maters....
Then the bugs moved in >:( tried varies dusts & concoctions , Fellow I met swore by Palmolive dish washing soap & Listerine :-\
I had the cleanest, best breath worms in the county.... but no dam tomatoes ....
Now I take my black thumb to do my garden harvest at the produce stand. :-*
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The first summer that I tried cherry tomatoes on my deck they got a little out of hand.
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On the Flora subject or more correctly "fauna" we had some excitement this afternoon.
My wife found Butterfly Areca Palms on sale at Home Depot and decided to buy one.
Its about a 2 gal. pot and came with green plastic netting that kept it sorta gathered in.
"She" placed it out by the pool it till it was decided (her decision ) where she'd plant it....
This afternoon was to be the un-potting, however the resident "fauna" in the form of 3' black snake had other plans as he was trapped by the plastic netting.
I'm pretty sure " the Shriek " was heard two counties away, certainly back a the Home Depot in town !
I was not much comfort...as I name it "Bubba Wallace" why you ask ? .... He's a black racer , of course. ;D
"SHE" was not amused, and called animal control ( we have a friend that runs the County shelter and she happens to collect pet snakes ::) )
However, before Amber could arrive... Bubba extricated himself or herself (Babette ? :-\) from the enclosed netted palm.
"SHE" is quite sure Bubba or Babette is hanging around in the Holly hedge, to spring forth.
"SHE" will NOT go outside, well as yet anyway. :P And when "SHE" does .... I fear for the snake !
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You mean she did not return Bubba back to Home Depot?
Coffee is up
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Morning y'all.
Thanks fer the coffee.
'Tis 55 and partly cloudy. High of 71.
Slim
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Dipel dust- available from amazon or some garden centers. Organic
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Some pictures from this weekend.
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Few more.
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cropped that one for ya... very nice, maybe one day I'll get to attend :-\
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New/rebuilt chairs are nice also.
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They are...I have both the Rocker and the Capt. chair...I'm sitting in Capt. right now, Its loose as a goose needs re-gluing
Both are worn varnish...I like the white.
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Afternoon all.
Today has become "useless blob" day for me. I took the dog out for a 'walk' yesterday, intending to just go down the trail a ways, toss a stick in the creek a few times and come home. I ended up at the top of the mountain outside town. For perspective, I parked at 2800 feet, and crested the mountain at 7000, six miles away. I convinced my mommy to come give me a ride when I got to the nearest road. ::)
Also, I now have more than just bugs in my garden. Now I have rabbits. A jackrabbit pulled my screening off and ate a pumpkin and some beans. Dog scared him off, but the damage was done.
Actually, today is voting day, so I need to go do that.
--TK
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They are...I have both the Rocker and the Capt. chair...I'm sitting in Capt. right now, Its loose as a goose needs re-gluing
Both are worn varnish...I like the white.
Got 3 good antique rockers in the house and a nice saloon chair. Dining room chair set is modern ones maybe 40 years old and an extra different one to collect junk in the bedroom. ::)
3 old China cupboards besides the built in 2. The one Rita has allowed me to use for my Labrador Nick nacks.
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The Capt. (what we called it ) was bought at yard sale 35-40 years ago by my late Mother.
It has some age on it then, but not antique...
It has GPT and MH-HG ??? stenciled in block letters on bottom of the seat , turned spindles & legs but not overly ornate and no hand hole in the back board , sculptured butt print in the seat ...
My guess, 1970's era beech wood maybe $35 chair new :-\ prolly paid $5 at the yard sale :-\
I use it as my den office/ computer seat ....Its stout, but creaks and is loose at most the glued spindle holes the slanted fitment keeps it together.
I suppose I should restore it...and give it another lease on useful service.
The only Antique chair I have is a about 120 years old , Wicker seat spindle fan back Victorian....
its been around as long as I remember, it was in my folks house.
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Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are ready.
'Tis 52 and partly cloudy. "Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 70s. South wind 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent."
Slim
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I am sure if one wanted to know the GBT and MH -HG could be found, and the history would be known. Then of course you could take it the PBS roadshow event and have them tell you.
Got one old chair a desk type, cleaned it up when i bought it, put a new leather seat in it. I bought it at a auction barn in Stuarts Draft Va., 20 years ago. Auctioneer couldn’t get a bid on it, i offered like $4. And got it.
Picked another handfull of Blueberries last evening.
Thank you Slim for the coffee
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I am sure if one wanted to know the GBT and MH -HG could be found, and the history would be known. Then of course you could take it the PBS roadshow event and have them tell you.
Got one old chair a desk type, cleaned it up when i bought it, put a new leather seat in it. I bought it at a auction barn in Stuarts Draft Va., 20 years ago. Auctioneer couldn’t get a bid on it, i offered like $4. And got it.
Picked another handfull of Blueberries last evening.
Thank you Slim for the coffee
Roo it is GPT and you sorta inspired me to call ...
I'll be dogged, I just called an antique store I know in town ...we have bunch of them, St. Cloud is kinda a mecca of the places.
This guy specializes in striping and restoring wood furniture.
He said those marks were Fancher Chair Falconer, NY it been around since 1808 and still in business :o
He said that chair was kinda common and they still make a similar chair today , called the CLUB
He said I was SPOT ON , dating it to around 1972
http://www.fancherchair.com/history-fancher-chair.html
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Looks like the bedroom junk chair.
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Pretty much, just a seat while on the 'puter not worth much
just interesting it was made in the USA ...not RoV or China
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And the expert at antique road show said, todays market price is about $6.75... my mother had a couple of chairs like that. ;) back in late 70’s
Yours is now a family heirloom
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Use to come home after Wednesday Prayer meeeting and supper and lock up the chickens and ducks. Now it is still light, so i have to wait for them to gather up and head to their roost “when the street lights come on.” What mothers told children when i was growing up. I use cheap solar lights around the coops. Like a $buck each. When they come on they go in. Funny some of those lights are 3 years old. Still working.
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Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are ready.
'Tis 60 and cloudy. High of 77.
Slim
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Thanks for the coffee Slim.
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Afternoon all.
85 here, forecast for 80. Also forecast for thunderstorms between 10:00 and 14:00, but here we are at noon with clear, blue skies.
Local news today had an interesting bit. Apparently someone stole a Dodge van full of show dogs yesterday, then just ditched it on the side of the highway ten miles down the road. Nobody found it until 10am today, but all dogs were in good health and the van was in fine mechanical order. Weird situation all around.
--TK
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A Rocky Mountain kind of summer day here. 100 💯 degrees and 35% humidity. I did the wally world run Solo, today. Missed one item, and got one item wrong. At least according to Suzanne. Just finished the late feeding and will lock down at dark. I have been fermenting corn for feed (not for drinking) i fed some of the first batch this morning, no casulties. Weather wise it is too hot to just feed it, but for a treat it is okay.
I guess i could do some laundry now.
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News on the homefront
4 brand new kittens.
Slim
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Ha don’t show my wife;)
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After my morning coffee I worked on bin storage racks in the upstairs of my barn all morning into the afternoon until it got too hot up there and then I fired up my Dixon mower. Got it stuck once but pulled it right out with my Edge. I've been wanting to make some kinda rack to hold those bins since I had the barn built. Going to make them 4 tiers high. My son has a lot of his junk up there too. Ain't chillens great. I love my shop/barn, my most favorite room outside the house.
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Sweet
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You need one of these AC's ....My reloading room in the barn/Garage is way too hot to use with out it ...
What's nice about it is, its portable , no wall or window mods/cuts.
It come with an window insert ( just close the window down on it ) for the 5" exhaust hose that it , & 110vac.
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Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are ready.
Nice barn.
'Tis 55 and partly cloudy. High of 70.
Slim
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I have seen those at Lowes.
They have several freestanding units at work. Where the machinery is hot when in production. The employees can stay cooler. The whole plant is under the chiller also.
Thank you once again for the Coffee Slim
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Weather hit the ditto mark from yesterday
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Afternoon all.
80, headed for 90. Have a 10 mph wind through the valley, gusting to 15.
Dog needs to be walked. Think I'll call my friend and see if he wants to take his dog out too. Might hit the lake.
--TK
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Plan on going to our first shoot of the year tomorrow if it doesn't rain.
Raining now.
Slim
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Got message from my sister this evening. She and daughter and grandson were on the way to Silvercreek country. When their van broke down on I 90 in rush hour traffic in Chicago. Cop assisted and got them towed right away. Tow company helped her with rental car. They are back on road. I think it was Haywood (might be wrong) where they are headed.
Here much like yesterday. Weather.
I get off at 11 and will help set up the farmers market booth in the morning.
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Got message from my sister this evening. She and daughter and grandson were on the way to Silvercreek country. When their van broke down on I 90 in rush hour traffic in Chicago. Cop assisted and got them towed right away. Tow company helped her with rental car. They are back on road. I think it was Haywood (might be wrong) where they are headed.
Here much like yesterday. Weather.
I get off at 11 and will help set up the farmers market booth in the morning.
Hayward, WI?
Slim
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Gun show tomorrow :-\ I figure to go , if I can shake off the crud :( something has disagreed with me ....
Won't go if I have to ride the porcelain bus ::)
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Hayward, WI?
Slim
Yes
Morning Coffee and Sweet Tea is ready
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Morning y'all.
Thanks for the coffee.
Why are they going to Hayward?
Not going to the shoot. Grad party instead in Wausau.
'Tis 65 and partly cloudy. High of 75.
Slim
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Didn't go to the Gun Show.... a touch of E. Coli bacterium that I was unaccustomed ::) as in the Aztec Two-step.
Aw well.... I'll save some money :-\ perhaps
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Morning y'all.
Thanks for the coffee.
Why are they going to Hayward?
Not going to the shoot. Grad party instead in Wausau.
'Tis 65 and partly cloudy. High of 75.
Slim
She lived there at one time. So showing Grandson off to freiends.
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M2- There is nothing pretty about the e. Coli bug. I hope you rid it of it soon. At one end or the other.
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Afternoon all.
The weather is... Weather. One minute is sunny, the next raining. Pretty consistent 10-15mph wind. Temperature is 65-ish.
Today's excitement was a fairly large bike race in town. I say fairly large, the official count was 131 riders. That's more than the graduating class at the highschool this year, so...
I worked as a volunteer at a rest stop, handing out water and snacks, and radioing numbers to base. I got a bag of corn chips and a cup of lime and selzer water out of the ordeal.
Major, staying home from the gun show is a good way to save money...at least that's what I've heard. ::). Hope you get over the bug quickly.
--TK
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M2- There is nothing pretty about the e. Coli bug. I hope you rid it of it soon. At one end or the other.
Mostly the inverse :-[ plus I have body chills and my face & Bald spot are hot.... overall I feel icky.
I'm guessing it was from Sonny' s BBQ brisket lunch ::)
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Mostly the inverse :-[ plus I have body chills and my face & Bald spot are hot.... overall I feel icky.
I'm guessing it was from Sonny' s BBQ brisket lunch ::)
Lettus from Arizona... lol
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Hope you get better soon, Major 2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumberjack_World_Championship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Fresh_Water_Fishing_Hall_of_Fame
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Birkebeiner
Had fun at the grad party.
Slim
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Hope you get better soon, Major 2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumberjack_World_Championship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Fresh_Water_Fishing_Hall_of_Fame
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Birkebeiner
Had fun at the grad party.
Slim
I did not know about the Fresh Water Fish one. A couple weeks ago Andrew Zimner had a episode at the Lumberjack Festival.
Morning Coffee is up. I think i want some ice in mine.
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Slim they have friends that are competing today in the Lumberjack show. They are all going there today.j
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Thanks for the well wishes it helps... I'm improving.
Missed the gun show though , however I had sorta the next best thing. My friend and shooting pard did go and was looking out for me.
He purchased a nice Krag Bandoleer w/ 1898 Ball ammo packs still sealed inside.
This will be a cool wall hanger in my reloading den... I'll make a plexi shadow box to contain it.
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Morning y'all.
Thanks fer the coffee.
Thanks for the well wishes it helps... I'm improving.
Missed the gun show though , however I had sorta the next best thing. My friend and shooting pard did go and was looking out for me.
He purchased a nice Krag Bandoleer w/ 1898 Ball ammo packs still sealed inside.
This will be a cool wall hanger in my reloading den... I'll make a plexi shadow box to contain it.
'Tis 61 and overcast. "Cooler. Cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the morning. Highs in the upper 60s. East wind 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent."
Slim
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That is a good friend
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Indeed ...he is the fellow that was instrumental in my acquiring the 1891 Winchester 73 ;D
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Morning all.
40 degrees in California today. Last night hit 35. We're forecast for 80, but I'm not buying that. 65 sounds more realistic.
Nice find, major.
City trip for church today. Afterwards have to make a couple stops. Mother and younger siblings have church camp this week, so they need some stuff. I have a camping trip tomorrow for a quick overnight deal in the Alps. I have to stop at Sportsman's Warehouse, which will be dangerous. ::)
--TK
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Afternoon Y'all I just got back froma shoot in Pa. was 42 shooters I think, I shot the match clean, had a good time, was just starting to rain at the last stage, but not heavy, we all shot it then helped put the targets away.
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Off today, been I the basement working. Wife drug home a couple nice T-Bones at around 24 oz each. Got some tators baling and getting the 15" skillet hot. Grid iron big grill went somewhere, think I member stepdaughter borrowing it, says she didn't. Don't need lines on a steak anyway. Wife wants medium raw, mine was actually fully but not over cooked with a butter baste.
Go ahead, call me a sissy for not wanting it raw, big debate in the cooking groups, people say you can't cook a steak beyond medium rare with out ruining it. I tell them not to judge me by this skills. Slim and Micha will agree. I like the full flavor of the Malliard Reaction.
Funny I had a guy tell me he don't like tough dry meat one time as h was eating jerky. ;D
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Seems like today was the first day in a couple of weeks when I ended the day with less left to do that when I started it. Plugged in the lead pot as soon as I got up, cast most of a pot full of wheel weights into nice shiny 225 gr .45 bullets before going to church. Short nap and then lunch after church, then tackle the mis-firing Blazer one more time. Yesterday I put in a new Fuel Injection, and it still missed, although on a different cylinder than before. Was expecting to have to warranty the unit, but when I unplugged the harness from it, one of the connector pins was bent. Straightened with a needle nose pliers and viola! no miss! The Blazer Red Rover is ready to roam again! With time left to work some in the garden and then size/lube some of those shiny new .45 bullets before supper.
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Steak was good, normal size Corellware plate. $4.99 a pound.
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Steak was good, normal size Corellware plate. $4.99 a pound.
That looks good.
Slim
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Sunday night, wanna do it again?
Think ahead and have Carl cut us some thicker ones like this, about the same size as those, but thicker.
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I need one of those with a baked sweet potato.
Mornin’ coffee is up... had a big frog drowner of a rain last night. Calling for more thru the week
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Off to work again. No significant rain here for the last couple of weeks.
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Morning y'all.
Thanks for the coffee.
Sunday night, wanna do it again?
Think ahead and have Carl cut us some thicker ones like this, about the same size as those, but thicker.
Sounds good.
'Tis 61 and sunny. High of 76.
Slim
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Waiting for evening/afternoon rains.
Humidity as spiked this afternoon
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Storms missed us tonight, had a decent tornado about 35 miles Ne of us.
Looks like it left town before it got bad.
Window at work faces right, black as night and was close enough to see the in flow.
Could see the hook on !y little radar on my flip phone. Looked like it had a debris ball, thought the town was toast. Think maybe after it left town it hit a sand pit and stole their sandpile. Will watch the loop later and check the news.
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Some rain overnight, first in at least 2 weeks.
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Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are ready.
Tis 65 and overcast. "Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast wind around 5 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent."
Slim
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Thanks for the coffee Slim
The storms were all around us last night, ”nadda aqui”
Still in same weather pattern today
Errand day
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Hit the 90+ mark depending on where you are at today. Home for now, only forgot 2 things today. My average for any given day. ::)
Glen that steak would feed the 2 of us at least 2 meals. Not too many years ago i could tackle it like pro.
https://youtu.be/_3BxigHFQ-A
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Afternoon all.
90 and sunny today. Might get a little rain tomorrow, but that didn't seem to likely right now.
Didn't end up going on that camping trip last night. The guy I was going with had to make an unexpected trip to Sacramento. I didn't feel like spending my own money on gas, so I stayed home instead.
--TK
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If it was gas you needed, welp ! I had all you could care to use... :-[ with irregular octain additives Too !
However that was the other day.... back to my old regular operation ....thank goodness .
Typical Florida summer sea breaze confluence late afternoon thunder strom is upon us....
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The day started out overcast and cooler so I got some more barn work done. My grandson has graduated without honors but graduated nonetheless. He helped me on another of my bin storage racks today. Opened up my barn upstairs immensely. Need to do some serious culling now. The crap that you save never ceases to amaze me. I admit that I'm a packrat anyway, springs, screws, bolts, a bent up aluminum traffic sign. Might have a use for it one day. Post a px tomorrow, too dark now.
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If it was gas you needed, welp ! I had all you could care to use... :-[ with irregular octain additives Too !
However that was the other day.... back to my old regular operation ....thank goodness .
Typical Florida summer sea breaze confluence late afternoon thunder strom is upon us....
:o. lololololol ;D
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Hit the 90+ mark depending on where you are at today. Home for now, only forgot 2 things today. My average for any given day. ::)
Glen that steak would feed the 2 of us at least 2 meals. Not too many years ago i could tackle it like pro.
https://youtu.be/_3BxigHFQ-A
;D
Slim
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Mornin! The coffee and beverage cart is now available...
Rain all around us again yesterday, had like 4 drops here. Calling for bigger chances today. Currently 70degrees and rising with the humidity at same number. Going to be fun today.
Think i have a Waffle House date with my wife later this morning.
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What no IHOb ;) ?
My last day of vacation .... though I still have PTO .
I plan a visit to Hobby Lobby ....looking for a display shadow box ....and a Cuban Sandwich appeals to me for a midday repast.
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Morning y'all.
Thanks fer the coffee.
'Tis 63, sunny and breezy. High of 78. Heat coming for the weekend.
Slim
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What no IHOb ;) ?
I gave up on them 10 years ago when it was Ihop and they had more chicken on the menu than pancakes....Dunkin’ Donuts is changing to just Dunkin...At least at Waffle House you can still get a Waffle.
Not many places to get a Cuban around here
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Prolly haven't been in one in 25 or more years...no loss ...don't care if they switched to burgers !
I have been in Waffle Houses a few times in the past few years traveling to matches.
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All American Breakfast for me - 2 over easy ( must say here the old girl got them perfect) Bacon - i chose hashbrowns in lew of grits- also toast and of course a waffle and coffee- Suzanne had a waffle and homefries and a coke. Tip included less than 20 bucks.
Didn’t get off that easy at Wally World though :o
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Morning all.
Currently 75 and sunny, headed for 80.
I'm supposed to be mowing the neighbor's lawn about now, but I left the key to the gate in my truck... Which my dad took to work this morning. I guess I'll mow when he gets home.
Don't get me started on the whole burger/pancake thing. IHOP is MY restaurant. It's where I go for my birthday. And I never thought to get a burger there. I get the 2x2x2. 2 pancakes, 2 eggs (over medium), and 2 slices of bacon. I'm going to stop there being I work myself up any more.
--TK
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Local news today had an interesting bit. Apparently someone stole a Dodge van full of show dogs yesterday, then just ditched it on the side of the highway ten miles down the road. Nobody found it until 10am today, but all dogs were in good health and the van was in fine mechanical order. Weird situation all around.
back when I was a sprout, teenagers used to do that regularly, regullarlly, frequently, "borrow" a car, take a drive, leave it somewhere.
the local constabulatory called it "joy riding".
minus the dogs, however...
yhs
prof marvel
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There are a lot of explanations possible here Prof M. Someone practicing for a dog catcher job ( getting used to all the barking), a cat burgler gone totally wrong or possibly a dogs rights PETA supporter trying to save those poor defenseless show dogs from a life of being exploited just for their looks. So sad.
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Didn’t get off that easy at Wally World though :o
I think Wal Mart requires you to spend $100, or else they have a surcharge to make up the difference.
Baltimore Ed, how do you get the stuff to stay in the totes when they're all sideways?
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Antigravity? I straightened them up, Pony. Dadgum dog knocked the antigravity machine on it's side. Hate it when he does that. What do you expect from a Weimaraner named Cletus.
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back when I was a sprout, teenagers used to do that regularly, regullarlly, frequently, "borrow" a car, take a drive, leave it somewhere.
the local constabulatory called it "joy riding".
minus the dogs, however...
yhs
prof marvel
Local judge had a cure for that. 2 years of detention or 2 years military service. Back when i was a young’n - just say’n ;)
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Never been to IHOP/B.
Slim
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Hit the 90+ mark depending on where you are at today. Home for now, only forgot 2 things today. My average for any given day. ::)
Glen that steak would feed the 2 of us at least 2 meals. Not too many years ago i could tackle it like pro.
https://youtu.be/_3BxigHFQ-A
Yeah. But I'm a big guy and hadn't ate yet.
I hop, I bop, ate there twice, once cause it was late and never tried it before, once cause step daughter worked there and was told I had to be nice and eat there. Lucky she got fired shortly after and didn't have to repeat it.
Besides we have a real 24 hour hole in the wall diner down the road. Wife and I go there sometimes on Sat night after work. Old guy cook looks about like Mel from the TV show, like on work release, but he mumbles under his breath when I order eggs, but gets them right when they come, I give him a thumbs up when I leave and he gives it back. Hardly anyone else can.
Over hard, not broke seems to confuse them.
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Never been to IHOP/B.
Slim
How about BOB EVANS? They are not in the south, and i sure they have changed in the past 20 years but it was my favorite of the chain restaurants. Even more than Cracker Barrell
Got the morning beverages ready..... might try some cold brew later today.
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Morning y'all.
Thanks fer the coffee.
Been to Bob Evans once. It was pretty good.
'Tis 55 and cloudy. High of 79.
Slim
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Got back from the 2018 NCOWS Nationals last Sunday. It was a great event. I slept in a tent for eight nights. Some days were in the 90's but it got down around 70 at night. Slept better at times in the tent then at home. I bought an inflatable queen size mattress 22" high and it worked great. With my artificial hip it would have been difficult sleeping on the ground.
The mattress was around $45.00 delivered from Amazon. I inflated it with a borrowed Inverter.
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk81/jvsaffran/misc/Camp1_zpsc8dme2dn.jpg)
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk81/jvsaffran/misc/Camp%202_zpstxyjfarn.jpg)
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Johnny McCrae yours is liie the one i gave my Nephew.
https://youtu.be/S0ZxEs5l2c4
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Howdy LR,
Yes the one in the video is virtually the same as mine. It's pretty easy to set up. I usually try to camp in the primitive (period correct) area. Hopefully next year I will be able camp in the primitive area again.
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Morning y'all.
Thanks fer the coffee.
Been to Bob Evans once. It was pretty good.
'Tis 55 and cloudy. High of 79.
Slim
There are 5 Bob Evens left in Florida (at least Central Florida) ....used to see them all over....
Shoney's and Cracker Barrel drove them out .... and neither of those are in my town ...we have the Koffee Kup ...everybody goes there !
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There's a Bob Evans in Osage Beach we have ate at a few times. Pretty good for a chain restaurant.
Johnny M, I have a couple of air mattresses, but they're not the extra high type. One Queen and one single. I have an inflator that uses 4 "D" batteries.. They also make 12 volt ones as well as 120. I used the single in my "A" tent last year at the Iowa Muster, slept well but needed an extra sleeping bag under me, in cool weather air mattresses are really cold to sleep on. I don't use a cot in my "A" tent, because it would have to be nearly in the middle to clear the sloped walls.
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Check Amazon.com for the Ryobi 18v compressor I paid $20
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017JIWT9U/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I have one in both X-overs... these are the TRICK !
but I have the Ryobi system tools so I had batteries & chargers ....
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Check Amazon.com for the Ryobi 18v compressor I paid $20
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017JIWT9U/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I have one in both X-overs... these are the TRICK !
but I have the Ryobi system tools so I had batteries & chargers ....
You probably have the Bob Evans because of Florida’s winter population.
I love my Ryobi tools. However i think once my step sons got their hands on the inflater i’d loose that and a good battery. I ll stick to the small electric compessor. They hate using it. Too much like work.
Slim the report from Hayward... Walleye and Northern Pike and Smallmouth Bass caught by all, including 9 year old Grand Nephew. They head back to Chicago today to get van and return rental. Then drive home.
Today is my monday.
Coffee is ready for all
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Update from Wisconsin. Lightning hit a tree outside the Cabin they are staying in. It traveled a cable in under the cabin, blewing registers and other stuff off the lower walls and floor. The Cabin has filled with smoke. They are waiting now for fire department to give a all clear. So they can pack up. Crazy day for them. I just looked at weather app, looks pretty red over most of the land of cheese and sausage
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Morning y'all.
Thanks fer the coffee.
Sounds like a good time was had by one in Hayward, except for the lightning.
'Tis 58 and lightning. "Humid. Mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms in the morning. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall in the morning. Highs in the middle 80s. South wind 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent."
Slim
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Just stopped at Publix and picked up my lunch... if’n they only had a drive thru window ;D
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One way to look at that trip to Hayward is that they'll have a lifetime of stories to tell. Have a few of those myself.
Hot here, 108 yestiddy, NWS says it's 99 right now, but it is a bit cloudy, and the humidity is up from what it has been.
Glad you're on the upside of that ague, Major2, had some sort of the stuff a few times, not anywhere close to pleasant. Picked up a bug from the Colorado River once that took me almost six months to get over; pathologists never could identify it from the tests that they did.
Going to make the trip to SoCal tomorrow, 'bout five hours worth of driving; granddaughter 2 is in a stage production at the South Coast Repertory Theater, requested our attendance. She's a good kid, and talented, too - aren't all grandkids like that?
Off to tend to more chores.
Later.
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One way to look at that trip to Hayward is that they'll have a lifetime of stories to tell. Have a few of those myself.
Hot here, 108 yestiddy, NWS says it's 99 right now, but it is a bit cloudy, and the humidity is up from what it has been.
Glad you're on the upside of that ague, Major2, had some sort of the stuff a few times, not anywhere close to pleasant. Picked up a bug from the Colorado River once that took me almost six months to get over; pathologists never could identify it from the tests that they did.
Going to make the trip to SoCal tomorrow, 'bout five hours worth of driving; granddaughter 2 is in a stage production at the South Coast Repertory Theater, requested our attendance. She's a good kid, and talented, too - aren't all grandkids like that?
Off to tend to more chores.
Later.
Drive safely , watch your topknot.... No....wait ;) what ?
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Evening all.
I don't know how the weather was in town today, because I was on a mountain. Me and a friend and my dog went up a local mountain. It's 8090 feet, and the trailhead is 3400. It took nine hours round trip, and 12 miles. Coming down was much easier. Up there it was 60 degrees.
I'm going to finish my Gatorade and root beer, and be a vegetable the rest of the day.
--TK
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Just stopped at Publix and picked up my lunch... if’n they only had a drive thru window ;D
Wife uses them and gets lots of messed up orders. If when I rarely eat at such a places and don't eat inside I go inside and order. Don't get messed up orders that way.
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As for work tonight, all I can say is damned kids, yes I yelled at one tonight, dumb lazy co-worker. Got a policy I ain't paid to baby sit.
One of the bosses came in last week and asked me where she was. Told her somewhere in the back and I didn't care as long as she was out of my way.
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Coffee is up.... looks like another hot day ahead.
Del .... Publix is a Grocery store chain here in the south. Known for great customer service, excellant deli and bakery and in house fish monger and butchers. I was being sarcastic with the drive thru window.
El P....like the Major sed.... be safe traveling.
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Ditto on Publix.... they make great Subs & wraps ...and can & will throw the garden on it....
any meat and or cheese from the ajoining Deli , including hot lunch counter Fried Checken & Mojo Pork.
and they are priced about with Subway and better than most other Sub Joints , Like Firehouse , Jersey Mikes, Jimmy John's....
Plan today is the * toy store & lunch with a pard....
* maybe something has turnned up :P
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Morning y'all.
Thanks fer the coffee.
Gonna stay inside as much as I can today and tomorrow. Got the A/C going already to get the humidity out.
'Tis 73, partly sunny, and 81% humidity. "Hot and humid. Partly sunny. Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the lower 90s. South wind 10 to 15 mph. Heat indices to 99."
Tomorrow is supposed to be warmer. ::)
Slim
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Well, the wife's back in the hospital again. I thought that it might have been a mini stroke but mri/ ct says no new damage. Running tests to try to find the problem. Other than that it looks to be a pretty morning. After I finish my coffee I'll hit the road. Happy Fathers Day to all you old cowpokes.in CAS city.
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Well, the wife's back in the hospital again. I thought that it might have been a mini stroke but mri/ ct says no new damage. Running tests to try to find the problem. Other than that it looks to be a pretty morning. After I finish my coffee I'll hit the road. Happy Fathers Day to all you old cowpokes.in CAS city.
Prayer her way.
Del- i think Baxter may have talked to you...
https://youtu.be/7CUaKbIVWpE
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Well, the wife's back in the hospital again. I thought that it might have been a mini stroke but mri/ ct says no new damage. Running tests to try to find the problem. Other than that it looks to be a pretty morning. After I finish my coffee I'll hit the road. Happy Fathers Day to all you old cowpokes.in CAS city.
I'll be praying.
Picked up Micah's GAF/NCOWS pistol. It is a Traditions/Pietta SAA 5 1/2" barrel .357 Mag with a transfer bar. The boys are reading the manual.
Slim
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Baxter is a hoot.
Slim
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Afternoon Y'all, I have some of Baxters tapes around here somewhere. Good stuff.
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Prayer her way.
Del- i think Baxter may have talked to you...
https://youtu.be/7CUaKbIVWpE
Yep.
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Afternoon Y'all, I have some of Baxters tapes around here somewhere. Good stuff.
Deep Sea Fishing and Mountain Oysters are classics
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Thanks all.
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Vegatarians nightmare.
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Morning brews are ready....
Pretty powerful storms came in late afternoon yesterday.
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Ditto... got pelted , one lightening strike was very close by, prolly another pine to a death hit.
Happy Father Day
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Oh yeah Happy Fathers day
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Morning y'all.
Thanks for the iced tea.
Happy Father's Day.
'Tis 75, cloudy, and humidity 84%. "Hot and humid. Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph. Heat indices to 102."
Slim
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Had to put in the window A/C units today. Early in the season, we can get the house cool enough at night with window fans to be tolerable through the day.. But the heat just seems to build up gradually, to the point that won't work. Today was that point.
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I'll toss some water on for the night crew.
Today was cloudy with a high of 85 and 40% humidity. As of 00:30 it is raining, too.
Took my dad to IHOP for father's day. Nobody got any burgers. Actually, their "Tres Leches" pancakes were pretty good.
--TK
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Morning! Got the coffee cart ready and ice bucket full for all.
Sharp dressed guy says 90’s all week chance of T-Storms high humidity. Summer has arrived. Cute skinny girl says roads from my neighborhood to downtown are good and trouble free.
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The Sweetwater Regulators had their first match of the 2018 season yesterday. Five shooters braved the 96 plus degree heat indices. We survived by pacing ourselves and drinking lots of fluids. We moved a portable canopy from stage to stage for shade and that helped a lot also.
I'll need to get used to this kind of weather. We have our home up for sale and as soon as it is sold, we will be moving to Florida.
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My best bud moved to Sarasota from Baltimore. I tried to tell him that there's gators, sinkholes, zika skeeters, anacondas, hurricanes and old people, did I mention gators, but he moved anyway. Be warned Johnny, be warned.
I'm also kinda curious about your club, are you a newly formed club? A displaced club? How is it that you're are you having your 'first' match? Congratulations if you are a new club. I would encourage you to be a sass/WASA club to appeal to as large a group of shooters as possible.
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Morning y'all.
Thanks fer the coffee.
Started making a 1885 holster last night. Got it cut out and dyed.
T'storms overnight.
'Tis 71, overcast and 97% humidity. "Humid. Cloudy. Showers with thunderstorms likely in the morning then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. West wind 5 to 10 mph shifting to the north in the afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent."
Slim
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Howdy Ed,
Thanks for the warning. We a have a son in St. Petersburg. He will be able to take care of my wife down the road if something happens to me.
The Sweetwater Regulators has been an official NCOWS Posse since 2015. This was our first match of the 2018 season. Here is a link to the Sweetwater Regulator's website: www.sweetwaterregulators.com
Howdy Slim,
Please post a picture of the holster after you finish it.
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Started making a 1885 holster last night. Got it cut out and dyed
Slim
You shoot some modern handguns ::D ;D ;)
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You shoot some modern handguns ::D ;D ;)
It's modern, uses those new fangled "self contained" cartridges. Wild Bill Hickok would not approve.....
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It's modern, uses those new fangled "self contained" cartridges. Wild Bill Hickok would not approve.....
Before you know it he will trade his mighty 10 for one of them new fangled slide action shotguns
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Howdy Slim,
Please post a picture of the holster after you finish it.
Sure will.
Before you know it he will trade his mighty 10 for one of them new fangled slide action shotguns
Haven't traded it, but did get me a Remington auto-loading shotgun made in 1910.
Slim
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Upland birds beware
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Evening all.
92 and 25% humidity. Looks like rain coming later tonight, but it ain't here yet.
Got another city trip tomorrow. I'm not sure why, but my mom said so, so I guess I'm going.
--TK
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Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are ready.
'Tis 58 and rain. "Cooler. Cloudy. Showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s. East wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent."
Slim
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Thanks for the Coffee
Delmonico
https://youtu.be/vb0-br7hTw0
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Thanks for the Coffee
Delmonico
https://youtu.be/vb0-br7hTw0
Have seen it done.
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Have seen it done.
I have never even seen that model of Tractor before. Let alone the starting method
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I have never even seen that model of Tractor before. Let alone the starting method
There is one local at it's away at the big local show. English built so not common in the US.
A lot of old planes started the same way.
Ever seen a Diesel that had a carb and distributor and plugs? Go a manual valve in the head, open it and you have like 6-1 ratio, then when the temp gauge gets to operating temp you close it and it's now Diesel.
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German made Lantz Bulldog with a hot bulb engine, needs a blow torch to start it.
https://youtu.be/Fxdk4Jf2hO0
Might not be good in a dry wheat field. ::)
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The Aircraft starter was called the Coffman engine starter or Coffman patent as other versions were used.
Like in the British Merlin engine used in the Spitfire.
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Ever seen a Diesel that had a carb and distributor and plugs? Go a manual valve in the head, open it and you have like 6-1 ratio, then when the temp gauge gets to operating temp you close it and it's now Diesel.
Farmall MD was one like that.
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There is one local at it's away at the big local show. English built so not common in the US.
A lot of old planes started the same way.
Ever seen a Diesel that had a carb and distributor and plugs? Go a manual valve in the head, open it and you have like 6-1 ratio, then when the temp gauge gets to operating temp you close it and it's now Diesel.
Owned a road grader that did.
Morning the coffee and beverage buggy has had the wheels chaulked. Help yer selves!
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My wife has been occupied with a thing called cricut. She can express her artsie fartsie side. Night before last she- said i hope you don’t get mad....she i borrowed your Glock. She unloaded it and got to work on the slide. She not sure it will stay there but we will test it.
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Morning y'all.
Thanks for the coffee.
There is one local at it's away at the big local show. English built so not common in the US.
A lot of old planes started the same way.
Ever seen a Diesel that had a carb and distributor and plugs? Go a manual valve in the head, open it and you have like 6-1 ratio, then when the temp gauge gets to operating temp you close it and it's now Diesel.
My dad had a Farmall WD9 like that. It would blow smoke rings when ya switched it to diesel.
'Tis 63, overcast and 88% humidity. "Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs in the upper 70s. Light and variable wind becoming east 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent."
Slim
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Morning all.
73 and headed for 90.
City trip was productive. Got most of the groceries on the list. Walmart is still a strange place.
--TK
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bi-annual Doc office visit went well with blood lab's etc.
All gauges in normal, except GOOD Cholesterol "little low", She Doc suggested eat more fish ;) (yea ! don't throw me in the brier patch) like twice a week .... Major what likes fish !
...not to shabby for an old fart
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Too much fish causes gout. :(
Slim
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Anything good causes gout. ;D.. i love fish myself
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I thought eating corned beef and cabbage at the local tavern caused gout. ;D
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Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are ready.
'Tis 62 and overcast. "Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs in the middle 70s. Northeast wind 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent."
Slim
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Thanks for the coffee, Slim.
Chances of rain today.
Had slow cooked a boston butt yesterday then pulled it with bbq sauce and slaw. Will probably have more today.
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The chance of rain turned into hurry up and finish feeding chores this morning. Then as many of us older guys know, we cut and bruise with just minor bumps of anything. Pouring rain to text my bride to bring some 1st aid to me. Had blood everywhere, from a scratch that did not need stiches or further medical attention. First site one may have thought i cut my hand off. My wife did not panic either, she is use to me.
Chores are done and the sun popped out for a few minutes. I looked over the blueberries. Also looked at my Fig and have fruit on it now. Back in the A/C now.
2nd picture is a blueberry plant HyBush variety. Have RabbitEye also.
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Afternoon all.
Currently 80 headed for 95. Clear blue skies right now, but they're calling for rain and lightening up in the high country later in the afternoon.
I think I may have found a solution to the bugs that are eating the garden. I minced six cloves of garlic and steeped them in a solution of 1qt water and 3tsp salt for three days. Then I took two tbsp of that and diluted it in another quart of water and sprayed that on my plants. Nothing got munched last night, so it's so far so good.
Something is up with the radio in my truck. It used to be that the only stations it would pick up reliably were the local pop country station and a gangster rap station on the coast. I went with the wannabe country, and everything was okay. Yesterday, the country station just straight up disappeared, but now the current light rock station comes in clear as a bell. The two are quite a ways apart (97.3 and 106.1) so I'm not sure what is going on.
--TK
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Afternoon all.
Currently 80 headed for 95. Clear blue skies right now, but they're calling for rain and lightening up in the high country later in the afternoon.
I think I may have found a solution to the bugs that are eating the garden. I minced six cloves of garlic and steeped them in a solution of 1qt water and 3tsp salt for three days. Then I took two tbsp of that and diluted it in another quart of water and sprayed that on my plants. Nothing got munched last night, so it's so far so good.
Something is up with the radio in my truck. It used to be that the only stations it would pick up reliably were the local pop country station and a gangster rap station on the coast. I went with the wannabe country, and everything was okay. Yesterday, the country station just straight up disappeared, but now the current light rock station comes in clear as a bell. The two are quite a ways apart (97.3 and 106.1) so I'm not sure what is going on.
--TK
Ford radio.
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Asian backlash & global warming - Seriously super heated dash kills them !
Cost less to replace them than repair them today !
Aren't any Radio's made in the USA ...by Ford or any other Domestic Automaker.... what was Philco (Ford) & AC Delco (GM) are Asian these days.
in fact ....98 % of all Auto makers , Import or Domestic use Asian ....Even Blaupunkt ( German Autos ) are Asian made.
Look at your Cell Phones , Computers, TV's ETC.... read Pacific Rim
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Asian backlash & global warming - Seriously super heated dash kills them !
Cost less to replace them than repair them today !
Aren't any Radio's made in the USA ...by Ford or any other Domestic Automaker.... what was Philco (Ford) & AC Delco (GM) are Asian these days.
in fact ....98 % of all Auto makers , Import or Domestic use Asian ....Even Blaupunkt ( German Autos ) are Asian made.
Look at your Cell Phones , Computers, TV's ETC.... read Pacific Rim
Use to be even the asians wanted RCA philco Zenith brands not today.
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Use to be even the asians wanted RCA philco Zenith brands not today.
We made better vacuum tubes.
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We made better vacuum tubes.
They make cheaper transistors.
Slim
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Coffee and a box of donuts are ready for consumption... donuts do not cause gout.
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Coffee and a box of donuts are ready for consumption... donuts do not cause gout.
No, but more that one will probably give me some heartburn....
Took a vacation day today to finish (Start?) getting ready for the Muster trip next week. Loading ammunition, preparing vehicle, check uniforms.
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Morning y'all.
Thanks fer the coffee.
'Tis 58 and partly cloudy. High of 73.
Slim
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Heavy rains this afternoon
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Brought my girl home from a week long stay in the hospital. Thank goodness. Hopefully they got her straightened out. She seems to be almost back to her baseline. Now we have to get her moving around again after a week flat on her back. She's asleep in her recliner now.
Going to be a hot match at Dare Co tomorrow. I'll decide in the am if I'm going. See how she feels in the morning.
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I will keep my knee bent for her recovery...
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I have a soft spot for these critters
https://youtu.be/3feU6jqOjnU
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Ford radio.
It's aftermarket. Casio, I think. It's also 20 years old, so I guess I can't complain too much.
100 degrees today. Naturally, I got a call at noon that a friend needed help cleaning out a storage locker and loading the stuff into a uhaul. At least I don't have to drive the 12 hours with it.
--TK
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Morning starters are up....
Rain t-storms gusting winds presently, across Central Alabama. Tornados in nearby counties last evening. Maybe a eventful day weather wise. No Farmers Market today.
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Morning y'all.
Thanks fer the coffee.
Leaving in a bit to pick up the Beast from the mechanic, then go to Fleet Farm.
'Tis 65, sunny and 61% humidity. High of 80.
Slim
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Rainy day
Blazing Saddles is on tube.
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Brought my girl home from a week long stay in the hospital. Thank goodness. Hopefully they got her straightened out. She seems to be almost back to her baseline. Now we have to get her moving around again after a week flat on her back. She's asleep in her recliner now.
Going to be a hot match at Dare Co tomorrow. I'll decide in the am if I'm going. See how she feels in the morning.
My Dear Ed -
good luck and God be with you both.
yhs
prof marvel
ps if she gets dizzy, its normal - crystals in the inner ear and all - mrs marvel is dealing with that - it'scalled BPPV
https://www.swedish.org/blog/2013/04/dizziness-from-loose-crystals-in-your-head
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Afternoon all.
93 and sunny here in California today. Good day for going to the lake.
Yesterday turned out to be a little more interesting than moving furniture. Around three-thirty there was a forest fire in the southern part of the county. I gat called up by SAR to go down and work evacuation and traffic copping. So I got my gear together and get to the sheriff's office to meet with the rest of the team, and we got cancelled. So that was fun.
Then the really interesting part of the day called for drawing a gun on someone. Yeah, that was fun. Long story short, I stumbled across a couple people doing crack on a trail a ways from town and one of them thought it was in their best interest to pull a Glock on me. I just happened to be faster on the draw. I told him to toss the gun away and get on the ground, but they elected to run instead. Which I suppose was just as well done there's no cell service it there to call law enforcement. Once I got into cell range I called a friend that's a deputy and we did the paperwork, and then I went home. So that happened.
In other news, one of our hens was struggling with egg bounding this week, but everything seemed to solve itself last night. So that's nice.
--TK
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Then the really interesting part of the day called for drawing a gun on someone. Yeah, that was fun. Long story short, I stumbled across a couple people doing crack on a trail a ways from town and one of them thought it was in their best interest to pull a Glock on me. I just happened to be faster on the draw. I told him to toss the gun away and get on the ground, but they elected to run instead.
First it's Perfesser Marvel chasing down a bad guy, now this. Bad guys better quit messing with the Coffee Thread bunch!
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First it's Perfesser Marvel chasing down a bad guy, now this. Bad guys better quit messing with the Coffee Thread bunch!
I think 40 rod either shot one or stared the bad guy down. Lmao....
Don’t know if he really did, but if i had to guess he’d have the best story on it.
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Coffee and bacon n aigh sammichs for ya’ll this morning. Got cheezy grits coming up with some sausages
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Morning y'all.
Thanks fer the coffee and grub.
'Tis 66 and sunny. Humidity 78%. "Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 80. Light and variable wind becoming east 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent."
Slim
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Good Sunday to you all. Workin' on a cuppajoe, feeling peckish. I could almost parrot most of what you have said the last few days, lr, except for the rain part; instead, we have temps in the one-tens daytimes, last night, it was still over one hundred at midnight.
I knew a couple of different donkeys a while ago. One was a smallish critter, about the size of a Great Dane, was the watch donkey for a lodge in the High Sierras, a place called Convict Lake. He would spend most of his days sitting on the porch steps like a dog, with his hind end on one tread, and his fore feet on a lower one, and occasionally taking a tour of the place; if anyone came around, he would set up a heck of a racket, and run to greet them, lookin' for a handout. He had a taste for tobacco - it seems that more than just him is that way - and I found out about it when he stole a pack of Camel no-filters from my shirt pocket; he would be sorely disappointed these days, since I quit smoking in '83. On our honeymoon, I stopped off there to see if they had a cabin for a day or two, and he came running, and stuck his head in my window, so I told my Bride: "Watch this", and slipped him a cig, told her she could give him one, too, but she'd have to tear the filter off of one of hers. She thought that was funny. She didn't want to get out of the car, so I went into the lodge to see what was what, and when I came back out, that jack had his head in the passenger window of the car, his tail was going a hundred miles an hour, and Mrs. Rr was clear over on the drivers side tearing filters off of her Winstons and feeding the tobacky parts to him as fast as she could. I hauled him out of my new Pontiac and chased him up onto the porch, but I almost hurt from laughing - She was not quite as amused. And, there was almost a whole pack of Winston filters without the smoke stuff attached in the floor of the car.
That's my war story for the week, I suppose.
Our fourteen year old granddaughter, Bella, came to visit her computer for a week - she doesn't have one at home with her mom, but the one she had at her dad's place got moved here when they went back on the road full time, so when she comes to visit, it is more like she is visiting the computer than us. She just left, and I don't think she said fifty words to me in the week she was here. I tried to put limits on her the last time she came, but that just resulted in a moody kid who hid in her bedroom instead of the computer room. Teenagers! Bah. Well, now life can get back to it's normal hum-drum.
Gonna go see what I can rustle up to chew on.
Later.
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Micah and I are headed to NE. We'll see how far we make it today.
Slim
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Good one Harry ;D
My Donkey story goes like this.....
Some years ago, a lady neighbor (a veterinarian BTW ) diagonally off my back pasture owns one of the critters along with her horses....
Got me in some HOT water when she first brought it home.....
Seems when I first saw it .. I said " Doctor Mary has a nice Ass "
"She" whom must be obeyed , was none to pleased with my observation ... later that day all was well when the critter started braying.
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Field Marshall is mostly loaded, need to tarp it.
Nothing loaded will be hurt if tarp leaks a bit. Rest will load in the morning. Got to hit the grocery store after work. Should be on the road by noon.
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I know a joke about a young hen, a rooster and a young man who has trouble with his donkey, but I'm not posting it here.
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Similar story back in the 90’s a old minining logging roads connecting near Hughs Creek Road in the River of No Return area. Salmon river area. Little gas stop town with abandon mine and a couple homes. The gas pumps were the glass type. A pair of ferral burros grazed the roadsides. Apparently accepting handouts from passer bys. Couple bags of chips later we were able to get past them. Gas and a 12er and back on our trip we went.
I have worked with domesticated ones since then
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Morning Coffee is waiting.....lots of water today also...
It is presently 80 degrees on the way to 100
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Rest of the gear ready to load. Looks like light rain for about an hour so I'm going to lay back down, have only had about 3 hours of sleep.
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Still raining here. More coming out there. Talking to Jerry I'm headed out in the morning, it dry quick out there and this way I won't tear up his road.
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Afternoon all.
We hit summer here. 110 yesterday, forecast for 107 today. It's 95 at noon.
Had a couple wildfires down in the city while we were down for church yesterday. Looks like a trailer chain fire, since there were originally four fires within a mile, and all right on the roadside. It conflagrated after a while, and It's up to 1000 acres total as of 10am. That's mostly grass and tall oaks/ willows/cottonwoods, so the trees typically are barely singed. But the fire moves fast, and that is dangerous.
In other news, I got invited to run for RHA president at the college, so that's kind of cool.
--TK
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Coffee and some sweettea ready ....enjoy
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It is 11am here. 89 degree 68% humidity. Both on the rise. I was going to pick blueberries but will wait till sundown now.
Ya’ll at the Muster drink from a hoof track if ya need too. But stay hydrated.
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Afternoon all.
Just got home from taking my dog on her first overnight trip. All went well, and she's a happy dog.
We're forecast for 100 today. So far it's 80, and I'd be happy if it stayed there.
--TK
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Thunderstorms last night, cloudy all day, and a downpour after work. Hindering my efforts to get ready for the muster trip. I'll leave drinking from hoof tracks for the real cowboys. Delmoico always keeps a 5 gallon cooler full of tea, and another full of Gatorade, I'll just stay hydrated from that. Pitspitr even has running water at the camp!
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Supper was beef stew, biscuits and apricot cobbler. Lots of stew left so pot pie for lunch Alon with ham and biscuits left over from breakfast.
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I need to put up a large cooler of gator ade with the coffee here for the rest of us here. 72 at day light. It was 80 when i went to bed at 11.
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Afternoon all.
Currently 90, headed for 100. Also have 25% humidity.
On my itinerary today, I have to dispose of a turkey that went bad, renew the dog license, buy milk, and hose off my truck. I'm also trying to work on my book before my dad gets home and wants the computer, but we'll see how that goes.
--TK
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Busy morning here- picked up feed and run additional errands . Also picked up some watermelons. One of our favorite ways of cooling down on these hot days.
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Real watermelons or those nasty tripoid hybrid seedless things?
Been up since 5:30 fighting wind and showers. Lunch is done if they'd get their butts up here. ::)
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Afternoon all.
Currently 85, headed for 95. Humidity is at 30%.
I sent my morning seeing up a doctor's appointment, throwing a stick for the dog, and corralling a loose chicken. Not sure how the bird got out, but she didn't want back in.
--TK
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What is Tripoid?
I still have seeds for those heirloom (old timers ) softball size watermelons. They are sweet but don’t fit the bill today. Yhey don’t grow well here for some reason. Maybe too high of ph in soil. I don’t know. These seedless ones have seeds.
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TK that is what chickens do best. :) But come dark they’ll want back at the roost. Mine have a acre of good fence to keep the evil from getting them. They like the other 9 acres. At dark they are waiting for one of us to open the gate. Ducks on the other hand are not that smart.
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TK that is what chickens do best. :) But come dark they’ll want back at the roost. Mine have a acre of good fence to keep the evil from getting them. They like the other 9 acres. At dark they are waiting for one of us to open the gate. Ducks on the other hand are not that smart.
Nobody ever accused poultry of being genius. I'd like to just let the boys into the yard, but since we live in a neighborhood that would result in a lot of disappearing chickens. Too many dogs, cars, motorcycles and skunks.
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What is Tripoid?
I still have seeds for those heirloom (old timers ) softball size watermelons. They are sweet but don’t fit the bill today. Yhey don’t grow well here for some reason. Maybe too high of ph in soil. I don’t know. These seedless ones have seeds.
They mess up the DNA to get rid of the seeds taking the flavor with it.
Don't know nothing about hair-loom seeds, do know about older cultivars. ;D
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Old cultivated coffee is ready for Del- got fresh pot for the rest of yous.
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high of 86 today course that includes 100% chance of precipitation... 84 for tomorrow and 50% rain - 70% for Sunday.
BBQ'n' Ribs now for the crew , kind of pre-4th of July thank you feed.... we are only open Monday & Tues next week :D
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Cheese steak on biscuits for lunch, meat loaf and fried cabbage by request for supper.
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Old 3 toed cultivators having some hybrid coolant... with seeds :o
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Afternoon all.
Cooler weather today. Currently 75, forecast for 85. Have a high pressure system over us right now. Keeping the wind and temperature down, though humidity is pretty high- around 40%.
Had a fire pop up last night around 6:30. It's not threatening anything, but the column of she is visible from town, so our usual suspects are going nuts about it. One person in my neighborhood evacuated to the coast, despite the fact that this fire is 20 miles east, across two bends in the river and the highway, and the wind is blowing the opposite direction. Whatever guy, you do what you want.
Current fire size is 350 acres, with six helicopters and two fixed wing tankers. I live in the flight path between the airport and the fire, so that makes things noisy. As an aviation guy, I don't mind.
Have sourdough rising right now, and a coffee cake on the oven, so I'll let you know how that goes.
--TK
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Evening Y'all, getting some summer temp this weekend, calling for high 90's into triple digits by Sunday, Of course I have a shoot on Sunday that I really need to go to, There's a 3 day shoot in Pa the following week and I need the practice. Y'all stay cool and dry if possible.
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Was in town getting water, ice, and gas. Decided to go into the toy store, since there was a crowd at the ice machine. I figured I would be safe, since I had no money to spend... but then I saw a Ruger SBH 44 in the case. $400. I ended up trading my Uberti 357, shoulder rig, and a box of ammo, plus $150 in cash, which I got by taking a loan on my Savage 22 rifle. The wife isn't sure about this deal, she says "You love your 357." I said "Yeah... but it ain't a Ruger."
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Afternoon all.
95 and dry heat today. Forecast for 100, I say we're close enough.
I'm tired today. My friend who works for county road department got put on road closure duty last night for the fire, working a 17:30-05:30 shift. I went out there with some Sprite and snacks and planned on spending an hour or two with him. Seven hours later, my cell phone died and I figured that was probably my cue to go home. Mother's love it when you come home at 3am after not answering 35 text messages and eight phone calls. But I survived the chewing out, so I guess all is well.
I just got home from the vet's office with the dog. She has a infected cut on her foot, so we got that checked out. Doc gave us some antibiotics and a cream and sent us on our way.
--TK
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The first half is nearly done