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Post by lizardonarock on Aug 11, 2024 11:43:52 GMT -5
Despite my efforts at mind control wife still says no new puppy. Congratulations on your new pup Brad. Sipping fresh ground coffee and watching Olympics cause USA keeps winning gold medals so that's cool. Not breath of air outside as temps rise 91 degrees with low 54% humidity at high noon. Put away the giant box of wound care supplies and checking on new knives coming slow mail. Picked a new Case mini congress really like the size and set of blades it is truly a gentleman's knife. Baby Scarlet is sporting a new pair of Stride Rite sneakers in blue with pink laces she will be able to outrun momma and create havoc on grand scale. Revenge on your own is laughable when their kids start becoming just like them in mini form. Peace and LOVE is the dream!
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Post by toshtego on Aug 11, 2024 13:49:32 GMT -5
Felt jaunty enough to continue mowing the back yard. That lasted about ten minutes. Then I pooped out. That dang Chemo! I will try some lighter chores this afternoon. Onwards!
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Post by Ronv69 on Aug 11, 2024 15:12:45 GMT -5
Yep, North wind, cool cutting grass, afterward another good cigar, gonna get my pal tommorow, HOT DOG! It was really nice here yesterday and today. Unfortunately I wasn't able to do anything outside because I got another pinched nerve in my back. It's nice just to stand in the shade and feel the cool breeze. Since they cleared most of the trees on the land surrounding my house I can see 150 rolling acres and watch the cows and the deer in the evenings. It's like it was mine but I don't have to take care of it. 😁
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Post by Ronv69 on Aug 11, 2024 15:15:09 GMT -5
Despite my efforts at mind control wife still says no new puppy. Congratulations on your new pup Brad. Sipping fresh ground coffee and watching Olympics cause USA keeps winning gold medals so that's cool. Not breath of air outside as temps rise 91 degrees with low 54% humidity at high noon. Put away the giant box of wound care supplies and checking on new knives coming slow mail. Picked a new Case mini congress really like the size and set of blades it is truly a gentleman's knife. Baby Scarlet is sporting a new pair of Stride Rite sneakers in blue with pink laces she will be able to outrun momma and create havoc on grand scale. Revenge on your own is laughable when their kids start becoming just like them in mini form. Peace and LOVE is the dream! If I see any Chihuahua puppies here I might be tempted to bring it to Magnolia. Problem is that most dogs you see around here are pits or pit mixes.
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Post by trailboss on Aug 11, 2024 15:21:27 GMT -5
Yep, North wind, cool cutting grass, afterward another good cigar, gonna get my pal tommorow, HOT DOG! It was really nice here yesterday and today. Unfortunately I wasn't able to do anything outside because I got another pinched nerve in my back. It's nice just to stand in the shade and feel the cool breeze. Since they cleared most of the trees on the land surrounding my house I can see 150 rolling acres and watch the cows and the deer in the evenings. It's like it was mine but I don't have to take care of it. 😁 Brad needs some goats, that will take care of that mowing!
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Post by urbino on Aug 11, 2024 15:23:33 GMT -5
Felt jaunty enough to continue mowing the back yard. That lasted about ten minutes. Then I pooped out. That dang Chemo! I will try some lighter chores this afternoon. Onwards! Hey, at least you're staying sensible about it all. Good man.
I'll get out and mow mine this evening sometime.
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Post by don on Aug 11, 2024 15:58:37 GMT -5
Recovering well from surgery. Got in a two mile walk today. Being good and keeping my lifting to a few lbs or less. Pain was mostly gone by Saturday morning. Just slight twinges getting up and laying down.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Aug 11, 2024 16:01:44 GMT -5
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Post by coalsmoke on Aug 11, 2024 16:03:08 GMT -5
Recovering well from surgery. Got in a two mile walk today. Being good and keeping my lifting to a few lbs or less. Pain was mostly gone by Saturday morning. Just slight twinges getting up and laying down. You're well on your way!
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Post by urbino on Aug 11, 2024 16:38:35 GMT -5
Recovering well from surgery. Got in a two mile walk today. Being good and keeping my lifting to a few lbs or less. Pain was mostly gone by Saturday morning. Just slight twinges getting up and laying down. That all sounds good, Don. Continue apace.
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Post by trailboss on Aug 11, 2024 17:51:05 GMT -5
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Post by urbino on Aug 11, 2024 20:26:01 GMT -5
Got a crapload of yard work done. Mowing, trimming, hedge trimming, cutting down some privet, and cleaning up all the mess from said trimming and cutting. Now Gypo is trying to get me to buy a nice pipe. I think he just wants me to blow my budget on something so he's got a better shot at Ron's next pipe.
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Post by Plainsman on Aug 11, 2024 20:51:44 GMT -5
Mowing day here, too. Amazing what that Gravely gets done in 30 minutes. I just hang on and steer.
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Post by urbino on Aug 11, 2024 21:15:15 GMT -5
Mowing day here, too. Amazing what that Gravely gets done in 30 minutes. I just hang on and steer. I have to push mine, but you've got a lot more acreage to cover.
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Post by CrustyCat on Aug 11, 2024 23:36:17 GMT -5
Been hot here still. Smokey from California wildfires I think. Threatened a thunderstorm but it didn't happen.
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Post by JimK on Aug 12, 2024 7:26:42 GMT -5
After playing email tag, I signed up a new banjo student last Thursday. It looks like work is picking up after all that COVID business a few years ago. It surprises me how long recovery has taken. Before the pandemic I had at one point, ten students. This recent one makes five. I like my job!
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Post by toshtego on Aug 12, 2024 8:44:52 GMT -5
Everflo O2 Concentrator crapped out. Probably from lack of maintenance. I have had it about eight years and the medical supply company could never be bothered to service it. So, it is time to open it up and clean what must be a lot of dust and animal hair. Filters need to be replaced I am sure. Another household repair project. Kind of interesting, something new and that is always stimulating. This time I will remain cool, calm and collected and not engage in Dagwood Bumstead antics when things go as I would not have them go. Hoping the solenoids and compressor did not fail! This unit is heavy. Shipping will be quite costly as is professional repair. So another how repair job is indicated.
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Post by Mrs. Zarnicky on Aug 12, 2024 10:37:30 GMT -5
After playing email tag, I signed up a new banjo student last Thursday. It looks like work is picking up after all that COVID business a few years ago. It surprises me how long recovery has taken. Before the pandemic I had at one point, ten students. This recent one makes five. I like my job! Banjo ha! you should trying ukulele. Zarnicky president of After Dinner Ukulele Society. Banjo good for bluegrass. Zarnicky not playing bluegrass but I smoking it once.
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Post by Ronv69 on Aug 12, 2024 12:32:16 GMT -5
Everflo O2 Concentrator crapped out. Probably from lack of maintenance. I have had it about eight years and the medical supply company could never be bothered to service it. So, it is time to open it up and clean what must be a lot of dust and animal hair. Filters need to be replaced I am sure. Another household repair project. Kind of interesting, something new and that is always stimulating. This time I will remain cool, calm and collected and not engage in Dagwood Bumstead antics when things go as I would not have them go. Hoping the solenoids and compressor did not fail! This unit is heavy. Shipping will be quite costly as is professional repair. So another how repair job is indicated. Sounds like an interesting project. If you want to learn patience build a couple of AR pistols from scratch. Be sure to order at least 6 small parts kits before you start.
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Post by Ronv69 on Aug 12, 2024 12:42:54 GMT -5
Getting very hot this week after a nice weekend. Nothing I have to do outside, but a lot of stuff I want to do.
I'm only 25 miles from Arkansas and I think the mindset is creeping in.
Hey farmer! You been livin' here all your life? Not yet.
Hey farmer! Where does this road go? Been livin' here all my life, it ain't gone nowhere yet.
Hey farmer! How do you get to Little Rock? Listen stranger, you can't get there from here.
Hey farmer! Thought you said that mud-hole weren't very deep? Only comes up to here on my ducks.
Hey farmer! When you gonna fix that leakin' roof? Ah, stranger, when it's a rainin' it's too wet to fix it and when it's dry it's just as good as any man's house.
Hey farmer! You're not too far from a fool, are you? Just a barbed-wire fence between us.
Hey farmer! You don't know very much, do you? No, but I ain't lost.
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Post by toshtego on Aug 12, 2024 12:53:14 GMT -5
Everflo O2 Concentrator crapped out. Probably from lack of maintenance. I have had it about eight years and the medical supply company could never be bothered to service it. So, it is time to open it up and clean what must be a lot of dust and animal hair. Filters need to be replaced I am sure. Another household repair project. Kind of interesting, something new and that is always stimulating. This time I will remain cool, calm and collected and not engage in Dagwood Bumstead antics when things go as I would not have them go. Hoping the solenoids and compressor did not fail! This unit is heavy. Shipping will be quite costly as is professional repair. So another how repair job is indicated. Sounds like an interesting project. If you want to learn patience build a couple of AR pistols from scratch. Be sure to order at least 6 small parts kits before you start. I will pass on the ARs. I never liked them. Do not approved of them. Wish they never were made. Men should be carrying the M14 or the FAL. Ok, Kalashnikovs are OK, too. Any rifle cartridge beginning with a .3. .223s are for squirrels and rabbits. Thus spake the Old Fart.
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Post by Ronv69 on Aug 12, 2024 13:39:39 GMT -5
Sounds like an interesting project. If you want to learn patience build a couple of AR pistols from scratch. Be sure to order at least 6 small parts kits before you start. I will pass on the ARs. I never liked them. Do not approved of them. Wish they never were made. Men should be carrying the M14 or the FAL. Ok, Kalashnikovs are OK, too. Any rifle cartridge beginning with a .3. .223s are for squirrels and rabbits. Thus spake the Old Fart. I never liked them either and I bitched about recycled beer cans and water bottles while I cleaned my SKS and Winchester 94. But I did go to school for gunsmithing 45 years ago and I wanted to do something after I retired. I didn't want to get into the machine work and drilling and such as I didn't have a shop at the time so I bought some AR parts and started putting them together. First one was the walnut stocked 5.56 with a 20 inch barrel. A2 type stock but in walnut. That one was never intended to be shot. I mean, I have zero interest in shooting it. I've shot hundreds of rounds from my friends AR. Nasty noisy little beast. Next was a 300AAC carbine with the collapsible stock. I shot that one and it was sweet. Almost as nice as my Nylon 66 sweet. Then I built a 300 pistol and it was even more fun. I like big bores and I needed another project so I built a 450 Bushmaster carbine. It's big fun. I was thinking that I would sell the SKS as I never shoot it anymore, so I built a 7.62x39 carbine to use up my stash of ammo. That was the sweetest one yet. If I was going to have one AR, it would be the 7.62x39. Got curious about the 350 Legend and I looked at the ballistics and I decided to build a 350 pistol. It's just something to do. In my dreams I would love to be building custom Mausers, but that's a LOT of work and more time than I have. I have a new laminated blank for my 45-70 Mauser that I've had for 40 years, but I that requires more space and time than I have with all my other projects. Anyway, all I'm saying is that ARs are like between tinker toys and 56 Chevys in how easy they are. It helps focus your mind after you lose 4 tiny springs in a row. And you end up with something you can shoot or sell. It's got enough issues to stay interesting as you often have to clean up some threads or file something to get it to fit right. I haven't built one in a couple of years and haven't shot one in over 4 years. This house is project enough.
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Post by urbino on Aug 12, 2024 16:35:27 GMT -5
Covered up in work. Is it Monday?
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Post by Goldbrick on Aug 12, 2024 19:36:30 GMT -5
Felt jaunty enough to continue mowing the back yard. That lasted about ten minutes. Then I pooped out. That dang Chemo! I will try some lighter chores this afternoon. Onwards! Big points for giving it your best shot, John...it was so nice here today that I got on the riding mower, and cut the back yard at my place...I have some guys that care for most of the lot, but I like to keep up the back. today I did the job in such a way as to avoid the push mower, and just finish up with the weed eater...I gave myself a hearty pat on the back ,as the last two times I let the pros do the whole place, so I could stay in out of the heat. with today being so pleasant , and tomorrow being our 47th wedding anniversary , I figured I'd impress the better half!
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Post by trailboss on Aug 12, 2024 19:46:39 GMT -5
I have never had the desire to build an AR, bought a Colt LE 6920 SOCOM M4, outfitted with a Trijicon ACOG, came with knights armament rails, bipod, Surefire illumination it is so accurate, and quick target acquisition that it can almost be boring to shoot. And if the turds hit the fan, ammo availability is there.
And Hornady TAP ammo, I doubt anyone would want me to shoot them to test out whether the round can do the job.
I sleep better at night with it bedside.
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Post by urbino on Aug 12, 2024 19:50:07 GMT -5
I have never had the desire to build an AR, bought a Colt LE 6920 SOCOM M4, outfitted with a Trijicon ACOG, came with knights armament rails, bipod, Surefire illumination it is so accurate, and quick target acquisition that it can almost be boring to shoot. And if the turds hit the fan, ammo availability is there. And Hornady TAP ammo, I doubt anyone would want me to shoot them to test out whether the round can do the job. I sleep better at night with it bedside. Ammo availability anytime, anywhere, is the main reason to own one, imo, along with serviceability and parts availability. All of that would be equally true of the .308, of course, to Tosh's point.
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Post by Silver on Aug 12, 2024 19:51:36 GMT -5
Felt jaunty enough to continue mowing the back yard. That lasted about ten minutes. Then I pooped out. That dang Chemo! I will try some lighter chores this afternoon. Onwards! Big points for giving it your best shot, John...it was so nice here today that I got on the riding mower, and cut the back yard at my place...I have some guys that care for most of the lot, but I like to keep up the back. today I did the job in such a way as to avoid the push mower, and just finish up with the weed eater...I gave myself a hearty pat on the back ,as the last two times I let the pros do the whole place, so I could stay in out of the heat. with today being so pleasant , and tomorrow being our 47th wedding anniversary , I figured I'd impress the better half! And a Happy Anniversary to you and Sharon!
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Post by coalsmoke on Aug 12, 2024 20:06:15 GMT -5
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Post by lizardonarock on Aug 12, 2024 22:15:42 GMT -5
Happy Anniversary, Herb.
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Post by toshtego on Aug 12, 2024 22:23:01 GMT -5
Herb, happy anniversary. I hope it was a good one!
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