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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 15, 2020 20:01:00 GMT -5
Very windy here today..Some really smart folks took a sail boat out on the lake..It flipped over..Rescuers are looking for folks in the water. S.O.S. hoping/praying for a good outcome! If you haven't flipped a sailboat then you haven't been sailing! First you learn how to right the boat, canoe, or whatever you are in that might turn over. Nothing is more fun than sailing in a high wind, skipping over the tops of the waves with the tiller in one hand and the mainsheet in the other. |
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Post by trailboss on Nov 15, 2020 20:04:30 GMT -5
Damn, Ron!
You should have hooked up with a trucking company and had them spot a '53 trailer and done it in one shot.
Pick up day laborers at each end.
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 15, 2020 20:11:45 GMT -5
I find myself rather depressed tonight. There is someone who is no longer here. Someone I could have done something. It weighs on me so often that I can't sleep. R.I.P. my friend. I am so f$#@ing sorry I couldn't get there in time. Sorry to hear about your friend. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 15, 2020 20:17:26 GMT -5
Damn, Ron! You should have hooked up with a trucking company and had them spot a '53 trailer and done it in one shot. Pick up day laborers at each end. Thing is that we have to store all this stuff. It takes time. And we needed to make repairs on the house before we could place stuff. Then there is the barn, which is only 80% finished. Lots of reasons why we couldn't do that. |
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Post by Plainsman on Nov 15, 2020 20:25:08 GMT -5
When I moved to the High Plains I bought an “elderly” 53’ van (a reefer actually not I used it so) a friend brought a team of gorillas to empty my house of 36 years and load the trailer in one day. I filled TWO 30’ dumpsters with... stuph. Hired a driver and tractor and came out so far under moving companies’ estimates that I could hardly believe it. Still have the trailer and it serves as a good, sound storage unit.
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 15, 2020 20:36:01 GMT -5
The weather was great today. The high was in the 60s and the humidity was 18%!I am so not used to such low humidity. It was great!
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 15, 2020 22:33:24 GMT -5
Another rapper was shot in a Walmart parking lot in southwest Houston today. I just can't wait to go back. 😭
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Post by jay on Nov 15, 2020 23:27:17 GMT -5
I reviewed the governor's new order closing everything down again...in preparation for all the questions I'm gonna get from our clients tomorrow. No Thanksgiving and by the way, you can't sing in church anymore. It will not be an easy day.
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Post by Legend Lover on Nov 16, 2020 4:57:59 GMT -5
I find myself rather depressed tonight. There is someone who is no longer here. Someone I could have done something. It weighs on me so often that I can't sleep. R.I.P. my friend. I am so f$#@ing sorry I couldn't get there in time. So sorry, brother. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 16, 2020 7:39:02 GMT -5
I reviewed the governor's new order closing everything down again...in preparation for all the questions I'm gonna get from our clients tomorrow. No Thanksgiving and by the way, you can't sing in church anymore. It will not be an easy day. I will be very happy when this year is over. I have a huge bonfire of limbs and logs collected from my property that I was going to burn New year's Eve, but I think I will wait another day. |
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Post by taiguy66 on Nov 16, 2020 8:48:35 GMT -5
Rise and shine everyone. Good Monday morning! Seize the day and make it a good one! 😁👍
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 16, 2020 8:56:45 GMT -5
Rise and shine everyone. Good Monday morning! Seize the day and make it a good one! 😁👍 Whoa! You're way too chipper for this time on a Monday. I suspect cocain for breakfast. 😈🤠 |
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Post by taiguy66 on Nov 16, 2020 9:04:07 GMT -5
Rise and shine everyone. Good Monday morning! Seize the day and make it a good one! 😁👍 Whoa! You're way too chipper for this time on a Monday. I suspect cocain for breakfast. 😈🤠 Coffee beans was once considered to be a drug Ron! Positive mind= positive body= positive outlook. If you believe that I’ve got a bridge to sell you.... LOL 😉🤣 |
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 16, 2020 9:06:22 GMT -5
Well, I have had my mug of coffee and a couple of Ecedrin Migraine tabs with caffeine and I am about to drag myself out to the truck. 😕😴
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Post by toshtego on Nov 16, 2020 9:39:13 GMT -5
S.O.S. hoping/praying for a good outcome! If you haven't flipped a sailboat then you haven't been sailing! First you learn how to right the boat, canoe, or whatever you are in that might turn over. Nothing is more fun than sailing in a high wind, skipping over the tops of the waves with the tiller in one hand and the mainsheet in the other. That is certainly true and was the first thing I had to do when I took a dinghy sailing class in college. I grew up on sailing fixed keel boats displacing about two tons. They were open cockpit (Knarr & Nordic Folkboat). If you swamped, they went down. |
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Post by Legend Lover on Nov 16, 2020 10:25:10 GMT -5
Rise and shine everyone. Good Monday morning! Seize the day and make it a good one! 😁👍 Keep the positivity going, brother. |
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Post by taiguy66 on Nov 16, 2020 10:40:23 GMT -5
Rise and shine everyone. Good Monday morning! Seize the day and make it a good one! 😁👍 Keep the positivity going, brother. Absolutely Paddy! Have a great day brother!👊😁 |
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Post by toshtego on Nov 16, 2020 10:55:12 GMT -5
Rise and shine everyone. Good Monday morning! Seize the day and make it a good one! 😁👍 Keep the positivity going, brother. Most assuredly!!! |
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Post by lizardonarock on Nov 16, 2020 12:41:39 GMT -5
 Oh gosh motivational posters.
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Post by mrlunting on Nov 16, 2020 13:48:52 GMT -5
Chuck Norris... lol.
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Post by Plainsman on Nov 16, 2020 14:29:09 GMT -5
Drove over to the processor to pick up my deer meat this morning. Beautiful drive, enjoyed by both myself and the dawgz. Got 107# of eats off that buck. Hadda make room in the big freezer. Got three more tags, plus some hungry neighbors.
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Post by ironclad on Nov 16, 2020 21:10:33 GMT -5
71 F and sunny today. Not sure its November.
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Post by Gandalf on Nov 16, 2020 23:12:31 GMT -5
Fun night at Pistol League tonight.
Each shooter had a silhouette target in his lane and another in the next lane over.
Each shooter had 2 magazines, each loaded with 5 rounds. One was loaded into the gun with 1 in the chamber.
The lights were turned out, then spotlights illuminated one target or the other for ~2 seconds.
If the spotlight was flickering, you were supposed to shoot the head. If it was solid, shoot the torso.
Sometimes both targets were illuminated in which case you had ~4 seconds to shoot them both.
Had to reload on the fly.
After all 10 rounds were fired, the set was over.
Reloaded the mags and moved the targets. Then repeated.
Shot 5 sets, 10 rounds each set, total 50 rounds.
Targets at 15', 21' 30', but both targets never at same distance during a set.
A lot of fun, and I seem to do better at this kind of shooting rather than just shooting a certain number of rounds at a bullseye in a certain time period.
Gets the blood pumping!
Possible 500 points. I think I shot around 405 or 410 tonight.
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 17, 2020 1:38:22 GMT -5
Just got back home from another 520 mile run down to Harris County for a load of tools. Trailer and truck loaded to the gills and back on the road. They have moved the closing to December 4th, so I have plenty of time to finish the shop before I have to pick up the last load of stuff. Not much left except for some odds and ends of screws and bolts and such, and a big 36"x7' workbench that would be prohibitively expensive to build with the price of lumber these days. It's got a 1.75 inch thick tongue and groove top. Perfect reloading table! 😁
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Post by lizardonarock on Nov 17, 2020 8:55:34 GMT -5
Arbuckles the coffee that won the west with Baileys and nothing planned for today.
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Post by taiguy66 on Nov 17, 2020 9:21:16 GMT -5
Good morning Tuesday! One small positive thought in the morning can change your entire day. No Ron... no cocaine in my coffee, just high on life! Seize the day! Make it a good one! 😁👍👊
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Post by toshtego on Nov 17, 2020 9:52:26 GMT -5
Just got back home from another 520 mile run down to Harris County for a load of tools. Trailer and truck loaded to the gills and back on the road. They have moved the closing to December 4th, so I have plenty of time to finish the shop before I have to pick up the last load of stuff. Not much left except for some odds and ends of screws and bolts and such, and a big 36"x7' workbench that would be prohibitively expensive to build with the price of lumber these days. It's got a 1.75 inch thick tongue and groove top. Perfect reloading table! 😁 That sounds like a great working bench and worth moving. I made a table like that, not quite as big and put it on casters for the obvious reason. I believe everything should be movable except for safes. |
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Post by bigwoolie on Nov 17, 2020 10:45:17 GMT -5
Nice morning this morning, 40° and no wind. Going to town to pick up a washer and dryer for Shweetie. They're used, but barely.
This young man that's staying with us is really turning his life around. He wants to start working on all the legal issues from his past now, so Im also taking him to go see a lawyer for some advice on where to begin
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 17, 2020 11:00:39 GMT -5
Got to sleep at 3AM. Just woke up to the sounds of jackhammers out on the highway. 😕
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Post by taiguy66 on Nov 17, 2020 11:53:17 GMT -5
Got to sleep at 3AM. Just woke up to the sounds of jackhammers out on the highway. 😕 I hate that! Seems like today’s going to be a coffee day Ron.☕️ |
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