so waht ya doin today?
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Don't let her talk to my wife. She flew away to Florida last Saturday, won't be back till Wed. Sent me pix on an airboat, a pontoon, & rubbed in that it's near 80 degrees.
Fortunately, my snowblower has a large for size engine, snow hasn't been able to argue with it much. If it were automated I wouldn't mind winter quite as much.
Rally Hess
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I hired my brother to help me move lumber the last two days. I have been storing it in a 24x36 garage my wife adapted as her toy room. I’m finishing the inside now. Got the ceiling rocked,walls insulated, and what I think is enough tongue and groove oak paneling to do the walls , already stained. The lumber was in “her spot”( little less than 16,000 ft. Now), so needed to be moved. Lots of trips from one building to the next. Four square lumber to one building and tongue and groove to another. About the fourth time i’ve Moved it since felling the trees. Wife is drawing me pictures how she wants her shop to look! Leaving for Sd. In a couple days to hunt pheasant.
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Someone's gotta work & I didn't wanna miss this great weather
She's visiting family friends she knows there. When you live, work, & vacation together sometimes ya need to have alone time too. Sadly, mine is in a blizzard?
She's visiting family friends she knows there. When you live, work, & vacation together sometimes ya need to have alone time too. Sadly, mine is in a blizzard?
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
Congrats on sticking it out. Small world, Cindy and I, celebrated our 41st......the end of August.
BTW, I also answer to John.
We have to work around restaurants schedules..............most, that we frequent, are closed on Sundays, Monday's and even Tuesday's.
fiver
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at least you have choices.
we have 2 diners,, I'm not sure why they call them that, neither one is open for dinner.
one place's motto is 'order what you want, eat what you get' [seriously] and they mean it.
you might get 4 eggs with your C.F. steak and no hash browns, even though you ordered no eggs and just hash browns.
or maybe some bacon for free, who knows...but you don't leave hungry.
a Chinese restaurant [HA!] which may or may not be open depending on whether you can catch one of them to unlock the place.
usually no one is there it just happens to be attached to the motor lodge so manages to mostly stay in business because they have no rent.
the Mexican place at the edge of town that is only open on like Monday, Saturday, and Friday evenings except in the summer when they run a taco truck in Lava.
and the fast food place on the highway.
we have 2 diners,, I'm not sure why they call them that, neither one is open for dinner.
one place's motto is 'order what you want, eat what you get' [seriously] and they mean it.
you might get 4 eggs with your C.F. steak and no hash browns, even though you ordered no eggs and just hash browns.
or maybe some bacon for free, who knows...but you don't leave hungry.
a Chinese restaurant [HA!] which may or may not be open depending on whether you can catch one of them to unlock the place.
usually no one is there it just happens to be attached to the motor lodge so manages to mostly stay in business because they have no rent.
the Mexican place at the edge of town that is only open on like Monday, Saturday, and Friday evenings except in the summer when they run a taco truck in Lava.
and the fast food place on the highway.
Fast food place on the highway? That's cute. This is the fast food capital of the planet. A town of 12,000 and we have just about every fast food joint there is including 3 McDonald's, two Subway's and at least one of almost every national chain. 12,000 population which of course includes minors and yet there are something like 36 banks in town. Seems like if it ain't a fast joint it's a bank.
fiver
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I bet there is more, but there is 4 churches of the same denomination in town here that I know of.
that's 1 for every 600 people.
there is also 3 or 4 others of various denominations scattered about.
I don't know anyone that goes to them but they are there.
I been meaning to burn up a bunch of odd ball components I have in some shot shells.
unfortunately after digging out the boxes of hulls I had stuffed here and there and sorting things out better I find I have about 3 times as many of those hulls as I thought.
I was going to just load them and throw them away, but now I'm seeing I don't have enough components, and I surely am not going to buy more of them just for this.
that's 1 for every 600 people.
there is also 3 or 4 others of various denominations scattered about.
I don't know anyone that goes to them but they are there.
I been meaning to burn up a bunch of odd ball components I have in some shot shells.
unfortunately after digging out the boxes of hulls I had stuffed here and there and sorting things out better I find I have about 3 times as many of those hulls as I thought.
I was going to just load them and throw them away, but now I'm seeing I don't have enough components, and I surely am not going to buy more of them just for this.
Rally Hess
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Rick,
Is your town on a major interstate or just the only town with a restaurant for 50 miles? Wouldn’t seem like that small a population could support that many restaurants. That's how it is around here. Hub cities with small burgs in between. Most along traditional iron ore or timber supply roads. Tourist traps aplenty.
Is your town on a major interstate or just the only town with a restaurant for 50 miles? Wouldn’t seem like that small a population could support that many restaurants. That's how it is around here. Hub cities with small burgs in between. Most along traditional iron ore or timber supply roads. Tourist traps aplenty.
Not a freeway or interstate within a two hours drive of here. It is a tourist destination however, with the twin lakes and the white river it's a fisherman's paradise. Actually not the easiest place to get to, you pretty much are coming here and not passing through to get somewhere else. Don't know of a town around here without restaurants though not nearly the number of fast food joints we have. We also have many of the national chain motels here but their parking lot's are largely empty in the off season.
Pistolero
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CZ93x62 - that looks like a good solution for short term mobility. On
two occasions I have had a leg out of commission, once in traction for
3 months - then a walking cast for 6 wks. The walking cast, though a PITA
to some extent, felt like real liberation after that long bedbound - and I mean
not one single movement out of that bed for 90 days.
Much later, I had another incident, but with 30 yrs newer technology, and
a very different situation, I was on crutches within a few days.
Hope that the Iwalk 2.0 (pretty reasonable price, too) works for you and
gets you some useful mobility until you can move forward with more
permanent solutions. I fully understand your desire to be up and
getting around.
I assume that you can move around reasonably well with crutches.
Best wishes,
Bill
two occasions I have had a leg out of commission, once in traction for
3 months - then a walking cast for 6 wks. The walking cast, though a PITA
to some extent, felt like real liberation after that long bedbound - and I mean
not one single movement out of that bed for 90 days.
Much later, I had another incident, but with 30 yrs newer technology, and
a very different situation, I was on crutches within a few days.
Hope that the Iwalk 2.0 (pretty reasonable price, too) works for you and
gets you some useful mobility until you can move forward with more
permanent solutions. I fully understand your desire to be up and
getting around.
I assume that you can move around reasonably well with crutches.
Best wishes,
Bill
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Pistolero
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As to dealing with snow, I still shovel some, but have a front blade for my 425 JD (22 hp) and a 6.5 hp
two stage walk behind snow blower. The blade is much faster for my large concrete pad (about 40 ft
square), and it is too big to blow all the way to one side, and the house blocks one side,
so blowing is not too workable, the blade is far better. GOTTA have wheel weights and chains,
too.
And pass on my sympathy on your wife's shoulder. Hope it will heal up without surgery.
Bill
two stage walk behind snow blower. The blade is much faster for my large concrete pad (about 40 ft
square), and it is too big to blow all the way to one side, and the house blocks one side,
so blowing is not too workable, the blade is far better. GOTTA have wheel weights and chains,
too.
And pass on my sympathy on your wife's shoulder. Hope it will heal up without surgery.
Bill
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CZ93X62
Official forum enigma
That IWalk 2.0 arrived late yesterday, and I got it assembled without incident. I messed around with it a little last night, and there is a definite learning curve to negotiate with the contraption. Today is wife's birthday, we both want out of the house on one of the few days not consumed by doctor appointments or in-home nurse visits. The IWalk can wait a bit for focused effort.
She has a brother that claims he turns on "Naked and Afraid" expecting to see her. She replies "You ain't seeing my bare ass on TV and I don't get scared so don't look too hard".
RBHarter
West Central AR
I saw today it snowed in my former hamlet yesterday . It was 75 miles from a Walmart . 8 churches , 6 bars , McDs , Wong's Chinese (9 tables for a total of 36 seats) , 1 Casino with a coffee shop , the Pizza Factory tanked , a local pizza joint , a BBQ place , and a "fixed location" roach coach burger thing . 6000 people in a county just a little smaller than Maryland .
The new digs have 11 chains , I don't know how many churches but there's only 21 liquor licenses for the whole county and 16 are held by churches ........ Dry county , Walmart , a dozen or more dinners , 3-4 up scales , 5700 people .
The new digs have 11 chains , I don't know how many churches but there's only 21 liquor licenses for the whole county and 16 are held by churches ........ Dry county , Walmart , a dozen or more dinners , 3-4 up scales , 5700 people .