so waht ya doin today?

RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
I woke up before the alarm this morning thinking "every toy I had as a child taught me building, mechanics , applied physics, alternative materials, alternative energy/fuel , and geometry. Within my generations birth years we went from competitive flathead V8s the death of the production v12 to factory production race cars . Mary Shelley's monster and the most ridiculous outlandish sci-fi became a realistic believable possibility. We were as likely to see new pictures from deep space as the bottom of the deepest oceans .
Here we are , the last gen X baby celebrated the 21st anniversary of their 21st birthday 6 months ago, the 2nd space lab is starting into it's death spiral and we are still working gravity slingshot navigation to escape our own solar system. Sure we're exploring the ocean depths but the regulators can't grasp how the oceans are warming with quadrillions of btus being released every hour at depths where 800°F won't boil water . The 1960s,70s,80s were a wonder land of innovation and exploration........
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
fiver said:
if your red corpuscles are shrinking from the treatment you'll have that feeling of the extremities being cold.
it always starts with the nose where the tiniest vessels are.
they just aren't carrying the oxygen properly.
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Didn't know that was the cause. Interesting, painful but interesting.
 
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dale2242

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The salmon trip was a bust.
Not even a bite. I guess that`s fishing.
I`m still trying to get all my garden planted .
I planted eating cukes and green beans yesterday.
It`s coming, slowly but surely.
 
L Ross

L Ross

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Finishing touches before the first friends arrive Thursday. Wind flags up, chair leg adjusters lubed, targets up, two Yak tongues injected and soaking in brine prior to smoking.

We have been checking on some milk weeds for Monarch activity and found eggs recently and yesterday Sue spotted tiny little caterpillars. They sure are small when first hatched but they already chew tiny holes in the milk weed leaves.IMG_5291.jpg
 
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david s

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Went to our local hospital to pay a bill. Sign says hours are Monday thru Friday 9-5, cool. At 1:15pm the metal guard is pulled down, there closed so I ask the receptionist if there's anyone taking billing and have one of those discussions you can only have at a hospital. The receptionist says the woman taking billing "is away for a bit". Off the receptionist area is another office with another woman in it. The two women begin talking and I can only hear half the conversation but the half I hear doesn't sound good. The two-woman finish talking to one another, and the receptionist looks at me and says, "the woman taking billing is away for the moment". Having heard half of the two womans conversation and something about an injured back I ask the receptionist "How exactly do you define "away for the moment"? The receptionist looks at me like I'm stupid and says, "for the rest of the day". Apparently your supposed to wait another 3 hours and 45 minutes waiting for your moment to arrive.
 
Snakeoil

Snakeoil

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I ordered 136 feet of new aluminum dock today. Decided to move the old dock and stanchion from the front of the camp to the back of the camp for better access to the road. Of course, I had to pick the hottest day of the year so far to do this. There are 14, 10 foot long sections and probably weigh about 250lbs each. I use a handtruck to move them and then man-handle them into a pile. Then I had to move 14 steel stanchions that weigh at least 50 and probaby more like 70 lbs each. Was able to load 2 at a time on the handtruck so only 7 trips.

I'm sitting here cooling off in the AC before I get on the tractor and mow where the dock was. Then I have to weedwhack the weeds growing up thru the cracks in the seawall sidewalk. Gee but being at camp is fun.:headbang:
 
Winelover

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
^^^^That's why I rented a cabin at a resort for three weeks in June for almost 40 years, on Burt Lake, Michigan. We got treated like family. Still get X-mas cards with notes in them.
 
Snakeoil

Snakeoil

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Winelover said:
^^^^That's why I rented a cabin at a resort for three weeks in June for almost 40 years, on Burt Lake, Michigan. We got treated like family. Still get X-mas cards with notes in them.
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We spend the entire summer here. The new aluminum docks will remove one of the truly bullwork jobs from the list. I'm working on a couple schemes to float some of the weight from the boatlift to make it easier to push out to the end of the dock. I just had this idea pop into my head to get a small rubber boat, like a Zodiak and lash it to the lift in shallow water and then start pushing it out. That would be interesting.

I'm currently thinking a few truck innertubes or maybe a bunch of 5 gallon cans lashed to the lift so they float when the water gets deeper.

I should've had kids.
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Amazingly I not only got all the lawn mowed, but also did the roadside that fronts my property. Then I managed to scrape the wagon road ruts into something resembling a fairly smooth surface. At least all of it but the really bad area where 2 ledges form a "V" and which of course channel all sorts of water through the "V". What would be nice is a box blade with a scarifier, but I can't juistify that expense for 100 feet of wagon road. I do however have a heavy duty field cultivator that I think I can rip with enough to be able to drag the ruts full. Then I can get the Bobcat down there and fill the worst of whats left with blow sand. It won't stay where I put it unless I get some clay on top of it, but it's free and right there. All this so I can get my track loader/backhoe down there to put in those culverts I bought- hopefully before the DEERFLIES get too bad!!! Those suckers have some serious jaws on them!!!

SWMBO plans on taking the day of tomorrow and going with me to get my poison pump removed and to pick the new cooktop we ordered at Lowes. Be nice to have a stove we can trust not to explode!!!
 
fiver

fiver

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went down to Pokey with the Girl and kids.
found some drywall screws on close-out so i bought 15 lbs. of them.
that should just about refill the 25 lb. bucket, and hopefully [LOL] be all i need for forever,, said that same thing like 2 buckets ago.
probably burn half of them up re-doing the other half of the fence on the north side that was stapled together like 30 years ago.

yeah i know, i also don't care,,,, they'll get stained over.
 
L Ross

L Ross

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Besides more string trimming, more mowing, sweating, putting stuff away, getting stuff out, a short MC ride and finally setting up some over flow housing. The Grandson of my late best friend, coworker, Muskie fishing partner, rendezvous camper and so much more, is coming to the shoot and was too young to have gone on rendezvous encampments with his Grandpa and Grandma. So I am putting him in a wedge tent for the weekend. Just a small taste of the camp experience.

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Kevin Stenberg

Kevin Stenberg

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A wife will never forget any statement you make. EVER.
We usually only have black bears come through the yard in the very early spring. This spring about 2 months after the snow left. I made the mistake of saying that it was late in the spring and we probably wouldn't be seeing any this year. Since the day I made that statement twice we have had bear in the yard. And both times. Gues what my wife has said to me.
 
462

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Since last Friday the patience god has been vexing my wife and me, and if things don't improve real soon we may become ax murderers. Okay, okay, all you precious snowflakes who are reading this, it's just a figure of speech. You can't ax murder someone if you are talking to them on the phone.

Our small bank was bought by a national bank and the final steps of the transition process started Friday. Oops. "We're sorry for the inconvenience, but we are experiencing technical difficulties and are working to correct them as fast as possible." Road apples! Today is day six of service reps droning on and on with apologies, still none of the banking systems work except our debit cards.

This morning, my wife picked up my prescription from the pharmacy. Though the prescription was correct the number of pills wasn't. For the second time! Back home, she called and talked to the pharmacist and was lied to. Road apples!! I called the store manager and politely told him his pharmacist needs an attitude adjustment. He apologized.

Immediately after that, I called the local monopolistic medical facility to talk to my doc's assistant, so she could get the prescription squared away. I spent over 18 minutes listening to a scratchy and lousy music tape and some guy offering excuses as to why the wait, before a live person came on line. Then, it was a few more minutes before I was told the assistant was not available, but she will call me back. Road apples!!! I suspect that she won't call till next week. I spoke to the facility manager and politely explained the poor service and blaming it on Covid is no longer a valid excuse. She apologized.

Useless hint: I don't want apologies. I simply want the service I pay for.
 
glassparman

glassparman

"OK, OK, I'm going as fast as I don't want to go!"
Went to work today just like every weekday except payday Friday's because we work a 9/80 schedule.

Tomorrow when I get home the horse vet is visiting to float the old Mare's teeth. Poor horse will wobble around like a drunken sailor for two hours after until the feel good juice wears off.
 
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