bigwheelzip
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On some of the small family farms in Europe, they have some labor intensive drying tasks.
Might take a while to do that to an Iowa spread.
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On some of the small family farms in Europe, they have some labor intensive drying tasks.
Might take a while to do that to an Iowa spread.
In this house, it means my wife's asleep.
She drinks, she falls asleep.
Supposed to be 73 and stormy today.
Good day to go to the Y.
They close at 4 on Sundays, so I need to figure out a way to pry my behind off this chair and get going.
Good day to go to the Y.
They close at 4 on Sundays, so I need to figure out a way to pry my behind off this chair and get going.
The water table is above ground here. And the sun's out. That means it's a sauna with mosquitos. Lose a pint of blood for every quart of sweat. Everybody walks around swattin' and cursing. Looks like a Tourretts convention.
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It's been a lazy Sunday for me and the Mrs. So far today.It's just as well. It was a loooong night. Our youngest daughter down in North Carolina, had her baby girl late last night! We are now proud grandparents for the second time! Our oldest daughter had a son just over a year ago. We actually spent the afternoon with him at the zoo yesterday. I'm glad that we did. It's been raing all morning. Aaaah , life is good these days.
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Old west style of hay drying!
Old west style of hay drying!
Apple crispness vs. taste in The New Yorker.
Crunch - The New Yorker
Trying to be careful here, as the last time I copied a link to a New Yorker magazine article I offended someone cause there was a 'bad' word quoted in the article from an interview
and I got dinged! So I reread this article twice and found no bad words though with my asphasia sometimes words are missed, misread, or not comprehended correctly? I guess discussing apple types could be offensive, or even fruit types could create apprehension in various people, so read with caution.
One thing I do like with NYC, well heck the entire NE, words don't offend them, they have multiple options available to increase ones vocabulary!
Crunch - The New Yorker
Trying to be careful here, as the last time I copied a link to a New Yorker magazine article I offended someone cause there was a 'bad' word quoted in the article from an interview
and I got dinged! So I reread this article twice and found no bad words though with my asphasia sometimes words are missed, misread, or not comprehended correctly? I guess discussing apple types could be offensive, or even fruit types could create apprehension in various people, so read with caution.
One thing I do like with NYC, well heck the entire NE, words don't offend them, they have multiple options available to increase ones vocabulary!
Well .... I just got out from work, two weeks untill i start workin' again
(doing shift work at the boardmill, this is a picture of one of the machines i drive)
Planing to go and get the Winchester 94 from the seller.
Looks like good visibility out of that rig !
Where does everything go after the banding station?
USS Stump DD-978
Namesake: Admiral Felix Budwell Stump
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding
Launched: 1 January 1977
Acquired: 24 July 1978
Commissioned: 19 August 1978
Decommissioned: 22 October 2004
Struck: 22 October 2004
Motto: Tenacity: Foundation of Victory
Fate: Sunk as target, 7 June 2006
Namesake: Admiral Felix Budwell Stump
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding
Launched: 1 January 1977
Acquired: 24 July 1978
Commissioned: 19 August 1978
Decommissioned: 22 October 2004
Struck: 22 October 2004
Motto: Tenacity: Foundation of Victory
Fate: Sunk as target, 7 June 2006
God Bless You Zagged, in your moment of crisis showing concern for your dog.
The least I could do, consider it done.
kwselke
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It has been a busy day. I got caught up on a lot of house cleaning chores and laundry. Made it to two grocery stores without getting rained on. Cooked up a batch of Cowboy Beans & Rice (Frijoles Charros con Arroz) for lunch. That was a dish one of my grandfathers was fond of, he was the original owner of the factory engraved Colt SAA in my avatar. He was a South Texas LEO. He would have made the beans from dried, I opened a can of Goya.
Now it is Beer Time! I've been trying to remember what Gramps drank, Pearl or Lone Star I'm sure. Only remember seeing him drink a beer once. It was at Trinnie's Mexican Restaurant on the banks of the Nueces River about 1964 or 1965 I believe. He salted his beer.
Well I'm having an Art Car IPA made by Houston's Saint Arnold Brewery. I had it once before about a year ago, on tap, and it is now available canned. It pours a clear dark yellow/amber, with an aggressive head. Smells mildly of a pine forest. The flavor is definitely piney but the hops are smooth/mellow and do not have the overpowering pine tar/pitch flavor of an overbearing IPA. I believe the ABV is somewhere around 6.5%, this beer would be a good candidate for refrigerated aging. A good India Pale Ale in my opinion.
Cheers!
Now it is Beer Time! I've been trying to remember what Gramps drank, Pearl or Lone Star I'm sure. Only remember seeing him drink a beer once. It was at Trinnie's Mexican Restaurant on the banks of the Nueces River about 1964 or 1965 I believe. He salted his beer.
Well I'm having an Art Car IPA made by Houston's Saint Arnold Brewery. I had it once before about a year ago, on tap, and it is now available canned. It pours a clear dark yellow/amber, with an aggressive head. Smells mildly of a pine forest. The flavor is definitely piney but the hops are smooth/mellow and do not have the overpowering pine tar/pitch flavor of an overbearing IPA. I believe the ABV is somewhere around 6.5%, this beer would be a good candidate for refrigerated aging. A good India Pale Ale in my opinion.
Cheers!
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For all the Motorcycle riders in the drift!
This show, this song almost made me want to buy one!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PYKQ3fwNb0c
I remember "Then came Bronson." I used to watch it when I was grammar school age. I remember one episode in particular where a character played by Will Geer guest starred. Geer's character hired Bronson to disassemble and bury a Linotype machine that he had operated for decades.
I took a lot of graphics courses in high school. I was also a teacher's aid and ended up spending three periods a day in the graphic arts department. I was regarded as a "good troop" by our army veteran instructor.
Due to the high esteem that the instructor held me in, I was trained in and assigned to the more interesting jobs. For a couple of years I operated the line camera and dark room. I operated a Heidelberg Windmill printing press and set cold type in metal chases on a large stone for use in letterpress printing. I also learned to operate a Linotype machine. A Linotype is a fascinating machine which sort of left me in awe of the many operations it completed at the same time. I actually owned a Linotype that my local paper gave away later in my life but never had the space to use it. I read the letterpress printing is coming back as a very popular hobby. Maybe I'll have some space that machine tools aren't taking up someday.
Operating the Linotype machine, the camera, or the Heidelberg took most of my time in the classroom. When not performing those tasks, I was assigned to reloading chores on the C&H three station press that my teacher kept locked up in the darkroom. We both owned Ruger Super Blackhawks and would shoot together a day or two a week after school. We had settled on a mutually agreed upon load of a 240 grain Sierra hollow point and Winchester 630 powder. I would crank out hundreds of rounds every week.
There were a couple of other Linotype operators but I was the only student in charge of reloading ammunition. I think times have changed since I was in high school.
I did receive straight "A's" in graphic arts btw.
Regards.
Bob
BigBill
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There's a reason why my older brother was fishing all the time.
I never thought about what he was fishing for. Sometimes he did bring home fish. I know he was unhappy.
kwselke
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C. Homer Bast, C.O. USS Yolo this date 1945.
June 5, 1945
The convoy anchored at Nago Wan at 0310. My primary concern was the depth of water and in a typhoon would Yolo have enough chain for the anchor to hold? After finding the designated anchorage, we dropped the hook and secured everything but the anchor and engine room watches. The sun, streaming in the sea cabin door, was enough to wake me. There was no typhoon! This day was the most wonderful one we have had in weeks.
The LSTs in our group anchored in the northeastern part of the anchorage, a mile from the beach. The bay is huge and shaped in the form of a "U". Surrounded by land except in the southwest, 100 LSTs are anchored here. The water is calm. It reflects the blue sky overhead. On the northern side of the bay are rugged green mountains that level out on the other side of the "U". The country is green, lush with vegetation with the sides of the mountains cultivated in some spots.
At 0903 anchor was hoisted and the group returned to Hagushi. Leaving Nago Wan all saw the sunken hulks of a couple of Japanese vessels. Rusty and gutted they rested on the bottom with the main deck and superstructure showing. The return trip was plea¬sant. Indeed, it was good to be at sea again.
As Yolo dropped out of the formation and returned to her anchor¬age around noon, small craft appeared with their lights blinking "permission to come alongside". At 1318 it was business as usual just as clouds appeared on the horizon. Once again the ubiquitous rain fell. We went to GQ late in the evening, midst the rain, smoke and cold. All guns were manned from 1932 to 2027 with bogeys at varying distances in all sectors.
South of Naha the Mississippi (BB 41), steaming 2 miles astern of Louisville (CA 28) was hit around 1930 by two kamikazes. In spite of her age damage was slight. At 1932, the Louisville, also on fire support, was kamikazed on the port side in the vicinity of the well deck. Her plane and catapult were demolished, #1 stack was destroyed and four boilers were knocked out of commission. She anchored near Yolo around 2240. Fifty- four men were killed or wounded.
June 5, 1945
The convoy anchored at Nago Wan at 0310. My primary concern was the depth of water and in a typhoon would Yolo have enough chain for the anchor to hold? After finding the designated anchorage, we dropped the hook and secured everything but the anchor and engine room watches. The sun, streaming in the sea cabin door, was enough to wake me. There was no typhoon! This day was the most wonderful one we have had in weeks.
The LSTs in our group anchored in the northeastern part of the anchorage, a mile from the beach. The bay is huge and shaped in the form of a "U". Surrounded by land except in the southwest, 100 LSTs are anchored here. The water is calm. It reflects the blue sky overhead. On the northern side of the bay are rugged green mountains that level out on the other side of the "U". The country is green, lush with vegetation with the sides of the mountains cultivated in some spots.
At 0903 anchor was hoisted and the group returned to Hagushi. Leaving Nago Wan all saw the sunken hulks of a couple of Japanese vessels. Rusty and gutted they rested on the bottom with the main deck and superstructure showing. The return trip was plea¬sant. Indeed, it was good to be at sea again.
As Yolo dropped out of the formation and returned to her anchor¬age around noon, small craft appeared with their lights blinking "permission to come alongside". At 1318 it was business as usual just as clouds appeared on the horizon. Once again the ubiquitous rain fell. We went to GQ late in the evening, midst the rain, smoke and cold. All guns were manned from 1932 to 2027 with bogeys at varying distances in all sectors.
South of Naha the Mississippi (BB 41), steaming 2 miles astern of Louisville (CA 28) was hit around 1930 by two kamikazes. In spite of her age damage was slight. At 1932, the Louisville, also on fire support, was kamikazed on the port side in the vicinity of the well deck. Her plane and catapult were demolished, #1 stack was destroyed and four boilers were knocked out of commission. She anchored near Yolo around 2240. Fifty- four men were killed or wounded.
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Sigh. Suddenly on the road a day early. Wife suddenly demanded departure due to an unleveled refrigerator. Resetting on level ground worked. Wife is in bed at 1730 hours leaving me to amuse myself.
RV Advantage if you combine the toilet and shower, your wife cannot load the shower with Stuff.
I will post this someday but my wifi point is just getting a charge. Sigh.
Stopped at a pleasant place in South Carolina. I need instructions on how to use the campground cable TV. I will dig out the fine manual later.
I tried using Solitare in Windows 10. It doesn't work without a MS account login, and I have no connection. Wordpad seems to be working but I haven't saved yet. I will try some MS Office 2016 components next. I OWN TWO <ed> copies.
MSO worked without a link.
Note the WiFi charged up enough to make this connection.
It is 80 ° F in the South Carolina woods and raining. With thunder. Not a lot of wind I hope, I left the awing out. SIGH.
Geoff
Who does strange things for love, or is it terror of displeasing a Sicilian wife?
RV Advantage if you combine the toilet and shower, your wife cannot load the shower with Stuff.
I will post this someday but my wifi point is just getting a charge. Sigh.
Stopped at a pleasant place in South Carolina. I need instructions on how to use the campground cable TV. I will dig out the fine manual later.
I tried using Solitare in Windows 10. It doesn't work without a MS account login, and I have no connection. Wordpad seems to be working but I haven't saved yet. I will try some MS Office 2016 components next. I OWN TWO <ed> copies.
MSO worked without a link.
Note the WiFi charged up enough to make this connection.
It is 80 ° F in the South Carolina woods and raining. With thunder. Not a lot of wind I hope, I left the awing out. SIGH.
Geoff
Who does strange things for love, or is it terror of displeasing a Sicilian wife?
Today at the Y, while we were in the warm pool after our workout, my wife looks at me and calmly says,"my water broke."
"Huh, what??!!"
Turns out she has a blister on the heel of her right foot. Sometime during today's workout the blister tore and drained into her sock.
After we got home I cut off the skin flap and put some disinfectant on her heel.
"Huh, what??!!"
Turns out she has a blister on the heel of her right foot. Sometime during today's workout the blister tore and drained into her sock.
After we got home I cut off the skin flap and put some disinfectant on her heel.
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Daayuummm you old dog, you!
and then I read the rest of the post.
Told you so... cat stuffed in new boot for breaking in!
Careful, or she'll make you an offer you can't refuse!
According to the weather report, it's supposed to be 82 and sunny with less humidity tomorrow.
I'm planning on a good hike in the mountains and if my wife's up to it, another hike with her when she gets home from work.
I'm planning on a good hike in the mountains and if my wife's up to it, another hike with her when she gets home from work.
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