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well it warmed up real nice today.....Earler I took my son to a Dr's appointment the followed by breakfast at dennys, then we walked some trails by the house! Now I will get some of my chores done around the house before the wife gets home and I'm done!!


Larry, sorry to hear the news about your FIL. I dread the day when my In-laws get to that point. My own Father and Mother have passed more than 10 and 13 years ago all that's left is My sister and I. So all I got left is my in-;laws to worry about. You and your family got our prayers too!


Rex, Ol' Knobby Knees and a Thong!:eek:all that's left fer ya to say is you haven't bathed in a week!:eek::eek::eek: EITHER WAY.... all I can say is Ewwwwwwwwwwwww!:eek: Man that's sick........:eek:
 
thanks for the clarification, StationMaster.

being on the USET would have been HUGE, but if he was out competing in jumping competitions within his breed assoc, then, not quite so exciting. :D

we're seeing more and more coloured horses out in the jumping venues though. colour has become fashionable. not a bad thing as far as I'm concerned. RRRRRRRRAmone, my little black horse, is full appy. solid though, no blanket.

I NEED more train stuff. I have my bench started, nice and level, I can reach all the way across it and there's plenty of room for curves, climbs, tressels, and tunnels.

bit by bit. I'm getting there.
 
I did some sharp stops this morning as well as some long slow stops but the brake problem wouldn't come out to play. Everything worked normally. Thought about fixing it myself but it's a lot easier to pay someone else to do it. It has anti-lock brakes and that particular model is a mother to bleed. Went to the pharmacy and got refills on six of my prescriptions then went to Wal-Mart and got some salad dressing so I can have salad tonight and i got a gallon of anti-freeze for the car. I'll put that in later after the radiator has cooled down some.
 


LTF, He actually competed outside of the US also. His rider was a prominent rider, though, being senile, I can't remember his name. I wish I could have seen him perform, but never got the opportunity. But, I did see him clearly, handle a 6-foot fence surrounding the barn lot on more than one occasion. He didn't even scape his hackles. Cleared the fence by a good 2 feet. A powerful jumper, I'd think.

When I saw him on TV(Wide World of Sports, remember that show?) the commentator made the remark that he was a powerful jumper, but lacked a bit of speed. I think he placed 3rd then. He had no points deducted for knocking down fences.

Bob
 
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Afternoon, everyone.

Larry, that's bad news that they weren't able to reinsert the feeding tube. It really does sound like the end of the road is near. If he can be cared for at home, with the help of Hospice, I'd really urge you to consider that option. It will be much easier on him, you, and Glendia, and Hospice will make sure he's pain-free and peaceful until the end.

Ken, I was hoping they were all clean fractures. Dilaudid is a really heavy duty pain reliever and always has to be given with an antinausea drug, usually phenergran. The combination can be very difficult to tolerate for people who are opioid naive. I imagine they have her on hydrocodone now, which should still give good pain relief, but not cause so many side effects. She still should be pretty sedated, so now's a good time to run out and buy some trains. :)

LTF, as long as you are comfortable with your choices, more power to you. I'd still point out that the OPP carry guns for more than decoration. OTOH, you could always sic RRRRRRRRAmone on any intruder. He's probably at least as as scary as any of my scary looking guns if he wants to be. ;) I know the SPRING is coming and, a couple of months from now, I'll be complaining because it's too hot, but I'd be happy to have a little taste of it now.

Rex...thongs....?:eek: Thank goodness you got covered up in time, or the FedEX guy would have puked all over your new monitor. :p The change really is amazing, isn't it? When I got my LCD monitor, it was a relief, because I thought I was going blind with the old one, everything looked so bad. So far our total snowfall has been...zero! The Piggly Wiggly lot was packed this morning though, since I guess the bread and milk panic was finally on, even though it's clear now that nothing is going to happen.

Barry, sounds like you're getting some of what we were supposed to get. Nothing as fun as driving on snow covering a layer of ice.

Jeffrey, it sure sounds like a master cylinder problem. I assume you've tried the backing up real fast and slamming on the brakes trick to see if that would readjust the brakes?

Bob, I'd give a major body part to fly in a B-17. That must have been amazing. I've had more than my fill of helicopters with the sheriff's department. We had a complete loss of power in our Hughes 500D and the pilot managed to autorotate us down on the only 10 foot stretch of beach that kept us from ditching in the Pacific. :eek: I ain't never getting into one of those things again.

Chris, I don't think you have to worry about any snow flurries down there. I'd be happy with a high of 58 though. It's 39 here now.

CJ, this "storm' is turning into a giant dud down here. That dry air is just too well entrenched. We had about 10 minutes of graupel and the rest has been a little light rain. Looks like we may get a few flurries on the backside of the front, but that's about it. I'm not sure I'm buying into the big outbreak of cold air now either. It will still be cold, especially during the day, but I don't see the lows being much below the 17 we've already had. There just won't be enough snow cover to promote the single digit temperatures that were forecasted.

Number 2 daughter came home last night leaving a big trail of oil up the driveway. She thought something smelled "funny". Well, yeah, oil dripping on the manifold does smell "funny". :rolleyes: It looks like a leak in the oil pan gasket, but it's at the mechanic's now, so I hope it's nothing worse. We'll see. She has a 2001 Grand Am amd I can see why GM went bankrupt. That car has something wrong with it at least once a month. :mad: Big game tonight, so I'll be able to go and lay down across Main Street tonight for about three hours and not get run over. Since we know Bama is going to win, the interesting question will be which team will end up #2. Texas will have one loss, and Boise State is 14-0. I don't see how Boise State won't deserve the #2 spot.
 
Jim, I was a major fan of the TV show(and movie) ""12 O'clock High". Contrary to any belief that there's room in the cockpit of a B-17, there ain't that much. I was very much surprised. And for as large as the plane looks on the outside, there's not much room inside either. I can't imagine how cramped it must have been on a 12-hour flight. And the guy in the lower ball turret had to be small and part contortionist. I tried to fit down there and I would have felt like a canned ham or worse. And the "tube" for the tail gunner was tighter than any CAT scan tube I've ever been in. I can see where a B29 was a vast improvement with its remote control guns.

I'll download the video as soon as I get my computer back. I didn't take any pics at the breakfast. I have some 35mm pics of the B17 and most of the cars, and I saw no need to be redundant. I didn't know I was going for a "ride". lol

Bob
 
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Jim, I was a major fan of the TV show(and movie) ""12 O'clock High". Contrary to any belief that there's room in the cockpit of a B-17, there ain't that much. I was very much surprised. And for as large as the plane looks on the outside, there's not much room inside either. I can't imagine how cramped it must have been on a 12-hour flight. And the guy in the lower ball turret had to be small and part contortionist. I tried to fit down there and I would have felt like a canned ham or worse. And the "tube" for the tail gunner was tighter than any CAT scan tube I've ever been in. I can see where a B29 was a vast improvement with its remote control guns.

I'll download the video as soon as I get my computer back. I didn't take any pics at the breakfast. I have some 35mm pics of the B17 and most of the cars, and I saw no need to be redundant. I didn't know I was going for a "ride". lol

Bob
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The thing about those planes is that the size of the gunners apparently had to be smaller than normal. Then again--we do tend to forget that we did not eat as much as what we do today. So their sizes tended to be smaller. My fathers WWII officers outfit would have fit someone with a 25" waist for pete sake!! Me? I'm 40"!!:eek::eek: And my father was 4" shorter!:eek:
 
Well, shoot, nothing but cold rain here. At least we could have a little snow to make it pretty but, no, just same dreary weather we've had for weeks now. :mad:

One of my uncles joined the Army Air Corps right after Pearl Harbor because he wanted to be a pilot. He was about 5'4" and maybe 100 pounds soaking wet. Well, you can guess what actually happened. He ended up as a ball turret gunner in a B-17. He flew his full 25 missions and was one of a very small percentage of B-17 ball turret gunners that wasn't killed or injurued. He said it was still better than a B-24, which would lose the wings to flak all the time. At least the B-17 could shot full of holes and still mke it back to base.
 


I three cousins in the AAF during WWII. Two were pilots and one was an officer, an adjutant, somewhere in England. All made it home, though one was shot down twice. Ditched in the channel both times. He always said he could never get warm after he had to ditch, the water was MIGHTY CHILLIN'(his exact words). Both of the pilots flew B-17's.

They would sit around and reminisce at family reunions and I could sit around for hours listening to them. Some o the conditions that they flew, not weather conditions, but the conditions on the plane, must have been ferocious. Uncle Earnest was from "Alana, Jawja", had this deep baritone voice and talked real slow. He's the one that had to ditch. He also worked for the Southern Railroad. He was rather tall, but if he turned sideways and stuck out his tongue, he would have looked like a zipper.

If'n ya wants some snow, we have another 4" comin'. I'll send it your way.

Bob
 
got snow, thanks.


My dad used to entertain me with war storied. he was just a kid, but he lost his entire family of 13 brothers and sisters, plus his parents.

other than my mom and sister, I don't have a single living relative. couldv'e had an entire city full.
 
LTF- please keep your snow!
Glad to hear to have your benchwork up. That is the grunt work.
Now comes the fun, track work and landscape work. Just don't pay much attention to Chris, he likes lots of flat green!

Larry- please keep us informed as things develop. We will keep your whole famiily in our prayers.

Jim/Rex- I thought it very generous of Coach Saban and BAMA to spot TEXAS two field goals before deciding to play football. I just hope the TEXAS quaterback is not injured too severely.

I looked at my driveway and there is a light "white" on it. Kinda looks like a heavy frost for now. The streets are still damp and appear to be freezing over. I heard a couple sirens a little while ago, hope it was not a serious auto accident.

Well, time to go watch BAMA improve their 7-6 lead over TEXAS. Before I got the sentence typed, BAMA ran up the score to 14-6.:cool:
 
;)My oh my, step out for a couple days and you all get out of control. ;)

Rex in a thong, LTF with a freebie horse (score!), Chris doin chores,(gasp!) and a prayer list a mile long. Sandy, Larry, Ken, and Jeff, you all will get a mention when I speak with the big guy.
However, let me explain my absence. My Dad is finally beginning to succomb to Congestive Heart Failure. He has been in the hospital since Saturday, and today was moved to a Hospice facility, where he will remain until his fight is over. When he is awake, he is in pretty good spirits, but his lungs are about 75% filled with fluids and not improving. Sleep is most of his day now, and it is not a restful sleep, as he struggles to take in oxygen. He has had a great run of 85 years, and has recieved a pretty large number of visitors of late. He was always one of those guys whom everyone knew they could rely on for help, one of the reasons for the revolving door of visitors.

So if we could add another name onto the group list , it would be most appreciated. If not for a healthy return, but for a peacefull passage into the arms of the Father.
 
Karl,
Your situation with your father reminds me of my loosing my father and it isn't easy so my heart goes out to you. I should think they would be giving him diauretics to release the fluid and clear his lungs as long as he's urinnating ok?

Stay close to him as it sounds as it sounds like he won't be around too much longer.

May God Bless you, your Father and family.

David Smith
 
Evening, All!

Karl...I will pray tonight for peace and rest for your Dad, and comfort for your family.

Ken...So glad to hear about Vicki!! I hope her recovery is as successful as her surgery! My brother's surgery lasted about 3 hours and seems to have gone well. Started out shaky this morning, however. My SIL got them to the hospital after a tough drive in the snow and ice. She stopped out front, went in and asked for a wheelchair. The nurses assured her that one was not needed. She helped Bill into the lobby and went to park the car. She came back to find him flat on his back on the floor, surrounded by nurses. It seems that the water and ice melt from the sidewalk kept Bill from getting a grip with his crutches. He felt himself falling and tossed the crutches and tried to ease to the floor. I guess the nurses stayed by his side until he was prepped for surgery. Sheesh! He should be going home tomorrow.

It was -10 when I left for work this morning. My cousin works downtown, too and lives not to far from me so he suggested we take the bus since the roads were so bad. So we left at 5:15...got on the bus at 5:40 got off the bus and waited almost 20 minutes for the light rail. I about flippin' froze. Fortunately, the driver from work picked us up at the next stop and took us the rest of the way. Walking 6 blocks in this weather is brutal. Got to work at 7:30. Not a bus person, I guess. I like my car!

Jeffrey...I understand your frustration with your car problems. In this hideous cold weather, my thermostat has stuck open. So I can start my car, let it 'warm' up for 15 mins, drive 30 mins to Denver and my heater is still not putting out warm air. Grrrrrr & Brrrrrrr! Getting it fixed this weekend.

Hope everyone is staying warm~

Sandy
 


Good evening to all,
It's been fairly cool here in the foothills and now that night has fallen it will cool down even more. I think the day time high temp was maybe 45* with a lot of cold air. Nowhere near as bad and many of you though.

A little trick I learned that, only takes a bit of mental practice. Don't focus your mind on how cold it is but rather on the warmth of the blood flowing through veins and arteries to your hands, feet or whatever part is cold. You will feel them warm up quite surprisingly! I just had to do just that myself as my hands were getting quite cold a few minutes ago.

Ken I'm glad to hear that Vicky is doing better and I hope all is well with you.

Oh Karl, Coffee is a great diauretic if your dad enjoys that and it's also suppose to be high in anti-oxidents. I realize your fathers situation is looking too good but possibly anything to ease his discomfort would be helpful for him.

Hope everyone has a good evening and day tomorrow. God Bless you all!
 
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