My wife's answer to that was, "It's your job to keep up the car".
Running Bear's July 2023 Coffee Shop
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My Mom's favorite Tyler Wells is starting tonight. Let's Go O's!
Since overnight, the price climbed 10¢/gallon to $375.9 at the Wawa and Quikchek convenience stores, and considering the lack of anything in the news to cause prices to increase, I would have to suspect someone is buying heavily in the gasoline futures market(s). Who? I don't know.
Could be the usual suspects, ( George Soros or the ChiComs), or someone more sinister, like Saudi Arabia, Russia or Iran. Someone who doesn't want inflation to go away...Someone who wants to tank our economy....Or, someone I haven't even considered. Crude prices are not that different than they were when gas was a buck less than now. In this world, there are a million possible suspects...Something to think about, though.
Although it may be a tad too early for the American masses to remember come election day.
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McLeod
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Good morning, folks!
I'll be headed down to the creek with the dog early today. At 46F with fog, it's the type of day that's perfect for me. I want to get down there before the afternoon heat gets the army of mosquitos on the hunt.
The new blue-box caboose arrived in the mail. I tried it out immediately on the unfinished layout, and all is good:
I don't really like the looks of it in a solid orange. Nor do I believe one would have been solid orange in prototype. I plan on sprucing it up with paint, and giving her some contrast.
Here's a couple of photos of a 'waffle' car, that was mentioned recently on the forum. This was a newer looking car sitting down in the local yard a few days ago.
I'm very sad that the vandal painters have attempted to deface such a fine looking car, and I don't understand the motivation behind such a disgusting criminal act. I'd be all for shooting the culperts in the knee-cap with a .22cal pistol, and it should be made law where you can do that free of charge.
Anyway, I gotta go make tracks before the fog lifts. Have a great day!
I'll be headed down to the creek with the dog early today. At 46F with fog, it's the type of day that's perfect for me. I want to get down there before the afternoon heat gets the army of mosquitos on the hunt.
The new blue-box caboose arrived in the mail. I tried it out immediately on the unfinished layout, and all is good:
I don't really like the looks of it in a solid orange. Nor do I believe one would have been solid orange in prototype. I plan on sprucing it up with paint, and giving her some contrast.
Here's a couple of photos of a 'waffle' car, that was mentioned recently on the forum. This was a newer looking car sitting down in the local yard a few days ago.
I'm very sad that the vandal painters have attempted to deface such a fine looking car, and I don't understand the motivation behind such a disgusting criminal act. I'd be all for shooting the culperts in the knee-cap with a .22cal pistol, and it should be made law where you can do that free of charge.
Anyway, I gotta go make tracks before the fog lifts. Have a great day!
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Good Morning All. Clear and 72°. No real change in the forecast except they've added a slight chance of rain around 8/6-8/7. Trees locally are beginning to lose leaves from the dry conditions, although I have seen bigger cracks in the ground before.
Surprisingly I am still picking a few tomatoes, 11 of them yesterday. There's a few more out there, but the desperate grasshoppers may get them first. There's actually not a lot of hoppers this year, most of them drowned as youngsters in the spring rains this year. They don't mind the heat or drought, but will go after the tomatoes as an easy source of water. There's a fine line between when the tomato skins are still too tough for their jaws to pierce and when they can get through.
I had the last two ultrasound exams yesterday, arterial and venous in the groin and calves. They should now know the blood flow everywhere below the heart including the toes and abdomen that they did Wednesday.
That trip to the doctors office made back and forth on 40 miles of I-35 really shows how little attention many drivers pay while driving. Examples include: If 18-wheeler's are passing you in the right lane, perhaps you don't belong in the left lane! Or know where your exit is so you don't have to unexpectedly swerve over 4 lanes in a 40 yard dash to get off! This particular section of Interstate has exits every 3/4-1 mile apart; go to the next one and turn around. I won't even get into activity in parking lots. Check your damn phones before putting the car in gear!
Otherwise an uneventful day.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I mostly admired my handiwork of the last week installing trees. Some were the large ones that I got from Chet, many others were smaller ones that I had been making and stashing for whenever I got into the mood to plant.
Here's a few examples where I planted and/or added some.
And another on the workbench that's having broken branches fixed or added back on.
To put this into perspective, that's an 8.5" x 11" piece of cardboard underneath it. The tree is 13.4" tall, a scale 100' or so tall. This is one of his Sagebrush trees. No need to paint the trunk.
Troy - Prayers and best wishes for your SIL's roomie regarding their health.
Guy - Quite the opposite with me. I can tolerate this heat much better than I can tolerate months of snow and sub-zero temperatures. Although outdoor activity needs to be reduced in the afternoons, it normally doesn't hit 90°F until noonish or so.
Everybody have a great Saturday and an awesome weekend.
Surprisingly I am still picking a few tomatoes, 11 of them yesterday. There's a few more out there, but the desperate grasshoppers may get them first. There's actually not a lot of hoppers this year, most of them drowned as youngsters in the spring rains this year. They don't mind the heat or drought, but will go after the tomatoes as an easy source of water. There's a fine line between when the tomato skins are still too tough for their jaws to pierce and when they can get through.
I had the last two ultrasound exams yesterday, arterial and venous in the groin and calves. They should now know the blood flow everywhere below the heart including the toes and abdomen that they did Wednesday.
That trip to the doctors office made back and forth on 40 miles of I-35 really shows how little attention many drivers pay while driving. Examples include: If 18-wheeler's are passing you in the right lane, perhaps you don't belong in the left lane! Or know where your exit is so you don't have to unexpectedly swerve over 4 lanes in a 40 yard dash to get off! This particular section of Interstate has exits every 3/4-1 mile apart; go to the next one and turn around. I won't even get into activity in parking lots. Check your damn phones before putting the car in gear!
Otherwise an uneventful day.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I mostly admired my handiwork of the last week installing trees. Some were the large ones that I got from Chet, many others were smaller ones that I had been making and stashing for whenever I got into the mood to plant.
Here's a few examples where I planted and/or added some.
And another on the workbench that's having broken branches fixed or added back on.
To put this into perspective, that's an 8.5" x 11" piece of cardboard underneath it. The tree is 13.4" tall, a scale 100' or so tall. This is one of his Sagebrush trees. No need to paint the trunk.
Troy - Prayers and best wishes for your SIL's roomie regarding their health.
Guy - Quite the opposite with me. I can tolerate this heat much better than I can tolerate months of snow and sub-zero temperatures. Although outdoor activity needs to be reduced in the afternoons, it normally doesn't hit 90°F until noonish or so.
Everybody have a great Saturday and an awesome weekend.
troyphoto
Snarky Old Fart (in training)
Well, howdy there internet people's and those with juicy peppers.
It's Troy again....
And wife's peppers have a problem.
But first: Chili! It's what's for dinner tonight!
Seems like the wife's peppers don't like her garden box soil or something.
Getting rot on the peppers.
Reading up it might be blossom end rot?
I cut up a bell pepper she had grown and picked earlier in the week. When I cut the red open, it had a dark spot (black) on the inside near the blossom end. Black spores throughout the juicy insides, so it went into the trash instead of the chili.
I'm not sure if the yellow spots (soft and squishy that appeared in the last couple of days) on the greens above are the same thing or not?
what say you, master gardeners?
Reading up on blossom end rot, it appears we need more calcium in the soil. So we may be getting blood meal for that box. The zucchinis to the right seems to be doing ok, but grow slower than when we had a nice wide open garden in a yard. This patio growing has her stymied.
It's Troy again....
And wife's peppers have a problem.
But first: Chili! It's what's for dinner tonight!
Seems like the wife's peppers don't like her garden box soil or something.
Getting rot on the peppers.
Reading up it might be blossom end rot?
I cut up a bell pepper she had grown and picked earlier in the week. When I cut the red open, it had a dark spot (black) on the inside near the blossom end. Black spores throughout the juicy insides, so it went into the trash instead of the chili.
I'm not sure if the yellow spots (soft and squishy that appeared in the last couple of days) on the greens above are the same thing or not?
what say you, master gardeners?
Reading up on blossom end rot, it appears we need more calcium in the soil. So we may be getting blood meal for that box. The zucchinis to the right seems to be doing ok, but grow slower than when we had a nice wide open garden in a yard. This patio growing has her stymied.
TLOC
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It’s morning right? Ok, good! Good morning everyone. Miss Flo, a bottle of Diet Dr Pepper please and hurry. Oh man, I have a headache and nope, no booze yesterday or this morning. Lack of sleep, T-boomers started around 8 but no rain. Lightning and the boomers turned up around 9:30 but no rain. The radar showed everything splitting before it got to us. 11:30 nothing missed us, lightning hit the house down the street, another bolt split a small tree on the street behind us per the neighborhood dog Walker/gossip. Wind, hail, heavy rains, it was interesting and kind of frightening with all that lightning hit so by. Awake in bed till 1:30 listening to the rain and Wind. At 4:15 wide awake, now tossing and turn because it’s so quiet, still awake at 5 but that’s all I remember till 7:45 when this headache woke me. Went out and looked at the rain gauge beaker, 4” dead across the lines
Flo, bacon and some French toast please and another DDP.
Since really nothing went according to plan on Friday, today will be little mystery surprise’s. The heat in my part of Wisconsin has been broken. 68f degrees now heading only to 82. When I checked the rain gauge a few minutes ago, it actually felt cold. It’s not though.
Had a slight discussion with the daughter yesterday when she came to pickup the grandkids. She saw my Mega Million ticket on the refrigerator. Said something about wasting my money and we should worry about the g/k and not be spending foolishly. Then she started to mention the new house and my pools! She really had me teed up. I had a million things to say but Terry calmly said, you got yours already, what we do with the rest is our decision. Then, “we like to dream, maybe you should try it.” That shut the daughter up. That was after lunch some around 1. At 3 the SIL calls and asked if what happened! I told him ask his wife and he said I tried? Then contact me after she tells her side of the story. I’m still ticked as all this is totally out of character for her.
Are our rising for no reason gasoline prices a political decision by the oil companies?
enjoy the day
Flo, bacon and some French toast please and another DDP.
Since really nothing went according to plan on Friday, today will be little mystery surprise’s. The heat in my part of Wisconsin has been broken. 68f degrees now heading only to 82. When I checked the rain gauge a few minutes ago, it actually felt cold. It’s not though.
Had a slight discussion with the daughter yesterday when she came to pickup the grandkids. She saw my Mega Million ticket on the refrigerator. Said something about wasting my money and we should worry about the g/k and not be spending foolishly. Then she started to mention the new house and my pools! She really had me teed up. I had a million things to say but Terry calmly said, you got yours already, what we do with the rest is our decision. Then, “we like to dream, maybe you should try it.” That shut the daughter up. That was after lunch some around 1. At 3 the SIL calls and asked if what happened! I told him ask his wife and he said I tried? Then contact me after she tells her side of the story. I’m still ticked as all this is totally out of character for her.
Are our rising for no reason gasoline prices a political decision by the oil companies?
enjoy the day
NYC_George
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Joe Lee assistant Yankee Club house manager and harness driver is hitting 339 at Meadowlands Race Track this year. Everytime he drives they give you a Yankees score update.
CambriaArea51
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Good morning..... Monsoon season is in full swing. So far 8" in 2.5 weeks.
chadbag
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You sure you don't live in Texas?
PRR Modeler
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Afternoon All,
Started out the day with a walk at 77F and humid. Today I did a couple small chores then I cleaned up the static grass area the pond will go into. Just waiting on SIL to show up. I ordered a large box of three rail wood fence from Tichy but will end up painting it before I mount the sections.
Update: SIL is on his way.
Karl- That line is enough to keep me from ever getting an EV.
Joe- Very good analogy about government. I'm sure you know about narcotics, water intake and constipation. I do feel your pain.
Guy- Interesting insight about drones. I really hadn't thought of them as another potential solution. You can have the dogsled!
Thumbs up on running trains.
Chad- I remember watching them.
Louis- You hit the nail on the head. There is no common ground anymore. Everything is polarized.
Willie- Nice scenes and trees.
Troy- The chili looks good.
I hope everyone has a good night.
Started out the day with a walk at 77F and humid. Today I did a couple small chores then I cleaned up the static grass area the pond will go into. Just waiting on SIL to show up. I ordered a large box of three rail wood fence from Tichy but will end up painting it before I mount the sections.
Update: SIL is on his way.
Karl- That line is enough to keep me from ever getting an EV.
Joe- Very good analogy about government. I'm sure you know about narcotics, water intake and constipation. I do feel your pain.
Guy- Interesting insight about drones. I really hadn't thought of them as another potential solution. You can have the dogsled!
Thumbs up on running trains.Chad- I remember watching them.
Louis- You hit the nail on the head. There is no common ground anymore. Everything is polarized.
Willie- Nice scenes and trees.
Troy- The chili looks good.
I hope everyone has a good night.
Bruette
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That looks great! What time is dinner?
Bruette
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I'm with you! Free, they should pay a bounty!
Bruette
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My Mom's favorite Tyler Wells is starting tonight. Let's Go O's!
Boris
Beach Bum
Tom and Group:
Since overnight, the price climbed 10¢/gallon to $375.9 at the Wawa and Quikchek convenience stores, and considering the lack of anything in the news to cause prices to increase, I would have to suspect someone is buying heavily in the gasoline futures market(s). Who? I don't know.
Could be the usual suspects, ( George Soros or the ChiComs), or someone more sinister, like Saudi Arabia, Russia or Iran. Someone who doesn't want inflation to go away...Someone who wants to tank our economy....Or, someone I haven't even considered. Crude prices are not that different than they were when gas was a buck less than now. In this world, there are a million possible suspects...Something to think about, though.
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Sinister conspiracy theory - Oil companies/traders want inflation to go up in retaliation for the green energy push by certain politicians that they want out of office.
Although it may be a tad too early for the American masses to remember come election day.
KriegslokBR52
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Well i wish you luck...i haven't been able to harness my own methane yet, let alone from the cattle.
KriegslokBR52
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I think it's just a basic issue of a car being mans pride and joy...while the house is the womans.
KriegslokBR52
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My first thought when seeing this...John Candy!
Patrick
What, me worry?
Evening all,
After getting up early due to my shoulders hurting (4:00a), I played solitaire on the computer until the wife got up, then got dressed and fixed breakfast. At 7 started mowing after replacing the errant screw that holds the gas tank on. After that got the lawn mowed, apples picked. They're not pretty, as this variety is susceptible to skin issues. Finally learned enough about this variety to know they are far earlier than I expected. Not a big apple, and taste a lot like a granny smith. Once again though a tree that's not supposed to exceed 12 feet has over shot that mark...
Finished up with 2 loads of laundry, replacedvthe air filters on both vehicles, filled the washer fluids and checked the oil. Fixed BT sandwiches for lunch and took a 2 hour nap.
Also had a surprise visit from the out of town daughter and the youngest granddaughter.
Been a busy day so far...
After getting up early due to my shoulders hurting (4:00a), I played solitaire on the computer until the wife got up, then got dressed and fixed breakfast. At 7 started mowing after replacing the errant screw that holds the gas tank on. After that got the lawn mowed, apples picked. They're not pretty, as this variety is susceptible to skin issues. Finally learned enough about this variety to know they are far earlier than I expected. Not a big apple, and taste a lot like a granny smith. Once again though a tree that's not supposed to exceed 12 feet has over shot that mark...
Finished up with 2 loads of laundry, replacedvthe air filters on both vehicles, filled the washer fluids and checked the oil. Fixed BT sandwiches for lunch and took a 2 hour nap.
Also had a surprise visit from the out of town daughter and the youngest granddaughter.
Been a busy day so far...
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