“If you have enough time to do all that, why haven’t you volunteered to paint our chairs?”
Running Bear's May 2023 Coffee Shop.
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I enjoy watching the horses run. It was a great race to watch!
My interest in the American Civil War also came later in life and I don't know why.
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Good afternoon. Did the grandson’s soccer game that other than my grandson playing it, it cannot get interested. But as a good granddad I watched them getting beat pretty good in all aspects of the game but score. Somewhere around the 5 minute left mark, the other team up 3-0 switched goalies. 9, 10 and 11 years old good on the other coach for getting all his players in. The wind was 15mph+ when one of our kids lofted the ball toward the net and another of them actually headed it into the net. About a minute later we have the ball passed to the g/s on the left, he goes straight across the field kicked it solidly over the goalie into the upper right corner. Very nice and not just because he’s my g/s. I was impressed. Maybe not even a minute later our goalie makes a great save and punts the ball downfield. Grandson gets it, goes left then right from the top of some rectangle box nails it into the top left corner. Game tied. Other team brings back the original goalie and no one on the pitch knows the time left. One of our guys steals the ball passes it to the grandson who passes/shoots toward the net where one of our guys stops in and just kicks it into a open net. Best 5 minutes of soccer I’ve seen.
Get home and Terry says eat, we have stuff outside to do?? !! What we leave in a few days what r we doing. The lawn ornaments somehow arrived while we were watching soccer, along with all sorts of veggies and more herbs. I am on break for another 42 minutes and then start up outside again. Was not expecting this but happy wife happy life. When I said who is going to watch this when we are gone I was told, don’t worry about it. I’m so confused…
enjoy your day
Get home and Terry says eat, we have stuff outside to do?? !! What we leave in a few days what r we doing. The lawn ornaments somehow arrived while we were watching soccer, along with all sorts of veggies and more herbs. I am on break for another 42 minutes and then start up outside again. Was not expecting this but happy wife happy life. When I said who is going to watch this when we are gone I was told, don’t worry about it. I’m so confused…
enjoy your day
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New York closed Harlem Valley, Hudson River and Kings Point Mental illness hospitals around 1984. That's the ones I know of because my mother and old girlfriend worked there. There may be others I don't know about. Harlem Valley had 28 building of nuts that are now out in the street somewhere. They just let them out to roam the streets.
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Yes I had the 10 cent super. It paid a whopping $7.24. I think I bet $3.60 on it.2026 Preakness Stakes
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Well, howdy there Internet people... and those in awe of TomOs grandsons...
It's Troy again.
Fresh back from the battle of something something Civil War.
Yep... hit the game store today. The grandaddy of American Civil War (ACW) gaming is a game call "Johnny Reb" by John Hill
I share a last name with him, so I figure it must be good. Heard it called the "gold standard" of ACW gaming.
Here are some pics of the day:
Up til about two years ago, I was never a fan of the ACW. Probably to do with having to read "The Red Badge of Courage" and having it overloaded in Middle School and High School.
Now, I'm getting into it. Lots of history of when our country really wasn't great. On either side. Grant's sieges would be considered War Crimes by today's standards...
Was I impressed by the game? Nope. I like the period, but this rule set is very chart heavy. Instaed of rolling more dice with bonuses, you look up a chart, and and subtract modifiers, then roll on that line of the chart... but only two dice....
Makes more sense to roll more dice vs a static number that gets modified up or down...
Oh, and when I got home, I ordered the director's cut of the movie Gettysburg. Never seen the full movie, let alone the director cut. This should be interesting.
It's Troy again.
Fresh back from the battle of something something Civil War.
Yep... hit the game store today. The grandaddy of American Civil War (ACW) gaming is a game call "Johnny Reb" by John Hill
I share a last name with him, so I figure it must be good. Heard it called the "gold standard" of ACW gaming.
Here are some pics of the day:
Up til about two years ago, I was never a fan of the ACW. Probably to do with having to read "The Red Badge of Courage" and having it overloaded in Middle School and High School.
Now, I'm getting into it. Lots of history of when our country really wasn't great. On either side. Grant's sieges would be considered War Crimes by today's standards...
Was I impressed by the game? Nope. I like the period, but this rule set is very chart heavy. Instaed of rolling more dice with bonuses, you look up a chart, and and subtract modifiers, then roll on that line of the chart... but only two dice....
Makes more sense to roll more dice vs a static number that gets modified up or down...
Oh, and when I got home, I ordered the director's cut of the movie Gettysburg. Never seen the full movie, let alone the director cut. This should be interesting.
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Terry- Have you been talking the these same ladies?
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I was hoping Mage would make a run at the triple crown.
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I have always been interested in History.
My interest in the American Civil War also came later in life and I don't know why.
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Willie, I have to thank you.
I made salsa with some of my left-over picante sauce. I added green pepper, onion, and pickled jalapenos. It was the best salsa I ever ate!
I made it again, only this time I added red, yellow, and orange peppers in addition to the other things. It was not as good. At first, I was wondering why. Then I remembered what Willie had told me about peppers. "The brighter the color the sweeter the pepper."
I made more salsa like I did the first time. Only green pepper, onion, and pickled jalapenos. Once again it was great!
I used this picante sauce. At $5.98 for 70oz it is a great deal and Walmart delivers it for free! It is fantastic with my wife's homemade burritos and the left over is used to make my favorite salsa.
I made salsa with some of my left-over picante sauce. I added green pepper, onion, and pickled jalapenos. It was the best salsa I ever ate!
I made it again, only this time I added red, yellow, and orange peppers in addition to the other things. It was not as good. At first, I was wondering why. Then I remembered what Willie had told me about peppers. "The brighter the color the sweeter the pepper."
I made more salsa like I did the first time. Only green pepper, onion, and pickled jalapenos. Once again it was great!
I used this picante sauce. At $5.98 for 70oz it is a great deal and Walmart delivers it for free! It is fantastic with my wife's homemade burritos and the left over is used to make my favorite salsa.
CambriaArea51
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Good morning....Rain yesterday has made everything perk up. The grass needs mowing, edging and mulching of the beds needs to be finished, flowers planted around the water garden, pool opened, and garden plowed up and planted.
Coffee Flo with an espresso shot, I need the extra kick.
Coffee Flo with an espresso shot, I need the extra kick.
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Good morning gang!
Flo my dear, I’m gonna need a stick to my ribs breakfast and a big big coffee today. I’ve got some traveling to do. I finally found a replacement mower deck for my 1967 Cub Cadet, then to DSW for another pair of Skechers for work, then to HD for another box of drywall screws, then not 1but 2 hobby shop in Pennsylvania.
BBL!!
Flo my dear, I’m gonna need a stick to my ribs breakfast and a big big coffee today. I’ve got some traveling to do. I finally found a replacement mower deck for my 1967 Cub Cadet, then to DSW for another pair of Skechers for work, then to HD for another box of drywall screws, then not 1but 2 hobby shop in Pennsylvania.
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Good Morning All!
57F @ 71%, looks to be clear in the pre-dawn light.
Welp, the chimney came out so fast roof to 2nd floor the chimney crew wanted to continue down to the 1st floor and asked me. Told them to talk to the boss. It kinda surprised me but Maria said she was thinking the same thing and do it. Took us about an hour to get a couple of cabinets moved to make room for people and sledge swings and down it came. Chimney stopped at the 1st floor which makes us all wonder why there is brick work from basement to 1st floor. Looking downstairs closer we found that the brickwork does not touch the 1st floor but stops about and inch from it. I am pretty sure that the center of the house did not rise that inch in a few hours, but you never know. We found homemade 2 wall pipe - liner with a scabbed in stainless wrap around the liner filled with creek sand. That was a mess, but what the hay, the whole thing is a mess. At one time or another, there was a chimney fire, some of the brick just above where the thing tee'd for the wood stove interface almost gone. Pretty eroded brick. There was a port kitchen side probably for a wood cook stove or something which was filled up with an old paint can. Still had ( hard/dried ) paint in it! We knew there was not a clean out that we could see but found one when the cabinets were moved. One brick was removed then covered with aluminum foil; where the mortar should have been was filled with aluminum covered wood pieces. Both the cook stove and clean out were basically taken out of the system when they put the liner in. So today is roof patch, top of 2nd floor patch and some wall board inside the closet under the stairs ( lack of chimney made a long hole ). I am not worried about patching the kitchen as we are planning on a redo for that and pushing the tall cabinet back will hide until then. The 2nd floor hole is pretty much sealed on the perimeter where the chimney was so don't have to play with that. So now I have a pile of about 350 bricks to deal with. Being the lazy type I am, we are gonna kinda stack them and let them go through a winter. Thermal cycles along with wetness should pretty much take off the mortar still clinging. I think I only broke 4 bricks throwing them out the window upstairs!
There is also another 16ft of pipe, stainless liner, and about the same size pile of bricks on the North side. Note that those 2 liners are not stainless, looks to be aluminum.
Now for the not so fun stuff. Couple of days ago I was not feeling up to snuff. Attributed it to 'coming down with sumptin'. Checked my blood sugar yesterday am when I got up - 127 so not bad. About 1500 I got pretty woozy and had to sit for a bit. Maria said my color was not good so I started figuring out what was sideways. BP was 124/78, pulse about 60. Blood sugar check was 79. So what the heck? I ate carbs for breakfast as I knew I would be exerting myself. Anyway, ate more carbs to fix that.
I can feel my pulse - I had 4 beats, then a miss that was consistent and continued. So took a shower and off to the ER we went. They took me right in! Come to find out I was dehydrated. What? Have been drinking a ton of water - pretty much every time I went by the kitchen sink, downed a glass full. Doc told me that this happens to all of us older folks first heat of the year. Body is not used to it and salt builds up too. Can tell that as the eyes burn when sweating. As the season goes on, the body gets 'used' to the higher temperature and compensates. Doc didn't believe me that I could feel my pulse and asked me to tell him when the miss happened. Easy peasy .. now ... now .. now which matched the EKG they had me hooked up to. Blood test showed the heart was ok as the enzyme level was about 17, 40 and upwards is a problem. Did my blood sugar also and wanted me to tell them what that was. Since I had eaten about an hour ago, I guessed 170, it was 160 so everybody did an eyebrow raise. So got plugged into a bag of saline and waited for about an hour for that to kick in. Admonished me on not trying to work so hard/fast and take 15 minute breaks every once in awhile. Ya, right. Sent me home.
Later!
57F @ 71%, looks to be clear in the pre-dawn light.
Welp, the chimney came out so fast roof to 2nd floor the chimney crew wanted to continue down to the 1st floor and asked me. Told them to talk to the boss. It kinda surprised me but Maria said she was thinking the same thing and do it. Took us about an hour to get a couple of cabinets moved to make room for people and sledge swings and down it came. Chimney stopped at the 1st floor which makes us all wonder why there is brick work from basement to 1st floor. Looking downstairs closer we found that the brickwork does not touch the 1st floor but stops about and inch from it. I am pretty sure that the center of the house did not rise that inch in a few hours, but you never know. We found homemade 2 wall pipe - liner with a scabbed in stainless wrap around the liner filled with creek sand. That was a mess, but what the hay, the whole thing is a mess. At one time or another, there was a chimney fire, some of the brick just above where the thing tee'd for the wood stove interface almost gone. Pretty eroded brick. There was a port kitchen side probably for a wood cook stove or something which was filled up with an old paint can. Still had ( hard/dried ) paint in it! We knew there was not a clean out that we could see but found one when the cabinets were moved. One brick was removed then covered with aluminum foil; where the mortar should have been was filled with aluminum covered wood pieces. Both the cook stove and clean out were basically taken out of the system when they put the liner in. So today is roof patch, top of 2nd floor patch and some wall board inside the closet under the stairs ( lack of chimney made a long hole ). I am not worried about patching the kitchen as we are planning on a redo for that and pushing the tall cabinet back will hide until then. The 2nd floor hole is pretty much sealed on the perimeter where the chimney was so don't have to play with that. So now I have a pile of about 350 bricks to deal with. Being the lazy type I am, we are gonna kinda stack them and let them go through a winter. Thermal cycles along with wetness should pretty much take off the mortar still clinging. I think I only broke 4 bricks throwing them out the window upstairs!
There is also another 16ft of pipe, stainless liner, and about the same size pile of bricks on the North side. Note that those 2 liners are not stainless, looks to be aluminum.
Now for the not so fun stuff. Couple of days ago I was not feeling up to snuff. Attributed it to 'coming down with sumptin'. Checked my blood sugar yesterday am when I got up - 127 so not bad. About 1500 I got pretty woozy and had to sit for a bit. Maria said my color was not good so I started figuring out what was sideways. BP was 124/78, pulse about 60. Blood sugar check was 79. So what the heck? I ate carbs for breakfast as I knew I would be exerting myself. Anyway, ate more carbs to fix that.
I can feel my pulse - I had 4 beats, then a miss that was consistent and continued. So took a shower and off to the ER we went. They took me right in! Come to find out I was dehydrated. What? Have been drinking a ton of water - pretty much every time I went by the kitchen sink, downed a glass full. Doc told me that this happens to all of us older folks first heat of the year. Body is not used to it and salt builds up too. Can tell that as the eyes burn when sweating. As the season goes on, the body gets 'used' to the higher temperature and compensates. Doc didn't believe me that I could feel my pulse and asked me to tell him when the miss happened. Easy peasy .. now ... now .. now which matched the EKG they had me hooked up to. Blood test showed the heart was ok as the enzyme level was about 17, 40 and upwards is a problem. Did my blood sugar also and wanted me to tell them what that was. Since I had eaten about an hour ago, I guessed 170, it was 160 so everybody did an eyebrow raise. So got plugged into a bag of saline and waited for about an hour for that to kick in. Admonished me on not trying to work so hard/fast and take 15 minute breaks every once in awhile. Ya, right. Sent me home.
Later!
TLOC
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Good morning Crew. A beautiful looking morning but only 50f degrees when I went out at 5:30 for the 2.5 mile walk. That’s done, the shower is done and waiting for Terry. We are headed out to the new place in a few minutes. The contractor will be there at 8.
Another soccer game at 3:30 this afternoon in the local complex. I won’t go to his away games, but this weekends games are in the 2 home soccer complexes. His Spring season is almost over and ice hockey training sessions start 6/16 and games in July. Those I truly enjoy. He did tell his parents earlier this year he would play Summer hockey but not Summer soccer that caused the SIL some concern. He is a soccer fanatic and an assistant coach on the team. But, good for the grandson sticking to his guns he wasn’t going to play both sports this Summer. He also told his parents no soccer or hockey special camps this year.
Yesterday I had no real plans but the wife derailed everything I had even thought about doing. Today I am just going to nod my head and go with the flow. The house visit, some plants to finish planting and testing the irrigation system are on a list of things to do I was emailed last night. Mulching is on for Monday but that’s easy for me. Load the wheel barrow, go where ever Terry is nesting and dump the load. She does the spreading. This is like a 40 year tradition and it will continue tomorrow.
Another soccer game at 3:30 this afternoon in the local complex. I won’t go to his away games, but this weekends games are in the 2 home soccer complexes. His Spring season is almost over and ice hockey training sessions start 6/16 and games in July. Those I truly enjoy. He did tell his parents earlier this year he would play Summer hockey but not Summer soccer that caused the SIL some concern. He is a soccer fanatic and an assistant coach on the team. But, good for the grandson sticking to his guns he wasn’t going to play both sports this Summer. He also told his parents no soccer or hockey special camps this year.
Yesterday I had no real plans but the wife derailed everything I had even thought about doing. Today I am just going to nod my head and go with the flow. The house visit, some plants to finish planting and testing the irrigation system are on a list of things to do I was emailed last night. Mulching is on for Monday but that’s easy for me. Load the wheel barrow, go where ever Terry is nesting and dump the load. She does the spreading. This is like a 40 year tradition and it will continue tomorrow.
santafewillie
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Good Morning All. Mostly cloudy and 56°, a brisk start to a late-May day. Once again today it's only supposed to get into the mid-70's before returning to the usual mid-80's for the next week or so.
Went to Saturday evening Mass yesterday since my two grandsons are coming up this morning to earn some spending money by helping grandpa and grandma. I have spent parts of three days cutting low-hanging branches and volunteer trees along the east part of the yard bordering the road. I also trimmed the trees along the south easement road that were encroaching the road by over 3'. Those trees are not on my property, but alongside a field that a local farmer leases. The issue is that those trees are forcing drivers, especially UPS, Amazon and FedEx to veer over into my yard, in effect moving the gravel road north a bit more. Neither the farmer, absentee landowner or the county will trim them, so I have to do it about every 7-9 years. Neighbor actually did it last time because he mows along the road. Grandsons will be spending time trimming and gathering up all of the branches and moving them to a central location. Some of it is actually big enough to be used as firewood, but most will be shredded into mulch and compost. Chances are that I will have too much and some will be burned. The older of the two boys will also get some time pushing the mower. We'll also possibly remove the pool cover per my wife, although I think that it is actually too early this season. The water temperature is still in the low 60's. And with clouds and showers forecast this week, it ain't gonna warm up any time soon.
Before they arrive, I will make a major broccoli harvest this morning from the garden. Yesterday I picked the English Pea row, which doesn't seem to be willing to recover from the back to back 95° days recently. That meant summer to those plants which like cooler weather. Looks like I'll be picking Jalapeno Peppers this coming week. I need to sacrifice a Carrot to see how they are doing. Tomatoes everywhere but they are small and green right now.
I didn't spend any time out in the train shed yesterday. Between gardening, pruning and household chores, there just wasn't really any time. It's unusual that I don't spend at least an hour out there if I am home!
A few scenes from Maultown.
Tom O - You posted yesterday about Austin not being "crazy big". It just recently passed Ft Worth to become the 4th biggest city in Texas after Houston, San Antonio and Dallas. It should top 1 million in the next 2 Years. It is quite a vibrant place as you posted.
Patrick - Nice looking dollhouse. Keep us posted on it's construction.
Guy - Alberta 51 - I thought that it was a really far out there thing that I never thought could come to fruition. I just wondered how your fellow citizens felt about it.
Todd - Take care of yourself.
Everybody have a wonderful Sunday.
Went to Saturday evening Mass yesterday since my two grandsons are coming up this morning to earn some spending money by helping grandpa and grandma. I have spent parts of three days cutting low-hanging branches and volunteer trees along the east part of the yard bordering the road. I also trimmed the trees along the south easement road that were encroaching the road by over 3'. Those trees are not on my property, but alongside a field that a local farmer leases. The issue is that those trees are forcing drivers, especially UPS, Amazon and FedEx to veer over into my yard, in effect moving the gravel road north a bit more. Neither the farmer, absentee landowner or the county will trim them, so I have to do it about every 7-9 years. Neighbor actually did it last time because he mows along the road. Grandsons will be spending time trimming and gathering up all of the branches and moving them to a central location. Some of it is actually big enough to be used as firewood, but most will be shredded into mulch and compost. Chances are that I will have too much and some will be burned. The older of the two boys will also get some time pushing the mower. We'll also possibly remove the pool cover per my wife, although I think that it is actually too early this season. The water temperature is still in the low 60's. And with clouds and showers forecast this week, it ain't gonna warm up any time soon.
Before they arrive, I will make a major broccoli harvest this morning from the garden. Yesterday I picked the English Pea row, which doesn't seem to be willing to recover from the back to back 95° days recently. That meant summer to those plants which like cooler weather. Looks like I'll be picking Jalapeno Peppers this coming week. I need to sacrifice a Carrot to see how they are doing. Tomatoes everywhere but they are small and green right now.
I didn't spend any time out in the train shed yesterday. Between gardening, pruning and household chores, there just wasn't really any time. It's unusual that I don't spend at least an hour out there if I am home!
A few scenes from Maultown.
Tom O - You posted yesterday about Austin not being "crazy big". It just recently passed Ft Worth to become the 4th biggest city in Texas after Houston, San Antonio and Dallas. It should top 1 million in the next 2 Years. It is quite a vibrant place as you posted.
Patrick - Nice looking dollhouse. Keep us posted on it's construction.
Guy - Alberta 51 - I thought that it was a really far out there thing that I never thought could come to fruition. I just wondered how your fellow citizens felt about it.
Todd - Take care of yourself.
Everybody have a wonderful Sunday.
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