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| Posted by: RobDaHood, 3:46 PM GMT on April 12, 2012 | +4 |
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Great Northern beans with ham and bacon, greens, rice, and cornbread.
That's the Best Part of dinner time. When somebody else does it all.
Happens quite frequently around here mind you....
Sent you an EMail, Hood.
Explaining my adventures yesterday.
For re-publication, if you choose.
BBL.
Will post it tomorrow.
Not meaning to be anti-social or anything...Just kinda beat tonight!
Rest well, I think I will just nap off and on until morning.:)
Glad you enjoyed the puzzle.
I think we all miss hanging out with Foxxy and others that aren't around much anymore.
I've met a lot of really cool people here.
No rain, not a drop, oh darn, looks like I'll have to finish the top soil today.
There is a bright side of course, I have lost 6 pounds slinging 40 lb bags of top soil around.:)
I have the TV on in the office, some kind of UFO investigation thing that I'm not really paying much attention to, but this caught my ear.
Dispatcher sends a patrolman out to check out a report of a UFO,
Officer asked if maybe the trucker was DUI, dispatcher said that no...he was serious.
Patrolman says, "Okay, one more question...if I go out there and find this thing, what am I supposed to do with it?"
ROFL
That would have been my question too!
And a good question too!
It always tickled me in the movie Close Encounters of the 3rd kind when he was sitting at the railroad crossing and the UFO goes right over his truck. When his engine started again did he drive in the opposite direction? No, of course not, he chased the thing.
What would I do in that situation?
Chase the thing of course! :)
A little overcast stuff overhead, and we are hoping for a shower.
The Ladies have gone to the City, and I am painting doors......
So far, so good.
Today my lower back feels like your knee did, a year ago.
I think I did it in yesterday pushing a wheelbarrow with a heavy water pump in it.
Bah!
Latest update:
60 bags of Mushroom Compost, in the gardens.
60 bags of Brown Mulch, in the landscape area.
60 bags of Top Soil, in the gardens.
70 bags of Brown Mulch to go on top of the new top soil in 3 of the gardens and the remaining bags of Brown Mulch in the front yard landscape areas.
Target date for completion of this years Spring Garden and Yard work: the 1st of May.
If the weather gurus are right, it could be as hot in Macon on the 1st of May as it usually is in Macon on the 1st of June which is when I normally try to be finished with this stuff.
I hope they are wrong. :)
But I am going to be done anyway. :)
Seems to be helping the back and neck.
I wouldn't chase the thing RTL!
I'd go home and do an inventory, at which time I would probably discover, much to my dismay, that I don't own any really good Anti UFO weaponry.
BRB
I know exactly how you feel my good man.
I have owned a large wheelbarrow for at least ten years. Everytime I have used it I have hurt something on my body. It seems like such a simple device does it not? One wheel, two handles, two legs. Fill it up, roll it somewhere and dump it out?
I usually lift it too high and ram the front frame piece into the ground and end up either going over the dumb thing as it dumps everything in the wrong spot, or ramming into the back of it.
When I discovered the small dump trailer I have now I have never used it again.:)
You are probably right, if they can invent vehicles that can fly thru space,
they probably have some kick butt weapons too.
Making them mad might not be such a good idea.:)
Unfortunately (isn't it always like this?) the place where my tanks are situated for watering the plant nursery, is only got to by pushing the barrow across several low spots, and across some bumpy roots.
It's a jolting and jouncing push.
I have thought of a 2 wheeled one, but I would need to level the place some more. And this will mean placing some drain pipes in some of the low areas and filling over them.
I do have that on my "list", at Item # 9653....
Thank you, my Dear Fellow!
A day at the Cricket match
by Pottery
I'll let Pottery explain.
I was expecting insects doing mixed martial arts!
:o)
Is it sort of like Badmitton where you whack the Cricket with a Racket?
That would be sort of gross after a while wouldn't it?
yuk yuk yuk
I don't think it involves insects at all.
What I was thinking of was Cricket Fighting, which is a sport dating back to ancient China and still practiced today.
There are plenty of YouTube videos about it.
Perhaps it involves mole crickets?
Maybe those guys stand around and try to get the crickets to carve out straight lines and sharp corners of dead grass?
heheheheheh.
Insects? A familiar misconception.
But actually Test Cricket is one of those wonderfully British games that goes on for 5 days, with breaks for Lunch and Tea. And the game often ends in a draw.... today I am listening to it on the Radio, and it is day 3.
Briefly, the Reason for sending the images was to advise that I had a Good Day hanging out in one of the Private Boxes (top right in the first image), where the Hosts do everything in their power to ensure that Guests are looked after with Food (a resident Chef was there), Beverages (served by Delightful Beautiful Ladies) and whatever you desire.
Had the Good Fortune to have a drink with a Gentleman who we all remember, looking very Sharp in his Tropical Attire.
I took the Liberty to Thank him for the Music on behalf of all of us who remember those Good Days.
I found him a little smaller than I remember, but his Signature mouth has not changed at all!
Good to see him again, our Old Friend Mick Jagger.
A day like that...who cares who's doing what on the field!
I've got to eat something and then try to accomplish something so that I will have an answer to:
"So what did you do today?"
BBL
Oh! Woe is me. The Ignorance of The Masses! :):))
The middle area is The Wicket (It's a Cricket Wicket, don't you see?)
It has been Lovingly Rolled, Watered, Manicured and Prepared, to provide a surface that is true and hard.
The Bowlers (Pitchers) run up and let fly the Ball at 100 mph, and they aim it at a spot about 6-10 feet in front of the Batter.
The ball then may rear up and remove your head, or preferably your Stumps (in which case you are Out)
The Batter hits the ball and runs between the stumps, and if he hits it to the Boundary, he gets 4 runs (6, if it goes over full). If a Fielder catches the ball, he is out as well.
Very simple, but to appreciate the game one needs to understand the Terminology, which includes Silly Fine Leg, Googly, Off Break, Point, and Leg Break....
It's a game of Typical British Nuance, LOL.
BBL
I am familiar with Point Man, Break a leg, and Break it Off Completely.
Not too sure however about Googly or Silly Fine Leg. :)
I am glad you had such a great time rubbing elbows as it were with the famous mucky mucks.
It suits you and all that eh?
Time for a nap. Back much later.
Yes, thanks, I saw that on the Doc's blog.
We need rain in Central and Southern Ga.
We don't need Super Cells and nados!
Well, I have to admit that I do find people quite Fascinating.
All kinds of people, for true.
Although, I would choose the more Basic Folk given a choice. Having said that though, I tend to go with the flow when presented with an opportunity to try something new.
I had never been in one of those "private boxes" before.
The mucky mucks live very different lives to me, and I am quite amazed!
It was good fun.
Never met Michael, but cool that you did.
Hey...it's only Rock and Roll!
PS. I've seen a few Cricket games. Just had to give you a hard time.
I hope you took the opportunity to buy him a shot of Jaggermeister!
(spelling intentional)
I couldn't have passed that up!
LOL
LOL to that!
Actually, we were all on our Best Behaviour.
I can do that, for short periods of time.
:):))
before I sign off for the night:
Every once in a while we must take time out of a little public interest educational moment.
(I think it's a law or something)
Tonight is Shakespeare night.
See you all tomorrow!
However knowing how you operate you will need to do what a fellow did who brought plans and instructions into the Farm Machine-shop where I once worked. Build or commission your own. I've used one of the store bought ones and they have worked out the balance points just about spot on, and they are a lot tougher than you would think so you don't need to go completely reinventing the wheel. This guy's flash of genius was that in addition to using real angle steel and real schedule 40 pipe he used dirt-bike (motorcycle) front wheels with disk brakes for the wheels. He was going to use it to move stuff around on a "hill-farm" and had done in one of the store-bought ones when he was bringing a load of firewood down a hill to his house and his feet slipped in the mourning dew. In addition to ruining his cart, busting his tailbone being drug down the slope till he finally let go, smashing up some siding on the house, his wife witnessed the whole thing and it was touch and go for a bit whether he would have to call in the paramedics to administer O2 since she couldn't catch her breath from laughing. His need to overbuild made sense to me.
Motor bike wheels might be overkill but having used one, brakes could be a handy addition, I'd probably go with mountain bike stuff if i were doing it. The front slides out so dumping stuff out is slick.
Nice gentle rain showers in Macon this morning.
Great day to sleep in I think.
Good idea Grandpa, take the day off.:)
Thanks, I will.
And brakes is a very good idea.
But I am trying to work out where to put the Motor.
I have found in this Wicked Life, that what goes downhill has to go back up too.
A busy day planned here.
Whatnot and Stuff in Joyous Abundance.
Enjoy your day off, Snake.
I am envious, although when I read how many bags of Mulch you have moved so far, I see that your day off is Well Deserved!
Those yard carts are really handy.
Many years ago my dad bought a couple different sizes of them. Heavily used and at least one is still serviceable.
RTL,
They cut our forecast from 50 to 20% for today and upped it for tomorrow.
Pottery,
I'll get to work on some ideas. I'm thinking an overhead cable rig with a clamshell bucket.
See Halo has retreated under his desk as the Harley Man(s) line up to take issue with his crack about a bucket of bolts.
Looking forward to that.
But I like Goof's idea of a 340 cu.in. hemi a lot....
heheheheh
The snow thrower would doubtless be the easiest way to go, although getting replacement parts in Trinidad might be a problem.
My idea was to erect a tower on each corner of the property. Each tower would have a heavy winch at it's base and heavy cables from the winch would all connect in the center. The towers would have to be tall enough to clear any terrain and vegetation on said estate. Where the cables meet would be a platform with a 5th winch to which could be attached a variety of devices to perform various tasks, from a hook for lifting heavy stuff, to a clamshell for digging, to a water tank for dousing flames, to a security camera...
The whole thing would be computer controlled and could be operated in air conditioned comfort from inside the home, or optionally from a touchscreen device at the jobsite.
It works kinda like a Spidercam but much more heavy duty. I could probably have the basic system installed for several million US$, exact price of course would depend on the height of the towers needed and the exact size of the property to be covered, local labor rates, and how freely the rum flowed on the jobsite.
While we are at it, we could check into running a line up the hill so that Pottery would never have to carry a major appliance up on his back again.
Yeah, it's a bit of an investment, but it beats putting out fires with a rake and shovel.
Also, just think of the recreational possibilities. You could strap yourself to it with a parachute harness, grab the wireless remote and fly about the place.
Heck, might even develop into a major tourist destination!
I think you have Outdid yourself, Hood!
I like it all.
Except the proposed cost. Which is a trifle too much for me at this particular time.
But rest assured, that if I was 20 years old I would have no hesitation taking out a 50 year loan to cover the basics.
Keep thinking though, I do like your style....
heheheheh
A wooden gravity powered stuff chucker!
disclaimer: if you put a bag of dirt through Lady Pottery's bedroom window I will deny all knowledge.
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