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Post by Cornflake on Dec 31, 2022 9:24:30 GMT -5
If no one else wants to start the daily I will. Good morning.
Last night's Zoom get-together was enjoyable. It was 11:00 AM for jdd and 2:00 AM for James. Thanks to jdd for hosting the event.
Both of the people we usually have dinner with on New Year's Eve are ill, so we'll ignore the festivities altogether, except that fireworks will no doubt be keeping me and our lab awake tonight.
Enjoy your day.
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Post by drlj on Dec 31, 2022 9:28:32 GMT -5
Still sick but maybe less so. I hit the sack at 8 last night. I was asleep by 8:01.
Ugh!
Stay well.
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Post by howard lee on Dec 31, 2022 9:49:48 GMT -5
My wife stayed overnight on Long Island to help her sister with more organizing of my in-laws' house, so daughter and I were walking the dog in the park early this morning (off-leash until 9:00 am). The in-laws have moved into an independent living residence, with a nice sunny 2-BR apartment, so the house is slowly being cleaned out and prepped for sale. My FIL turned 95 yesterday—we took him and my MIL out for lunch at a great little Italian restaurant, and we brought a cake and candles (not 95). They are both doing pretty well for 95.
Have a great day and a safe New Year's Eve. LJ, feel better.
Don't get tased!
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Post by Marty on Dec 31, 2022 10:01:54 GMT -5
Good morning
14F - 34F mostly cloudy.
Nice Zoom meeting once I got the camera to work. Stayed up much later than I normally do but it was nice to see James and John. I used a background of my shop on a MUCH cleaner less cluttered day that worked rather well. Which is good because NOBODY wants to see my cluttered office/bedroom.
I am on Doc's orders to take is real easy so I will do nothing today that I don't want to do, other than fill the shop humidifier. Me Darling Wife knows how to and if I'm unable to she will take care of the shop, that's my girl. I still have a new router table to assemble but it's too heavy to lift right now so I may need a grandson over. Maybe I'll put a new cork covering on my neck vise, it's about due and very unstressful.
79 Days Until Spring.
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Post by billhammond on Dec 31, 2022 10:08:36 GMT -5
My FIL turned 95 yesterday —w e took him and my MIL out for lunch at a great little Italian restaurant, and we brought a cake and candles (not 95). They are both doing pretty well for 95.
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Post by Tamarack on Dec 31, 2022 10:39:45 GMT -5
All the snow has turned to water, Christmas days have come and gone...
Cloudy, damp and chilly. A few errands and might move some stuff around the basement to use the tablesaw and planer. I put all my stationary power tools on wheels so I could accommodate granddaughters' play space and get some work done in my cramped woodshop.
No plans for NYE, we might have our eldest granddaughter overnight whilst our daughter works (and parties afterward) I am not a fan of fireworks but I got a few bottle rockets to shoot off at midnight.
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Post by Marty on Dec 31, 2022 10:42:23 GMT -5
About to take a shower. Found yet another sensor tab, jeez.  |
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Post by pthomas on Dec 31, 2022 10:53:13 GMT -5
27 Degrees and overcast this morning. My attempts at working the bridge of the Weber Mandolin met with modest improvements and no disaster. Time to call it good, take the win and move on to a new post-style bridge from Cumberland Acoustic. It is now on order and I await the normal speedy delivery of the USPS...or not. I am in no big hurry so there is that. Todd and I are getting together today to make some noise in the front room of my humble abode and who knows, we may even scare up a gig to two in the coming months. Todd will be doing some finger-picking in G and I will be playing the Weber and music will be produced so all is good! Paleo is out on the road so he can not join us today.
You all have a good New Year's Eve and a safe New Year!!!
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Post by drlj on Dec 31, 2022 10:57:11 GMT -5
About to take a shower. Found yet another sensor tab, jeez. Hook an extension cord up to it and see if it does anything. |
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Post by John B on Dec 31, 2022 11:06:00 GMT -5
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Post by coachdoc on Dec 31, 2022 11:12:39 GMT -5
Good advice. I’ll stay up til nine. Late for me these daze.
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Post by PaulKay on Dec 31, 2022 11:41:24 GMT -5
My sister leaves today to head back to Atlanta.
My mother’s 98th birthday party yesterday prevented me from attending the zoom chat. Too bad I couldn’t fit it in.
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Post by Dan McLaughlin on Dec 31, 2022 13:50:17 GMT -5
Zoom meet was fun last night.
Have good ones.
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Post by david on Dec 31, 2022 14:16:05 GMT -5
Practiced guitar for a couple hours this a.m. A great way to start my day.
Remaining plans are to find a good Philly Steak sandwich, walk the dog, make enough pasta salad for the week, and try to get my wife's Apple account going so that I can watch "Slow Horses," a series recommended to me by eldest son.
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Post by aquaduct on Dec 31, 2022 17:23:01 GMT -5
Enjoying the start of a nice traditional Detroit football weekend with Michigan getting thier arse handed to them by TCU.
Ah well, maybe tomorrow will be better....
Wait a minute! Who do I think I'm kidding?
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Post by billhammond on Dec 31, 2022 18:16:39 GMT -5
Festive NYE at Casa Hammondi!
Pizza delivered, "Bitchin' Rides" on the telly, boxed Spanish monastrell on tap. Prolly be in bed by 11.
Whoo hoo!
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Post by Marshall on Dec 31, 2022 18:32:03 GMT -5
Enjoying the start of a nice traditional Detroit football weekend with Michigan getting thier arse handed to them by TCU. Ah well, maybe tomorrow will be better.... Wait a minute! Who do I think I'm kidding? The Bears are looking to lose. It'll help more in the draft. Go Lions. |
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Post by millring on Dec 31, 2022 19:22:33 GMT -5
Apparently it takes until the end of December for people to forget weeds, mosquitos, and deer flies. I've been delivering seed catalogs all week. Dar got tired of turkey, cranberry, mashed potatos, etc .... leftovers. So she experimented with the turkey and came up with a nice turkey tetrazzini. Upon nearly emptying the 'fridge she uncovered a toasted bock I didn't know I had left. Life is good. A most marvelous sighting. Out by the Martin's farm on 875W there's a flock of pigeons. Maybe 15 or 20. Just about half of them are mostly white. The other half, mostly dark grey. For the past few days there's been almost no color out in the country. The sky is a pale grey. The tree lines are a charcoal-grey. The fields below of muted gold. I happened to be driving by while the pigeons were flying across the fields in loose formation. Sometimes looping upwards. Sometimes making a circle 8. But whenever they flew upwards, the white pigeons disappeared against the pale sky background but the charcoal grey ones suddenly appeared. Then the flock would dip below the treeline. Just as suddenly, the white pigeons appeared and the grey receded into the treeline grey. It was remarkably beautiful to witness.  |
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Dec 31, 2022 19:26:22 GMT -5
We got the aussies off to their bus around two thirty pm today. They barely made it. Unfortunately Ted left his phone on the charger in my truck, and the bus pulled out, and they are leaving tomorrow for home. What followed was we twenty minutes of stressful driving in gridlocked traffic (Barbur Blvd in Tigard for David if he reads this) to get ahead of the bus and meet it at the next transit station, but we prevailed and handed off the phone. Then back to Newberg to get some of my tools out of Katie's garage, they are starting their move next weekend. Then home and I’m tired. We cooked up a storm in the past few days for the party, and have left overs to spare. Meatballs in spicy sauce, shrimp cocktails, baked Brie en Croute, smoked salmon spread, pizza. I’m done cooking for a few days.
Nice to have a quiet house again.
Mike
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Post by david on Dec 31, 2022 19:30:56 GMT -5
Thanks, John. I can visualize it now. Nature-scapes are amazing. Even your mentioning it reminds me of a few of my own. I need to get outside more.
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