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Post by howard lee on Jan 10, 2024 6:27:29 GMT -5
Good morning and welcome to another Hump(erdink) Day.
This film always lifts my spirits.
Now to prepare my lunch bag and breakfast for the teen.
Wishing everyone good day. Do something to lift your spirits.
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Post by Cornflake on Jan 10, 2024 7:03:19 GMT -5
"Do something to lift your spirits."
--Howard
"....[F]riends, every day do something that won’t compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.
"....As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn’t go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection."
--Wendell Berry
"Wordle 935 3/6*
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--Wordle
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Post by kenlarsson on Jan 10, 2024 7:35:38 GMT -5
Good morning. Big storm front yesterday, lots of branches in the yard to clean up. We may make it to 60 today. Outside of that it's shopping and guitars which always lifts my spirits. The guitars that is, not so much shopping. Be well, be happy.
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Post by theevan on Jan 10, 2024 7:37:28 GMT -5
Beautiful arrangement of this tune from Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Hansel and Gretel. Eveninng Prayer.
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Post by PaulKay on Jan 10, 2024 7:57:25 GMT -5
Linda’s cataract surgery went very well yesterday. She is seeing quite well through the new lens already. Took me 5 days to get clarity. She goes back for the followup this morning, but should be uneventful. 38 degrees out this morning and cold all day.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Jan 10, 2024 9:55:46 GMT -5
Up. Some how I hurt my wrist, dominant hand, and it hurts like heck. I’m wearing a wrist brace, and not liking this whole getting old thing. Nothing I have to do today so I can spend the day watching the rain while the weather dudes get all excited about the possibility of freezing rain on Friday.
Mike Wordle 935 3/6
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Post by Cornflake on Jan 10, 2024 9:59:05 GMT -5
I just checked the thermometer in the northeast corner of our yard. It's 27 degrees.
When it's hot here I want it cooler. When it's cold I want it warmer. There are some people you just can't please.
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Post by Marty on Jan 10, 2024 9:59:36 GMT -5
Good morning
23F-29F cloudy.
Still feeling run down and tired, plus I don't think I've seen sunlight in weeks, depressing. But I will forge ahead through the gloom and see if I can get something done today. I tested twice, it's not Covid.
69 Days Until Spring.
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Post by amanajoe on Jan 10, 2024 10:54:54 GMT -5
Boss closed the shop again today. So more, “Gee, I really should get that done”. Will I? Probably not. I did clean off the electronics workbench and soldered up a few connectors on some battery packs yesterday.
Had to hire a different neighbor to plow the drive as the other one is apparently pissed at us (don’t know what we did to anger him and at this post I’m not going to try to find out, life’s too short). The joys of having a 550 foot driveway when it drops 9” of snow.
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Post by coachdoc on Jan 10, 2024 12:04:32 GMT -5
I just checked the thermometer in the northeast corner of our yard. It's 27 degrees. When it's hot here I want it cooler. When it's cold I want it warmer. There are some people you just can't please. It’s winter.
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Post by david on Jan 10, 2024 12:48:07 GMT -5
Time to wrap the outside pipes - it has never gotten cold enough to need more at this house. This has been the warmest winter I can remember.
As for Wordle - I should have thought more about my third guess. Live & learn! Wordle 935 4/6
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Post by Shannon on Jan 10, 2024 12:48:38 GMT -5
Good morning and welcome to another Hump(erdink) Day. This film always lifts my spirits.
Now to prepare my lunch bag and breakfast for the teen. Wishing everyone good day. Do something to lift your spirits.
The Princess Bride is my favorite movie ever. Kathy and I saw it when it was first in theaters, back when we were just dating. I only agreed to go see it because I read that Mark Knopfler did the sound track. We watch it again about once a year. My children can quote most of it.
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Post by james on Jan 10, 2024 12:52:09 GMT -5
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Post by Shannon on Jan 10, 2024 13:16:54 GMT -5
Beautiful arrangement of this tune from Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Hansel and Gretel. Eveninng Prayer. I have that CD. It is one of my favorites!
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Post by Village Idiot on Jan 10, 2024 14:08:44 GMT -5
I do NOT like winter. Exactly what I don't want to deal with today.
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Post by Hobson on Jan 10, 2024 14:10:33 GMT -5
A day of getting caught up on year end financial stuff and moving some money now that we're into the new tax year. Got a surprise in the mail. A package from an old college friend that I hadn't heard from in over a year. It included a CD by a duo from our college days, but newer songs. One of the members was her boyfriend at the time. They broke up mostly because he wanted kids and she didn't. There was also a letter with lots of news. She was in a bad car accident last year. And the old boyfriend had passed away. She didn't say how, but he would have been about 72, so not old in my book.
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Post by coachdoc on Jan 10, 2024 14:24:59 GMT -5
Reading Hobb’s post reminds me that many of us here are too old to die young. That was my big revelation last year.
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Post by t-bob on Jan 10, 2024 15:00:59 GMT -5
Good morning and welcome to another Hump(erdink) Day. This film always lifts my spirits.
Now to prepare my lunch bag and breakfast for the teen. Wishing everyone good day. Do something to lift your spirits.
Enjoy a good day. Lift your spirit... classical guitar and piano This is probably the most stupid movie I've seen. I watched the 10 minutes - The Princess Bride. My son (7 yr old) wouldn't even watch it..... A few younger kids like it ..... It's still a beautiful day - Wednesday Hump Day raining sun and slicky leaves until wintry December
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Post by coachdoc on Jan 10, 2024 15:33:40 GMT -5
It is my entire family’s favorite movie. Brilliant story and script. I’m chuckling right now remembering the last time we watched it. Probably at least the 10th time.
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Post by coachdoc on Jan 10, 2024 15:40:02 GMT -5
Robert Falk telling the tale as a bed time story for his grandson is so simple and sweet. I’ll be playing it the next time my grand kids visit.
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