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Post by Cornflake on Aug 30, 2024 7:18:27 GMT -5
Good morning and happy Friday. Yesterday's visit with our new grandson was very enjoyable. My daughter is showing the strain of never really getting a good night's sleep but she can handle it.
This morning I have to go meet with the city's planning and development people again. I'm hoping that I can satisfy them by knocking down four feet of a block wall and putting a gate in the resulting space. That won't be welcome but I can live with it.
Enjoy your day.
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Post by PaulKay on Aug 30, 2024 7:59:58 GMT -5
Good morning and happy Friday. Yesterday's visit with our new grandson was very enjoyable. My daughter is showing the strain of never really getting a good night's sleep but she can handle it. This morning I have to go meet with the city's planning and development people again. I'm hoping that I can satisfy them by knocking down four feet of a block wall and putting a gate in the resulting space. That won't be welcome but I can live with it. Enjoy your day. Wordle 1,168 3/6* ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 🟨🟩🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 How’s the new dog settling in? |
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Post by kenlarsson on Aug 30, 2024 8:07:49 GMT -5
Good morning. I've got bills to pay and yardwork to do. Yesterday's removal of the tree from our back yard ripped up the lawn. They had to bring in a crane and drag out the logs after they cut the tree up. Fortunately the areas of the yard I've been working on were unaffected and the damaged areas of lawn will grow back. Life goes on.
Have a great day.
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Post by Cornflake on Aug 30, 2024 8:27:46 GMT -5
"How’s the new dog settling in?" Very well, Paul. He and our cat had to work things out but that's been accomplished. The dog isn't showing any stress or insecurity. He's never used a dog door before and he seems resistant to it but that may pass.
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Post by Tamarack on Aug 30, 2024 8:56:13 GMT -5
Muggy again after morning rains, possible thunderstorms this afternoon.
Weather saves me from having the cut the (crab)grass. A few indoor domestic chores and some workshop time ahead.
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Post by Shannon on Aug 30, 2024 9:01:09 GMT -5
Good morning, all!
Looking forward to the long weekend. We could use some rain here, but it looks dry for the next few days.
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Post by howard lee on Aug 30, 2024 9:14:04 GMT -5
Good morning and happy Friday. Yesterday's visit with our new grandson was very enjoyable. My daughter is showing the strain of never really getting a good night's sleep but she can handle it. This morning I have to go meet with the city's planning and development people again. I'm hoping that I can satisfy them by knocking down four feet of a block wall and putting a gate in the resulting space. That won't be welcome but I can live with it. Enjoy your day. Wordle 1,168 3/6* ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 🟨🟩🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I dedicate this Robert Frost poem to Don:
Mending Wall
By Robert Frost
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!’
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
‘Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.’ I could say ‘Elves’ to him,
But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’
Breakfast served, sipping the last of my coffee, and planning to go out and about for a while.
Then I will come home and finish the David Sheff last interview with the Lennons to clear the deck for an incoming book. An Instagram friend of mine in Australia has garnered a great deal of attention and won some awards for her recently published memoir, about her struggle with cystic fibrosis and the double lung transplant she received 26 years ago. I ordered a copy online and it is supposed to arrive today—was surprised to see it because the author told me it wasn't to be available in print in the US, only in audio form.
The book, "Breath," was written by Carly-Jay Metcalfe, a good writer and sweet soul who, to my delight, has a dark and vicious sense of humor.
Of course, there will be some guitar time later—I would like, finally, to learn all the words to "The Weight." Also testing a Toneslabs Mini 1.2mm flat pick that a good friend of mine sent through the mail.
Enjoy your day!
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Post by Marty on Aug 30, 2024 9:39:11 GMT -5
Good morning.
82F-86F windy.
Slept much better last night than the night we got home. Not jet lag as we were in a plane for only a few hours each flight. Airport lag due to sitting in an airport for hours on end with no place to rest.
INR this morning and that's it for the day.
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Post by epaul on Aug 30, 2024 9:57:15 GMT -5
Morning!
I can feel September.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Aug 30, 2024 10:19:10 GMT -5
Going to be 96 here today. Yuck.
Mike
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Post by Russell Letson on Aug 30, 2024 15:18:43 GMT -5
Adventures in geriatric-car ownership. Our '06 Outback needed wheel alignment, which I scheduled for earlier this week, but an examination revealed a need for parts the dealership doesn't stock. So rescheduled for this morning, and further examination revealed a need for even more rare and obsolete parts (lots of stuff frozen and becrudded underneath). And with a holiday weekend coming up, it will be Tuesday or Wednesday before it's all reassembled and declared roadworthy.
On the other hand, we have a pretty new Outback loaner for as long as it takes. Nice car, though I'm not sure I need the bushel-basket of features it has, like the one that turns the engine off if you have to linger too long at a stoplight. I'll spend some time changing the default settings. Fortunately, the window and wing mirror controls are where they belong, and it has a proper shifting lever rather than the weird knob-thing I encountered on last year's rental Ford. And it remains strange to have what looks like a laptop computer screen where the radio ought to be.
Next thing, I'll be waxing nostalgic over stick shifts, floor-mounted high-low-beam buttons, and bias-ply tires.
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Post by TKennedy on Aug 30, 2024 15:49:48 GMT -5
Took me a while to get used to the touch screen Russ. I’d like more knobs. You can’t permanently shut off the engine stop feature, has to be done every time you start up. Half the time I turn off the air conditioner or turn on the seat heater as they are close.
Other than that I really like it. It’s quiet, has good handling, and is a great trip car. I hated to see the old 2007 go but I don’t miss it much now. I really like the adaptive cruise.
One of my guitars sold at Willie’s already so that’s good. It was the Maple Marty.
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Post by billhammond on Aug 30, 2024 19:44:25 GMT -5
Hit the jackpot today! Motored over for takeout BBQ ribs, slaw and mac & cheese at PittieQ's, opened only about a year ago and a place I hadn't tried until this past spring, even though it's only a mile and a half away, but I really dug their pork ribs, beef brisket and sides, all smoked/cooked on-site. So today, while talking to the guy who was packing up my order, the topic of chicken came up. Somehow I had it in my head that the only chix they offered were strips, which I don't care about, but NOOOOOOO, says the guy, who turned out to be the owner, and he yelled to one of the other two dudes in the kitchen, "Hey, Carl, give me a chicken quarter, on me, for this guy." Savvy marketing, as I'll no doubt be a frequent customer from now on, as the chicken was outstanding and everything else has been, too. That was an $8-value sample he gave me, plus a refrigerator magnet!  |
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Post by millring on Aug 31, 2024 6:27:05 GMT -5
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