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Author Topic: What's Everyone Doing?  (Read 12591 times)

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Re: What's Everyone Doing?
« Reply #135 on: September 12, 2024, 01:13:00 PM »
Still working on the trailer, changing interior light fixtures to LED, new taillights to led, old ones had cracked lenses, new porch light from that small yellow lense to a 48 diode 9"  scare light that would illuminate the Vegas strip that the boss lady wants, harvesting garden stuff, all my bell peppers seem to want to ripen this week so processing and freezing them from future use, same with the Zuchinni and crook neck squash, been getting cool in the evenings here and plants are starting to dwindle, the end of the summer garden coming quick, think we are going to have an early colder fall this year, and as usual another 5 yr old soccer game tonight! What are you fellas doing ?
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Re: What's Everyone Doing?
« Reply #136 on: September 12, 2024, 02:26:48 PM »
I'm trying to keep my wife calm as we are preparing to host at our house her mother's 100th birthday party.  Probably 75 people coming, and she is in panic mode.  Daughter, husband and two labs arriving from Michigan this afternoon, so it is going to a busy time. I keep telling her to calm down and enjoy to no avail.    :bigsmile:
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Re: What's Everyone Doing?
« Reply #137 on: September 12, 2024, 06:33:07 PM »
Took a nice ride out to the Flight 93 Memorial today. Very solemn and impressive.
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Re: What's Everyone Doing?
« Reply #138 on: September 13, 2024, 01:36:43 PM »
Put off coring, peeling and slicing a couple of buckets of apples before drying them but Carol is urging me on. Then go pick some more and do it again.  Squash plants are toast, the tomatoes are on their last legs and I have picked the last of the beans.  Dug up the carrots yesterday and have a half bucket full which I will probably can.  I need to get out and split a bunch of firewood which has been piled up in the back yard since Spring.  And then I want to sand down the Ranger, try to stem the rust (again!) and repaint it.  I think I need a nap!   :laffing

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Re: What's Everyone Doing?
« Reply #139 on: September 13, 2024, 04:09:45 PM »
Put off coring, peeling and slicing a couple of buckets of apples before drying them but Carol is urging me on. Then go pick some more and do it again.  Squash plants are toast, the tomatoes are on their last legs and I have picked the last of the beans.  Dug up the carrots yesterday and have a half bucket full which I will probably can.  I need to get out and split a bunch of firewood which has been piled up in the back yard since Spring.  And then I want to sand down the Ranger, try to stem the rust (again!) and repaint it.  I think I need a nap!   :laffing

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I need a nap just reading that! :luff:
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Re: What's Everyone Doing?
« Reply #140 on: September 15, 2024, 02:46:53 PM »
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Out mowing the lawn , been kinda dry
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Re: What's Everyone Doing?
« Reply #141 on: September 15, 2024, 03:20:58 PM »
Kinda????????? good thing you git a spark arrestor! :*:
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Re: What's Everyone Doing?
« Reply #142 on: September 15, 2024, 03:39:52 PM »
If I were you Kevin, before mowing the next time, I'd check the air filter first.


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Re: What's Everyone Doing?
« Reply #143 on: September 15, 2024, 06:07:46 PM »
Looks like here. 
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Re: What's Everyone Doing?
« Reply #144 on: September 20, 2024, 12:48:41 AM »
Today was a pretty special day.
Ms. Smoke and I took a quick drive up to Prather, CA.  It is a little wide spot in the road on the way to Shaver and Huntington Lakes.  The purpose was to meet up with my old friend and business associate at his cabin.
We first met in about 1970 when he and his first wife moved into the house next door to me.  Little did I know how much would occur with this fellow.
Shortly after moving in, he went to a sporting goods store and bought a Remington 1858.  That prompted me to go to the same place and buy an 1851 Colt.  A few years later I bought a Renegade and he followed suit.  Strangely enough, we could not find any .530 round ball in town so we started casting our own.  That sparked an idea that if we could not find any in town, no one else could either.  So, we started our own little casting business.  We called it Smoke and Thunder Gun Supply.  Eventually we started going to rendezvous and gun shows selling our wares.
Anyway, that lasted about 3 or 4 years, until a move dissolved the business. He continued on with S & T, and we eventually bought October Country and grew that.
Over the years, we have kept in touch.  Here's on the porch today as we were leaving.



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Re: What's Everyone Doing?
« Reply #145 on: September 20, 2024, 01:48:01 AM »
You certainly won't frighten anybody off with those photos.


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Re: What's Everyone Doing?
« Reply #146 on: September 20, 2024, 12:25:22 PM »
 :hairy Looking good you 2, Miss Linda hasn't aged a day since we last talked, you on the other hand.... Cal must be agreeing with you both.
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Re: What's Everyone Doing?
« Reply #147 on: September 20, 2024, 06:18:59 PM »
:hairy Looking good you 2, Miss Linda hasn't aged a day since we last talked, you on the other hand.... Cal must be agreeing with you both.

Well, the weather on the coast is really nice, especially if you like fog in the summer, but the politics, not so much...
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Re: What's Everyone Doing?
« Reply #148 on: September 20, 2024, 10:09:03 PM »
:hairy Looking good you 2, Miss Linda hasn't aged a day since we last talked, you on the other hand.... Cal must be agreeing with you both.

Well, the weather on the coast is really nice, especially if you like fog in the summer, but the politics, not so much...

That's one of the main reasons I left there 27 years ago!
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Re: What's Everyone Doing?
« Reply #149 on: September 21, 2024, 11:14:14 PM »
  1 Jan 2037? that was a heck of a nap I took this afternoon. Just call me Rip Van Nessmuk. Mr. and Mrs. don't look a day over 21 Sept 2024 however.
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