Weekend open thread
July 13, 2018
Sea Bound
Every year, millions of tiny, baby olive ridley sea turtles hatch on Rushikulya Beach in India. It’s a treacherous journey—experts estimate that only 1 in every 1,000 baby sea turtles will make it to the water before being killed by a predator.
Category: Open thread
First!!!
Huh?
What happened?
Did I get it?
Yes, yes you did. I don’t know how you see through the wax fumes.
Kidding.
Congrats.
I GOT IT!!!!11111111
Take that, Jonn!
I knew you could not always change the name of the thread!
That comment was unsportsmanlike.
Whoa. That was close. Yef gets his first unsportsmanlike and it will cost him 15 yards. If it had been his second today, he would have been ejected, nullifying his first. It’s right there is the rules, if anyone would ever bother to read them.
Flag on the play, unsportsmanlike conduct on Yef! Wait, the officials are conferring, let’s see how this shakes out!
Ref flips switch on hip, starts to talk and realizes it WAS on and now it’s off. He flips the switch again:
“After the play, Yef insinuated that Jonn previously manipulated threads to ensure that Yef could not be the first WOT commenter. Unsportsmanlike conduct. 15 yards and loss of down. That is Yef’s first unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.”
Whoa, whoa, what do you mean?
I am not losing my first First!
I aint do nuttin wrong.
You have to pry it from my cold beer hands!
Hey Yef, SET THAT can of melted paste wax on the floor, back away slowly and report for Police Call NOW!
Hell, should have gotten the TAH BANHAMMER OF HELL for that statement.
Congratulations, Yef.
Buffer Detail and Weekend Police Call paid off after all. 😉
You owe Another Proud Infidel (Trademark) a beer.🍺
Congrats Yef, may it be written in the coveted book of firsts! We all bow in your honor!
Have a great weekend everyone. I will have my cancer surgery again on Tuesday! And maybe I can get this damn cast off my leg on the 30th? I am really tired of limping around on this thing!! Take care ya’ll
Best wishes to you Willy! Don’t chase too many nurses.
My thoughts and prayers will be with you, WW.
Good luck.
Prayers for a successful surgery and a quick recover, WW!
We’ll be praying for you WW.
Best wishes, W.W….
Prayers out for you, WW!
Get well, WW. Mrs. AW1Ed and I are pulling for you.
Thanks to all my friends for all the kind thoughts. I am getting real tired of the old pecker router going in there! It is supposed to be exit only!!!
Will keep a prayer for you, WW. Blessings …
All the best with the surgery, Willy! Keeping you in my prayers!
What. The. Fuck. Just. Happened???????
Miracles do happen. Maybe Hillary et al will go to prison afterall.
Chip, they would have to build a new prison to house all the guilty parties???
Well, they already have a very aptly names place in upstate NY I believe
http://www.msnbc.com/sites/msnbc/files/styles/ratio–3-2–830×553/public/articles/gettyimages-477019444_copy.jpg?itok=6348xH9x
What happened, you ask? “The Applied Theorem of Vision Impaired Sciuridae’s Discovery Potential of Quercus alba Nuts”
was just confirmed. High fives all around!
*grin*
First!
Damn my fat fingers.
Have a great weekend y’all!!
first
Not first.
Top 10????
I missed it by lthaaaaaat much. Congratulations to Yef for what I believe to be his first time to be first for the WOT. Future generations will speak his name with reverence.
We’ve been considering it a win if Yef calls “first” in the proper thread…
Thanks!
Chicken dance time!
Heha hahe heeha
“Every year, millions of tiny, baby olive ridley sea turtles hatch on Rushikulya Beach” – hence DoD’s warnings about predictability. If only the turtles would vary the timing and routing of their journey…..
They all hatch at once to try and over whelm the predators. One in a thousand make it to adult breeding age. They really have a tough start to life!!!
I live on a nature preserve with a sizable pond a few hundred feet behind the house. Every couple of years the toads hatch. I’ll have hundreds if not thousands of the little buggers, about the size of a pencil eraser, bounding around the yard. I call the mower “toad chucker” during those seasons.
Isn’t that lot’s of fun? You get a real toad load on the mower>>
Leopard frogs that were eggs in April are nearing adulthood. They blend in with the ground cover so you don’t see them until they jump away from you. Can’t go anywhere without stepping on them, then you see that you’re surrounded by hundreds, maybe thousands of croaking, spotted, hopping samples of heron and egret food.
Don’t you have a good receipe for frog legs? They are pretty good barbequed? YUM!!!
No, ’cause I can’t stand frog as food.
The Brit soldiers called the French Johnny Crapaud during Napoleon’s Euro campaigns, Crapaud meaning frog eater. The French are almost as bad as the Chinese. If you can cook it, it is edible, or even if it can’t be cooked, it’s potentially edible. They eat snails, too.
Snails… yummy.
Pot meet kettle. Brit soldiers ragging on the French for eating frog legs seems a bit ironic considering some favorite British dishes include tripe and jellied eels…
No one said Second!
Does this mean I am Runner Up to Yef?
😎
First!
Self-identifies as first
Ah, well. Off to work. Y’all have a good weekend, full of good cigars and good craft beer
I am the Yefminator!
I am the Firstest of Firsts!
The fastest F5 presser evah!
Best typer, and an expert at everything that is not important.
Buffer master, Coffee maker, Police call chief.
Lighten up, Francis
https://youtu.be/0OnpkDWbeJs?t=41
Not now, Yef. I’m on the phone.
Uh oh, the ref is eyeing Yef, could it be a second flag, excessive grandstanding and taunting? The whole world wonders…
Damn it, Yef…. we’re not there yet!
So there I was, sitting on the toilet, needing to take a crap, but no crap coming out. So I worked hard and forced, forced, but to no avail. Then, determined, I overcame. Finally, I thought I could succeed… I let her rip!
Then I woke up, but by then my ass was on runaway mode. I couldn’t stop. As I woke further, I noticed that I was in a tent, with Soldiers waking up and getting pissed at me. It was the beginning of our two week annual training, we were in the field, there was no running water, and I only brought enough for basic hygiene and toileting.
I ran out the tent and tried to wash up the only way I could. Problem was that the medics ended up shutting the water buffalo down. That wasn’t the end of my problems.
It was the middle of the afternoon, I still smelt like shit, and Soldiers were dropping left and right due to heat casualty. The water buffalo was still being tested.
Talk about a shitty start to my annual training.
Now there is a real CA trooper’s war story! And you can’t even start telling it by saying, “And this is no shit.” That one will become legendary in the history of the 351st Civil Affairs Group.
Not first, don’t care.
Spending time out at Casa de Sparky West, supporting those too lazy to support themselves.
But 70-80 hour weeks make for nice paychecks.
Where’s the Commish with his ‘Did You Know’ column?
It’s going to be in the low 90s in my kingdom today, which should signal the end of the heat wave. Hope so. We need rain.
See below, lovely lady … and thanks for asking!
Neighbor’s dryer vent hose plugged solid… you would think someone would realize that a laundry room should also have enough room to work BEHIND the damn appliances.
FYI, shopping insurance this week – Hartford in the lead by about 20%. GEICO, State Far, et all in the mid-pack. Esurance and Nationwide literally 70% higher. Guess those ads forgot to mention when they “are on your side” it’s your BACK side.
Bundle the auto and home with the same firm.
Saves a bundle.
Saving $100 this year splitting. Usually do, but the rate hikes in Houston suck due to some dude named Harvey.
$1000, not $100
I’m still on my vacation road trip in the southeast CONUS. Since I live in a dark blue town in a deep blue state, it is a pleasure to be on the road and chat and interact with good down home conservative folks and fellow Deplorables. One of these days I’m gonna fully retire and move down south. I can’t wait…
By a total lack of popular demand, I present once again my weekly trivia/humor column for your edification and enlightenment. (Or something like that.) I hope you enjoy! DID YOU KNOW…? Did a Russian scientist invent a computer which ran on water? By Commissioner Wretched Ah, summer. You just gotta love summer. When I was a teacher, I practically lived for summertime to arrive; it made the previous 10 months bearable. Now, as a writer/editor (or whatever I’m doing this week), summer is just another season, one in which I am grateful for the invention of air conditioning. But it’s still wonderful. Going for walks in the woods … heading down to the pool for a swim … sitting on the porch enjoying the evenings. I don’t actually do any of this, but it does sound pretty nice, doesn’t it? Summer is also baseball season, and – if you know me – you know how much that means. If you’re going to vacation during the summer, please travel safely and enjoy whatever you’re going to do. Me, I’ll just slog along, digging up these neat nuggets of trivia just for you to read (when you get back). Drop a line if you’re so inclined. I’m at didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com and I always answer. With summer upon us, let’s get to some cool trivia! Did you know … … the first storage for Google was made of Legos? Google needed something that could house ten 4-gigabyte hard drives cheaply and be expandable, and a structure of Legos fit the bill just right. (Can you imagine Google running just 40 gigabytes?) … Canada contains nine percent of the world’s renewable water supply? … the hair of British Prime Minister Dame Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) actually became more blonde as she became more powerful? (There’s a medical name for that, but I prefer the layman’s term. Clairol.) … pouring sugar directly onto a cut or wound can help it heal faster? (Sweet!) … the side of a hammer is called the cheek? (As in “turn the other,” I suppose.) … in Oregon, citizens can issue traffic… Read more »
Here’s what differential equations are:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_equation
Fascinating.
Didn’t understand a word of it, but fascinating nonetheless.
I have a doctorate in Education but I simply don’t speak math.
Commissioner
Question…how the hell did you choose your subject for your dissertation? I’m struggling with that.
Not sure what you mean, IDC SARC. Do you mean the actual work or the statistical work?
How you chose the topic.
There were a few possible options available in my cohort that were unselected; I liked the one about discipline, and having worked with Civil Air Patrol cadets for years, I wondered how their school discipline compared to kids who did not have a military-styled program to assist. Also, the schools I worked with had JROTC programs as well. My teaching was taking place in a poor, mostly minority school system, where discipline was so off-the-charts that we were finally told to stop writing referrals for anything that didn’t involve blood, because it was making the system look bad. That was pretty much the catalyst for my selecting “military-style” and “non-military-style” discipline.
It comes across as pretty dry and dull in the dissertation, believe me. I wrote it and I didn’t want to read it again.
My research showed that the in-school (or, in the CAP connection, outside-school) influence of the military had no real effect on behavior and disciplinary referrals. It ended up pretty much a wash, as external factors had a lot more to do with it.
As the comedians used to say, “It seemed like a good idea at the time.”
Thank you!
Hah! Was just talking about plenums this week. Yes, we all have experience with them, probably have or work with one. Being the overachiever that I am, I have two.
Sure you can – it’s called a “leaf blower” or a “pressure washer”. (smile)
Present and unaccountable. Sometimes lurking in the bushes. (Rustle, rustle.)
Been busy taking care of my brother in the nursing home (who is doing well).
Youngest son returned from deployment – his 14-month-old daughter is having to adjust to having a man in the house. But her Daddy is safe and sound.
One of these days I hope to update the TAH Stolen Valor Race scoreboard. Maybe when things slow down.
Graybeard! 🙂
Good to see you, was wondering what had happened. Glad your son is back and safe and whole. Sounds like good news all around from Clan Graybeard.
Good to see you back here, Graybeard…
Thanks, y’all.
Trying to deal with Medicare, Medicaid, and sundry other items is keeping me further away from the fellowship of TAH more than I like. I try to drop in from time to time.
I completely understand how you feel about the Medicare, Medical Assistance, Gap Coverage, Prior Authorizations equipment, physician coverage etc….
I had experience from a provider standpoint and a patient standpoint at a later time.
God bless you and your entire family Graybeard. Good to see you again at our favorite hangout !!!
Glad you’re back, Graybeard.
Good to see you back, Graybeard.
Glad you’re back, Graybeard! I inquired as to your presence (absence?) in one of the recent WOTs.
And you know there will never be a day or time “when things slow down.” 😉
Welcome back, Graybeard! Great to hear that all is well with you and yours.
Team TAH now has both Graybeard and ex-OS2 back in the fight.
It’s been a good week.
39th Have a great weekend folks!
LMAO! Yef is Numero Uno? The world stopped revolving for a about 16 nano-seconds.
Congrats Yef! Not sure what you do in the Army, other than buff floors and huff wax…
Thanks for serving! 🙂
Its going to be hot as well not quite as hot as Tucson this weekend in the Columbia Basin, I think low 100’s. I am not a hot weather kind of dude…ugh. Oroville or Republic, WA are looking nicer and nicer…
Hope you all have fun this weekend!
Im wondering when ChipNASA is going to have to start calling the Wall…PLANETARY!
🙂
Well right now, I’ve just hit the top of page 6. When we get to page 7-9 and I have to split it into 3 posts, I’m going to move to the next logical step and change the Moniker to the The Hemisphere of Insults®™ , I think that it may be a while before we get to 10+ pages and when it has to be split into 4 posts (Assuming that Jonn won’t ban me for clogging up TAH) as I really try to use it sparingly, we’ll look at it as PLANETARY.
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND you sick twisted dickheads
Present and ready to go home!
Anyone heard from Dan?
Not a peep since 22 January. Wonder why?
Someone enforced a permanent gag order on him.
He has been laying low ever since.
Situation …. grave.
Dave, Creole food, eh?
“Gar-Un-Tee you may enjoy this Cajun cook better:
https://youtu.be/p9l5Ou-WNro
😎
Dirty Rice recipe by the Cajun Cook:
https://youtu.be/ZX3Y27LXFYw
ohh I gar run tee
Was waiting for the roux. Can’t cook like a Cajun without it, and the trinity of onion, bell pepper, and celery.
“Glad for you to see me I gar-un-tee!”
Chicken & Andouille Gumbo by same Chef with Roux starting @ 2:40 mark:
https://youtu.be/eK4umRMJlrs
Gumbo kicks ass, but my fav is shrimp and sausage Jambalaya.
Dammit Hardin, now I’m all hungry. Dick.
*grin*
Justin Wilson used to have a half-hour show on the truckers’clear channel AM station, WWL, right before the Charlie Douglas Road Gang, which broadcast its weather repots by highways… sure miss those days. THAT was country music!
Jane Fonda: Kavanaugh Confirmation ‘Will Be a Catastrophe’
Breitbart News Link
If Hanoi Jane doesn’t like him, he must be a great pick.
Was thinking the same – Fonda doesn’t like him is all I need to know. Well, not really, but it’s a good start.
But I saw a picture of her back in her days, and she was kinda hott.
Yef, she was never hot. She’s never been anything but a so-so wannabe actress who got hired for movies because of her daddy, who was a fine actor, and who served in the Navy during WWII.
She’s a bimbo. Get yer eyes back in their sockets, boy.
Stylin’ in a VC Anti-Aircraft Gun.
She was only kinda hot in a stank-ass commie loving hippie way. Trust us youngster, the combined smells of patchouli oil, incense, weed and B.O. isn’t attractive to anyone who isn’t high. Her traitor political views make most of us here want to barf.
And you probably think that Rachel Madcow is “kinda hott” don’t you?
I RECOMMEND TO THE TAH CADRE THAT YEF’S FIRST FOR THE WEEK BE PERMANENTLY REVOKED AND HIS NAME BE REMOVED FROM THE BOOK OF FIRSTS FOR HIS UDDER STUPIDITY IN THE FOLLOWING COMMENT,
“But I saw a picture of her back in her days, and she was kinda hott”
Maybe Yef is just too young to remember just what a COMMIE TRAITOR WHORE “Hanoi Jane” Fonda is and he hasn’t learned just yet. She has issued a couple of VERY half-assed excuses for apologies over the years but those were obviously for her to be allowed to do something to make her money.
Cat Ballou!!!
First 5 minutes of Barbarella.
Best movie response to her ever
Fonda: It’s interesting that the only two occupations you think I could have are being a secretary or a hooker!
Segal: Jane, you can’t type, either.
No, Yef, there is much more to being ‘hott’ than looks. With her, it’s impossible to get past the snakiness, her being a traitor, a crappy actress and an all around low life rat fucker. Given those factors, I wouldn’t give a damn what she looked like. She’s a traitor who sold out her country and American POWs for a photo op. She is the moral equivalent of pond scum.
Pond scum and the entity that grows in unattended JP-4 actually have more value and are morally superior to that traitor.
I coulda been first, but I’m a Federal Employee and this thread posted during my nap time.
You’re not doing it right. We run a Compressed Work Schedule- every other Friday starts a three day weekend. Alternating 48/32 hour work weeks.
Four 10’s every week was always my favorite. Nobody else like having Wednesday off, but I did. What’s not to like about never working more than 2 days in a row ever?
Not a bad deal, either. I think of all the times as aircrew we would brief, pre-flight, fly the mission, post-flight and debrief. Depending on the mission profile a 20 hour day was not uncommon. I was so tired I could hardly hoist my beer or read my per diem check, afterwards.
Daughter is an RN. She works 3 x 13, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. She works same three days every weeks and then has off the next four days.
Work…schedule….what is this thing of which you speak? Sounds like it would interfere with my normal PT/websurf activities.
Hack Stone could have been first, but he had to complete his mandatory annual training on Ethics In Government Contracting required by the proud but humble woman owned business that sells software to the federal government. Training consists of one slide, which reads “Don’t get caught.”
70st and Honorary First once again!
Rachel Maddow is David Hoggs father.
I have a question regarding that sort of thing. If a female is a bull dyke–and we’ll call her R. Maddow–and a male is a sweetpea–we’ll call him D. Hogg, shouldn’t they be perfect for one another? Maddow wants a woman and Hogg wants a man. Seems to me that would work.
Sure, why not? It isn’t the plumbing that matters in that case, is it?
Mark Dice sometimes calls her Richard. I believe he did call him/her Richard Manboy once.
Number 90!
Well, I guess not.
Just going to make an overarching statement here in hopes that it covers everyone:
To those who have been AWOL – good to see you back For those who need our prayers and good thoughts – you have them, for as long as they are needed. For those we just wonder what they are up to – concern, lack of concern, or derisive dismissal as is appropriate – we can’t tell for sure which since we haven’t heard from them in a while.
100rd
Academy Sports has rehired the manager they fired last week when he stopped a PoS who was trying to shoplift a handgun. I’m not sure I would have accepted their ‘generosity’. I imagine he’ll be quietly looking for a replacement job. AS got egg on their face and I wonder, just wonder if they will be looking for a reason to again terminate him.
The PoS shoplifter’s arrest photo, at least one of them, shows him with a big “I don’t give a shit” grin. I would pile every charge I could on his sorry ass.
John Giduck – the turd with a face!
What about Phil Monkress of All Points Logistics? Will he be working balls this weekend? Hack would like call up corporate headquarters of All Points Logistics and ask why their website no longer prominently mentions Phil Monkress’ service as a Navy SEAL.
Phildo always works balls and tickles taints on the weekends! Gotta earn that loose change for emergency bail money…
Cori LeCinda Pierce – the turd who defrauds with a dog!
“They will eventually get it out of their systems, says Ms. Pierce.
She doesn’t know us very well.
I got to meet my daughter’s new boyfriend yesterday and he seems like a huge improvement over her ex-husband. The ex was a beta male that couldn’t hold onto a job that my daughter had to support. My wife and I called it when we were talking after their wedding reception that it wouldn’t last. At least the new boyfriend has a job and can actually change a tire.
Before the WOT gets overwhelmed by the day’s events, think it’s only right that I publish the pork belly report from the West Hog Flats 4-H Fair auction, so here goes:
The 252 pound Grand Champion Crossbred Barrow sold at $17.50 per pound.
Top dollar per pound winner: The Reserve Grand Champion Duroc Gilt at $22.50 per pound (weight not listed).
And, the result you all have been waiting for:
The Grand Champion Duck sold for $450.00 (Ditto the Grand Champion Turkey)
BeDeep, BeDeep, That’s all, Folks.
Did they have rabbits, George?
(Sorry, Claw. I just had a minor Steinbeck moment. It won’t happen again…)
No bunnies were sold at auction this year (Dalton Coldiron went back to Oklahoma madder than a wet hen), but a kiss from the County 4-H Queen sold for $2,900.00. (to her father)
Thank you, Claw. No cattle sold? Or does that come later?
Yep, the Grand Champion Charolais Steer that weighed in at 1,227 pounds went for $4.00 per pound.
Yummm-o!
We got rain last night. Finally got some rain. Now my lawn won’t put a guilt trip on me.
Life is good!
I gave up on the brown sections and burned them yesterday. (reset)
Throw some grass seed on it, or flower seeds, and water it. Maybe something will come up.
Had the opportunity to watch “Chappaquiddick” last night.
A very interesting and well put-together movie.
Has it really been almost 50 years since that event took place…
Rest In Peace, Mary Jo.
Correction…”Incident”, NOT “event”.
Sorry.
Either might apply equally well in this situation. Teddy-boy made the incident into an event by his actions. Or lack of appropriate actions.
OWB, Your three sentences = Spot On.
Still remember watching the news where he wore a neck brace and thinking, “Yea, right, sure..”
Daddy’s money bought everything. But not happiness. That whole Clan experienced tragedy, after tragedy, after tragedy as if they were being punished for lies, deceit, narcissism…you get the picture.
After 50 years, STILL feel sorrow for Mary Jo’s family.
Thank you for your insight, OWB.👍
But he was revered in the Senate…along with Grande Cyclops Sheets Byrd.
Papa John’s former CEO is now its former board chairman as well. He stepped down as CEO last year b/c he dared to fault the NFL kneelers. This time, he was in a media training exercise of some sort during May and it involved a telephone conference call. He was asked how he would distance himself from racist groups (Why? I have no idea.) Maybe he should have said, “Free pizza for a month for anyone who takes a selfie with a burning Confederate battle flag. He didn’t. Instead he said something about Colonel Sanders never apologizing for using the word nipper. No, not nipper, but I don’t want to see TAH named a hate group again. So, Papa John is done. Cooked. Over. DOA. Such are the times in which we live. BTW, I have never even tried a PJ’s Pizza. I used to be a Domino’s guy but then I discovered that for half the price and asking for the pie to be well done, Little Caesar’s is delicious.
Glad you explained that. Thanks, A/C. Had missed doing the research on how John got into the mess. (Been a crazy couple of weeks around here.)
Otherwise, Papa John’s used to be the best chain pizza in my area. Not the cheapest, but the best. It’s difficult to beat the Little Caesar deals, and it’s plenty good.
Perhaps has choice of words was not ideal, but it doesn’t sound nearly as bad as the hateful things that others have said.
(Why? I have no idea.)
Papa John’s hitched their little red wagon to the NFL a few years ago, before the whole kneeling thing. I guess the boycott is hurting Papa John’s bottom line, too.
So, the DOJ/Mueller gang has indicted some Russian GRU men for hacking into DNC computer system/servers and Podesta’s email and maybe some Widleload’s illegal system. But riddle me this TAHers, can the FBI/DOJ legitimately and justifiably investigate, indict and prosecute some gang of bank burglars and thieves for breaking into a bank and its vault, stealing the banks cash, and get away in the night, when neither the FBI nor any other LEO’s have ever been to the bank or inside its bank vault? Because that is what they just did with this “indictment” that will never be tried in a court room. Remember, the DNC refused to have the FBI look at their servers and so did the Clinton Mob. The DNC had Crowdstrike examine their servers. Guess who hired it; it was Perkins, Coie, the same Demonrat law firm that hired Fusion GPS to do the Trump dossier and conceal that the Clinton campaign was paying for it. So, the FBI/DOJ are obviously relying on the Crowdstrike report that the Russians hacked the server and its claim that is where WikiLeaks got the emails. But the vaunted FBI computer gurus have never seen the scene of the crime, the “hacked” servers or any network computer. Maybe the handful of proggies who lurk here can solve the riddle, but I think not.
That is the first question I had – how can they file criminal charges when they never examined the evidence?
Don’t they have to first establish that a crime occurred? “Somebody told me that they saw something” may be enough to trigger an investigation of a criminal act, but hearsay is generally frowned upon in courts of law. “Best evidence” is the term thrown around on TV shows a lot.
The Best Evidence Rule is really the best evidence of a writing rule, which means that secondary evidence of what a writing says is not admissible, unless the original writing has been lost or destroyed. For example, in most states one can’t introduce in evidence a photocopy of a document if one can’t show why the original document isn’t offered in evidence.
Without having people who can testify they examined the original servers and coomputers and show a chain of custody for them, DOJ can never prove this case. Mueller’s gang knows this, but it doesn’t matter because the Russians charged in the indictment will never be tried in any US courtroom because Russia will never extradite them. The indictment is nothing but a propaganda stunt to influence lo-fo’s (low information voters).
Arcola, Illinois, the Broom Corn Capital of the world.
If any of you are interested or are just passing through, this year’s festival will be September 7-9, held in beautiful down town Arcola.
Come for a new broom, stay for the lawn mower races./smile
Oops, almost forgot to add that the Raggedy Ann and Andy Museum is in Arcola.
Mea Culpa
Go Lawn Rangers!!
Stopped in Arcola many years ago and it was a thoroughly pleasant day. There was lots to see and do back then, perhaps even more now.
One more thread and this week’s WOT gets bumped into oblivion. Before it goes, as it must, I have a question. Why the hell is it that if I buy wood floor planks and am careful to allow for 10% waste, I still come up short a piece or two and end up having to buy another case?
Yeah, that’s an opening you could drive a truck through sideways. Go ahead. Have at it. I deserve it.
Maybe if you had started with a case it would have worked out just right, at least you would have enjoyed the work.
It’s like measuring fabric for a pattern: you always get more than the pattern requires because there are those itty-bitty pieces that have to be cut individually and on a certain angle to match the weave of the fabric.
Always buy a yard extra.
Always buys more wood than you thought you’d need.
It has been my experience that whatever principle is at play with your flooring also applies to plumbing supplies, fencing, and just about anything needed to fix or improve life around Casa OWB.
Tyvec house wrap. $154 a roll.
I’m 9 feet short on the last course.
That’s when I start taping plastic bags together.
Serial Phony, Not A Ranger, Not Special Forces, Not an Officer, Not a Paratrooper, never wounded, never served, Kyle Christopher Barwan DOB 1/1/1990, is still in prison, still at the Gainesville Florida Work Camp, and according to the weekly update is now scheduled to be released on December 11, 2018.
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/offenderSearch/detail.aspx?Page=Detail&DCNumber=H50625&TypeSearch=AI
My reading comprehension is off today. I need more Cuban Coffee before interpreting things. Kyle Barwan’s new release date is December 2, 2018.