Good morning! Are you up yet? What's your plans for today?

[Jshooter71]

Good morning GTA! Happy Thursday! Everyone stayed up way too late last night. But, I got up at 0600 and slowly one by one people are waking up. Funeral for Pops today and it’ll be a long day. I’ll just follow the agenda, I don’t do these things too often, thankfully. Thanks for the reminder on the oatmeal, Robert, I nearly forgot. Test results came back and my cholesterol is high, but I’ll try to fight it being healthier, before they put me back on meds.

[Matchstickshooter]

 Watching it snow.......

[Blowpipe Sam]

Mornin y’all.  Yet another endlessly boring training day.

Just painting by numbers. . . . Connecting the dots.

I work from the neck down. . . . I don’t call the shots.

I jump when they say jump. . . . And I don’t ask how high.

Cause when you’re painting by numbers you’re just getting by.

It don’t get better but it does get over.

[Madd Hatter]

Hey Capt, what size shoe do you wear cause they must be long fellows.😁

[anti-squirrel]

I'm off today.  Gotta do some shipping for groceries, started with the CR-V but the temperature soared.  Pulled back home before we really left, then took the Element.  We headed to BJs, Wally-World, then Publix.  The fridge and freezer are well stocked now.

Got home, looked at the CR-V and found the radiator cap failed and apparently lost coolant enough to expose the core resulting in a potentially air-cooled engine.  Yikes... I'll pick a cap up tomorrow.  Did some laundry while Sonja napped.  I then did some gaming while she cooked "Linner".  Now we're enjoying some champagne because it is a day ending in Y.

Ooooh, got the Hoover electric skillet with broiled I ordered off eBay for next-to-nothing.  Tightly packed, some damage to the lid but I straightened it fine.  We're looking forward to using it.  Yeah, we like old high-quality appliances.  Modern throwaway stuff annoys me (like K-Cup coffee makers). 




I grew up riding waves.  Skateboarding came late- I was 16.  Got pretty good because Virginia Beach has far more days with crummy surf.  But it was also transportation when I didn't feel like driving.  I've ridden on and off for nearly 4 decades, but also spent a large part of my life on bicycles.  I recall seeing the X-Games and thinking "none of this is extreme to me..." regarding skateboarding, BMX/street/dirt jumping, and snowboarding.  My buddy was into motocross and we'd watch videos of guys launching over 100-foot gaps in Coachella Valley tracks on KTMs and I was all "WHOA!" and he was all "meh. easy." then we'd see a skate video and he'd freak while I'd be all "meh, whatever..."  I guess it is what you grow up with that seems passe while stuff you didn't is amazing.  I still am blown away by seeing people ridinig unicycles on mountain bike trails.  That's just nuts.

[Back_Roads]

Mornin y’all.  Yet another endlessly boring training day.

Just painting by numbers. . . . Connecting the dots.

I work from the neck down. . . . I don’t call the shots.

I jump when they say jump. . . . And I don’t ask how high.

Cause when you’re painting by numbers you’re just getting by.

It don’t get better but it does get over.

 Paint by numbers is just a suggestion of where to start smearing the paint

[avator]

Yup, connecting the dots is much easier than staying within the lines.

[avator]

Good Friday Morning.... not that the day of the week matters much to me since retirement... 
I been up for about an hour, fed the dogs and let Rambo out. Boss and Betty Lou are still in bed.
I'm 'bout done with my first 20oz cup of coffee and the plan is to refill and head outside. Scattered rain predicted for today so I need to make sure everything that needs to be is covered. The rain will be welcomed, it's pretty dry around here. Cooler temps incoming.

[Back_Roads]

 My gut tells me it will be a good afternoon to sit in the deer stand, besides I have enough squirrel for awhile

[avator]

Got the wood piles covered, paper targets pulled in and made sure everything else is water tight. Probably be a good few days for casting, tinkering and shooting metal target from inside the Red Shed.

[Bicycleman]

I plan to pay a little tribute to a country/western artist:  David "Stringbean" Akeman.  50 years ago, he and his wife died together at their home near here.
Are you old enough to remember his performances on 'Hee Haw'?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_%22Stringbean%22_Akeman

[Blowpipe Sam]

Mornin y’all.  I am now a Certified Interpretive Guide.  Tell that to somebody in a biker bar and you’ll probably get your teeth knocked out.  Trust me.  I will NEVER describe myself as a certified interpretive guide.

[Jshooter71]

Good morning GTA! Happy Friday! I slept in until about 0700. Coffee & breakfast has been had and I suppose I’ll get dressed. Not sure what we’ll do today, but we’ll enjoy the company at my Mom’s.

[avator]

I plan to pay a little tribute to a country/western artist:  David "Stringbean" Akeman.  50 years ago, he and his wife died together at their home near here.
Are you old enough to remember his performances on 'Hee Haw'?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_%22Stringbean%22_Akeman

I wonder why I did not know that story. I remember watching Stringbean on Hee Haw. It was one of my Dad's favorite TV shows.

[buellm2]

Mornin y’all.  I am now a Certified Interpretive Guide.  Tell that to somebody in a biker bar and you’ll probably get your teeth knocked out.  Trust me.  I will NEVER describe myself as a certified interpretive guide.

LOL.   If I was a "certified interpretive guide" you can be sure that I would drop that tidbit on certain occasions.   I would of course do some embellishing purely for entertainment value.   Shucks, I've always wanted to interpret things and guide people.

[bReTt]

Been looking for Motivation all morning.  Think I’ll head to the shop and look there.  Sean wants to turn a bowl on the lathe for his sister as a Christmas gift.  I should probably help get him started…

[Insanity]

Mornin y’all.  I am now a Certified Interpretive Guide.  Tell that to somebody in a biker bar and you’ll probably get your teeth knocked out.  Trust me.  I will NEVER describe myself as a certified interpretive guide.

I will interpret this as you require a guide to the closest place to get good and liquored up. Follow me sir.

[avator]

Mornin'...
I laid down at around 6:30 last night. My intention was not to sleep through the night but to just rest for and hour or so. But I must have been tired because I woke up at 3:30 this morning and was wide awake.
I got up and put some kind of skiing video from the RedBull channel on the TV and made coffee. Boss and Rambo got up an hour or so later and wanted to eat and go out. I took my coffee and went out with them and sat on the front deck while they sniffed around and did their business. I made a mental note of the landmine locations so I can scoop them up and toss them into the woods later.
Daylight should begin creeping in in another 30 minute or so and I will head out and see what I can get into today. Looks like the slow steady drizzle of rain continued through the night but not enough to fill in the puddles but enough to make things pretty wet. The ground was dry enough to soak it up.

[Back_Roads]

Mornin y’all.  I am now a Certified Interpretive Guide.  Tell that to somebody in a biker bar and you’ll probably get your teeth knocked out.  Trust me.  I will NEVER describe myself as a certified interpretive guide.

I tote myself as a good example of a bad example

[avator]

I consider myself as an interpreter and guide as well. I listen to what folks say, interpret it into what I wanted to hear and then tell them where to go.  Works for me.