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Post by madm002 on May 8, 2024 14:03:55 GMT -5
Not a golfer and yet your work colleagues gave you a club for retirement? Interesting. My most recent retirement they gave me a homemade knife. Everyone knew I was the office red neck/country boy and a knife was a perfect gift. My wife is a golfer. She is 67 and shoots in the 80s. Drives the ball 175 yard. So I go with her. Today was fun, a long bike ride, then a futile visit to the chiropracter, then a meeting about some business that I wanted to do. Then we rescreened a 8 foot by 48 inches screen door. That was fun, I liked doing that. |
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Post by Captj on May 8, 2024 14:32:15 GMT -5
Fished Tampa Bay with my son in law. Caught some, lost some, and had a great time. Gonna do it again Friday. Can't wait.
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Post by bswiv on May 8, 2024 18:13:07 GMT -5
Worked on a few Prescribed Burn Association items and then met the forester on the south end where we FINALLY have a timber crew on site to start harvesting. Been 2 years with basically nothing coming off the land so hopefully they can get the stands thinned and cut before our summer storms set in and the ground gets wet again.
Once it looked like they were on track went and pulled chips on some cameras monitoring gopher tortoise burrows on the sandhill site we burned 2 weeks ago and then spent about a hour and a half mixing and setting up herbicide equipment.
At about 5:00 we decided we'd done almost enough so popped a "adult beverage" one of the electric carts and ran down to the south end to see if there was any hog sign needing attention from the dogs......which there is......I hate running hogs this time of year! Saturday or Sunday.....more work.....
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Post by madm002 on May 9, 2024 15:00:57 GMT -5
One of those days. After the gym, my wife said, lets hang that ceiling fan on the patio. Knowing it would be a box of chocolates as Lennar subs use whatever they want to for junction boxes, we started, and sure enough jumped into a mess. Got it done and crap, doesnt work. Wife is convinced its the remote, and I said, nope one of the wire nuts came loose, because it was such an involved and stupid way to do it. Sure enough...fixed it and it works. Then continued the process of putting tung oil on the patio table, had to clean it up with the palm sander first. Time for an adult beverage.
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Post by bswiv on May 11, 2024 18:55:28 GMT -5
Started out working on our hog problem while Louann went and picked blueberries..... Caught 2.....both sows, by 8:30.....then......dogs got on a 35-40 pound pig who knew the game and never quit loping along through the woods. Actually saw him cross the road 3 times, every time with the dogs about 5-7 minuets behind. Finally had to pull the dogs off as they were whipped. Cleaned hogs........and then ran down to check on a timber harvest on the south end. Then, after prepping dinner and slamming it in the crock pot ( shrimp chowder!!!!....with shrimp we caught....) went with Louann back to where she had been picking blueberries in the morning.....another 8-9 pounds. Stuck those in the frig and then went and checked a small area we might burn tomorrow...... studio.youtube.com/video/ko9VX0xQtDY/edit |
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Post by bswiv on May 11, 2024 18:57:29 GMT -5
Forgot this................
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Post by ferris1248 on May 11, 2024 20:05:51 GMT -5
Governer's Gun Club for a Toby Keith Tribute concert.
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Post by cadman on May 14, 2024 17:53:50 GMT -5
Bolted the body to the frame of the Jeep. I had everything measured and when I finished, I noticed it was 1/4 of an inch off from being square. Thursday I will loosen the mounts and try to move it`1/4 inch and reconfirm it is straight and tighten the mounts again. It is a pain to get this body lined up exactly square. Then I can start on the interior of the tub fixing some rust spots.
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Post by madm002 on May 15, 2024 12:57:48 GMT -5
Took a bike ride, started a butt on the smoker, went to chiropractor, cleaned the house, cleaned about 500sf of the tile that has adhesive stains on it, comes up real nice with Barkeepers friend, will also make my chiropractor happy, as its on your knees work. Finish the butt and at 5pm find out everyones sick and no one is coming to dinner.
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Post by cyclist on May 15, 2024 13:09:56 GMT -5
  Prepped for the Chandler reconstruction. I thought I was ready, but there are a bunch of little things to adjust and paint before they become inaccessible or hard to access with the body and fenders on. Way easier to lean over than lie on ones back. |
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Post by tonyroma on May 15, 2024 13:39:30 GMT -5
Is that your shop? Looks like a professional drying room.
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Post by cyclist on May 15, 2024 13:59:29 GMT -5
Is that your shop? Looks like a professional drying room. Nope, the painter who did the work. I will pick up the parts later this week and begin putting it back together again. |
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Post by ferris1248 on May 15, 2024 14:18:38 GMT -5
It's coming along nicely. What paint did you use?
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Post by cyclist on May 15, 2024 14:28:38 GMT -5
It's coming along nicely. What paint did you use? Single stage urethane enamel. So no clear coat and a little more like what was used in 1922. |
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Post by ferris1248 on May 15, 2024 14:34:31 GMT -5
It's coming along nicely. What paint did you use? Single stage urethane enamel. So no clear coat and a little more like what was used in 1922. I was fixing to say, whatever it was it had that old time enamel look to it. |
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Post by cyclist on May 15, 2024 14:37:02 GMT -5
Single stage urethane enamel. So no clear coat and a little more like what was used in 1922. I was fixing to say, whatever it was it had that old time enamel look to it. Cool, thank you, I was hoping so. I hope all the die hard pre-war car purists see it as you do. Auto Effects owner Skip did the work, he is a master at his trade, one of the best. |
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Post by bswiv on May 23, 2024 18:27:34 GMT -5
Started off checking chips in cameras on south end where we caught hogs two weeks ago......darn things are still around.
Then went and checked on a timber crew before running back up to where Louann had the 4-wheelers and drip torches ready so we could have a go at a small burn.
Not as much wind as NWS forecast.....and more humidity and less sun.......so making it burn was a challenge. Ended up traipsing across it a number of times, actually too many times for the amount of good we did.
Got about a 65-75% burn on it.......
Ran back to the house, grabbed a couple of cold adult beverages ( NEEDED THEM! ), hopped into one of the electric carts and went to change the chips on the north end.
Getting a bit hot for old people to be burning.......which is sad because we promised to run over to Worthington Springs tomorrow and help a friend burn......dumb....just dumb.....
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Post by altuck on May 23, 2024 19:16:50 GMT -5
On the tenth when the storms came through, I started cutting up downed trees and piling them in the pasture.
Today, I did the same thing. Fortunately, I have a couple of young fellers helping me.
!2 trees down in the yard, upwards of 50 more in the pastures. No power for 6 days, no phone and internet til today.
I will be cutting and piling for the next several months.
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Post by swampdog on May 23, 2024 20:07:43 GMT -5
Do you eventually burn the downed trees altuck? Just curious as I had to stop burning a few big logs from a left over storm event. Too hot and too dry. The dry weather isn’t stopping the land clearing and burning for a new road development though.
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Post by altuck on May 24, 2024 5:24:58 GMT -5
yes, we will burn in a few months dependent on the weather.
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Post by bswiv on May 24, 2024 17:28:39 GMT -5
Today.......left Louann to keep a eye on the burn we did yesterday......and to go pull camera chips and look for hog sign so we can run dogs on Sunday morning......loaded up a 4-wheeler, drip torches, a few tools and a couple of radios and headed over to Worthington Springs where a group of us...11 in all tossed fire on the ground.
Odd thing......and maybe this is politics?.....not the one of us was under 60......and it was 90+ today......and we were stringing fire.....and I didn't hear anyone whining. Nor did anyone carp and whine when it was time to bust through the gallberry and palmettos to set spots so the fire would move faster. And.....two of the line bosses were women over 60...real women...women who.....well.....I'll shut up now as this is not the "Politics" section.
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Post by ferris1248 on May 25, 2024 13:48:11 GMT -5
Drinking wine spodie odie, drinking wine. Attachments:
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Post by conchydong on May 25, 2024 14:30:14 GMT -5
 . I bought a griddle top for my camp chef one burner. Although it came preseasoned I spent some time adding additional layers of crisco to build up the base. I never griddled before so it will be a learning process. |
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Post by swampdog on May 25, 2024 15:24:12 GMT -5
Nice looking venue Ferris. A good cup of Java and I could dig it.
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Post by 4ward on May 25, 2024 15:25:41 GMT -5
Tried to pack a gun safe….
I need a bigger gun safe.
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Post by swampdog on May 25, 2024 15:26:03 GMT -5
Cut a few low hanging limbs w the pole saw. Grilled some chicken. Swimming with daughter's family. Sitting in the yard w the pup and gonna head in shortly for a little dinner.
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Post by tonyroma on May 25, 2024 15:26:29 GMT -5
Went to work
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Post by conchydong on May 25, 2024 16:06:32 GMT -5
work? You are sounding more conservative every day. 😉 |
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Post by tonyroma on May 25, 2024 16:40:02 GMT -5
work? You are sounding more conservative every day. 😉 Holiday schedule , OT all day, bout to cut the grass so I don’t look like the trashiest fam on the block. |
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Post by conchydong on May 25, 2024 17:59:59 GMT -5
Drinking wine spodie odie, drinking wine. This is as good of a time to post this song. It has nothing to do with you though.  |
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