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Getting hot. 86 F (30 C) today. I'm not quite ready for spring to be over...

LOL! When I was in college in New Orleans, on May 3rd, 1978 we got 17 inches of rain in 90 minutes. That was a hoot...

We're under a coastal flooding warning here in Southeast Virginia. Some 3-5" of rain is forecast over the next 24 hours.

If you can afford them....

Now that is cause for celebration. Congratulations!

Good to see you back in the saddle. Nice shots

That is outstanding!

Moar powr.... LOL!

At the risk of going well and fully of the ranch, the medical/pharma industry here in the States is simply absurd. I look at EOB's with a billed amount near $1k and a paid amount near $100. Inova popped United Healthcare $1,200 for my pneumonia vaccine including a $90 "admin fee".... Whisky...

Keep a stiff upper lip! You're headed in the right direction. When my FiL had his many years ago he said the weirdest part was that they had wired the two sides of his rib cage back together. Evidently the cartilage takes a while to completely fuse back together and he said every once and a...

Good luck!

Good luck

Yep. The bushes in the yard are very confused and starting to bud. The cold snap coming next week will be interesting.

Moderating. A slight warming trend is scheduled until the end of the week.

Please get well soon. We're praying for a great recovery!

Geeze, That was a pain. I ordered the fat spring pins on January 1st from Uncle Quality Watch Straps which is in southern California. They shipped them fairly quickly and then they went for a 10+ day USPS driven trip around Virginia. :confused: The pins arrived yesterday, some 15 days after...

Looks like we're going to miss the big nor-easter. Just a lot of rain tomorrow and moderate temperatures.

LOL! True

Um, two additional screws? I'm confuzzled. There are no screws in the case. In the movement, yes, case, no.

Sigh, When I got the parts out of the cleaner, I noticed some crevice corrosion on the stainless back which was prolly why it was so difficult to unscrew. Unfortunately this is the result of the dissimilar metals of the case as the shell is titanium and the back is stainless. I soaked the back...

Woo - Hoo After sitting for 4 days the watch was finally shipped and it was delivered today. It's much smaller than I expected and while the strap wasn't the advertised 8" in circumference, it fits me exactly. Whew! The capacitor was dead-dead-dead, but luckily I had a replacement so that got...

Well, I think I've bought this titanium Seiko Starfish Kinetic watch. I've been looking for this model for some time. Most of them were sold in Japan, where evidentually they have twigs for wrists. The search has been for one with all the band links to go around my tree trunk wrists. I placed...

Variable. Lots of rain yesterday and today with the threat of colder weather coming. My joints ache in anticipation.

I got through the end of Hold Still. It took a REALLY bizarre turn at the end. Evidently she had been wanting to take pictures inside the Body Farm in Tennessee but could never get permission. Somehow a commercial client offered her the opportunity to do some photography in the farm and get...

Glad you are ok. :)

I'm about 2/3's the way through Hold Still by Sally Mann. Interesting book. Lot's of navel grazing, and I'm definitely not certain if she is bragging or complaining about her lot in life. A lot of the book revolves around race relations in the deep south. She, like many affluent people of her...

That looks good. We love smoked turkeys. I scored two already smoked turkeys from Sams. We ate most of one on Thanksgiving and then made turkey-sausage gumbo with the remainder. It's one of our traditions! Now LOML and I have 6 containers of sumptuous gumbo waiting for us on those cold...

So, We moved into a new build house on 3 October. It's been a flurry of activity, firstly getting all the boxes unloaded, and then getting all the "bits and bobs" as I call them set up.. The unboxing was particularly interesting. We sold the house in Reston (Virginia) in March of 21, and...

Is it a Google WiFi device? That would confirm your suspicions. I'm quite fond of my Ubiquiti Dream Machine SE....

Get well soon and good luck. At least you can rest. LOML and I were in the middle of packing up to move when we got ours. That was fun.... NOT

I've had good luck selling gear at fredmiranda.com.

I'm been computer centric since the first time I laid my hands on one, circa 1976. I was taking a class in Fortran at the University of New Orleans. Our first 4-5 projects were done using punch cards. That was fun getting two runs a day trying to debug the code. And then one day I was in the...

Oh, geeze. Literally on my 40th birthday presbyopia set in with a vengeance. 🤨 I had a visit shortly thereafter with the optometrist and mentioned it happened all of a sudden. He said, "well when did you think it was going to set in?" . I replied that I didn't expect it to happen literally...

LOL! I worked in an office full of Millennials. About half of the cultural things I would throw out went completely over their heads. :giggle: Of course about half of the cultural things they threw out went right over mine.... I'm definitely not a Tik-Tok'er.

Honestly I do the same. It's one of the reasons I rarely post multiple images, unless they are related or of the same object. I like the rating system though!

So, As it turned out, virtually at the same time as we arrived at the venue, the sky's opened up and the wind came whipping in. As the reception was in a tent, we had to stay in the vehicle for about 30 minutes. The plus was the temperature dropped significantly and it was quite pleasant.

Hot and muggy. LOML and I are to attend an outdoor wedding reception this afternoon in Fredericksburg, VA. We are SO looking forward to the heat and humidity.... Not

I'm currently vascillating between a BGE and Kamado Joe. I need to actually see the difference between the various KJ classic models to determine if the features support the significant cost Delta.

What are your thoughts about the BGE? After seeing them on the "Barbecue Showdown", I'm thinking about picking one up for the new house.

LOML and I are both "enjoying" the effects of inflammation issues at present. We've discussed diet changes in the past to see if some relief would be available, but never gotten motivated enough to actually do anything. I'm certain as we age and the issues continue to mount we will revisit...

Be safe!

LOL Sauces are my down fall. At present I will mix a bottle of traditional Kraft sauce with an equal amount of apple cider vinegar and a heaping helping of Tabasco. Mix it all together in a sauce pot and simmer for about an hour.

LOL! Maybe some hints here: Barbecuing in the Netherlands: how do the Dutch do BBQs?

Not to thread jack but due you think anyone other than Verstoppen will win a race this year?

Good luck, stay cool. Let us know how it turns out. LOML and I just got finished watching Barbecue Showdown on Netflix. It was a hoot

I had a Mastercraft electric smoker at our last house. I would smoke a wide variety of meats on it; turkey, chicken, pork but and of course brisket. I have it away when we sold the house. Looking forward to the completion of our new build when I can get another smoker. Just need to figure out...

As I'm getting older, I have to restrain myself from getting too "clever" when storing things away. Cleverness, I'm finding, is fleeting capability.... :rolleyes: And yes, bags with a lot of storage areas are definitely an anathema.

No thanks to many rock concerts in the 70's, I have a good bit of this as well. I've got a couple of pairs of these "sleep phones" that go everywhere with me. I bought a lifetime subscription to brain.fm a long while ago and it's the perfect accompaniment to the phones. Good luck

Well, I've slipped into something a bit more comfortable of late. I discovered "All Creatures Great and Small" when I was very young. I've prolly read the series at least 3 times now. Was spelunking through my library's digital offerings via Libby the other day, and it jumped out at me. It's...

LOL. I'm a bit of a Clive Cussler fan. I'm reading "Atlantis Found" (again it turns out) in Libby on loan from my local library.