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Sorry Paul, I just now saw the post about your brother. Your in our thoughts and prayers.

I want to go the same way, ....................but I ain't ready yet..

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I don’t think using humor in a tragic situation can come too soon. If you can make someone in pain smile or chuckle. How can that possibly be a bad thing? Or even saying funny things to help yourself through dark times. It’s a way of coping and keeping your chin up. A smile and a laugh can’t come fast enough when you are hurting. I don’t think it’s insensitive. Because what is the alternative? To cry in your beer? That's not going to help or change anything.

Bad things happen and we all have had to deal with that. I think our lost loved ones would rather see us happy than sad. I know that if I passed that I would want to see the people in my life happy.

Except my ex wife. Screw her.

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Sitting on the square in Mt. View Arkansas with my wife. Got a belly full of Tommy’s Famous Pizza and waiting on the band to fire up. The band is a bunch of guys from my hometown just down the road.

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Ripped the mustang apart to get it ready for paint. I have less than a month to get body work and paint done so I can attend the biggest car show in the area.

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Today I had a friend with a box blade on his tractor come by and spread some road base I had delivered. I got washed out back on July 3rd and again on July 31st and have been waiting to fix it in case we were to get more rains like in July

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Took a ride needed some down time .

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Man that is ambitious good luck. Make sure to show us pics when it’s done. Wish mine would have only taken a month not sat in paint jail for almost 3 years

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Is that a Road Glide? Youngest and several of his friends have just bought Harleys. I've been eyeing the stripped down hot rod versions. These kids are a bad influence on my life.

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Yes ,I bought it before the Street Glide frenzy when Glids were regarded as the red head stepchild .Only Harley can strip something down and charge more for it.

Side note both my touring bikes have frame mounted fairings . Much more stable at speed and in cross winds. My other bike is a Goldwing

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was doing some rock climbing with the dawgs the other day....didn't expect the dawgs to come down the way they did though
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holy jeebus...here comes Rumble right down the side of the rocks
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can see his skid marks as he came down......
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....and it was pretty steep, and about 12 feet or so of vertical. he practically fell off the side of it....
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last ride wit the quad i had a stick come thru my grille and almost punched a hole in my rad.
so i brought a piece of 18 ga perforated home from work and fixed the situation
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decided to fix my fr bumper while at it. bashed the dents as good as i could with the BFH, then weld and grind, more weld and grind, then repeat 5 or 6 more times 'till they were round again, then some new bedliner sprayed on it
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If I came down that, I would leave skid marks too... :lol:

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What do you work at , that steel looks like hammer mill screen ???

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Finished up the bathroom in the rental

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You do really nice work!

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Thanks I try . It was faster and cheaper to do this rather than tile .

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Oh, yeah! I tiled a shower about 30 YA, so much fun. I hired the tile job in our master bath, this time ('04). Well, the wife did. I was out of town making the money, at the time

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Renters tend to abuse stuff so the fast ez way is best

I still do tile but only where I live . I did this a while ago still has a shower curtain and no sink but I'll get to it some day :lol:

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Sorry for your loss Paul. Keep you chin up. Sounds like you have a good attitude.

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Got 22 tons of gravel delivered and the truck got stuck in the mud . Had to dig out the gravel behind the the dump so he could back up onto the gravel then I put gravel down and got him out . I did some spreading but the sky opened up and hasn’t stopped . Hope to have the garage up soon

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It sure did rain. It's a good thing the truck was delivering gravel so you had plenty of gravel to help get him out from delivering gravel.

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We had training rain it just kept coming hard. Got a little water in the basement

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Send that rain out west. We need it here. ;)

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We're way above the average rainfall. Seems the country flopped and were getting Seattle weather every other day it's raining

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Amen to that.

The lake is getting low and there's another fire here. Rain would be welcomed.

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We would love to send it your way. It is getting ridiculous. Supposed to blow over us today and then have a nice weekend.

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And we would love to receive it! A nice weekend for us would be a nonstop drenching downpour. Of course, after the fires, that would also mean mudslides, rockslides, debris slides, trees on the road, clogged culverts, roads washed out..... Gotta be careful what I ask for! Maybe off-n-on showers for a couple weeks.....

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Got the frame up . Going to get the 4x4s for the retaining wall today

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Did some firewood then finished the retaining wall . Need another 10 or so tons of gravel.

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Mark, what size building is that? I’ve been contemplating something similar with a concrete floor.

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22ft wide 24 deep and 12 at the ridge . This is a Rhino brand pretty much a commercial canopy. I’ll tell ya the metal pipe is heavy gage steel . Was actually difficult for two people to upright each truss.

I am eventually going to pour a slab for now it will just be for storage .

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My wife and I went for a morning ride in the convertible and breakfast. Little town about 30 miles away. The cafe had the typical group of locals that eye ball you as you come in the cafe. Great food. They must of had a good weekend because they were out bacon and hash browns. Had to settle for eggs over easy and patties.
The weather was great. Mid 60's in the morning and mid 70's late morning. Fantastic convertible weather.

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Got the ends up . Pain in the butt working by myself but I did it. Love how the directions say average time to assemble is 4 hours ya if your on blacktop or concrete and have done a few hundred .

Need to let the sun relax the canvas so I can tighten it up a bit then put on the main cover

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today i mowed grass and then washed and waxed the Mustang,treated the leather seats and vacuumed out,going tomorrow to the Annapolis Valley (farm country) to pick a few bags of apples.ought to be a fun day.i can almost taste the apple pie.

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Today I read my brothers will. It was an eye opener. It was written by a man that knew that his days were numbered. His death may have come as a shock to us. But he knew. He just put on a happy face and no one knew. He didn't want to burden anyone. According to him everything was fine. All sunshine and rainbows. But that wasn't the truth. He was gravely ill. And he was very good at covering it up.

Me? I'd be b!tching and screaming like a stuck pig. He never said a word.

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Wow. Not sure what I would do, but I think I would let my loved ones know

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My wife decided it was a good time to rip out the carpet out of our boys' room so I could lay down some laminate in there. I knew it was coming. She bought some lightly used stuff removed from a sold remodeled house this spring. It is currently stored in the covid hut I built for the kids last year. It will be hard for them to use that this winter if this is still full of flooring. And if anyone is using it for storage, it'll be me. :lol: I'll just make a mini man cave out of it. Haha

On Sunday I got all but one small row done in the boys' room. Monday my wife decided she hated the kitchen floor and we should replace it too. :uhmk: Yeah, I also knew this was coming. :mm: I laid down some peel and stick tile in there last fall and it sure didn't last. The stuff stuck just fine but it chips easy and looked awful. :mm:

I cheated when I laid that stuff down and left the original layer of laminate vinyl and the foam that was there. It was laid down first then everything set on top of it. This time I ripped out all the old and scrapped the floor. It's all done now except for trimming the trim below the cabinets.

Next is the gate for the stairs leading to upstairs she wants made. I asked her, "I really can't do this stuff in winter lady?" :lol:

That reminds me about the Blackstone she got too....... She purchased one online and it was only $100. I thought it was very strange but I didn't say anything. Maybe I am learning. :smoke: Needless to say it never showed up. My wife knew my Dad had one he hadn't used for a long while so she has me hit him up about it. He ended up selling it to us and that meant olé Ryan was wire wheeling the top of this unit so it could be used. I even did the bottom and then painted the bottom and top edges with high heat paint to try to keep it from rusting back. 8-10hrs later she was able to season it. No wonder I can't get any work of my own done. :waah: She loves cooking on it and she can cook things faster on it so it wasn't all bad.

When I picked up wood for the gate project, I had to cringe. No wonder wood is so expensive here. Or, this has to be part of it. They ship this stuff in from New Zealand? That can't be cheap. There most likely was no shortage the last half a year. The stuff was probably on ships waiting to be off loaded and delivered.

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Honey-do x 10! You work fulltime, right? Busy busy. I see lumber marked made in Sweden and now New Zealand? I'd like to travel there, always did. I even have a friend who moved there to stay with and be taken around. He's a great sportsman and very adventurous. But... I can't justify the travel cost. Now I'm really bummed. Lumber can afford it but I can't :lol:

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We have a (5) burner Pit Boss griddle at the lake house and a (2) burner at the BIG house. Absolutely love those things. A couple of weeks ago I cooked (4) 1.5+ inch thick tenderloin steaks and they were better than any five star restaurant I have been. The weekend before I cooked chicken fried rice. When at the lake, we can cook breakfast for (15) and all eat at the same time.

We also have a Traeger pellet smoker. Last weekend I asked The Queen where she wanted to eat to celebrate our 38th wedding anniversary...she said we can't beat what we can fix here. So, I smoked us a tenderloin and lobster dinner. There just aren't the right words to describe how good that was.

BTW: At $ 32.00/lb for tenderloin around here, I have been using up meat we vacuum packed and froze a few months ago. The damn price of meats might make me go vegetarian :0

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Wow they make wood now instead of growing it . :lol: