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Jumped on a flight this morning in Durango and flew to Denver. Went to the Donkeys game with my eldest daughter. Sitting on the train headed from union station back to the airport to get back on a plane and be in bed by 11… if our plane isn’t delayed :lol:

By the way, can anyone guess that hat I’m rocking??

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You guys look better right side up....:).. She's cuter than you either way though. Looks like you are having fun!

It must be a Chevyland hat.

LockDoc

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Paul, I'm glad to hear you dodged that one. That could have been the low point in everyone's day. And there wouldn't have been any way to prove that the trailer lights were out at that point. Even worse if the horse's lights were out...

57taskforce, I'm with Lock Doc. I'm guessing that is a Chevyland hat.

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Checked my game cameras......got some pretty cool pics of some smaller bucks fighting.
https://i.ibb.co/54rFLRM/STC-0135.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/W359kzY/STC-0134.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/4SbY7Bk/STC-0133.jpg

One of these showed up when a bigger buck was there and he didn't want to fight with him. :)
https://i.ibb.co/qgqB3vY/STC-0226.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/nQm7tQF/STC-0228.jpg

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Finished up the cherry bowl . Kiln worked great from 25% water to 12% in a week . Let it stabilize for a few days to the house humidity then finished it. Used BLO for a finish got the old hand made look I wanted

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I went looking in our storage box for some Outlaw wheels I bought about 20 years ago. I have been dreading it but decided today was the day. I opened the roll up door, turned my hat around and got after it. Right near the roll up door was a full set of blasted & primed truck rallyes I've been saving on. After I picked up and moved nearly everything in that storage container, more than once mind you, I found my other set of wheels on the floor, covered up, in the very back of the container... What a deal. Now where are those center caps and chrome lug nuts I know I have somewhere? So now I went looking in the shop. Sure enough, top shelf. I know everything should be in that one box cause that's where I put them. Nope. Multiple boxes on multiple shelves and an old tool box later I believe I have everything I had, at one time, saved in one location.. I am whooped!

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Nice. I like that handmade look
If you had any doubt about using those, I bet the doubt is gone now! :lol: Cool era-correct look. Remember the five-hole wheels (forget name) for 5-lug and 6 hole for 6-lug with the rivets from late-80s to early 90s? I was going to get those for my '90 Blazer when it was new, but ran into a great deal on 10" turbines for that retro look.
They were dirt cheap because they were the last four they had with mixed lug nut style, one was mag-style (shank/washer) and three chamfered like steel wheels. They all looked the same when mounted. I ran into problems when someone else was R&Ring them, like when buying tires. I boiught a set at Sears and took advantage of free rotations, One time was a nightmare, so I bought the exact size grill bit and bored the three out to accept the mag-style to end up with a matched set

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today and for a few days while my engine castings for my truck,were at the machine shop,i decided to built a couple things for Mrs.Mud.1.a couple years ago,i built her a "bird house' bench i call it after she saw one in a lady's yard and she tried to buy it.i went on a mission to find some barn boards and i built her one.today i finished up a "bird house" section of something that looks like a picket fence with a bird house on the top of every board,then i had a letter "M' with our name in it,cut out of metal and mounted in the middle.she has flower gardens all over the place here at home so i imagine,she'll plant it in one of her gardens in the spring.i also cut a slab and mounted it on top of the cast iron base of an old Singer sewing machine.it'll probably go downstairs in our B&B unit with a lamp or something?Merry Christmas everyone.

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Very nice!

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I might have become a seamstress if I knew I could get a Singer sewing machine with dual exhaust!

Great job on those projects, they are fun to see. I hope that Mrs. Mud1 finds herself highly pleased!

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thank you sir,all the best.Greg

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Ha,maybe you missed your calling,those dual exhaust,big block sewing machines are the best.this stuff i built has not yet been discovered this morning but it will,and i hope it's a hit.i need all the brownie points i can score??all good,she'll love it when i take out to the shop to see what i've up to.all the best.Greg

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that's a wonderful idea on the decorative fence. The gifts we make are the best. I'm sure she will be very pleased. And I thought the M stood for Mud :rolleyes:

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thank you sir.she just saw it and was very happy with.the name should be Mud cause i'm usually in trouble with something??take care.

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Last weekend bought a conx and had it delivered. Moved some snow and spread some base so it was easier for him to get it where we wanted it.

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Moved 30 wheelbarrow loads of oak and hickory . Ash was already stacked this is for the 03/04 season .

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Mark, I can't tell ya how many times I've wished I had access to wood like you do. :)

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And the energy to load, cut and stack all of it.

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Where I live hardwoods are the norm . I’m going next week to get some more white oak and a hickory both dead blowdowns . I very rarely cut live trees last time was when the horse farm needed a few acres cleared .

I’ve gotten slower but I still enjoy it .

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You've cut so much wood ahead you are now cutting it for the past?? Or did you mean 23/24 season? :lol:

I went on a hike on the C&O Canal Towpath upriver a bit from Harpers Ferry, WVA with my sis and b.i.l. My sis and I have done that section a couple times recently. We have been curious about a spot that appeared to be a mining site on the other side of the (dry now) canal. There is a man-made cave in solid rock, quarried area into an anticline that has clay layers mixed in deep below the surface, what looks like an early iron furnace, and this time we noticed a huge ruins of a concrete foundation. These things are all strung along the canal. I've tried to find info on what it was before, but this time I searched I used the right terms and found out what it was. It was a manganese mine, trench mine and shaft. The cave is the entrance to the shaft, now filled. the concrete ruins were from the hydraulic cement plant and what I thought was an iron furnace was a lime kiln. This was in operation when the canal was as well and was serviced by it. First opened in 1876 when the shaft went down 23'. Then reopened in 1908 when they went to 60'. Pretty neat to learn about one of the many early American operations that existed along this historic canal, before there were much of any good roads at all. The trees are so big it's hard to imagine how it was back then.

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Could be 2103 firewood :lol:

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Shovel this nasty white stuff all day. I'm tired.

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We are supposed to get some the next couple of days but not near that much....:(

LockDoc

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Yesterday and again today removed snow.

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Not but a few brief flurries about a month ago here, so far. These storms coming across are bringing rain chances at some point of each day this week. It will come, but not yet anyway.
The mid-Atlantic can be an odd place for weather. Truly an "If you don't like the weather today, wait till tomorrow" kind of place. We can get warm moist air drifting up from the Gulf of Mexico, we can get what the weathermen call an Alberta Clipper, not to mention the polar vortex events in more recent years. We get eastern air currents the drift marine air into us where it is damp and cool for days, much like the NW coast. We get nor'easters where the eastern air flow combines with a northwestern cold front and that is the recipe for our largest snows. Also get big snows if a NW cold front mixes in with and overpowers a gulf air flow. Sometimes the gulf air flow overpowers a weaker NW front and it might just sleet or freezing rain. We truly get it all when it comes to precip. It seems to happen a lot where we get our driest crisp and coldest air and clear skies for days, only to have the gulf air warm it up and rain. I hate that about here. I'd rather have snow than 40-degree rain.

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that's awful interesting stuff,especially when you know the story.here where i live was once a booming coal mine town,this whole area for miles around.you can't walk anywhere in the woods without seeing bright orange signs posted on trees,warning of open holes in the ground,left over from the coal mines.the problem was,most of the men here worked in the mines,then came home and dug what they called a "bootleg pit" anywhere they figured there was coal.there's holes all over the place.i did just see a drawing of a commercial coal mine that wasn't far from the house,in about 1900,the drawing showed all the shafts,they went down 3300 feet and turned out and worked under the ocean floor??can't imagine?i thought truckin was tough?that's when men were men.

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My in laws lived in Wilkes barre pa ,my first wifes grandfather worked the mines . One of the shafts went under his house (coal company owned the ground ) was great for him as he dig a small tunnel to the mine . He would go in the basement and go to work. He also never had to buy coal for the furnace.

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Went to get new tires on the Dodge and came out to freezing rain . Had a pretty good layer on everything

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That is what it is looking like here right now. We got a little snow first but it didn't stick to the vehicles and now they are covered in ice. It is still doing the freezing rain thing.... I hope it quits soon.

LockDoc

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Mark, did the rain freeze then you put the window down halfway?

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My my wallet is $ 1400 dollars lighter . 4 new wrangler LT tires on my Dodge .

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Yup it was crusted on the truck so I ran it for a while to warm it . Rolled the window down and pushed it off with the snow brush.

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And it suppose to be the same tonight about an inch of snow then changing to freezing rain on top of that ,could bring down some limbs and therefore power lines.

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And more wood for you. ;)

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Never seen anything like that! Stay warm, be safe!

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I hate freezing rain. There is nothing you can do but watch it build up and hope it stops or warms up. It will take powerlines down at 1/4". Did I mention I hate it? I've seen a lot of concrete sidewalk ruined by trying to chop it off with digging bars, axes, whatever. It could be melted off the next day.

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I spent the afternoon cleaning on these 20 year old wheels. Back side and front. I got 1 & 1/2 done. :thud:

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Looking good.

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I finished up the last of my christmas ornaments the other day. A couple ladies from work ordered them. And I finished up the first 2 carbon fiber Radio control car bodies for straight line record runs for a friend in TX. Supposed to do 150-160 mph so I'm told.

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If it looks like that at your place, I definitely don't want to go to my cabin....:lol: