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Kills poison ivy.

Remind me not to get into any pissin' matches with Other Larry.
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I just read that this year was the last "Rolling Thunder" in Washington, DC. They will do local and region runs, but things got too complicated and expense I guess. This event has happened every memorial day since 1988. I never go because I'm not into the crowd thing, but being close to DC there are rides in from all the dealers and other starting points throughout, and we get to see (and hear) pack and packs of bikes riding in from all over the country. When I was driving my '72 K2500 home Memorial Day weekend on I-70 in '01 a huge pack of bikes came off of I-75, mostly Michigan plates. I-75 comes on from the left and they all came rolling by me. Took a while. They were steady rollin', but were in sight until traffic opened up. Truly rolling thunder

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The light turned yellow, just in front of him. He did the right thing, stopping at the crosswalk, even though he could have beaten the red light by accelerating through the intersection.

The tailgating woman was furious and honked her horn, screaming in frustration, as she missed her chance to get through the intersection, dropping her cell phone and makeup.

As she was still in mid-rant, she heard a tap on her window and looked up into the face of a very serious police officer. The officer ordered her to exit her car with her hands up. He took her to the police station where she was searched, finger printed, photographed, and placed in a holding cell.

After a couple of hours, a policeman approached the cell and opened the door. She was escorted back to the booking desk where the arresting officer was waiting with her personal effects. He said, "I'm very sorry for this mistake. You see, I pulled up behind your car while you were blowing your horn, flipping off the guy in front of you and cussing a blue streak at him. I noticed the 'What Would Jesus Do' bumper sticker, the 'Choose Life' license plate holder, the 'Follow Me to Sunday-School' bumper sticker, and the chrome-plated Christian fish emblem on the trunk, so naturally....I assumed you had stolen the car."

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Lol!!!

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Old Advertising.

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Aw geez now I have to worry about wheel ants. It's never ending. ......:lol:

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howdy Larry! we're heading out to the farm next wednesday, I'll be there the full time 7/3 - 7/31..

ordered two beds tuesday, new queen bed set for spare room Mrs. Bee and I use..

and new bed wood kit with stainless strips and hardware for the ochre longhorn out there :D

got the 16" rims for the longhorn from Harlow sittin' in the garage.. I'll be mounting new tires and putting those on while there too..

even got a decent set of hub caps for it around here somewhere's that I need to send out parcel..

please let me know about when you're passing through, maybe visit if you have time..

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K, I'll try to work it out.

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More advertising.

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Is that June Clever and little Beaver.?






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At least they both have their lap belts on- first thing we did when my dad bought a different car was shove the belts under the seat

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Automotive grade insecticide? Don't want to be exposing our vehicles to those nasty household grade chemicals

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And more.

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Now that brings back some memories...
When I was 5 through 7 years old we lived in Olney, Maryland. When the family would vacation, I would sleep half way to Florida up in the rear package tray when we would go see grandma at Christmas. Partly because I liked it but mainly because we had 5 kids and only 3 seats in the back. Pre SUV days. Then we upgraded to a Caprice STATION WAGON! Even better. I got to face the car behind us and stick my tongue out and try to get semis to blow the air horn!!! Good times for sure.

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mom had a 280zx in the late 70s - 80s.. I would ride an hour and a half to grandmas in the hatch :lol:

in 83 dad bought another chevy truck for mom and put a shell and carpet kit in it for me :D

went from the trunk to a cadillac :metal:

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We survived the pre-safety era. I don't remember kids dropping off like flies. I remember a lot of injuries, including me, but that was mostly because we PLAYED... AND LEARNED! Didn't have mom breathing down our neck either. I don't remember my mom, who was an outstanding mother by the way, being there when we climbed as high as we could in trees or riding our bikes down the road to the swimming hole.

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More advertising and it's from California.

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As JC Whitney would claim “higher top end, lower E.T.”

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That is a great idea in the name of safety.

Maybe it was this ad that got people started on calling a substance that will burn "inflammable", when that actually means it won't burn. The double negative "non-inflammable" would be the same as "flammable"... will burn

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Fake flames, definitely California.

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I don't know If you meant because it was fake or because it was flaming, but I laughed anyway.

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And more old advertising.

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I meant a little of both. I wasn't expecting anyone to catch that! :devil::lol::lol:

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And more from California.

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I wonder if car exhaust was ever advertised as a good sleep aid.
I wondered if you meant "more" or if it was my warped mind.

I was wondering, Other Larry, are you building your house now? Can't recall where you were at with all that. It's a shame you had to move to get away from the tree chopping maniac neighbor :lol:

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necessities packed for our trip back to the US :D

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/cgbcterip3z...50170.jpg?dl=0

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Enjoy going back home. For me it's always been going up home. That's what my mom always said going to Grandma's and Grandpa's. Then my folks moved up in the '70s. Just went for a long weekend and I'm wondering why I live down here now.

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Killer, we canceled the trip to Des Moines so I don't know where we are on socializing while you are here.

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My grandson asked his mother to bake patriotic cookies today.

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Great idea he had. He looks mighty proud and pleased with the results.

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took my 7yo back to the woods for a little shooting session..

he showparked a shell, his earpro and eyepro for a picture :)

mossberg .410 shotgun

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/yeprysuxsen...59154.jpg?dl=0

and that big wide bumper is an awesome shooting bench :metal:

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/ghm7twgpdl7...57796.jpg?dl=0

.22 browning nomad... suweeet shooter btw!

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/um3if7nq3xm...58706.jpg?dl=0

and took grandma greenhouse shoppin' earlier :D

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/99yenenjvpo...19300.jpg?dl=0

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Like.

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sure the heck coulda used your help today..

we got about 6 inches of rain 4th n 5th and driveway washed out pretty bad this time..

so bad night of 4th, neighbors had to take one of our trucks home, their sedan wouldn't make it, culvert down at the bottom of the drive was swamped a foot of water over the road..

anyways, after a little help from the longhorn, I got the 706 out today and made a bigger mess :lol:

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/4rozioyph2o...58471.jpg?dl=0

pictures don't do it justice, there's a rut washed out a foot deep on that steeper grade..

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/i1f0fvs1ucc...59181.jpg?dl=0

I took a stab at it but still need some finishing work.. at least it's passable for light vehicles again..

and fedex freight is due in monday afternoon with the longhorn bed kit :D

Mrs. Bee and kids are off to Ohio for a week to see her family so I'll work on it some more..

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/m1wnis14w00...21575.jpg?dl=0

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/7d33q0n6ars..._2478.jpg?dl=0

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/7hyzo87qrvp...59741.jpg?dl=0

had to take a break and give the kids a ride :)

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/dcf2gbo41z1..._2349.jpg?dl=0

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/5yyljbe8a6n...23681.jpg?dl=0

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Nice truck, guns, and little big tractor... and great son. I'm a red tractor fan

Looks like you are getting the full "back home" experience. Back at it second nature style. That's a heap of rain. Thunderstorms? We've had them every day for about a week. Humidity way up there. They've been hitting in the evening, 1/2" to 1" for about an hour. Last train started falling around midnight and I woke up to rain. Still raining now, which is odd for early July. And just now I'm getting thunder. Feels more like late August or September. You seldom wake up to a rainy day in summer in this area. Future radar shows it right up into noon, maybe longer. They are calling for flash flooding in my area.

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thank you! and thank you for sparing my feelings on my crappy grading :lol:

if the rain we had is heading yer way, batten down the hatches!

good luck to you and folks in its path, it sure was a doozy out here..

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Looks like a professional job to me.

If special-K didn't get flooded it was luck. From what I saw on the weather channel it looked like it went right over him.

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WE must have got hit with the tail end of what Tim looks to have gotten head on. Rained hard here all day but the sun is starting to peak out now and the water is going down. Had a couple inches sitting on the ground a little bit ago.

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Started raining around midnight and still was when I woke up. Then it really dumped it hard for another hour or so and let up. That's when my phone had an alert come across. Timing was a bit off there. My streams stayed within their banks. One across the road and one next to me. They flooded three times last summer. not this time. Must be a new alert system. Last week the same thing happened for the two counties and cloud burst I had just come through. That was a severe thunderstorm alert... and I had to agree. It sure "was" severe. My city, Frederick, at the western side of this watershed got flooded.

https://www.google.com/search?q=fred...upNOtcGlujKOsM

The pictures that look like a waterfall are Carroll Creek at Baker Park in town (where fireworks are done). That's the flood control they put in a few decades ago. Downtown usd to flood out, but there is a huge underground culvert you could put a road through and that's where it drops down. There is a gentle canal like waterway above ground with a prominad all along it

Want to hear all that again? :cool:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...TNl5M6Rj5BROQ0

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My grandson saddled his pony up yesterday.

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I see the pride and joy written all over that young mans face. ;)

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And my other grandson's team won a League Championship.