Coffee 7-9-11

Yeah it was actually fun ... but only the southern part. I have a new found hatred for the north now ... even deeper, & stronger than before.

More pics on their way!

Here they come! Watch out!

One more I couldn't fit ... and some videos too!

Yep, I paid $3.43 in Pa lasat week & came back home to $3.77 friggin NYS taxes suk--like .30 cents a gall. or some such stupid figure

Yep - gas has already gone up 8 cents a gallon since I got back from the trip!

Those white lines are going by awful fast....

Glad you had a safe trip Smitty. They gave you a check? Why didn't THEY go to the bank & get cash?

Freakin' crazy drivers.... I've always had this idea of a big hydraulic spatula that comes from under my van. *flip!* There goes another idiot into the median. <evil grin>

Get me some day old coffee Freddy.

This weekend was the annual mowing of the lawn. I still don’t know where I put the car but I found seven cinder blocks, two half tow straps, and a ½” drive socket set.

Other than mow grass I have a few raspberries and blueberries to pick today. The red raspberry crop is very good this year and I just saw that the Encore raspberries have there summer buds starting so by the time I finish all the early berries the late ones will be soon ready.

I see everyone else is having fun from getting AC to making babies, working on cars and hauling cars. SMITTY I would have done 84 – 81 – 77 to Columbia. Even taking other routes lets face it, traffic sucks! People just got to go and especially on the weekend.

Have a good week.

Wood'nCoal wrote:Those white lines are going by awful fast....

Yeah, they always do that for some reason ...

gaw wrote:.... SMITTY I would have done 84 – 81 – 77 to Columbia. .....

That's the future plan. NEVER will I be found on 95 again as long as I'm breathing. My parents will be moving down that way eventually. Probably would have already been there had it not been for dad's mildly detached retina that he needed surgery for. Going to take over a month for his vision to recover. Guess they injected a gas bubble to keep the eye shape correct while it heals. Until it dissipates his vision will be bad. But anyway, that will be the route I take for the move & for visits. If I never have my fillings rattled loose by the Cross Bronx Expressway again it will be too soon!!

Freddy wrote:Glad you had a safe trip Smitty. They gave you a check? Why didn't THEY go to the bank & get cash?

Thanks Freddy. I guess the reason was that the owner, who is still serving in Iraq, wanted to make sure I got the cash & nobody had any "sticky fingers" along the way. His cousin probably didn't want to be walking around with that much cash either. No hassles at the bank at all on my end ... which I'm not used to. Any time you go to a bank in MA with no account - let alone being from out of state - you get MAJOR hassles, along with many fees for the "service" of the bank cashing their own check. I found PA to be more normal in that regard. Most states are. MA is it's own little kingdom unto itself that not many could understand without being born here ...

samhill wrote:Morning all, I'll just grab a coffee to go & then off to a Sat. auction, don't know why I bother sometimes seems whatever I want won't come up till near the end & someone always seems to want it more. Oh well that's life, all I`m going for is a lawn roller maybe being the rainy season seems to be over there won't be much interest. Hope everyone has a happy & safe day.
Just a thought Lisa, don't know how hot those tin tiles will get or what temp the liquid nails is good for but you may want to check.

Thanks for reminding me of that. The tile company's website says that it's good for heat up to 400* - we are following the installation directions for kitchen splash backs and around kitchen stoves/ovens. We have only reached that temperature once on the body of the stove and that was by accident. I'd be surprised if that area behind the stove gets anywhere around there. We are trying to find a high temperature clear sealant for the surface of the tiles though. We like the unfinished look but want to protect the metal from rust. I didn't see one from Stove Bright but maybe I just missed it. If anyone knows of any off hand please let me know. Thanks again, Lisa

Well, my Saturday wasn't quite as 'interesting' as Smitty's. I flew south to the DR. Dominican Republic late Friday, we were significantly delayed due to all the weather south of and over NYC. But we arrived back in JFK at 0700, only 15 minutes behind schedule.. I cleared customs, then cabbed it to LaGuardia, caught the 0900 Delta flight to DTW. Got in my car to drive home,, on the drive I get a phone call,, friends tellin me I HAVE to stop by and go for a 'boatride' which is 'friendspeak' for drinks and hours on the water... I was a zombie.. but got home around 5pm, and had a quick 90th Birthday dinner for my Mom's live-in friend.. Oh, man,, 90 years and going strong.. I hope I'm moving as well if/when I reach that age.

Today I'm moving the 24 tons of pea coal that showed up Thursday night.. the trucker wasn't real inventive about getting backed up close, so the pile is out on the apron instead of having flowed back into the bin like the last load did.. But it's here and I'll get it under cover and keep it from freezing come winter..
That's what is important..

Back to the tracktor. and the 90* heat.

Greg L

SMITTY wrote:Yeah it was actually fun ... but only the southern part. I have a new found hatred for the north now ... even deeper, & stronger than before.

More pics on their way!

Here they come! Watch out!

Smitty, with all your dislike of Mass. it seems to have given you a pretty good education. Your posts are witty, and informative. I think somewhere inside you is a wonderful book waiting to come out.

"Teacher" Annie Sullivan was also a product of Mass. When in 1882 a newspaper editorial called Mass. "the cradle of liberty" she commented that it was "the cradle that rocked it to sleep".

Took the MoMo for a ride today. Ended up at Bill's Old Bike Barn near Bloomsburg.
If your in the area and love old stuff by the bundle, this is the place. Five bucks is
well worth it for anybody that like bikes and old crap. He has a bunch of base burners
in excellent condition.
http://www.billsbikebarn.com/index.php?pageid=1

Greg is that Harmony coal?

franco b wrote: .... "the cradle that rocked it to sleep".

Very true comment! And that was over 100 years ago.

Yeah everyone tells me I should write a book. I've had an interesting life so far.

tsb wrote:Took the MoMo for a ride today. Ended up at Bill's Old Bike Barn near Bloomsburg.
If your in the area and love old stuff by the bundle, this is the place. Five bucks is
well worth it for anybody that like bikes and old crap. He has a bunch of base burners
in excellent condition.
http://www.billsbikebarn.com/index.php?pageid=1

I'll have to check that place out next time I'm out that way. Nice place there!

Wow Greg that's alot of coal there! I can imagine the heat with the sun beating down on all that blackness ...

Greg! Good lookin' black gold you have there! Yeeehaaaa!

Wow, what a hot weekend. The yard sale kept my wife busy. Her friend Eloise came to help, but she wasn't really needed so Eloise said to me, "Let's put some solar panels up". OK... she's such a worker. A Northern girl, brought up on a potato farm she's not afraid to do anything. Mind you, she's scared of heights, but just because your scared doesn't mean you don't so something! Saturday we got 7 panels up and Sunday we finished a string of thirteen. We'd have done more, but it was so freakin' hot. I had a beach towel folded in half and even with that as a pad I could not stay seated on the shingles. When I grabbed a bolt from the box I had to play "hot potato" with it. Even the nuts and washers were almost too hot to handle. Come just after noon we had half the panels done & I called it quits. Just too hot. Eloise was willing to keep working, but I was all done. I was afraid if we kept going that we'd get dizzy & make a serious mistake. We got off the roof & I energized the panels. We started making power! From that point on, the AC was blasting & the fridge was running, yet we not only did not buy any electricity, we sent 4 KWH's out to the grid for credit!

OK.... time to do some upholstery. Hope you have a super week!