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/ Good morning!!!! #211,842  
On reorg call, big boss mentioned me twice for accomplishments and even with all the changes I still report directly up to her, so no change for me, which is best outcome I could have asked for.
Reorgs can stressful for sure. I survived them and with the same company 1968 through 2012. One of the reorg events for the office I worked out of took it down from 2000 engineers to a dozen or so due to economic cycle
 
/ Good morning!!!! #211,843  
Funny coincidence, this Classic just popped up in my YouTube shorts. Greatest working-man’s film of all time.

Love that movie, have the DVD. Weird thing is, I never saw the movie until I bought the DVD a couple years ago. Always saw the "that would be nice" meme's though..
 
/ Good morning!!!! #211,844  
Had our group breakfast today instead of tomorrow. Everyone is back from vacations, just most of them have grandkid activities tomorrow. Rain on the way up, sunshine now. Got some meat at the mennonite market next door. Need to do a sams run, just don't feel like it. Long way down.....

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/ Good morning!!!! #211,845  
The return from SD wasn't too exciting.
Iowa looks like this:
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Back thru Omaha, did not stop at the bigboy again:
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Coffee kettle somewhere south of there along I29
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Crossing the Missouri once again in Kansas City

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We stayed that night south of St. Loius.
 
/ Good morning!!!! #211,846  
70°F and 0 rain

Breakfast with the Canadians a pleasant break yesterday. Got to see some of the changes made to cottage.

Got a couple hours mowing inside areas.

Gals won at H&F

Need to make a PO run this morning and some more mowing

Take the Canadians to airport this afternoon for return home. There return date uncertain as Theresa get knee replacements in 2 weeks and there return will be dependent on recovery.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day
 
/ Good morning!!!! #211,847  
Drew, I am well versed in back pain. I've got degenerative disk disease and was diagnosed in 1982. My spine is like three eggs stacked on their sides one on top of the other.
Pain pills don't help.
Back when I busted my knee in 1958, the nurses in the hospital kept me goobered up with morphine. A sure fire cure for diarrhea = morphine. Wow, that stuff will plug me up big time. So I stay away from that, too.
 
/ Good morning!!!! #211,849  
Buckeye, I like your travel post. I stayed in all the states except 3. Alaska, Florida and Maine. I will probably never get to visit those 3. Still more than most people get to see. I can add several European countries to the list. Thanks for posting your trip.
 
/ Good morning!!!! #211,851  
Afternoon all;
A blamy 70F and 80% Rh at 3:20PM today. Got a bit done this morning, installed a Retrax ProMX tonneau cover on my pickup this morning. Went with this one because I was looking for the most clearance under the cover. I have a nice 12 volt fridge/freezer that just fit under the cover on my 1500 RAM. Didn't even think about when getting this 2500, but the box itself is actually an inch shallower on the newer truck. My fridge was the same height as the bed rails and this cover seemed to have the most clearance. It might but it's still a half inch shy of working with the fridge/freezer :( damn. Then a run up for a DEX scan and now home and relaxing and catching up on my browsing.
Nice pictures Buckeye, I traveled and worked in much of the Western states. They are nice.
We went from drought to 5+inches of rain in the last day and a half.
 
/ Good morning!!!! #211,853  
Buckeye, I like your travel post. I stayed in all the states except 3. Alaska, Florida and Maine. I will probably never get to visit those 3. Still more than most people get to see. I can add several European countries to the list. Thanks for posting your trip.
Glad you enjoyed them.
Original plan was to return via the UP, and see more of the UP, and mackinaw again. Changed due to the rain up there. I try not to return the same way if I can.
Planning another trip all the way to Northwest, can skip some stuff now that we did this trip, but still takes 4-5 days each way to travel thru the fly over states..
I have 3 states to visit out west, Idaha, oregon, Nevada. Next trip destinations are Idaho, Crater Lake Oregon, Redwoods in Northern California, and something in Nevada, maybe Tahoe, CarsonCity and Virginia City. Wife wants to see Sequoias also. Wife hasn't been to Wash state or California, other than flying thru airports.
Hope to return via some national parks in Utah, and maybe repeat Durango train ride shown below, mesa Verde. Probably drive thru yellowstone and Tetons to get to Idaho, my nephew lives just on the other side of them.
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did do my Sams club run today, but not going to mow yet.
 
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/ Good morning!!!! #211,854  
Did Alaska in 1988, went to visit a good friend, and helped him move back to lower 48 so he could go to law school. He and I drove back and our wives flew back. This is Mendenhall Glacier at Juneau. We hiked a trail above it, we found out later people have been killed by grizzly bears on that trail.
Just texted this friend, he made a comment that leads me to believe he might have some health issues now, trying to find out more.

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/ Good morning!!!! #211,856  
70F clear sky with slight breeze.
Good day at work,CEO for visit asking if I need anything to continue auditing I said,but like my hours cut from 30 to 20 he reply if it fits your needs.

Afternoon just putter even took 1 kitten outside never 2 kittens at once. :eek:

Plans for the evening after dinner deck feet up wait for the critters and stars enjoying cigar.

Enjoy your evening all.
 
/ Good morning!!!! #211,857  
5pm. Two hours of sunlight left, plenty of desk work left to do. Trying to decide whether to just plow through into the evening, or take advantage of two hours of remaining sunlight to start some cutting and welding, or walnut harvesting. Not enough time to finish either effort before dark...
 
/ Good morning!!!! #211,858  
where is all this rain going?
not around here
I'm looking at ten day forecasts for NC and SC and it's rain every day.
Trying to see what kind of weather I'm going to drive in.
only deal breaker for me are the days I have to cross over the Chesapeake Bridge.
I think they shut it down for rvs at 30mph winds.
sure is pretty crossing it, holding on to wheel very tightly.

but enough rain did come down I need to mow tomorrow.
had nice lunch with my old friend, she sent me home with a plate of her
carrot muffins

days are shorter for sure
I wouldn't mind if the deer in the dark weren't such a problem
but at 5am I'm looking out saying c'mon, c'mon...
 
/ Good morning!!!! #211,860  
Drew, have you tried wildlife whistles? They work. They are only about $4.oo a pair up here.
I've found very loud cars are a better solution. In the last 20 years, I've had precisely 2 jump out in front of me, and one of those was more of an accidental tumble down a steep hill than a jump.

My wife, in her quieter cars with whistles on the same roads? Dozens per year, hundreds per decade.

Deer repellant by Flowmaster.
 

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