Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

Fun parade downtown, weather held up, sunshine felt good. Lots of floats and local businesses, marching band, and of course tractors...

 

[daugen]

Hawaii tests nuclear warning sirens - CNN Video

David, did you hear the siren?

Haven't we paid about 8 gazillion dollars for a missile defense system to shoot this stuff down?

I can just see the military coming back saying this justifies militarizing space, which apparently the whole world
agreed to not doing. Killer satellites. Kill the missile before it kills you. Fair amount of logic there.
At least David is not on the main island. Of course, one never knows how their aim is.

I thought the mayor's comment on our President was a jaw dropper. Unfortunately a lot of folks share that opinion.
Not good for morale.

What is good for morale is getting on my tractor and that isn't going to happen because a big rain cloud came over,
proverbially raining not on my parade, which finished nicely but on my leaf blowing which just might not get done now.
I doubt we'll get much rain.
One present to wrap, need to find the keys to Toppop's new ZR1, wrap those up (we'll see if he's paying attention...)
and the wine bottles came nicely packaged in their own little festive totes with sturdy handles.
On to my lists...

Today's parade was fun, glad I went. Years ago it was me driving one of those firetrucks in my small home town in PA. Try to keep your spacing, watch out for little kids and dogs
leaping off curbs, your eyes are going six ways at once while still waving and smiling away. Those little kids used to make me a nervous nellie driving the big tanker down our Main Street when the town was packed like today. What was different and I've never seen this was that candy was being thrown out constantly, amazing amount of candy today, looked like New Orleans at Mardi Gras, no kidding. Everyone had bags and bags of the stuff. Bags of candy in the floats. Bags in the pickup trucks, bags on the fire trucks. After awhile the kids couldn't pick it up fast enough and darted back a second time. Finally the parents dragged them back to safety. Someone donated what must have been a semi trailer of candy. And i doubt it was sugar free.
Is that a Christmas tradition anywhere else where everyone throws candy into the crowds? A true dental disaster.

 

[ronjhall]

Hawaii tests nuclear warning sirens - CNN Video

David, did you hear the siren?

Haven't we paid about 8 gazillion dollars for a missile defense system to shoot this stuff down?

I can just see the military coming back saying this justifies militarizing space, which apparently the whole world
agreed to not doing. Killer satellites. Kill the missile before it kills you. Fair amount of logic there.
At least David is not on the main island. Of course, one never knows how their aim is.

I thought the mayor's comment on our President was a jaw dropper. Unfortunately a lot of folks share that opinion.
Not good for morale.

What is good for morale is getting on my tractor and that isn't going to happen because a big rain cloud came over,
proverbially raining not on my parade, which finished nicely but on my leaf blowing which just might not get done now.
I doubt we'll get much rain.
One present to wrap, need to find the keys to Toppop's new ZR1, wrap those up (we'll see if he's paying attention...)
and the wine bottles came nicely packaged in their own little festive totes with sturdy handles.
On to my lists...

Today's parade was fun, glad I went. Years ago it was me driving one of those firetrucks in my small home town in PA. Try to keep your spacing, watch out for little kids and dogs
leaping off curbs, your eyes are going six ways at once while still waving and smiling away. Those little kids used to make me a nervous nellie driving the big tanker down our Main Street when the town was packed like today. What was different and I've never seen this was that candy was being thrown out constantly, amazing amount of candy today, looked like New Orleans at Mardi Gras, no kidding. Everyone had bags and bags of the stuff. Bags of candy in the floats. Bags in the pickup trucks, bags on the fire trucks. After awhile the kids couldn't pick it up fast enough and darted back a second time. Finally the parents dragged them back to safety. Someone donated what must have been a semi trailer of candy. And i doubt it was sugar free.
Is that a Christmas tradition anywhere else where everyone throws candy into the crowds? A true dental disaster.

Come to Milford, MI. for parades. Lots of candy thrown out to the kids. Not only Christmas parade. Memorial Day, Independence Day and Veterans Day parades.

 

[Trails End]

Come to Milford, MI. for parades. Lots of candy thrown out to the kids. Not only Christmas parade. Memorial Day, Independence Day and Veterans Day parades.

Ayup!! Same up here in New Hampshire! :licking:

 

[daugen]

Well I guess I just have to go to more parades. :thumbsup:

 

[ronjhall]

Well I guess I just have to go to more parades. :thumbsup:

Don’t forget Easter parade.

 

[txdon]

Same here at Texas parades. It started with MardiGras throwing trinkets and now every parade has to throw. It is very dangerous because the kids dart out into the street.



"While parade accidents are generally rare, the three fatal incidents underscore the potential dangers accompanying such events.

. . .As communities across the country hold holiday parades this time of year, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is calling for localities to adopt more stringent safety measures.
“We want to really get organizations and communities that want to do parades to think about the risks ahead of time so that they can be managed,” said Robert Molloy, deputy director of the NTSB’s Office of Highway Safety.

Some of the more common parade hazards include participants falling off floats or performers being run over. Children running out into streets to retrieve candy also pose safety risks, Molloy said."

 

[toppop52]

They stopped doing throw outs here in Salisbury, but surrounding towns vary.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Candy throw out is a big people draw. If they ban it, parades will dwindle.

 

[daugen]

Buckeye, how are you feeling?

That welding work of RS's is artwork. Very nice. So out of my league.

back to doing wash.