Good morning!!!!

[LS Tractor Owner]

Don---"In Costa Maya we took multi part shore excursion, making a Salsa (dip), learning the Salsa (dance), tequila tasting and Beach excursion." ----
Sounds like you were really giving the new knee a run for the money!
Wow! Your knee looks great!
Mine still gets twice the size of the good one. I will be interrogating my doc on Thursday.....

Gale, there is one of the old ones out here in Albuquerque. Two tiny windows, one to order, next to get the goodies. There are plenty of new ones, but the one has withstood the test of time. They even play songs from the 50's and 60's on outside speakers.

Are you going to get the boyfriend to help you?
That was always a good way to scope out potential suitors for my daughter.

Not a chance!..... he's an absolute idiot. She's 36, a nurse practitioner. He is her "boy toy". She's too old for me to match-make for her.... I have tried in the past. All I can say is she is the one to normally make any decisions.

 

[RoyJackson]

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Roatan pier.

Wonder if there's enough lifeboats for the passengers and crew?

 

[sodamo]

Ours stay open all year. My wife would be in withdrawal without a blizzard fix.

Mine as well.

 

[sodamo]

I think Murray Kentucky has one of the last dairy Queens with no restrooms no inside seating. I'm 71 and it's the same block building all of my life.

Neither do ours in Hilo and Waimea. Likely because they are in mall/food court.

 

[daugen]

I think Murray Kentucky has one of the last dairy Queens with no restrooms no inside seating. I'm 71 and it's the same block building all of my life.

It wasn't a DQ Gale but a local shop in Washington NC, been there simply forever, looked just like it did in late 40's. stark white concrete block building with several large walk ups. Big menus on the walls. You milled around outside until your number was called. They made really good soft serve ice cream. Nothing better on a hot day as it melts almost as fast as you can eat it.
Of course, you had to be a pig and order a double first....
Order a triple cone on a hot day, well good luck. The ants will love you.

Roy, they may technically have enough but get too much tilt on those floating cities and I wonder how well the davits will work.
Can't ask grandmom to shinny down those hawser lines...
I gave my next older brother a SPOT satellite receiver, basically a portable epirb, for his sailing in the BVI's.
I'd borrow it back for any cruise I took.
Plus I cruise with a handheld VHF. Fun to listen in to captain talking to ports.

Will the maps on an Iphone 12 show where you are in the islands? I used to travel with a portable garmin but maybe with this watch
that's now obsolete.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I think Murray Kentucky has one of the last dairy Queens with no restrooms no inside seating. I'm 71 and it's the same block building all of my life.

I know of 1 in PA like that, still has outside walk up window. Although I haven’t been by it in awhile, might not be open any more.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

From street view, looks like it has a drive thru.

 

[daugen]

there have been some interesting stories popping up about Russians and the megayachts.
More than ten days ago Putin yanked his megayacht out of a German refit yard and had it brought back to Russia half finished.
I just read today a Ukrainian engineer on a Russian oligarch's super yacht, whose company makes weapons for the Russian military, went
nuts when he saw the planes and helicopters shooting rockets at civilians in Kiev and he went and tried to scuttle his owner's boat.
First he opened the main sea valves, but he could only get to one, and he shut down the fuel so the generators would not run and keep the bilge pumps
running. So the boat was halfway sunk and heavily damaged.
The man was a patriot who simply had too much.

had a good trip to Costco, got my membership card and an audiology appt for my ears.

 

[txdon]

Wonder if there's enough lifeboats for the passengers and crew?

Don’t know, but they look small from 10 decks up. They were having practice drills. They each hold about 150 we have tendered in them on another cruise.

 

[Bird]

One of my buddies is moving to Plano tx this week. He was my backup for streaming our worship services, so now I get to train a new one.

I graduated from High School in Plano in 1958. 58 of us graduated in 1958. Back then there were only two schools; grades 1 to 6 at the "grade school" and 7 to 12 at the "high school". And during my last year in high school, the postmaster had to get permission from the USPS regional office to give me a temporary appointment as a mail carrier before I was 18 years old because he was short handed. "Normally" three carriers delivered all the mail walking door to door, and another guy delivered the parcel post in the one and only vehicle the post office had; a leased 1948 Jeep panel wagon with no driver's door and no muffler, but there came a day when two of us had to do it all, and we got'er done.

Plano had only a volunteer fire department, one fire truck, and the town had one town marshall and one night watchman.

My Dad & I opened the first auto parts store in Plano, and we had a Mobil Oil service station, AND we were the bus station for Greyhound AND Continental Trailways.

And I now live in Corinth, a town that didn't even exist back then. Everything has sure changed around here in the last 65 years.

 

[daugen]

Bird, the stories that could be told of all those folks passing through

local disposal company just sent email saying costs were up, up etc and expect significant rate increases.

Sure am glad I locked in fuel oil pricing at 2.69; thought that was terrible based on year before but I would hate to be paying
spot prices for heating oil now. Real gotcha.

 

[Popgadget]

I think Murray Kentucky has one of the last dairy Queens with no restrooms no inside seating. I'm 71 and it's the same block building all of my life.

Dublin Pa has one like that. It’s been there for 40 years that I know of. It’s closed for the winter as well.

 

[Engineer42]

. No drive thru or bathroom. It’s been there over 50 years.

 

[PJSprog]

If you look closely you can see the ambulance heading for our ship. One guest had a heart attack. She survived but did not have travel insurance and her family was going to drive to Mexico to pick her up. This was in Costa Maya.

My Wife got a call from her aunt this weekend that one of her (aunt's) cousins was on vacation in Puerto Rico last week when his wife had a heart attack and died. He is the funeral director in our hometown who took care of my Wife's father back in December. Those kind of events are stressful enough on their own. I can't imagine going through that thousands of miles from home and in a different country.

 

[Looking4new]

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From street view, looks like it has a drive thru.

That is so 1950s.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 25ºF for the start, clear sky light breeze. Light to moderate wind, mostly clear sky some high cirrus, and high temp was 65ºF, DP 16ºF. Putter this morning, took wife to lunch and grocery shopping, then out for bike ride, no nap Did finish up wipe of old computer and OS reinstall, time to find it new home.
Roy sounds like a good day to have stayed home.
Bill if you can work out cool air in summer you have me
Bill hope trip went well
Buppies sounds like nice weather in store for you.
Drew If I made them they were mas, don't ask me why.
Paul glad trip went well nice pics, safe trip tomorrow.
Bird fishing from cruise ship, wonder how I can work that out
Drew sounds like you doing a good job of taking care of her by yourself.
Gale DQ time already?
RNG unless the driver did something to then off camera then I think it is a war crime. Hope you find your stakes.
PJ hope wife comes through surgery like a champ
Ken I thought you had a stress test about every day. hope you pass
Randy nice pic. what do you do with all that band width?
David what are you doing to which roof?
Ted have fun as body-man, hope you can get parts and help from the perpetrator
Don the pics are great, lot of activity packed in the cruise
Thomas glad you got off job after 8 hrs.
Eric sorry you are getting kids dose, hope fully there will be some rejuvenation for you.
Don glad she survived heart attack.
Don did not notice U.S. flag, don't see that very often
Don is this a test? I like pic #2 better
Drew thanks for info, glad trip to Costco good.
Bird I lived next to St Peters in St Charles County, MO. 1970Census, 500 people, 2010 census, 100K people. Did not take 65 years for that kind of change
PJ my condolences, I agree that will turn your world upside down.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, /mom recovery, living alone, Bird/aging issues/, Don/knee recovery, /mom's pipeline process, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments /MIL Covid /son's FIL death /new cancer surgeries /cataract surgery, Roy/ palpitations, /angina, Billy /wife fall, David(moss) /remodel /divorce, Buppies/surgery infection / wife head wound healing, Thomas/gout, Phil/reflux/wife's eyes, Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted/knee recovery/retirement, Doug and wife/health issues/nerve and pain/ wife's eyes /rib /brother leaving Ukraine, Ken/aunt fall injuries, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery follow up, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/injuries from fall, Paul/ wife's disc issues /dog seizure, Gale and KY/ tornado victims, Mike /5 year plan, Dennis/ brother "alligallyitus" and improving, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[sodamo]

Mostly
2 areas
Over the bedroom doorway

Over the area at far end where there will be a grill and sink

I’ll get actual pic later this week.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Had to make a payment to kubota over the phone tonight, postoffice never delivered my payment last month, that covered 3 months.
Then had to call to get a person, my online account said it was closed. Kubota guy was just as confused as me, as to why they closed my account. He has to get their IT people involved.

Due to the short month, had 2 other bills sneak up due tomorrow, so got them paid online.

Now going thru and gathering docs for the financial planner.

Then son called and talked a couple hours, so welcome to March.

Trash guy took it all. You know, when they started roadside recycling, the trash guy never reduced their rates with the 50% reduction in trash, so I don’t feel too bad putting some extra out. There’s some weeks I don’t have any, or just a bag.

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-03-01,0523

3° right now...high in the mid-30's and high probability of 1-3 inches of snow...maybe another inch after dark.

Couple webinars this morning, then I've got to complete a customer survey....so, no calls or interruptions after those couple webinars...

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temp 11 going up to 27°F. Wind E 14 gusting to 21 mph. Snow.
I don't know how much but the block heater is turned on. I will go out about 9 and check.

North Bay trip highlight was getting a new battery in my 25 year watch. I got my 'gold watch' (25 years of service) 12 years ago and am now trying for a 50 year watch. A French group owns us now, so I will probably get a kick in the azz.

Have a safe day all