Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

My dad was a 20 year old boy on the morning of June 6, 1944, he was man by noon that day. Dad got “volunteered” to transfer from artillery to the Quartermasters about six weeks before the invasion. Their mission was to land first and preposition ammo and equipment for the main forces when they landed. Only a handful of those first LCMs made it to shore. My dad was 5’7” tall, the landing craft drivers were scared kids and stopped short of the beach. Dad stepped off the ramp and immediately sank over his head. Luckily a a tall farm boy type was right behind him and kept picking him up and shoving him forward until he could walk on the bottom. That was their first run, he made several more over the first few days, carrying equipment in and wounded out.
Thanks dad, and all your buddies, for the freedom we have today.

I know you are proud of your dad. I'm proud of him, too.

 

[Thomas]

Glad to see you posting Thomas! Sounds like everything went well.
..... well except for the restrictions. Are they temporary ?

Arc welder,med to large chain saws,back pack blower no longer can use because of plug given of to close to heart good chance will set of device.

Temporary restrictions...no driving for 3+ weeks,4+ weeks before normal duties.

 

[Thomas]

Thomas, glad everything went well and you're home! I never got all the restrictions you were told...don't think I'd like that. I was told to stay away from TIG welding due to the high frequency used for arc stabilization. I do need to set an appointment at Dartmouth to get my pacemaker checked out soon. Good luck to you!!

Pacemaker they put in me was 1 wire good for 10 years...does that sound about right.

 

[Thomas]

61F light rain mid 70's for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...2 hospital appointment,since it's on/off rainy day just putter.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[wngsprd]

67 and a beautiful sunrise a while ago..Getting hot and humid, but Mr. Weatherman says Friday will be another day to love. Maybe rain tonight...need it.

Thomas, such good news. I bet you'll start feeling so much better.

Roy, glad you're improving, and also kinda glad no one answered your question.

RNG, glad you got home before that mouse got too stinky.

Buckeye, I was hiking the A/T again yesterday and had to wait where it crosses the Skyline Drive for about 50 motorcycles to go by...that's bad traffic for up there, but nothing like what you had. Weather so was so different there...misty, cloudy, very windy, and 20 degrees cooler than when I got home. Saw 14 thru hikers, talked to several...all left Springer in early March, except one solo lady of about 40 years old...I congratulated her on having left a month after the young hikers, but already catching up with them. I'll try to post a couple of pix.

Mowed everything when I got home, and now need to buy more diesel...but not sure my credit card limit is that high. One Exxon station (a small old-timey place) went up 35 cents a gallon between the time I went by it in the morning and when I came back. I guess the owner heard the other station in town was that high.

My wife likes to hike with me, but her hip was hurting, so when she doesn't go, I choose long, steep hikes. I knew she was working in the flower border most of the day, so brought home a fried chicken dinner from the best chicken place I've tried in a while...and the sides are great...this town has a history of the old trains stopping in town around lunch time, and the towns people bringing chicken and fixin's out to the passengers. So, the town has an annual Fried Chicken Festival each year. I think it's in October this year...I believe it is in my future.

 

[wngsprd]

Columbine were showing off yesterday.

 

[wngsprd]

Hiked for over a mile through mountain laurel, some pink, some white.

 

[Popgadget]

Hilltown Services · 614 Dublin Pike, PA-313, Dublin, PA 18917

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www.google.com

one of the golf cart places is located right on the side of Doylestown Airport, the little local airport that Popgadget is very experienced with.
I wonder about having coffee in the Cross Keys Diner, which has been there forever, right at the end of the runway. I bet pilots would like it.
Sort of like a boater getting a dinner seat looking out over a marina.

Another golf cart place about three miles away. Very convenient.
Will head out after 9am, no sense getting in commuter traffic.
going to see if my friend going through chemo wants to get out of the house and go with me. Way out of my way near Harleysville but I haven't seen him since he got sick, and
looking forward to it.

Hmmm, do I take the checkbook with me?...

Drew check out Hilltown services on 313 just outside Dublin. Ask for Leo, tell him I sent you.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 68 and should go up about 10 degrees under sunny skies today.

Yesterday kept me busy as usual had my state of the nation breakfast with my retired attorney/professor friend, then worked on the mailbox project, getting first coat of color on it, cut the upper post to size and attached mounts for mailbox to it. Took a bit of fixturing to get it set up square and plumb as well as indexed to the lower flange so it faces the street when it’s bolted to its mate set in the concrete.

RNG will know exactly how the pipe was deburred.

Reading about Thomas’ limitations, I thought about how much I would miss welding, but then realized that an Oxy/Acetylene torch would still be an option, not ideal for thick material, but better than not being able to weld at all, and certainly better than the alternative. Not sure how much welding you do Thomas, but keep that in mind.

Today the mailbox will get another coat of paint as well as the post which got primed after welding was complete.
Then I’ll have to make a run for some stainless hardware to assemble it all. I also need to cut the numbers out some reflective black vinyl that I already have.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Wngsprd, I would have rather been hiking. Looks lovely. Thanks for the pics.

Interesting chicken festival.