Moontanman
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Bad news, my step mom suffered a home invasion, not only did they beat her up they burned down her house. Onlookers were able to drag her out of the house. To make matters worse my dad died, I'm having problems getting information at this time since my step mom and my dad were my only source of info...
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Lesson learned, for the umpteenth time: Buy cheap, pay twice.
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Big celebration for our family, we are joyously expecting our first grandchild! My daughter and her hubby have been trying for almost five years. The hubby's brother is a video/photographer and did this for them. That is his little boy on the slide. I'll take one just like him!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au_NzCb13DQ
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Ah Hates hurricanes!
(Yosemite Sam voice)
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Big celebration for our family, we are joyously expecting our first grandchild! My daughter and her hubby have been trying for almost five years. The hubby's brother is a video/photographer and did this for them. That is his little boy on the slide. I'll take one just like him!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au_NzCb13DQ
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FINALLY got my way after 2 years of fighting. Will have a right below knee amputation within the next few months....
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Its been a week here, skin is peeling of my shoulders and I’m officialy an african with blue eyes. I also have indigestion from all the great food theyre serving to which I cant say no...and my feet are burnt. One more week of this „nightmare” and I can finally go back to normality. I’m half way through Frank Herbert’s „Dune” which I never read who knows why. Oh and I hate „Ouzo” with its aniseed taste @MigL
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Now retired early after 22 years of Science teaching. Emotional farewell to classes last week. No time for leisure - bills still have to be paid!
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Does anyone on here know anything about riding lawn mowers? I have a craftsman Lt1000. last time I mowed the blades wouldn't disengage and the lever went loose. Now it will not even turn over as though the blades were still engaged and I can't figure out how to fix it. Any ideas out there?
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I started riding motorcycles in 1970, dirt bikes, a yamaha 125 enduro lasted almost two years of hill climbing, and tearing through the woods and hills of WV but i tired of that and i wanted a street bike. A RD 350 yamaha bought by working for a year at a local grocery story provided the funds and and i enjoyed "cafe" type racing throughout all the little twisting roads that snaked through the mountains and I thought I had the world by the tail until one day i saw this on the cover of a motorcycle magazine. I still have that magazine encased in plastic for all time
https://www.motorcycle.com/features/archive-1971-yamaha-gl-750.html
I worked as many hours as possible hoping to one day own that beautiful motorcycle but finally I got tired of waiting and bought a Kawasaki 900. I thought I'd never forgive yamaha for not producing that motorcycle but I forgave them when the yamaha 1100 midnight special became mine.But I still dream about what it would have been like to have thrashed the curves on a motorcycle, that at the time, was close to 5 years head of everyone else in nearly every way. Just before yamaha decided not to produce a street legal version of the bike, opting instead for the TZ 750 road racer it was rumoured the production bike was going to be a 1000cc two stroke 4 along with reed valves, fuel injection, hydraulic disc brakes and liquid cooling, all this in 1971!... Sadly my dream never came true but I still have my baby in my dreams.
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That is a nice looking ride, I've thought of getting an old V-Max, maybe a 2000 model or there about and customizing it to something similar to this but I'd have to acquire some skill first.
https://pin.it/zap5zuhi7b4xvbWhoa! How about this helmet, I might wear one of these driving a car! Maybe eve walking around after dark!
https://pin.it/njv4sdydcxp36h
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I started riding motorcycles in 1970, dirt bikes, a yamaha 125 enduro lasted almost two years of hill climbing, and tearing through the woods and hills of WV but i tired of that and i wanted a street bike. A RD 350 yamaha bought by working for a year at a local grocery story provided the funds and and i enjoyed "cafe" type racing throughout all the little twisting roads that snaked through the mountains and I thought I had the world by the tail until one day i saw this on the cover of a motorcycle magazine. I still have that magazine encased in plastic for all time
https://www.motorcycle.com/features/archive-1971-yamaha-gl-750.html
I worked as many hours as possible hoping to one day own that beautiful motorcycle but finally I got tired of waiting and bought a Kawasaki 900. I thought I'd never forgive yamaha for not producing that motorcycle but I forgave them when the yamaha 1100 midnight special became mine.But I still dream about what it would have been like to have thrashed the curves on a motorcycle, that at the time, was close to 5 years head of everyone else in nearly every way. Just before yamaha decided not to produce a street legal version of the bike, opting instead for the TZ 750 road racer it was rumoured the production bike was going to be a 1000cc two stroke 4 along with reed valves, fuel injection, hydraulic disc brakes and liquid cooling, all this in 1971!... Sadly my dream never came true but I still have my baby in my dreams.
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There are two type of people in the world. those who have guns... and those who dig...
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There are two type of people in the world. those who have guns... and those who dig...
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I'm gonna be a Grandpa!
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I know it's lazy of me but can anyone give me a link to someplace I can get tables to determine the mass of a star vs it's brightness?
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I know it's lazy of me but can anyone give me a link to someplace I can get tables to determine the mass of a star vs it's brightness?
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Well I'm back, almost three weeks of Hurricane and after math. My blog post about it here
http://blogs.scienceforums.net/moontanman/2018/10/02/hurricane-florence/
It has been 19 days of destruction fear, terror and boredom.
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Well it looks like hurricane Florence is going to kick our ases...
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Well I am back, just now got my ISP back along with tv and phone, still lots to do for clean up. I just posted to my blog about the storm, a bit stale now almost three weeks in but still relevant.
http://blogs.scienceforums.net/moontanman/2018/10/02/hurricane-florence/
The days without power were a bitch, lost all my food in the freezer and refrigerator. House was brushed by a large tree falling, blew away my privacy fence, took down several trees in my yard. Fruit trees took a beating, I lost a lot of fish, flooding ruined my freezer. All in all it was a crazy three weeks..
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Well it looks like hurricane Florence is going to kick our ases...
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Well it looks like hurricane Florence is going to kick our ases...
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Well it looks like hurricane Florence is going to kick our ases...
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Well it looks like hurricane Florence is going to kick our ases...
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Well it looks like hurricane Florence is going to kick our ases...
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Well it looks like hurricane Florence is going to kick our ases...
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I live in an area that was swamp or seasonal vernal pools many decades ago, the soil doesn't drain and results in water pooling up. In times gone by the water would have been a few feet deep but they dug huge ditches and drained the land to the nearby swamp. The area is higher than the surrounding areas but held pools due to dunes in the area but they flattened the dunes and drained the subsoil. Now water pools to a few inches before draining off to the swamp. We get flooding but it's not like floods you would get in the mountains. Instead of rushing away in streams it just pools up and spreads over a wide area until it encounters a ditch. Any closer to the ocean and we would get storm surge much further away and we would get flooded by rushing water. I checked the local flood maps and our risk is less than 1%. I am more worried about wind blown debris and downed trees than water. The last few hurricanes have massively flooded all around us, with luck it will be that way again.
I've got around 500 gallons of water in plastic drums, oil lamps and propane for cooking. I am worried about my fish, I have more than I usually keep on hand and a power outage will be a problem.
I just saw on the news the storm has been down graded to a cat 2 but it is 500 miles across and very heavy rain is expected inland, 30" or more.
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My cousin Jeff Stewart died this morning. Jeff was more than a cousin, he was my brother in so many ways, the way only a real brother can be. One of the few people I have ever known who was basically a good person no matter what situation he found himself in. It's difficult to wrap my head around the fact a world can exist without Jeff in it.
