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Okay... I over shot the estimate. My adventure out this morning was about 6 miles round trip. Still proud of me
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OK, you get an A for honesty but only a C for the 6 miles. Kidding, just kidding. 6 miles wss my aggregate total for the month. Already gave up on July but August is looking spiffy.Okay... I over shot the estimate. My adventure out this morning was about 6 miles round trip. Still proud of me
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You're tough Coach... I'll try to do better next time
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Afternoon Pops and friends. If you remember the really old show Fantasy Island, Tattoo would start chirping "Da Plane, Da Plane". In the South, he yells "De Bugs, De Bugs!". I got a tan going to my mail box and break a sweat every time I look out the window. I've been wearing my fitbit and hit 10,000 steps yesterday. I'm pretty sure some of those steps would have been deducted if I'd told it I was walking to the freezer to get mini York Peppermint Patties. They were gooood!
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Time to move. What I really hate are the giant horseflies. How do they get that big?? I've seen some so big, you could see the beak (or whatever it's called...Looks like a beak to me) from 30 feet away. Those mothers are literally, about half the size of my hand. Get bit by one of those things and you'll need a transfusion...if you live.
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On my way to south Texas this morning I almost hit a donkey on highway 77 outside of Kingsville. It was crossing the freeway from right to left into the grassy median. The grass might be greener on the other side but not necessarily healthier
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Okay... I over shot the estimate. My adventure out this morning was about 6 miles round trip. Still proud of me
Whoa Jan! 6 miles is really good whether walking, jogging or skipping. Nice going
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Thank you. I surprised even me. Was a bit humid but I am getting so very tired of trying to accomplish anything on the treadmill. It's just not the same.
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I'm working on my playlists tonight. DANG I really enjoy my music! I've got the best taste in music for myself, If You Know What I Mean (by Neil Diamond) and Do You Know What I Mean (by Lee Michaels). I might have to put on some Sly and The Family Stone, put my hands on my knees and shake my booty in the air. I have a horrible time with those short song lists for my deserted island time. Everybody get funky!
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Hadn’t heard the Lee Michaels song in ages. Next on the utube playlist is Mama Told Me Not to Come. Loved the 70s
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I've been sitting out on the deck with my wine tonight listening to tunes... (Neil, Gary Wright, Exile, The Manhattan's and many others... very eclectic taste here.) Just came inside and put in a journey cd. Good night for it I guess.
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Morning Pops and friends, from Weehawken, NJ. (The other end of the Lincoln Tunnel)
Temps are only supposed to be in the high 80's today, so we had our two hottest and most humid days on the weekend, which is nice.
Hope everyone else has a cool down too!
Temps are only supposed to be in the high 80's today, so we had our two hottest and most humid days on the weekend, which is nice.
Hope everyone else has a cool down too!
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Morning Pops and welcome to your Monday walkers, freezer bandits and bug bait from the weekend. Mercy me, after the weekend y'all had, work must be a relief.
Speaking of bugs, and several of us were, if you didn't participate you have no one to blame but yourself. I may have mentioned this but I am borderline an arachnophobic, and don't care much for spiders either, and a couple of years ago when I was thinking about buying a house down here, and thankfully did not, one of the coolest houses I saw was off by itself and backed up to some woods, there were about 15 deer grazing, with a lookout established for murderers in orange vests, and it was like being in "Bambi".
Well, the more I thought about this house with a very cool covered patio with outdoor kitchen, fireplace, 50" mounted flat screen and completely furnished, the more I could see me there every Sat and Sun in the season. What I didn't see was what was lurking in the brick firewood storage area next to the fireplace until I returned and started planning the placement of my outdoor cooking apparatus.....and myself every weekend.
I went down the steps to check out this hot tub pad, turned to come back up the stairs and just happened to glance at the woodbin and there it was. I froze in mid step and immediately channeled the little fly, with the human head in "The Fly", and began to whimper "help me, help me, heeeelllllpppp mmmmmeeeeeeee!
There, not moving and I figured if it wasn't I wasn't either, was the largest non tarantula I have ever seen. It was easily as big as my hand, if I could have stretched my fingers out instead of my hands being balled into fists and my face frozen in a silent scream. I didn't know if it was dead or alive but if it was dead, I was terrified of the zombie apocalypse assuming that would be the first thing to come back. I backed down the stairs, never taking my eyes off the beast, and I stumbled on a step and caught myself but immediately surmised it had seen me. It had waited in it's lair for some unsuspecting house hunter to show up and had probably killed and eaten the people who'd lived here before and God knows how many realtors.
So since I was stumbling down, the right direction to escape certain doom, I just kept going as fast as my bad hip could carry me, now concerned that if it saw me limping it would surmise I was easy prey. I hauled butt to my car, jumped in, cranked it and left like I was cashing a Powerball winning ticket.
That night the realtor was supposed to call me for an answer about making an offer. I sat there in the dark, watching the phone in silence and thinking about leaving a voicemail that I had decided to move out of the country. That, was the last house I looked at and decided being a homeowner was too hazardous as I never heard of renters being killed and eaten by a giant spider.
Speaking of bugs, and several of us were, if you didn't participate you have no one to blame but yourself. I may have mentioned this but I am borderline an arachnophobic, and don't care much for spiders either, and a couple of years ago when I was thinking about buying a house down here, and thankfully did not, one of the coolest houses I saw was off by itself and backed up to some woods, there were about 15 deer grazing, with a lookout established for murderers in orange vests, and it was like being in "Bambi".
Well, the more I thought about this house with a very cool covered patio with outdoor kitchen, fireplace, 50" mounted flat screen and completely furnished, the more I could see me there every Sat and Sun in the season. What I didn't see was what was lurking in the brick firewood storage area next to the fireplace until I returned and started planning the placement of my outdoor cooking apparatus.....and myself every weekend.
I went down the steps to check out this hot tub pad, turned to come back up the stairs and just happened to glance at the woodbin and there it was. I froze in mid step and immediately channeled the little fly, with the human head in "The Fly", and began to whimper "help me, help me, heeeelllllpppp mmmmmeeeeeeee!
There, not moving and I figured if it wasn't I wasn't either, was the largest non tarantula I have ever seen. It was easily as big as my hand, if I could have stretched my fingers out instead of my hands being balled into fists and my face frozen in a silent scream. I didn't know if it was dead or alive but if it was dead, I was terrified of the zombie apocalypse assuming that would be the first thing to come back. I backed down the stairs, never taking my eyes off the beast, and I stumbled on a step and caught myself but immediately surmised it had seen me. It had waited in it's lair for some unsuspecting house hunter to show up and had probably killed and eaten the people who'd lived here before and God knows how many realtors.
So since I was stumbling down, the right direction to escape certain doom, I just kept going as fast as my bad hip could carry me, now concerned that if it saw me limping it would surmise I was easy prey. I hauled butt to my car, jumped in, cranked it and left like I was cashing a Powerball winning ticket.
That night the realtor was supposed to call me for an answer about making an offer. I sat there in the dark, watching the phone in silence and thinking about leaving a voicemail that I had decided to move out of the country. That, was the last house I looked at and decided being a homeowner was too hazardous as I never heard of renters being killed and eaten by a giant spider.
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Morning Pops. Morning Fellas and good morning to all who decided to start their work week off by visiting this thread.
Got some bad news this weekend, one of my Uncles passed. Fighting Cancer for over a year, finally lost to it. I think it's better, he was a strong person, the kind that looked like he was 45 at 65, still worked the Cattle, was just one of those guys, you know? Towards the end there, he was not looking like himself and I'm glad that he is now out of pain. Gonna be busy the next couple days thou. Damn Cancer man, it's gunning for us all.
Jobs, Leon, dbrp, Xelda, zrin, Trouty, ksk, RGV, Coach, RWB, Ranching, SW, John, Jan, Corso and Colo, hope you all had a great weekend.
Everybody, call the people you love and tell them so, cause you just never know.
Got some bad news this weekend, one of my Uncles passed. Fighting Cancer for over a year, finally lost to it. I think it's better, he was a strong person, the kind that looked like he was 45 at 65, still worked the Cattle, was just one of those guys, you know? Towards the end there, he was not looking like himself and I'm glad that he is now out of pain. Gonna be busy the next couple days thou. Damn Cancer man, it's gunning for us all.
Jobs, Leon, dbrp, Xelda, zrin, Trouty, ksk, RGV, Coach, RWB, Ranching, SW, John, Jan, Corso and Colo, hope you all had a great weekend.
Everybody, call the people you love and tell them so, cause you just never know.
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Condolences ABQ to you and your family, the monster shows no signs of weakening. The worst part for those of us that witness their battle with it, it doesn't lose often enough and finally takes their will to fight.
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That's a watchspider, CC. He's there to protect you from home invasions.
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Doing a fine job of keeping me from buying that home. I had two thoughts about him. One, he wasn't the only one of his kind and two, he wasn't the largest one.
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Probably just a wood spider. The nastiest spider I ever saw was in the log house I grew up in. I don't know what kind it was, and I've never seen one since. It was hanging out on the curtain in the living room. It was about four inches long and translucent orange, so I thought it was a rubber spider someone put there, but when my fingers got just a few inches away, it scurried off behind the furniture. Freaked me out for days!