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I just bought some socks on Amazon Prime Day. My wild sister isn't the only wild one in this family!

He won the championship

with the really cool car? My buddy Steve is always trading cars and has a small collection of Pre War American automobiles. Here is what he drove to work today.

It’s good to start every day, even on vacation, with a safety minute. I started with two today

As long as I win....I don't care how you count it

Only a few times at work did I even get close to crying. Doing the donor thing and watching a young kid say goodbye to dad. That will get you. Or watching a parent say goodbye to a young kid. Personally away from work I get a little misty eye's when Emmy wins a big game, or G is pushing himself hard on the bike or the run. Tears of proudness.

This story was bound to come up eventually.

He won the championship

Watching a tpt program about the early days and building of Duluth, MN..I mean..I knew they had street cars..but not that they had inclines..Also prior to the aerial lift bridge ..there was a gondola that could transport more than 100 people across to park point. Hope they do more programs..kinda fun history!

Be careful on ladders, too

An overpass in Orlando.

You should consider ordering some socks. That's very exciting.

My mom had a tea kettle with a trigger you pull to lift the cap when pouring the water. The cap had a whistle in it. Something went wrong with the whistle and it didn’t whistle anymore. The pot was Avocado color until one time she forgot she was boiling water and it boiled dry and the color of the pot changed to a burnt white color. (That’s the second safety feature, when the paint burns and the smoke alarm goes off it’s time to shut off the burner). My mom continued to use the burnt pot for many years. When I met my wife and started to go to her mom’s house I discovered she had the exact same burnt white used to be avocado tea pot with a broken whistle that she still used to make hot water for tea.

I voted "no" because even though I really think we should theoretically count hidden posts, if we did we'd already have passed the goal and it would be anticlimactic. I'd rather go by the one on the front page so we can track it and have some fun as we get closer. Even though you have to go to the database, to see who actually posts the 1,000,000th post, it's still fun to see the counter get closer to 1.000,000.

I voted yes..., a post is a post is a post. But only if I was the winner that way... otherwise, no they should not count and I will post like crazy because I really want to win the S-works bike you are offering to the winner poster

I thought it was a goner tonight. Worst pain of my life in my right lower abdomen this evening, getting worse from 3:30 until I finally capitulated and let my wife take me to the ER at 6:30. No fever but sweating profoundly from the pain. Turns out is was just a 5 mm kidney stone. A first for me. No sure when it’s going to dislodge and end this saga, but at least there’s no emergent surgery in my future, and the pain is currently pretty well controlled.

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Sorry but the Parody Meter is not working correctly. I will attempt to do some maintenance when I find my pedal wrench (probably in the bottom of the tool box doing who knows what with the 10mm socket). I'll try to get back to you with a score.

Here is his International pick up

Told us about another older couple she helps with. The husband takes care of his wife like I do with Esther. His wife can no longer speak and has a lot of dementia. Yesterday they celebrated their 69th wedding anniversary. He bought her a huge flower arraignment and was trying to get her to smell them. She is on some new meds and wasn’t responding. These are my hero’s.

I told this story on LF back in the good old days. I went to a funeral for my friends mother. Mrs. Silly and I didn't know too many people there so we were new the back of the group at the cemetery. It got to the solemn part where they were getting ready to bury her ashes when someone up front let loose a long, loud and wet fart. I wanted to burst out laughing but out of respect for my friend, I closed my eyes, looked down and tried my best to keep from breaking out. I was doing my pretty well until Mrs. Silly tapped my on the check and said, "I gotta go" and she went off and busted out laughing. I my hard work went out the window so I stepped away from the group and walked around the cemetery laughing my ass off. I took a good 10 minutes to get myself back under control. The funeral was about an hour and a half from home. Driving home, Mrs. Silly and I laughed the whole way.

I would scritch them with egg and buttermilk and seasoned flour and then let them swim in my oil filled hot tub.

Our aide is a hero too. She is so delightful. Always cheerful and the absolute best at what she does. She not only makes my wife feel better every time she visits but she cheers me up as well. Yesterday she was so impressed with the black free range chickens that were wandering around our yard and garden. When she came this morning the chickens ran over to greet her As soon as she parked her car. She said that made her day. They not only came back but they brought a friend. A big white chicken was with them today.

You need to share photos of the sock when they arrive.

At work? Never. I cried when we put our 17 yo “kitten” down a few years ago, it was very sad.

I won't say this is the most I've laughed, but it's one that stands out in my memory from decades ago. A friend from Houston came to visit me when I lived in Dallas. I took her on a tour of the downtown area on the weekend, and at that time, downtown Dallas wasn't very residential, so it was pretty empty. We were having lunch at a Wendy's which was one of the few places open. We suddenly heard fire trucks a long way in the distance, and we started joking about "I guess there are at least a few other people downtown this weekend". As the alarms got closer, we were laughing even more saying "what if there is nothing else open and they're coming here". We continued to laugh as the kitchen workers left the kitchen area and gathered together on the sidewalk. We were laughing so hard at this point saying "we really should stop laughing and leave" but we just kept laughing. We were still laughing hysterically when the firemen in their full gear came marching through the restaurant and said "Don't let us disturb your lunch ladies".

Dr. Mickin, just so we are on the same page. If I find you curled up in my bed and you roll over for a belly rub, I am calling the cops.

I see one more worthless one already, DP!

Well a great season wrapped up yesterday with a whimper, a big and beautiful but slightly mealy peach. October 11 is awesome for last peach day! Made the last buy at just the right time, around mid-September or so. Lost maybe 5% or so to mold and rot, higher than I would have liked but not bad compared to some years. So I managed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat when the primary peach farmer got frozen oot. The backup came through with his best performance in years. Always before his peaches just never held up and they even tasted better this year too.

While I have had few surgeries, that is one they offered a 2 for 1 special. Had the kidney stone pain resulting in removing the gall bladder. Before the surgery, I told him the pain wasn't centered there and said he would look around and to remind him before the surgery. Due to my lack of tolerance to the Valium cocktail in pre-op, I was out when they rolled me in. He remembered, looked around and though was a rare form of cancer on the appendix and removed it. From what I understand, as the on-call surgeon that weekend, word got around and he was quite a hit with the observation. Then the pathology report came back - not cancer, grossly inflamed appendix ready to burst. While surgically appropriate, waiting for that report - and a sigh of relief - was torture.

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I only had 10 toes clipped when I got my pedicure this afternoon.

Eating birthday dinner now. Braised short ribs over pasta. We went to a nature preserve where BuffCarla caught an Eagle and the to Harriett Tubman House, but she wasn’t there.

Put in about 3/4 mile of new sled dog trail in the woods. This is more rolling and more curves than the 7 miles of field trails we have been using. If I can get a creek crossing I will have another mile or more of woods trails we can run on. We will use them for dryland and hope to have more snow to run on this winter. The last 2 winters have been disappointing for snow. These new trails will be fun if we get enough snow.

All beautiful but I love the zinnias. They are so perky.

So this morning WOChrisL pulled the switcharoo as my kid was having work done on her place again. I went from this ^^^^ to: Dude I gotta go to work...

everything in the back of the truck. Got home and backed truck to garage. everything loaded into dryer, then washed before coming into house.

Did she give all the chickens skritchies??

I thought you meant me and I was going to think it was creepy if you had pictures. But the dogs are definitely cuter!

Godspeed to the kidney stone...

The current big ass batch of peaches is going off withoot a hitch. Delicious. No mold or rot even at the fairly low consumption rate of aboot 3 per day. The trick now is trying to time the last buy. The backup peach farmer sells unattended, so I have no clue when sales will stop. BTW, I always eat peaches only after slicing them. The pits are just too dangerous for teeth, and every pit in this latest batch (cling) has split right open so you are more likely to get a fragment that way. Also I never peel them. 🍑

The millionth post must be a quality post not some worthless post. That may eliminate 98% of the posts.

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TPT is Twin Cities Public Television 😁

Political! You are now all banned. If someone posted something that was later removed because of bunched panties and such, those posts should be counted because they were, in fact, posts. As we are counting posts, and they were posts, they should be counted. None of this forum gerrymandering, dammit!

They should for the price. The rain tires were for the motorcycle not the sidecar. The sidecar has grooved tires but they need to build up heat to work. They won't come up to temperature in the rain so we were sliding all over the place. If you tuch the back brake in the rain you WILL SPIN. Wo46 did a awesome job...She was dragging a hip while we were sliding sideways in the rain. After she helped load up the trailer and then made sandwiches for the family. Yup...she's a keeper.